Looking for Stories Where the Female Lead Finds a Substitute After Believing the Male Lead Is Dead, Then He Returns Three Years Later 求女主以为男主死了后找替身，男主三年后回归

1. 1 公 Born a Princess 公主命 Layer Upon Layer of Cloudy Peaks几重云岫Modern Romance264k WordsCompleted (Broken engagement, reunion, sweet romance, doting older-boyfriend type) A radiant, gentle guzheng virtuoso × a scheming, unhinged CEO with a fatherly streak Ming Sheng, the second daughter of the Ming family, was gentle and aloof, with eyes like autumn waters and distant, graceful brows. Her guzheng playing was so masterful it seemed otherworldly. Yet everyone in Yuncheng knew she had spent three years chasing He Xiting, losing every last bit of her dignity in the process. He Xiting was in love 6.3kReads8.8Score621Shelves

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   The little princess raised by Huo Yanli was in great pain during the four years that Huo Yanli left her, and followed her substitute into the dust.

2. 2 糟 Oh No! The Substitute He Found Has Someone Else in Her Heart 糟糕！他找的替身另有白月光 Xiao Xiao in My Heart心上肖肖Modern Romance235k WordsCompleted (Complete) The South Wind Knows My Heart, Blowing Dreams to Xizhou [Shen Zhiyi and Fu Xizhou, one-on-one, both pure, dual stand-ins, sweet romance with no angst, mutual salvation, both reaching for each other, childhood sweethearts and first loves] Just how devastating can a first love be? Lu Qingzhou always believed Shen Zhiyi loved him to the bone. She would gaze at him in a daze, look at him tenderly with eyes full of affection, and carefully put on his glasses when his eyes grew tired from h 1.9kReads8.8Score175Shelves

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   This is the first time I've seen a male protagonist in the literature about substitutes who is a substitute. It's so novel.

3. 3 替 The Stand-In's Guide to Winning Themself Over 替身的自我攻略 Er Li二厘Modern Romance268k WordsCompleted [Male substitute + obsessive love + male lead suffers + second chance at love + later, possessive pursuit by force. The male lead is arrogant, domineering, obsessive, and calculating, with extremely strong controlling and possessive tendencies] Delicate, frail female lead X obsessive, calculating male lead At Jingbei High School, Wen Li met a boy who looked a lot like Pei Yang. One glance was all it took for her to be drawn to him. He’d look even more like Pei Yang if he had a mole at the corner 8.4kReads8.4Score569Shelves
4. 4 疯 The Madcap Heiress Falls Addicted to Seduction 疯批大小姐，诱爱上瘾 Liu Liyue琉离玥Modern Romance386k WordsCompleted [Two people from Beijing's elite circles] [Both Pure] [Childhood Sweethearts] [Reunited After Years Apart] [Substitute] [Mutual Flirting] [Obsessive, Unhinged Heiress x Highest-Ranking Military Commander] The short drama The Heiress's Forced Heartlock is now streaming. As the little princess of one of Beijing's most powerful families, Li Su had always gotten everything she wanted. There were just two things missing from her otherwise perfect life. She was orphaned as a child and raised by the Sh 6.3kReads9.1Score564Shelves
5. 5 罪 The Guilty Wife 罪妻 As Vigorously as Fire如火如荼Modern Romance569k WordsCompleted [Physical and emotional angst + substitute male lead + regretful husband chasing his wife] Shen Nanzhou hated Tang Yin with every fiber of his being. To take revenge on her, he forced her to donate her liver, use herself as a test subject for drugs, and suffer from a terminal illness. He drove her daughter to her death, destroyed the man who had protected her, and ruined everything she cared about. He told her, "Tang Yin, I dream every night about the day you die." Later, when the truth came out 6.1kReads8.7Score456Shelves
6. 6 末 Sick Love in the Apocalypse: After Dying a Horrible Death, I Welcome the Mad Demon King Out of Prison 末世病宠，惨死后接阴疯魔王出狱 Sweetness in the Mortal World人间天糖Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsCompleted [Self-serving green-tea heroine x deranged, obsessive zombie king] [Two drama queens acting against each other] [Realistic approach, lots of romance, a grim ensemble story about the apocalypse] “Yanyan, food is running low. Take out your emergency rations so we can share them.” “Yanyan, Xiaorou was bitten by a zombie. Give her your vaccine first.” “Yanyan, the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled should go first. We'll hold them off...” After Chen Muzhou's relentless do-gooder routine, Xia Yan rea 22.3kReads7.8Score2.2kShelves

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   After the heroine was reborn, she abandoned her current boyfriend and reconciled with her ex-boyfriend. The male protagonist is an extremely love-brained prince, and his IQ is online. The main reason is that the male protagonist is strong and has a love-brain. He is so good-looking [lick screen]

7. 7 恶 After the Villainess's Heart Died, Everyone Faced Their Comeuppance 恶毒女配心死后，全员火葬场 A Scoundrel Who Just Eats and Drinks混吃混喝的小混子Modern Romance567k WordsCompleted [The brothers chase their sister after losing her and regret it + devoted couple + SC + beloved by the whole family + never forgiving them + face-slapping + finding a new family] The short drama is now streaming: The Moonlight That Ran Backward Yue Shengge is the youngest daughter of the Yue family, with four older brothers who dote on their little sister. All four are famous for spoiling their sister, but everyone in high society knows that the Yue family dotes not on Yue Shengge, but on anothe 8.8kReads9.2Score793Shelves

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   These three books are all worth reading. They are logical and not poisonous [laughing][laughing]

8. 8 生 Three Years Left to Live, My Cold CEO Wife Takes Her Revenge on Me! 生命最后三年，高冷总裁妻子疯狂报复我！ Yan Han Ruo Yu烟寒若雨Urban2.3M WordsCompleted When my girlfriend's family fell on hard times and she needed someone by her side most, I broke up with her. Years later, her exceptional abilities brought her company back from the brink and made it a legend in the industry. After her success, the first thing she did was find every possible way to marry me. We became the model couple in our circle. But in the eighth year of our marriage, she tore our happiness apart with her own hands and turned me into a laughingstock. She grabbed me by t 1.5kReads5.3Score103Shelves
9. 9 再 I'll Never Love You Again 再也不要爱你 Hard to Kill难杀Modern Romance132k WordsCompleted A short, heart-wrenching story. Extremely heartbreaking! So much melodrama and angst! Read with caution! Please ignore the extra chapter. The author wrote it while losing their mind, and sincerely apologizes! Jian Meng is dying, and Ji Jing’an doesn’t know. He’s busy worrying about his wedding to someone else, indifferent to the poor woman at home. He has always believed Jian Meng would wait for him forever, just as she has for the past ten years. It was the last winter, and Jian Meng’s last bir 13.5kReads8.2Score828Shelves

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   The delicate and frail female protagonist × the yandere and sinister male protagonist Wen Li met a boy who looked very similar to Zhuang Yang in Beijing High School. After just one glance, he was attracted. It would be more like a mole at the end of the eye. The character is completely different. He is arrogant, domineering, overbearing and paranoid, and extremely possessive. On the day he found out that she was treating him as a substitute, he went crazy and slashed that face. "Wen Li, who gave you the courage to treat me as a substitute?" Wen Li couldn't stand his paranoia and broke up directly. "Ha, you want me to kick you away after you finish the game? Don't even think about it." Shen Yan spent half a month trying to convince himself that a substitute could do it.

10. 10 步 I’m Done Playing the Substitute – No More Falling for You 步步沦陷，这替身我不当了 Bright, Gentle Laughter笑语晏晏Modern Romance404k WordsCompleted The Shen family’s heir is notorious for being picky about women, but Xiang Nuan got picked thanks to a face that bore a passing resemblance to his ideal woman. She played the sweet, sensible, innocent girl to perfection, doing her best to fulfill her role as a substitute. Shen Yanshi treated her generously, too. In the two years they were together, she landed plenty of great opportunities, going from an unknown extra to a fairly well-known second-tier actress. Then his one true love came back. X 35.2kReads9.1Score3.6kShelves
11. 11 替 Ten Years as Her Stand-In! Now That I'm Leaving, She Regrets It Too Late 替身十年！今离去，她却追悔莫及 A Thousand Autumns Moon千秋月Urban2.3M WordsCompleted [No Angst, No Harem, One-On-One Everyday Romance] “I think everyone meets someone in life, falls for her, and gives her everything they have.” “But not everyone gets the ending they hoped for.” “The story didn't begin well, and its ending was embarrassing enough, too.” Jiang An and Liu Youran grew up together. He guarded her carefully for ten years, but in the end, he never got to be with her. All he got was the return of the man she had always loved. “Don't do this anymore.” See? Those words dr 578Reads8.8Score137Shelves

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    [No knife, no cow, daily love for a single woman] "I guess everyone will meet someone in their life, fall in love with her, and then give everything."

12. 12 我 I'm the Hero of a Wish-Fulfillment Novel. How Could I Put Up With This Miserable Romance? 我，爽文大男主，能受虐文的气？ Love Drinking Ice-Cold Cola爱喝冰可乐Urban2.4M WordsCompleted [A mix of gut-wrenching angst, satisfying triumphs with no humiliating setbacks, domineering Dragon King CEOs, ignoring the rules, memes, and variety] After transmigrating to another world for eighteen years, the angst-novel System finally showed up. Su Chen said he had no use for it, absolutely none. The System would only slow down his unstoppable progress. The worlds of angst novels are crawling with protagonists? Just watch me speedrun one in a month! If killing an entire family solves the pr 11.4kReads6.8Score589Shelves
13. 13 攻 My Target Has Turned Evil? Then I'll Die One More Time 攻略对象黑化了？那就再死一次 Shi Lili时笠笠Two Male Leads664k WordsCompleted [Quick transmigration, top protagonist + sickly and delicate + utterly unhinged + coercion + nothing but acting skills = an unconventional 1v1] For normal people, a dramatic reunion means panic and confusion, heartfelt explanations, and a happy ending. But Qin Yili has never been normal! Facing the enemy emperor who has returned for revenge, he breaks his own bones one by one and smiles as he always did. “Are you satisfied with how I ended up?” The young master, who has bipolar disorder and was 3.7kReads9.3Score348Shelves
14. 14 迷 Bewitching Seduction 迷撩 Oh, the Stars' Dream星星的梦啊Modern Romance264k WordsCompleted [Five-Year Age-Gap Romance Between an Older Woman and a Younger Man] [He Starts as Her Stand-In, but They Eventually Fall for Each Other] Sheng Si was an orphan. Fortunately, she was adopted when she was six. Few people knew that Sheng Si had been secretly in love with Shen Jue, the young master of the Shen family, for years. He was her unattainable ideal. But their different circumstances meant they could never be together. * When she first met Wen Ye, the first thing that caught her eye was hi 1.9kReads9.0Score275Shelves

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    [Adoration] It looks so good, I really like it [Shy]

15. 15 拒 I Refuse to Marry into a Wealthy Family, but the Tycoon’s Uncle Coaxes Me into Marriage 拒嫁豪门，首富小叔哄着我结婚 Firecrackers Crackling鞭炮声声Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted Everyone says Yu Hanshen, head of the prestigious Yu family, is stern and upright, and keeps his distance from women. Si Tong thought so too. Even when he made her blush and her heart race, she assumed she was reading too much into it. Yu Hanshen wasn't doing it on purpose. After all, she was ten years younger than him, a junior, and the ex-girlfriend of his own nephew. Until one day, the man drew her into his arms and let his rough, dry fingers rove indecently over her skin, inch by inch. At la 30.2kReads9.2Score3.7kShelves

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    Very 🤩 pretty

16. 16 替 After the Substitute Was Reborn, President Lu Wouldn’t Leave Him Alone 替身重生后陆总他纠缠不休 The Dog Days of Summer三九伏天Two Male Leads300k WordsCompleted An accident sends Jiang Buyu back to the past. Jiang Buyu never thought that something as absurd as being reborn could happen to him. Since fate has given him a second chance, he’ll make the most of it. But… why is the scumbag who made his life a living hell in his last life suddenly approaching him?! Jiang Buyu was widely recognized as a dance prodigy at the city’s dance studios. The first half of his life went smoothly, until he met Lu Chuan. No one knew that Jiang Buyu was a sucker for good l 100Reads—Score—Shelves

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    1. "The Sinful Wife" (Author: Ruhuo Ruzhi) Keywords: Substitute / sadomasochism / wife chasing crematorium / truth reversal Reason for recommendation: Tang Yin once thought that Shen Nanzhou was her salvation, but he was forced by him to donate her liver, test medicine, and lose her beloved daughter. When she thought he died in an accident, she numbly accepted the identity of a substitute and survived. However, three years later, Shen Nanzhou returned with full of hostility, tearing apart all her disguises. He said: "Tang Yin, I have been dreaming about your death." But when she was really dying, he knelt in front of her tombstone and pierced the heart with his own hands: "It's too cold underground, I will accompany you." Highlights: The opening chapter is very sadistic, the heroine's counter-attack plot from tolerance to awakening is full of tension, and the male protagonist's paranoid and crazy character design is extremely interesting. 2. "Mr. Lu was entangled with him after the substitute was reborn" (Author: Sanjiu Futian) Keywords: double life/substitute/deep sadomasochistic love/identity reversal Reason for recommendation: Jiang Buyu was once the substitute of Lu Chuan Bai Yueguang. After being tortured to death, he was reborn as assistant Ke Xiaobei. He originally wanted to stay away from Lu Chuan, but was forced to become his personal employee. Lu Chuan gradually discovers the overlap between Ke Xiaobei and the "dead substitute" in his memory, and while frantically testing his identity, he falls into his true character. And Jiang Buyi's waistcoat is in danger: "Mr. Huo, give me a way out, don't pick off my waistcoat again!" Highlights: The dual life setting is novel, the contrast between the male protagonist's pursuit of his wife from strength to humbleness is heart-wrenching, and the heroine's waistcoat falling off at any time is full of tension. 3. "After rebirth, she stopped loving him, and he was so panicked that his legs gave out and he knelt down" (Author: Will you gain weight if you eat tomatoes) Keywords: amnesia and rebirth/substitute doubts/two-way redemption Reason for recommendation: After Xia Ye was reborn, she forgot that she was Mr. Bo's Bai Yueguang substitute. Faced with her husband's cold violence, she turned around gracefully. But Mr. Bo panicked - not only had she forgotten him, but she had also become the favorite of the whole family. When he discovered that a "new stand-in" who looked like himself appeared next to Xia Ye, he completely lost control: "I will give you anything you want, I just ask you not to look at others!" And three years later, the real "hero of death" returned with a conspiracy, revealing the truth about the stand-in game... Highlights: Amnesia and stand-ins are intertwined, the heroine's growth line from humble to sassy is full of excitement, and the hero is chasing his wife and kneeling across the floor.

17. 17 重 Reborn, She No Longer Loves Him. He Panics, His Legs Give Out, and He Falls to His Knees 重生后她不爱了，他慌到腿软下跪 Eating Tomatoes Without Gaining Weight吃番茄不长胖Modern Romance500k WordsCompleted [Reborn with amnesia and doted on by everyone (she’ll regain her memories) + slightly darkened heroine + satisfying revenge on scumbags + devoted husband with no limits + husband’s groveling redemption arc (with misunderstandings) + anyone who comes after her sister or daughter gets their ashes scattered] After being reborn, Xia Ye forgets everything, including the wealthy CEO husband she loved and suffered for, despite their marriage being one in name only. The introverted but deeply devoted Pr 10.1kReads7.8Score457Shelves
18. 18 开 A Quasi-Emperor from the Start, I Activate the Myriad Heavens Sign-in System 开局准帝的我，激活诸天签到系统 Luoxi's Vegeta Aike洛夕的比吉塔·艾可Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Xu Changqing transmigrates into a vast fantasy world and becomes the Lord of the Original Sacred Land. In just three hundred years, he rises to the rank of Quasi-Emperor. Just then, he activates the Myriad Heavens Sign-In System. By signing in or completing System quests, he can claim lavish rewards, including Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons, the laws of the world, peerless immortal pills, True Immortal talismans, and Creation Immortal Artifacts. Across the Myriad Worlds, myths have returned in some 18.8kReads8.0Score1.7kShelves

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    Xu Changqing traveled to the fantasy world and became the Holy Lord of the Original Holy Land. In just three hundred years, he became the Quasi-Emperor.

19. 19 重 Reborn CEO, Have You Gone Crazy? Why Are You So Clingy? 重生总裁疯了吧，这么粘我！ Bright and Awkward灼灼囧华Modern Romance315k WordsCompleted In her previous life, she was the power behind the scenes at the Lu Group, ruthless and decisive. One tap of her foot was enough to make the entire business world of the capital tremble! Yet for him, she willingly concealed her edge and devoted herself to the home. She was married to him for ten years and protected him for ten years, only to receive a fatal blow from him when she risked everything to save his life. As she lay dying, Lu Jing suddenly burst into wild, despairing laughter. “Shen Sh 851Reads7.8Score108Shelves

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    Her departure made him miserable. After rebirth, he and her [what][what][what][what] watch the rest for yourself sisters [like] worth watching

20. 20 神 The Divine Doctor's Daughter 神医嫡女 Yang Shiliu杨十六Ancient Romance4.0M WordsCompleted Feng Yuheng, a renowned physician skilled in both Chinese and Western medicine in the 21st century and a senior military doctor in the ground forces, transmigrates with a bang into the body of the Feng family's legitimate daughter in the Great Shun Dynasty. Unfortunately, her father doesn't care for her, her grandmother doesn't love her, her mother is timid, her younger brother is still a child, and her sisters are each more vicious than the last. Reborn in a new life, she absolutely refuses to 30.9kReads9.3Score5kShelves

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    The plot of this novel is very interesting. If you like it, you can read it.

21. 21 天 The Heavenly God Returns to Bathe the City in Blood for His Daughter 天神归来为女儿血洗都市 Yan Bei燕北Urban6.2M WordsCompleted [This story is entirely fictional] While fighting bloodily on the battlefield, he receives a desperate call for help from his daughter. Overnight, the world's top experts from across the three thousand realms rush to Huaxia! Xiao Tiance has lived a life of hardship, and his daughter and wife are the light of his life. He will never allow them to suffer even the slightest harm! 45.5kReads9.5Score10.5kShelves

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    He was once the supreme being above the nine heavens overlooking all living beings. He could move the stars and rivers with a thought and change the world with a word. Now, he is willing to seal his divine power, restrain his divine brilliance, and hide in the noisy city, just to protect the only glimmer of light that illuminates his mortal world—the daughter he regards as a treasure. However, the greed and viciousness of the ants dared to extend their poisonous hands to his reverse scales! When he returned with his tired body, what greeted him was not his daughter's innocent smile, but the cold ward, the dazzling blood, and the endless fear and humiliation remaining in his daughter's eyes! Every scar on that little body was like the most vicious curse, imprinted deep in his soul! That broken sob is the fuse that ignites the silent divine fire! The blood-stained hospital sheets became a flag declaring war on the entire dirty city! **"I originally wanted to be a mortal and protect you forever."** **"But the mortal world is like a prison, forcing me to return to the altar!"** The dust-laden divine power suddenly awakened in the raging anger! The silent divine power, like an abyss and a prison, once again enveloped this steel jungle that he once thought was ordinary. The former god is now back just for revenge! Anyone who bullies my daughter will have his spirit and soul destroyed, and he will never be reincarnated! Anyone who insults my dearest relatives will pay with blood and trample all their glory! The mastermind? A huge force? A wealthy family that covers the sky with one hand? In his eyes, they are just a bunch of trembling ants waiting to be slaughtered! Look at how he uses the wrath of God to burn away all demons and monsters! See how he uses thunderous means to wash away this dirty city with blood! Look at how he makes those aloof beings crawl, tremble, and wail in despair in the face of absolute power! **When the tears of the gods are shed for their daughter, the whole city will bleed for her! **

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