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1. 1 亡 The Eighth Year Without My Late Wife 亡妻的第八年 Lightly Drowsy浅困Romance559k WordsCompleted Please read the content warnings before starting. - A man with an unrequited crush, and widower fiction. He Xingzhi was transferred for work to the project team behind an ancient-style romance game for women she'd played in college. To familiarize herself with the game, she registered a new account, and her consciousness was once again transported into the game world. He Xingzhi still remembered playing the game as a man 92.6kFavorites74.6kClicks/ch38.8kGifts

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   The novel is very popular, but I couldn't get into the plot. The interaction between the two main characters felt distant; is that my problem?

2. 2 衔 Pearl Between the Lips 衔珠 Lin Tingchan林听蝉Romance674k WordsCompleted The eldest legitimate son of the century-old Xie family, Xie Zhiyan, is the very picture of refined elegance, as graceful as jade. He married the most proper young lady from a family of scholars. Everyone says they are a perfect match, a union made in heaven. At first, Xie Zhiyan paid little attention to the marriage. His wife was there to manage the household and serve his elders, after all. Even in their duties as husband and wife, he maintained propriety and restraint, never crossing the lin 61.6kFavorites64.1kClicks/ch23.3kGifts

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   The writing is childish and awkward; it feels like reading about Barbie's castle.

3. 3 废 The Crown Prince's Doomed First Wife 废太子的早死原配 Wu Cai吾彩Romance706k WordsCompleted Private chef Meng Yuning transmigrated into a book, becoming the cannon-fodder wife who abandons the male lead in his time of need. In the book, Crown Prince Qi Jingyan falls from power overnight, his legs are crippled, and he loses his position as heir. He is sent to a remote fief with his younger brother, who shares both his parents. The Empress Dowager feels sorry for her grandson and insists he marry before leaving. The original Meng Yuning doesn't want to suffer with him. On the road to the 47.7kFavorites62.8kClicks/ch16.3kGifts

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   I abandoned the story at the beginning because it resembled a plot written by a primary school student without any thought... There were too many logical flaws.

4. 4 公 Princess Yongjia 公主永嘉 Xing Qiyi行期一Romance560k WordsCompleted When Emperor Jiahe arranged her marriage, Lingyi thought she would marry Xie Yu. Qin Lie wanted nothing less than to marry Princess Yongjia. Later, She lost the one she loved. He gained his cinnabar mole. A warlord in troubled times x a fallen princess. A story about a dependent flower. A groveling-after-the-breakup romance. Marriage first, love later, a sea of hatred and sorrow, over-the-top melodrama. If these tropes bother you, don’t read. No transmigration or transmigration into a book, n 32kFavorites30kClicks/ch20.6kGifts

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   I watched a bit, but it wasn't very good because the male lead has an ex-wife and other children... Ugh. The writing is good, but it reads like a historical record devoid of emotion.

5. 5 七 Seven-Second Memory 七秒记忆 I Have Lots of Money我有钱多多Romance428k WordsCompleted Everyone envied Song Yuncheng for being with Yu Zhan for seven years. Yu Zhan had everything going for him: good looks, a great physique, and an even better family background. It was just that he didn’t seem to have much heart to give. He loved to have fun. Even in high school, he’d been carefree and irreverent, passionate and free. Later, he was brought back into his wealthy family to inherit the business. Even in a position of power, he handled everything with ease, treating life like a game. 28.5kFavorites30.9kClicks/ch6kGifts

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   A modern Mary Sue story... The male lead is against marriage but secretly has been in a seven-year relationship with the female lead. It's really something to see people like this. The later part of HZC was quite enjoyable, but the female lead's hypocrisy really annoyed me. It felt like she only ever liked the male lead, and it was just for the sake of the plot; the readers were just part of their game. What's most disgusting is that even though the female lead already has a boyfriend, her friends keep comparing her to the male lead. It's incredibly rude and disrespectful to everyone.

6. 6 从 From the Fireflies 从萤 Mu Qiuchi木秋池Romance516k WordsCompleted (One-line summary) After being reborn, he competes with his past self for his wife. (Blurb) Xie Xuanlan took his own life fifteen years after his wife died. The good news was that he was reborn. The bad news was that he was reborn as someone else. He watched his former self act against his heart in front of his wife, hide his feelings, and waste his youth. At first, all he wanted was to bring the two together, clear away the obstacles, and make up for their regrets. But as he watched their 17kFavorites15.5kClicks/ch17.4kGifts

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   The writing is so good, the characters are so appealing, but the plot is terrible. The female lead has an unlikable personality and a conflicted character. The male lead isn't tough enough The young male lead has a sharp tongue. As a result, the plot stagnated, becoming neither enjoyable nor worth abandoning.

7. 7 炼 Forging Swords 炼剑 Three Liang of White Sugar白糖三两Romance482k WordsCompleted (Main story complete) Yu He transmigrated into a cultivation novel. The heroine works hard to cultivate and avenge her family. She and the male lead go through a series of tangled love-and-hate entanglements, and in the end defeat her master, who has turned evil in order to resurrect his fiancée. The twists and turns of the story fill a million words. But Yu He is just a mortal, not even given a name in the book. She only wants to live in peace and, while she’s at it, find a way home. She neve 177.2kFavorites240.3kClicks/ch67.6kGifts

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   It felt so drawn out. The female lead had no feelings for the male lead, and the male lead had no feelings for the female lead either... It was really weird, you know?

8. 8 揽 Gathering the Bright Moon 揽明月 Xie Chaochao谢朝朝Romance422k WordsCompleted [Proud princess vs. low-born general] In the second year after the new emperor ascended the throne, he packed off his elder sister, Zhao Mingzhen, the extravagant and debauched Grand Princess, and married her to Yan Qu, a general born a commoner. One was a pampered princess of royal blood who needed a sedan chair to go anywhere and bathed in milk; the other was a rough man from the wilderness, who ate and drank whatever he could find and swallowed his teeth with his blood. Everyone said they we 46.2kFavorites38.2kClicks/ch10.7kGifts

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   Haha, this is the first time I've given a five-star rating to a story, but I'm abandoning it. Five stars because the female lead is the commander and becomes the empress. I don't read it because it's well-written but not engaging. The two characters are both too perfect, but I felt no passion watching their scenes together; that's my problem.

9. 9 长 Long Winds Toward Spring in the Capital 长风望春京 Vanilla Taro Balls香草芋圆Romance507k WordsCompleted Zhang Hanyu entered government service as a man, manipulated power by controlling the young emperor, and fought her political enemies tooth and nail at court. Then one day, her identity as a woman was exposed, shocking the entire court. Zhang Hanyu was sentenced to palace labor. She thought her crooked path to power was finally over... but the young emperor couldn't bear to let her go and hid her by his side, where she might rise again at any moment. The ministers were stunned! In full view of 21.7kFavorites17.4kClicks/ch12.9kGifts

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   The female lead is cool, the male lead is like a father figure, a super doting father! He thinks the female lead's decision to cut off her career path is for her own good, and that she's a villain while he's a great man trying to guide her towards good (ugh, I really hate these hypocritical people who try to elevate themselves). While the female lead was still thinking about challenging the male lead, he had already decided to force her to resign from her official post and become his wife (speechless, the female lead doesn't even know who he is). Pah!

10. 10 玉 Jade Waist, Spring's Pendant 玉腰坠春 Zi Dong嗞咚Romance348k WordsCompleted Chen Yanqing is the future head of the Chen family, refined, warm, and graceful, with impeccable manners. The only exception is his strained relationship with his father, Master Chen. He especially despises the debauchery that fills his father’s entire household. After Master Chen dies, he promptly confines all the concubines to a single courtyard. Song Yinrou, once Master Chen’s most favored concubine, is even punished by being made to copy scriptures in the Buddhist hall every day. But no o 15.1kFavorites16.3kClicks/ch2.6kGifts

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    The disgusting thing is that the female lead was sexually assaulted by the male lead's father. I feel like throwing up. The male protagonist is portrayed as lustful at first sight, but forcing him into the role of a virtuous and upright gentleman feels awkward.

11. 11 忆 Remembering the King 忆君王 Emerald Cui Sisi碧翠思思Romance622k WordsCompleted ● A ruthless warlord elder brother and a beautiful noblewoman younger sister. Both leads have only been with each other. ● After recovering my memories, I discover that my husband is the very brother who once forced himself on me. * Zhen Zhuzhu was the most beautiful woman across the thirty prefectures of the northern lands. Born into a powerful northern clan, she later married the young Jizhou military governor, who commanded a formidable army. After the turmoil of the age of chaos, the Jiz 11.4kFavorites14kClicks/ch6.9kGifts

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    The male protagonist is a heartless bastard who killed the female protagonist's brother, seized her father's position, humiliated her fiancé (who was also a scoundrel), and forced her into incestuous relations with him. There's absolutely no element of tormenting the male lead in the entire story; he's incredibly happy, gaining both the female lead's family's power and her love. I almost laughed at the female lead's final compromise. Her noble compromise for the sake of national righteousness is nauseating. The author clearly knows that without this sense of national duty, the female lead would never have turned back. This flimsy reason has become the bargaining chip used to force her to compromise. It's better for women not to place too much importance on national affairs and righteousness. After all, if they really valued the country, why didn't they just kill the male protagonist and become emperor themselves?

12. 12 明 The Bright Moon Bears the Snow 明月载雪 Dog Pillar狗柱Romance355k WordsCompleted The main story is complete. The next story, "After Losing My Memory, I Got a HE with My Brooding, Manipulative Husband", starts in early May. Brooding, manipulative man x sunny, innocent woman. The blurb is below~ Blurb [The male lead is delusional and schemes himself into falling in love; face-slapping, he realizes his feelings and gets his comeuppance, heartbreak and emotional breakdown; light and sweet, not angsty] Xie Yu hated Jiang Wan. He hated being forced into marriage with her. He a 9.5kFavorites8.4kClicks/ch987Gifts

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    I forget the reason, but never enter a market with a huge discrepancy between subscription and revenue ratios; we've all learned this the hard way.

13. 13 与 After Marrying My Nemesis 与宿敌成婚后 Songzi Qi淞子七Romance584k WordsCompleted [Completed. Thank you for rating, and thanks, everyone!] VB: Songzi Qi Jiang Shiyuan was a renowned young lady of Bianjing, famed for her unparalleled medical skills and envied by countless other young women. But on the day of her coming-of-age ceremony, the Prince of Yan was poisoned, the Jiang family was falsely accused, and their home was confiscated. The man who condemned the Jiang family was the powerful minister Xie Xun. He wielded immense power and was as ruthless as a wolf. Though he o 27.5kFavorites22.2kClicks/ch7.7kGifts

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    The beginning was fine, but whenever the male and female leads had scenes together, it became awkward, with the leads acting like lovesick fools and completely losing their minds... I don't understand why this happened, it's such a shame.

14. 14 郡 The Princess Says 郡主说 Miss Xu许姑娘Romance715k WordsCompleted [Main story complete. Bonus chapters will be updated over time.] Everyone knows that Lu Yunmen, heir to the Prince of Yan's fief, is the most pure-hearted young man in Chang'an. A young official, disciplined and courteous, upright even in solitude, peerlessly handsome. That is, until one day, he took in the illegitimate daughter of a minor official who had fled her home for her life. She would gaze at him with innocent, beautiful, grape-black eyes, stroke the hefty orange cat he kept, and say: " 14.3kFavorites11.3kClicks/ch13.7kGifts

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    I'm giving it three stars because I liked it; seeing the seemingly unattainable beauty brought down from her pedestal and the female lead's manipulation of people's hearts was really satisfying. I deducted two points because the female lead was portrayed as a minor acting cute and coquettish to an awful degree. Watching a little girl flirt with men really gives me a psychological trauma. I gave up reading it halfway through.

15. 15 我 The Crown Prince and I Live in Perfect Harmony 我与太子举案齐眉 Ling Yao令杳Romance543k WordsCompleted Please add Toying with the Aloof Beauty, Then Finding There's No Escape to your reading list! The blurb is below. --- [Warning: melodrama ahead] --- Ming Yunzhi is the beautiful daughter of a high-ranking official, with a graceful figure and striking looks. She is a renowned beauty in the capital. She was betrothed to the crown prince as a child and grew up observing every rule and propriety, never making a single mistake. When she came of age, she married into the Eastern Palace in a grand wedd 81.6kFavorites94.7kClicks/ch19kGifts

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    The first third was enjoyable with a good balance of bittersweetness, but the second half was awful. The male lead's past life dream was cut short, becoming a useless plot point that didn't actually cause him any real suffering. The female lead's self-consoling emotional victory, while revealing her deep love for the male lead, was interpreted as a form of torment through subtle distance. The male lead didn't experience a single day of hardship; all the suffering was borne by the reader. The two characters started being sweet without any clear explanation, as if all their conflicts had vanished. The author's writing was haphazard and disjointed, with a penchant for creating characters who never speak; even the best writing can't withstand this kind of torture.

16. 16 惟 Only the Marquis’s Wife 惟许侯夫人 Fa Cai法采Romance584k WordsCompleted [A Marriage Won by Scheming] [Complete] [This novel has been signed for publication. Follow Weibo and Xiaohongshu @Facai Bought a House on Jinjiang for updates] Du Lingjing dislikes the intrigues of the capital and has no desire to compete for a marriage into a powerful family. She was once engaged, but after her fiancé died of illness, she never thought of marrying again. The Marquis of Yongding, Lu Shenru, stands at the pinnacle of power in the capital, yet the position of his marchioness has 92.7kFavorites84.3kClicks/ch38.6kGifts

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    The writing is good, but the plot is too bland. It feels like two gentle, kind people are just living together, but there's no romantic chemistry or anything to ship between the male and female leads. The female lead is as indifferent as a chrysanthemum, and the male lead appears indifferent on the surface... Even without her deceased husband, they probably would still be like this. It's really too painful.

17. 17 骊 Pearl of the Li River 骊珠 Pine Courtyard松庭Romance532k WordsCompleted [Signed for simplified-Chinese publication; see wb @Songting saya for updates] [The timid little princess who gets things done × the swaggering bandit who calls everyone a bird and an egg] Born into an age of turmoil, Lizhu was a princess, yet her life was still full of hardship and setbacks. Looking back on her life, the only time she had ever truly felt at ease was the brief three years she spent married to Pei Yinzhi. It took Pei Yinzhi ten years to rise from a poor scholar to the highest r 189.8kFavorites190.9kClicks/ch195.1kGifts

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    The romance is great and very engaging, but the plot is too mindless and the female lead's character is inconsistent.

18. 18 怀 Pregnant with My Ex's Older Brother's Baby 怀上前夫他哥的崽 Master Grass Lamp草灯大人Romance483k WordsCompleted [The new novel, Became the Concubine of a Cold and Aloof Powerful Official, is now open for reading!] A powerful man lowers his head | Both leads are each other's first Strong-willed, vibrant beauty x icy, abstinent noble gentleman Su Li and Cui Ming, the second young master of a prestigious family, were betrothed as children. Because of this marriage tie, Su Li often visited the Cui clan, one of the great aristocratic families. Clever and adorable, Su Li is loved by everyone. She wins over t 126.9kFavorites127.5kClicks/ch64.6kGifts

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    Abuse of women?

19. 19 染 After I Laid Hands on the Cold, Aloof Young Master 染指清冷公子后 A Tender Willow Branch一枝嫩柳Romance742k WordsCompleted [A coquettish, silly beauty vs. a cool, chaste gentleman] Ji Wanyuan was the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister, the apple of his eye. With a face as beautiful as a flower, she had been doted on since childhood, leading a life of extravagant luxury and growing into a haughty, willful young lady. She fell for Wen Qiyan, the capital's foremost gentleman, as aloof and cool as the moon, elegant as an orchid and a jade tree. She chased after him relentlessly for years, even lowering herself to 108kFavorites124.8kClicks/ch38.3kGifts

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    The bizarre plot involves the female lead becoming a rapist but also abusing other women.

20. 20 普 An Ordinary Girl Gets Tangled Up with a Gloomy Edgelord 普通的她被阴暗批缠上了 The Timid Little Bun怂怂的小包Romance445k WordsCompleted The Honest Girl Abandoned the Coldhearted Minister is now underway! [Resilient farm girl vs. venomous nobleman] “She’s nothing but a lowborn farm girl trying to repay a favor with a favor. How could someone so base ever catch my eye?” In her past life, this was the last thing Zhang Jingxian heard before she died. “He’s cold by nature and vicious in his methods. I can barely avoid him, so how could I possibly like him? I never will.” In this life, Zhang Jingxian was chatting with someone else, s 46.6kFavorites43.8kClicks/ch17.9kGifts

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    Abuse of women, abuse of women, and more abuse of women; a fake crematorium.

21. 21 一 Three Thousand Worlds in a Single Thought 一念三千 Chen Xiaozhi沉筱之Romance383k WordsCompleted The male lead is a scheming dog and a master manipulator. The whole story is built on one scheme after another from him, so if that's not your thing, don't dive in. This is the story of a greedy, lustful, petty heroine who sets out to make herself a cannon-fodder character. The central message is to convey a spirit of self- 46.5kFavorites63.3kClicks/ch6.1kGifts

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    Early female protagonists were naive, sweet, and stupid.

22. 22 病 My Sickly Junior Brother Came Again Tonight 病态师弟今夜又来了 Enchanting Consort Xi妖妃兮Romance500k WordsCompleted Mingyue Yi has a junior disciple. He is so delicate and fragile, like an exquisite butterfly displayed in a glass cabinet. He is kind to everyone, but especially to her, for whom he would give his heart and lungs. Yet every night, this wonderfully kind junior disciple arrives right on schedule. He sits on the couch where she practices, his snow-white serpentine tail coiled beneath him, crimson tears hanging from the corners of his eyes. He takes out his heart and lungs and holds them out pitiful 45.6kFavorites45.1kClicks/ch39.5kGifts

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    The author has a recurring problem: the plot is engaging and the action scenes are satisfying, but the characters are hollow. Every time I come in excitedly, I leave feeling satiated.

23. 23 被 After My Black-Lotus Junior Brother Set His Sights on Me 被黑莲花小师弟盯上后 River Wind Sends the Moon江风寄月Romance522k WordsCompleted Yun Sheng is the most unremarkable disciple in her sect. Her spiritual root was destroyed when she was young, and with no one to rely on, she has endured scorn and mistreatment. Her fellow disciple Shen Zhuqi, by contrast, was born a heaven-blessed genius, adored by everyone and hailed as the top swordsman on the Azure Cloud Rankings, a prodigy beyond dispute. They should have had nothing to do with each other. That is, until Yun Sheng catches her famously noble and refined junior casually sn 41kFavorites35.8kClicks/ch16.4kGifts

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    The writing is good, but the word choice is affected, the plot is hollow, and there's a constant forced emotional element to push the boundaries, focusing on the female lead rather than the male lead.

24. 24 帐 A Wedding in the Tent 帐中婚 Yi Mi怡米Romance341k WordsCompleted Ji Wan is the daughter of a modest household, betrothed to Shen Xu, the younger son of a carpenter. But on the eve of their wedding, Shen Xu regains his identity: he was the Taishi's true-born son, switched at birth. The original heir, Jun Sheng, has already risen to the highest position in court. Fortunately, Jun Sheng is reasonable. He trades places with Shen Xu and becomes the carpenter's younger son, as well as Ji Wan's fiance. Shen Xu wants to transfer the marriage along with their swappe 38.8kFavorites42.1kClicks/ch4.6kGifts

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    The logic behind this setup is difficult to justify.

25. 25 穿 After Transmigrating into a Book, I Just Want to Be a Doting Wife 穿书后只想当娇妻 Biting Jade咬玉Romance415k WordsCompleted [Transmigrate into a Book] [Mutual Firsts] [Size Difference] [Raising Kids] [Lazy Perfectionist] [Domestic Life] [Lighthearted Daily Life] - Mi Yao transmigrates into a novel about contending warlords, becoming the femme fatale who sets the solitary male lead on the path to greatness. As the male lead's ex-wife, she is breathtakingly beautiful and talented, and looks down on him for being a warlord from humble beginnings. First she runs away from their wedding. After he catches her, she holds 33.8kFavorites56.6kClicks/ch13kGifts

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    As the title suggests

26. 26 壁 Watching from the Sidelines 壁上观 Sticky Rice Ball糯团子Romance680k WordsCompleted [The text may be revised, so the official and pirated versions may differ.] The husband chases his wife after losing her / both are reborn / possessive love [delicate beauty * sinister, obsessive madman] In the tenth year of their marriage, Song Lingzhi finally stopped loving Shen Yan. Everyone knew that Lord Song was a man of great foresight, having betrothed Song Lingzhi to Shen Yan long ago. After Shen Yan ascended the throne, Song Lingzhi went from being the daughter of a low-ranking merch 33.6kFavorites57.3kClicks/ch3.7kGifts

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    As a result

27. 27 穿 Reincarnated as the Villain's Bad Romance 穿成反派烂桃花 Shanhai Ye山海椰Romance416k WordsCompleted ● [1v1 sweet romance + demon-slaying instances] [A mad young man and a sweet, naive girl in a battle of wills] ● Please add my upcoming novel, The Husband I Picked Up Is a Demon, to your collection~ Yu Mianmian opened her eyes and found herself in a strange world. She was forced to bond with a cold and brutal young demon, becoming his one and only ill-fated romance. According to the plot, she was supposed to play both sides, wavering between the gentle, righteous male lead, who was her fiance, 20.8kFavorites16.4kClicks/ch3.9kGifts

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    I've forgotten why, but I think it was because the conversation was too awkward.

28. 28 春21+ Spring's Colors Burn into the Bones 春色烧骨 Liu Xixi琉西西Romance293k WordsCompleted 17.3kFavorites19.5kClicks/ch4.5kGifts

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    I forgot, but I usually include these kinds of crematoriums in my list because they mistreat women but not men.

29. 29 大 The Young Lady Has a Grudge to Settle 大小姐有恨要做 Pei Mingding裴酩酊Romance65k WordsCompleted Ye Ningqiu, who is hard of hearing, gets bound to a Hatred System. The System says that if she maxes out her target’s hatred, she’ll regain normal hearing. Her target is the fiancé she broke off her engagement with three years ago. Ye Ningqiu diligently plays the villain. One day she lashes him with a whip, the next she slaps him across the face, and at last she manages to max out his score. She thinks her former fiancé must hate her to the bone. Instead, he inexplicably starts chewing on her li 13.8kFavorites20.6kClicks/ch4.9kGifts

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    It's good, but the plot relies entirely on the female lead's misunderstandings, which is exhausting.

30. 30 都 They All Hope His Wife Is Two-Timing Him 都盼他妻有两意 Do You Want Egg Fried Rice?吃不吃蛋炒饭Romance278k WordsCompleted * A sincere, hardworking, unassuming concubine-born young woman who makes things happen x a repressed, ill man with a hidden affliction Ji Qingli is the least remarkable of the Ji family's concubine-born daughters, always gentle and honest. After somehow marrying into the Shen family, she becomes the talk of the town. How could a girl of questionable virtue like her marry such a powerful minister, so far above her station? Her worries shift of their own accord from how to survive to how to win 9.5kFavorites7.8kClicks/ch2kGifts

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    The awkward change in the male lead's character.

31. 31 书 Bookworm! No Kissing Me! 书呆子！不许亲我！ ParadoxicalRomance394k WordsCompleted [The next historical romance is coming soon: "Studying Alongside My Stuffy Foe". Clever little schemer X master strategist] ----------------Here's the blurb for this novel---------------- Ruan Kui hated Yuan Xian. She hated that, despite being young, he was so old-fashioned, always going on about proper manners. She hated that this blockhead was so clever at studying that even their distant relatives, who were barely related to them, liked him. Most of all, she hated that her grandmother had ev 7.8kFavorites6.6kClicks/ch3.8kGifts

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    It's good, but the plot relies on the female lead's misunderstandings to carry it, which is exhausting.

32. 32 诱 Luring the Fox 诱狐 Er Li洱梨Romance621k WordsCompleted [Please Don't Read Pirated Copies] Xiao Yu was transmigrated into a xianxia novel as a cannon-fodder fox. In the book, this fox was sent by the villainous Demon Lord to seduce his sworn enemy, Wen Yu. The attempt failed, and she was killed. When Xiao Yu transmigrated, the original body was in the middle of seducing Wen Yu. Wen Yu looked at her, his gaze indifferent. "A demon?" Xiao Yu clutched her drafty clothes and immediately switched sides. "Spare me, Daoist! I'm a good person! I mean, a good 7.5kFavorites7.9kClicks/ch2.7kGifts

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    The plot is too contrived; I wrote this just for the sake of creating a meme.

33. 33 亡 After My Late Husband Became Chief Councilor 亡夫成了首辅后 Hai Fuwei海馥薇Romance301k WordsCompleted Pre-release: Honeymoon on Huangdao with My Ex-Boyfriend. Little Yellow Flower x Big Hunk. Blurb: Money-grubbing widow from the streets x her late husband’s brother, a powerful official "My wife ran off and left me with grass growing green over my grave." Blurb: A troublesome major case has come up on Minnan Road. A woman disguised herself as a man and opened a kiln, eating and lodging with the male workers. Not only was it immoral, it might even constitute illi 5.9kFavorites7.4kClicks/ch1.7kGifts

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    The male lead is greasy and takes advantage of the female lead without any remorse; he's unworthy of her, who is the only truly beautiful one.

34. 34 穿 Want to Transmigrate into a Book? The Purely Sweet and Fluffy Kind! 穿书吗？纯甜宠的那种！ Taro Milk Bun芋泥小奶包Romance238k WordsCompleted Li Chuyi transmigrated into a book. She transmigrated into the body of a sacrificial character. This character was the daughter of a condemned official, bestowed as a concubine on Prince Rui, Lin Shiyuan. But she didn't want to marry him, and Lin Shiyuan didn't force her. The result was that the day after she entered his household, she was killed by a mysterious, unknown figure. Li Chuyi had only read the opening. The main plot hadn't even begun when she woke up and found herself inside the book 4.6kFavorites9.5kClicks/ch6.8kGifts

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    It's too slice-of-life, not very historical, not my cup of tea.

35. 35 作 A Spoiled Young Master's Care Manual 作精少爷饲养手册 Xuan Ling暄灵Romance364k WordsCompleted [A sweet-talking, "well-behaved" maid * a sickly young master who is sharp-tongued and impossible to please] The maid Ye Lian had thought she would spend her whole life as a servant, living in darkness where no one would ever see her. She never expected the capricious young master, notorious for his bad reputation, to latch onto her and openly declare that he would have no one but her. The more frightened she was, the further he pushed. When the young master was in a good mood, he taught her to 1.7kFavorites1.6kClicks/ch1.2kGifts

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    Good writing But there wasn't much abuse directed at the male lead; all I felt was favoritism towards him. The female lead, a slave, was beaten and verbally abused, yet she still pitied her master, the male lead—it's even more bizarre than falling in love with your boss at work.

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