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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 85.4kReads9.6Score15.1kShelves

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   I cried to death. This book is half a redemption story, but the heroine died of stomach cancer in the end. The heroine tutored the scumbag hero at school. The countdown to the college entrance examination was also the countdown to the heroine's death. After the hero went to college, he "took" the heroine to travel around, and later established a company in the heroine's name [cry][cry][cry]

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

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   Very short, but sad.

3. 3 十 Fourteen Letters 十四封信 Mo Wen Sheng墨文笙Modern Romance33k WordsCompleted Ruan Shengsheng × Zhou Mingsen (The contents of the fourteen letters are on Weibo ♥) Ruan Shengsheng had already come to accept death in peace, but his arrival made her begin to fear her own disappearance. He said, “Shengsheng, don’t cry. I’ll always be by your side.” She said, “I went to the temple to pray for your safety for the rest of your life.” At the very end, he held her hand tightly. Tears slid down his cheeks and fell onto their clasped hands. Summer in Yuncheng ended, and their s 1kReads8.4Score340Shelves

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   This is a short story, only 17 chapters in fourteen letters. The heroine could have accepted her death calmly, but when she met him, lovers were separated by yin and yang [crying] [crying] [crying]

4. 4 你 You Broke Your Promise 你失信了 Shi Qingyao十清杳Modern Romance138k WordsCompleted The acclaimed signature work You Broke Your Promise by popular author Shi Qingyao, now with 40,000 new words of never-before-published content! Sensitive girl Xiang Yu VS golden boy Song Huaishi. I had to play out the whole secret-crush story, so I loved him year after year. It was an ordinary day. Just as she closed her eyes, Xiang Yu suddenly thought of Song Huaishi: Song Huaishi, neat in his clothes and radiating warmth. Song Huaishi at seventeen. Still in his school uniform, he leaned lazily 63.3kReads9.5Score12kShelves
5. 5 雾 Fog, Summer, and the Dead Sun 雾，夏天，和死去的太阳 Nitric Acid i硝酸iUrban146k WordsCompleted (The rating is low because it just launched and there aren't many reviews yet. Almost all of them are five-star reviews.) [Youth | School | Mutual redemption | First person | One male lead and one female lead | No complicated setup | Pure love | Light fantasy] Xiao Yuze met a strange girl in the nighttime fog. She really was his classmate, but he could barely remember her. It was as if she'd appeared out of nowhere, And judging by her tone and expression, she really was annoying. The problem wa 2.7kReads8.3Score795Shelves

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   Campus, clean characters, no complicated settings, two-way psychological redemption literature, light fantasy, be,

6. 6 战 Lord Zhan, Stop Torturing Her! Your Wife Was Framed 战爷别虐了，夫人她是被冤枉的 October Is Not Cold Yet十月未凉Modern Romance500k WordsCompleted [The short drama adaptation of the same name is now streaming] [Physical and emotional torment + obsessive imprisonment + reborn] “Zhan Sihan, don’t kneel in front of my daughter’s grave and sully her path to reincarnation.” A conspiracy sent Yun Xi tumbling from heaven into hell. The man she loved branded her unchaste, and her child became a bastard reviled by everyone. For her daughter’s sake, she struggled and fought back in the abyss, only to have her legs broken and suffer a miscarriage. It 14.2kReads8.9Score887Shelves

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   How should I put it? It's the kind that you won't skip even a chapter. It's really beautiful‎⠀‌‍⠀‌‍⠀‎‌‍

7. 7 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
8. 8 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
9. 9 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
10. 10 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
11. 11 我 I Won Over a Super-Duper Top Student 我攻略了一个超级无敌大学霸 The Janitor's Husband清道夫的夫9k WordsCompleted I Won Over a Super-Duper Academic Ace —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It really makes me cry

12. 12 清 Qingqing: The Aesthetics of Unrequited Love Tragedies, Part 3 清清（暗恋BE美学三部曲03） Meng Zhiwan孟栀晚Urban125k WordsCompleted Back in middle school, Xie Zeyang met Shen Bingqing. Their names were almost the opposite of their natures: he was as cold as ice, while she burned bright as the sun. He could still vaguely recall every time they parted when they were young. At thirteen, beneath the lights at the entrance to an alley. She waved with a radiant smile and said to him, “See you tomorrow, class monitor!” At seventeen, on the beach on a midsummer night. She poked her head out of the tent, eyes crinkling as she called 19.4kReads9.6Score5.1kShelves

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    It turns out that not all secret loves will have results. He once said: When we grow up, we must wear a real suit and wedding dress? But in the end he lost track of her, and in the end he just wanted to dress up and attend her wedding in the name of a friend.

13. 13 我 I'm Dying, Can You Leave Me Alone? 我要死了，能别来打扰我吗？ The Landlord's Orange Cat房东家的橘猫Urban429k WordsCompleted (This story includes traditional mythology, mainly to set things up for the male and female leads. Let me say it again: the protagonist does not cultivate immortality! The protagonist does not cultivate immortality! The mythology doesn’t take up much of the story. For reference, see Fox Spirit Matchmaker. If you don’t like it, please don’t read.) As for why it’s listed under urban slice-of-life, the System assigned the category automatically.) [Regret + No Forgiveness + Angst] In the face of 2.1kReads9.1Score197Shelves

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    Both scores are 80 or 9, super beautiful, perfect for crying secretly in bed at night😭

14. 14 虐 After Driving His Wife to Her Death, the Cold CEO Went Mad 虐死夫人后冷少疯批了 Tears Build a Tower眼泪成塔Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Angsty romance + physical and emotional torment + devoted to each other + possessive love + forced love + a groveling pursuit after the wife] Wu Ying and Leng Hanchuan had been in love for three years. To the world, they were a perfect couple, and he had once said he loved her more than life itself. But the day after their engagement, he threw his “life” into an insane asylum. Leng Hanchuan said, “A life for a life. From now on, you’ll spend every second regretting what you’ve done.” In the 948Reads8.4Score103Shelves
15. 15 穿 Transmigrating into a Torture Novel: I Dump the Seriously Unhinged Male Lead from the Start 穿进虐文：开局踹掉有大病的男主 Gu Nuanqing顾暖卿Modern Romance714k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a Book + Strong Heroine + Secret Identities + Everyone's Darling + Livestreaming + Entertainment Industry] The heroine was abused for a thousand chapters, only to be written off as dead in the end. Reader Ruan Tang was furious! After giving the author a piece of her mind, she transmigrated into the book and took over the tragic heroine's role! The supporting actress frames her? The male lead accuses her unjustly? Ruan Tang just laughs. None of them are getting away with it! If 220Reads9.1Score—Shelves
16. 16 堕 Fallen 堕 Sister Corpse尸姐Modern Romance59k WordsCompleted That year, I was twenty-nine, and Mo Huai was thirteen. When I, someone who no longer wanted to live, met him, someone else who no longer wanted to live, we somehow found the strength to keep going, at least for a little while. So we decided to rely on each other and make it through together. 53.3kReads9.6Score6.2kShelves

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    These are the books that I feel the most sad about at the moment. There are many books that can make my eyes swell with tears because of my uneasy feelings. The secret love in youth, the ignorance in youth, the hesitation, wandering, fear... They are all the truest portrayals of our youth.

17. 17 蓝 The Blue Gum Tree Waits in Vain for the Mistletoe Bird 蓝桉等不到释槐鸟 Chive Leaf I韭叶IModern Romance133k WordsCompleted “If I loved you a little less, would I be able to say a little more to you?” The girl, Ru An, had a secret crush on Lin Fu, the brightest star in school. She loved writing in her diary. Over her three years of high school, she filled five diaries. Not once did she mention Lin Fu by name, yet every line was about him. She described Lin Fu as full of life and spirit, but couldn't find a single word that suited herself. She had always lived by the rules, following the same routine. The only courage 20.7kReads9.0Score4.7kShelves
18. 18 我 I Once Stole a Kiss from the Starlight 我曾偷吻星光 Blazing On and On灼灼不停Modern Romance206k WordsCompleted When Li Qiao was little, she spent some time as a child model and actress. She was famous and lived in the spotlight. But no one knew that behind the scenes, she was a crybaby who was always being bullied. Later, Li Qiao met a young idol. He would wipe away her tears and tell her fairy tales. He also had a pair of unbelievably beautiful eyes. She remembered him for years. Then, one spring when she was sixteen, the young idol she had never stopped thinking about became her class monitor. You shin 492Reads9.5Score120Shelves

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    Watch it if you like, go in smiling and cry out [cry][cry][cry][cry]

19. 19 桑 The Sang Method of Secretly Loving You 桑式暗恋法则 Gentle Scholar温柔文人Modern Romance235k WordsCompleted [Physical edition now available] Sang You transmigrated, landing back on the first day of her freshman year of high school. The three years of high school she'd finally made it through had suddenly been reset to square one. Thinking about going back to a high school life where she had nothing, not even a full head of hair, made her want to die. Later, she stopped wanting to die, but everyone else said she was crazy. She was a freshman, yet not long after the term began, she skipped ahead to seni 61.2kReads9.6Score10.4kShelves

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