Novels That Make You Pound the Bed and Cry from the First Chapter, Leaving You Depressed Before You Even Finish 看个开头就捶床大哭的小说，没等看完，就已经抑郁

1. 1 藏 Hidden in Midsummer 藏于盛夏 Autumn Chill秋日凉Modern Romance308k WordsCompleted 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 85kReads9.6Score15kShelves

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   A story of redemption and lasting love between a sweet and obedient student and a handsome bad boy. [^0^]🌈 Campus sadomasochism: On the campus of youth, they met, got to know each other, and fell in love, but they also experienced the pain of life, separation, and death. [[Send heart][Send heart]

2. 2 任 The Mission Starts Over a Hundred Times 任务重来一百次 milieModern Romance20k WordsCompleted “You came to save me, so why can’t you look only at me? Why do you have to give your attention to those one, two, three insignificant people?” “You seem so shy. You never take my hand first. Even just now, you only did it because of someone else.” “Now that you have me, you don’t treat me as well as you used to. There wasn’t any strawberry milk today either, was there?” 7.2kReads8.6Score1.5kShelves
3. 3 快 Quick Transmigration: My Scumbag Ex Cries as He Eats My Ashes 快穿修罗场：渣男哭着吃我骨灰 Meat Sauce Eater吃肉酱Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted The comic adaptation is out! [Conquest + Shura Fields + No CP + Abusing Scum + Everyone's Favorite] Yu Ai is the best task-taker across all of time and space, a beauty blessed with both talent and looks. Hearing that men are always looking for trouble, she teams up with System 001 to teach them a lesson. She's the original green tea, a master of acting, and she's ready to fight back online. * The scheming CEO pins a woman beneath him. "Woman, behave. You're only allowed to be my caged bird." The 10.8kReads9.4Score1kShelves
4. 4 我 [Quick Transmigration] After I Died, the Male Lead Regretted Everything 【快穿】我死后男主追悔莫及 Fu Shu伏菽Modern Romance746k WordsCompleted [BE aesthetic | tearjerking and cathartic | no melodramatic angst | immersive slow transmigration | flirtatious White Moonlight x gentle, obsessive man | sweet and bittersweet | 1v1, both leads’ firsts | parallel-world happy-ending bonus chapters] World 1: Villainous fake heiress x loyal true young master World 2: Canary x owner World 3: Arrogant princess x future tyrant World 4: Bright, beautiful school bully and underachiever x poor, handsome top student World 5: Black-lotus stepmother x true 9kReads9.3Score794Shelves
5. 5 暗 I’m the One Who’s Secretly in Love with You 暗恋你的人是我 Little Yue Cake小悦饼Modern Romance256k WordsCompleted This book is based on my own life. Once I finish writing it, I can finally let go. Su Xiaoxiao is insecure, sensitive, timid, a poor student, and painfully meek. When she meets He Chi, she does her best to get closer to him, but all she can do is run after him from behind. Why does Su Xiaoxiao work so hard to get into First High School, only to transfer out later? Su Xiaoxiao will never measure up to Xia Mo, and she can never catch up to He Chi. But Wang Bo is always behind her, and she forget 152Reads8.8Score—Shelves
6. 6 暗 This Grand, Silent Drama of Unrequited Love 暗恋这场声势浩大的哑剧 Meng Zhiwan孟栀晚Modern Romance126k WordsCompleted A bittersweet youthful school romance about unrequited love from popular author Meng Zhiwan, and a companion novel to The Sad Little Thing Called a Secret Crush and The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain. This one-sided love story is a silent play with just one actor: me. Also known as The Moment I Speak, My Voice Disappears. Lonely girl Chen Ji VS sunny boy Lin Jingye. I carefully cherished you, and you became the only spring I ever had in my life. “Chen Ji, may you always be safe and well, overcome 19.1kReads9.6Score4.2kShelves
7. 7 藏 The Unease Hidden Deep in My Heart 藏匿在心底的局促 Jue Xin桷心Modern Romance50k WordsCompleted “What a pity the wildfire blazed through, and the spring breeze never came to make things grow again.” “My dear boy, I wish you peace and safety year after year.” Then I'll bury my secret love deep in my heart. [BE] [Collection] 16Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 8 庆 My Cancer Diagnosis Was Revealed at the Celebration Banquet, and the Whole Internet Broke Down in Tears 庆功宴上我癌症曝光，全网泪崩了 Bright Moon and Clear Breeze, Me明月清风我丶Urban923k WordsCompleted If you had only a few days left to live, what would you choose to do? At the celebration banquet for the successful completion of the lithography factory in Kyoto New District, Su Chen, the project lead, announced that he was resigning. Everyone was stunned. It turned out he had discovered that he was terminally ill and had little time left. Just then, Su Chen obtained the Scientific Research Master System. Completing research tasks would extend his life! Controlled nuclear fusion! Space elevato 9.9kReads8.2Score677Shelves

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   1265 Hours of old bookworms highly recommend it. If it doesn't look good, feel free to mock me with electronic music.

9. 9 身 With a Terminal Illness, I Heal the Whole World with My Songs 身患绝症的我，用歌治愈全世界 Old-Age Rice Scoop老年饭勺Urban442k WordsCompleted [Slice of life + entertainment + System + healing + livestreaming + redemption + one heroine] At just eighteen, Wen He is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. A System descends and binds itself to him: “Set Sail for Your Dream.” Even though he grew up in a cold and unfeeling family, and even as illness ravages his body, Wen He still heals everyone with his songs. Having been caught in the rain himself, he wants to hold an umbrella over others. His song “The Good Things of This World Are Intertwi 12.6kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves
10. 10 我 I’m Depressed, and My Songs Make the Whole Internet Miserable 我，抑郁患者，演唱的歌致郁全网 Nanye Wu南野武Urban228k WordsOngoing Shen Mo transmigrates into the body of someone with depression and activates an Entertainment System. From the start, he joins Tomorrow's Star and sings “Under the Sea,” bringing the audience to tears as the mentors compete to recruit him. “Anhe Bridge,” “Mountains and Seas,” “Lone Warrior,” “Sorrow,” “Wedding,” “What Can I Use to Keep You,” “Rose Boy,” “Hill”… One classic song after another lets him shine onstage. Through one competition after another, he finds his place. He decides to save eve 9Reads8.0Score—Shelves

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    🔥🔥Highly recommended🔥🔥come and watch🔥🔥 [Daily + Entertainment + System + Healing + Live Broadcast + Redemption + Single Female Protagonist] Wen He, who was only 18 years old, was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. The system came and bound him [Sail for the Dream]

11. 11 我 Day N of My Depression 我得抑郁症的第N天 Three One Two Month三一二月Urban167k WordsOngoing Severe depression, bipolar disorder. Do you really understand me? The power of emotions gave rise to supernatural abilities, allowing people to soar through the sky, burrow underground, and move mountains and overturn seas. As a result, people's hearts began to change in different ways. Was it for the sake of protecting others, or for their own enjoyment? Perhaps an even deeper secret lay buried beneath it all? I can't make a choice, because I'm sick. Do you want to change the world with overwhe 8Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 12 娱 Showbiz: One Song, "Under the Sea," and the Whole Internet Fell Into Depression 娱乐：一首海底，全网抑郁 My Dream Is to Be a Landlord梦想是当包租公Urban517k WordsCompleted [Single heroine + sweet romance + healing each other] Good news: Your boy has transmigrated! Bad news: This guy has depression! One song, “Under the Sea,” sends the entire internet into an emotional spiral! Lin Su insists he really didn't mean for that to happen. He's actually a pretty optimistic guy (shrugs like a little bear), so he follows it up with another song, “Divorcing in the Republic of Ghana,” and breaks the netizens all over again! Audience: Like we'd believe a word you say! Lin Su s 4.7kReads8.7Score283Shelves
13. 13 月 The Moon's Return Line 月的回归线 Words Falling in Splendor言语落华彩Urban281k WordsCompleted [Gender Transformation]+ [Urban]+ [Mild Angst] [Some angst, not a childhood-sweethearts story. If that’s what you’re looking for, don’t click. Set in a fictional world, with no connection to reality.] A girl who arrived more than ten years late faces her new identity with nothing but uncertainty and confusion. In what seem like ordinary days, someone destined to change her life suddenly enters her world. But when he breaks through her disguise and reaches her heart, reality crushes her, and she 5.6kReads9.4Score635Shelves

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    Particularly touching

14. 14 和 After Divorcing the Female CEO, I Wound Up in the Arms of a Stunning Doctor 和女总裁离婚后，误入绝色女医怀 Jiang Haochen江浩辰Urban371k WordsCompleted [Complete. The animated adaptation is out. Click the author's profile for the new novel.] Original title: Divorced in the Late Stages of Cancer, Then Everyone Started Loving Me [Everyday life + slow burn + one heroine + no System or golden finger + no turning back + occasional madness] In their four years of marriage, Song Yilang thought he was lucky to have a beautiful wife and a happy family. So he worked himself to the bone, hoping to stand side by side with Lin Su. But when he got cancer and 14.2kReads9.1Score620Shelves
15. 15 还 I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死 Reclining in the North高卧北Urban169k WordsCompleted From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While 137.8kReads9.8Score15.6kShelves
16. 16 诸 Riddled with Illness, I Refuse Treatment. Why Are You Crying? 诸病缠身，我不治，你们哭什么 So, Mister所以先生Urban307k WordsCompleted [Also known as: "Your Son Has Been Gone for a Long Time" and "My Depression Was Getting Better, but I Still Had Stomach Cancer"] Guo Lu was just passing through, a person suffering from depression, schizophrenia, and stomach cancer. After learning that he had only a few years left if he did not seek treatment, Guo Lu wanted nothing more than to end it all on his own terms. After the conflicts with his family accumulated and finally exploded time and again, the people close to him at last learned 13.6kReads8.8Score747Shelves
17. 17 港 Hong Kong Crossover: I Set Up My Own Turf from the Start and Sweep Through Sai Kung 港综：开局自立门户，横推西贡 Clear-Hearted Sword Yang Er清澈见底的心剑杨二Male-Channel Fanfiction2.1M WordsOngoing After transmigrating, Ye Xi found himself on the streets of Hong Kong in the 1980s. Only after gaining his predecessor’s memories did he realize this was a world of Hong Kong cinema. At the time, Hong Kong was rife with criminal gangs, but it was also full of business opportunities. Armed with knowledge of the new era, Ye Xi is about to embark on a grand and eventful journey here!!! 733Reads5.5Score—Shelves

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    How can I put it, it is a good book and a good knife. In order to have enough swords, the protagonist is given full debuffs. It works well but can be extremely depressing to read. I don't know how the subsequent plot will develop, but I hope the male protagonist will be redeemed.

18. 18 港 Hong Kong Crossover: From Street Thug to Business Tycoon 港综：从古惑仔到商业大亨 Never Forget Xing An勿忘星安Male-Channel Fanfiction862k WordsOngoing In 1987, the neon lights of the Imperial Bar in Causeway Bay glowed blood-red through the rain. Ye Kun gripped his ice-cold beer bottle, veins bulging in his hand. In the mirror, a sharply chiseled face sneered back at him. The original owner of this body was none other than “Handsome Kun,” the man everyone in Hung Hing avoided at all costs. From a street punk in Causeway Bay to a tycoon in Central, in this life, who would dare say that “Handsome Kun” could only live in gangster stories? —Reads—Score303Shelves
19. 19 港 Hong Kong Crossover: Rise of a Hero, Only a Fierce Dragon Can Cross the River 港综：枭雄崛起，不是猛龙不过江 Qiu Bu, Who Has Few Desires and a Peaceful Heart清心寡欲的丘布Male-Channel Fanfiction522k WordsOngoing He transmigrated into the world of Hong Kong action movies and, from the start, roamed overseas with the three Tony brothers, living from one day to the next. Fortunately, the System activated, and he led his brothers in a charge toward the bustling Hong Kong Island. But at that time, Hong Kong Island was rife with gangs, each major faction holding its own territory. Surviving here would be no easy feat. A bloodbath was inevitable… 2Reads—Score—Shelves
20. 20 港 Hong Kong Films: The Unbeatable God of War, From the Start I Bloodbath Causeway Bay 港片：不败战神，开局血洗铜锣湾 Xiao Lin Tells Stories小琳说书Male-Channel Fanfiction1.6M WordsOngoing In the dark of Causeway Bay, Chen Haonan’s fall marks the end of an era and the dawn of a new one, with a new order about to take shape. Once hailed as an invincible god of slaughter, he now faces what kind of challenge? 364Reads5.6Score—Shelves
21. 21 我 My Landlady 我的房客大小姐 Super Big Tank Kobe超级大坦克科比Urban1.9M WordsCompleted After getting dumped, a young man with nothing to his name left the city and opened an inn in Dali. His life took an unexpected turn, and amid romance and scenic beauty, a tangled love story unfolded. 2.8kReads9.4Score192Shelves

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    Three major depression films [Adoration] [Adoration], they are good to watch, they are mainly about a pure love male protagonist, and they are good to watch. Tank's Depressive Trilogy, after watching it, one pack is not enough to sit on the bedside [Stare] [Stare]

22. 22 我 My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant 我的26岁女房客 Super Big Tank Kobe超级大坦克科比Urban2.1M WordsCompleted After a wild night at a bar, a beautiful woman pinned him with a paternity claim, and the down-and-out young man suddenly became a father. As if things weren't bad enough, the owner of his rented home changed, and he was about to be kicked out. But his new landlady was beautiful! Should he ask to share the place? She coolly gave him a single word: “Get out!” A romantic entanglement sparked by a housing problem. 123.9kReads9.7Score13.7kShelves
23. 23 富 Prosperity in Bloom 富贵花开 Fireman火夫Urban1.6M WordsCompleted Li Gui Bu Gui is an orphan found by a lonely old man, and he proudly rates himself a first-class bricklayer. He’s proud of the fact that he’s never been unemployed in all his years in the workforce. Even after losing his home and having to stay at a construction site, Li Gui still lives by the motto that life is hard, so you have to keep striving. But an unexpected windfall has left him a little dazed. His biggest challenge is finding a woman who wants to marry for love, not a soulless woman loo 590Reads8.5Score109Shelves

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    These two novels are great!

24. 24 爬 The Man Climbing the Slope 爬坡的男人 In the Sunlight阳光下Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Niu Qiang was an honest man. He believed true love could last forever, but true love was like a knife, each cut leaving a wound. The saddest thing in the world is an honest heart with nothing to its name, and tenderness that has nothing to offer. When the woman he loved left, Niu Qiang promptly changed course in life, struggling through countless hardships to become what people call a successful man. But what did that matter? He still hadn't found the love and tenderness he'd once known. Marriag 388Reads8.7Score—Shelves
25. 25 相 Longing Cannot Dispel Sorrow 相思不解愁 Tang Zhi唐帜Modern Romance32k WordsCompleted [College campus + unrequited love + love that can’t be returned + depression] Xu Shijie secretly loved Lin Mengying, but when she didn’t return his feelings, he transferred his affections to Chen Miaohan. Treated as a stand-in, Chen Miaohan grew despondent and took her own life for love. Xu Zhi styled himself a ladies’ man, falling for one person after another, but ended up all alone. Beware of thieves, fires, and best friends: Li Meiqi specialized in stealing her friends’ love interests, and en 20Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Save the book shortage, these ten books will take you to experience a different life! "Alive" allows you to feel the tenacity and meaning of life; "The Man Climbing the Slope" shows the struggle of urban farming; "Wealth and Flowers Bloom" depicts a warm picture of daily life in the city. The sweetness and bitterness of youth are all in "Love and Love"; "Betting on Love" reveals the twists and turns of marriage and love in the workplace. The high-scoring masterpieces "My Miss Tulip" and "My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant" take you to experience the daily romance and excitement in the city; and "After Divorcing the Female CEO, Stumbled into the Pregnancy of a Stunning Female Doctor" is an unexpected encounter. Finally, "Tropic of Tropic of the Moon" and "I won't cure you of all kinds of diseases, why are you crying" take you to experience the colorfulness and fun of urban life. Come and read, there will always be a book you won't be able to put down!

26. 26 对 A Bet on Love 对赌爱情 Tang Zhi唐帜Modern Romance60k WordsCompleted [From School Uniforms to Wedding Gowns + Close Female Friends + Romantic Tension + Scoundrel Hero + Reuniting After a Breakup + The Wild Heart Reforms] Tang Yuying is hopelessly in love with Li Zhi, but her feelings go nowhere. Then a huge wave sweeps her away, and no one knows whether she is alive or dead. Eight years later, her twin sister, Tang Yucui, tracks down Li Zhi to avenge her younger sister, only to fall in love with the man she came to punish. A leopard never changes its spots. Li Zh 10Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 27 忘 All the Love in My Heart Is Gone 忘尽心中情 Tang Zhi唐帜Modern Romance22k WordsCompleted [Campus romance + unrequited love + secret crush + playboy turns over a new leaf] This is the sequel to my work, A Longing Beyond Sorrow. Xu Shijie visits Jintai Temple to pray for Chen Miaohan’s departed soul. There, he meets Lin Mengying again, now recovered from depression, and also runs into Chen Miaohan’s younger sister, Chen Miaoying. Their story will continue… Lin Mengying is still hopelessly in love with Xu Shijie, but her love remains unreturned. Xu Zhi wanders through one relationship 14Reads—Score—Shelves

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    "Love Is Unresolved" and "Forgetting the Love in My Heart" are sister sadistic novels. They are campus love stories that express the bitterness of secret love. The heroine's infatuation is useless and her affection is meaningless. She cannot bear the blows of depression and cancer and commits suicide by jumping into a lake. "Betting on Love" is a top-notch novel describing a prodigal in love that has been rare in ten years. The male protagonist is known as the best in love, and the story is exciting. [Shock]

28. 28 一 A Lifetime: The Lone-Wolf Agent's Gray Eden 一生：孤胆特工之灰色伊甸园 Crouching Dragon, Thunderous Sky潜龙轰天Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted The story of Lin Tianming’s growth from boyhood. Please also read this book’s companion novels, Second Life: The Bracelet Across the Universe and Third Life: Love Bewitches the Mortal World. Each of the three novels stands alone, yet together they form a series, with interwoven plots that let you experience the life journey of “two worlds, three lives” and the rise of the century’s dragon, Long Teng! 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Campus growth (one life) + urban love story collection (three lives), with novel themes and multi-line linkage, jointly weave the life journey of "two lives and three lives" 👍 It is worth collecting and tasting! 👍👍👍👍👍

29. 29 三 Three Lifetimes: Love Bewitching the Mortal World 三生，，之情惑人间 Crouching Dragon, Thunderous Sky潜龙轰天Modern Romance254k WordsCompleted A collection of modern love and marriage stories. Read this alongside its companion works, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden” and “Two Lives: The Wristband Conquers the Universe.” The storylines intertwine and unfold across multiple threads, bringing together the century-spanning journey of Century Longteng through “Two Lives and Three Incarnations”! (For various reasons, the first book in this series, “One Life: The Lone Agent’s Gray Eden,” and “Root Prisoner: 101 Illusory Loves” are not be 18Reads—Score—Shelves

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