Looking for an Oppressive Story That Makes You Want to Cry From the Very Beginning 求那种压抑的文，开头就特别压抑想哭的那种

1 人 A Human Cage 人间囚笼 Yan Yizhi言一知Urban538k WordsCompleted [Not a wish-fulfillment story + extremely dark + oppressive and suffocating. Don’t read if you’re faint of heart.] When you’re nearing the end of your life, you can actually feel it coming. Just like right now. The closer that moment gets, the more you want to leave something behind in this world. But what should I leave? Assets lose value, and houses change hands. Nothing material can last forever. So perhaps I should tell everyone my story instead. I’m no good person. I just occasionally feel 124.9kReads9.5Score17.6kShelves

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It's really depressing, but I can't help but want to keep reading. I always hope that Yi Zhi will usher in a turning point and be isolated from those unbearable, dirty, angry, painful, and sad things, but the bad luck is always around... Wuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwu... I cried the whole time, hoping that the author will have a better life, and I also hope that all babies who have experienced painful childhoods will get better and better [almost crying] [almost crying] [almost crying]

2 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 123.8kReads9.7Score19.8kShelves

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At the beginning, "Ye Xiao has no freedom, no prince to save her" I really cried to death

7 查 Charlie IX: The Boy Returns 查理九世之少年的归来 Tang Dian唐殿Mystery40k WordsCompleted Tang Xiaoyi returns. He isn't dead, but discovers that Duoduo is still alive and has even formed an adventure team. Tingting is alive, and so is Qiuya. This gives rise to a crisis: Qiuya is desperate to take revenge on them, and sets the crisis in motion. 1.3kReads8.4Score241Shelves

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I cry every time I see him

12 出 After Her Release From Prison, Her Childhood Friend Leaves Her Mute and Mindless 出狱后，她被竹马虐得又傻又哑 Cheng Zhi城稚Modern Romance166k WordsCompleted [Angst, childhood sweethearts, physical torment, heartbreak, groveling for a second chance] As the saying goes, “Fools are blessed.” But Yuan Xi, this little fool, had no such luck. That little fool never had a blessed day in her life. In the end, she was left with nothing. She didn’t know how things had ended up this way. They weren’t supposed to be like this. It was cold, so terribly cold. Why didn’t anyone care? In the corner of a dark room, the girl trembled silently. “Please don’t abandon m 38kReads8.2Score2.2kShelves

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The whole book is very sad, and both the male and female protagonists are terrible in the end.

13 作 Author Mo Xuelian: My Unlucky Life 作者墨雪莲我倒霉的人生 Ink Snow Lotus墨雪莲Modern Romance66k WordsCompleted I was often bullied as a child, until I met him. When we grew up, he proposed to me, but then I got cancer. It was already at an advanced stage, and he was the doctor who had to tell me about my condition himself. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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My lonely childhood was saved by him, because he also went to college. Due to his status as friends and low self-esteem, no one of us dared to confess our crush to each other. He went abroad and I went home to herd the sheep. Many years later, he came back and we met at a class reunion, but we couldn't say a word in a thousand words. This is my first book.

14 胆 Cowards, Keep Out: A Courier Battles Sadako 胆小鬼勿进：快递员大战女鬼贞子 Fifty-Year-Old Immortal五十老仙8k WordsCompleted Cowards Keep Out: The Courier vs. Sadako, the Ghost 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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You asked for this cry!

16 我 I Prove My Dao and Slay Gods Amidst Laughter 我于狂笑中证道斩神 Mad Heavenly Venerable疯天尊Urban951k WordsOngoing [Path to Enlightenment | Not a wish-fulfillment story | No clichés | Madcap male lead | Redemption through madness | Emotionally explosive | Hellishly difficult mental trials | Not for the fainthearted] “You say I’m crazy?” I laughed, laughing as I slashed through dreams, shattered gods, and proved that my path was the Dao. In an age when believers made sacrifices, gods whispered, and humanity slept, he opened his eyes and stood with a blade in hand: “If you don’t believe I’m a god then let’s s —Reads—Score—Shelves

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The opening chapter is so depressing that it makes you cry until you suffocate.