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After Awakening, the Beloved Cannon-Fodder Is Targeted by the Unhinged Male Lead 万人迷炮灰觉醒后被疯批男主盯上
[Two male leads + captivity + devoted to each other + sweet pampering + crazy, perverted top + calculating and obsessive + vicious heartthrob] When Su Ze awakened, he found himself bullying the real young master. The boy was battered and disheveled, pinned down in the bathtub beneath Su Ze’s foot, while Su Ze sat on a tall stool beside the tub with his foot planted on the male lead’s chest. The real young master’s eyes were bloodshot, his gaze fixed directly on Su Ze’s face. Su Ze panicked, beca
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The Ultimate Torment! Why Are All the Campus Goddesses Yanderes? 顶级折磨!校花怎么全是病娇?
[Top-tier male seducer + multiple heroines + obsessive love and romantic rivalries + domineering women at first, then begging for his affection + extreme contrasts + no System, no NTR + not reborn, not abstinent + later campus romance and everyday life, with plenty of sweetness] The day Su Chen got his college entrance exam results happened to be his eighteenth birthday. To top it off, he learned that he had scored 628 and earned admission to Jinghai University, the best university in Jinghai. W
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Just Started College, and I Slept My Way into a Gorgeous Rich Wife 刚上大学,睡出个绝美财阀老婆
I just started college, slept with a gorgeous wealthy wife, and now she’s keeping me prisoner at home. What should I do? Asking online... It’s kind of urgent! Yandere + campus beauty + older woman + extreme contrast + romantic rivalry
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The Campus Belle Is Such a Psycho, I Have Nowhere to Run! 病娇校花太变态,我逃无可逃!
[Everyday romance + no System and no rebirth + one heroine + sweet, satisfying romance + lovingly detailed affection + unexpectedly unhinged, yandere intensity + chaotic love-triangle showdowns + succubus] After a night of passion brought about by a twist of fate, Su Jin, newly returned from military service, finds himself pursued by Xia Zhi, the famous unhinged yandere campus beauty at Jinghai University. When Xia Zhi learns that Su Jin will be transferring to Jinghai University, she goes strai
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Help! My Crazy Boyfriend Drugged Me to Make Me Confess 救命,疯批男友下药控制我告白
[1v1 + innocent sweetheart + unhinged pharmaceutical genius + forced love + running away while pregnant + groveling to win his wife back] Four years ago, Wen Ruanruan was merely accompanying her best friend on a date when the unhinged Ming Qing fell in love with her at first sight. Determined to make her his, he tricked her and drugged her. He never expected Wen Suisui to discover the truth, and the two of them parted in a devastating breakup. Four years later, with Wen Ruanruan having lost her
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Behave, or You’ll Be Punished! The Crazy Pei Young Master Is Obsessed with Keeping Her Captive 不乖就罚!疯批裴少偏爱囚她
(The score was just released, so it doesn’t mean much yet. It’ll rise later, so please don’t let it put you off.) [Powerful, wealthy families + domineering love + extreme possessiveness + confinement + heroine tries to escape and gets caught / angst before sweetness + devoted to each other] [Unhinged heir to an underworld empire × soft but stubborn little white flower] Song Lixian visits the notorious Loli Island for an undercover investigation connected to her work, but one of the island’s powe
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Sickly Sweet Fairy Tale! From the Start, the Mad Snow White Confesses Her Love 病娇童话!开局疯癫白雪公主表白
I thought this would be a lovely fairy tale, but wait... why is Snow White holding a hatchet??? In this eerie fairy-tale world, which side is reality? I can't tell! I can't tell at all!!! "Is this a fairy tale?! Where the heck am I?! Snow White's a yandere now, isn't she? Don't hatchet me!!!!!!" A mad fairy tale... The Prince Charming is nowhere to be found... Poor Mr. Huntsman is going to be the protagonist~ Alice will give all her love for the sake of her adorable little rabbit brother!!!! (Th
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Don't Be Afraid! Mom Is Here 别怕!妈妈来了
Not a strong female lead! Not a mission-based story! No golden finger! No fixed pairing! The original host’s personality takes the lead! “Pick the little worlds you like best ♥” Countless children across the vast worlds met tragic ends for one reason or another. Their sincere wishes came together to give rise to Yun Xi, a guardian mother. The educated youth mother who “abandoned her husband and children” The cruel mother of a disabled child The mother to indifferent children in the Golden Triang
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Yandere: The Judgment Game 病娇:审判游戏
[Yandere + Unhinged + Ghostly man + Redemption + Psychological manipulation] Originally titled Yandere: The Judgment Game Note: Both the male lead and the second male lead are yanderes. The heroine only ever loves the male lead. Both leads are pure. The story is grounded, with just a tiny hint of mystery; romance is the main focus. Sickly, kindhearted, amnesiac heroine Older, unhinged yandere male lead | Scheming | Disguise | Surveillance | Manipulation and brainwashing | Psychopath | Police off
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After the Divorce, My Husband Turned into a Creepy Ghost 离婚后,老公秒变阴湿鬼
Song Rou thought she was the exception, the one he cherished most, and wondered what she had done to deserve such happiness. Her marriage to Lin Qingzhou was unexpectedly blissful. In the second year of their marriage, Song Rou gradually began to feel that something had gone wrong. Their train had jumped the tracks, and four years of love had turned to bubbles with astonishing ease. They hadn’t even needed to burst; the bubbles had simply floated away. Song Rou asked for a divorce. The media
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After I Toyed with the Brooding Villain, He Couldn't Stay Away from Me 玩弄阴湿反派后,他离不开我了
(Contains original worldbuilding. Please don't apply it to other works.) [Insecure, brooding male lead × female lead with bipolar disorder, all sweetness, no angst + reborn redemption, one-on-one romance, happy ending] In her previous life, to ease her manic episodes, Jiang Xu offered Lu Zhi, who was down on his luck, a hundred thousand yuan to spend one night with her. Years later, Jiang Xu's family went bankrupt. Debt collectors dragged her to a red-light district in Southeast Asia, where she
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Transmigrated as the Villainess, I Reborn the Obsessive Male Lead as a Hostage 穿成恶毒女配,重生偏执男主为质
A possessive, brooding hostage prince with a yandere streak + a spoiled, arrogant, willful Grand Princess + a cold, aloof young chancellor + transmigration into a book + System + raising a villainous male lead + defying fate College student Zhang Susu transmigrated into a book as Su Yingxue, the vicious female antagonist and Grand Princess. In the original novel, Su Yingxue met a tragic end. She abused and tormented Chu Xingchen for years, turning the male lead into a cold-blooded, cruel, and si
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The Fake Sweetheart Played Innocent, Then F4 Fell Madly in Love with Her 绿茶小作精装乖后被F4强制爱了
The rating will rise as the book gets more reviews [Noble academy F4 + teary, delicate heroine + male leads are faithful in mind and body + she acts sweet and gets obsessively loved + rivalry among men and women] After seeing the comments, Jiang Ruanning mistakenly believes that the F4 all hate her. The comments say that when Jiang Ruanning meets the pure and innocent heroine, she acts spoiled and mean. The F4 have also grown sick of her scheming, time and time again. Unwilling to end up with bo
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Quick Transmigration: The Pretty Host Is Always Forced into Love 快穿:漂亮宿主总被强制爱
(The rating just came out, it'll go up later!) [Quick transmigration + male rivalry + gloomy, unhinged men pretending to be obedient + forced love and confinement + crazed, pathetic pleading for love + losing it when they can't have her + threats and temptation] [An obsessively possessive, unhinged male lead × a slow-witted, laid-back female lead who enjoys it] Ji Zhi plays an insignificant side character in each little world. But her cover is blown right from the start. According to the plot, t
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Madly Possessive Love: Good Girl, Where Are You Running? 疯批强爱:乖宝,哪里跑
[Full-cast audio drama now available!] [Unhinged tycoon VS sweet, innocent girl] Lan Yiyi never imagined that a trip overseas to visit her aunt would end with her being abducted for no reason. The only explanation was that the unhinged tycoon had taken a fancy to her on the plane. By the time she woke up, she was in a strange country. She begged the man through tears to let her go, but he only smiled and shook his head, forcing her to stay with him. She had a childhood sweetheart she loved and a
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May This Love Last Forever 此情长明
Cool, aloof beauty vs. a ruthless bastard of a man, 1v1 coercive love (forced love, don't read if you dislike it). Female-lead fans, proceed with caution!!! For Lin Xu, Qin Rong's arrival was an accident that turned her peaceful, uneventful life upside down. At the hospital, Qin Rong fell in love at first sight with a doctor surnamed Lin. Dr. Lin was beautiful and coolly elegant, polite to everyone, but she was the one person who didn't like him. So Qin Rong resorted to a scheme, using his power
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Shh, She’s the Girlfriend You Can’t Talk About: A Demon Lover! 嘘,不能说的女朋友:恶魔恋人!
❤️Bring the refined, well-mannered, celibate heir of a prestigious family down from his pedestal! The withdrawn, lovesick girl steals her sister’s top-tier boyfriend! Adapted into the short drama The Lingering Warmth of Ashes, also known as At Night, the Top-Tier Brother Walks Into My Room. The print edition is coming soon! ❤️Sweet, innocent girl with a hidden dark side tempts the aloof heartthrob + both leads are virgins + guiding, daddy-type older-brother husband + intense push and pull + all-
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Pretty Poison: She Returned from Hell 漂亮坏种:她从地狱归来
Sweet and heartbreaking, so addictive it’ll make you cry! [Forced love! Guaranteed quality, dive right in! Perfect for all-night reading] Delicate, pampered, beautiful little “villain” ❌ A powerful tycoon who loves her fiercely and proves it through action A powerful man from Beijing’s elite breaks his vows and lowers his head; the untouchable beauty descends from her pedestal to fight for what she wants! ❤ Age gap + seducing a powerful man + both are reborn + sister’s fiancé romance + both are
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Over-the-Top Devotion: I'm Just His Plaything 顶级狂爱:我只是他的掌中玩物
A godlike Western male lead × a resilient, delicate Chinese heroine The main story is complete. [Dominant daddy type + transnational forced romance + wild and unhinged + mature man who takes the lead + devoted husband + jealous of everything + height and build difference + eight-year age gap + heroine is vulnerable early on] A carefully planned scheme gets Qiao Yimo kidnapped and sold on the black market. She can't speak the language, has no one to rely on, and is put through hell. Only one for
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Forced Into Marriage, Spoiled Without Restraint 强宠为婚
Both virgins / forced love / possessive pursuit / love at first sight / angst / unconventional happy ending The male lead is obsessive, unhinged, and not a good person (that won’t change). The heroine is weak (if you don’t like that, don’t read). Forced love, not an empowering heroine’s revenge story. Readers who are protective of the heroine should beware. That summer, beneath a loquat tree heavy with golden fruit, Song Jin stood quietly in a white shirt. The sunlight filtered through the leave
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A Butterfly Kiss at Your Fingertips 指尖蝴蝶吻
[Delicate heiress × Powerful capital-circle elite + Domineering pursuit + Coercive love + Obsessive, unhinged, wolfish male lead + The heroine keeps running away, only to be caught and locked in a cage + Captivity] When she was eighteen, Jing Yue, heir to the Jing family, stormed into the theater and carried Jiang Ning away while she was rehearsing onstage, imprisoning her at the Jing estate for three days and nights. After that, she kept trying to escape, while he relentlessly pursued her, dete
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What Exactly Is the Being That Loves Me? 喜欢着我的,到底是什么存在?
In a magical wasteland where technology has failed, Chen Mo saves Bai Zhi. He becomes the only light in her despairing life, and the love and attachment she develops for him verge on obsession. But Chen Mo never loses sight of the truth: he doesn’t belong here. He must return and destroy the path to immortality, a path built at the cost of all living beings, even if doing so condemns him to eternal ruin. To keep him with her, Bai Zhi is willing to devour evil gods, rewrite the flow of time, and
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Book Transmigration: Starting by Soothing the Sickly Villain 穿书:从哄病娇反派开始
[Romantic Daily Life] [Sweet Romance] [Everyday Life] (The heroine is possessive) (Women pursue men) (Some characters start out merely possessive, but gradually become more and more yandere.) Mu Changge is an overworked wage earner who gets hit by a car while reading a novel as he crosses the street. He transmigrates into a new world as a baby, retaining his memories. At first, he thinks the Meng Po Soup must have expired, but after living in this world for 18 years, he discovers it's the world
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Matriarchy: I'm Just a Nobody Male Side Character 女尊:我只是路人男配
(A matriarchal world, yes, a matriarchal world. The protagonist is delicate and weak, and easily pushed around.) As a company employee, Luo Chuan can only activate his retirement plan. The first task of the retirement plan: faced with a villain's threats, Luo Chuan doesn't want to give in. But his opponent is simply too powerful, so he has no choice but to submit, unwillingly.
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The Disciple I Raised Definitely Isn't Yandere! 我养大的徒儿,绝对不是病娇!
Gu Chengxing transmigrates into the world of a female-led fantasy novel and becomes the story's biggest villain! Remembering the protagonist Shen Ruochu's terrifying talent and ruthless methods from the original story, Gu Chengxing feels that he's doomed. But there's good news: he transmigrated ten years before the main story begins, on the very day Gu Chengxing killed the protagonist Shen Ruochu's entire family. The bad news is that by the time he transmigrated, he had already slaughtered th
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Surviving in the Reverse Harem World: Everyone Around Me Is Yandere 里游世界求生:我的身边全是病娇
[Yandere + love polygon + hidden gem heroine + groveling pursuit] The good news: I transmigrated, and I’m surrounded by all kinds of beautiful, bubbly anime girls with sky-high affection levels. The bad news: some of them are extremely dangerous yanderes. Once their corruption meters max out, they’ll punish me in all kinds of “sweet” ways. … After my fairy-like girlfriend kicked me away, Gu Yan suddenly activated the Yandere Girl Game Survival System. Every so often, the System sends him to a d
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My Yandere Childhood Sweetheart’s Plan to Raise a Child Groom 病娇青梅,童养夫养成计划
[Slightly yandere + Campus slice of life + One heroine] [Luo Bai: Urgent! What do I do if a yandere won't leave me alone?] [Bai Wanqing: Urgent! What do I do if my husband won't listen?] When Luo Bai was young, he met the girl next door, Bai Wanqing. In the innocent kindness of childhood, and with the adults teasing them, he walked right over, gently took Bai Wanqing's hand, and promised to take care of her for the rest of her life. Luo Bai only meant for Bai Wa
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Crazy Male Lead, Don't Be Afraid. I'm Just a Plain Old Pervert 疯批男主别害怕,我只是单纯变态
[A print edition has been signed for publication] [Pure-hearted yet truly deranged male lead x fake psychopath female lead who does everything to survive] [From universally hated to universally adored * brothers’ road to redemption * both are virgins] Xiang Fengyu transmigrates into a book as the short-lived fiancée of a deranged male lead. From the start, she’s in danger of being killed after spotting a bloodstained shirt under his bed. She plans to use her golden finger, her knowledge of the p
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The Obsessive Jerk Is Too Much: His Green-Tea Canary Quits 病娇太疯批,绿茶金丝雀她不干了
[Sweet romance + transmigrate into a book + yandere + mutual flirting + System + conquest + one true pairing] A coy, alluring beauty versus a possessive, abstinent CEO After the Time Management Bureau director was cheated on by their partner, they happened to pick up a sugary romance novel full of lovey-dovey scenes between the leads. Displeased, they flew into a rage and sent an unlucky soul to wreak havoc. Chi Li was that unlucky soul. She transmigrated into the novel The CEO's One and Only Wh
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What?! I’ve Become the Useless Beauty in the Brooding Male Lead’s Arms 懵!穿成阴鸷男主怀里的废物美人
Wild, unhinged man X cool, sickly beauty, both virgins Jiang Chanyi transmigrated into a business-warfare novel where every character was focused on building a career. The male and female leads were locked in a fierce push and pull over both business and romance, while she became the female lead's useless younger sister, good for nothing but her pretty face. According to the plot, her family would soon be ruined by the male lead's schemes. She would fall from her lofty status as a noble young la
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The Tyrant's Little Temptress Is Wild and Irresistible 暴君的小妖精又撩又野
[Search the leads' names to find the short drama] [Both leads are chaste + equally powerful, one-to-one romance. Enjoy] The slave she had once humiliated and tormented has ascended the throne. He pins her against a chaise longue, gently tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. The delicate chain around her ankle jingles softly, its chill seeping into the dark of night. “Your Highness, do you know that from the very first moment I saw you, I… No, this slave wanted to see you in such a helpless, w
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The Canary's Escape Manual 金丝雀逃离手册
Jiang Wan was kept as Gu Xiuci’s caged canary for five years. After countless failed escape attempts, she gave up. Fortunately, Heaven hadn’t treated her too badly: she was reborn. She returned to half an hour before she’d been caught during her first escape in her previous life. No one could endure being imprisoned for five years, and Jiang Wan was no exception. Now, drawing on her memories of her previous life, she faced two choices: admit her mistake and go back, or try to escape again... Con
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Be a Good Baby. You're Mine 宝宝乖一点,你是我的
[Mutual Devotion + University Campus + Forced Love + Obsessive + Yandere + Imprisonment + HE] Fu Linfeng fell in love with Yu Qingyao at first sight and claimed her by any means necessary. When she tried to run away just once, he decided to lock her up. He thought that way she would behave and wouldn’t disappear. - Fu Linfeng’s birthday wish when he turned nineteen was to have Yu Qingyao. As it happened, she was his nineteenth birthday present. It was the best birthday present he could have aske
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Be Good, Wife. You Can’t Escape Me 老婆乖一点,你逃不掉
[Both inexperienced in love / obsessive, unhinged hero + yandere + locked-room confinement + coercive love + powerful man brought to his knees / heroine caught every time she runs away and eventually gives up / happy ending] Chi Muze fell in love with Song Xinxia at first sight, then resorted to every means necessary to keep her by his side. Song Xinxia refused to behave and tried to run away every chance she got. But every time, he caught her and punished her, leaving her unable to get out o
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Claimed by the Ultimate Alpha 顶级强占
My new work is now available! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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The Divorced Neighbor Across the Hall 对门的离异邻居
The Divorced Neighbor Across the Hall
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How to Deal with Annoying Neighbors... 遇到扰人的邻居,就这样办……
This is how to deal with a troublesome neighbor...
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Trapped in My Boss’s Office... 被困上司办公室后……
After Getting Trapped in My Boss's Office...
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After I Got Pregnant, I Discovered My Husband’s Secret… 怀孕后,发现了老公的秘密……
After I Got Pregnant, I Discovered My Husband's Secret...
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After We Got Our Marriage License, I Exposed My Girlfriend's Scam 领证后,我戳破了女友骗局
After We Got Our Marriage License, I Exposed My Girlfriend’s Scam
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The Ascetic Heartthrob Doesn’t Play Innocent, and I Laughed 禁欲系男神他不吃素,我笑了
The Chaste Male God Doesn't Do Vegetables. I Laughed.
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A Collection of Short Stories 短篇小故事合集
A Collection of Short Stories
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After Secretly Marrying a CEO and Superstar 与总裁大明星隐婚后
After Secretly Marrying a CEO Superstar
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Falling for You 沦陷
Fallen
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All These Years Working Away from Home 外出打工这些年
Ever since Yu Xiaobai married Wu Jiajia, who loved wealth and despised poverty, he hasn’t had a single peaceful day... She turned their home upside down, then teamed up with her first boyfriend to make off with all the money he had worked so hard to earn. He indulged and cherished her in every way, but still couldn’t change Wu Jiajia’s determination to divorce him... After Wu Jiajia asked for a divorce for the umpteenth time, Yu Xiaobai finally chose to leave this absurd marriage and let them bo
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Spring Had Passed Before I Arrived 偏我来时不逢春
But When I Arrived, Spring Had Passed
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Sickly Obsession: Master Xiao Begs His Wife to Spoil Him Every Night 病态觊觎,骁爷每夜在求夫人宠他
When Qi Nanyin asks for a divorce, the man looks at her coldly. “Hmph, do whatever you want!” But at the same time, she hears his inner monologue... [Divorce? Damn it, how can something this terrifying exist in the world?!] [She doesn't want me anymore. I'm so frustrated, I want to blow up the planet!] She tries to teach him to be kind, pure, and faithful to his wife. But his inner thoughts only grow more unhinged and disturbing... [She just looked at that man? I'm so frustrated, I want to secre
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A Foreign Thug's Forced Love: His Sweetheart Runs Away, Only to Be Kissed to Tears 异国暴徒强制爱,娇娇逃跑被亲哭
[Complete] Resilient beauty x sickly, faux-Buddhist man. Underworld · forced love · older man · forbidden romance Her adoptive father is seriously ill, and her best friend has stolen her fiance. She travels to a foreign country alone, only to be sold into the red-light district. Thinking her life has gone wrong from the start, she accidentally gets involved with her fiance's uncle. He is seven years older than her, immensely powerful, and always holds prayer beads in his hand. His methods are ex
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Neither Moon nor Me 非月非我
(Everyone suffers in love + possessive, emotionally needy male lead + clear-eyed, resilient female lead) The grudges and tangled relationships of the previous generation ensnare this generation in heartbreaking turmoil. He plotted for a long time, then took her by force. She observed propriety and had no choice but to marry him because she was pregnant. Raised in a loveless, dark home, he longed to know what it felt like to be loved. He drew her into the abyss, thinking of her as his salvation.
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The Ultimate Captive: The Psychotic Yandere Tycoon Is Addicted to Spoiling Her 顶级囚宠:疯批病娇大佬嗜宠上瘾
Don’t let the rating put you off. There’s a reason it isn’t higher, and those who know, know! The stories inside are genuinely stunning and entertaining! - A collection of all kinds of coercive romances! The powerful are arrogant, domineering, and full of swagger, but in the end, they still have to bow their heads for love! - [Stealing someone’s partner + coercive possession + off-the-charts sexual tension + deranged, obsessive romance + play the pig to eat the tiger + fiercely doting favoritism
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