Heart-Wrenching Reads That’ll Make You Cry Under the Covers at Night 特虐，晚上躲在被窝里哭

1. 201 小 Married Life of a Little Lamb and a Big Bad Wolf 小绵羊与大灰狼的婚后生活 Chen Mengla陈梦拉Modern Romance58k WordsCompleted A sheepish woman with only a middle school education, and a big bad wolf with a high school education. They have a three-year-old son and two elderly parents at home. A story of everyday life, told in a simple, warm style, about married life. 30Reads—Score—14d adds
2. 202 追 Chasing Her Through Hell: A Portrait of a Married Woman's Growth 追妻火葬场:已婚女性的成长图鉴 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted The Wife-Chasing Road to Ruin: A Portrait of a Married Woman’s Growth 28Reads—Score—14d adds
3. 203 关 A Collection of Stories About A Nuo 关于阿诺的故事合集 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted A Collection of Stories About A Nuo 19Reads—Score—14d adds
4. 204 高 Powerful Family: A Letter to My First-Love Senior 高干:写给初恋学长的信 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted Powerful Family: A Letter to My First Love, Senior 41Reads—Score—14d adds
5. 205 从 From School Uniforms to Wedding Gowns: Mr. Gu, Stop Fighting 从校服到婚纱:顾总，别打了。 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted From School Uniforms to Wedding Dress: President Gu, Stop Hitting Me. 32Reads—Score—14d adds
6. 206 出 Rental-Apartment Romance: Sweet! Devoted! After Making It Big, I Spoil My Wife 出租屋文学:甜宠!双洁!创业成功之后我特别疼老婆 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted Rental Apartment Romance: Sweet and Fluffy! Both Pure! After Building a Successful Business, I Spoil My Wife Rotten 37Reads—Score—14d adds
7. 207 顾 After Gu Xingyao's Miscarriage and Suicide, Mr. He Regretted Everything 顾星遥流产自杀后，何总后悔了。 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted After Gu Xingyao miscarried and took her own life, President He regretted everything. 53Reads—Score—14d adds
8. 208 破 Mending a Broken Relationship: After Cheating and Lying to His Wife, Young Mr. Jiang Wept and Begged on His Knees 破镜重圆:出轨欺骗老婆后，小江总哭着下跪 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted Rekindled Love: After Cheating on and Deceiving His Wife, Young President Jiang Wept and Fell to His Knees 34Reads—Score—14d adds
9. 209 追 Chasing Her Through Hell: The Campus Heartthrob Pursues His Wife Through Tears 追妻火葬场，校草边哭唧唧边追老婆 Chen Mengla陈梦拉6k WordsCompleted The Ex-Wife Chase from Hell: The Campus Heartthrob Chases His Wife While Sobbing 19Reads—Score—14d adds
10. 210 被 A Cool, Confident Girlfriend Flirted with Me, but Reality Won 被酷飒女友撩，却败给了现实 Eighteen Is My Cat十八是我的猫Marriage & Romance28k WordsCompleted Flirted With by a Cool, Daring Girlfriend, but Defeated by Reality 2Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Don't blame the author when you're crying from the heartbreak; she's probably in the bathroom right now. 😢

11. 211 被 Tricked into Going Home by an Aloof Tycoon 被高冷大佬骗回家 Eighteen Is My Cat十八是我的猫Modern Romance22k WordsCompleted Tricked Into Going Home With a Cold, Powerful Tycoon 3Reads—Score—14d adds
12. 212 双 The Mystery of My Parents' Fall into the Sea 双亲坠海之谜 Eighteen Is My Cat十八是我的猫Marriage & Romance11k WordsCompleted The Mystery of Their Parents’ Disappearance at Sea 1Reads—Score—14d adds
13. 213 穿 I Transmigrated Into My Own Fantasy Novel: I'm the Creator, What Do I Have to Fear? 穿进自己的玄幻小说：我是造物主我怕谁 Eighteen Is My Cat十八是我的猫74k WordsCompleted I Transmigrated Into My Own Xianxia Novel: I'm the Creator, Who Should I Fear? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
14. 214 暗 Dark Night Emperor 暗夜帝君 Eighteen Is My Cat十八是我的猫53k WordsCompleted The Dark Night Emperor 5Reads—Score—14d adds
15. 215 糟 Uh-Oh, My AI Boyfriend Has Followed Me into the Real World 糟了，AI男友追到现实了 Eighteen Is My Cat十八是我的猫32k WordsCompleted Oh No, My AI Boyfriend Has Followed Me into the Real World 1Reads—Score—14d adds
16. 216 以 In the Name of Love: I Erased His Memories 以爱之名：我删除了他的记忆 Eighteen Is My Cat十八是我的猫Marriage & Romance14k WordsCompleted In the Name of Love: I Erased His Memories 5Reads—Score—14d adds
17. 217 以 You Thought I Was a Stand-In, but I'm the Real Deal 以为我是替身，原来我才是本尊 Eighteen Is My Cat十八是我的猫27k WordsCompleted I Thought I Was the Stand-In, but It Turns Out I’m the Real One 9Reads—Score—14d adds
18. 218 种 Planting a Life-Binding Foundation to Renew My Lifespan 种生基，换生机 Eighteen Is My Cat十八是我的猫38k WordsCompleted Planting a Life-Root to Trade for a New Lease on Life 4Reads—Score—14d adds
19. 219 猫 Revenge in a Cat's Body 猫身复仇 Eighteen Is My Cat十八是我的猫Mystery15k WordsCompleted Revenge in Cat Form —Reads—Score—14d adds
20. 220 童 My Childhood Betrothed, Your Persona Has Crumbled 童养夫，你的人设崩了 Yu Ran Jin郁燃尽14k WordsCompleted My Childhood Betrothed’s Character Has Fallen Apart 79Reads—Score—14d adds

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    It was tortured silently.

21. 221 姑 Fox Whispers of Guyao 姑瑶狐语 Sun Peiran孙培然Ancient Romance25k WordsCompleted Qing Yi, the most adorable little fox spirit on Mount Guy Yao, has one greatest wish in life: to cling to Brother Wei Yan forever. She always slacks off when cultivating. She can be happy for three days after growing a second tail, and doesn't mind much when it shrinks back to one. After all, her black fox big brother, with a beauty mark at the corner of his eye, is there to bail her out. When a peach tree spirit pesters her, her brother swishes his paw and cuts it into several pieces. When she 5Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Tortured to the point of tears and heartbreak

22. 222 未 Unspoken Longing 未言心盼 Sun Peiran孙培然Two Female Leads31k WordsCompleted Two female leads, everyday life, BE, told entirely through dialogue. BE: please don’t read if you dislike it. Jiang Xinpan, a Chinese teacher, rents a place when her school dormitory is renovated, and falls in love with her landlady, Yu Weiyan. The story draws on some of my own life experiences and is a novel I wrote for myself. It’s very short, written purely for love. The style is extremely restrained, with lots left unsaid; it only presents parts of the full story. 27Reads—Score—14d adds
23. 223 春 A Prayer for Spring 春的祷告 The Rest of My Life in Ruocheng若城余生Modern Romance53k WordsCompleted Sui Xiran’s life was marked by uncertainty from the very beginning. Her parents divorced, and her world was confined for years to the pale walls of hospital rooms. On sheets of paper, she drew the sea she had never seen, again and again. Then one day, a boy as warm as sunlight opened the door and entered the silent remainder of her life, bringing light and warmth with him. They met in a hospital room where the smell of disinfectant mingled with the light of spring, and fell for each other amid 61Reads—Score—14d adds

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    It's so heart-wrenching yet pure love, I cried 😭😭😭

24. 224 半 Half-Mountain Ferry: No Shore Beyond, So I Make a Way 半山渡：彼岸无岸，我开路 Get Me得我Modern Romance700k WordsCompleted A boy’s pursuit of pleasure turns into a youth filled with the bittersweet aches of growing up. [Depressed, frail, adored-by-all campus beauty × a battlefield of love rivals | 1990s school days | bittersweet youth, tragic ending | push and pull | dissociative identity | based on a true story] Who can save her shattered soul? ① The domineering class monitor: “Even if I can’t win your heart, I’ll have you.” Du Qinghuan bit her lower lip. “You wouldn’t dare!” His desire got the better of him. “Gues 102Reads8.9Score—14d adds

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    "This is just a book, and none of you dare to read it. But this is my life, and you want me to live on. —Du Qinghuan"

25. 225 我 My Unrequited Love Was Buried in Midsummer 我的暗恋葬于盛夏 Junior Sister123师妹12312k WordsCompleted My Unrequited Love Was Buried in Midsummer 460Reads—Score—14d adds

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    The kind of pain that touches the heart.

26. 226 赔 The Day They Divided Up My Compensation, I Sat on the Doorstep Chewing a Cold Steamed Bun 赔偿金被分光那天，我蹲在门槛上啃冷馒头 Listening to Zen Beneath the Snow卧雪听禅8k WordsCompleted The day my compensation money was divided up and taken, I sat on the doorstep gnawing on a cold steamed bun —Reads—Score—14d adds
27. 227 退 My Son Kicked Me Out over My 3,800-Yuan Pension, So I Left My Million to My Granddaughter 退休金三千八被儿子扫地出门，我转身把百万留给外孙女 Listening to Zen Beneath the Snow卧雪听禅10k WordsCompleted My son kicked me out over my 3,800-yuan pension. I turned around and left my million to my granddaughter. —Reads—Score—14d adds
28. 228 我 My Pinduoduo Connects to a World of Runaway Inflation 我的拼夕夕连接物价膨胀世界 Two Chestnuts, for Example举两个栗子Urban1.2M WordsCompleted Ye Feng bought a secondhand Redmi phone at a used-goods market, but the previous owner hadn't factory-reset it. He opened the Pinduoduo app to buy a phone case. To his surprise, the cheapest one cost three million. And that wasn't all: everything else was outrageously expensive, too. A bottle of Coke cost three million. Phones and computers cost anywhere from ten to a hundred billion. 35.8kReads7.2Score3.8k14d adds
29. 229 高 After the College Entrance Exams, My Niece Ran Away. Under the Bed Were Eight Cloth Bags and a Secret I’d Kept for Three Years 高考后，侄女跑了，床底八个布袋，和我藏了三年的秘密 Listening to Zen Beneath the Snow卧雪听禅9k WordsCompleted After the college entrance exams, my niece ran away. Beneath the bed were eight cloth bags and a secret I had kept for three years. —Reads—Score—14d adds
30. 230 被 After Being Drugged, Having My Proposal Stolen, and Getting Fired, I Became the Client 被下药、被偷方案、被开除后，我成了甲方爸爸 Listening to Zen Beneath the Snow卧雪听禅9k WordsCompleted After being drugged, having my proposal stolen, and getting fired, I became the client with all the power —Reads—Score—14d adds
31. 231 我 I Paid 40,000 Yuan for His Hospital Bills, Only to Catch My Cousin Splitting My Aunt’s Life-Saving Money in the Emergency Stairwell 我出四万住院费，却撞见表哥在安全通道分大姑的救命钱 Listening to Zen Beneath the Snow卧雪听禅15k WordsCompleted I paid 40,000 yuan for her hospital bills, only to catch my cousin splitting up my aunt’s life-saving money in the emergency stairwell. —Reads—Score—14d adds
32. 232 高 On the Day of the College Entrance Exams, My Daughter Demanded a Family Bucket. A Few Words from Me Set the Residents’ Group on Fire 高考当天，女儿逼我买全家桶，我说了几个字业主群炸了 Listening to Zen Beneath the Snow卧雪听禅14k WordsCompleted On the day of the college entrance exams, my daughter insisted I buy a family bucket. I said a few words, and the homeowners’ group chat exploded. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
33. 233 给 While Buying My Wife Lipstick, I Saw Her Wearing Another Man’s Ring 给老婆买口红时，我看见她戴着别人的戒指 Listening to Zen Beneath the Snow卧雪听禅6k WordsCompleted While Buying My Wife Lipstick, I Saw Her Wearing Someone Else’s Ring 3Reads—Score—14d adds
34. 234 离 After the Divorce, My Ex-Husband Begged to Remarry Me, but I Had Already Become a Billionaire 离婚后，前夫跪求复婚时我已成首富 Listening to Zen Beneath the Snow卧雪听禅11k WordsCompleted After the Divorce, My Ex-Husband Begged Me to Remarry, but I'd Already Become the Richest Person Alive 7Reads—Score—14d adds
35. 235 酒 He Called Me Senior Sister After Getting Drunk 酒后他喊我学姐 Strawberry Pineapple Fried Rice草莓菠萝炒饭Modern Romance232k WordsCompleted [Rekindled Love + The Ex Chases Her at All Costs + Mutual Firsts, 1v1 + HE] After getting drunk, my sworn enemy, the campus heartthrob, corners me against a wall. “Senior, you lied to me.” Everyone at school knows he hates me, but no one remembers. Three years ago, when I skipped grades to start graduate school, he was the one who crushed my admission letter in his fist, eyes red. “Congratulations,” he sneered. “Another person abandoning me.” Then I found a yellowed paper airplane in his study, 3Reads—Score—14d adds

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36. 236 她 She Is Like the Deep Sea 她似深海 The Strange One at Midnight夜半的诡Modern Romance632k WordsOngoing [A love story about growing up.] She was like the deep sea. After knowing Su Nian for twenty years, and loving her, then hating her, that was the most accurate way I could describe her. My name is Lu Chen. Ten years ago, she left me and returned to another man. I built a company and a respectable life without her. Ten years later, she sent her resume to my company. A contract full of schemes bound us together once again. This time, was she here to come ashore, or to sink with the ship? 27Reads—Score—14d adds

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    "She Is Like the Deep Sea" – A reunion that begins with revenge, a story of substitution, misunderstanding, and a love as deep as the sea – a final twist. When ten years of hatred collide with ten years of silent protection, when the hunter believes he has everything under control, little does he know that he has already stepped into that seemingly calm but potentially all-consuming deep sea…

37. 237 我 Only When He Scattered My Ashes in the Rain Did He Realize I Was Truly Dead 我骨灰被他扬在雨里时，他才知我真的死了 Quan Xin荃昕12k WordsCompleted Only when he scattered my ashes into the rain did he realize I was really dead. 28Reads—Score—14d adds

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    The angst-filled novel is so good!

38. 238 他 When Did He Stop Loving Me? 他是什么时候开始不爱我的 Junior Sister123师妹1236k WordsCompleted When did he stop loving me? 85Reads—Score214d adds
39. 239 可 Maybe I'm Not a Good Person 可能，我不是一个好人 Junior Sister123师妹12317k WordsCompleted Maybe I'm Not a Good Person 71Reads—Score—14d adds
40. 240 一 A Letter Eight Years Too Late 一封迟到八年的信 Junior Sister123师妹12337k WordsCompleted A Letter Eight Years Late 38Reads—Score—14d adds
41. 241 那 He Never Replied to That Message 那条消息，他永远没回 Junior Sister123师妹1238k WordsCompleted That message, he never replied to. 107Reads—Score314d adds
42. 242 予 I Offer You a Prison: Part One, Diary 予你为牢·上：日记 Junior Sister123师妹12311k WordsCompleted I Make You My Prisoner, Part One: Diary 11Reads—Score—14d adds
43. 243 你 You Watch Her Perform, I’ll Announce Our Divorce 你看她表演，我公告离婚 Little Sister Won't Listen妹妹不听话Modern Romance453k WordsCompleted Tomatoes are the most satisfying! The hero and second male lead get divorced The male lead watches the green tea put on a show, while the heroine goes straight to the newspapers and announces their divorce! A powerful financial magnate * a young lady whose family has fallen on hard times Married first, love later * both leads are sexually inexperienced Every male character in the story is a virgin, whether he's the second or third male lead... Xu Qing'an married Shen Yuanyuan simply because he t 11.5kReads7.1Score34414d adds

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    He hasn't touched his wife in a year of marriage, and she hasn't complained. But when he's watching this manipulative woman's performance, she suddenly announces her divorce! Abusing his wife might be fun for a while, but chasing her back will only lead to a funeral home!

44. 244 双 My Strict Teacher Became My Scheming Boss 双面严师成了我的腹黑上司 LiuqibaZz六七八ZzTwo Male Leads486k WordsOngoing A wolf who loves to discipline people with his hands, has a fiery temper, is overbearing and fiercely protective, and is all bark with a soft heart meets a poor, kind puppy who is ordinary, obedient, patient, and cries when wronged... Lu Linchuan is both an adjunct professor and the heir to Luqi Media. Ran Mingyang is a student Lu Linchuan thinks highly of, and after graduation becomes his assistant. Their backgrounds, family circumstances, and personalities are as different as fire and ice. One 5.2kReads7.4Score33714d adds

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    I feel like crying all day 😢😢😢😢

45. 245 雪 Snow-Stained Longing 雪染为念 First Bud 1984初蕾1984Modern Romance165k WordsCompleted [A reunion only to say goodbye? A star-crossed love blooms in the snowy borderlands] [Battle-hardened border guard and aid-work doctor + reunion after a long separation + rekindled love + defending the borderlands] A friendly note: This story moves between two periods of time, told in alternating sections. “The border is too harsh. Don't come after me...” “Wei Yunzhou, if you dare marry me, I'll dare say yes!” Jiang Zhiyue said, her eyes red with tears. Two years later, she found him again at th 2.8kReads9.3Score26614d adds

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    "A pure love, dedicated solely to China." This book not only poignantly portrays the bittersweetness of reconciliation after a broken relationship, but also highlights the greatness of border guards and the resilience of their families during peacetime. If you're tired of formulaic romance novels, this book, imbued with the atmosphere of snow and gunpowder, "Snow-Stained Memories," will surely bring you a soul-stirring experience.

46. 246 碎 Broken Pieces Mend Themselves: Finding Salvation in the Shadow of a Dysfunctional Family 碎者自拼：原生家庭阴影下的自渡 Zheng Zai Qian郑载虔Modern Romance763k WordsOngoing Being born is never a choice we get to make for ourselves. We cannot decide when or where we are born, or what kind of family we are born into. We cannot even decide whether to be born at all. The words Zheng Zaiqian heard most often from his mother were demands that he “go die”! Her most frequent judgment of him was that he “didn’t deserve to live in this world”! Her most frequent accusation was that “giving birth to you was the greatest sin of my life”! Why was he forced to face all this cruel 63Reads—Score—14d adds

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    I hope this can help everyone who cries their pillow at night because of the pain and shadows of their family of origin.

47. 247 穿 After I Transmigrated, I Gave Up, but My Target Started Pursuing Me Instead 穿越后摆烂我被攻略对象反攻略了 Jiang Li Jiang Li江黎姜离Two Male Leads1.4M WordsOngoing Dual male leads, everyone's favorite, cultivation, System, angst first and sweetness later, reincarnation, amnesia, twists. I transmigrated into a hidden extra, and not just any extra, but a crucial one! The original story never even mentioned me! The calamity that will destroy the world is fast approaching, yet the System's missions are utterly baffling. Am I supposed to form a friendship bond with the child of destiny? Or win over the world-ending villain? And there's more than one child of de 460Reads9.4Score11014d adds

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    It's so touching, it makes you cry so much.

48. 248 十 Ten Lifetimes of Entanglement, All Ending in Tragedy 十世纠缠皆成殇 Jiang Li Jiang Li江黎姜离Two Male Leads300k WordsOngoing Dual male leads, one-on-one romance, a love full of hatred, cultivation, transmigration, reincarnation, and heartbreak. He transmigrates in a dream, taking over someone else's identity. The moment he opens his eyes, he finds the original owner's enemy standing before him. And that enemy is none other than the supreme ruler of the Demon Realm! At first, Jiang Li thinks it's all a dream. Carefree and sharp-tongued, he eventually enrages Shang Ying and gets a thorough beating. Only then does he rea 147Reads8.9Score10114d adds
49. 249 莫 Don't Look Back, or You'll See Your Grave 莫回头，回头见坟头 The Tree That Wants to Fly要飞天的树Ancient Romance11k WordsCompleted Don't Look Back, or You'll See Your Grave 29Reads—Score—14d adds

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    It was so painful, it made my liver hurt.

50. 250 校 A Tender Love, Etched Deep in Our School Days 校缘中，柔情刻骨 Stars in Winter冬天的繁星Urban666k WordsOngoing After returning to China, Bei Miao, a brilliant young man who graduated from a prestigious American university, meets Luo Xiaoxue, a beautiful and kind-hearted girl. They fall for each other at first sight. What kind of sparks will fly in their ordinary lives when they put their Armor Hero identities aside and reunite in a peaceful era, free of alien beasts causing trouble, in an entirely new way...? 19Reads—Score—14d adds

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    She endured six months of pregnancy alone, and shortly after giving birth, she was cornered and disappeared without a trace. Her daughter also vanished, and her husband agreed to a marriage arranged by his family. Who wouldn't cry under the covers at night after reading this?

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