Looking for Tragic Stories of Utter Despair and Inescapable Predicaments 想要那种虐文，就是彻底的绝望，彻底的困局。

1. 1 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

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   These four books can be said to be the most sadistic books on Tomato. I cried every time I read them [almost crying]

2. 2 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
3. 3 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
4. 4 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
5. 5 周 Dr. Zhou's White Moonlight Is Dying 周医生的白月光快死了 Ten-Line Que十行阙Two Male Leads219k WordsCompleted [Fragile, ill bottom VS cold, aloof top] [Heart-wrenching angst + mutually exclusive devotion, 1v1 + bad ending + extreme bottom fans, beware] Wen Ci had terminal stomach cancer. The doctor said he had at most thirty days left, and Wen Ci could live those thirty days for Zhou Ying. But Wen Ci died on the twenty-seventh day. After his death, Wen Ci left behind twenty-seven unread letters, a rabbit, a book, and a crushed red maple leaf. 20.5kReads9.3Score3.4kShelves

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   Two male protagonists, super sadistic

6. 6 身 With a Terminal Illness, I Heal the Whole World with My Songs 身患绝症的我，用歌治愈全世界 Old-Age Rice Scoop老年饭勺Urban442k WordsCompleted [Slice of life + entertainment + System + healing + livestreaming + redemption + one heroine] At just eighteen, Wen He is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. A System descends and binds itself to him: “Set Sail for Your Dream.” Even though he grew up in a cold and unfeeling family, and even as illness ravages his body, Wen He still heals everyone with his songs. Having been caught in the rain himself, he wants to hold an umbrella over others. His song “The Good Things of This World Are Intertwi 11.8kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves

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   The protagonist in the first book has some evil points, but he is very good-looking. Please read the second book, Yandere

7. 7 逃 Failed Escape! Imprisoned as the Demon Lord’s Disciple 逃跑失败！沦为魔尊徒弟的阶下囚 Ling Ge苓歌Ancient Romance431k WordsCompleted [Mutual Firsts + Female Master, Male Disciple + Unhinged Yandere + Corruption and Imprisonment + She Runs, He Chases + Love Rivals + Groveling Chase] The moment Shen Qingli transmigrated into a book, her unhinged disciple imprisoned her! Knowing the original owner's fate was to be chained to a bed by the male lead, tortured day after day and violated night after night, Shen Qingli resolved to fight back and defy fate! While other masters pampered their disciples, she killed and tormented hers. S 3.5kReads8.6Score266Shelves
8. 8 阴 By a Twist of Fate, I Became the Young Master’s Personal Maid 阴差阳错，我成了少爷的贴身女仆 Three-Dog Fish三狗鱼儿Modern Romance324k WordsCompleted The short drama The Unexpected Turn: I Became the Boss's Maid is now streaming [Dominant, obsessive male lead + forced romance + intense, tantalizing tension + mutual healing] What Li Qingqing regretted most was probably selling her first time to Lu Yan, only to accidentally end up working as his housekeeper. From then on, the wheels of fate began to turn. After one passionate night together, the man developed a taste for her, and with her living so close, he kept coming back to her night after 4.6kReads8.9Score425Shelves
9. 9 最 The Last Diary Entry 最后一篇日记 Sui Ying随楹Modern Romance13k WordsCompleted [Simplified Chinese edition signed for publication] I only used looking at the flowers as an excuse. All I really wanted was to see you once. 26.3kReads9.1Score4.9kShelves
10. 10 三 Three Feet of Spring 三尺春【王嘉懋、李十七主演 短剧同名原著小说热播中！！！】 Evergreen and Everwhite长青长白Ancient Romance371k WordsCompleted The captivating beauty Li Shuwan, whose background is shrouded in mystery × the aloof, proud General Li Fengyuan, hard-mouthed but soft-hearted Ancient romance + premium novel + one-on-one romance + both leads' first love + sweet romance + mutual devotion + palace intrigue + simmering tension + secret crush + age gap + reunion after years apart When she was seven, Li Shuwan was brought back from the countryside to the General's Mansion, becoming Li Fengyuan's relative in name only. Knowing her 22.3kReads9.4Score3kShelves
11. 11 我 I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score188.4kShelves

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    Just look at it.

12. 12 宗 Every Sect Wants to Kill Me, So I Just Reload After Death! 宗门都想噶我，我直接死亡回档！ Chao Lianyun巢怜云Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Transmigrated into a Book + Villainess + Death Rewinds Time + Eldritch Cultivation + Unhinged + Quirky Style] Lu Xiaojin transmigrated into a book, becoming the lovesick senior apprentice sister in a cultivation novel where everyone falls for the heroine. She kept fighting the heroine for men and ended up dying horribly. No problem. She wasn't stupid. She knew how the plot went, so she could avoid trouble, stay away from the men, and survive. But! Can someone tell her why her junior apprentice 26.5kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves

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    This 🤗🤗🤗🤗

13. 13 我 My Readers Span Three Thousand Worlds 我的读者遍布三千世界 Turtles Go with Mung Beans王八配绿豆Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Reborn] [System] [Wish fulfillment] [Face-slapping] [Secret identity] [Everyday life] [No romance] Li Wenshu, a top author in the online fiction world, died suddenly after writing all night. The System sold everything it had to send her back to when she was sixteen. It was an era when neither entertainment nor the internet was very developed. Faced with the three thousand worlds of books in the System’s storage space, Li Wenshu rubbed her chin and sighed, “Dying suddenly was worth it!” A suspe 14.1kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves

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    [Rebirth] [System] [Shuangwen] [Slap in the face] [Waistcoat] [Daily] [No cp] Li Wenshu, the great author in the Internet literary circle, died suddenly while coding all night long.

14. 14 前 Infamous in My Past Life, I’ll Divorce and Become Everyone’s Beloved in This One 前世臭名昭著，今生和离当白月光 Lu Li路鲤Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Su Mingzhuang had skin as fair as snow, a face as beautiful as a flower, and a soft, delicate charm that made her stunningly alluring. She had the looks every man coveted, but her parents had spoiled her rotten, turning her into a spoiled, willful, lawless hellion whom everyone avoided. By chance, the young and handsome Duke of Anguo rescued her, and she became dead set on marrying him. She even fabricated a story about being molested, ruining the reputation of the virtuous Duke of Anguo. After 56.9kReads8.9Score12.7kShelves
15. 15 被 Forced to Love the Man Who Never Thought Much of Me in My Past Life 被上辈子看不上自己的人强制爱了 Bai Ling, Who Loves Chilled Okra爱吃凉拌黄秋葵的白灵Ancient Romance418k WordsCompleted [Powerful coercion + forced love + groveling pursuit + status gap + ancient nobility + rebirth] In her previous life, Ning Zhi lived an ordinary, unremarkable life full of regrets. Of all the grudges and grievances she could count, her greatest regret was scheming to marry Prince Rong, Yin Ceyan, and clinging to the highest branch in Wangjing. No one in Wangjing knew that the two of them had once been acquainted. Back then, she suffered endless torment at home and pinned all her hopes of escapin 491Reads5.6Score—Shelves
16. 16 虐 I'll Make You Suffer, No Questions Asked! 虐你没商量！ Zi Qing Qing子青卿Ancient Romance169k WordsOngoing Could you fall in love with someone who tortures you? He'll torment you until you're reduced to scraps, then realize he likes the taste of your scraps and come back to force you into loving him. He's powerful, and you can't run or hide from him. He'll force you to give birth to a hundred cubs, and every one of them will be your weakness. At least you have a powerful adopted son, though you see him as your child while he sees you as nourishment. Maybe you should pick the adopted son instead. Apar —Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 17 小 Auntie? Just How Many of Your Men Am I, Your Majesty? 小舅妈？朕究竟是你的第几个男人 Returning to Cross the Luo River归渡洛水Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Reborn, everyone’s favorite, a battlefield of romantic rivals, strong heroine, sexually experienced] In her previous life, Jiang Wan was trapped in the Xie family’s household for ten years by love, and ultimately met a tragic end. Reborn, she decided to live differently. So what if Xie Qianyan was the most handsome man around? He was cold and heartless, with a heart hard as stone. If she couldn’t warm it, she didn’t want it. When her sisters scrambled to climb into Xie Qianyan’s bed, she helped 2.6kReads8.6Score387Shelves
18. 18 她 She Went to Another World as a Man: Mad, Cold, and Ruthless 她去异界当男人，疯批冷酷且无情 Yue Xi Zhi月兮之Ancient Romance567k WordsCompleted Disguised as a man + invincible heroine + multiple couples + romance + men getting their hearts broken She possessed astonishing strength at its peak, an indestructible body bound by the laws of the world, and even a supposedly perfect body that was both male and female, bestowed upon her by the heavens. Yet the Heavenly Dao severed every romantic bond she had... Would she rekindle her fate with the beloved from her previous life? Or choose the disciple who had loved her for three lifetimes? Or 42Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 19 谁 What Kind of Master Chases After His Disciple? 谁家师尊追着徒弟跑啊 Twelfth Month 23腊月23Two Male Leads534k WordsCompleted Try the new novel, If I Weren't So Insecure When I Was Young, I'd Have a Whole Harem of Husbands [Mutually devoted couple; carefree, clueless bottom × seemingly aloof but actually unhinged, scheming top] Driven by his own selfish desires, Shen Xuhuai broke his master's pure-yang constitution and forced him into marriage. His master lost all his cultivation and died when his body exploded. Shen Xuhuai himself met a gruesome end. Reborn, he knew his master, Cheng Sangxiu, hated him to the core, so 2.9kReads8.2Score391Shelves
20. 20 微 A Guiding Glimmer, So We Won't Walk Alone 微光引路，前行不孤 Nan Fu南福20k WordsCompleted A faint light shows the way, so the journey is not a lonely one 1.7kReads—Score106Shelves
21. 21 病 Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春 Sweet Melon甜甜的瓜Ancient Romance476k WordsCompleted [Print edition now available] Sang Nian accidentally climbs into the world of cultivation and becomes the vicious supporting female character who meets a tragic end in the book. System: Your mission is to marry the male supporting character, Xie Chenzhou, abuse him, humiliate him, and then get killed by him. Sang Nian: OK (brandishes little whip) (hits herself) (collapses with a thud) System: (silence) (stares at the sky) System: Mission changed. Win him over, or go mine coal. Sang Nian: (smiles 241.5kReads9.5Score36.1kShelves
22. 22 道 Fellow Daoist! That Thief Has Written Another Book 道友！那贼子她又写新书了 Three or Four Times三四番Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [Cultivation + ensemble cast + no romance + divination cultivator + light literary borrowing] What do you do when you transmigrate to the cultivation world and are about to starve to death?! I’ve just arrived in the cultivation world, fresh off a mule. Thanks for asking: of course I’ll write stories to make money! . Her quest for immortality could wait. One book, After My Spiritual Root Was Destroyed, I Became the Immortal Venerable’s First Disciple, made her famous. Zhu Wuyou thought she could 10.8kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves
23. 23 修 A Massive Role-Playing Game in the Cultivation World 修仙世界大型角色扮演 Just a Minor Fatal Injury区区致命伤罢了Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [A silly, ensemble-cast story] (Not suitable for audiobooks) It's miserable to transmigrate to the cultivation world and be forced to play a female supporting character from a book. But when a whole group transmigrates to the cultivation world and has to put on a show to fool the locals, things get chaotic. · Shu You is forced to play the annoying, reckless, useless female supporting character in the protagonist's group. So everyone starts noticing that the troublesome junior sister, who only ev 1.5kReads8.9Score342Shelves
24. 24 影 The Movie Emperor Keeps Trying to Make a Move on Me 影帝他总想对我图谋不轨 An Suiyu安随遇Modern Romance321k WordsCompleted Shen Yi, stage name Wei Long, was an actor of superstar caliber who took the world by storm in the 1970s. But after he disappeared one day, he vanished from history without a trace, as if he had never existed. One day, Rong Qian spotted a photo of herself with Shen Yi, taken more than thirty years ago... This incredible discovery sent her on journey after journey through time, transmigrating into the past to save him! For Rong Qian, only a few days passed between each trip to the past. But for S 38.6kReads9.7Score5.8kShelves

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    Highly recommended [crying][crying][crying][crying]

25. 25 异 City of Beasts 异兽迷城 Peng Pai彭湃Urban3.0M WordsCompleted [The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 473.2kReads9.7Score73.9kShelves

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    Some friends, some, I have 7 books like this. Book 8 is super nice. But if you want to be the author, I recommend the 1.2.3.4 Book

26. 26 火 The Ruins on Mars Are Revealed: The Thirteen Loyal Sons 火星遗迹曝光，忠烈十三子 Suanni Roars狻猊咆哮Sci-Fi & Apocalypse478k WordsCompleted In 2066, a scientific research base is completed on Mars, and researchers head to Mount Olympus to collect data. On the far side of the mountain, a dust-covered battlefield comes into view. The wreckage of shattered warships. Giant steel mechs. A massive head buried in the dust. And a familiar red flag, standing tall on a platform at the very center of the far side of the mountain. What kind of battle took place here? Blood had congealed into fortresses, shattered, then congealed once more! It w 31.8kReads9.5Score3.2kShelves
27. 27 从 Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 200.5kReads9.6Score24.4kShelves
28. 28 我 My Wife's World 我妻世界 Why Say So Much何必言深Urban2.4M WordsCompleted When worlds descend and the world itself is threatened, no one can stay out of it! Biological anomalies! Climate anomalies! Geological anomalies! Anomalies in the laws of nature! All anomalies must be eliminated! Become the world’s [white blood cells] and devour them! The West: “I will protect our world!” The East: “We will protect our shared home!” Zhang: “I will protect my wife!” Everyone: “???” [Comedic and lighthearted] [Includes hand-drawn monster illustrations] 34.6kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
29. 29 一 A Blossom, A Cup of Wine, An Immortal Life 一花一酒一仙人，亦眠亦醉亦长生 Eat a Billion Less少吃亿点Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [This book is also known as The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring] [The print edition of The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring goes on sale at 7 p.m. on November 15!] [Immortality + taking disciples + no female lead + lighthearted comedy, no tearjerkers] When your master serves food, you spin the table; when your master chants a spell, you chatter away. When your master rests, you sing; when your master sleeps in, you bang on a pot. Your master is immortal, but your life is short; your master 224.5kReads9.5Score25.7kShelves
30. 30 原 Genshin Impact: Storytelling in Liyue Harbor Leaves Hu Tao in Tears 原神：璃月港说书，胡桃泪目 Ten Thousand Words a Day万字更新Anime Fanfiction2.3M WordsCompleted [A hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, bringing Hu Tao to tears] There were no twin [Raiden sisters]. It was only a cliched story made up by the dying Thunder Demon. There was no free-spirited [bards]. It was merely the wind becoming a boy's eyes, seeing the world beyond the tower for him. There was no immortal [zombie Qiqi]. It was just the dying old man's humble plea, heard by a god. Li Mo had lived a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation in Genshin Impact. He only had one final life's task left 6.2kReads9.5Score929Shelves
31. 31 原 Genshin Impact: The Vision Shines Again 原神：神之眼再度亮起 What Do You Call a Story?你说故事是什么Anime Fanfiction1.0M WordsCompleted Mu Xian Gunnhildr, eldest son of Mondstadt’s ancient knightly family. His natural gentleness led Mu Xian to treat everyone around him with kindness, and his resolve to save others crystallized into a brilliant Vision. But the world’s rejection soon followed. Indifference, malice, and exploitation for ulterior motives: it seemed no one cared about Mu Xian. The erosion wore away his gentleness, and his Vision grew completely dim. The moment his soul merged with the ley lines, the contract he had s 5.1kReads8.8Score520Shelves

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