Novels like A Love That Cuts to the Bone
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- 151 The Journey 走过 Walking Through is a poignant romance novel. The carefree days of youth are beautiful, but they can also be painful. Everyone’s growth is its own story of youth, and every story is different. Some lives are smooth sailing, filled with happiness and joy; others are quiet and ordinary, with gentle days; still others are passionate and dramatic, full of fervor and determination... Chunyan’s youth was full of twists and hardships. Yet, in the face of one trial after another, she never gave in. She c 511Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 152 Mr. Lu, Are You Satisfied Now That She’s Dead? 陆先生，她死了你可满意 “Mr. Lu, are you satisfied now that she's dead?” Sang Yuwan looked at him coldly. She truly wished she could kill the despicable man standing before her with her own hands. “Who are you trying to fool? You think putting her photo on some random urn makes it her? Ridiculous!” Lu Cichuan's eyes were faintly red as he stared fixedly at Sang Yuwan, as if he could still brazenly torment Li Mo as long as Sang Yuwan said she wasn't dead. But... Sang Yuwan was gone. That was true. 3.2kReads6.6Score306Shelves
- 153 Tragic! She Died the Day His One True Love Returned Home 虐！她死在了他白月光回国的当天 Heartbreaking! She died the day his beloved returned from abroad. 502Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 After Abandoning Her Husband and Child for Forty Years, She Died in a Garbage Heap on a Snowy Night 抛夫弃子四十年，雪夜死在垃圾堆 After abandoning her husband and child for forty years, she died in a snowstorm among the trash. 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 Her Youthful Years 她的豆蔻年华 Her Sweet Sixteen 225Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 She, Too, Is a Memento 她也是遗物 Cool, aloof girl × carefree boy “He didn’t leave behind much. I was one of the few things he did.”, Source: the internet I gave everything I had to live this life, only for it to end in regret. Cicadas sing without pause, and we meet again in the height of summer. … Fang Xieyang thought her life was over, that she would spend the rest of it “following the rules” just as she always had. But then Xia Qianli came along and upended everything she thought she knew. He was so gentle, so good to her, 7.8kReads8.9Score2.2kShelves
- 157 The Headless Corpse in the Wilderness: A Deadly Game Among the Elite 荒野无头尸：豪门索命局 Headless Corpse in the Wilderness: A Deadly Game in a Wealthy Family 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 The Day the Real Heiress Came Home, My Little Brother Swallowed a Whole Bottle of Sleeping Pills 真千金回家那天，弟弟吞了一整瓶安眠药 The Day the Real Heiress Came Home, Her Younger Brother Swallowed a Whole Bottle of Sleeping Pills 100Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 After My Sister Was Paralyzed, I Became Her Substitute 姐姐瘫痪后，我成了她替身 After My Sister Was Paralyzed, I Became Her Replacement 67Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 Keeping Watch Over Our Marriage 守望婚姻 This is the tragic story of a rural woman left behind in the countryside. Juhua is a traditional village woman, and like other rural women, she has no source of income. Without financial standing in her household, she can only rely on her husband's earnings to support the family. She is the sort of person who endures whatever comes her way. Her two sweet, clever children seemed to offer a chance to change her fate, but misfortune plunged her back into an abyss of suffering... 53Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 161 The Day They Drained My Marrow, Mr. Jiang’s Stand-In Died 抽干骨髓那天，江总的替身死了 The day his bone marrow was drained, General Manager Jiang’s stand-in died 61Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 The Rest of His Life as a Kept Man 软饭男的后半生 The Rest of a Kept Man's Life 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 A Love of Torment (Ziyue and Xiamu's Bestselling Collection) 虐恋情深（籽月夏木畅销作品集） A heartrending romance! A deeply moving story! This classic collection of tearjerking romance novels by Zi Yue has touched hundreds of millions of readers over seven consecutive years. It includes the Summer’s Desire trilogy, the series adapted as A Love So Beautiful, starring Bai Jingting and Sun Yi, Zi Yue’s autobiographical novel The Seventh Star Living in Time, The Adorable Guard, and three other books, for a total of seven. 828Reads9.6Score137Shelves
- 164 An Emperor's Tormented Love: Your Consort Is Already in Her Coffin 帝王虐恋：臣妾已是棺中人【虐】 An Emperor’s Tormented Love: Your Majesty, I’m Already in My Coffin [Angst] 56Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 He's Always So Good at Sweet-Talking Her 他惯会哄她 [Two Top Students x Childhood Friends x Mutual Devotion x Tragedy] Sunny ray of sunshine x Double-Standard Top Student Jiang Shiyuan was the brightest sun in Pei Zhiheng's world. They made many promises at seventeen, but the words "I'll be with you forever" were buried along with her in late autumn. The plane tree leaves had yet to fall from the branches in late autumn when Jiang Shiyuan's life came to an end. [My name is Jiang Shiyuan. Shi, as in time, and Yuan, as in wish. Pei Zhiheng.] [J 813Reads8.0Score103Shelves
- 166 Always Coldhearted, How Could I Ever Speak of Deep Love? 向来凉薄，何言情深 The day Lu Yanqian jumped to her death, Huo Jincheng was lost in a world of wine and lights. She loved him, giving everything she had without hesitation. He hated her, destroying everything without hesitation. Later, in a life without her, he grew used to being alone. Through the long years, he had no one but himself to walk beside him. I once thought loving you was only an act, but it turned out I was already incurably ill, loving you to the bone. Lu Yanqian, I regret it. 2.7kReads8.2Score114Shelves
- 167 I Request Permanent Account Deletion 我申请永久注销账号 There isn't much of a synopsis. This is simply the story of a life born on the wrong track, reset to zero... Shen Shi'an: "The world is so vast, yet when I look around, there's not a single person who loves me!" There are bonus chapters, so check out the author's notes in Chapter One! #The tags don't match the story. The author didn't choose them (breaks down)# My new work is here! Welcome to read my story. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell 2.9kReads8.1Score398Shelves
- 168 Brutal!!! On My Wedding Day, My Ex Sent Me His Ashes 虐！！！结婚当天，前任寄来他的骨灰 Angst!!! On their wedding day, her ex sent over his ashes. 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 Tragedy!!! The Kidney Debt 虐！！！肾债 Heartbreaking!!! A kidney debt 100Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 Stuck at Seventeen 停留十七岁那年 [Campus romance × Youth × Mutual unrequited love × Heartbreak] Cold, rebellious boy × Sweet, well-behaved honor student * [Xie Yixiao was born wild and unruly, proud and untamed. Yet somehow, this boy fell in love with a good student from a broken home, a quiet, sweet, and sensible girl.] * [Ye Mian came from an incomplete family. Her parents weren't around when she was growing up. Then, when she was six, she learned that both of them had died. She was raised by her grandmother.] * [To part beca 2.9kReads7.2Score266Shelves
- 171 After My Fiancé Lost His Memory, I Stopped Loving Him 未婚夫失忆后，我不爱他了 After My Fiancé Lost His Memory, I Stopped Loving Him 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 Who Can I Tell My Grudge To? 恨谁诉？ Each chapter is a standalone tragic love story with an open ending, so use your imagination. Some stories are set in ancient times and others in the modern day, but they're all tragic. If that's not your thing, feel free to skip them. 683Reads8.7Score135Shelves
- 173 You Are All I See 目光所至都是你 After three years of marriage, Huo Mingxuan repeatedly hurt Qin Qianmo, the woman who truly loved him, for the sake of the woman he held dear in his heart. It wasn't until someone cut out her heart that he suddenly realized his own heart had gone empty too. Years after their separation, at a grand banquet hosted by the He family of the imperial capital, the woman he couldn't bear to see even in his dreams arrives beneath the starlight. Huo Mingxuan loses control on the spot and rushes to her lik 301Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 174 Seven Questions About Going to Cambodia??????? 去柬埔寨七大问？？？？？？？ Seven Big Questions About Going to Cambodia??????? 210Reads—Score—Shelves
- 175 After Torturing Me, the CEO Chases His Wife to the Crematorium 虐完我，霸总追妻火葬场 [Angst first, then sweetness + mutual unrequited love + devoted one-on-one romance + possessive yandere] He was born into a wealthy family, but fell on hard times as a child. He became her personal bodyguard and stayed by her side for six years, yet he could never warm her heart. When his mother became gravely ill, she stood by and did nothing. Does he hate her, or love her? She was the spoiled, willful heiress to the richest family, who thought herself above everyone. To her, everything in the 126Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 176 It Was Just for Fun, But He Took It Seriously 玩玩而已，他却当真了 It Was Just for Fun, But He Took It Seriously 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 I've Secretly Loved Him, Year After Year 我偷偷喜欢他，一年又一年 Jiang Yuze will never know That a girl named Xiao Xi secretly loved him for seven years. Xiao Xi: a desolate hope. Just like her unrequited love, it would never see the light of day. She said, “I once loved someone with all my heart, too. But he never knew how I felt.” Reader's note: Based on a true story 2kReads8.6Score217Shelves
- 178 After His Wife Dies in a Fire With Their Child in Her Arms, Mr. Lu Goes Mad 夫人抱崽葬身火海后，陆总他疯了 [Angsty romance] + [win-her-back-at-all-costs] + [never forgive] + [no getting back together] + [obsessive] + [second male lead wins] Lu Hengnian hates Fu Xingran so much that he forces her to donate skin without anesthesia, slaps her, pushes her in front of a knife, and makes her give birth prematurely… When he has to choose between two lives at death’s door, he doesn’t hesitate to save his first love, abandoning her and their child to die. At last, he drives her to the brink. Yet through the v 1.1kReads8.5Score101Shelves
- 179 Indigo Butterfly Bones 靛青蝶骨 Indigo Butterfly Bones 273Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 My Missing Mother, My Silent Grandfather, and the “Take Care of It” I Heard That Night 消失的母亲，沉默的爷爷，和那夜我听见的“处理” A mother who vanished, a grandfather who stayed silent, and the word “dispose of” that I heard that night 226Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 The Hidden Terminal Illness Medical Record 藏起的绝症病历 The Hidden Medical Record of a Terminal Illness 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 Fishermen’s Lights on the River, Keeping Me Awake with Sorrow 江枫渔火对愁眠 She waited for him all her life, but he would never come back. 824Reads8.6Score156Shelves
- 183 A Steadfast Heart, An Unfading Wind 心实，风不散 A True Heart, an Unfading Wind 68Reads—Score—Shelves
- 184 My Ex-Husband Saw Me Throwing Up from Morning Sickness, and Now He Wants to Remarry! 孕吐被前夫看见了，前夫求复婚！ The chase-to-win-her-back trope + angst before devotion The first time they met in three years of marriage, he said, “The match is successful. She needs surgery.” She was a bone marrow bank for the woman he loved. Later, he said, “I need one of your kidneys to save her.” She asked, “Bo Xiuyan, do you know that I can feel pain too?” His eyes were cold. “I just want her to live.” After the surgery, he never saw Sheng Ruge again. All she left him was a divorce agreement and a tear-stained letter. “ 3kReads9.0Score602Shelves
- 185 My Childhood Sweetheart Died in Battle, and the Enemy Prince Forced Me to Bear His Child 竹马战死，敌国王爷逼我生子 [Female general + God of War prince + Powerful rivals + Imprisonment and torment + Angsty romance + Subjugation and counterattack + Revenge and corruption + Silver dragon awakening + Childbirth] “Chu Yuan, if you don’t kill me, one day I’ll kill you!” Jiang Li is a battle-hardened female general of Liang, but after her fiancé dies in battle, she becomes a prisoner of Chu Yuan, the enemy nation’s God of War. He breaks her proud spirit, shackles her hands and feet in iron chains, and even erases h 133Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 Husband and Wife Become Outlaws to Avenge Their Daughter 夫妻化身法外修罗为女报仇 A Couple Become Outlaws to Avenge Their Daughter 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 If You Leave, I’ll Miss You Most 你若离去最相思 Years later, the people of Yucheng still treated that scandalous tale of the wealthy as a favorite topic of idle conversation. A shrewd woman from the streets had clawed her way to the top and become the pampered wife of a ridiculously rich man. She was addicted to gambling and had once racked up ten million in gambling debts. She was vulgar and flashy, a notorious social butterfly. And yet Gu Hansheng still doted on her. Until this wicked woman of the century dug her own grave and caused th 1.6kReads8.9Score148Shelves
- 188 After My Husband Cheated, I Chose to Divorce Him 丈夫出轨后，我选择离婚 After My Husband Cheated, I Chose Divorce 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 After I Died, He Began to Love Me 死后，他开始爱我 Sang Yuan never expected that, after an accident, her husband Gu Yuhui would have his memories sent back to when he was eighteen, a time when he loved someone else. Every night, Gu Yuhui would regain a month’s worth of memories. In those dreams, he fell in love with his unrequited love all over again. He was convinced there was no love in his marriage to Sang Yuan. Then Sang Yuan died, and his memories returned to the moment they first met. She had been a ray of light that illuminated his world 6kReads9.1Score407Shelves
- 190 A Love So Deep 痴痴情深 The naive Su Cheng had a heart as pure as snow, and thought only of the prince. But the prince felt nothing for him. Again and again, he called him by the wrong name, let go of his hand, and wounded his devoted heart. Did the prince know that even a naive boy could understand love, and that even he could be heartbroken? 151Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 191 Infinite Burning Madness 无限灼心疯 Infinite Burning Heart Madness 93Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 I Saved the Whole Village, Only to Become Their Plaything? My Dead Husband Returned and Slaughtered the Ungrateful 救全村却沦为玩物？亡夫归来杀光白眼狼 She saved the whole village, only to become their plaything? Her dead husband returns and slaughters every ungrateful traitor. 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 No One in the World Is Like Her Anymore 世上无人再像她 Shen Ange knew that love could leave you battered to the bone, but without love she would become a walking corpse. Stubbornly, she believed that life was long enough for her to wait until he came back to her. In the end, though, she could no longer hold on... 1.6kReads8.1Score161Shelves
- 194 My White Moonlight Is Back from the Dead, and the Heiress Is Out of Prison: I'm Done Pretending, Time to Make Them Suffer! 白月光复活，出狱千金：不装了，开虐！ Mu Man is dead, and Qi Heng personally sent Cheng Ziyue to prison. During her two years behind bars, Qi Heng’s order to “take good care of her” left Cheng Ziyue a changed woman. She even lost the hearing in her left ear in prison. Before going in, Cheng Ziyue said, “I didn’t kill her.” Qi Heng was unmoved. After she got out, Cheng Ziyue said, “I killed Mu Man. I’m guilty.” Qi Heng’s face turned livid. “Shut up! Don’t ever let me hear you say that again!” Cheng Ziyue smiled. “It’s true. I killed 1.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 195 Ode to White Hair 白头赋 In a daze, she seemed to see that young man again, standing in the spring sunshine as he asked her: “Do you have feelings for me?” 125Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 196 I Died in the Year He Hated Me Most 我死在了他最恨我的那一年 I died the year he hated me most. Unable to bear his hatred any longer, I chose to take my own life. When the funeral home handed my ashes to Nan Heting, he patted the urn and smiled for the first time that day. “It's too dirty. She should have been reduced to dust!” He swept his hand, and the urn crashed to the floor. That's right. He thought I had caused the death of the woman he loved most. He had stayed by my side for years, all for this moment. He walked away, trampling my ashes, but before 20.8kReads—Score641Shelves
- 197 Dad, Dead People Don't Get Fussy 爸，死人是不会矫情的 Dad, the Dead Don't Get All Sentimental 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 I Am President Fu's Long-Dead Beloved 傅总死掉的白月光就是我 I Am Mr. Fu's Dead White Moonlight 62Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 Bone-Chilling 刺骨 Han Zhen is a thorn in Nan Qiao’s throat: pull it out and she bleeds; swallow it and she dies. When they were young, he deceived her. She thought he simply didn’t know how to love. Only later did she understand that when he loved deeply, he was more devoted than anyone. He simply didn’t want to love her. Later, she was stripped to the bone, lost everything, and painfully came back reborn, becoming someone who no longer loved him. 4kReads8.2Score293Shelves
- 200 The Unsent Love Letter in the Candy Wrapper 糖纸里未寄出的情书 The Love Letter Never Sent, Hidden in a Candy Wrapper 37Reads—Score—Shelves
