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1. 1 穿 After Transmigrating Into a Book and Being Reborn, My Yandere Senior Brother Tied Up My Hands 穿书重生后，病娇师兄绑我手 Handsome Guy Who Wants a Tasty Meal想吃美味的帅哥Two Male Leads572k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + yandere + locked away in a little black room] [Cold iron chains bind your hands. Locked in a little black room, there’s no escape!] [The rating is low because it was just posted, so feel free to give it a try~] Kan Xingci transmigrates into a book at the very end of the story. Before he can change the plot, the male lead’s senior brother hunts him down! While escaping, he loses his footing and falls off a cliff. Just as he finishes lamenting how short life is, he’ 12.6kReads9.2Score1.8kShelves

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   The story is well-developed and logical, without dragging or a disappointing ending. The characters are unique, making it a very enjoyable transmigration novel.

2. 2 救 Redemption! The Beauty Beloved by My Sickly Junior Disciple Is a Crybaby 救赎！病娇师弟的美人娇是爱哭包 Duo Yan多颜Ancient Romance430k WordsCompleted [Fantasy + transmigrate into a book + yandere + System + everyone's darling + devoted couple] [Violent, yandere younger male disciple who pretends to be obedient x sweet, gentle, soft-spoken, easily moved to tears senior female disciple] After transmigrating into a book, Jiang Yuan is bound to a System to save the villain. The villain, He Yunqi, has been alone and miserable since childhood, buffeted by hardship and bullied by everyone. At first, he joins a sect. Later, the seal on the demon god 3.3kReads9.0Score436Shelves

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   This is really good. I especially love yandere stories. If you like yandere characters with strong possessiveness, I highly recommend this one. Also, the fact that it's a double-clean story with a really good difficulty level is quite appealing.

3. 3 穿 I Transmigrated into My Master's Body and Doted on My Yandere Disciple 穿成师尊后，我娇养了病娇徒弟 Mighty Little Flat-Chested One威猛小平胸Ancient Romance2.2M WordsCompleted Lanyue transmigrates into a book and becomes a cruel master who treats her disciple as a cultivation furnace, exploiting him without restraint. Fortunately, none of it has happened yet. Lanyue looks at the well-behaved disciple before her, the future Ghost King who will rule the Nine Provinces, and trembles in fear. To avoid the miserable fate of having her soul torn out and her skin flayed, Lanyue does everything she can to please her disciple. As long as she doesn’t spoil him to death, she’ll 15.3kReads9.4Score2.4kShelves

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   [Ancient Chinese Romance Novel | "I Treated You as My Disciple, Yet You Thought You Were Insubordinate"] Purple lightning ripped through the sky as she broke through her seclusion, her frost-white robes and ink-black hair astonishing the three realms—the once naive little disciple had now become a Nascent Soul Immortal. "Master, this tribulation lightning… is weaker than yours back then." Purple light twined around her fingertips as she smiled at the perpetually cold-faced Nascent Soul Dao Lord. Everyone knows that the master and his two disciples of Daoyue Peak are renowned throughout the land, but few know their daily life on the summit: she steals a drink from his treasured Snow Peak Pine, and he pretends not to see; she deliberately falls into his arms while practicing her sword, and he blushes but still scolds her with a stern face, "How improper!" Until the day she returns from her tribulation, he grabs her wrist: "Insubordination? I'll teach you what true... Insubordination is." ✨The aloof master gradually falls for her✨The cunning disciple uses the thirty-six strategies to seduce✨A mutual attraction sparked by heavenly lightning (Comments section bursts with tears: This isn't master and disciple, it's a sugar pot come to life!) #TheSweetestTribulationRecordInTheCultivationWorld# #DidMasterBlushToday#

4. 4 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 183.4kReads9.5Score25.3kShelves

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   Every character in the story carries the undertones of an imperfect life, yet they all radiate the beauty of humanity. They are utterly innocent, yet fate plays cruel tricks on them, inflicting suffering upon them. No one is at fault; the fault lies with the capriciousness of destiny. Xie Chenzhou is particularly heartbreaking; he did nothing, yet suffering follows him relentlessly. He seems forever standing on the edge of a cliff, unable to grasp hope forward or find a way back. Only Nian Nian is the rope binding him to this world, the sole refuge of his lonely soul. Those so-called "righteous paths," concealing selfishness, ruined the bright spring that should have been the lives of a group of teenagers. One can't help but wonder, without the malice of the outside world, would Xie Chenzhou have grown up carefree in his parents' love? Would Xiao Zhuochen have been able to be himself freely? They should have been treated gently by the world. How I wish the story could have taken a different turn, allowing these beautiful people to escape the thorns of fate.

5. 5 救 Redeem the Darkened Villain? I'll Just Become the Villain Myself 救赎黑化反派？我直接自己当反派 Ling Ge苓歌Ancient Romance316k WordsCompleted She transmigrated into a book, only to find she had to sleep with the villain? And after sleeping with him, she’d get killed? Could anyone be more unlucky than Jiang Yin? Luckily, she can rewind time when she dies! After being killed three times, Jiang Yin figured it out! She lightly traced her fingertips over Shen Que’s waist and abdomen, then smiled. “He can’t get it up.” Shen Que smiled too. “Have you decided how you want to die?” To change her fate of being hacked to pieces, Jiang Yin decide 339Reads8.6Score107Shelves
6. 6 掌 The Darling in the Palm 掌上娇娇 Zhi Yun支云Ancient Romance907k WordsCompleted [Print edition preorder opens July 17] [Film and TV rights sold] [Reader's guide: sweet romance, devoted couple, feel-good wish fulfillment, with clever schemes and political intrigue, many clues and details, and a large cast of well-developed characters. The heroine never gets the short end of the stick; anything that doesn't make sense will be explained later] Prince Xuan, He Junting. In the novel Devoted to the Imperial Consort, the author wrote of how he slaughtered the entire Northern Di co 82.1kReads9.5Score9.3kShelves

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   This is, in my opinion, the best and most complete novel I've ever read without a disappointing ending. Fans of sweet romance novels set in ancient China should definitely check this out—it's super nice!

7. 7 穿 Reborn as the Male Lead's Childhood Sweetheart 穿成男配的小青梅 Listening to a Field Full of Croaking Frogs听取蛙蛙声一片片Modern Romance355k WordsCompleted [A heads-up: This isn’t about a powerful female lead. There’s no golden finger, and the story has a gentle, understated feel.] Zhang Minmin transmigrates into a book, becoming a supporting female character in a story about youthful heartbreak. In the original novel, the male lead is a rich second-generation heir from a large, complicated family, while the heroine is an orphan with no parents. After going through one misunderstanding after another, the two meet, grow close, and eventually live ha 4.4kReads9.2Score308Shelves
8. 8 储 Storing Charm 储媚色 Cloud Rabbit云兔子Ancient Romance512k WordsCompleted Li You transmigrated into a book, becoming the delicate, flowerlike heroine of a historical romance about political intrigue and tragic love, a heroine the male lead would torment in body, heart, and soul from beginning to end. But the moment she arrived, Li You discovered that her cousin, the story's wicked second female lead, had been reborn. So she was about to be demoted to a mere cannon-fodder character? Li You: "..." Fine, let me lie down for a while. On her wedding day, her cousin didn't 8.5kReads9.1Score932Shelves
9. 9 恶 The Wicked Supporting Actress Is Reborn Before the Apocalypse 恶毒女配重生回末日前 Little Chong Duck小冲鸭Sci-Fi & Apocalypse743k WordsCompleted [Delicate, irresistible beauty + The apocalypse begins] Earthquakes and tsunamis struck. In 2028, the world faced a truly apocalyptic catastrophe. Only those with tickets for Noah’s Ark had any hope of survival, and each ticket cost one billion. In her previous life, Song Yan acted spoiled and destructive, beat up the heroine, and framed and manipulated others in every way. As a result, her boyfriend dragged her down with him as he jumped off Noah’s Ark. Reborn in this life, Song Yan planned to 2.1kReads8.1Score270Shelves
10. 10 我 After I Died, I Became the Villain's Beloved Cinnabar Mark 我死后，就成了反派心头朱砂痣 Yu Xiaozhou禹小粥Ancient Romance460k WordsCompleted [The angst-filled plot exists only to serve the romance. Don't overthink the logic; there are lots of holes. Check the reviews and author notes for warnings.] [Modern romance-addicted girl reader + obsessive, love-starved, romance-addicted villain + accessory System + breaking the fourth wall + mutual salvation] Sheng Wanying had only stepped out to buy some soy sauce. Some heartless bastard had pried open the manhole cover downstairs. So she fell into the sewer and transmigrated into a book, b 7.4kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
11. 11 攻 Conquest Gone Wrong! Male Leads, Don't Turn Evil! 攻略翻车！男主们补药黑化啊！ Mo Xitang墨蹊棠Ancient Romance414k WordsCompleted [Rivalry-filled showdown + all male leads are virgins] Ling Qingyan transmigrated into a book, landing in a rather twisted coercion romance. The heroine didn't like these men and had strong self-destructive tendencies. Ling Qingyan's mission was to stop the male leads from falling in love with the heroine, prevent the heroine from destroying herself, and lower the male leads' corruption levels. So she diligently prevented their first meetings and diligently helped the heroine avoid every danger 3.7kReads8.8Score546Shelves
12. 12 糟 Oh No! The Handsome Guy I Provoked Is a Sickly Villain 糟糕！我招惹的帅哥是病娇反派 Tao Beixia桃北夏Modern Romance459k WordsCompleted Redemption for a tragic beauty❗️A crazed, love-struck, yandere villain + a roguish, handsome, devoted puppy + a transmigrated book villainess + campus romance + no villainizing the original heroine + devoted couple HE + maximum tension + thrilling and addictive + gloomy puppy Black-bellied, unhinged young priest ✖️ flirtatious, lustful heiress If you’re going to fall in love, falling for an unhinged villain is what makes it exciting! Xia Xuxu transmigrates into a melodramatic CEO romance novel a 4.4kReads9.3Score582Shelves
13. 13 惊 The Whole Sect Is Shipping Me with Senior Brother 惊全宗门都在拆我和师兄的cp Ying An盈桉Ancient Romance491k WordsOngoing [Early Plot Twists, Plenty of Foreshadowing, A Heroine Who Grows] [Transmigrate into a Book + Devoted to Each Other + System Trap + Mind Reading + Two Powerful Leads Playing Each Other + A Touch of Ensemble Cast] (Ratings just came out; they’ll rise later.) On the first day after Sang Wan transmigrated into a book, she stumbled upon the villain murdering someone. The young man wiped the blood from his sword and smiled at her: “I’ve killed nine people today. Let’s make it a perfect ten. Want to 74Reads8.0Score103Shelves
14. 14 让 I Have to Conquer a Mad Protagonist, and I Die Once Every Day 让攻略疯批男主，每天都得死一次 Lu Jinying麓槿柃罂Ancient Romance471k WordsCompleted Also known as: After I Died, I Became the Yandere Male Lead’s One That Got Away After arguing with the author, Qing Huan accidentally transmigrates into the book Demon God as a cannon-fodder character who doesn’t even have a name. From the start, she’s in hell mode. Seeing the male lead swing his sword and hack people down like cabbages, Qing Huan’s legs go weak. She thinks she’ll end up as another victim of his sword, but the guy suddenly faints. After Xie Chiyan kills her for the umpteenth tim 809Reads8.4Score103Shelves
15. 15 钓 A Bewitching Beauty Tames Demons, Only to Be Forced Into a Love Affair by a Yandere 钓系美人驯妖鬼，被病娇强制爱了 Sipping the Moon酌酌不月Ancient Romance746k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + sweet romance + one-on-one + obsessive love + madman + bickering couple + forced love] Scheming flower demon with a sweet face vs. a deranged, obsessive demon spirit Bai Ling transmigrates into a jade hairpin flower demon. After cultivating for a hundred years, she has only just entered the mortal world when she obtains a book of fate. The book tells her that she is the wicked, white-lotus third female lead in a male-oriented monster-hunting novel called The World Wit 3.4kReads9.0Score492Shelves
16. 16 女 The Female Supporting Character Throws Herself Into the Game, and the Mad Heir Slowly Falls 女配以身入局，疯批世子步步沉沦 Banquet on a Spring Day宴春日Ancient Romance546k WordsCompleted [One-on-One Sweet Romance] [Happy Ending] [“Wicked” Supporting Heroine vs. “Amnesiac” Heir] After transmigrating, Jiang Yao became a doomed cannon-fodder character in an angst novel. Near tears, she resolved to cling to the main characters for protection. But the heroine mistakenly thought she had someone she loved. After guessing back and forth, she decided it must be Xie Yunian, the future heir of the Chengbo Marquis's residence. Xie Yunian!? Who was he? The Xie family young master who lost hi 2.6kReads8.8Score353Shelves
17. 17 以 Crossing the Line: My Deranged Disciple Has Fallen to the Dark Side Again 以下犯上，疯批孽徒又又又黑化了 Melon Who Loves to Stab the Cucumber爱刺猹的瓜Ancient Romance284k WordsCompleted [Female master and male disciple + devoted to each other + yandere + split selves] After being reborn, Qian Qiu meant to keep her distance from her yandere disciple. But before he turned dark, he was such a crybaby that she couldn’t help going soft on him. In the end, Qian Qiu raised him into a white-robed youth whose sword chilled three thousand provinces. With a grand wave of her hand, she sent her disciple down the mountain. She never heard from him again for years. One day, while down the mo 1.8kReads8.2Score279Shelves
18. 18 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 35.6kReads9.7Score5.6kShelves

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    Don't be fooled by the title! The female lead is incredibly cool and clear-headed, witty, humorous, capable, and decisive, with top-notch fighting skills and unwavering composure; the male lead is even more amazing, with high emotional and intellectual intelligence, seamlessly switching between aloofness and gentleness. The moment Rong Qian uses the photo to travel through time and save Shen Yi, and the foreshadowing of Shen Yi silently accompanying her as she grows up in the time rift and guiding her to find him, initially made me wonder "who met whom first," but the more I read, the more I understood: their love transcends time, a mutual redemption—she traveled against time for him, and he waited for her for half a century through the years.

19. 19 反 The Villain Has Been Pretending to Be Frail All Along 反派他一直在装病弱 Silver Taels银两Ancient Romance301k WordsCompleted [Both leads are faithful to each other + healing + mutual devotion + happy ending + demon-hunting story] Jiang Zhimiao transmigrated into a book, landing in a novel called Tales of the Supernatural. The System ordered her to win over Sheng Huaizhi, the sickly junior disciple of the male and female leads, lower his Destruction Level, and keep the world stable. “Why is it a Destruction Level? Don't other books use a Corruption Level?” Jiang Zhimiao wondered. But she soon stopped wondering. The sic 15kReads9.5Score2.3kShelves

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    [Come on! I'm pushing my bookshelf towards you!] I'll eat the delicious food!!! These are all villain-themed strategy novels that I think are really good; you can tell from the ratings. However, there are still some cultivation-themed ones. If you've read "The Black Lotus Strategy Manual," you really shouldn't miss it!! The first few books are very similar to it; the plot, atmosphere, romance, and ensemble cast are all very well written ヾ(❀^ω^)ノﾞ I've already read them two or three times! [Please update more!][Please update more!][Please update more!]

20. 20 开 I Died from the Start, and the Mad Demon Cried Until His Eyes Were Red 开局我先死，疯批魔头哭红眼 Chubby Peach Butt屁桃肥肥Ancient Romance846k WordsCompleted Yu Zhen transmigrated into a book. From the start, the book's great villain stabbed her through the heart and killed her. With the last of her strength, she gave the villain the international hand gesture and cursed in a faint voice, “Bitch!” She died, but not entirely. When she opened her eyes again, she had become an insignificant cannon-fodder character who had hopelessly pursued the villain and was about to have her neck snapped by him. Yu Zhen had no choice but to grit her teeth and win the 2.6kReads9.3Score349Shelves
21. 21 摘 Pluck That Black-Hearted Lotus 摘下那朵黑心莲 Half a Watermelon半颗西瓜Ancient Romance333k WordsCompleted [Traditional fantasy historical romance + one-on-one sweet romance with a touch of angst + happy ending + both leads' first love] [Sweet, adorable, bright heroine x arrogant, scheming, pure-hearted, lovesick male lead] Mu Zhenzhen transmigrated into a book because she was a little dissatisfied with the tragic ending of the gentle second male lead. She became a cannon-fodder supporting woman with barely a few lines in the story. She had only just arrived when she stumbled into the second male lea 25.6kReads9.3Score3kShelves
22. 22 杀 After Killing Me Three Times, the Yandere Male Supporting Character Went Completely Dark 杀我三次后，病娇男配彻底黑化了 Throwing Bricks扔板砖Ancient Romance396k WordsCompleted Shi Zhiyan transmigrated into a book and was bound to a Seven-Day Survival System. Her mission was to survive for seven days beside the male supporting character, after which she could go home. Looking at the handsome, sickly male supporting character, who was as gentle and polite as he was devastatingly good-looking, Shi Zhiyan was delighted. This would be easy. But on the day she transmigrated, she was killed by his merciless blade before she even made it through the night. No problem. She wou 921Reads8.9Score100Shelves
23. 23 穿 After Reincarnating as Cannon Fodder, the System Makes Me Reform the Villain 穿成炮灰之后，系统让我教化反派 Nan Xiangyun Sui南湘云岁Ancient Romance363k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a book + demon hunting, both leads’ first times, 1v1] The heroine grows throughout the story; she is not a strong, invincible heroine. Don’t derail the comments section! Su Wanwan stays up all night reading a novel and dies suddenly. When she opens her eyes, she discovers she’s transmigrated into a book? And now some thing calling itself a System wants her to follow the plot and reform the villain? When the young man presses a sword to her neck, excitement in his voice, Su Wan 938Reads9.1Score108Shelves
24. 24 穿 Transmigrating into a Book Is One Thing, but How Did I Pick Up a Villain? 穿书就穿书怎么捡了个反派 Little Fish Belly小鱼肚Ancient Romance287k WordsCompleted [Transmigration into a Book + One-on-One Romance + Happy Ending + Sweet Romance, Mutual Devotion + Bickering Couple + Not a Traditional Fantasy] [Sharp-Tongued Ray of Sunshine x Sarcastic Villainous Big Bad] Content warnings: The heroine has no forced conquest mission. She grows without becoming a burden, and there is no contrived loss of intelligence. The romance develops gradually, like water slowly coming to a boil. If you prefer heroines who jump straight into slaughtering everyone, this may 11.1kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
25. 25 谢 Thanks for Asking, We’ve Been Married Three Years and Still Haven’t Kissed! 谢邀，成婚三年，还未亲嘴儿！ A Cloud of Cream一朵奶油云Ancient Romance432k WordsCompleted (Transmigrate into a book + possessive villain + rekindled romance + intense push and pull + mutual devotion + redemption + one-on-one, both leads are each other’s first and only!) Also known as: I Can’t Believe It, The Villain I’d Won Over Got Away! Xie Zhaohua transmigrated into an old-school novel about a wife chasing her husband to the crematorium. She devoted herself to winning over the villain to complete her mission. But on the very day she succeeded, the System suddenly malfunctioned, 5.5kReads9.0Score565Shelves
26. 26 攻 After Conquering My Black-Lotus Junior Fellow, I Used Him and Cast Him Aside 攻略黑莲花师弟后对他始乱终弃 A Cat on a Pear Blossom Branch一枝梨花猫Ancient Romance353k WordsCompleted [Pseudo-transmigration into a book, 1v1, sweet and angsty, the male lead gets put through the wringer!!!] [A battle-scarred, sickly villainous junior disciple VS a hot-tempered senior sister who loves to lay hands on him] The System gave her two missions: 1. Win over her scheming junior disciple. 2. Kill him once his affection reaches 100%. Looking at her junior disciple’s obedient, clingy manner, Luo Yao thought: Winning him over is easy. Her junior disciple smiled innocently. “A Ci will do wha 1.8kReads9.0Score329Shelves
27. 27 玉 A Jade Pendant Connects Past and Present: I Save the Young Tyrant 玉佩通古今，我救赎少年暴君 Tides of Mountains and Seas山海潮汐Ancient Romance315k WordsCompleted [Connecting past and present + redemption + dark transformation + unhinged obsession + love across time] Sang Ningning was the fake heiress who had been switched at birth and raised by the Su family. After handling her birth parents' funeral, she was left drowning in debt. One day, a blood-soaked young man barged into her convenience store. He casually tossed her a silver ingot, solving her money problems. By chance, she discovered that the boy was a notorious tyrant from history. Watching the w 146Reads8.3Score100Shelves

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