In a Reading Slump. Looking for Angsty Novels of Any Genre 书荒。 求各种题材好看的虐文
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The Frail Little One Is Spoiled Rotten 病弱崽崽超受宠的
[Quick transmigration, raising-kids story, two male leads, adored by everyone and everyone's heartthrob! The little one gets doted on early in each world, with a romance between the two male leads developing later! The little one is just the cutest!] [Because of his poor health, the little one gets a disease buff in every world and dies young, becoming everyone's white moonlight. The ending is guaranteed to be happy!] As he lay dying, Qian Yuan was chosen by a System and tasked with winning peop
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Transmigrated as Everyone's Most Hated, Yet I Have the White Moonlight Persona 穿成万人嫌，但人设是白月光
The rating just opened, so it will gradually rise. World Two is complete! Ready to binge! [Quick transmigration + crematorium-style regret + universally disliked character’s comeback as the beloved white moonlight + everyone’s darling + sweet and satisfying + vast worldbuilding] Jiang Yu became an employee in the quick-transmigration bureau’s villainous cannon-fodder department. From the start, everyone hated her, and she was doomed to die at the end. The department has three great qualities: lo
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Quick Transmigration: I Became the Villainess, and the Comments Begged Me to Stop Torturing Them 快穿成恶毒女配，弹幕哭求别虐我
After Shi Wuqing died, someone claiming to be a System found her. If she collected enough “popularity points,” she could come back to life. Shi Wuqing agreed. Then she was sent into various novels, where she became the cannon-fodder character readers hated most. Her mission was to become the character readers loved most, with the highest popularity, by the end of each novel! World One: Shi Wuqing became the scheming younger sister who took the heroine's place and married the prince. At the begi
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Sickly, Beautiful, and Tragic [Immersive Quick Transmigration] 病弱美强惨【沉浸式快穿】
[The ratings don't tell the whole story, okay?] An angst-heavy story! The male lead suffers, and there are depictions of poor health. If that's not for you, run now!! [Male lead transmigrates + entirely fictional setting + immersive roleplay + strong protagonist with few golden fingers] [There seems to be a CP, but in practice there might as well be none. Ensemble cast, so ship whoever you like.] The story of Chen Yanzhi, young master of the Chen family of Jiangnan, and System 995 (Save Me), as
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Quick Transmigration: The Black Moonlight Plays for Keeps, Not for Love 快穿虐文之黑月光走肾不走心
A heart-wrenching quick transmigration story. After dying unexpectedly, professional emotional support companion Yan Wu is bound to a heartache System and forced into a dangerous game where her sincerity is the stake! She can give her body, but never her heart.
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Quick Transmigration: Mastering the Bad-End Plot 快穿之拿捏be剧情
[Content warnings: Some worlds don't feature two virgins; groveling pursuit of a wife; mindless angst; wish fulfillment; the heroine has a different personality in each world.] Su Yuyun, a gold-medal Host, arrives at the Bad Ending Plot Department. Using life as her canvas and performance as her brush, she writes one tragic story after another. A cold-hearted emperor and a whimsical palace consort; a childhood friend turned movie star and a genius screenwriter; a persecuted hostage prince from a
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Quick Transmigration: My Host Is Frail and Helpless, but Completely Unhinged 快穿疯批：我那宿主柔弱不能自理
In every tragic romance, the heroine is tormented by the hero until her heart is torn apart, and her heart, kidneys, and brain are cut out. Yet the heroine loves the hero without fail, devoting herself wholeheartedly to her career as his doormat. Now Jingsha has become the heroine of a tragic romance. She's obsessive, unstable, scummy, and downright crazy. She torments the male lead, then the male supporting character, then the female supporting character. In the end, they all love her but can n
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I'm Trying My Best to Die in This Torture Novel 我在虐文里努力求死
A Lan is a newcomer to the White Moonlight Group for quick-transmigration angst novels. Her task each time is to die by the end of the story so the male and female leads can live happily together. She has always thought she did a great job, and every rating from her System, Qi Wu, has been above SSS rank. But maybe she did too good a job: after she dies, the male and female leads end up either strangers or acquaintances. That's not right. A Lan can't figure it out, but she still has to carry out
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Someone Worries I’ll Kill Myself Every Day 每天都有人担心我会自杀
Lin Qingran died in the cold seawater, her life ending forever at the age of twenty-four. Afterward, the family members closest to her were consumed with regret and got the chance to start over. Can they change her fate this time? And what about the person she couldn’t stop thinking of, even as she died? Will they find their happy ending? Lin Qingran noticed that her family had started acting a little differently. Their annual family meeting had become a quarterly one. Her usually stern grandfa
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Transmigrated into a Tragic Novel: After I Died, I Made Every Male Supporting Character Weep 穿书虐文，我死后虐哭所有男配
Su Yuan transmigrated into a tragic novel. Betrayed by the junior brother she trusted most, she was branded a useless test subject for the Medicine Valley and thrown into a secret prison, where she endured every kind of torture. Then, accused of betraying her country and aiding the enemy, she was cast out of her home by her own brother. Every last commoner hated her and wanted to feast on her flesh and bones. She survived only because the emperor happened to be in a good mood that day and “tempo
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The Angst System Begged Me to Go Easy 虐文系统哭着求我手下留情
[Quick Transmigration] [Strong Female Lead] [Powerhouse] [Neither Wholly Good nor Evil] [A Touch of Harem Appeal] [Rejecting Moral Constraints and Coercion] [No CP means no fixed pairing] (The first few chapters are just to give you a basic idea of the protagonist's abilities and general characterization. Feel free to skip them if they're not to your taste and start with the mission worlds instead. The first world has a lot of setup at the beginning, but the ending is thrilling. Give it a try if
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Quick Transmigration: After I Die, Someone Always Follows Me in Death 快穿虐渣：我死后总有人跟着殉情
Across the vast universe, there is a group of people like this. After they die, their souls are not reincarnated. Instead, they are chosen by the Overlord God to become Hosts for quick transmigration Systems, traveling to various worlds on missions to keep the three thousand small worlds stable. Bei Ruoxian is one of them. The only problem is that every world where she completes a mission ends up on the verge of collapse. It's all because she refuses to follow the usual script. The Systems assig
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The Angsty Novel's Protagonist Can't Speak Up? I'll Say It for You! 虐文主角没长嘴？我来替你说！
[No CP] [Abuse the Scumbags] [Feel-Good Story] After Yu Nian'an died, she was bound to a System. Only by helping the protagonists get their happily-ever-after in melodramatic romance worlds could she return home. At first, Yu Nian'an thought: Easy. I just have to play matchmaker, right? Later, Yu Nian'an wondered: Are these even proper novels? Are all the protagonists mute? So all that tragic love was just because nobody could say what they meant? Do they have to end up together no matter what
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The System Punished Me by Making Me Bleed. Why Are You Crying? 我被系统惩罚流血，你们哭什么
The Villainess System had never encountered such a difficult tasker. Every time, she chose to reject the task and accept the punishment of bleeding. But can someone explain why this woman has maxed out the male lead’s affection by bleeding from all sorts of places? System: Host, please choose whether to accept the Level Two task: [Steal the original heroine’s scenes]. Failure will result in coughing up blood. Lin Zhumian: I choose to refuse. Then, while acting, she spat out a mouthful of blood.
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The White Moonlight Never Looks Back as the Male Lead Explodes 白月光从不回头看男主爆炸
[BE aesthetic | tearjerking and cathartic | no melodramatic angst | immersive slow transmigration | flirtatious White Moonlight x gentle, obsessive man | sweet and bittersweet | 1v1, both leads’ firsts | parallel-world happy-ending bonus chapters] World 1: Villainous fake heiress x loyal true young master World 2: Canary x owner World 3: Arrogant princess x future tyrant World 4: Bright, beautiful school bully and underachiever x poor, handsome top student World 5: Black-lotus stepmother x true
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After Immersing Myself in Winning Over the Male Lead, I Ran Away 沉浸式攻略男主后，我跑了
[Quick Transmigration + Fake Death + Bad Ending + Regret and Redemption + No CP] Zhi Yi was born into the quick transmigration agency’s inheritor family, tasked with writing worlds. Her lazy, greedy, and slippery System finds her heartbreaking, gut-wrenching worlds every day. Zhi Yi: … After transmigrating into the body of a poor girl from a fallen family, the young master declared, “A poor girl like you thinks she’s good enough to love me?” Later, the young master knelt beside her sickbed, cryi
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What?! Who Writes a Tragic Romance Where the Male Lead Gets Tortured? 惊！谁家虐文虐的是男主呀
[Strong female lead + face-slapping + no male lead + all the best moments belong to the women] Ye Yaoqing was bored late one night and casually searched for a power fantasy novel with a strong female lead. She never expected it to hit her like a bolt from the blue and shatter her values. It's a story about a madman dragging an aloof beauty down from her pedestal. The male lead loves the female lead, but because of his childhood experiences, he doesn't understand love. So he hurts her, misunderst
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Quick Transmigration: The Right Way to Play Out a Tragic Romance 快穿：论虐文剧情的正确打开方式
[No CP + dual male leads + feel-good face-slapping] 1 System: [Host, we're following an angst novel script. We'll activate the angst-then-sweet mode. In this world, you'll gradually go through heart-wrenching angst, getting kicked out of the house, wandering the streets, being penniless, and getting into a car accident while saving the male lead, among other scenarios. In the ending, the male lead will come to his senses and remember how good you were to him. He'll finally fall in love with you
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Why Pick a Fight with Him? Even the Weakest in His Sect Is a Great Emperor 你惹他干嘛？他宗门最弱都是大帝
(Invincible protagonist + taking disciples + sect upgrades + ruthless and decisive + expansive worldbuilding + ensemble cast + gradual build-up + the pacing is a little slow for the first 200,000 words, then becomes explosively fast) “You have to pay to cultivate immortality?” “You even have to grease palms to get a spot?” “And pay the sect thirty taels of silver every month?” “You have to serve as a menial for half a year before you can even get a chance to study immortal arts?” “You came first
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North and South, Fated to Miss Each Other 南北不遇
“Hello, I’d like to apply for a divorce.” In her previous life, Ning Ruzhi had married Gu Chenshan, a dashing and upright man, full of joy. But her sincere love was met only with his coldness and indifference. It wasn’t until she was on her deathbed that she learned the truth: Gu Chenshan had always held an unforgettable first love in his heart. He had married her only to repay the commander’s kindness. Now that she has been given another chance at life, it must be Heaven’s way of taking pity on
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Mountains and Seas, All Have a Time to Return 山海皆有归期
After three years entangled with Shang Yuan, I was left covered in wounds. I chose to marry Su Zhiyu, who had silently stayed by my side all along. Su Zhiyu and I have been married for seven years, and we have a lovely daughter. I thought he and our child were the ray of light I had caught before sunset. Until I accidentally opened his diary from when he was eighteen. "If you can, don't have a child with someone you don't love."
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An Old Love Is Hard to Leave Behind 旧爱难辞
Old Love Is Hard to Leave Behind
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If the Stars Were to Fall 若星星就此陨落
If the Stars Were to Fall
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She Fell Silent 她已无声
She Fell Silent
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Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春
[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
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My Coworker and I Swapped Love Lives 同事和我交换了爱情
My Coworker and I Swapped Love Lives
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Dr. Zhou's White Moonlight Is Dying 周医生的白月光快死了
[Fragile, ill bottom VS cold, aloof top] [Heart-wrenching angst + mutually exclusive devotion, 1v1 + bad ending + extreme bottom fans, beware] Wen Ci had terminal stomach cancer. The doctor said he had at most thirty days left, and Wen Ci could live those thirty days for Zhou Ying. But Wen Ci died on the twenty-seventh day. After his death, Wen Ci left behind twenty-seven unread letters, a rabbit, a book, and a crushed red maple leaf.
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The Empress Refuses Love, While the Tyrant Goes Mad and Turns to the Dark Side 娘娘不入爱河，暴君疯批入魔
[One-on-one romance, devoted couple + palace intrigue + regretful pursuit, clear-headed heroine, everyone's unattainable ideal] Meng Tang is a gracious, gentle empress who never competes for favor. Everyone thinks she is a true white lotus standing tall in the harem, and even the tyrant believes it. He takes a new concubine, and she smiles, congratulates him, and arranges for the newcomer to spend the night with him. He sends her restorative medicine, and she obediently takes it, knowing full we
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Reborn Poison Doctor: Prince, Sign the Divorce Papers 重生毒医：王爷，和离请签字
Reborn as a Poison Doctor: Prince, Sign the Divorce Papers
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Reborn Princess Consort: Prince, Your Life Is Mine 重生王妃：王爷，姐来取你狗命了
Reborn Princess Consort: Prince, Your Sister Is Here to Take Your Life
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On Our Wedding Day, the God of War Came to Steal Me with Divorce Papers! 新婚当天，战神带着休书来抢亲！
On their wedding day, the God of War arrives with a letter of divorce to steal the bride!
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On the Day I Divorced Him, the Grand Secretary Carried an Imperial Edict to Steal Me Away! 休夫当天，首辅扛着圣旨来抢我！
The day I divorce my husband, the chief minister arrives carrying an imperial decree to claim me!
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Me and the Roses Are Always at Your Princess's Service! 我与玫瑰，随时为公主待命！
[The print edition is now available. Search for Sweet Mist on your favorite platform to buy it.] [One-on-one sweet romance, heart-fluttering and indulgent, with no limits to his devotion.] Zhou Jin, captain of the criminal investigation squad, was unruly, untamed, and hated being pestered. He had no patience for coaxing anyone, either. But after one assignment, he made an exception and took a young woman into his home. The next day, everyone on the team was gossiping: Would the young woman get y
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Surely You Laugh at My Passion 多情应笑我
Lin Fang has been disguised as a boy since childhood, and she can't help feeling helpless about it. Her household registration says she's male, so what can she do? But the secret she has sworn to protect is discovered by a young boy she accidentally rescues! Lin Fang thought she'd picked up a deadweight, but once the boy, Yun Weiming, regains his identity, she feels as if she's sitting on a mountain of gold. “Who would've thought! I've picked up all kinds of things before, but you're the most va
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You Have X-Ray Vision, So Why Are You Still Gambling on Stones? 透视不赌石，你又在乱看
[Underdog's rise + stone gambling + treasure appraisal + finding hidden bargains + satisfying read + golden finger: X-ray vision] Gao Yang is an ordinary office worker who accidentally discovers that his girlfriend, whom he is about to marry, has been sleeping with his best friend. Enraged, he rides his bike recklessly across the road and gets hit by a car, landing in the hospital. By a stroke of luck, he gains X-ray vision. From then on, his fate changes and his life takes a new course. Finding
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Quick Transmigration: The Sickly-Sweet Big Shot Is Fierce and Clingy 快穿：病娇大佬他又凶又黏人
[Comic adaptation complete] At the moment of her death, Nan Qing’s greatest wish is to have a healthy body. After she dies, she gets bound to something that calls itself the System. It can give her a healthy body, and in return, she has to complete the tasks it assigns. Save the male supporting characters? Er’er: “Save the male supporting characters in stories about saving the world, and change their tragic endings of loving someone they can’t have, growing old alone, and spending their whole li
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President Lu, Stop Tormenting Her! Your Wife Is the One You’ve Always Loved 陆总别虐了，夫人才是你的白月光
[The Regretful Ex Tries to Win Her Back + Obsessive] After being framed, Mu Qiuyan became a criminal in the eyes of the law for causing the death of her husband's true love. When she got out of prison, her husband treated her even more cruelly than before. The day she was diagnosed with stomach cancer, she humbly begged him for one last bit of comfort. Lu Zhiyan said, “I'll use the bastard in your belly to pay tribute to Qingqing!” At that moment, Mu Qiuyan's heart died. She leapt into the sea,
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Rong Ci’s Cherry Blossoms: Blooming with All Their Might, Falling Without Regret 容辞的樱花：开得拼命，落得干脆
Rong Ci’s cherry blossoms: They bloom with all their might, then fall without hesitation.
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Li Jianjun’s Comeback Through Futures Trading 李建军期货翻身路
Li Jianjun’s Road to a Comeback Through Futures Trading
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
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
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You Have Only Eight Years to Live from the Start, and You’re Going All In? 开局只有八年寿命，你直接梭哈？
[Concept Enhancement + Decisive and Ruthless + No Brain-dead Moves + Cold-Blooded and Merciless + Rock-Solid Caution + No Simping] After mysteriously transmigrating to another world, Ding Yi grew more and more uneasy by the day. He noticed that the elderly couple who had kindly taken him in kept peeping at him outside his door in the middle of the night. The suppressed, excited breathing and sounds of swallowing from beyond the crack in the door left Ding Yi in no doubt that the old couple would
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After I Died, the Tragic-Novel Heroine Went Mad 我死后，虐文女主疯了
I fell in love with the heroine of a tragic romance. When the male lead abandoned her at the altar, I walked up to her. We got married, and I thought she could finally break free of her scripted fate and spend the rest of her life with me. Then, three years later, the male lead came to his senses. He knelt outside my home and confessed his love to her. Without hesitation, she shook me off and ran straight to him. The two embraced in the rain, a scene straight out of a romance. But she didn't kno
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Sunlight Through the Cracks 裂缝里的阳光
From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While
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Quick Transmigration: After Torturing the Big Shot to Tears, I Faked My Death and Escaped 快穿：把大佬虐哭后我死遁了
[Two male leads, scum gong regrets his actions, chases his wife to the crematorium, sickly, coughing blood, forced love, shou fakes his death and escapes, BE in the small worlds, HE in the end] [System: Reminder, Host Yun Chen, this is an S-rank conquest world. The principal gods of every plane are extremely powerful!] [Yun Chen: Oh.] - The domineering CEO, wealthy enough to rival a nation: You’re nothing but a substitute picked out of the mud. My one true love is the chosen one! Yun Chen fell i
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From Now On, Our Hearts Beat as One, Until Death Do Us Part 此后，我们心脏同频，至死不渝
From then on, our hearts beat in sync, devoted to each other until death.
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Nine Years After My Death, My Girlfriend Finally Realized I Was Dead 我死后的第九年，女友终于发现我死了
Nine years after I died, the disabled girlfriend I had once abandoned returned to the country. And the first thing she did after coming back was set out to take revenge on me! Because I had once slapped her, she had someone break my father’s hand. When I forced her to kneel, she ran over my mother and shattered both her legs. When I made her eat dog food, she slashed my younger sister’s mouth with a knife. At last, when she set her sights on me and wanted to see me kneel and regret everything, h
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Transmigrated as the Tragic Romance’s Male Supporting Character, I Faked My Death and the Live Comments Exploded 穿成虐文男配，死遁之后弹幕炸了
Reborn as the Male Supporting Character in an Angsty Novel, I Faked My Death and the On-Screen Comments Exploded
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Make Them Weep, Make Them Suffer 虐哭，超虐
Heartbreaking and intensely angsty.
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I Raised My Misguided Disciples 我把孽徒们养歪了
Wei Jing transmigrates into a book as a cannon-fodder character who is infatuated with the male lead, targets the heroine, frames her martial uncle, and becomes enemies with the great villain. To save her own life, she takes three men as disciples and accepts the heroine as her grand-disciple on their behalf. She plans to lie back like a lazy fish, enjoy her disciples' and grand-disciple's devotion, and watch the four of them fall in love and tear each other apart under the weight of moral and e
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Dear Director Wen 亲爱的闻总监
[Strong female lead, feel-good revenge, humiliating scumbags and making them eat their words, rekindled romance, sweet indulgence, the male lead rises to the top, and a love triangle] [Devoted, puppy-like CEO boyfriend of many years × bold, decisive, stubborn director who refuses to back down] After dating for three years, Wen Ruan finally learned she had only ever been a stand-in. When they broke up, Wen Ruan said, “Jiang Qingyan, I hope you die alone.” After being unjustly fired, Wen Ruan join
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