Modern and Historical Romance 现代古代言情

1. 51 你 You Cheated First, So Why Are You Crying Now That I'm Divorcing You? 你出轨在先，我离婚你哭什么 Jintang锦棠Modern Romance1.1M WordsOngoing The short drama adaptation, "Crimson Gardenia 2", is now open for reservations on Hongguo. Season One, "Crimson Gardenia", is available on Hongguo and Douyin. (Scumbag grovels to win his wife back + powerful male lead swoops in to claim her) (Clear-headed, strong female lead + aloof, secretly passionate heir) Wen Zhiyan has witnessed Shen Jihan’s devotion and experienced his betrayal. She keeps her feelings to herself and tricks him into signing the divorce papers. When the 30-day cooling-off pe 40.1kReads8.9Score3.5kShelves
2. 52 黑 The Dark Moonlight Is Full of Lies 黑月光她满口谎言 Wine-and-Meat Monk酒肉僧Modern Romance722k WordsCompleted Everyone's scheming + a supporting character awakens + adored by all + love-triangle chaos Ya Yin is reborn and discovers she's nothing but a cannon-fodder character in a campus romance novel. The plot had her die in a horrific car crash on a stormy night. Given another chance, the awakened cannon-fodder wants to collect a little interest for herself… But she soon gets entangled with three men at the very top of the social pyramid. She gets caught up in one melodramatic romance showdown after an 7kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
3. 53 又 So Sweet, So Alluring! The Tipsy Young Master Held Her Close and Coaxed Her All Night 又乖又欲！太子爷醉酒夜抱她轻哄 Tan Qingzhu檀青竹Modern Romance512k WordsCompleted [Print edition available] The deeply devoted, dangerously unhinged scion of a powerful family × the cool, fallen heiress [Originally titled "A Night of Desire in the Capital"] A pure-hearted socialite from Beijing's elite circle + a rekindled romance + an ex who will do anything to win her back + an older lover who takes the lead + falling for him all over again Jiang Wanzhi comes from a prestigious family and is known throughout the capital as a pure, well-behaved young woman. Few people know 117.8kReads9.4Score124.7kShelves
4. 54 渣 After Dumping Five Big Shots, I Became a Top-Tier Star and Flirtatious Sweetheart 渣了五个大佬后我成了顶流小撩精 Lu Linsen鹿林森Modern Romance290k WordsCompleted [Showbiz, everyone's darling, hilarious, five powerful men with very different styles] Su Jin transmigrates into a book and becomes a wealthy heiress with the same name and appearance as the original. The original has a peerless beauty, but a truly vile personality and character. She uses every trick in the book to seduce five top-tier handsome men with completely different styles, never realizing that not one of them is a pushover. In the end, she loses both her money and her life. After taking 470Reads9.0Score100Shelves
5. 55 钓 The Seductive Sweetheart Struggles to Survive in a Deadly Love Triangle 钓系娇娇小美人在修罗场求生 Sparkling Little Gold闪闪小金Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Signed for publication] All male leads are devoted to one woman | Ultimate love-triangle showdown | Flirtatious charmer trains men like dogs - [You are a foolish, shallow, and vicious supporting actress, jealous of the talented and universally adored heroine. You set out to target every man connected to her.] [You shoved the aloof villain onto a bed, and the brooding top student is kneeling in punishment in the bathroom.] [You drugged your proud peacock of a childhood friend and stuffed him in 47.2kReads9.4Score5.3kShelves
6. 56 我EN I'm Not a God of Theater 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 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves

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   As a crimson meteor streaks across the sky, humanity's proud technological civilization crumbles like a sandcastle. A gray fog engulfs the blue light of nuclear reactors, extinguishes the trails of rocket exhaust, and the world becomes a giant stage—where a mad actor, draped in a blood-stained red robe, sings the prelude to the apocalypse amidst the ruins of civilization. This is not a simple survival story, but an ultimate test of humanity and order. As the laws of physics begin to twist, as reinforced concrete turns to quicksand, only that figure, teetering on the edge of madness and lucidity, tears through the veil of chaos with his theatrical voice. He is the flower of evil blooming in the abyss, the crimson totem swaying on the ruins, and the last fragment of human civilization reflecting starlight. In this work that blends Cthulhu horror with Eastern eerie aesthetics, you will witness how a forgotten old stage becomes an altar for a new world, how rouge and powder paint a doomsday totem, and what kind of bloody storm will that casual "The show is about to begin" unleash on the tightrope of human destiny? Click to witness this bloody solo dance at the funeral of civilization—when the curtain falls, we will all be characters in the play.

7. 57 宗 At the Sect Tournament, I Dig Up My Bones and Cut Ties for Fun 宗门大会，我挖骨断亲助助兴 Soft and Subtle浅浅淡淡Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted Only after Jiang Shiyou died did she learn that she was the most tragic cannon-fodder character in a cultivation novel. And the female lead, a notorious heartbreaker, was her half-sister. Reborn into a second life, she returned to the moment her sister framed her and her parents and senior brothers joined forces to betray her, stabbing her in the back and pushing her out to take the blame. This time, in front of the entire sect, she dug out her own bones to repay her parents’ kindness and severe 15.3kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves

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   Every single one of them is quite good!

8. 58 美 Born Bad, the Beauty Is Doted on Obsessively by the Gods 美人天生坏种，众神病态邀宠 Ninefold Thousand Towers九方千阙Ancient Romance534k WordsCompleted Chu Weiliang was stunningly beautiful and a peerless cultivation vessel. She raised nine demon emperors who all had something wrong with them, and half the cultivation world had been linked to her in rumors. But she had always been fiercely independent and refused to live off her looks. That was, until she died and came back to life with a new master... Sword Lord Wen Shubai was handsome, of impeccable background, and fiercely protective of his own. He was also a patient and persuasive teacher. 8.2kReads9.2Score1kShelves
9. 59 闺 My Daughter's Words Become Law, and Her Mad Mother Lies Back and Becomes a God 闺女言出法随，癫娘躺赢成神 Hungry Goose大鹅饿饿Ancient Romance1.6M WordsCompleted Qin Youyou has an incomplete soul and is reborn as a good-for-nothing orphan in a fantasy world, with only a farming System to her name. She lives tucked away in a small mountain valley, until one day she returns to her family. She has to care for her deranged mother, feed her good-for-nothing older brother, and support her declining family. She rolls up her sleeves and keeps working hard to grow vegetables and feed her family. Until... Her useless older brother drinks her tea and smashes a hund 13.2kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
10. 60 逆 Defying Heaven's Cute Beast: The Peerless Demoness Rules the World 逆天萌兽：绝世妖女倾天下 First Day, Seeing the Moon初一见月Ancient Romance6.2M WordsCompleted [Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her 146.8kReads9.6Score18.9kShelves
11. 61 被 Driven to Death by Her Cultivator Mistress? I Take Up My Sword and Storm the Ninth Heaven 被修仙外室逼死？我提剑杀上九霄 Bian Lu边鹿Ancient Romance710k WordsCompleted [Power fantasy, a female lead who begins as a villain and turns righteous, no transmigration, no rebirth] Only when she was dying did Li Fu learn why she could never defeat her husband's mistress, Huayue. It turned out that beyond this world lay a realm of cultivation. Huayue had come from that realm. With Taoist magic at her command, there was no way Li Fu could ever beat her. Tortured, skinned, and dismembered, Li Fu was abandoned by everyone and died after enduring every kind of suffering. Ho 78.3kReads9.6Score10.3kShelves
12. 62 少 Young Marshal, Your Wife Has Run Away Again 少帅你老婆又跑了 Ming Yao明药Modern Romance5.4M WordsCompleted “My wife is a country girl. She doesn’t know anything about fashion, so don’t bully her!” the Young Marshal declared. The socialites and noble ladies whom the Young Marshal’s wife had completely overshadowed wanted to cry: Who was bullying whom, exactly? The Young Marshal added, “My wife is gentle and quiet. She doesn’t know anything about Chinese medicine or marksmanship!” The patients cured by his wife and the enemies she’d shot dead wondered: Young Marshal, are you blind? “My wife is tend 16.7kReads9.3Score2.3kShelves

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    When the cold-faced young marshal Si Xingpei meets the cunning female doctor Gu Qingzhou, a cat-and-mouse game filled with gunpowder and acupuncture needles unfolds. This Republican-era legend, created by Ming Yao, uses the guise of force and plunder to its core, a love story of equal strength, weaving a breathtakingly romantic tale amidst the chaos of power struggles. The heroine, Gu Qingzhou, is far from a traditional Mary Sue—she wields her medical skills, capable of both healing the sick and dismantling espionage-filled balls with her marksmanship. Facing her stepmother's schemes and the difficulties posed by socialites, she proceeds cautiously, using her wisdom to peel back the masks of hypocrisy, even using a secret letter to counter the warlord's wife, embodying the survival philosophy of "nothing to lose." Meanwhile, the young marshal Si Xingpei, outwardly domineering and autocratic, transforms into a loyal, goofy "husky" on his journey to win her heart, his stubbornness and soft heart while kneeling on a washboard creating a charming contrast. The novel skillfully blends traditional Chinese medicine culture with warlord espionage, creating a unique aesthetic of the Republican era through the clash of cheongsams and military uniforms, and the entanglement of Chinese medicine and gunpowder. Even more remarkable is the author's delicate portrayal of a group of women: from Gu Qingzhou's wisdom and courage to the independent awakening of supporting characters, all shine with female power amidst the chaos of war. If you're tired of formulaic sweet romances, this epic tale of a strong female protagonist, a blend of political intrigue, exhilarating moments, and profound depth, will surely give you a glimpse into the most passionate form of love amidst your heart-pounding excitement.

13. 63 桃 Ride Out to Battle, Peach Blossoms in My Wake 桃花马上请长缨 June六月Ancient Romance2.0M WordsCompleted The short drama adaptation of June's novel, Power and Favor 3: Power and Favor in the Capital, is now available on Hongguo App. She cared for her in-laws and used her dowry to support the General's household, only for him to use his hard-won military achievements to ask for the female general's hand as his equal wife. Zhan Beiwang mocked her. “Song Xixie, do you know that your fine clothes, rich food, and glittering jewels all come from General Yi Fang and me fighting bloody battles to hold back 15kReads9.5Score5.5kShelves

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    Song Xixi, once the daughter of a military family, willingly gave up her youthful beauty to serve her in-laws for her husband, Zhan Beiwang, even using her dowry to supplement the family's income, only to be betrayed. Zhan Beiwang, using his illustrious military achievements as a dowry, wanted to marry the female general as a concubine, belittling her for only being skilled in domestic affairs. Heartbroken, Song Xixi resolutely turned away, rekindling her former martial prowess, and rode off to the battlefield. There, she began a vibrant life with Xie Rumo.

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