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1. 1 是 You Said It Was a Lie 是你说谎 Madam Shengsheng声声夫人Romance421k WordsCompleted To get close to him, Yu Wanling told a great many lies. Only later did she realize that she had been caught in a lie all along, while he had stood outside it, clear-eyed. A twisted, brilliant top student × a kind, honest girl Angst | Not realistic | School life | Coercive love | The hero's long road to winning her back REDnote: Jiu Shi Shengsheng Furen A Theme: - 43.6kFavorites41.4kClicks/ch20.9kGifts

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   The style is similar to "Betraying the Master," but this one isn't as heavy. The female lead is an honest person who gets entangled with a crazy male lead. From beginning to end, the female lead doesn't really like him; she's the one who wins in the relationship. However, she's quite soft-hearted, and apart from the romantic aspect, she's easily manipulated in every other way... Overall, it's readable, but it doesn't torture the male lead much. The female lead's background is also quite tragic (I always find it hard to accept when I see the female lead's unhappy family background; please be kind to her [crying emoji]). It's not very satisfying to read, but those who like yandere/obsessive stories might enjoy it.

2. 2 少 Little Zhu the Maiden 少女小珠 Crispy Peach Curry脆桃卡里Romance295k WordsCompleted [Seeking bookmarks for the upcoming novel Longing] After Mr. Huo regained his memories, he said he wanted to marry Xiao Zhu. Xiao Zhu lived in a dilapidated apartment building. Even pooling all her money together, she couldn't afford a fresh fish, and every night she worried that rats would chew on her ankles. Mr. Huo owned an entire shipping route. He could take care of the bills she couldn't pay, give her a spacious courtyard with a banyan tree, and cover her hands in diamonds. Xiao Zhu didn' 9.1kFavorites6.9kClicks/ch6.9kGifts

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   I was really into the first dozen or so chapters before the VIP chapters. The male lead accidentally lost his memory and was rescued by the female lead, staying at her house (but not for free; he gave her all his money). The female lead took him in to earn money, and the two of them huddled together in a dilapidated little house for warmth. During this time, the male lead was emotionally and physically dependent on the female lead. It felt like the female lead had taken in a dog. A slow-witted, ordinary girl x a proud, arrogant superhero. Things were going well until after the VIP chapters, when the male lead was quickly found by his family, who also took the female lead back with them. And then! From that point on, the romance became as hard to swallow as a rock. The female lead started acting as a substitute for the male lead's family's plan. Although it wasn't a real substitute, it was still incredibly jarring. The worst part was that the male lead agreed without hesitation, making all the emotional buildup before the VIP chapters feel like a joke. It was so hard to swallow. Even a simpler, more cheesy plot—the male lead being found by his family, regaining his memory, and remembering the days and nights he spent with the female lead in the slums, finding it unbelievable yet irresistibly drawn to her… even that old-fashioned trope would have been better than the substitute act. I'm disgusted.

3. 3 男 My Boyfriend Is a Beauty Blogger 男友是美妆博主 Wu Zhao唔昭Romance312k WordsCompleted 47.4kFavorites50.9kClicks/ch42.9kGifts

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   Finally, there's a romance novel that doesn't gloat over the female lead or ignore her pain [scratching head]. The character design is quite interesting. The female lead has a temper and personality, and the male lead is a sarcastic and mean beauty blogger. I've seen many people say it's like reading a transgender lesbian novel, but I feel that the male lead is pretentious to the point of death. It's like an alternative domineering CEO falling in love with me, but he's essentially a male. There's a plot where the male lead pretends to be someone else and has an online romance with the female lead. When the truth is revealed, the female lead is furious after discovering she's been deceived and launches a strong counterattack, both verbally and physically. She doesn't let it go easily; it was very satisfying to watch, wasn't it? This is much better than many authors who call the female lead "daughter" but secretly plot against her behind her back. [Laughing emoji] And there are some things I really like about this story, such as the female S/male M dynamic, the author's explanation that words like "mother" and "mother" are not derogatory, the fact that the woman and man call each other "wife" instead of "husband," and the author's dislike of the word "husband"... What the author hates is what I hate, and what he likes is what I like. Amazing! Another great writer has joined the ranks of romance novel authors.

4. 4 背 Betraying My Master 背主 Lin Li Ah林漓啊Romance243k WordsOngoing Rich young master x little maid The female lead has no heart, only hatred. Theme: Pure-hatred fiction 5.9kFavorites4.1kClicks/ch3.4kGifts

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   When I was looking for "male masochist" novels, someone recommended this one to me. I read it on a forum, and it turned out that the plot took up most of the book. The female lead is a working-class woman, and the male lead is an arrogant, privileged young master. Most stories like this are quite angsty for the female lead, but this one softens the tone. The premise is that the female lead approaches him for revenge. From her perspective, it's a calculated and oblivious process, while the male lead's perspective focuses heavily on his feelings for her. The female lead is the dominant one in the relationship, which is a particularly satisfying aspect. She consistently uses the male lead's family resources to learn, her goals always clear: revenge, learning, and knowledge. Romance is merely a diversion for her, while the male lead makes her his entire life. After reading the whole thing, I browsed the comments section and found some self-proclaimed "female lead enthusiasts" saying that the male lead was constantly being abused, that he was too pitiful, and that the female lead was being subtly mocked [laughing and crying emoji]. This guy had a smooth life from childhood to adulthood, basically never experiencing any hardship, while the female lead suffered a lot of setbacks, causing her to drop out of school and work constantly. Later, when the female lead successfully took revenge, the male lead's family was affected. I initially thought his family had gone bankrupt and was even hoping for a comeback, but they didn't. Instead, things changed drastically, and a few years later, he returned with a social status even higher than the female lead. There was even a special scene where the male lead was the center of attention at a party, and the female lead was relegated to a supporting role. With just two paragraphs, the author easily diminished all of the female lead's efforts. On one hand, the author wrote about the female lead constantly reading and studying, highlighting her resilience and ambition, while on the other hand, they diminished her aura to highlight the male lead. Is this how you manipulate female leads in female-oriented novels? [Laughing and crying emoji] The level of abuse the two suffered was completely different. Apart from some romantic suffering, where was he really abused?

5. 5 被 After Being Forced to Become a Younger Snake Man's Pet [Western Fantasy] 被年下蛇人强制饲养后[西幻] Almond Ice杏仁冰Romance623k WordsOngoing [Updates have been coming at rather ungodly hours lately, so feel free to read the next day.] Bad news: She was in a plane crash. Good news: She survived, only to inexplicably transmigrate to another world. Bad news: The world is in chaos, with constant wars between intelligent species. It's extremely dangerous. Even worse news: She transmigrated there in her own body :) Guannila was powerless to defend herself, and sure enough, after transmigrating to another world, she lived a miserable lif 14.8kFavorites13.3kClicks/ch45.2kGifts

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   Almond Ice is one of my favorite romance novel authors. She puts effort into developing her female leads, ensuring they aren't unfairly humiliated, bullied, or placed in a subservient position in relationships. Furthermore, the male leads in her stories are genuinely love-struck and don't engage in deception. Sometimes I want to find some good contemporary romance novels to read, but when I click on them, it's either the female lead's humble, unrequited love or the pretentious, sarcastic attitude of pretending to be a man, and some authors even have a sadistic, sadistic twisted sense of humor about torturing women... Ugh, you guys keep going.

6. 6 恋 The Hopeless Romantic Is Reborn 恋爱脑他重生了 A Song to End All Songs一曲绝唱Romance238k WordsOngoing I'm a little busy these days, so there won't be updates for now. ★Content warnings★: A woman-loving woman story, with lots of the male lead's POV! The male lead is a true super-level Mary Sue. If that's not your thing, please don't read! I forgot the warnings. Sooo sorry, really! Synopsis: Yu Fan had been infatuated with Su Yue since childhood. Even after seeing through her materialistic, hypocritical nature early on, he still willingly bent over backward to make money for her to spend, and e 5.6kFavorites7.5kClicks/ch6.1kGifts

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   This author is absolutely brilliant at writing about imperfect female protagonists. She loves writing about scheming women who encounter more and more temptations during their growth and waver between various interests. The female protagonists are so well-developed that they can be deeply analyzed and appreciated. However, there are some downsides. The female protagonists in her stories don't have much initiative; they don't rise to power and are easily dragged down by the male supporting characters. I hate that.

7. 7 巴21+ Pavlov's Dog 巴甫洛夫的狗 Black Penny黑便士Romance120k WordsCompleted 513Favorites365Clicks/ch392Gifts

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   I really like this author, especially her novel "Call Me Mom." In many stories where the female protagonist is a hidden camera, only this author uses the opposite approach, analyzing the female protagonist from other people's perspectives, focusing entirely on her. But this book is really strange. The male lead, as the main character, doesn't do what a cameraman should do. He has too many hidden agendas, and he's really annoying.

8. 8 被 A Beta Hounded by Sinister Monsters [Nonhumans] 被阴湿怪物们缠上的beta[人外] Parting Branch Begonia别枝海棠Romance223k WordsCompleted ☆ Complete. The entire main story costs just 2.46 yuan, excluding bonus chapters. Subscribe to the alternate-ending bonus chapters according to your preferences. ☆ Short story. In this version, betas are single-sex, with no major ABO twists. BG romance. ☆ Please read the content warnings at the end of the blurb before deciding whether to read. . Blurb: The beta was broke. To save money, she had no choice but to share a rental with a gorgeous omega. The omega was like a haughty butterfly, fragran 26.3kFavorites31.5kClicks/ch7.9kGifts

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   I just can't stomach those long-winded stories that focus on building up the male supporting character's charm and suppressing the female lead's subjective will...

9. 9 清 The Pure, Poor Girl Is Reloading Her Save [Noble Academy] 清纯贫穷女读档中[贵族学院] Jiu Qing酒青Romance572k WordsCompleted Pei Jiayuan is a thoroughly vain gold digger. She splits the bill on fancy afternoon tea, pays for designer bags in installments, flaunts her wealth nonstop on social media, and pretends to be a rich heiress, all to make others envy her. After opening a Korean webcomic rated H, she got bound to a System. The comic is set in a gritty elite academy where class divisions are stark. According to the plot, the heroine comes from a poor family but is as tough as a weed. With her pure, innocent look 85.9kFavorites109.6kClicks/ch76.3kGifts

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   "Completely female-centric wish-fulfillment novel"—these five words perfectly describe Jiu Qing's writing.

10. 10 和 Forced to Marry My Nemesis 和宿敌被迫成亲后 A Huge Ingot of Silver好大一锭银Romance465k WordsCompleted Warning: Please read the content warning below first! After coming down with a chill, Xue Ying unexpectedly dreamed of her past life. Her birth mother was a servant in the marquis's household. Years ago, in a moment of madness, she conspired with the midwife to switch the First Madam's baby. That was how Xue Ying became the marquis's eldest daughter. She was doted on and spoiled rotten, growing up willful and headstrong. But later, the real young master who had been switched away came to the c 72.8kFavorites68.4kClicks/ch35kGifts

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    While watching, I kept thinking: "It's so painful, don't torture my baby." "Good baby, that's how you fight back against PUA." "It's so painful, don't let her be a slut." "So clear-headed, she's right." My impression of this book is as described above. I felt the author's attitude towards the female lead was somewhat contradictory, which made me uncomfortable while reading.

11. 11 捡 I Picked Up the World-Destroying Villain as My Husband 捡到灭世反派当夫君 Sui Yan Jun岁宴君Romance496k WordsCompleted Looking for ratings for the completed novel! My Daoist Partner Is a Vicious Villain from an Explicit Novel is now underway [Synopsis] ● Sunny, lively, straightforward heroine x gorgeous, tragic villain with a distinctly eerie aura Chu You transmigrates into a trashy explicit novel. Powerful figures everywhere massacre the people to fight over the heroine, a holy maiden. Unluckily, she becomes one of the ordinary people caught up in it. She hides away in a remote village and shuts herself off f 48.5kFavorites45.1kClicks/ch39.3kGifts

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    The female lead is very fresh and lively, and I continued reading purely because of her character. However, the setting and plot are a bit cruel to the female lead. (I really can't help but curse the male lead. He's a complete lunatic. Without his constant drama, this book would be at least 200,000 words shorter. While reading, I wanted to slap him twice and cut him off. Stop messing around, okay? You've drained all of our destined female lead's luck, you jinx! [Laughing and crying])

12. 12 两 The Two of Him 两个他 Day After Day日日复日日Romance100k WordsCompleted [Main story complete] After five years of marriage, Xi Qing and Lu Mingzhou have finally reached the point where they can't stand the sight of each other. The loving home they'd built when they married has become a cold place, a “home” neither of them wants to return to. But one day, when Xi Qing walks in holding divorce papers, she smells the long-missed aroma of a meal cooking. The man who was coldly arguing with her on the phone just yesterday now gazes at her with affection and a bright sm 24.2kFavorites28.1kClicks/ch12.1kGifts

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    This author's views and thoughts have become quite progressive. The ending of this book features a daughter who takes her mother's surname, making it a typical heterosexual romance novel. It's worth reading if you're bored and want to kill some time (but the female lead is love-obsessed, so proceed with caution).

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