The Heroine Regrets Abandoning Her Husband and Child, Then Returns Years Later to Ask Him to Take Her Back 女主后悔抛夫弃子，多年后女主回来求男主复合

1. 1 半 Halfway Through Mountains and Rivers, Halfway Through Dreams 半程山水半程梦 Three Pink Sunflowers三枝玫瑰色的向日葵Modern Romance321k WordsCompleted [Gentle and charming educated youth heroine vs. steady, sturdy country boy] (Just released) (The main couple are each other’s only partners; the second male lead is not.) (This novel’s heroine abandons her husband and child and has a connection with her childhood sweetheart. She is not a good person, so readers with strong moral sensibilities should not read it. Please don’t criticize.) (This is not a purely sweet romance; it has some angst. If you only like sweet romances, please don’t read it. 1.3kReads6.2Score118Shelves

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   The female protagonist abandons her husband and child, but returns years later to find the male protagonist and their child.

2. 2 她 Her Waist 她的腰 Shen Yubai沈郁白Modern Romance116k WordsCompleted [Spoiled, willful, haughty heiress vs. carefree playboy second young master] [He falls for her in secret + obsessive and unhinged + long-planned pursuit] The Fei family's second young master and the Chang family's eldest daughter have never gotten along. They've been fighting since childhood. Even as adults, they're still infamous rivals in their social circle. But no one knows that Chang Yu and Fei Jin have been married for three years. They spend every night in each other's arms, driven by des 12.9kReads8.9Score1kShelves

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   In the first book, the female lead doesn't understand love in the beginning. She agrees to a three-year marriage with the male lead, but when she wants a divorce, she discovers she's pregnant. She goes to the hospital for an abortion, but the male lead stops her and imprisons her in a villa until the child is born. Nine days after the child's birth, she runs away. Four years later, they meet again, and the female lead regrets pursuing him.

3. 3 九 The 1990s: The Gruff Factory Director Begs for Love with Red Eyes 九零年代，糙汉厂长红眼求爱 Gu Yin En顾寅恩Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Cool and aloof top female student × clingy, rugged veteran officer] Lin Lu: a promising student at a prestigious university in the capital. Song Chen: a promising officer with a bright future in the military. After he saves her life, the two are forced into marriage and have a child. Lin Lu assumes Song Chen is just as unwilling as she is, so once the baby is born, she leaves without a second thought. After being harmed and confined to her bed for seven years, Lin Lu wakes up and finally realiz 6.7kReads8.8Score414Shelves
4. 4 男 The Male Lead Has Turned Dark, Please Win Him Over Again [Quick Transmigration] 男主已黑化，请重新攻略【快穿】 Yao Yaoling夭妖铃Modern Romance354k WordsCompleted [One-on-one sweet romance + male lead is an obsessive wife-watcher and hopeless romantic + obsessive, lovesick male lead + sweet and flirtatious heroine + everyone dotes on her] As the head librarian of the Transmigration Management Bureau, Ruan Tang plays the cruel, unrequited love of every male lead to ensure the plots of various novels unfold as intended. But after she completes her missions, every male lead turns dark! ① In The CEO's Beloved, she plays the cruel, materialistic first love who 6.6kReads8.6Score411Shelves

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   That was truly the male lead begging the female lead to come back.

5. 5 快 Quick Transmigration: The Heartless Ex-Girlfriend Who Flaunts Her Favor 快穿：渣心前女友她恃宠而骄 White Grapefruit白西柚Modern Romance578k WordsCompleted [Click to watch the trashy One True Love chase her man to the crematorium: the male lead is pure in body and soul] There's a kind of dedication called Long Chan being mercilessly cruel and heartless to the male lead just to complete her mission. There's a kind of misery called Long Chan thinking she's finally free, only to be kicked back into the plane by a nightmare beast and made to face the wrath of the male lead after he turns dark. Facing one huge romantic battlefield after another, Long Ch 1.3kReads8.8Score102Shelves
6. 6 快 Quick Transmigration: The Obsessive Male Lead Has an Overwhelming Desire to Possess Me 快穿：偏执男主占有欲超强 Feng Yan封烟Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Shi Wan was bound to a System and sent through collapsing worlds to nurture the male leads until they reached the pinnacle of life. So she took the initiative to stir up trouble and provoke them, seize their family fortunes, and join forces with their sworn enemies. When necessary, she would secretly take a blade for the male lead, becoming a perfect stepping stone for the villain. But every time, as she cheerfully waited for the male lead who had reached the pinnacle of life to kill her, he wo 1.3kReads8.4Score103Shelves
7. 7 快 Quick Transmigration: My Host Takes a Laid-Back Approach to Crushing Villains 快穿之我家宿主佛系虐渣 Oh, Little Bok Choy小白菜啊Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Yun Qianran died just after graduating from college. On her way to report for work at a top company after landing a job offer, she was hit by a speeding freight truck. At that moment, the world seemed to spin upside down. A flash of white burst before her eyes, and a tiny golden speck of light came flying toward her... “Do you want to live? Do you want to make your daydreams come true? Do you want to reach the pinnacle of life?! Bind yourself to me, and Golden will give you a dazzling life!” “. 344Reads8.8Score—Shelves
8. 8 快 Quick Transmigration: 108 Ways for a Villainess to Redeem Herself 快穿：渣女洗白一百零八式 Cold River, Night Rain江寒夜雨Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Everyone else gets contracted by the System after they die. Qiao Jinhuan is different: she takes a nap and wakes up forcibly contracted to help a scumbag woman redeem herself. Redeeming her would be one thing, but the story starts at the point of no return. How is she supposed to turn this around? 018: Come on, old friend, get it together! Qiao Jinhuan: Let me retire! The next second, the pitiful little thing who was wronged and met a tragic end appears before her. Qiao Jinhuan had planned to co 21.6kReads9.2Score1.6kShelves
9. 9 快 Quick Transmigration: After I Used and Abandoned the Villain Boss 快穿：对反派boss始乱终弃后 Knowing Your Heart Year After Year岁岁知意Modern Romance745k WordsCompleted [Sweet, heart-fluttering romance, one-on-one] Song Linglang is a green tea. She can be cool and feisty, ready to pick a fight and tear down a fake white lotus, or play sweet and cute and act pitiful. She bats her eyes innocently at everyone, and covers her lips with a coy “Oh, boo-hoo” whenever anything happens. She's proud in how she carries herself and coquettish in everything she does, yet somehow people just love to pamper her. A gentle god turns dark for her, her yandere brother becomes 1.8kReads9.4Score210Shelves
10. 10 快 Quick Transmigration: My Flirting Backfired, and the Host Was Kissed Hard by a Madman 快穿：撩翻车，宿主被疯批狠吻了 Misty Rain on a Bewildering Night烟雨迷夜Modern Romance762k WordsCompleted 2.8kReads8.8Score270Shelves
11. 11 渣 The Heartbreaker’s Quick Transmigration: An Ex-Boyfriend Awaits in Every World 渣女快穿:每个位面都等着一个前男友 White Grapefruit白西柚Modern Romance517k WordsCompleted [The male lead is the same person in every world] Question: What's it like to get on the male lead's bad side, make him hate you to the bone, then end up sent back to your original world? Xu Qingqing: Thanks for asking. I'm trapped in a deadly love triangle. Please burn some paper money for me next March. *Xu Qingqing was bound to a Scumbag System. To return to the real world, she had no choice but to submit to the System's demands and nervously play the role of a heartless woman, following the 3.8kReads8.9Score242Shelves
12. 12 满 After the Maxed-Out Expert Became a Green-Tea Schemer, Everyone Came Around 满级大佬沦为绿茶之后真香了 Rice-Eating Dragon King干饭龙王Ancient Romance772k WordsCompleted [Quick transmigration, 1V1, mutual pampering and everyday romance, the male lead is split into fragments] Yun Feiyao is a cannon-fodder NPC in a quick transmigration System, in charge of playing the abused past-life roles of female leads destined to rise to the top. She never gets to make a comeback or be reborn. After accumulating too much resentment, Yun Feiyao turns into a major villain and is in a foul mood every day. She specializes in dealing with idiots, fools, Mary Sues, naive sweetheart 74Reads8.7Score104Shelves
13. 13 快 Quick Transmigration: The Host Is Crazy and Toxic 快穿：宿主她又疯又渣 Mu Sanyi沐三亦Ancient Romance299k WordsCompleted [Quick Transmigration: 108 Ways to Deal with Trashy, Unhinged Male Leads] (In a nutshell: A mentally ill powerhouse heroine × obsessive, unhinged male leads. Absurd and hilarious, one-on-one romance, both leads are devoted only to each other. Welcome, dears!) Feng Zhaza is the ace of the quick transmigration supporting-female-character team, and has topped the bad-girl rankings for years. In reality, she's an emotionally detached patient released from a mental hospital. Through a twist of fate, 93Reads8.0Score—Shelves
14. 14 开 A Dad from the Start: My Wife Betrayed Me, So I Fought Back 开局当奶爸，妻子背叛我强势逆袭 Qilin Beast麒麟兽Urban180k WordsOngoing Lin Chen is a devoted dad. He and his wife went from college sweethearts to a married couple, and she’s a venture-banking executive. They have a house and a car. But once their life improved, he discovered that his wife had been refusing to let him touch her for years. Whenever she returned from a business trip, her shirt often carried another man’s cigarette smell, and she would bring home a bottle of premium ginseng liquor, a supposed tonic for men. It all hinted that she was seeing someone el 3.4kReads5.9Score239Shelves

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    These are all highly-rated novels I've read, none of them scoring below 9.7, With two reaching a high of 9.9 😄😄 [What][What][What]

15. 15 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
16. 16 爱 Love Isn't Gentle, and I Won't Lick My Wounds 爱不温柔，我不舔舐伤口 King Revolver左轮王Marriage & Romance9k WordsCompleted Love isn't gentle, and I won't lick my wounds. 449Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A classic, highly-rated short story: the "chasing after divorce" trope. [Sending hearts][Sending hearts]

17. 17 发 After I Discovered My Wife Was Cheating 发现妻子出墙后 King Revolver左轮王13k WordsCompleted After discovering his wife was cheating on him 5kReads—Score106Shelves
18. 18 门 Between the Door and the World Outside, My Fiancée Regrets It Like Crazy! 门里门外，未婚妻她悔疯了！ King Revolver左轮王10k WordsCompleted Inside and outside the door, my fiancée is consumed with regret! 6.9kReads—Score—Shelves
19. 19 对 I'm Sorry, I Once Loved You Deeply 对不起，我曾经深爱你 King Revolver左轮王Marriage & Romance19k WordsCompleted I’m Sorry, I Once Loved You Deeply 6.2kReads—Score—Shelves
20. 20 既 If You Love Your First Love So Much, Why Are You Crying Now That I'm Gone? 既爱白月光，我走了你哭啥？ King Revolver左轮王Marriage & Romance15k WordsCompleted If you love your first love so much, why are you crying now that I've left? 1.6kReads—Score—Shelves
21. 21 带 Reborn with Hundreds of Millions in Cash, They Panicked! 带着亿万现金重生，他们慌了！ King Revolver左轮王11k WordsCompleted Reborn with Hundreds of Millions in Cash, They Panic! 55Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 22 中 After I Won the Lottery, My Wife and Daughter Forced Me to Leave with Nothing! 中奖后，妻女逼我净身出户！ King Revolver左轮王Marriage & Romance8k WordsCompleted After I Won the Lottery, My Wife and Daughter Forced Me to Leave With Nothing! 241Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 23 妻 My Wife Insisted on Staying with Her First Love, So I Buried Our Marriage with My Own Hands 妻子执意陪白月光，我亲手埋葬了婚姻 King Revolver左轮王Marriage & Romance11k WordsCompleted My wife insisted on staying by her first love's side, so I buried our marriage with my own hands. 6.5kReads—Score122Shelves
24. 24 婚 Marriage Is a Shattered Reflection 婚姻如破碎的镜像 King Revolver左轮王Modern Romance10k WordsCompleted Marriage is like a shattered mirror 3.1kReads—Score—Shelves
25. 25 你 You Chose Your First Love, So I Let You Go on the Spot (Late Love Won't Save You) 你选白月光，我当场成全（晚情不渡） King Revolver左轮王Marriage & Romance10k WordsCompleted You chose your first love, so I let you have him right then and there (Late Love Finds No Ferry). 1.1kReads—Score—Shelves
26. 26 爱 Love Makes No Promises, and My Beloved Never Comes Home 爱不期许，良人不归 King Revolver左轮王Marriage & Romance9k WordsCompleted Love Makes No Promises, and My Beloved Never Came Back 165Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 27 继 After My Stepfather Tore Up My College Acceptance Letter, I Laughed 继父撕我录取通知书后，我笑了 King Revolver左轮王22k WordsCompleted After my stepfather tore up my college acceptance letter, I smiled 55Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 28 妻 My Wife's Secret Text Messages 妻子的秘密短信 King Revolver左轮王11k WordsCompleted My Wife's Secret Text Messages 2.1kReads—Score—Shelves
29. 29 她 After She Cheated, She Lost the Love of Her Life Forever 她出轨后永失所爱 King Revolver左轮王10k WordsCompleted After She Cheated, She Lost the One She Loved Forever 1.2kReads—Score—Shelves
30. 30 分 You Want to Split 60,000 with Me? I Started Out Worth 50 Million! 分我六万？我开局身价五千万！ King Revolver左轮王13k WordsCompleted You Only Want to Give Me Sixty Thousand? I'm Worth Fifty Million from the Start! 509Reads—Score—Shelves
31. 31 他 He Actually Stole My Wife 他竟偷走我的妻 King Revolver左轮王Marriage & Romance13k WordsCompleted He Actually Stole My Wife 1.4kReads—Score—Shelves
32. 32 妻 The Hell My Wife Hid in the Receipts 妻子藏在收据里的地狱 King Revolver左轮王Marriage & Romance13k WordsCompleted The Hell My Wife Hid in the Receipts 519Reads—Score—Shelves
33. 33 备 A Backup Plan? I'm Done Putting Up with This! 备胎？老子不伺候了！ King Revolver左轮王Marriage & Romance11k WordsCompleted A Backup Plan? I'm Done Putting Up With This! 366Reads—Score—Shelves
34. 34 她 She Used My Money to Keep Him, So I'll Make Her Repay Me for the Rest of Her Life 她用我的钱养他，我让她用余生还债 King Revolver左轮王Marriage & Romance9k WordsCompleted She used my money to support him. I'll make her spend the rest of her life paying me back. 64Reads—Score—Shelves
35. 35 老 My Wife’s Deadly Perfume 老婆的致命香水 King Revolver左轮王Marriage & Romance15k WordsCompleted My Wife’s Deadly Perfume 30Reads—Score—Shelves
36. 36 妻 The Night Before My Wife Went Abroad, I Secretly Swapped Her Birth Control Pills. When She Came Back, She Went Mad Looking for Me 妻子出国前夜，我偷偷换掉她的避孕药，回来后疯了找我 Ke Xiaogou可小狗31k WordsCompleted The night before my wife went abroad, I secretly switched out her birth control pills. When she came back, she frantically searched for me. 6kReads—Score—Shelves

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    The female protagonist regrets it and is in unbearable pain...

37. 37 重 Back to the Seventies, Before I Abandoned My Husband and Children 重回七十年代还未抛夫弃子时 Salt and Sugar盐和糖Modern Romance500k WordsCompleted [Period Setting] [Reborn] [Food] In her previous life, after the college entrance exams were reinstated, Chen Xiaoxiao abandoned her husband and child and returned to the city. When the man later brought their child to find her, she drove them away without mercy. Only after learning that the father and son had been lost forever in a river back in the countryside did she finally realize how important they had been to her. Back in the past, Chen Xiaoxiao wants only to love them both and take good 3.9kReads7.0Score218Shelves

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    🍒The female protagonist was sent to the countryside as an educated youth. She abandoned her husband and children to return to the city and live a good life. When her husband and child came to find her, she drove them away [shocked]. The father and son died as a result, and only then did she regret abandoning her husband and children. Reborn and returning to the past, she reformed herself and took good care of the father and son.

38. 38 穿 After Becoming the Male Lead’s Green Tea Ex-Wife, She Throws Herself into His Arms 穿成男主绿茶前妻后，她投怀送抱 Yu Wanwan余晚晚Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Period Setting + Beloved by Everyone + Top Student + Adorable Child] After Shen Xi transmigrates into a book, she discovers that she is a vicious supporting character who abandons her husband and child. The original Shen Xi was an educated youth from the city who went to the countryside. After marrying the male lead, she got the chance to return to the city and promptly abandoned her husband and child to run off with a pretty young man from town. After learning how the story was supposed to unf 3.7kReads8.9Score250Shelves
39. 39 七 The 1970s: He Came Back to That Night, Eyes Red, Begging Me Not to Leave 七零：重返那夜他红着眼求我别走 Yi Wei依蔚Modern Romance450k WordsCompleted The 1970s, devoted romance, twins, transmigration, a pocket dimension, and sweet pampering. Meng Anyu transmigrated to the hungry, threadbare 1970s. Then Meng Anyu transmigrated again, back to her original world. When she vanished in front of Qi Yunzhao, all she had time to see was the shock and reluctance in his eyes. Three years later, she returned to 1975 with her pocket dimension packed full of supplies. “This woman abandoned her husband and children, and she still dares to come back!” 975Reads7.7Score—Shelves
40. 40 抛 She Left Her Husband and Daughter and Returned to the City, but Her Country Husband Came Looking for Her 抛夫弃女回城，乡下丈夫找上门 Yuan Yu原屿Modern Romance295k WordsOngoing [Bookish young lady VS brawny country boy, scheming woman VS cunning man, younger man tames the older woman] Xu Weiqing’s family falls on hard times. To survive in the countryside, she puts on an act and tricks Jiang Ye, a strong, hardworking young villager. She uses his devotion to pave the way for herself, taking whatever she wants from him. But once her family is exonerated, Xu Weiqing dumps him without hesitation, packs her bags, and returns to the city, never to contact him again. Three 31Reads8.0Score—Shelves
41. 41 每 Daily Question: Has the Regent Fought for Favor Today? 每日一问，摄政王今日争宠了吗？ Su Xiaoxian苏小仙Ancient Romance300k WordsCompleted [Main Story Complete] [One-on-One Romance + Devoted Couple + Reunion After Years Apart + Rekindled Love + Raising a Child] Shen Qingtang transmigrates into a book! The good news: She becomes the capital’s most beautiful woman, the noble Princess Consort to the Prince Regent. The bad news: In the book, the Princess Consort is a disposable villainess who abandoned her husband and child for three years and has just returned to the capital. Knowing that she’ll suddenly die of an illness at the Princ 75Reads6.7Score—Shelves

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    The three-year-old boy is adorable and very sensible. Despite his mother abandoning him for three years, he doesn't hate her. When he sees the female lead being framed, he runs to save her and even tells the male lead that bad people are bullying his mother. When he sees his father wearing a cloak, he says he'll get it for him, but once he gets it, he immediately takes it and puts it on the female lead, perfectly embodying the spirit of using someone else's clothes to give to someone else. He even covers the female lead's stomach with his own clothes, saying, "Father said that if you cover your tummy well, you won't get sick."

42. 42 快 Quick Transmigration: Reborn to Make Up for My Devoted Husband 快穿：重生弥补深情夫君 Want to Eat Taro Candy想吃香芋糖Ancient Romance1.7M WordsCompleted [One-on-one, both leads are virgins + reborn + bad ending becomes happy ending + both obsessive + devoted male lead] P.S. Immersive BG quick transmigration. The heroine doesn’t need to put effort into winning the male lead over; his affection starts at maximum. - After the goddess Yu He got her happy ending with her beloved, she grew curious about how their story ended in other worlds. In each small world, she failed to recognize her own feelings, repeatedly missing her chance with and letting d 17.2kReads8.7Score2.1kShelves
43. 43 前 She Regretted Running Away After Tossing the Ball in Her Past Life 前世扔球跑后她后悔了 Extra Cilantro, Please香菜多放点Modern Romance274k WordsCompleted Reborn into a new life, Tang Chuxia decides to win back the husband and child who truly belong to her. In her previous life, she married a gentle, honest man and spent a peaceful lifetime with him, yet her heart never stopped longing for a child... the child she had with a beastman when she was nineteen. Reborn into a new life, Tang Yuxia decides to find the child she left behind and apologize to the beastman. This time, she will reclaim everything she missed out on. Setting: A world where beas 944Reads8.4Score103Shelves
44. 44 五 Five Years with a Contraceptive Ring, and He Knelt in the Ancestral Hall on the Day We Parted 五年避子环，和离当天他跪穿祠堂 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊Marriage & Romance15k WordsCompleted Five Years Wearing a Contraceptive Ring, He Knelt Until His Knees Bled in the Ancestral Hall on the Day We Parted 2.5kReads—Score—Shelves

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    Shen Jinshu felt she was probably the happiest woman in the world. Not because she had married into the renowned Gu family of the capital, nor because her husband, Gu Yanzhi, possessed an ethereal beauty, but because—five years into their marriage, her husband still treated her with the same fervor as on their honeymoon. This might sound ridiculous. Who didn't know that Gu Yanzhi, the eldest son of the Gu family, had married Shen Jinshu, the eldest daughter of the Shen family, merely in a marriage of convenience?

45. 45 宫 Sharing a Bed Is Forbidden in the Palace 宫里禁止对食 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊Historical12k WordsCompleted Eating Together Is Forbidden in the Palace 122Reads—Score—Shelves
46. 46 大 On Our Wedding Night, the Bride Urged Me to Go After My Ex-Girlfriend 大婚之夜，新娘催我去追前女友 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊Historical10k WordsCompleted On Our Wedding Night, the Bride Told Me to Go After My Ex-Girlfriend 63Reads—Score—Shelves
47. 47 那 After That Night, I Became the Cultivation World's Public Enemy 那一夜之后，我成了修仙界公敌 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊18k WordsCompleted After That Night, I Became the Public Enemy of the Cultivation World 90Reads—Score—Shelves
48. 48 认 After Mistaking Me for Someone Else, the Tyrant Dotes on Me Like an Enemy 认错人后，暴君把我当仇人宠 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊Ancient Romance12k WordsCompleted After Mistaking Me for Someone Else, the Tyrant Dotes on Me as His Enemy 56Reads—Score—Shelves
49. 49 掌 Sect Leader, Please Behave Yourself 掌门，请自重 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊10k WordsCompleted Sect Leader, Please Mind Your Manners 17Reads—Score—Shelves
50. 50 那 The Love Confession That Night Was Meant for My Father-in-Law 那晚情话，全说给老丈人听了 Ten Thousand Gu万蛊13k WordsCompleted Those Sweet Words That Night Were All Meant for My Father-in-Law 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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