Please Recommend Short, Heartbreaking Novels! I'm Hard to Make Cry 跪求虐文，短！虐！本人泪点高
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The Pretty Little Bride of the 1970s: The Village Tough Guy Is a Force to Be Reckoned With 七零小俏媳：我家村霸超凶的
[Period setting + reborn + sweet young woman and rugged man + doting romance + business and farming] Bai Jiaojiao, the fake heiress who had been sent to the countryside, was reborn. When she saw Shen Heng again, she boldly threw her arms around him, determined not to repeat the tragedy of loving him without ever winning his heart. Shen Heng, the local bully of Shili Village, was the very picture of a menacing brute. On their first day of marriage: “I’m the head of this household. My wife has to
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Scandalous! My Secret Lover Is My Fiancé’s Uncle 刺激！我的地下情人是未婚夫小叔
[A prim lady with a rebellious streak and the bearing of a grand opera star VS a pseudo-Buddhist prince who does as he pleases, an Asura] They’ve been engaged for four years, and her fiancé has had 52 lovers. He’s just one short of a full deck of cards. Jiang Fu looks like she’s sobbing on the outside, but inside she’s all smiles: She gets to marry into a wealthy family without having to fulfill any wifely duties. Where else could she find a deal this good? She runs into a gorgeous man in the el
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Help! The Gentle Military Doctor Cried, and the Whole Unit Panicked 救命！娇柔军医一哭，全部队慌了
[Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion] Martial arts prodigy Jiang Nianzhi transmigrates into a book and arrives in an alternate version of the 1980s, where she becomes a delicate, frail beauty. Thinking she would run into one terrible person after another, she rolls up her sleeves, ready to beat them all into submission. But her feisty mother favors girls over boys, her white-lotus sister is a doting sister-con, her grandmother is a beauty enthusiast, and her little brother has
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Tenderness from Heaven 来自天堂的温柔
A Tenderness from Heaven
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His Wife Wants a Divorce, and President Shen Is Panicking 太太要离婚，沈总他急了
[Marriage First, Love Later + Contract Marriage + Wealthy Family Romance + The Ex-Wife Chase] A family alliance bound He Xinning and Shen Yitang together. Though they were officially engaged, they had to pretend not to know each other in public. To Shen Yitang, the greatest benefit of this marriage was having a diligent, free housekeeper at home, as well as a woman to warm his bed at night. But Xinning thought she had to end the marriage. Wasn’t Shen Yitang still pining for his first love? I, He
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The Knockout: Gao Qiqiang Is Reborn and Takes Jinghai by Storm 狂飙：高启强重生，玩转京海市
[No System + Purely in-character cast + Gao Qiqiang reborn + One heroine + Happy ending] [There are no other golden fingers. Being reborn is the greatest golden finger of all! The story takes a different path from the drama, but the author will try to keep the characters true to form. They can become better people, but their personalities won't change.] In his previous life, he was the uncrowned king of Jinghai. When the gunshot rang out, he fell too, collapsing in a pool of blood. When he woke
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Da Ru’s Daily Meltdowns 大如的破防日常
After drinking a bowl of calming soup, her soul drifted through the world. She watched Zhen Huan tell Consort Duan that the Emperor and Empress Dowager had ordered the Imperial Medical Bureau to poison her calming soup, and felt her heart sink with grief. The imperial family truly was heartless. Although Consort Duan had schemed against her, she had at least been sincere toward Wenyi. She watched helplessly as Zhen Huan drove the person who had poisoned her, her own bedfellow, to die on the drag
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The Horror Livestreamer 恐怖女主播
My name is Yuan Junyao, a name that doesn't suit me at all. I've had a chronic illness since birth, and I'm so hideously deformed that tumors started growing on my face when I was little. My father left me when I was just three months old. At fifteen, I was blamed for my mother's death. Only my grandmother raised me and my stepbrother, who shared neither parent with me. But after an accident, I was offered up to a man who should never have crossed my path. To get revenge and see justice done, I
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One Short Tragic Romance Story a Day 一天一个短篇虐文故事
A Collection of Tragic Short Stories: Every Word Bleeds, Every Line Leaves You Aching One devastatingly heartbreaking short story every day! Modern-day missed chances intertwine with sorrows from ancient times, along with bone-deep pain drawn from true stories. These tales lay bare life’s regrets, every word striking straight to the heart until it hurts to read! If you finish without being moved, I’ll call you my “ancestor.” Come take on this lingering ache!
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Little Junior Sister Sobs and Pouts, Yet One Sword Destroys Heaven and Earth 小师妹哭哭唧唧，但一剑毁天灭地
After transmigrating into a book, Ye Linglong becomes the vicious cannon-fodder villainess in a cultivation novel. With terrible aptitude, she even coerces the heroine into taking her into the top sect during the Cultivation Tournament. After joining, she opposes the heroine at every turn and eventually dies a miserable death. To enjoy a long, happy life, Ye Linglong immediately gives up on coercing the heroine and turns around to join the worst sect in the cultivation world. She’s done being th
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Dawn Within the Cage 樊笼内的破晓
Some people are born trapped in a cage. Invisible barriers, woven from the soil of one’s upbringing, the path laid out in advance, the constraints of one’s surroundings, the cocoon of one’s perceptions, and the shackles of morality, build a cold, solid cage that holds her captive. She is raised within it, as if this were all life could ever be. If she does not awaken, if she does not save herself, the ending is clear: the cage will silently devour her, and she will vanish in a slow death. Yet de
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I Love You in Heaven 我在天堂说爱你
The day I tried on wedding dresses with my boyfriend of ten years, he suddenly disappeared halfway through. When we met again, he had somehow become someone else’s husband and father. I left in anger, but he never tried to stop me. It wasn’t until my wedding day that a woman showed up with a child and found me,
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After Everyone Got a Bad Ending, the Worlds Merged 全员be后，世界融合了
The Ex-Wife-Chasing Crematorium Blurb: Yan Mo, an ordinary young man, is whisked away by a conquest System and somehow becomes someone else's beloved wife. A complete novice who has never been in love, he diligently learns how to love someone. Other people rely on their acting skills to win someone over. He relies on sincerity. All his efforts and sacrifices, all his waiting and affection, earn him nothing but ruthless abandonment. At last, utterly disillusioned, Yan Mo loses his temper. He's do
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Deep in Love, Yet Unaware 情深且不知
[Tragic Romance] He was the man who killed my father, and I hated him with all my heart. In the end, I discovered I had hated the wrong person. The daughter of a bandit chief happened to save a scholar, and from then on, she gave him her heart. But her wedding night became the night her family was slaughtered. Her beloved, once the person closest to her, had become her father's killer! He was an emperor, cold and indifferent. He unexpectedly fell in love with her, yet could only push her further
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Loving You with My Life: 20 Fated Romances That Break Your Heart 拿命爱你：20段痛到心碎的宿命虐恋
[Love and hate intertwined + beautiful yet tragic heroine + palace intrigue + historical romance + heart-wrenching love + short stories] The world turns and tumbles, while the histories of old hold up a mirror. So many beauties once had their hearts broken over a promise, only to become tragic ballads of a turbulent age. From Chen Ajiao, kept in a gilded cage, to the incomparable Xishi; from Wang Yourong, a wife who weathered hardship alongside her husband, to Feng Xiaolian, whose allure lasted
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The Lotus Fragrance Fades in Autumn 1 红藕香残玉簟秋1
[Addictive sweet-and-angsty historical romance + political intrigue + dramatic twists + an emperor’s love + past and present lives + mad, devoted hero] Yuan Jiu was born in the Heavenly Prison and has been plagued by nightmares since birth. In her dreams, there is always a dashing young man racing through a raging inferno. He gallops toward her, murderous intent surging from him, and a three-foot sword pierces her chest. She has died countless times in her dreams, yet she has never been able to
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Spring Grief in the Western Palace: Whose Heart Has Fate’s Splendor Left Cold? 西宫春怨：命途繁锦冷了谁人心
The sorrowful women who emerged from behind the beaded curtains wept for all they longed for but could never have, all they begged for but could never reach. Their tears smudged their makeup and aged their faces. Year after year, their silk brocades faded, until they hardened like cocoons and their hearts turned to ash… The palace walls were red, richer than the last glow of sunset. Deep courtyards could never lock away the breeze from a maiden’s round fan. Women carried so much sorrow. Beneath
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Butterfly Shadows Return to Dust: Sold into Prostitution by My Mother-in-Law, My Ex-Husband Searched for Me for Ten Years 蝶影归尘：被婆母卖入风尘，前夫寻了我整整十年
The Butterfly’s Shadow Returns to Dust: Sold into a Life of Vice by My Mother-in-Law, My Ex-Husband Searched for Me for Ten Years
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Zhaozhao 昭昭
I found out that Ji Jingyuan had taken a woman from the brothel as his wife only after their child had already been born. At the temple, a friend asked him how he planned to explain it to me. He only sneered. “Men taking wives and concubines is perfectly natural. She has no right to demand an explanation from me.” “But Zhaozhao is jealous. Don’t tell her yet, or her vicious heart might make her go after my son.” He and I had been childhood sweethearts. Three years ago, I went to the temple to pr
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Please Love Me Openly 求你明恋我
[The print edition is now available. Search for A Confession I Couldn’t Hide to get a signed copy] [Roguishly handsome, irresistible Jin Zhuo x sweet, alluring Qin Yingxia] [Both Pure + College Romance + Secret Crush Becomes Mutual + Sweet Romance + Light Ensemble Cast] Qin Yingxia had been secretly in love with Jin Zhuo for seven years. She worked as hard as she could to get into Imperial University, all so she could be a little closer to him. On the first day of school, she accidentally took t
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Meeting You Made the Rest of My Life Sweet and Warm 遇见你，余生甜又暖
[Featured on the Chinese Online Literature Influence List; published in print; short drama now streaming] [Both are each other's first and only love + two top students + sweet romance + plot-driven + happy ending] In Song Xiaonuan's eyes, Yan Chuxing is a flawless piece of jade, perfect in every way. But she was the one who ended their relationship. Proud yet restrained, he bottled up all his feelings when he realized nothing could change the outcome. His voice was cool and distant as he said, “
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Into the Wild 见野
[The print edition is now available] Xia Wanwan died suddenly after spending twenty years tightening screws at a factory. To her surprise, she was reborn. But why had the factory director's son from her previous life shown up in this one? Jiang Ye, the big shot at No. 1 High School, had somehow taken an interest in Xia Wanwan. Everyone thought Xia Wanwan had offended Jiang Ye and that her days were about to get rough. At last, one day, Jiang Ye and Xia Wanwan got into a huge argument, and he
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Wild Girl 野女孩
Six years ago, she was abducted and taken to a remote village. Six years later, she nearly found herself forced into marriage. With her life on the line, she risked everything to escape the countryside and make it back to the city. But waiting for her were the cold-blooded parents who had sent her away with their own hands, and an adopted younger sister with no blood ties to the family. After enduring six years of captivity and being abandoned by her own parents, she fights alone to reclaim ever
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Hidden Affection 潜藏爱意
[Reunion After a Breakup / Reunited After Years Apart / School Romance First, City Romance Later / Happy Ending / Both Leads Are Sexually Inexperienced] [Devoted, Possessive, Privileged Young Man vs. Resilient Small-Town Girl] The first time Jiang Tingwu met Qi Shen was one morning after the start of her second year of high school. The boy had sharply defined features and a tall, straight figure, with an air of distant coolness about him. In the 0.1 seconds their eyes met, Jiang Tingwu hurriedly
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The Wild Dog Swallows the Moon 野狗吞月
[Rich Heiress X Poor Guy] [Opposites attract + healing + mutual flirting + comedy] Cen Miao is a bona fide rich heiress. Her biggest worries in life are that she doesn’t understand poverty and that she can’t find a man to her liking. That is, until she meets Cheng You. She first met Cheng You seven or eight years ago. He was her friend’s tutor and a student representative at a prestigious university. She saw him give an industry presentation in a lecture hall packed with thousands of people, and
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Songs of the Listening Wind Tower 听风楼歌
Why does Xiangju run a business that only loses money and never makes a profit? She treats relationships just as carelessly, elbowing her way to the top of the airport’s Twelve Most Beautiful Women. She has Hong Zhi and Brother Gen fighting over her in a jealous brawl, and instead of being ashamed, she’s proud of it. After her eldest daughter gets into a prestigious university, she works hard and becomes independent. She tutors and models cars in her spare time, and accompanies her professor to
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I Am a Scout: Zhan De 我是侦察兵一一湛德
I’m a Scout: Zhan De
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The Super Son-in-Law 超级上门女婿
Ye Fan, a useless live-in son-in-law, accidentally inherits the Taiji Scripture and the Stone of Life and Death, setting him on a very different path in life. He saves beautiful women with his medical skills and slays enemies with his martial arts. Not only does he overcome the scorn and ridicule of others and win his wife's heart, he also rises to the pinnacle of the world, looking down on all creation.
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The Ultimate Live-In Son-in-Law 最强上门狂婿
By chance, Ye Feng becomes the husband of Tian Nan’s number-one beauty and the live-in son-in-law of its most powerful family. He thinks he’ll finally enjoy a happy life with a wife and children at his side, but things don’t go as planned. So I’ll just have to rely on myself...
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The Divine Doctor's Daughter 神医嫡女
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
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The Emperor's Pursuit: His Genius Little Treasures and Billionaire Wife 帝少追缉令，天才萌宝亿万妻
On the night of her twentieth birthday, her twin sister sent her to the bed of a strange man. She became pregnant before marriage, and her father called her shameless and threw her out of the house. She became a laughingstock throughout the capital. Then her adorable twins were born, and her sister took the boy and rose to become Mrs. Li. Everything that should have belonged to her was stolen away. Three years later, she returned with her adorable child, only to discover that her sister's son lo
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The Strongest Upgrade System 最强升级系统
Have you ever seen someone kill a chicken and get a divine bloodline? Have you ever seen someone kill a toad and get a divine-grade martial art? Have you ever seen the whole world go crazy over one man? With a Dragon-Slaying Saber on my shoulder and a Sword of the Gods in my hand, I've got one question: “Damn it, who else?” The shut-in Long Fei transmigrated with an overpowered System. Kill monsters to level up, kill people to level up too. Crush the Three Realms and smash anyone who dares defy
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My Family Can Hear My Thoughts and Goes on a Killing Spree, While I Just Focus on Feeding 全家偷听我心声杀疯了，我负责吃奶
The Red Fruit short drama adaptation of My Whole Family Hears My Thoughts: Fu Bao Chaochao is now open for reservations! Please show it lots of support and give it a follow! [Whole-family mind reading + cannon fodder + beloved by the whole family + powerful figure transmigrates into a book + play the pig to eat the tiger + feel-good story] Lu Zhaozhao transmigrated into a book. She became a cannon-fodder character who was drowned at birth, while the heroine stole her identity. The heroine turned
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My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant 我的26岁女房客
After a wild night at a bar, a beautiful woman pinned him with a paternity claim, and the down-and-out young man suddenly became a father. As if things weren't bad enough, the owner of his rented home changed, and he was about to be kicked out. But his new landlady was beautiful! Should he ask to share the place? She coolly gave him a single word: “Get out!” A romantic entanglement sparked by a housing problem.
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Gathering Dust: BL Collection 揽尘【BL合集】
Two male leads, a collection of short stories First person, shou’s perspective Collection One: After Sunset Transmigration, futuristic fantasy I transmigrated into the future, only to discover I had already been there for a long time. Open ending Collection Two: Worship the Serpent Ancient setting, supernatural beings After worshipping a god, I became the object of its obsession. Happy ending Collection Three: Encountering a Ghost Modern setting, supernatural The person I took in turned out t
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