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I Only Took a Peek at Him 我只偷看他一眼
During the speech by the freshman class representative, Chen Nan fell for Lu Xu at first sight, and for the rest of her life. The pink sunset beyond the window filled the entire sky, like a beautiful landscape painting. The clouds looked drunk, their cheeks flushed with color. Chen Nan held her breath and stole a sidelong glance at Lu Xu. His profile was youthful and striking, and he held his book with perfect posture. A ray of light fell on the yellowed pages, and touched him as well. The dayli
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The Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love 暗恋这件难过的小事
Lin Xu has a crush on the popular boy Ye Feng, and she remembers countless little details about him. Every day, Lin Xu times her departure down to the second, getting dressed and putting on her shoes in a hurry, all for the chance to catch a fleeting glimpse of his back. The music playing during the long break outside her classroom is Xu Song’s “Moon over Luzhou.” Lin Xu knows it’s the favorite song of Ye Feng, the school radio station’s announcer. Lin Xu has even stayed up all night organizing
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The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳
Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held
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Lovely Girl 阿妍
Alternate title: After I Died, Everyone's Characterization Fell Apart Lin Yan died, stabbed by the man who was her husband in name, the former crown prince and now the new emperor. But could someone please tell her why everyone changed after she turned into a ghost?! After becoming a ghost, she met a handsome young man. He was just as miserable as she was. She didn't want him to die; she wanted to save him. But she was a ghost! How could she save him? When Cheng Yu crawled to the
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Where He Belongs 他的归处
The internet was flooded with stories of Song Qing’s heroic deeds. I saw a video someone had taken: Song Qing leapt gracefully into the lake like a carp, then slowly disappeared, as if that had always been where he belonged.
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He Is in the South of the Clouds 他在云之南
When they first met, he was shrouded in shadow, reeking of blood and violence. He asked her, “Who are you? Where are you from? What are you doing here?” It was a long time before she thought of the true answer: “I'm Shen Xun. I came from the far north to the south of the clouds, to meet the love of my life.” He was her Morpheus, giving her a poppy-like dream of love, bewitching and intoxicating. He captured her soul, clouded her mind, and made her addicted. Like a pawn crossing a river, she went
24.9kReads9.7Score4.9kShelves
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Hidden in Midsummer 藏于盛夏
A heads-up before you start ❗️: One of the side couples is a gay couple, so please skip this if that bothers you. [The print edition under the same title is now available] [Healing × Love that grows over time × Angsty school romance] Sweet, gentle, well-behaved student × rebellious, handsome bad boy That midsummer seemed hotter than any before. The girl in the graduation photo smiled sweetly, with a boy in a white shirt grinning boldly behind her. They met in midsummer, and parted in midsummer t
84.8kReads9.6Score14.8kShelves
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You Broke Your Promise 你失信了
The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily
64.3kReads9.5Score12.1kShelves
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I Offer My Devotion to the Passing Years 以我深情祭岁月
[The physical book with the same title is now available] “I hesitated once. I turned back to face the slightest glimmer of hope, yet no one cared.” “Later, a thick fog rolled in. You said you loved me so much, but why was your love thinner than the fog, so faint I could barely see it?” Shen Nian
71.6kReads9.4Score6.4kShelves
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Fishermen’s Lights on the River, Keeping Me Awake with Sorrow 江枫渔火对愁眠
She waited for him all her life, but he would never come back.
980Reads8.6Score169Shelves
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Quick Transmigration: The Story Architect Has No Weekends 快穿：构书师没有双休日
Also known as “After Quick Transmigration, I Became My Own Love Rival” / “I Hunt Myself Down in Every Plane” | Interconnected Worlds | Eastern Fantasy | Love Rivalry | Unhinged Villain | Fated Self-Rescue | BE: Double the Heartbreak ♢ After becoming a story-weaver at the Books of the Afterlife, Gu Yi discovers that... The dangerous yet fortunate flaw in the planes is encountering another version of yourself on a mission. ▌Memorable Scenes: Records from High-Risk Planes ▶ “Cinnabar Kiss” · Noblem
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I Told You I Love You in Heaven 我在天堂说爱你
At fifteen, Junxi accidentally got blood from an AIDS patient into one of his wounds and contracted the disease. From then on, his normal life was completely upended, and he lived in constant fear that he could die at any moment. But Li Poxiao never left his side, giving him the courage to carry on. Through his pain, he smiled through his tears. “Brother Junxi, my greatest wish is to become your bride. You have to fight to stay alive, because… this is a dream only you can help me fulfill.” A lov
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I Only Wish We’d Part Ways in the Next Life 只愿来生与君绝
She was determined to die. That night, she set a fire and killed more than a hundred people. The Emperor ordered, “Execute her at once.” She was dragged to the execution ground, where she gave him a faint smile. As the white silk fell and her life slipped away, the Azure Dragon jade pendant appeared in that very instant. At that moment... he went mad!
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Jiang Chuze, I Won’t Love You Anymore 江楚泽，我不会爱你了
Everyone knows that An Ruoxuan, the beautiful eldest daughter of the An family in Xingdu, chased after the cold-faced young master of the Jiang family in Beicheng from the time they were children. She tried every way she could to cling to him, earning a reputation as his little shadow and a stalker. But then the aloof young master got together with Su Munan, An Ruoxuan's best friend... Eight years later, Jiang Chuze turned around and married An Ruoxuan. She thought she was going to heaven, but i
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At Last, I Admit Defeat 终于愿赌服输
“Why couldn't you be the one who got sick?” “Why couldn't you be the one who died?” With drunken eyes, the man bends down and whispers the most heartless words in the gentlest voice. But he doesn't know that she really is going to die.
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Come See the Sea with Me Tomorrow 明天陪我去看海
She filled a faraway fantasy into an insubstantial relationship, while he mixed a love close at hand with cold, tangible benefits. Fate finally sent them in opposite directions. “If I could turn back time, I wouldn’t mind traveling ten thousand miles. I’d come see you.” The storm raging out at sea lasted a full forty-one chapters. Fine raindrops beat against the surging waves. Bloodstained white tiles, reeking of earth, pierced his mind like thorns. He remembered. Xiao Yan had left with the shar
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May I Caress You Again 愿再轻抚你
Zhou Qiyue of West Wu No. 3 High School was a bona fide school bully. He did everything the school rules forbade. Then one day, a new girl joined the class next door. He called her ugly, yet warned his buddies not to chase after her. He wanted to get close to her, but carefully kept his distance. You are a star I can never reach. Later, rumors about the two of them dating reached the teachers’ office, and the teachers were alarmed. The homeroom teacher pointed at him and said, “A social degene
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Let the Past Fade; You and I Will Drift with the Wind 往事清零你我随风
[Powerful CEO Family + Secret Crush + Modern Romance + Marriage Before Love + Angsty Romance] An accident, a chance encounter, and then a conspiracy unfolds. Later, she lies in a hospital bed, never to wake again, while he is consumed by regret. The man clutches his aching chest and sinks to his knees, weeping uncontrollably. “Jian Tong, I was wrong. Please come back, okay?” A bitter, icy wind howls past, scattering the woman’s ashes into the air as if she had never existed.
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Abyssal Depths, Falling Ashes 沉渊落烬
To raise money for his younger brother's bone cancer treatment, Qiu Yeqing takes a job at a private club. On his very first day, he gets tangled up with Cheng Yuan, a ruthless rich kid, and ends up in the hospital. Desperate to get discharged, Qiu Yeqing bolts from his room. In his panic, he collides with Jiang Lan at the door as Jiang Lan is heading to visit a patient next door. After that accidental “throwing himself into his arms,” Qiu Yeqing can't stop thinking about Jiang Lan. Jiang Lan, a
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The Trouble with Keeping Pets 养宠为患
[Two male leads + unhinged + yandere + angst for the bottom + satisfying read] = The ex regrets it and chases his love at the crematorium After his secret was exposed, Bai Feicheng was brutally beaten and tortured for two whole years. Unable to bear the humiliation, he fled with a broken heart. Only then did Bai Chenghao realize he had fallen in love with him. But he pursued him the wrong way, deepening the misunderstanding between them once again. Angst, bad ending or happy ending: I’ll let y
681Reads8.7Score100Shelves
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Falling into the Trap Again 二次深陷
Wen Yan loved Yu Chengzhou. She loved him for a full ten years, only to be betrayed after a decade of devotion and reduced from a wealthy heiress to his caged bird. Five years later, she returned as a highly sought-after jewelry designer. With all eyes on her, she became the first woman bold enough to reject him. In this battle of wits and this pursuit of love, would he be the one to lose his heart, or would she fall for him all over again?
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Bound by Cruelty, With No Escape 缚虐难逃
[Angsty romance] He tortured her for two whole years, all because of one plea. She went from someone hidden away from daylight in this villa to a canary in a gilded cage, glamorous on the surface. Later, he came to his senses, but it was too late to undo the damage. She could not forget, yet pretended she had moved on. They were each other’s salvation, but monsters in the eyes of the world. She was at her best back then. He was at his best later. But a whole youth lay between the best versions o
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The Discarded Stand-In Has Had Enough 废弃替身想开了
[No female lead, 1v1, seriously angsty drama + stand-in for the unattainable first love + winning him back at any cost + mutual healing + rekindled romance + 80% angst, 20% sweetness + happy ending] Cen Yu had known Gu Yanting for ten years. For the first five, he was Gu Yanting's sidekick, his underling. In the sixth year, Gu Yanting said, “Your profile looks like Qi Anyi's,” and Cen Yu became a stand-in for Gu Yanting's unattainable first love. In the tenth year, Qi Anyi came back. Gu Yanting
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I Won’t Fall for You 我不会喜欢你
Mo Qian spent six years trying to warm a cold, unyielding heart. But life is full of disappointments, and love is one of them. Even on the day he died, he never received the love he had yearned for. But he could never have imagined that after his death, the one he had loved in this world would finally awaken, overcome with grief. Day after day, they knelt before the tiny pile of ashes he had become, sobbing and weeping, until they died beneath those ashes. ***Content warnings: * A groveling ex a
1.2kReads8.8Score103Shelves
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Captive Wild Rose 囚禁野玫瑰
Angsty romance + unhinged male lead (if you dislike this, don’t read) + no reconciliation Another warning: the male lead is obsessive and unhinged. If you dislike that, don’t read. Aloof, noble doctor Shi Yi VS gentle, well-behaved teacher Yu Huan From the moment the first rose bloomed, the Creator had been plotting this encounter, one called redemption. Shi Yi was like the moon reflected on water. Yu Huan had gazed up at him for five whole years, loving him humbly as her bright, clear white ros
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Love Came to Him 爱情，他来过
Xia Yue had a secret crush on Xu Ningshen for seven years, only to get this in return: “I never said I liked you.” As people all around her looked at her with scorn, Shao Linghui appeared before Xia Yue. He gave her all the dignity she deserved, only to push her into the abyss once again. Years later, Xia Yue thought that at least there had been love between her and Shao Linghui, and that was enough. This story is a little angsty. The heroine is beautiful, strong, and tragic; the hero's characte
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Taking Treasures Into My Pocket 娶物入囊
[Angst, Everyone Suffers + Revenge on Scumbags] The moment Jiang Hanyan’s veil was lifted, her happy smile froze. “You’re not Yun Lei. You’re Huo Yusheng...” From that moment on, driven by the deep-seated resentment he had harbored ever since his twin brother, Huo Yunlei, framed him in their youth, and convinced that Jiang Hanyan had caused his first love, Tang Yueran, to become paralyzed, the young master of the Huo family, Huo Yusheng, married the woman who was supposed to become his sister-in
658Reads6.5Score—Shelves
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Waiting for the Perfect Moment to Dote on Her 伺机偏宠
[The capital's princely heir × the heiress of a wealthy family] [She suffers early on, he suffers later; both are each other's first] At nineteen, she confessed to him. Holding a cigarette, he tapped off the ash and smiled with aloof elegance. “Ask me again when you're grown up.” At twenty-one, she became his secretary, and they naturally fell into an ambiguous relationship. At twenty-two, she asked him for help. The man gave her a cold smile. “What makes you think I'd help?” She stammered, “Wha
28.2kReads8.0Score2.9kShelves
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Kiss the Blade 吻刀
[White moonlight + substitute romance + a playboy reforms + a groveling chase + tormenting both men and women] Also known as: The Actor's Substitute Lover Is Wild and Irresistible Content warning: The male lead is somewhat of a scumbag and isn't a virgin. The heroine initially approaches him to avenge her sister, and has no genuine feelings for him. “Your love is a flower blooming in the wrong season.” Five years ago, celebrated actress Shen Tangwan died by suicide after taking pills at home,
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A Noble Lady in Servitude 奴本贵女
The year she was sold into the provincial governor’s household, Yang Liu was eight years old. After offending Liu Yu, the governor’s spoiled and overbearing only son, she went from being the county magistrate’s adopted daughter to a lowly maid. Years later, the enemy she once hated had become the emperor... [This story has no golden finger. The heroine is a little girl with a tragic past who gradually grows stronger through hardship. From embroidering with a needle to killing with a sword, fr
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Broken Bones 折骨
[The platform keeps tagging this wrong, so I’ll add the tags myself: chasing the wife to the crematorium + sweet and angsty romance + both leads are virgins] [Let me say it again: both leads are virgins. Curse whatever you like, but don’t call the male lead a manwhore!!!] Pei Shuo is a cold and cruel rich young master. He sees how pretty Jiang Nian is and makes a bet with his friend that he can win her over. He deliberately pretends to be broke, wanting to see whether this little vixen loves mon
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Me and the Roses Are Always at Your Princess's Service! 我与玫瑰，随时为公主待命！
[The print edition is now available. Search for Sweet Mist on your favorite platform to buy it.] [One-on-one sweet romance, heart-fluttering and indulgent, with no limits to his devotion.] Zhou Jin, captain of the criminal investigation squad, was unruly, untamed, and hated being pestered. He had no patience for coaxing anyone, either. But after one assignment, he made an exception and took a young woman into his home. The next day, everyone on the team was gossiping: Would the young woman get y
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I Once Promised You a Golden Age of Joy 我曾许你盛世欢颜
Ye Chen waits for his Mrs. Ye, from the days when youth was like a dream until her hair turns white as snow. But he will never know that his Mrs. Ye was buried long ago in that rotten, muddy grave...
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