Looking for a Tragic BL Story That Feels Despairing and Suffocating from Beginning to End 想要双男虐文 就是全文都透露着绝望和窒息的那种

1. 151 逃 My Elopement Failed, and the Ruthless Tycoon Kept Me as His Spoiled Pet 逃婚失败，被疯批大佬圈养宠坏 Mu Xianing牧夏宁Two Male Leads275k WordsOngoing [Dual Male Leads / Obsessive Coercive Romance / Eight-Year Age Gap / Happy Ending] [Long-Planning Madman of a Tycoon × Pure-Hearted Teenage Pianist] [Includes a secondary pairing] After an accident, Lin Zhixu’s parents died suddenly, leaving him all alone. Gu Yancheng, rejected by the entire Lin family, seized the chance to take him in while he was at his lowest. Using overwhelming force, Gu kept him by his side and forced him to register their marriage. Gu Yancheng’s obsession ran bone-deep, 887Reads6.4Score131Shelves
2. 152 沦 Reduced to a Plaything: The Mad Boss's Double Captivity 沦为玩物：疯批大佬的双重囚禁 Mu Xianing牧夏宁Two Male Leads330k WordsCompleted The rating just went live, so it’ll go up later. [Two male leads + coercive love + confinement] A City was the hunting ground of Huo Ye and Jiang Xiting, and Shen Mian and Mu Can were their most prized trophies. Huo Ye was so obsessive he had gone mad, keeping Shen Mian locked away in Yunding and taking him night after night. Jiang Xiting was a violent madman, locking Mu Can in the abyss and humiliating him as he pleased. The two caged songbirds found salvation in each other, huddling together f 16.4kReads8.4Score1.5kShelves
3. 153 霍 Mr. Huo, Your Wife Seems to Be at Death’s Door 霍总，夫人好像要不行了 His Majesty Has Arrived陛下驾到Two Male Leads276k WordsCompleted HE Huo Zeyun vs. Lin Yu Lin Yu did one thing wrong, and it haunted him for the rest of his life. He lived without distinction, plagued by illness, yet never dared to say no. Huo Zeyun had seen all the ways life could unfold. He hated Lin Yu for repaying kindness with betrayal, and he hated that he hadn’t been able to stay with Yan Qing. He and Lin Yu were entangled for a lifetime, unable to part or escape. (A different kind of forced love in an unconventional family? Well… maybe there’s no love. 33.2kReads7.4Score2.3kShelves
4. 154 丢 After I Abandoned My Childhood Friend, He Went Dark and Turned into a Vengeful Ghost 丢弃发小后，他阴湿爆发化身男鬼 Ke Xi珂西Two Male Leads215k WordsCompleted [Rating Just Posted, Angst First, Sweetness Later] [Two Male Leads + Gloomy Ghostlike Lover + Two Strong Leads + Taming + Younger Man + Mutual Secret Crush + HE + Mutual Salvation + Lovesick, Obsessive Pursuit] Jiang Xingyang had been in love with the boy for eight years. On the day he graduated from university, Jiang Xingyang hid the boy away. Those innocent, phoenix-shaped eyes looked at Jiang Xingyang with hurt. Jiang Xingyang said proudly, "This is your punishment for offending me." Later, a 2.3kReads8.4Score308Shelves

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   You should check out these books. If you can manage to finish the beginning, seriously, every single one of them is incredibly moving and will make you cry. I'll eat my hat if you don't! [Crying][crying]

5. 155 一 A Clear Stream in the Inkstone 一砚清溪 Eating a Popsicle在吃冰棒Two Male Leads231k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads + Both Pure + Groveling + Redemption + Rekindled Love + Happy Ending] [Proud, Sharp-Tongued, Scheming Top × Beautiful, Insecure Bottom Hated by Everyone] Everyone says Song Xichu is good for nothing but his pretty face and his knack for seducing people. Those who know him keep their distance. After his mother dies and his father remarries, Song Xichu is left with no one to rely on. Treated as a pawn for the family’s benefit, he clings to life in the Song household. He despises hi 1.1kReads8.1Score—Shelves

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   The first 11 are angst-filled stories, and the rest are stories of wives chasing after their husbands in vain; I think they're all quite heart-wrenching.

6. 156 直 A Straight Guy? Marry Him First, Chase Him Later 直男？先娶了，追妻以后再说 Bring on the Good Fortune and Money招财进宝钱你快来Two Male Leads253k WordsCompleted (Just started posting, currently in progress) [Two male leads + everyone is secretly ruthless + sinister, snake-like beauty top + younger long-haired lover + training a dog + forced love + regretful pursuit + happy ending] College student Jiang Ning joined the Cloud Snake stronghold for money. Pretending to be gentle, he tricked a young man into handing over a statue of a deity. But on the mountain road back to the city, the young man took him back to the stronghold and forced him into marriage! 1.5kReads8.4Score141Shelves
7. 157 卑 Quick Transmigration: The Humble Male Supporting Character Left, and He Regretted It 【快穿】卑微男配离开后他悔了 Fu Afafa福阿发发Modern Romance732k WordsCompleted Jiang Li is a veteran, lowly male supporting character in the quick transmigration bureau. To put it plainly, he’s the male lead’s lovesick sidekick, and the kind who ends up as cannon fodder. The job of a lowly male supporting character is simple: show the male lead unconditional affection, then either die or go mad. Either way, he’ll never have anything to do with the protagonist again. My master only wants to use me to make pills? Okay, I’m willing to give everything for you, Master. The prot 4.5kReads5.6Score317Shelves
8. 158 温 A Gentle Boyfriend, Pretty and Tearful, Yet a Brooding Ghost 温柔男友，貌美爱哭，但阴湿男鬼 Bring on the Good Fortune and Money招财进宝钱你快来Two Male Leads552k WordsCompleted (Just received a rating, working hard on the story) [Two male leads + gloomy beauty top + younger bottom + mildly terrifying and twisted + forced love + black-hearted beneath a sweet exterior + groveling ex’s redemption arc + bittersweet + happy ending] Jiang Ling finally returns to the tribe with Qi Mo. On the eve of their wedding, he discovers that his husband is a monster! Jiang Ling runs away from the wedding in the middle of the night. The young man who has lost his wife pleads in a hoarse 8.2kReads8.9Score1kShelves
9. 159 艳 Beauty Bone, Wolf Bait: The Wicked Beauty Only Wants Power and Prestige 艳骨饲狼：恶毒美人只想攀权附贵 A Forest in the Clouds and Mountains云山有林Two Male Leads234k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads + Alluring, Scheming Beauty as the Bottom + Rivalry for His Affection + Everyone Loves Him + Angsty Drama + Taming] Pei Xianxue is an unloved illegitimate son of the Pei family, and his life is precarious. Things become even harder after his mother dies. To escape his circumstances, he has no choice but to attach himself to the powerful. His target is his father's superior, the foremost chancellor in the realm. He wields immense power and is handsome, too. Surely he can pull Pei 907Reads—Score159Shelves
10. 160 强 Forced Love? How Can You Make a Pure Romance Out of a Brooding Yandere? 强制爱？阴湿病娇你怎么搞纯爱啊 Ke Xi珂西Two Male Leads251k WordsCompleted (The rating has only just been released, and I’m working hard on the chapters) [Two male leads + gloomy ghostly man + younger love interest + horror + angsty romance + yandere forced love + groveling redemption + happy ending] Qi Feihe didn’t like Jiang Shui at all. He only thought Jiang Shui had a miserable life, so he locked him up. The person Qi Feihe had always loved was the online friend known as “Little Fox.” He had secretly had a crush on Little Fox. But that fox was too pure for Qi Feihe 1.6kReads8.9Score162Shelves
11. 161 原 Turns Out I'm the Hated Cannon-Fodder Character 原来我是万人嫌炮灰 Maybe I Should Just Get a Job还是找个班上吧Two Male Leads116k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + devoted to one another] Lin Yu vs. Fu Yan'an After waking from a car accident, Lin Yu was astonished to discover that he was a character in a novel, and a universally hated cannon-fodder character at that. He thought bitterly, “No wonder everyone hates me.” The protagonist of the book was his younger brother, Lin Qing, who had been everyone's favorite since childhood. In the end, after offending Lin Qing, Lin Yu was sent to prison by the male leads working together. He bit his 2.2kReads—Score100Shelves
12. 162 倾 The Peerless Mute Empress 倾世哑后 Oh, Wind Lifts the Lotus风荷举哦Two Male Leads411k WordsCompleted [The groveling pursuit begins] A stunningly beautiful, soft-spoken mute × a domineering, cruel, violent emperor, a beast worse than an animal * Xie Chaoge was raised as a girl from childhood, dressed in pretty skirts and given beautiful hairstyles. After entering the palace as a consort, Xiao Jin orders him to wear the gorgeous dresses he bestows on him, holding him close as he coaxes him in a low, seductive voice: “Chaochao is the darling of my heart.” But later, Xie Chaoge finally understands 336Reads5.9Score—Shelves
13. 163 莫 The Wind From Moscow Can’t Reach Guizhou 莫斯科的风吹不到贵州 Corn Liquor包谷烧Two Male Leads367k WordsCompleted A beautiful country boy from rural Guizhou x a Russian crime boss, cross-cultural romance + forced love + groveling chase + height and build difference (Also known as: Lima syndrome, a psychological phenomenon opposite to Stockholm syndrome, in which the perpetrator develops sympathy and compassion for the victim and actively helps them.) Period story, set in 1990 Hong Lin is an orphan from the remote mountains of Guizhou. Before he turned seventeen, he had never imagined he would leave this lan 21.5kReads9.3Score3.8kShelves
14. 164 好 The Little Omega I Finally Fell for Ran Away from Home 好不容易爱上的小O离家出走了 Dong Xingbai东星白Two Male Leads279k WordsCompleted An AO romance. Down-on-his-luck, bitter little Omega bottom Yu Nian × irritable, heartless Alpha top Liao Yingzhou Age gap. Marriage Before Love. Yu Nian is sold by his stepmother to the Liao family as a bride. The two families are entering a business alliance through marriage. The Liao family pays the Yan family a hundred million in one lump sum and also gives the Yu family a lucrative project. Yu Nian is an ordinary Omega, while Liao Yingzhou is an S-rank Alpha. Under normal circumstances, the 893Reads8.4Score123Shelves
15. 165 榜 The Top Donor Can’t Stand That I’m a Man 榜一大哥嫌弃我是男的 Not Again再不也Two Male Leads263k WordsCompleted [Male-male romance + groveling pursuit + melodrama + turning a straight man gay] A sharp-tongued, smug, mean-spirited top x a clueless, meek office worker bottom By day, he is a lowly wage slave. By night, he becomes a cute internet streamer, making money online. By day, he's an average-looking nobody lost in the crowd. By night, he puts on women's clothes and basks in the comment section's praise. Li Wenjin originally wanted to make a little money through livestreaming. Then one day, a big spen 2kReads8.2Score257Shelves
16. 166 平 The Pingzhao Record 平昭录 The Seabed Is a Forest海底是森林Two Male Leads480k WordsCompleted Rebirth story (the shou is reborn), two male leads, both chaste!!! An old-school novel, with somewhat immature prose and plotting, so don’t overanalyze it!!! A bewitching, alluring empress shou × a devoted, clingy emperor gong In the winter of the fifteenth year of Pingzhao, Empress Xu passed away. The entire palace mourned and remembered her. The funeral bells rang again and again from the city tower, announcing the end of a virtuous empress’s reign. Rain and snow fell in torrents, washing away 2.6kReads9.1Score368Shelves
17. 167 君 Your Grace Is a Prison 君恩如狱 Raise a Toast from Afar遥敬一杯酒Two Male Leads608k WordsOngoing Sorry the rating is a little low right after it came out 🥰 Forced love | Taking by force | Emperor gong | Gentle general gong | Strategist shou | Deeply angsty romance | Physical and emotional trauma | Rekindled romance | Ancient political intrigue | Extreme push and pull | Three male leads | All for the shou | Beautiful, strong, and tragic To save his mother, the once brilliant top scholar was branded a traitor for colluding with the enemy and personally reduced by the emperor to a plaything fo 3.3kReads8.6Score245Shelves

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    It's really beautiful.

18. 168 以 A Life Offered in Sacrifice 以身唯祭 Raise a Toast from Afar遥敬一杯酒Two Male Leads314k WordsCompleted Severe physical torment | Severe heartbreak | Possessive love | Happy ending | A love born of hatred | He’ll regret losing him | One-on-one | True love | Love rekindled after heartbreak | Political scheming and misunderstandings | Both leads are each other’s first Only then did Xiao Jingyan finally understand: he had taught Jing Heng the art of war, but Jing Heng had learned how to offer himself as a sacrifice for love. Xiao Jingyan had once believed that Jing Heng’s betrayal was the greatest sh 7.6kReads8.5Score716Shelves
19. 169 世 The Heir Was Betrothed Away, and His Pride Was Shattered 世子被配，傲骨尽碎 Raise a Toast from Afar遥敬一杯酒Two Male Leads237k WordsCompleted Angst first, sweetness later / Strong leads / Tragic romance / Court intrigue / Historical setting / Forced love / Unhinged top / Sense of destiny / The top's long road to winning back his love [Cold, proud heir who refuses to bend x Scheming, possessive puppy-like top] Jiang Hanqing was the heir to the Eastern Qi throne, a proud young man who rode fine horses in fine clothes. But a single imperial decree arranging his marriage forced him to become the male wife of the Shen family. Shen Duo lov 2.7kReads8.2Score250Shelves

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    I recently watched something really good.

20. 170 快 Quick Transmigration: The Pretty Cannon Fodder Vanishes After Flirting With the Big Shot 快穿：漂亮炮灰撩完大佬后死遁了 Taro Paste with Everything芋泥加一切Two Male Leads408k WordsCompleted Synopsis: [Two male leads, quick transmigration, fragmented souls, tragic romance, frail, terminal illness, coughing blood, forced love, faked death, powerful characters, cannon fodder, the love interest's desperate pursuit...] First World: The Villain's Frail Little Cannon Fodder After accidentally transmigrating into a book as cannon fodder, Bai Luoyan infiltrates the Ji Corporation alone for the sake of his unrequited love, the male lead Gu Mingen. Unfortunately, the villain Ji Sichen sees th 5.6kReads8.2Score502Shelves

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    This book is agonizing from beginning to end! It features characters suffering from illness, terminal diseases, and coughing up blood; every world ends in tragedy.

21. 171 小 That Little Trouble-Maker Is Absolutely Unhinged 小作精他超疯的 Lemon and Cola柠檬加可乐Two Male Leads249k WordsCompleted [Male-male romance + rekindled love + entertainment industry + happy ending] A volatile, depressed, troublesome, sickly bottom in public and in private, A top who is emotionally impaired but an outstanding actor. Jiang Li is a madman. During a sugar-baby arrangement, he was the first to fall in love and become obsessed. He knew Yi Zhen didn't love him, yet he kept clinging to him, his body covered in wounds. He said, “I supported you for two years. Now it's your turn to support me for two years! 11kReads9.3Score836Shelves
22. 172 算 Calculating the Day of Return 算归期 An Lianyu安恋钰Two Male Leads303k WordsOngoing The Gu family of Jiangnan, a silk-trading dynasty of three generations, fell overnight. Gu Wantang was the useless young master everyone in the city knew, spending his days amusing himself with birds and listening to stories. His greatest dream was to leave with his sworn elder brother, Xie Yanting, once Xie took over the family business. On the night his father died suddenly, a cup of “poisoned tea” sent Xie Yanting down the doomed road to exile three thousand li away. Gu Wantang crawled out of 13Reads—Score—Shelves
23. 173 残 The Disabled Tycoon’s Ex-Boyfriend Is Seriously Unwell 残疾大佬的前男友他是真有病啊 Lemon and Cola柠檬加可乐Two Male Leads407k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + rekindled romance + melodramatic angst] After an accidental kidnapping, Huo Zhiye loses the use of both legs and is cruelly abandoned by the man he has loved for four years. They began by choosing to love each other despite their families’ bitter feud, but it all ends with them leaving battered and broken. Reunited three years later: Qiao Xi knows he has committed unforgivable sins and tries every possible way to make amends. Naively, he thinks that if he hurts himself enough, 19.1kReads8.8Score2.1kShelves
24. 174 咬 Bite the Scales 咬鳞 A Fish Enters the Boat有鱼入舟Two Male Leads708k WordsCompleted [Pink little mermaid x high-ranking commander] [Gentle, cunning, and devoted x resilient, ferocious, and cruel little darling + corruption + melodrama + sweet and angsty romance + 1v1 + devoted couple, happy ending] Xing Nan is a rare pink mermaid, so rare that everyone covets him. Everything around him is dangerous. The first person he meets after escaping from the laboratory is Pei Wenyang. He begs Pei Wenyang to save him. Pei Wenyang is the gentlest human he's ever met. He dries Xing Nan's 19.2kReads9.6Score3kShelves

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    [I'm about to cry][I'm about to cry] The first book was a bad ending, the second was a bittersweet happy ending, and the third was a double madness.

25. 175 怨 Bound by a Madman's Grudge 怨骨疯缠 Peerless Scallion a绝世一根葱aTwo Male Leads470k WordsCompleted Publication rights have been signed. Originally titled Grudgebound Bones [Double madness + a truly ghostly male lead + twisted love + forced confinement romance + lovers bound by pure hatred + happy ending] “We're better off hating each other. Never tell me you love me, or I'll kill you.” The two had been inseparable friends at the orphanage, once linking pinkies and promising never to part for the rest of their lives. Then one year, a wealthy couple came to adopt a child. They took a liking to 169.3kReads9.6Score38.2kShelves
26. 176 重 Reborn: The Hated Real Heir Wants Only to Die 重生：万人嫌真少爷一心等死 Spring Dawn at Mingtang明棠春晓Two Male Leads1.4M WordsCompleted Lin Xi was the true young master of a wealthy family, but he was accidentally switched at birth. He grew up abused, and the Ye family found him when he was eighteen. He thought he would finally have a loving family and a peaceful life, but instead he was misunderstood and neglected. The Ye family favored the impostor young master, and their cold indifference made Lin Xi lose hope little by little. Then he was kidnapped and abandoned, and poisoned. His heart died, and he left for a distant land. 9kReads8.9Score807Shelves

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    I'm so done watching this, it's really good but also incredibly despairing [crying]

27. 177 囚 Prisoner Slave: Your Highness, Please Go Easy on the Punishment 囚奴：求殿下轻点罚 Only Wushan唯巫山Two Male Leads422k WordsCompleted (Just rated, no negative reviews so far) [Physical Abuse + Emotional Abuse + Every Kind of Suffering + Two Male Leads + Both Pure + Two Powerful Leads + Happy Ending] There will be sweet moments, but there's more suffering. Their statuses are worlds apart, and the bottom is very lowly. [Suspicious, Sadistic, and Ruthless Top × Unhinged, Scheming, and Humble Bottom] The empress sends the spy A Yan (the bottom) to the residence of the third prince, Xiao Jue. Suspicious by nature, Xiao Jue (the t 2.3kReads8.8Score226Shelves

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    My goodness, the author is amazing! The writing is incredibly angsty, but the author says it's not angsty enough and needs to be even more so! I personally think it's a very promising angsty romance novel with two main characters, and I highly recommend it!

28. 178 1 The Sissy of the 188 Club 188男团娘娘腔 Shui Qiancheng水千丞Two Male Leads365k WordsCompleted Li Chengxiu was timid and taciturn, and ostracized throughout his school years. Shao Qun’s passing whim gave him the only warmth he had ever known, but it also pushed him, while still young, into even deeper darkness. More than a decade later, they meet again. To Shao Qun, Li Chengxiu is a sweet treat he never dared taste back then, so he deliberately draws close. Will this be a chance to redeem the past, or the beginning of another disaster? 28.8kReads9.3Score5.8kShelves

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    They're all stories about a man pursuing his wife; except for the fifth one, which is an ending story (OE), the rest are happy ending stories (HE).

29. 179 一 Drunk for a Hundred Years 一醉经年 Shui Qiancheng水千丞Two Male Leads349k WordsCompleted A secret crush is like a flask of strong liquor. You know that drinking it will leave you dizzy, make you lose control, and bring you pain, yet you still throw yourself into it like a moth to a flame, all too happy to suffer. You only take a sip, while I drink until I’m drunk. But everyone who drinks has to sober up one day. A calm, aloof engineer bottom VS a selfish, cold-hearted celebrity top 20.4kReads9.4Score6.3kShelves
30. 180 谁 Who Takes Whom Seriously? 谁把谁当真 Shui Qiancheng水千丞Two Male Leads363k WordsCompleted One is a fickle playboy who lives life as he pleases. The other has been through countless trials and puts reason before emotion. A relationship that began with “living in the moment” gradually turned into a bloodless battle of wits, where each tried to win the other’s heart. They distrust each other, yet feel drawn to one another, constantly testing each other’s limits with suspicion and probing. They knowingly fall into the trap, surrendering to feelings in confusion, until they’re caught in a 39.6kReads9.5Score8.1kShelves
31. 181 哑 The Mute Slave 哑奴 Qiangtang羌塘Two Male Leads367k WordsCompleted The Prince of Zhenbei holds immense power, standing above all others. He is lustful, promiscuous, interested in both men and women, and utterly brutal. He has taken nine concubines, and not one has survived. Now the Prince of Zhenbei has set his sights on the prefect’s daughter. To escape a fate of being tortured to death by the prince, the household switches bride and groom: a mute servant is sent in her place beneath the bridal sedan. The mute servant is as beautiful as an immortal, but was bo 4.3kReads8.5Score598Shelves
32. 182 杏 Xiao Heng and Shen Yelan Beneath the Apricot Blossoms 杏花疏影里萧珩沈夜阑 In Good Spirits Right Now此刻精神状态良好Two Male Leads719k WordsOngoing Tyrannical, possessive Regent King × devoted-to-the-end, love-brained secret guard The guard is love-brained, so he suffers for it. Shen Yelan endured everything. He never hated him. ★★★ Content warning: I don't write male pregnancy, so this story includes female pregnancy. There is no love, no love! In the end, the family of five lives happily together. 517Reads8.1Score140Shelves

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    This book is truly hopeless.

33. 183 休 After Divorcing the Crown Prince, the Cool-Tempered Top Scholar Is Hounded by Suitors 休了太子后，清冷探花郎桃花不断 Qiangtang羌塘Two Male Leads299k WordsCompleted [The aloof young scholar * the spoiled crown prince] [The three-part Jun family series: The Mute Slave, The Ugly Physician, and The Top Scholar.] Newly appointed top scholar Song Liqing and Crown Prince Jun Qiyu were betrothed by imperial decree. On their wedding night, however, the crown prince spent half the night frolicking with his favored servant. Jun Qiyu: “You’re dull and dreary, with not half the charm of Hu Nuer!” For the sake of their childhood bond and the crown prince’s reputation, S 610Reads6.7Score100Shelves
34. 184 丑 The Ugly Doctor 丑医 Qiangtang羌塘Two Male Leads317k WordsCompleted [A Manhua Adaptation Is Coming Soon, Stay Tuned!] [Hopelessly Ugly, Devoted Miracle Doctor Bottom × Incomparably Handsome, Scheming Prince Top] [A Companion Novel to The Mute Slave] His master said that everyone should have a useful skill. So he taught Bai Jingchen the miraculous art of bringing the dead back to life and restoring flesh to bone. Then his master said that a handsome face was the root of all evil. So he made Bai Jingchen take medicinal decoctions every day. Bai Jingchen has dark, 209Reads6.3Score—Shelves
35. 185 强 The Deposed Emperor, Spoiled Rotten 强宠废帝 Xuan Lan轩岚Two Male Leads450k WordsCompleted [Complete, 1v1, both pure, groveling pursuit, both reborn] Before rebirth, it was all tragedy. After rebirth, it all ends happily. If you love tragic endings, you can read only the part before the rebirth. He was a young general in red, his cloak snapping as he made ruthless decisions on the battlefield. He was the dazzling, brilliant Crown Prince of the Mu Kingdom, the pride of the court. He was also a young emperor who could calm the realm with a stroke of his brush and secure it from horsebac 2.7kReads8.6Score352Shelves
36. 186 太 Your Highness, Crown Prince, Stop Hitting Me. Han Zhi Doesn’t Want to Love Anymore 太子殿下别打了，寒止不想爱了 Buyan Hall不燕堂Two Male Leads208k WordsCompleted Torture the shou! Torture the shou! Torture the shou! Shou fans, don’t read! [Two male leads + physical abuse + emotional abuse + both virgins + happy ending + the shou fakes his death] [Just started getting ratings] A foolish-dog beauty with a sadistic streak gong x a cool, resilient, lowly shou To save her younger sister, Han Zhi is given by his mother to Chang Yuan, the Crown Prince of Hanxu and son of the Water God. At first, because of Han Zhi’s parents, Chi Changyuan bullies him without re 4.7kReads8.2Score414Shelves
37. 187 那 That Bastard Ruined Half My Life 那个混蛋毁了我半辈子 A Handful of Fire一把火Two Male Leads319k WordsCompleted (Please add my new story, "[Quick Transmigration] I Turned Into a Gorgeous Bottom and Became Incredibly Handsome") "Brother Chen, please, let me go! Or just kill me, okay?" Chu Mochen smiled calmly. "How could I? Didn't I tell you? If anything happened to Xiao You, I'd make your life worse than death. This is the path you chose. Now crawl along it on your knees!" Ji Qing went to prison for five years for Chu Mochen. By the time he got out, everything had changed. Brother Chen, who used to cheris 100Reads—Score—Shelves
38. 188 鲛 The Merman Has Lost All Hope 鲛人他心灰意冷 Hua Xi花溪Two Male Leads32k WordsCompleted The merman Chen Xiao was lured to the human world by Murong Jing's promises of love, never imagining that a trap had been laid for him long ago! He was imprisoned in the imperial dungeon and tortured day after day. It was all because Murong Jing wanted to take his most precious merman pearl and use it to save his seriously ill first love! After learning the truth, Chen Xiao died in despair. But Murong Jing had always said Chen Xiao disgusted him. So why did he go mad and try to bring him back to 829Reads8.0Score101Shelves
39. 189 冷 The Disgraced Consort of the Cold Palace 冷宫废妃 Slow Eight-Tone Music八音声慢Two Male Leads330k WordsCompleted Gu Lanting once hoped more than anything that Gao Yang would ascend the throne and save him from his living hell. But after Gao Yang became emperor, the first thing he said to him was, "You're a slut anyone can have. Just thinking of how you acted like a wanton in front of my father makes me sick!" And so the nightmare began. Gao Yang took his revenge on him with merciless cruelty, and could no longer be his salvation. When Gu Lanting, utterly hopeless, chose to leave, Gao Yang finally realized 902Reads8.0Score103Shelves
40. 190 鸩 A Cup of Poisoned Wine, and Drunk with You 鸩酒一杯与君醉 Flowing Wind流风Two Male Leads60k WordsCompleted Blurb: When they first met, he was a subject, and he risked his life to take a sword meant for the other man. Later, that man became emperor, wiped out his entire family, stripped away his pride, and forcibly kept him by his side. He waited, full of hope, for his elder brother to return victorious, but all he received was a cold corpse. In the end, he drank poison in front of everyone, smiling like a spring breeze. “Your Majesty, I offer my life as the price of regicide. May you live for all ete 1kReads8.0Score133Shelves
41. 191 孤 My First Love Was the Brothel's Most Famous Courtesan 孤的初恋是青楼名倌 Buddha Wei佛为Two Male Leads350k WordsCompleted Shiyan has many secret identities: a male courtesan, the Seventh Prince of Yanbei, the owner of the Lexian Pavilion… But he never imagined that one day he would become the Crown Princess of the Great Ying Dynasty. However, this Crown Prince is a bit of an idiot, completely wrapped up in romance. Why don’t you seize the throne, kill your father, and take out the emperor? You’re a hopeless wreck. What good are you? As it turns out, behind every man who builds an empire is a capable, virtuous 79Reads8.1Score—Shelves
42. 192 红 Red and White Wedding 红白囍 AyeAyeCaptainTwo Male Leads186k WordsCompleted [Republican-era nostalgia + supernatural + two male leads + equally matched powerhouses + pure-hearted madmen] [Brilliant and passionate young diviner Tian Suanzi, Mu Geshen X cold-on-the-outside, warm-on-the-inside heir to a family of physicians, the saintly doctor Chai Shuxin] A funeral is mournful, a wedding joyful, I travel from the world of the living to the Yellow Springs, Prepare incense, candles, paper horses, and a bridal sedan, Lady Meng offers us the nuptial wine. White paper, red rob 50kReads9.7Score11.9kShelves

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    The third book: "Yu An is like a little fish, little fish, swim quickly and swim out of the abyss as soon as possible."

43. 193 禁 No Sucking Up: My Wife's Moonlight Is Having Another Episode 禁止讨好，老婆的白月光又发病了 Moxibustion Love灸爱Two Male Leads411k WordsCompleted [One-on-one + both devoted only to each other + lovesick younger top + rekindled love + groveling to win his husband back + angsty, sweet, and melodramatic + unequal status + bittersweet happy ending] Pei Heng was the Pei family’s illegitimate son. To humiliate him, his family made him marry Li Che. He thought he had finally escaped the wolf’s den. He carefully doted on the man he’d secretly loved for years, never once considering giving up, no matter how hard things got. Until he saw his husban 5.2kReads7.3Score403Shelves

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    These are all angst-filled novels, I highly recommend reading them. You'll get hooked once you start; they're really heart-wrenching. Some of them may have low or no ratings, but they're genuinely good. The second and third books are especially intense, filled with angst, hatred, and anger.

44. 194 不 Wasn't This Just for Fun? Why Is Young Master Jiang Taking It Seriously? 不是玩玩吗，江少怎么认真了？ Peach Blossom Paper桃花笺Two Male Leads302k WordsCompleted [First book in the series] Arrogant young master, bottom × icy beauty, top [Younger top + groveling chase after a breakup + bottom is not sexually inexperienced, becomes the bottom for love] Jiang Yaochi, a top playboy from a wealthy family, falls in love at first sight with a waiter at a private club. He throws money at him, goes to great lengths for him, gives him gifts, and tries every trick in the book. At last, he wins the beauty’s heart. At a birthday party, his friends tease him: “How is 4.3kReads8.2Score371Shelves
45. 195 宝 Baby, Are You Still Running? 宝宝，还逃吗？ Spring Awakening春蛰Two Male Leads292k WordsCompleted Delicate, timid, and gentle top x brooding, unhinged, powerful bottom [Double Alpha / 1v1, both virgins / forced love] After catching the eye of a wealthy big shot, Chi Yuqing went from a low-level wage worker to a canary living in a luxurious villa. To outsiders, he was doted on and living the high life. Only Chi Yuqing knew the truth: because his pheromones smelled so much like the big shot’s unattainable first love, he was nothing but a human air freshener who was only allowed to sleep on the 5.3kReads8.6Score628Shelves

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    ① The first book, my darlings, is one I just finished reading. Many of you probably found it a bit difficult to read; it might have been a little painful. The protagonist (described in the book as very similar to the antagonist, who is the type to be a bottom for love) is an orphan who grew up in an orphanage. He initially worked as a billiards assistant coach, but later went to work in a big city for a better life. Because his pheromones resembled the protagonist's deceased mother, he was taken home. The antagonist initially thought the antagonist's father had a stepmother (although he considered taking her place, he never did). Later, the antagonist beat him, removed his glands, imprisoned him, and subjected him to mental torture, bringing him to the brink of collapse several times. In the end, the antagonist was completely ruined, the kind of person who would die without him. There was probably some mild form of BDSM involved. ② The second book is one I read before. After reading it, I felt very uncomfortable. The antagonist committed suicide (and also gave birth to...). She was sick and didn't have long to live anyway. It was because of the seme (or uke), I think it was due to some kind of promise, that she committed suicide with the violin the seme gave her. Before her suicide, the seme was on his wedding day (but his mother drugged him). Before dying, she wrote 27 letters to the uke. The seme was afraid to publicly acknowledge the uke because of his mother (who rejected homosexuality and locked him in a room for about six months, a rather tragic situation; he was only released after admitting he wasn't gay). The uke used to play the violin, an art student. He broke his hand while saving the seme in a stage accident, causing him to miss his university entrance exams. The seme was too hesitant; he had too many things he couldn't let go of, and in the end, he lost his lover. There must have been some misunderstandings involved. It's heartbreaking; they loved each other, but they couldn't be together. The seme also committed suicide after the uke's death.

46. 196 绝 After My Terminal Diagnosis, My Contract Boyfriend Chased Me to the Crematorium in Tears 绝症后，契约男友哭着追进火葬场 Eighteen Bronze Walnuts十八铜核桃仁Two Male Leads291k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads, Old-School Angsty Drama, A Real Pursuit After the Breakup, Scum Top Transformed into a Crying, Devoted Dog, Angst Before Affection, Both Reborn, Happy Ending] [Stoic Bottom with a Terminal Illness & Hard-Mouthed-at-First, Tender and Affectionate Top] Lin Shi'an was diagnosed with lung cancer, with only three months left to live. Seven years ago, when Li Feng's mother was gravely ill, Lin Shi'an paid two million to buy ten years of his time and personally made him a popular movie 5.4kReads8.9Score518Shelves

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    It's so good, but it made me feel sad. I have such a headache for those two. I wish all the young couples would give me 99 points!

47. 197 养 The Trouble with Keeping Pets 养宠为患 Jiu Jiu Ziqi酒酒子琪Two Male Leads145k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + unhinged + yandere + angst for the bottom + satisfying read] = The ex regrets it and chases his love at the crematorium After his secret was exposed, Bai Feicheng was brutally beaten and tortured for two whole years. Unable to bear the humiliation, he fled with a broken heart. Only then did Bai Chenghao realize he had fallen in love with him. But he pursued him the wrong way, deepening the misunderstanding between them once again. Angst, bad ending or happy ending: I’ll let y 529Reads8.7Score100Shelves

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    I like the first book the most.

48. 198 任 The Mission Starts Over a Hundred Times 任务重来一百次 milieModern Romance20k WordsCompleted “You came to save me, so why can’t you look only at me? Why do you have to give your attention to those one, two, three insignificant people?” “You seem so shy. You never take my hand first. Even just now, you only did it because of someone else.” “Now that you have me, you don’t treat me as well as you used to. There wasn’t any strawberry milk today either, was there?” 6.3kReads8.6Score1.3kShelves
49. 199 一 Half Ginkgo, Half First Snow 一半银杏一半初雪 Chong Qiwu重栖梧Modern Romance338k WordsCompleted [Two top students + school life + everyday moments + sweet at first, then bittersweet] [Arrogant, headstrong girl vs. cold genius] That summer, she escaped the abyss and met him. * That autumn marked the beginning of their happiness. She asked, “Do you know why I like ginkgo leaves and the first snowfall?” He said, “Someday, I'll take you to different places to see the ginkgo trees and the first snow.” Beneath the ginkgo tree, the boy looked serious as the wind sent leaves swirling across th 176Reads—Score—Shelves

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    😇😇😇😭😭

50. 200 得 I Have Cancer, and My Desk Mate Held Me and Wept When She Found Out 得了癌症，同桌得知后抱着我痛哭 Xiao Yang小楊Urban142k WordsCompleted A mother who left, a father addicted to gambling. I thought that was already bad enough, but I never imagined fate would play such a cruel joke on me. Still, there will always be people in this world who believe in love, chasing after it through gales and blizzards for a lifetime. I'm only afraid of the pain of parting. 379Reads8.0Score100Shelves

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