Any Really Angsty Romance Novels? No Pointless Angst 有没有特别虐的女频虐文，不要无脑虐
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I Gave You My Heart and My Life, Then I Left You 心给你，命给你，然后不要你了
I Gave You My Heart and My Life, Then I Stopped Wanting You
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She Calls Me Her Bestie 她管我叫闺蜜
A chance encounter led her to a tutor on the other end of the internet. The tutor made a plan for her, helped her establish a routine, and guided her out of confusion so she could become a better version of herself. Their constant online companionship allowed trust and dependence to quietly take root, becoming a light that brightened both their youth. But when their relationship entered the real world, an unexpected disagreement left them in silence. She chose to step back and give things time,
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After Her Release From Prison, Her Childhood Friend Leaves Her Mute and Mindless 出狱后，她被竹马虐得又傻又哑
[Angst, childhood sweethearts, physical torment, heartbreak, groveling for a second chance] As the saying goes, “Fools are blessed.” But Yuan Xi, this little fool, had no such luck. That little fool never had a blessed day in her life. In the end, she was left with nothing. She didn’t know how things had ended up this way. They weren’t supposed to be like this. It was cold, so terribly cold. Why didn’t anyone care? In the corner of a dark room, the girl trembled silently. “Please don’t abandon m
15.3kReads8.2Score981Shelves
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The Caged Prize: The Alluring Concubine 笼中之物之尤物小外室
My new novel is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
1.5kReads8.1Score—Shelves
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I Witness Your Wedding in the Name of Your Lawful Wife 我以正妻之名为你证婚
I Bear Witness to Your Wedding in the Name of Your Legal Wife
794Reads—Score26.9kShelves
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I Fell in Love with a Long-Legged Older Man 我爱上了大长腿叔叔
Today is my graduation ceremony, and I’m incredibly excited. I haven’t seen my tall uncle in ages. He’s the big brother who’s been supporting me, only twelve years older than I am. He won’t let me call him that, but to me, he’s my big brother. He promised he’d come to my graduation ceremony today! After I graduate, he’ll take me to his company… But the ceremony ended, and the figure I’d been longing to see never showed up. As soon as I could, I nervously called him. But the person who answered w
1.2kReads6.1Score—Shelves
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My CEO Husband Is a Disabled Crybaby 我的总裁先生是个残疾的爱哭包
After graduating from college, Su Ruanruan lands a job at Musen, a company under the Qiao Group that she has long dreamed of joining. When she moves into the company's apartment building, she meets her neighbor Qiao Yichen, who has lost both arms. Overflowing with compassion, she sets out on a mission of kindness and draws the depressed, withdrawn Qiao Yichen out of his own little world…
1.1kReads6.8Score102Shelves
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The Reborn Take the Stage: A Lowly Concubine's Daughter 重生者当道，卑微庶女
[Angsty + reborn + multiple male leads + no romance + no stupid characters + no love-brained heroine + taking by force] The heroine is a frail, innocent beauty of humble origins whose fate is full of misfortune. In every life, she is repeatedly tormented by a person who keeps being reborn. Yet each time the wicked reborn tormentor starts over, they ultimately fall at the heroine’s hands. And in every life, the more they torment her, the more horribly they die! In the first life after the rebirth
462Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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A Thousand Mountains at Dusk (The Original Novel of the TV Adaptation Starring Hawick Lau and Ying Er) 千山暮雪（刘恺威、颖儿主演同名影视剧）
It was only much later that I learned that there is someone destined for everyone in this world. Though they may be part of your life for only a brief moment, forgetting them can take a lifetime. If you were a teardrop in my eye, for fear of losing you, I would never cry. Tong Xue knows that, to the whole world, she is a wicked woman to be cursed, despised, condemned, and exposed: what people call “the other woman.” But behind the scenes, tangled relationships and her ties to three men are far m
7kReads9.2Score346Shelves
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A Thousand Mountains Dusk-Snow Prequel: The Love of Qian and Xue 千山暮雪前传之谦雪恋
“Remember, from now on, you’re my woman.” “Why me?” “Because I’m destined for hell, and I want someone to keep me company. You’re the perfect choice.” Tong Xue, I’m so lonely. Come keep me company.
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A Thousand Mountains Dusk-Snow in Another Space-Time 异时空之千山暮雪
In the 50th year of the Republic, Lie Shan, a new recruit in the Art Troupe of the Third Army Division, takes part in a campaign to wipe out bandits. He becomes a Kunlun disciple, investigates the Golden Key of Yaochi, and searches for the secrets of the central universe. A country youth’s explorations and confusion amid the tides of his era, and his struggle and growth through an apocalyptic catastrophe... Journeying through three thousand worlds: the Outer Heavens, the Middle Realm, the Abyss.
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Online Gaming: A Thousand Mountains Beneath the Twilight Snow 网游之暮雪千山
In 2019, a full-immersion game called Century War: Dragon-Slaying Legend was released worldwide. She was hooked on games and wanted to play too, but she couldn’t afford the gaming equipment, so her only option was to join a studio as cannon fodder. Even then, she was determined to be the last one standing. Beneath the glacial depths, under volcanic lava, and within the City in the Sky, powerful forces long dormant in this continent, this virtual world, are beginning to awaken. A female-led story
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The Phoenix's Departure 离凰
She stayed by his side without a name or status, becoming the shameless woman everyone talked about. In return, a fire burned all the love and hatred they had once shared to ashes. When they first met, he was a prince high above the world, hiding his true intentions to survive the struggle for the throne. That night's fire would strip away his weakness, flesh and bone alike. Buddhists say that life turns full circle every seven years. When they met again seven years later, his eyes were red. Th
5.1kReads9.0Score601Shelves
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The Gray Lotus 灰莲花
[A textbook case of realist business warfare + a deeply romantic, top-tier intellectual romance] The world has gone mad. A top-tier rich, handsome young heir is forced to compete with his wealthy wife for a lover... “If she likes me and I like her too, then we’ll each have to prove ourselves.” The male lead is loaded with resources and comes with every advantage, while the female lead has brains and beauty and rises from humble beginnings. A textbook case of realist business warfare, arranged fa
35.4kReads9.4Score4.6kShelves
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After He Escaped Death, He Forced Me to Sign a Penance Contract 他死里逃生后，逼我签下赎罪契约
A handsome, powerful, tragic, obsessive, and deranged man with a double face × a patient, clear-headed heiress fallen on hard times Five years later, we meet again. He's Jiangcheng's most ruthless obsessive man, and I'm an heiress with nowhere left to turn. He hangs me over a cliff and says, “Let me show you the despair I felt when I jumped into the sea back then.” He forces me to sign a contract of atonement and says, “I won't spare a single member of the Lin family.” I thought he hated me so m
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When Spring Deepens After the Apricot Blossoms Set Fruit 杏花结子春深后
She is a lowly convict slave in the palace laundry, humble as dust. He is the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace, noble and radiant. Though their stations could hardly be further apart, they fall hopelessly in love. Only when their feelings are at their deepest does she unexpectedly learn that his father, the emperor, had her father framed so he could claim her mother for himself. Where can this ill-fated romance spanning two generations possibly lead? ----- A prince steals his minister’s wife +
639Reads—Score102Shelves
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The One Who Died for Spring 替春天赴死的人
[Two Female Leads + Bittersweet Slow Burn + Mutual Salvation + School Life] A painful coming-of-age story, grounded in reality. Not a wish-fulfillment story, but a quiet kind of heartbreak. On her seventeenth birthday, Lu Yao showed up outside her father’s mistress’s home with a bucket of red paint. That night, she met a girl at the edge of the rooftop. Later, she came into possession of the girl’s diary. She wanted to return it, only to learn from someone else that the girl had died three years
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President Fu, Your Wife Has Signed the Divorce Agreement 傅总，夫人已签离婚协议
[Heartbreakingly tragic + intensely satisfying + stand-in + contract marriage + groveling pursuit of his wife] Powerful CEO of a wealthy family × coldhearted designer who has shut her heart away After three years of marriage, Lin Xi is Fu Hanzhou's most dutiful ornament and his beloved's personal blood bank. On the night she miscarries, he coldly signs the papers. “You're not worthy of bearing my child.” The day her heart dies, she leaves a blood-written note saying, “May we never meet again,”
3.7kReads—Score205Shelves
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Fallen Leaves Adrift 落叶浮沉
Strong Female Lead + Villain Protagonist + Female Criminal + No Golden Finger + No Stupid Characters + Large Ensemble Cast I had the worst possible start, born in a village that “eats people.” Where I come from, good people don't live long. Only the wicked survive. The day I fled to the city, I had no education, no connections, and no way back. But I had brains. I climbed on whoever could be useful, and took out whoever stood in my way. Everyone was a stepping stone. Some say I climbed over a mo
66Reads—Score—Shelves
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Mending Bones, Restoring Love 动骨恢情
[Face-slapping + scumbag takedown + a little angst with sweetness + humor + souls swapped between a man and a woman + down-to-earth and relatable + ordinary people with great wisdom + wealthy families + workplace business battles + youthful, sweet romance. Impossible to put down!] The years pass peacefully. Everyone has a first love in their heart, but not everyone can have a Jiang Miao Jie in theirs! In her previous life, Lin Muzi was robbed of her destined match, missed out on her dream guy, f
121Reads9.4Score—Shelves
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The Stunning Supermodel's Forceful Love 绝美超模强制爱
[Coercive love + controlling behavior + conspiracy and romance] Wang Yijin is an orphan. At ten, she is adopted by the wealthy Xi family, a powerful family in the capital. She spends her days caring for their young master, Xi Lier, who suffers from anger issues and depression. Xi Lier’s love for Wang Yijin suffocates her, and she does everything she can to escape the Xi family. When she grows up, she reunites with Luo Jiaye, who was also an orphan as a child, and falls in love with him. After a
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Butterfly Shadows Return to Dust: Sold into Prostitution by My Mother-in-Law, My Ex-Husband Searched for Me for Ten Years 蝶影归尘：被婆母卖入风尘，前夫寻了我整整十年
The Butterfly’s Shadow Returns to Dust: Sold into a Life of Vice by My Mother-in-Law, My Ex-Husband Searched for Me for Ten Years
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The CEO's Bride of Atonement 总裁的赎罪新娘
On their wedding night, Li Sihan personally handcuffed Su Nian. “Go to prison in your sister's place and repent.” Three years behind bars couldn't buy her freedom. All she got was the devil's whisper: “Spend your whole life making amends.” She became the laughingstock of the city, his bride forced to atone. He hated her to the bone, yet held her tightly in the dead of night. Until she heard him coldly instruct the doctor, “Once she gives birth, send her to a psychiatric hospital.” As the fla
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To the Little Moon of the Criminal Police 向刑警的小月亮
A handsome but tragic, sickly, obsessive detective & a cool-headed, resilient doctor Mutual healing + secret love turning real + fleeing while pregnant + tragic love through life and death “Xiang Yuhao, you stayed by my side as I grew up. Let me heal you for the rest of your life.” “Little Moon, you and our child... are the only reason I’m still alive.”
163Reads8.3Score—Shelves
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