Short, Brutal, Heartbreaking: The Kind That Keeps You Crying the Whole Time! 短、狠、虐，要虐到全程都在哭的那种！

1. 1201 软 Sweetheart, You Can’t Escape! The Yandere Big Shot Keeps Me Imprisoned and Spoiled 软宝逃不掉！被病娇大佬强制囚宠 Ming Yueyun明月云Modern Romance210k WordsCompleted [Complete] [Taking by force + obsessive, ill-tempered coercive love + sweet, soft-hearted little darling + darkly sweet romance] Everyone in the imperial capital knew that on the day his nephew got engaged, the aloof and elegant head of the Fu family stole his nephew’s bride. “Are you going to be good?” Bullied until she was sobbing, Li Luoluo could only nod obediently. She was Fu Sihan’s little wife, taken by force, and every day she thought about how to escape. But Fu Sihan had the entire esta 4.7kReads8.8Score304Shelves
2. 1202 老 After My Wife Was Assaulted: Ten Years of Devotion Were Just an Act, and the Truth Was a Bloodstained Blade 老婆被侵犯以后：十年深情一场戏，真相是带血的刀 Lion City Commoner狮城布衣Marriage & Romance26k WordsCompleted After My Wife Was Violated: Ten Years of Deep Love Were All an Act, and the Truth Is a Bloodstained Knife 30Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 1203 呜 Wah! The Mad Tyrant Dragged Me Back Nine Times, and I’m Pregnant Again 呜！被疯批暴君抓回来九次还揣崽 Fireflies Across the Sky漫天的萤火Ancient Romance727k WordsCompleted “Be good. Give birth to the crown prince, and I’ll make you empress,” the ascetic tyrant coaxes in a low voice. “I don’t want that!” The little woman tugs at his belt. “I don’t want the throne. Just lift the ban for me.” After transmigrating into a book, Qin Ling only wants to escape the palace and live a carefree life, far away from the cold, bloodthirsty, vicious, and heartless emperor. Competing for his favor? Not a chance. Not in this lifetime. She just wants to eat and wait for death, livin 1.2kReads8.3Score144Shelves
4. 1204 我 I Personally Sent My Cheating Wife into a Prison of the Mind 我亲手把出轨妻子送进了精神牢笼 Lazy Little Wife's Favorite小懒婆稀罕Marriage & Romance12k WordsCompleted I Personally Sent My Cheating Wife Into a Mental Prison —Reads—Score—Shelves
5. 1205 阁 The Sickly Obsessive Tycoon's Canary Is Imprisoned in the Attic 阁楼里囚着病娇大佬的金丝雀 Eating Meat Every Day每天吃肉肉Modern Romance416k WordsCompleted [One-on-one romance + seriously lovesick, obsessive male lead + soft, sweet Barbie-like heroine] This story features a possessive, unhealthy love. The heroine is not strong-willed. Don’t read if that’s not your thing!!! Ye Hanshen, the most powerful man in Yongcheng, fell for Ning Sang Sang at first sight. To get his hands on the young woman, he made her parents’ business go bankrupt with a single sentence. He forced Ning Sang Sang’s parents to hand their daughter over to him. He successfully cl 8.5kReads9.0Score735Shelves
6. 1206 离 Only After Our Divorce Did I Learn Her Betrayal Was a Business Deal 离婚后才发现，她的背叛是场交易 Lazy Little Wife's Favorite小懒婆稀罕24k WordsCompleted Only After the Divorce Did I Discover Her Betrayal Was a Deal —Reads—Score—Shelves
7. 1207 被 The Night I Was Assaulted, I Heard His Heart Weeping 被侵犯那夜，我听见他的心跳在哭 Lazy Little Wife's Favorite小懒婆稀罕12k WordsCompleted The Night I Was Assaulted, I Heard His Heartbeat Weeping 8Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 1208 快 Quick Transmigration: I Came for You [Female-to-Male] 快穿：为你而来【女穿男】 Plain Heart Ruler素心尺Modern Romance113k WordsOngoing Chen Ansheng must save different souls in different worlds. No matter who you are, I came only for you. This is a story of mutual salvation, and a heartwarming one, too. 12Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Perhaps it was a lingering sadness at play.

9. 1209 极 After Enduring Unimaginable Humiliation, She Found Redemption in the Mafia 极限受辱后，她在黑帮里找到救赎 Wu Wu Wu Wu無无雾舞Modern Romance240k WordsCompleted The most harrowing torment, the most unbearable pain, the most overwhelming love. The heroine, Jiang Chen, is kidnapped and imprisoned, and loses her loved ones. Later, she meets the man she loves most, Qin Shuo. Love and hatred, betrayal and redemption intertwine. Can this man save her? 813Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 1210 雪 Xue Shengran's Intentions 雪勝然意 Little Bits of Life点点生活10k WordsCompleted Xue Shengran's Will —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I highly recommend these two books; both feature characters who forcefully take the female lead. They're angsty, but the second male lead suffers the most. 🤭

11. 1211 破 Broken Moonlight, Fragmented Memories 破碎月光，斑驳记忆 Little Bits of Life点点生活Modern Romance161k WordsOngoing Bank clerk Fang Wan is targeted by Lu Chen, a financial tycoon consumed by a pathological obsession with her waist-length hair. As a child, Lu Chen witnessed his mother, who came from Sucheng, take her own life. Haunted by the memory, he sees Fang Wan as her double and takes her by force. Fang Wan is deeply in love with her childhood sweetheart, Lin Che, a struggling actor on the fringes of the entertainment industry. She has no idea that Lu Chen's promises of fame and fortune are leading Lin Ch 3Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 1212 督 Warlord, Please Be Gentle 督军大人轻点宠 Fragrant Fragrant with a Brush执笔香香Modern Romance246k WordsCompleted He is a ruthless warlord who seized power in Bianzhou by wading through the blood of his own family, destined to live a lonely life. She is a lowly seamstress, but a cinnabar mole on her collarbone leads him to mistake her for the young girl who once saved his life. He showers her with all the affection in the world. As war engulfs the land, they defend their country side by side, entrusting each other with their lives. Just as their love deepens, she is poisoned and left on the brink of death. 23Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Want to lose weight? Read this book! 😢😢😢😢

13. 1213 第 The Twelfth Love Letter 第十二封情书 371Two Male Leads78k WordsCompleted [Top-quality novel + two male leads + unrequited love + short story + coming of age + tragic ending + school life + letters] [What am I? A grain of sand among ten thousand generations, A stone this big. I can love this version of myself too., “I,” Leslie Cheung] A story of unrequited love: no getting close, no confession, and certainly no mutual affection. It's silence, a secret, a treasure. It's the wild madness of youth, with no regrets. 1.2kReads9.0Score272Shelves

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    Very good, all short stories.

14. 1214 伴 The Bride’s Personal Maid 伴嫁丫鬟 Yan Su You Ni眼粟有妮Ancient Romance160k WordsCompleted In the silent depths of a grand household, fate drifts like a wisp of silk. From a maid who came with the bride to a maidservant in the study, she treads carefully at every turn, caught between schemes and growing affection. Beneath his cold exterior lies tenderness; beneath her caution, a heart beginning to stir. In the deep halls of a marquis’s household, an unspoken love quietly takes root. Love runs deep in the marquis’s manor, where schemes stretch as far as the sea. Where will she ultimate 2.5kReads7.3Score172Shelves

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    Come on, take a look at this book!

15. 1215 罪 Love in Sin, Sweet Captive of Lord Xia 罪爱娇宠，夏爷的心尖囚 Ting Mian Xiaoxiao听绵晓晓Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Chasing Her After Losing Her] [Over-the-Top Drama] [Rekindled Romance] [Mutually Faithful] [Sweet and Bittersweet] The heroine coldly walks away, leaving their child with him. Once feared by all for his ruthless, blood-soaked ways, Master Xia keeps losing his composure in front of his own little troublemaker. The child is convinced Daddy is a bad uncle! She's a pro at biting and kicking, and cries every day as she desperately looks for Mommy. By day, Master Xia runs a massive corporation, his p 294Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Crazy Xia Ye + adorable child as assistants, sweet and angsty love, a wealthy family's tragic romance, a wife-chasing-after-the-wife-in-a-cremation scenario, bittersweet double male leads all in one go, it's absolutely amazing, everyone please check this out, I'm begging you, it's so good!

16. 1216 凶 The Murder Happens in Chapter Four 凶案发生在第四章 Against the Dustlight逆倒尘光啊23k WordsCompleted The Murder Takes Place in Chapter Four 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Two of them are very heart-wrenching!

17. 1217 我 My System Is Broken and Teaches Me to Guilt-Trip People Every Day 我的系统有病，天天教我道德绑架 Against the Dustlight逆倒尘光啊11k WordsCompleted My System is broken. Every day, it teaches me how to guilt-trip people. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 1218 如 If Every Rescue Means You Forget Me 如果每一次拯救，代价都是被你遗忘 Against the Dustlight逆倒尘光啊13k WordsCompleted What if the price of saving you every time is being forgotten by you? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 1219 离 On the Day of My Divorce, I Married the Business Tycoon My Cheating Ex-Husband Had Groveled Before 离婚当天，我嫁给了出轨前夫跪舔的商界大佬 Against the Dustlight逆倒尘光啊24k WordsCompleted On the day I divorced, I married the business tycoon my cheating ex-husband had been groveling to. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
20. 1220 流 Before a Stray Cat Died, It Brought Back the Wedding Ring I'd Lost Three Years Ago 流浪猫死前，把我失窃三年的婚戒叼了回来 Against the Dustlight逆倒尘光啊8k WordsCompleted Before it died, a stray cat brought back my wedding ring, which had been missing for three years. 8Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 1221 只 I Only Want to Love You 只愿钟情与你 Always Twelve一直十二Modern Romance99k WordsCompleted Clear-headed beauty × calculating, controlling powerhouse (1v1 coercive romance, forced love, a tragic love story, not for everyone) The thing Xi Yuanwan regrets most in her life is marrying Jiang Chengshen. _ After her parents passed away, she inherited the company’s assets on her own. Her third uncle, the only elder in the family, looked after her devotedly. - Xi Yuanwan first met Jiang Chengshen at a dinner party, where she was taken in by his outward appearance. At the time, he was a promisi 3.6kReads—Score125Shelves

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    The romance between the male and female leads is incredibly captivating and unforgettable.

22. 1222 早 Morning Tea and Moonlight 早茶月光 Always Twelve一直十二Modern Romance88k WordsCompleted Gentle florist heroine x refined scoundrel of a corporate CEO. One-on-one, coercive love, with confinement scenes. Read with caution!!! For certain reasons, she moved to City A and opened a flower shop, hoping to live out her life in peace. But fate brought her face-to-face with him. Many years later, They still didn't know whether their first meeting had been fate or a curse. 3.4kReads5.5Score104Shelves
23. 1223 爱 My Love Is Real, and So Is My Desire to Kill You 爱是真的，想杀你也是真的 Tai Moshen太末生Marriage & Romance21k WordsCompleted My Love Is Real, and So Is My Desire to Kill You 34Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 1224 烬 Jinli: The Gardenias Haven't Fallen Asleep 烬璃：栀子未眠 Tai Moshen太末生30k WordsCompleted Jin Li: The Gardenia Has Yet to Sleep 28Reads—Score—Shelves
25. 1225 搭 Nine Years as a Live-In Maid? I Packed Up and Ran Overnight 搭伙九年当保姆？我连夜提桶跑路 Mountains and Rivers Return at Dusk山河归晚24k WordsCompleted Nine Years as a Live-In Housekeeper? I Packed Up and Ran Overnight 2.2kReads—Score—Shelves

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    So satisfying, so brutal, so incredibly satisfying, so revengeful!

26. 1226 我 Four Years After I Died, My Five-Year-Old Son Was Living Out of Trash Cans 我死后四年，五岁儿子翻垃圾桶为生 Mountains and Rivers Return at Dusk山河归晚31k WordsCompleted Four Years After I Died, My Five-Year-Old Son Survived by Rummaging Through Trash Cans —Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 1227 前 In My Past Life, Grandma's False Rumors About Me Drove Me to Suicide. Reborn, I Spread Rumors That She Was Cheating 前世被奶奶造黄谣逼死，重生后我传她偷人 Mountains and Rivers Return at Dusk山河归晚27k WordsCompleted In my past life, Grandma drove me to my death by spreading a false rumor that I was sleeping around. After being reborn, I spread a rumor that she was cheating. —Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 1228 骗 He Lied About Sending Me to London for Three Years, While My Wife Was Kept by a Sugar Daddy Right Here in Town 骗我外派伦敦三年，老婆竟在同城被包养 Mountains and Rivers Return at Dusk山河归晚Marriage & Romance21k WordsCompleted He Lied That I Was Being Sent to London for Three Years, While My Wife Was Kept by a Sugar Daddy in the Same City 41Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 1229 毁 The Truth Behind the Car Accident That Ruined My College Entrance Exam 毁我高考的车祸真相 Mountains and Rivers Return at Dusk山河归晚29k WordsCompleted The Truth Behind the Car Crash That Ruined My College Entrance Exam 7Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 1230 发 After Discovering My Wife's Affair, I Sent Her Lover to Northern Myanmar 发现老婆出轨，我把奸夫送去缅北 Mountains and Rivers Return at Dusk山河归晚21k WordsCompleted After discovering my wife was cheating, I sent her lover to northern Myanmar —Reads—Score—Shelves
31. 1231 恶 Cruel Mother-in-Law Falsely Accuses Her of Cheating, Sixty-Year-Old Father Demands a Divorce 恶婆婆诬陷出轨，六旬老父怒离婚 Mountains and Rivers Return at Dusk山河归晚33k WordsCompleted My Wicked Mother-in-Law Accuses Me of Cheating, and My Father, in His Sixties, Demands a Divorce —Reads—Score—Shelves
32. 1232 闺 My Best Friend Drained My Lifespan 闺蜜吸干我寿命 Mountains and Rivers Return at Dusk山河归晚27k WordsCompleted My Best Friend Drained My Lifespan —Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 1233 带 I Returned to the Village with Twenty Million to Repay a Debt of Gratitude, Only to Be Left Heartbroken 带两千万回村报恩，心凉 Mountains and Rivers Return at Dusk山河归晚29k WordsCompleted I Returned to My Village with Twenty Million to Repay a Favor, Only to Be Disillusioned —Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 1234 手 I Took Down My Venomous Stepmother and Biased, Worthless Father 手撕毒蛇继母和偏心渣爹 Mountains and Rivers Return at Dusk山河归晚19k WordsCompleted I Take Down My Vicious Stepmother and Biased, Scumbag Father —Reads—Score—Shelves
35. 1235 羲 The Tale of Xihe: Captured, I Became the Enemy Emperor’s Empress 羲河传：被俘后，我成了敌国皇后 Lord Lingchun翎春君Ancient Romance173k WordsCompleted [Fallen Princess vs. Unhinged Crown Prince] When a nation falls and a family is destroyed, a ruler is duty-bound to die with his country. But what should a princess do? Princess Xihe was willful and arrogant in her youth. At sixteen, her country fell and her family was killed. Alone, she struggled to survive in a world of chaos while protecting the six-year-old heir. She met a general from the enemy nation. He took her for an ordinary young woman and fell in love with her, but how could she forg 32.6kReads9.5Score5kShelves

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    The princess of a fallen kingdom, tortured to the point of madness

36. 1236 穿 I Transmigrated into a Eunuch and Met a Prince in the Cold Palace 穿成真太监后遇到一个冷宫皇子 Qian Zhizi千栀子Two Male Leads359k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads, No Female Lead!!! CP: Eunuch and Cold Palace Prince] Who would have thought my girlfriend's curse would actually come true? What do you do when you transmigrate into the body of a real eunuch? I feel like crying three times a day. But then I ran into a lame prince confined to the cold palace, and happened to witness this seemingly innocent but secretly ruthless kid in the middle of killing someone. Without even realizing it, I somehow flirted with him and got him acting strange. 14.5kReads9.5Score2.3kShelves
37. 1237 穿 Transmigrated into a Book as Cannon Fodder, But I Can Still Be Saved 穿书炮灰，我还能抢救一下 Cold but Not Warm冷不暖Two Male Leads431k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a Book + Male-Male Romance + Devoted Couple] The protagonist has no protagonist aura in the early chapters!!! No System, no golden finger!! A male lead who grows over time, not a wish-fulfillment story, and the protagonist will suffer. If that's not your thing, please don't click. Thanks. Sunny, cheerful ray of sunshine vs. cold-faced, unhinged beauty Lu Xingran died, and when he did, he transmigrated straight into a cultivation power fantasy novel he had read, becoming the 148Reads8.9Score—Shelves
38. 1238 狐 The Hard Life of a Fox 狐生艰难 Drunk Beneath the Ninth Autumn醉卧九秋Two Male Leads22k WordsCompleted I tricked the Fox King after he lost his memory. I told him I was his Dao companion, and that he'd once tried every possible way to win my love, only to be rejected. The Fox King believed me and did everything he could to treat me well. Only later did I learn that I was just a pawn the Fox King used to provoke the Goddess. The good news was that the Goddess didn't care. The bad news was that I was doomed. I never expected to run into the Fox King again after he lost his memory. This time, I hone 16Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Little abuse, short,

39. 1239 雪 Snow-Buried Eyes, Love Reduced to Zero 雪葬双眸，爱意归零 Quan Xin荃昕10k WordsCompleted Snow buries her eyes, and love fades to nothing 464Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 1240 花 Blossoms Fall Upon the Inkstone 花朝落砚 Quan Xin荃昕18k WordsCompleted Huachao Luo Yan 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
41. 1241 澜 Dream of Lan Ciyu 澜辞钰梦 Quan Xin荃昕14k WordsCompleted Lan Ci Yu Meng 381Reads—Score—Shelves
42. 1242 我 I Died on Mid-Autumn Night, and Mr. Lu Went Mad with Regret 我死在中秋夜，陆总悔疯了 Quan Xin荃昕12k WordsCompleted I died on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and General Manager Lu went mad with regret. 494Reads—Score—Shelves
43. 1243 失 The Night We Lost Our Child, He Was Setting Off Fireworks With His White Moonlight 失去孩子那晚，他在陪白月光放烟花 Quan Xin荃昕14k WordsCompleted The night they lost their child, he was setting off fireworks with his unrequited love. 239Reads—Score—Shelves
44. 1244 他 He Thinks I'm Cashing In on My Kindness? Then Let Him Die in His Hospital Bed 他嫌我挟恩图报？那就死在病床上吧 Quan Xin荃昕10k WordsCompleted He thinks I'm holding him to a debt of gratitude? Then let him die in that hospital bed. 718Reads—Score—Shelves
45. 1245 我 My "A Piao" Girlfriend 我的“阿飘”女友 Valley of the Kings帝王谷9k WordsCompleted My "Ghostie" Girlfriend 4kReads—Score112Shelves

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    Read this good book! [I highly recommend it!][I highly recommend it!][I highly recommend it!]

46. 1246 天 The Chosen Saintess Broke Off Our Engagement. I Was Fine with It, but She Changed Her Mind 天骄圣女退婚，我ok，她却不退了 Valley of the Kings帝王谷13k WordsCompleted The Proud Saintess Broke Off Our Engagement. I Was Fine With It, but She Changed Her Mind 1.8kReads—Score—Shelves
47. 1247 总 My CEO Wife Took Care of Her White Moonlight, and Our Home Was Stolen 总裁老婆照顾白月光，家被偷了 Valley of the Kings帝王谷Modern Romance10k WordsCompleted His CEO Wife Is Taking Care of Her White Moonlight, and Someone Has Stolen His Home 1.6kReads—Score—Shelves
48. 1248 东 The Eastern Palace’s Caged Sparrow: Changning’s Mistake 东宫囚雀：长宁误 Rika Under the Moon月下绘里香Ancient Romance395k WordsOngoing [Love and hate entwined | Discipline | Revenge | Political scheming] I am the fallen dynasty's princess, the most docile canary in the Eastern Palace. The Crown Prince killed my father, destroyed my homeland, and used rules to cage me into the most obedient plaything in his palm. He told me to learn political strategy, so I did. He told me to smile, so I smiled. After lying low for five years, I finally got the chance I'd been waiting for: the day he was trapped in a desperate situation. I broug 184Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A tragic story with good writing.

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