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1. 1 雾 Mist-Shrouded Indulgence 雾色靡靡 Chen Ruozhou陈若舟Modern Romance539k WordsCompleted Aloof doctor × graceful beauty Rekindled love + a long road to winning her back + a powerful man lowering his head / both leads are each other’s only partners Ni Wu takes her daughter to the hospital, where the attending physician turns out to be her boyfriend from years ago. They’ve been apart for seven years. She changed her name long ago and has slimmed down from being very overweight. He doesn’t recognize her, and has no idea she secretly had his daughter. Her daughter holds her hand. “Mommy 24.4kReads8.5Score3.3k14d adds

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   The male lead starts off as noble as he ends up being incredibly humble – a classic case of a wife-chasing tragedy. The female lead is worldly-wise, capable, and overall awesome.

2. 2 偷 Stealing a Bite of the Forbidden Fruit 偷咬禁果 Hidden River隐川Modern Romance455k WordsCompleted The main story and bonus chapters are complete. "The male lead steals the heroine away / The second male lead suffers through a long road to win her back" "Pseudo-siblings / The leads are not blood-related / Never part of the same household registration / Both have no other partners / Seven-year age gap / One-on-one romance" When she was fifteen, Chu Guifan moved into the Fu household with her mother. That year, she first met Gu Hui. From then on, this man became the only secret longing in h 4.3kReads8.9Score39814d adds
3. 3 带 Back with the Kids, Mommy Is the Real Top Boss 带崽归来，妈咪才是顶级真大佬 Le Xingchun乐行春Modern Romance2.1M WordsCompleted They say Fourth Master Huo is cold-hearted and merciless, and never goes near women. Forced to marry a deaf, mute good-for-nothing wife, he was so disgusted that on their very first day, he planned to throw her to the tigers. That night, the little woman, thoroughly kissed and reeling, pinned Master Huo against the wall instead. “I heard you despise me?” His little wife narrowed her clear eyes, looking both dangerous and alluring. The cool, abstinent Master Huo kept a straight face as he began t 3.6kReads9.3Score55814d adds
4. 4 玻 The Glass Cage 玻璃之笼 A Leaf of Sunflower一叶葵Modern Romance663k WordsCompleted [No moral boundaries] [The wholesome sections are available as a full-cast audiobook] My older sister has a boyfriend who seems perfect. He treats her well, is good to our parents, and is good to me, too. I thought they were made for each other. Until that Christmas night, when I finally realized he was nothing but a complete bastard. 40kReads8.7Score3.4k14d adds

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   This is so uncomfortable to look at.

5. 5 丧 Stray Dog 丧家犬 A Bite of Coconut Jelly吃一口椰冻Two Male Leads317k WordsCompleted [Reader advisory: A cruel lover faces retribution in this angst-heavy story. First person, bad ending.] [Contracted for publication] [Cold, elite, callous top x rough, middle-aged bottom] Zhou Xian was reborn. In his previous life, he died like a stray dog on the day his former lover Shen Wen married the man he had always loved. This time, he was reborn three months before his death. To get revenge, he asked Shen Wen to date him for one last three months. * Successful in his career, Shen Wen had 506Reads9.3Score8314d adds

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   A tragic ending story featuring two male leads!!!

6. 6 他 He’s Lost Control 他已失控 Never Annoyed by Time时不烦Two Male Leads591k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + love and hate + winning back his wife after driving her away + punishing scumbags] Gu Yanchi: The more starved for love someone is, the more likely they are to convince themselves that giving everything is what they should do. Lin Du: So, do you still love me? You don't anymore, do you... 3.5kReads8.9Score30214d adds
7. 7 潇 The Late Sound of Drizzling Rain 潇潇雨声迟 Meng Zhiwan孟栀晚Modern Romance120k WordsCompleted Years after graduation, a gossip post begins circulating on the message board for City Experimental School. The school's 2011 beauty, Ye Xiao, and its most handsome boy from the same year, Ruan Yusheng, are a couple. Their classmates, who know them well, rush over to set the record straight: it's pure rumor. There was never any spark between the two of them. Ye Xiao's profile even says, “Person I hate most: Ruan Yusheng.” People in the know go so far as to say, “Ye Xiao feels nothing but hatred 80.8kReads9.7Score14.1k14d adds

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   "The Sound of Rain" – "Later, we both got soaked in the rain, and neither of us got an umbrella." Ye Xiao once thought that her fate with Ruan Yusheng was like a long, lingering plum rain, gently entwining her entire youth. He shielded her from the wind in the corridor, copied her endless homework, but on graduation day, he turned and disappeared into the crowd. Ten years later at the class reunion, the silver ring on his ring finger stung her eyes: "It turns out that some rain, as it falls, eventually stops." "The Sad Little Thing About Unrequited Love" – "I chased the light like a shadow, but the light never turned back." Lin Xu's diary hides a person: Page 1 says, "He praised my eraser as cute today," page 127 says, "He's in love," and the last page is blank. This one-man show, unknown to anyone, ended in silence. —"The biggest regret of youth is that even being jealous requires a right." ▫️"Listen, it's raining outside the window." "That's my tears lying for you." —"The Sound of Rain" ▫️"Unrequited love is 99 times you retract messages and 1 all-nighter deleting chat history." —"The Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love"

8. 8 暗 The Sad Little Thing Called Unrequited Love 暗恋这件难过的小事 Meng Zhiwan孟栀晚Modern Romance122k WordsCompleted Lin Xu has a crush on the popular boy Ye Feng, and she remembers countless little details about him. Every day, Lin Xu times her departure down to the second, getting dressed and putting on her shoes in a hurry, all for the chance to catch a fleeting glimpse of his back. The music playing during the long break outside her classroom is Xu Song’s “Moon over Luzhou.” Lin Xu knows it’s the favorite song of Ye Feng, the school radio station’s announcer. Lin Xu has even stayed up all night organizing 79.3kReads9.7Score13.8k14d adds
9. 9 他 They Carved My Tombstone 他们为我刻好了墓碑 Rising Higher and Higher升升火火Modern Romance599k WordsCompleted [Angst before the payoff + real and fake heiresses + no forgiveness + the whole family pays dearly] Lin Qian is an orphan. Then one day, her wealthy parents find her and tell her she’s their biological daughter, the true heiress. She thinks she can finally enjoy a happy life with loving parents, but when she returns home, she discovers there’s also a fake heiress who is doted on by the family. To protect the fake heiress, her biological parents send Lin Qian to prison to take the blame. Five yea 20.4kReads8.2Score1.6k14d adds

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   Who understands?! I'm about to be tortured to death by the female lead late at night!!! Five whole years! She suffered so much in prison [crying][crying] She's truly inhuman! That scheming adopted daughter, can she and her brother just get lost?! Thankfully, the female lead fought back! So satisfying!

10. 10 八 The 1980s: The Cold-Faced Officer Is Wrapped Around the Sickly Beauty's Finger 八零：冷面军官被病弱美人拿捏了 Little Silly Goose小呆鹅Modern Romance571k WordsCompleted [Military Marriage + Sweet Romance + Mutual Devotion] Martial arts prodigy Jiang Nianzhi transmigrates into a book and arrives in an alternate version of the 1980s, where she becomes a delicate, frail beauty. Thinking she would run into one terrible person after another, she rolls up her sleeves, ready to beat them all into submission. But her feisty mother favors girls over boys, her white-lotus sister is a doting sister-con, her grandmother is a beauty enthusiast, and her little brother has 78.6kReads9.4Score12.1k14d adds
11. 11 重 Reborn, I Spoiled the Campus Big Shot Until He Escaped Poverty! 重生后，我宠的校园大佬他脱贫了！ Hot and Sour Rice Noodles酸辣粉Modern Romance972k WordsCompleted [Modern Romance + Reborn + School Life + Academic Ace + Devoted Husband + Sweet Romance] In her previous life, Song Mianmian was betrayed by her family. It was He Yan who avenged her six years after her death. Reborn into a new life, He Yan is so poor he can barely scrape by. Song Mianmian feels as if her heart is breaking for him. She immediately switches into “pursue my man” mode: making him a loving breakfast, acting as his protector, becoming his humble little maid, and begging the academ 29Reads6.7Score—14d adds

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    This redemption story, which starts sweet and then turns heartbreaking, is incredibly good.

12. 12 h He Sees Spring he见春天 Su Xingsi of the Qianqiu Palace千秋宫的苏行司Modern Romance25k WordsCompleted Jiang Du thought her youth was destined to smell of disinfectant in hospital corridors and the foil stars inside medicine packets, until Wei Qingyue burst into her world carrying a quantum physics textbook. A greenhouse on a stormy night, cicadas singing at 128 Hz, a novel manuscript filled with annotations: every signal they had missed was gently corrected in a parallel universe. Eight years later, when blue plumbago bloomed out of season, meteor coordinates from the observatory guided them to 4.7kReads—Score46714d adds

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    Why only 16? Because Jiang Du only lived to be 16. Every year someone else turns 16, and Jiang Du is 16 every year.

13. 13 我 I Became Queen in a Kingdom of Men 我在男儿国里当女王 Brother Poyun from Dunk Island邓克岛的破云兄Ancient Romance248k WordsCompleted Who says only men can have several wives and concubines? The queen of a kingdom of men can, too. Do the men in this kingdom all grow up taking beauty pills? Every one of them is so handsome... And why is there a woman with a beard, a giant who’s only 30 centimeters tall, and bird people with wings...? 6Reads—Score—14d adds

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    No angst, just a very satisfying read.

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