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1. 1 以 I Offer My Devotion to the Passing Years 以我深情祭岁月 Er Qiao二乔Modern Romance324k WordsCompleted [The physical book with the same title is now available] “I hesitated once. I turned back to face the slightest glimmer of hope, yet no one cared.” “Later, a thick fog rolled in. You said you loved me so much, but why was your love thinner than the fog, so faint I could barely see it?” Shen Nian 71.8kReads9.4Score6.4kShelves

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   Super sadistic, super sadistic, the heroine is depressed

2. 2 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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   Abuse! Hope you like it

3. 3 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 89.5kReads9.7Score14.9kShelves
4. 4 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. 27.1kReads9.1Score5.1kShelves
5. 5 反 Reverse Domestication 反向驯化 The Little Monster Who Ran Away from Home离家出走的小怪兽Modern Romance481k WordsCompleted [Possessive pursuit] + [groveling redemption arc]~ At the beginning, Shen Qingye said: “Meng Wanning, in this world, there’s nothing I can’t get if I want it.” “There was no road until I made one. You’ll walk whichever road I give you.” Back then, he never imagined that one day he would bow his proud head and kneel humbly before Meng Wanning. “I’m the one who hurt you, not the baby. Ningning, if you hate someone, hate me. Don’t abort the child.” Much later, someone asked Shen Qingye, “When 2.1kReads8.0Score101Shelves

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   Just by looking at the name, you can tell that this book is quite cruel.

6. 6 我 After I Gave My Life for My Country, My Brothers Broke Down 我献身国家后，哥哥们崩溃了 As Vigorously as Fire如火如荼19k WordsCompleted After I gave my life for my country, my brothers fell apart 19.3kReads—Score448Shelves
7. 7 重 Reborn, Yaoyao, Love Me One More Time 重生之窈窈再爱我一次 Big Niu Bao大牛宝Ancient Romance307k WordsCompleted Xie Lingyao and Jiang Shiqi were married for ten years. It took just three years to go from treating each other with respect to being sick of the sight of one another. The remaining seven years were filled with nothing but coldness and neglect. After enduring her husband's betrayal, her son's estrangement, her mother-in-law's mistreatment, and the death of her loyal servant, her heart turned to ashes. She let the waters of a pond take her life. But when she woke again, she found herself back at 10.7kReads8.8Score1.1kShelves
8. 8 他 If Someday We Share a Snowfall, Then in This Life We Have Shared Our Graying Years 他朝若是同淋雪，此生也算共白头 Life Is but a Dream浮生如梦Modern Romance12k WordsCompleted I died. I was hit by a car. How long have I been dead? I can't remember. Probably a few decades. Ever since I died, I've been drifting around in front of my tombstone. Honestly, I never expected this to happen after I died. We'd promised to spend the rest of our lives together, but sometimes an accident comes before tomorrow. Watching him stand at my grave, crying, I can't help remembering the moment we first met. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 9 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. 20.6kReads9.3Score3.4kShelves

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   It's pretty cruel, you can try it

10. 10 全 After Everyone Got a Bad Ending, the Worlds Merged 全员be后，世界融合了 Courtyard of Still Water止水之庭Two Male Leads463k WordsCompleted 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 3.1kReads8.1Score424Shelves

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    These books all feel quite sad. The protagonists in each book have their own stories, and the plot is really sad. When I read the ending, I realized that it was really difficult for everyone. The more I read, the more heartbroken I felt, and the more I wanted to cry.

11. 11 快 Quick Transmigration: The Wife-Chasing Crematorium Burns Out of Control 快穿，追妻火葬场烧大了 vionoirModern Romance600k WordsCompleted [Quick Transmigration] [No CP] [A Real Regret-and-Redemption Arc] [Taking Down Scumbags] [Powerhouse] System 48: Host, the regret-and-redemption arc isn't an excuse to fan the flames and make things worse... We need a happy ending. An Yue: Heh. System 48: The mission! The mission comes first! An Yue: Heh. System 48: There'll be a punishment! An Yue: Go ahead and kill me. System 48: ... Note: The regret-and-redemption arcs end badly. Happy endings are practically nonexistent. [World One: A Love 313Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 12 快 Quick Transmigration: The Ordinary Passerby in a World of Mary Sues' Guide to Slacking Off 快穿之万人迷路人甲摆烂攻略指南 Ze Le则乐Ancient Romance2.8M WordsOngoing [Everyone's Favorite + A Useless College Student's Slacker-Style Conquest + Wild Imagination + No Fixed Male Lead + Love at First Sight] The hopeless Yu Qiao gets bound to a brand-new conquest System. Watching the System confidently tell her to conquer high-quality men in different worlds, Yu Qiao smiles. She thinks it's time to show the System what college students are really capable of. World One: She becomes a doomed palace consort who is bestowed upon a cuckolded man in a story about a ruler 106.6kReads9.0Score8.6kShelves
13. 13 我 I'm Trying My Best to Die in This Torture Novel 我在虐文里努力求死 A Useless Woman一枚没用的女子Ancient Romance914k WordsCompleted A Lan is a newcomer to the White Moonlight Group for quick-transmigration angst novels. Her task each time is to die by the end of the story so the male and female leads can live happily together. She has always thought she did a great job, and every rating from her System, Qi Wu, has been above SSS rank. But maybe she did too good a job: after she dies, the male and female leads end up either strangers or acquaintances. That's not right. A Lan can't figure it out, but she still has to carry out 2.1kReads8.7Score106Shelves
14. 14 快 Quick Transmigration: Why Did the Male Lead Turn Evil After I Died? 快穿：我死后男主怎么黑化了 A Pot of Star Grass一盆星星草Ancient Romance600k WordsCompleted Shen Tangtang always thought she was as wishy-washy as her name, diligently serving as a stepping stone to pave the way for the male and female leads’ romance. Whenever the male lead was in trouble, she took the hit; whenever the female lead was in trouble, she took the burden. After dying countless times, she finally completed her mission and was about to get the rest she had long wished for, when the System showed up to tell her that all the male leads had turned evil. Shen Tangtang threw her 8.2kReads8.8Score330Shelves
15. 15 不 After I Quit Being a Substitute, I Eloped with My Ex's Sister 不做替身后，和前任她姐闪婚了 Pickled Cabbage and Beef Soup酸菜牛肉汤Urban432k WordsCompleted [A short drama adaptation is available. Search “Lin Che Qin Zhi” to watch] [Older sister steals her love + younger sister chases her husband after losing him + love triangle + married first, love later + one heroine] [Why does the newcomer come out on top? Because big sister fights for what she wants] After five years together, Qin Wei has grown used to Lin Che’s thoughtful care and endless compromises. She thinks Lin Che is her loyal dog, someone she can abandon, but who would never leave her o 47.3kReads9.3Score4.8kShelves
16. 16 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 85kReads9.6Score15kShelves

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    The first book: This ending is the ending of be. There is no intrigue, no contradiction, no green tea in the whole story. Even the only love rival fell in love with Jiang Qiao's tenderness. But it was Jiang Qiao who got the disease. The countdown to Xu Si's college entrance examination is the countdown to Jiang Qiao's death. Jiang Qiao died in the year when Xu Si loved her most. His little rose stayed at the age of 18 forever. It was midsummer when they met, and it was also midsummer when they parted. The second book: Just by the name, you can tell that this is a sadistic book. At the end of the story, Lu Ming married a person who looked very similar to her. Ye Feng married a person who had a very similar personality to her. But Lin Xu never knew that she was actually so powerful, so powerful that others would remember her for so long... What made me most uncomfortable was that Ye Feng approached the girl in the first place because he felt that the girl was very similar to Lin Xu. I accept that secret love cannot come true, but I can't accept that the male protagonist obviously likes the female protagonist. At that time, I didn't know that I liked the heroine.

17. 17 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 70.9kReads9.7Score12.8kShelves
18. 18 宫 The Willow by the Palace Wall 宫墙柳 Dream Doll梦娃Ancient Romance166k WordsCompleted Why must the imperial consorts compete for the emperor’s favor? A smash-hit, heart-wrenching historical romance that burst onto the scene in 2019! Recommended by countless tearful readers, this unconventional palace-intrigue novel will stay with you long after you finish. In the lightest of styles, it captures everyone’s deepest regrets. In May of the year I turned fourteen, with the pagoda trees in fragrant bloom, I sat in Yong’an Palace, propping up my head as I dozed. The man’s laughter held 55.9kReads9.7Score8.2kShelves

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    Illustrated guide for women in the deep palace: The cannibalistic red wall cannot eat the sincerity. The wise concubine was settling accounts for the family until her death, muttering "I never cooked for my parents" before she died; Concubine Wen embroidered the prosperity of the world, but the smiles of her eight sisters who died young were on the embroidery screen before her death; the queen ran out of oil at the age of twenty-five, and before she died, she grabbed Concubine Shu and shouted, "Auntie, Jiaojiao wants to go home." They gave each other snacks, embroidered wedding dresses together, and used warmth to fight against the coldness of the imperial power, but in the end they were crushed into a sentence in the history books: "Without heirs, they died." Emperor's love: the sweetest honey, the most poisonous blade. He left the house vacant for Yaoyao and stayed away from court for three days, but he also killed her whole family because of suspicion; He gave Xiao Liu'er thousands of honors and favors, but when she had a miscarriage, he said coldly: "You are young, you will always have more." He remembered the dead with deep affection and fed the people with cool things. In the end, everyone became a sacrifice of his love.

19. 19 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 20.8kReads9.6Score5.5kShelves

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    9.8 Points of abuse

20. 20 我 Deicide Learning In A Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.3M WordsCompleted A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 1.1MReads9.9Score179.9kShelves
21. 21 他 They Carved My Tombstone 他们为我刻好了墓碑 Rising Higher and Higher升升火火Modern Romance599k WordsCompleted [Angst before the payoff + real and fake heiresses + no forgiveness + the whole family pays dearly] Lin Qian is an orphan. Then one day, her wealthy parents find her and tell her she’s their biological daughter, the true heiress. She thinks she can finally enjoy a happy life with loving parents, but when she returns home, she discovers there’s also a fake heiress who is doted on by the family. To protect the fake heiress, her biological parents send Lin Qian to prison to take the blame. Five yea 21kReads8.2Score1.6kShelves

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    This book will definitely satisfy you! From being abused to rising up, the heroine was very energetic throughout the process, and she was tortured happily and thoroughly! Come and witness Lin Qian's counterattack together! 🚀

22. 22 还 I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死 Reclining in the North高卧北Urban169k WordsCompleted From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While 139.3kReads9.8Score15.9kShelves
23. 23 私 My Secret Beloved 私藏挚爱 Saintly Demon圣妖Modern Romance647k WordsCompleted Their relationship began without love, only tormenting one another. “If you’re tired of me, why do you keep coming back?” The man smiled. “Because I can’t find anyone to replace you. I’m tired of all those who throw themselves at me. I’ve missed you.” In this game of love, he was the conqueror, a ruthless predator. But when he finally met his match, he was destined to lose everything. 1.7kReads8.8Score147Shelves

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    "East Palace": This is the most classic book. Listening to the song will make you cry. The fox did not wait for his girl in the end, and Xiaofeng did not wait for Xiao Wu's hundred fireflies in the end. "Split Brocade": Love and hate intertwined, the entanglement of a wealthy family that is extremely sadistic. She is a down-and-out daughter, seeking revenge at every step; he is a ruthless CEO, controlling everything but unable to escape love. The two went from being used to deeply loving each other, but they drifted apart amid hatred and betrayal. Family feuds, business war intrigues, and emotional torn apart, every step is heartbreaking. When the truth is revealed, love has been shattered, leaving only an irreversible and sad ending. "Secret Desire": Robbery, chasing his wife in the crematorium. Nan Yejue's possessiveness towards Rong En is almost crazy. From conquest to fall, he presses on her step by step, but in exchange for her escape. In the entanglement of physical and mental abuse, he suffered all the consequences, and finally set foot on the crematorium to pursue his wife. When desire and sincerity collide, who can escape unscathed? "Mr. Li, Madam, her crime will not lead to death": Abuse of body and mind, intertwined love and hate. She was his wife in name only, but he regarded her as a sinner and tortured her until she was broken physically and mentally. Misunderstandings and hatred intertwined, and love was buried under pain. When she left decisively, he suddenly woke up and embarked on the road to pursue his wife. In the entanglement of physical and mental abuse, can love and redemption heal the scars?

24. 24 蚀 A Love That Cuts to the Bone 蚀骨危情 Qi Lao You淇老游Modern Romance753k WordsCompleted Xia Weiming died, and Shen Xiujin personally sent Jian Tong to a women’s prison. During her three years behind bars, Shen Xiujin’s order to “take good care of her” changed Jian Tong beyond recognition. She was even “persuaded to donate a kidney” while in prison. Before she went in, Jian Tong said, “I didn’t kill her.” Shen Xiujin remained unmoved. After her release, Jian Tong said, “I killed Xia Weiming. I’m guilty.” Shen Xiujin’s face turned livid. “Shut up! Don’t let me hear you say that again 100.2kReads9.2Score6.8kShelves

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    How could we not have these two books?

25. 25 爱 Falling for a Tough Girl From the Urban Village 爱上城中村女痞子 Rain Sends Dust雨送尘Urban221k WordsCompleted He's a country boy who made it big; she's a rich second-generation city girl. He's an honest man; she's a tough-talking tomboy. His defining traits are being poor and stubborn. He lives in a tiny room in an urban village, and at twenty-seven, he's still single. She's genuinely tough, with money, looks, and a whole group of young, beautiful bodyguards and girlfriends. They should never have crossed paths. But one chance late-night entanglement brought their fates together, and they fell in l 24Reads—Score—Shelves
26. 26 我 My 26-Year-Old Female Tenant 我的26岁女房客 Super Big Tank Kobe超级大坦克科比Urban2.1M WordsCompleted 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. 123.3kReads9.7Score13.8kShelves

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    Will you stop blowing up when you meet me, bro?

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