Looking for Stories Where the Leads Marry at the Start, but Their Marriage Is Troubled or a Little Angsty 求开篇男女主就结婚了，但婚后比较拧巴或者微虐的

1. 201 别 Don’t Be Fooled: That Ditzy One Is the Strongest of Them All 别信，那个呆萌是战力天花板 Mo Yan Aaaa墨衍AaaaModern Romance1.5M WordsOngoing [Two male leads + multiple secondary couples + passionate supernatural battles + brotherly bonds + powerful partners] “I once fell into the abyss, but because of you, I glimpsed the light of day.” Airheaded powerhouse with maxed-out combat ability (Bai Ye) x jealous, fiercely protective older man (Xuan Zhao) Bai Ye, 18, was a mercenary who died tragically in his previous life before transmigrating into the body of a gifted supernatural. His all-element abilities are stronger than his older br 3kReads9.4Score46614d adds
2. 202 姜 Gingerbread Is a Little Sweet 姜饼有点甜 Zhao ShibaDD赵十八DDModern Romance447k WordsCompleted Original title: A Little Sweet Gingerbread [Northeastern Chinese tough guy ❤ mixed-race sweetheart + straightforward, sweet romance + heartwarming fun] When Jiang Bing was three, his father was sentenced to death for murder. In those days, boys getting into fights was nothing unusual. But Jiang Bing couldn't afford to fight. The moment he threw a punch, some people would call him a little murderer. Luckily, with his grandmother's guidance, he learned to face it all: to ignore the gossip and pay 1.2kReads9.4Score12914d adds
3. 203 天 The Heavenly Realm 天域 Lazy God懒神Eastern Fantasy482k WordsOngoing Shen Dong lives in seclusion deep in the mountains with his alcoholic father. He has made his living chopping wood since he was ten, though his father has secretly taught him a wealth of knowledge. When Shen Dong turns eighteen, his father passes away. Following his father’s dying words, Shen Dong goes down the mountain. At an inn, he meets Cai Qingquan, a transmigrator, who cheats him out of all his money. Later, the head chef arranges for him to enter Shenglin Academy. His outstanding literary 47Reads9.4Score—14d adds
4. 204 开 Begging for Alms from the Start, I Walked the Great Path 开局乞讨，走上大道 Old Song, Born in the 80s80后老宋Historical1.8M WordsCompleted In the struggle to survive, there are clashes of strategy, choices that test human nature, surging passion, and all-or-nothing battles. Through hardship and perseverance, they fight their way toward survival. —Reads7.5Score—14d adds
5. 205 短 Our Brief Separation, Our Long-Awaited Reunion 短别重逢的我们 Zhao Shiba Is Pretty Good赵十八还行Modern Romance1.8M WordsCompleted [A woman's journey of growth | Railway nostalgia | Tales of the Northeast | An ensemble cast in Beijing] They first meet on Yangcheng's antique street. He looks down at her, hesitating as he asks, “Are you... Si Lian?” The ever-joking Young Master Dou is completely thrown off balance. Much later, Si Lian brings up this awkward moment to impeach Dou Xiao, asking why he couldn't even speak when he saw her. Dou Xiao lifts his snow-white bare foot and cheekily taps Si Lian's face, which is covered i 227Reads8.9Score—14d adds
6. 206 真 The True Heiress's Fiancé Begged Me to Marry Him, So I Ran Away Pregnant 真千金未婚夫求着我嫁，我带球跑了 Tangerine Sand桔沙Marriage & Romance8k WordsCompleted The real heiress's fiance begged me to marry him, so I ran off with his baby 129Reads—Score—14d adds

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   Slightly angsty after marriage: The villainous female supporting character in the early stages is abandoned by the real heiress after the male lead falls in love with her at first sight and proposes to her. To seek revenge, she agrees to marry the real heiress, but after marriage, she causes trouble and runs away pregnant with a male model. He cries and goes through a desperate chase to win her back.

7. 207 新 On Our Wedding Night, My Comatose Husband Put His Arm Around My Waist 新婚夜，植物人老公搂住我的腰 Loves Bauhinia Flowers爱紫荆花Modern Romance238k WordsCompleted [Marriage First, Love Later + Sweet Romance + Age Gap + Husband Chasing His Wife + Both Chaste] Tong Yao is forced to take her twin sister’s place and marry Gu Jingchen, a former business tycoon who is now in a vegetative state. The whole city pities her, believing she will spend her life as a wife in name only. But on their wedding night, the sleeping man suddenly wraps an arm around her waist. The once decisive king of the business world wakes up and takes back his immense power. Everyone wait 3.6kReads6.6Score28414d adds

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   The novel, "Marriage First, Love Later," features a cold and calculating CEO who dotes on his sweet and loving wife. (Completed)

8. 208 清 A Gentle Breeze Meets the White Dew 清风遇白露 Honey Baby哈尼宝宝Modern Romance453k WordsCompleted In their previous lives, three people laid the groundwork for an entanglement that would continue into the next... One defied the will of Heaven and feared no karmic retribution, forcibly changing her fate for her; One was destined to be bound to her, their names written side by side on the Three Lives Stone; And one, after her death, set up a memorial tablet for her and built a shrine in her honor, keeping her soul from dispersing and giving it a place to return to. In this life, all three are 259Reads8.2Score—14d adds

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   This novel features one female protagonist and two male protagonists, and tells the story of the competition between predestined fate and the ability to change one's destiny. It's consistently very sweet, and both male protagonists are outstanding.

9. 209 去 I Went Looking for My Family and Mistook the Wrong Guy for My Brother, While My Amnesiac Ex Loses His Cool Every Night 去寻亲认错哥，失忆前任夜夜红温 Luan Jing峦镜Modern Romance537k WordsCompleted [Beloved by everyone + spatial powers + adorable baby + military marriage + rekindled love + reunion after years apart + supernatural abilities] In the third year after Jiang Xuxue retired from the Supernatural Abilities Bureau and returned to the village to farm, her biological parents came looking for her. “Darling, someone deliberately switched you back then. We never abandoned you!” Unfortunately, just after finding her, her biological parents were sent to the far northwest. Her mother press 12.5kReads6.8Score1.4k14d adds

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   🍎Barbie Q is here! The female lead goes to stay with her brother with a letter of introduction, only to be pampered as a fiancée by a cold-faced commander for three months. Until one day, when she went to deliver some documents, she overheard him on the phone saying, "The wedding house doesn't need to be too big..." She quietly asked the bodyguard, who looked surprised: "The commander is preparing to marry you!" Female lead: ??? With me?!

10. 210 岁 After All These Years, We Finally Meet Again 岁月流转终相见 Tung Oil Fruit桐油果Modern Romance485k WordsCompleted [Reunion After Years Apart + Rekindled Love + Healing Through Family + Realistic Happy Ending] After drifting apart like clouds, ten years passed like flowing water. When we met again, my heart recognized you before I did. A summer romance came to an abrupt end because of an unfortunate misunderstanding. More than ten years later, thirty-five-year-old Gu Yan discovered by chance that he had a daughter in high school, and was reunited with the girl he had loved when he was young. Long-buried memo 5.5kReads7.4Score21314d adds

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    These books are of different genres, some sweet and some angsty (slightly angsty but not mindless).

11. 211 遇 Meeting Her Made My Heart Beat Faster 遇见她心动不止 Tung Oil Fruit桐油果Modern Romance493k WordsCompleted [Love at first sight + mistaken identity + mutual secret crushes + healing + female growth] Everyone is level-headed and knows what they’re doing, so read without worry. Jiang Nan, insecure and neglected by her family, meets He Chengyang. A twist of fate sends their budding romance down the wrong path. He Chengyang mistakes Jiang Nan, the girl he fell in love with at first sight, for her older sister, Jiang Xue, and they begin a brief relationship. (Nothing inappropriate happens between them.) W 6.9kReads8.5Score33214d adds
12. 212 重 A Long Road to Reunion 重逢路漫漫 Tung Oil Fruit桐油果Modern Romance357k WordsCompleted [The right people will find their way back to each other, no matter how many twists and turns it takes.] [One true pairing, both leads are each other's only ones + reunion after a long separation + winning back his wife and claiming his child + adorable kids playing matchmaker] Zhou Yuan met Qin Yue by chance and fell in love at first sight. After one passionate night together, an urgent assignment sent him overseas. Before leaving, he thought he'd arranged everything properly, never imagining t 5.4kReads8.9Score29014d adds
13. 213 爱 Love Will Come to Rest 爱会停歇 Tung Oil Fruit桐油果Modern Romance220k WordsCompleted [Playboy Turns Devoted] [Love Grows Over Time] [Sweet with a Little Angst] [Class Difference] Chen Chao, a rich playboy, falls sincerely in love with Yu Jiawen, who comes from an ordinary family. He knows he isn't the kind of person she'd ideally choose, but he can't let go of his feelings for her. "Yu Jiawen, do you know? Meeting you made me feel like I could have a proper relationship too." "I've thought about giving you up, but I just can't accept it. Watching you date, marry, and have childr 3.3kReads8.4Score16014d adds
14. 214 初 I Couldn’t Hide My Heart’s Flutter When We First Met 初见心动藏不住 Tung Oil Fruit桐油果Modern Romance136k WordsCompleted [Love at First Sight] [She Pursues Him] [Nine-Year Age Gap] [Sweet, Realistic Romance] [Happy Ending] At twenty, the lively and spirited Chen Luo Chu meets Chu Yun. One look is all it takes for her to fall for him. She can barely hide the light in her eyes, and there is only one thought on her mind: make him hers. Once she confirms he is single, she boldly confesses, "Big brother, will you be my boyfriend?" Chu Yun gently turns her down with a simple, "We're not right for each other." But Chen L 1.4kReads—Score10414d adds
15. 215 深 Deep Inside My Core 深入我芯 Tung Oil Fruit桐油果Modern Romance403k WordsCompleted [Love at First Sight + Mutual Devotion + One Couple Only + Sweet Romance] Their first two meetings were accidental. Every coincidence after that was part of his carefully laid plan. When Jiang Yi Shen met Tang Xin, he fell for her at first sight. He quietly set his plans in motion, and the two got to know each other, fell in love, and walked hand in hand into marriage, sharing the warm everyday moments of life from the first flush of romance to raising children. Side story one: Xu Man thought sh 2.4kReads8.7Score14614d adds
16. 216 和 The Time I Spent in Love With Her 和她相恋的时光 Tung Oil Fruit桐油果Modern Romance259k WordsCompleted [Love at first sight + devoted one-on-one romance + rekindled love + healing with a touch of angst] A grounded, everyday story with smart characters. Gao Yuchen, an isolated orphan, happens to meet her next-door neighbor, Mu Yang. Mu Yang pursues her passionately, and they soon fall in love. She thinks they’ll be happy together, only to discover that their happiness was built on a lie, albeit one told with good intentions by the male lead. She coldly tells him she never wants to see him again. I 843Reads8.1Score—14d adds
17. 217 单 Mr. Zhou, My Unrequited Love 单恋的周先生 Tung Oil Fruit桐油果Modern Romance400k WordsCompleted [Older Woman, Younger Man + Redemption + Realistic Romance] Three-year age gap. [Secret Love Becomes Mutual, from the Male Lead’s Perspective; Marriage First, Love Later, from the Female Lead’s Perspective] Everyone is level-headed and clear-minded. The woman Zhou Wang had kept in his heart for three years. He thought there could never be anything between them and was ready to give up, but then he unexpectedly learned what she had been through. His heart ached for her, and at the same time, he f 1.5kReads8.2Score10314d adds
18. 218 梁 When Will President Liang Agree to the Divorce? 梁总什么时候答应离婚 Cheeky Tooth腮腮牙Modern Romance100k WordsOngoing “In a way, you could call it falling in love after an arranged marriage” A doglike, take-charge heroine x a hero who’s just an ordinary domineering CEO He Anran and Liang Jingshi met on a blind date, and they didn’t make a good impression on each other from the start. At their first meeting, Liang Jingshi said, “I’m not looking to get married just yet. I’m waiting for someone to come back.” He Anran thought he was provoking her. Not wanting to embarrass her family, she replied, “I want to get ma —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Everyone, take a look! Even a single view count can make the author pout! ˶O̴̶̷᷄‸o̴̶̷̥᷅˶

19. 219 3 At 34, I Impulsively Married a High-Ranking District Chief! 34岁，跟高干区长闪婚了！ Big-Spending Rabbit重金兔Modern Romance53k WordsOngoing [Period setting + neither lead is sexually inexperienced + older protagonists + love after marriage + groveling pursuit + not a strong heroine] [Cool-headed, steady senior official x gentle, resilient woman] In 1996, Lu Zheng, deputy head of the West District, was embroiled in a scandal and forced to marry Jiang He, a 34-year-old cleaner. No one knew that this marriage, born of a scheme, concealed a story eighteen years in the making. On their wedding night, she slapped him and bit his wrist u —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    In this book, the male lead and the female lead have a child together, and they get married in a whirlwind romance at the beginning.

20. 220 新 A Newlywed's Secret Crush 新婚暗恋 Fan Jin蕃锦Modern Romance152k WordsOngoing [Love after marriage + secret crush becomes requited + he’s four years older + guiding lover] In the Lin family, Lin Mian felt like an outsider who didn’t belong. On her 24th birthday, hoping to end that sense of alienation, she chose to find herself a home by signing a marriage contract. Before the wedding, he made it clear: he had no feelings for her and could only give her the status of his wife. Lin Mian kept to her place and took him at his word. From the moment they got their marriage cer 5Reads—Score—14d adds

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    A story of arranged marriage turning into love and unrequited love, the novel opens with the wedding. The male lead's attitude towards marriage: marriage is a business that needs to be managed; mutual respect is enough. The female lead's attitude towards marriage: to secretly have a relationship with him under the guise of being husband and wife. Zhou Yanchen is a dutiful husband; he is considerate and gentlemanly, they sleep in the same bed, and he holds her in his arms at night so she won't get cold. Lin Mian is the coward in this marriage.

21. 221 什 What? I'm CEO Lu's Dream Girl? 什么？陆总的白月光是我 Liao Jianqingshan廖见青山Modern Romance107k WordsOngoing A clearheaded heiress fallen on hard times vs. a calculating illegitimate son who plans his every move Song Hanzhi schemes to tie herself to the Lu family, even staging a heroic rescue and love at first sight. The man in question silently goes along with it. Is this a long-laid plan, or is she hiding another motive? “Why did Miss Song choose me?” Lu You asks, eyeing her with amusement. “Because we're headed for the same destination, even if we take different roads.” Just when Song Hanzhi thinks —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    The story is about a woman who enters into a marriage of convenience to uncover the truth behind her father's death. It's not melodramatic; the romance develops gradually and subtly, without any dramatic twists or sudden, unexpected love. The characters are morally sound and have a normal, well-developed personality.

22. 222 以 Married by Hate: Lu's Contract Trap 以恨为婚，陆总的契约陷阱 Wait Until the Eighth Day of the Ninth Month且待秋来九月八Modern Romance185k WordsOngoing 6Reads—Score—14d adds

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    This should have been in line with [sending a heart].

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