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1. 1 盗 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Yin-Yang Twins 盗墓笔记之阴阳双生 Playing with the Setting Sun戏残阳Mystery223k WordsCompleted (Pure angst. Some characters may be out of character. This is a story about redemption; please don’t read if that bothers you. Apologies for the OOC.) “Thud.” The knife slipped from his hand and fell into the bathtub. A smile of relief spread across his face as his consciousness gradually faded from this world. When he opened his eyes again, he was in a completely different world. Hearing people call a name stirred memories of a hugely popular novel from his previous life: The Grave Robbers' Chr 8.4kReads9.3Score1.6kShelves

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   This book is really sad. I basically read one chapter and cried all day long (╥╯^╰╥). The protagonist, Xiao Xingxing, is really suffering. How he wishes someone could treat him sincerely instead of being full of calculations and exploitation (๑ १д१). Beginning: My name is Wu Xing, Lucky Xing. Ending: My name is Wu Xing, unfortunate Xing... No one knows how miserable he is, and no one knows how much he longs for sincerity... (ಥಥ)

2. 2 我 I Only Took a Peek at Him 我只偷看他一眼 Zhi Jiu枝玖Anime Fanfiction188k WordsCompleted 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 14.3kReads9.7Score3.2kShelves

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   0.0 Very easy to cry, highly recommended, the writing style is super good, delicate and true, highly recommended

3. 3 潇 The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain 潇潇雨声迟 Meng Zhiwan孟栀晚Modern Romance120k WordsCompleted Years after graduation, a gossip post begins circulating on the message board for City Experimental School. The school's 2011 beauty, Ye Xiao, and its most handsome boy from the same year, Ruan Yusheng, are a couple. Their classmates, who know them well, rush over to set the record straight: it's pure rumor. There was never any spark between the two of them. Ye Xiao's profile even says, “Person I hate most: Ruan Yusheng.” People in the know go so far as to say, “Ye Xiao feels nothing but hatred 94.3kReads9.7Score15.2kShelves
4. 4 暗 The Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love 暗恋这件难过的小事 Meng Zhiwan孟栀晚Modern Romance122k WordsCompleted 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 67.5kReads9.7Score12.1kShelves
5. 5 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 85.4kReads9.6Score15.1kShelves
6. 6 世 No One in the World Is Like Her Anymore 世上无人再像她 Fo Jiu佛九Modern Romance40k WordsCompleted Shen Ange knew that love could leave you battered to the bone, but without love she would become a walking corpse. Stubbornly, she believed that life was long enough for her to wait until he came back to her. In the end, though, she could no longer hold on... 1.8kReads8.1Score195Shelves

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   I cried wildly when I watched it, and now I still can't help crying when I think about it.

7. 7 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
8. 8 快 Quick Transmigration: I Became the Villainess, and the Comments Begged Me to Stop Torturing Them 快穿成恶毒女配，弹幕哭求别虐我 Han yuu寒yuuAncient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted After Shi Wuqing died, someone claiming to be a System found her. If she collected enough “popularity points,” she could come back to life. Shi Wuqing agreed. Then she was sent into various novels, where she became the cannon-fodder character readers hated most. Her mission was to become the character readers loved most, with the highest popularity, by the end of each novel! World One: Shi Wuqing became the scheming younger sister who took the heroine's place and married the prince. At the begi 43.2kReads9.5Score5.2kShelves
9. 9 从 Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 200.5kReads9.6Score24.4kShelves
10. 10 等 Waiting for You to Turn Around and Say You Love Me 等你回头说爱我 Bi Lian碧恋Two Male Leads151k WordsCompleted [Boys' love + emotional torment + physical torment + a perfect deception + innocent on the outside, dark within + obsessive and twisted + bad ending + strong characters + yandere] No one is simple. Please don't look at people too naively, especially those who seem harmless. Shen Yan is the child of a wealthy family. In other people's eyes, he's nothing but a commodity with a price tag, something to be passed around and bullied at will. He tries with all his might to learn how to love others and 1.2kReads9.2Score160Shelves

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    Completed, feel free to rush [Ask for attention][Ask for attention][Ask for attention] 📖A perfect scam that abuses the body and mind. Don't read it if you have poor tolerance and strong empathy. It's super sad. Why is it so difficult when you just want a family? I can't satisfy even a bowl of noodles before I die [cry][cry][cry] 📖The unit story is systematic and the plot develops quickly. In the end, he didn't forgive the other party, which made him regret the most [Top post][Top post][Top post]

11. 11 快 Quick Transmigration: After Torturing the Big Shot to Tears, I Faked My Death and Escaped 快穿：把大佬虐哭后我死遁了 Seagull Swimming沙鸥游泳Two Male Leads1.0M WordsCompleted [Two male leads, scum gong regrets his actions, chases his wife to the crematorium, sickly, coughing blood, forced love, shou fakes his death and escapes, BE in the small worlds, HE in the end] [System: Reminder, Host Yun Chen, this is an S-rank conquest world. The principal gods of every plane are extremely powerful!] [Yun Chen: Oh.] - The domineering CEO, wealthy enough to rival a nation: You’re nothing but a substitute picked out of the mud. My one true love is the chosen one! Yun Chen fell i 21.7kReads9.5Score1.9kShelves
12. 12 全 Everyone in This Story Is Crazy. Please, Won't You Kill Me? 全文疯批，请杀了我好吗 Jiu Jiu Ziqi酒酒子琪Two Male Leads297k WordsCompleted [Power couple + Mutually faithful] [Angst early on, more angst in the middle, the male lead turns into a lovesick puppy later; tragic ending, but with rebirth] The pursuer thinks the pursued betrayed him. The pursued spends two years hiding away, then gets caught and brought back. The pursuer starts beating and tormenting him in every way, and even brings his fiancée to see him. She'll stop at nothing and wants to kill him every day. After enduring endless humiliation, Bai Feiying tries to escap 2.2kReads9.0Score281Shelves
13. 13 势 An Uneven Match 势不均力不敌 Doll Face娃娃面Two Male Leads310k WordsCompleted [Forced love + sugar daddy + angst] The Balance of Power is Unequal, also known as Crying and Begging for Mercy: Mr. Zhao Is Extremely Possessive Just after gaining his freedom, Jian Zhou ran into Zhao Zhen on a snowy night and felt a secret, forbidden greed for him. That very greed forced him to become Zhao Zhen's plaything. There was no escape. Zhao Zhen was a famous rich second-generation heir in Gongcheng, yet he had made his own fortune and become a man everyone feared. He had never thought 3.4kReads9.3Score232Shelves
14. 14 我 After I Faked My Death, the Scheming E Chased His Wife at the Cost of His Life 我死遁后，腹黑E拿命追妻 A Mouthful of Yang Zaizai一口阳仔仔Two Male Leads298k WordsCompleted [Powerful duo, both pure + my ABO headcanon is extensive + younger man + forced confinement + happy ending + crematorium] Enigma who disguises himself as an Alpha: a sickly, long-haired beauty who later turns into a crybaby pursuer x irritable, domineering, tsundere Alpha receiver Everyone in high society knows that the wealthy Shen family’s young master has an Alpha “pet” of incomparable beauty, whom he spoils rotten. Shen Zui: “Remember who you belong to. Stop trying to seduce people everywher 970Reads9.1Score121Shelves
15. 15 废 The Discarded Stand-In Has Had Enough 废弃替身想开了 One Little Sweet Fish一口小甜鱼Two Male Leads215k WordsCompleted [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 7kReads8.8Score463Shelves
16. 16 快 Quick Transmigration: The Right Way to Play Out a Tragic Romance 快穿：论虐文剧情的正确打开方式 Listening to the Evening's Song in the Breeze清风听晚吟Two Male Leads370k WordsCompleted [No CP + dual male leads + feel-good face-slapping] 1 System: [Host, we're following an angst novel script. We'll activate the angst-then-sweet mode. In this world, you'll gradually go through heart-wrenching angst, getting kicked out of the house, wandering the streets, being penniless, and getting into a car accident while saving the male lead, among other scenarios. In the ending, the male lead will come to his senses and remember how good you were to him. He'll finally fall in love with you 823Reads9.1Score103Shelves
17. 17 让 I Made Him a Cannon Fodder, and He Ran Off with the Possessive Male Lead 让他当炮灰，还把偏执男主拐跑了 Chubby Lefty肥嘟嘟左左门Two Male Leads468k WordsCompleted Two male leads + quick transmigration + angsty fiction + old-school melodrama Most of the story puts the male leads through heartbreak, with the occasional turn for the other lead. There is no groveling-to-win-back-the-lover arc, and the ending is tragic. Mu Luo was originally a System. After finally working his way up to the top, it was his turn to take on a mission. Huh? Why are all these male leads acting so strangely? They've all gone off character. 593Reads9.3Score101Shelves
18. 18 嘘 Shh, Someone's Crying Their Eyes Out 嘘，有人哭惨了 A Snack Lover爱吃零食的人Two Male Leads101k WordsCompleted Song Jinan was the person who treated me best in the world, but he died. Song Jinan and Shen Xingyuan had been by each other’s side since they were teenagers, stumbling through life together, until Shen Xingyuan was about to get married. Song Jinan died. My wedding and his funeral were on the same day. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 19 我 I Object! The Unhinged Male Lead Keeps Trying to Imprison Me 我抗议，疯批男主总想囚禁我 Zhuzhu Loves Candy珠珠爱吃糖Two Male Leads480k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + silly, sweet romance + unhinged younger man] Zhao Fang accidentally transmigrated into a romance novel as the evil sidekick of the vicious female lead, the kind who wouldn’t survive three minutes. Not wanting to meet an early end, Zhao Fang boldly kidnapped the male lead when he was down on his luck, locked him in the woodshed, showed him some warmth, and begged for forgiveness. After all that, the male lead was moved (though he was really just bearing the humiliation), and the 934Reads8.9Score133Shelves
20. 20 别 Stop Flirting with Me, I'm Really Straight! 别撩了，我真是直男！ Eight Billion Drinks酒酒八十亿Two Male Leads232k WordsCompleted [Male-Male Romance, Younger Man, Both First-Timers, Equally Matched, Healing, Half Raising Him, Love Grows Over Time] Qin Cheng thought he’d brought home a puppy that had fallen into the water. Turns out it was a wolf cub. In the end, the caretaker became the prey, eaten bite by bite. Qin Cheng was a cocky, domineering media company owner who loved watching romance dramas. He had success in both his career and love life, but after asking for a fortune at the Matchmaker Temple, he was told he was 13kReads9.5Score2kShelves
21. 21 哥 My Brother's Wedding Outfit Looks Great. Good Thing I Have One Too 哥哥婚服真好看正好我也有一套 Sauce Sauce, Then Brew Brew酱酱又酿酿Two Male Leads1.3M WordsCompleted Complete: [Dual Male Leads + Sweet Transmigration-Into-a-Book Romance + Goofy, Sharp-Tongued Banter + Obsessive Madman + Beloved Younger Man] The aloof, taciturn, beautiful-but-tragic villainous second male lead VS the goofy, sharp-tongued, socially inept, spoiled third male lead Shen Yu accidentally opened a romance novel aimed at female readers and transmigrated into the novel as a third male lead with the same name, a pathetic simp who was eventually ordered executed along with all 108 member 12.3kReads9.5Score2kShelves
22. 22 禁 The Abstinent Movie Star Is Harsh to Me by Day and Comforts Me at Night 禁欲影帝白天凶我，晚上哄我 Jing Ya京牙Two Male Leads510k WordsCompleted [Dual male leads] [Rivals to lovers] [Online romance] [Childhood sweethearts] #The rival actor is my online boyfriend# #The aloof star calls me “baby” online, but “idiot” to my face# #I helped my online boyfriend insult someone, and it turned out to be me# #We finally met in person, and my rival was the one who showed up???# Si Di: Just end it all! [smile][smile] 2.8kReads9.4Score477Shelves
23. 23 撮 I Tried to Get the Protagonists Together, but the Male Lead Forced His Love on Me 撮合主角不成，我被男主强制爱了 Qia Rui Rui Rui Rui Rui恰瑞瑞瑞瑞瑞Two Male Leads332k WordsCompleted [Two male leads, absurd comedy, unhinged antics, quick transmigration, lots of tropes, 1v1, both virgins, happy ending] A laid-back office drone bottom × a yandere top hiding beneath a charming facade The top is the same person in every world. Song Ci transmigrates into different worlds with one mission: make the male and female leads fall in love and get their happy ending. In a campus romance, he diligently does homework for three people just so the leads can spend more time together. In a 5.9kReads9.3Score846Shelves
24. 24 C The CP Fans Keep Imagining Me Sobbing in the Male Lead's Arms CP粉总脑补我在男主怀里嘤嘤嘤 Zhi Zhi织织Two Male Leads719k WordsCompleted [Quick transmigration / two male leads / 1v1 / sweet romance / no female lead] Su Mian transmigrates into a reborn System. To stay alive, he works diligently every day, completing his tasks on time like a busy little bee. But he realizes that the targets he's supposed to win over are looking at him with increasingly complicated expressions... Until one day, a target corners him against the wall and murmurs, “You're very good at playing hard to get. I've got my eye on you.” Su Mian stares in 943Reads9.3Score127Shelves
25. 25 被 I Cowered After the Obsessive Male Lead Clung to Me 被偏执男主缠上后我怂了 At Summer's Tail夏天尾巴上Two Male Leads705k WordsCompleted [Both Leads Are Inexperienced / Partly Set on Campus / Gentle Beauty vs. Gloomy and Obsessive] Xie Xilou transmigrates into a romance novel as a frail cannon-fodder character. In the story, the heroine and hero meet on campus, go through a long, twisted relationship of love and conflict, and only get together at the very end. As for him, he’s a vicious minor character the powerful male lead meets early on, and he’s destined to die horribly. After unexpectedly dropping dead, Xie Xilou takes a dee 5.1kReads9.4Score780Shelves
26. 26 怎 Why Are They All Unhinged Villains? Whoever Wants This Mission Can Take It 怎么全是病娇反派？这任务爱谁谁 Papaya Syrup木瓜糖水Two Male Leads454k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + quick transmigration + yandere villains + the love interest has multiple versions] Shi Ye loves money. One day, he got a System. System: “Sign a contract with me, and you’ll receive a huge reward for every mission you complete.” Shi Ye: “How much are we talking?” The System showed him the wealth of the person ranked second on the leaderboard. “This is how many missions that person has completed so far.” It made a gesture. Shi Ye’s eyes instantly turned into dollar signs. He cou 3.3kReads9.2Score444Shelves
27. 27 救 Help! The Male Lead Is Looking at Me Weirdly 救命！男主他看我的眼神不对 Sippy Little Jun吸吸小君Two Male Leads321k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads + Sweet Romance + Redemption Through Giving Up + An Unusual Fake Death + An Imaginary Ancient Setting] [Obsessive, unhinged, possessive top x sunny, laid-back, cute, tsundere bottom] A cheesy, brain-off bedtime read, written to practice romance scenes with a tiny bit of plot. As Su Yunqi, the master of slacking off, he firmly believes in one principle: When life gets tough, take a nap! There’s nothing sleep can’t solve. If one nap doesn’t do it, take another! Unfortunately, his 1.5kReads9.2Score217Shelves
28. 28 可 Damn It! My Unhinged Underling Tries to Steal Me Away Every Day 可恶！疯批下属每天都想诱拐少爷 Wan Louyu万楼愈Two Male Leads387k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads] [Both Pure] [Both Powerful] [Younger Man] Mo Lu is a top genius, raised with every resource by the Mo family, a clan of witch doctors with a thousand-year legacy. At seven, the family patriarch, Elder Mo, determined that Mo Lu would differentiate as an omega. The matter was kept strictly secret, and everyone outside the family believed he was an ultra-S-class alpha. Weisheng Tou, meanwhile, is an ultra-S-class alpha from the small Weisheng family. For various reasons, he was 155Reads9.5Score—Shelves
29. 29 双 Both Reborn! On a Dating Show! The Seduction of the Top Actor Is Getting Out of Hand 双重生！上恋综！强撩影帝失控中 Let's Say Goodnight Tonight今晚说晚安Two Male Leads318k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + dual rebirth + equally powerful leads + dating show + unrequited love + showbiz] Bright, beautiful flirtatious bottom VS devoted, restrained, hopelessly lovestruck top Top-tier star Shen Nan’an was framed and killed in his previous life. After his death, his archenemy Pei Yanjing avenged him. Only when Pei Yanjing took his own life at Shen Nan’an’s grave did Shen realize that Pei Yanjing had loved him more than anything. Reborn, Shen Nan’an made up his mind: even if he had to s 1.6kReads9.2Score234Shelves
30. 30 L [Harry Potter] LoveCrime Liu Handsome, Not a Piggy刘好看不是猪猪Modern Romance118k WordsCompleted [Hardcore, bloody romance] Not a sweet romance. This story has a high reading barrier, so proceed at your own risk. Hypocritical little witch wearing a human face ✖ gloomy professor forced to raise a child Christine Riddle had no home anymore. Her father died in the summer of 1980 in Godric's Hollow, killed when his own curse rebounded. Her mother, trying to find her father's whereabouts, tortured a pair of Moodys and killed dozens of innocent people. She was now standing trial before the Wizeng 595Reads8.8Score102Shelves

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    The first book is a HE if you don't read the last chapter and don't think about it. The last chapter immediately killed me after it came out. The second book is a bit threshold, with a lot of foreshadowing and requires a lot of thought, but it has great stamina and makes people feel unspeakably depressed.

31. 31 宫 The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳 Dream Doll梦娃Ancient Romance166k WordsCompleted 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 55.9kReads9.7Score8.2kShelves
32. 32 N No! I Refuse to Inherit the Fortune! NO！我才不要继承财产！ Chen Ww陈WwModern Romance448k WordsCompleted [Angst] [Angst] [Angst] First life: The Ke family has no second daughter! Second life: Father Ke: Awen, these are the company shares I saved for you. Mother Ke: Awen, this is the princess bedroom I had renovated just for you. Older brother: Awen, I bought you a house and a car. Younger brother: Second Sis, I designed this formal dress especially for you. Younger sister: Second Sis, once I make something of myself, I'll support you! The Ke family's second daughter crosses her arms in an X! No way 9.4kReads9.1Score762Shelves
33. 33 他 He Once Saw the Wind 他曾见过风 Rao Qing饶靑Modern Romance333k WordsCompleted Eight years ago, she followed the wind and shared a secret. Eight years later, she lifted her head to look at him, smiling as she said, “Mu Zheng, if the wind could talk, it would tell you that I like you.” Then misunderstandings and suspicions came one after another. She went far away, while he stayed behind to guard a city... The whole story can be summed up in one line: What goes around comes around. Who can escape the heavens' judgment? This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to ac 3Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 34 有 Are There Any Short Tragic Romance Stories? 有没有那种虐文短篇小说 Qian Fan千帆Modern Romance9k WordsCompleted My boyfriend loves me very much, but there’s someone in his heart he can never forget. Lu Ke and I agreed that we’d meet each other’s parents over the New Year. Now it seems we were never meant to be. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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