Novels like The Greatest Sorrow in Life Is Unrequited Love
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- 1 Once, a Passing Shadow Shone Like a Stunning Swan 曾是惊鸿照影来 She poisoned him every day, and every time he drank every last drop. Even as he collapsed on the golden palace floor, he was still ordering them not to summon the imperial physician. She asked him, “You knew it was poison. Why did you drink every last drop?” He smiled faintly, his gaze tender. “This is what I owe you. Wan'er, I told you, whatever you want, I'll give it to you.” 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I Will Love You for a Lifetime 爱你，终生为期 Rong Yan couldn't remember how many years she had loved the man she adored. The only memories left in her mind were that she loved him, had married him, and had given birth to his child. And then, they divorced! Gu Huaqing had told her more than once, “I don't love you!” Rong Yan smiled foolishly. “That's all right. It's enough that I love you!” But Rong Yan never expected that their love wouldn't expire, yet had already begun to rot. After the divorce, all she wanted was a quiet life with he 2Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 3 Afraid My Longing Might Cut Too Deep 唯恐相思入骨深 For him, for his kingdom, she fought with all her might to stay alive. Yet for that scheming fox spirit, he wanted her blood, the life of her child, and for her to willingly offer up her still-beating heart... When their love came to an end, she was punished by the gods and he was cursed by Heaven. They vanished into nothingness, never to meet again for all eternity... 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 A Thousand Knots of Love 爱有千千结 A thousand threads of love knot in the heart, yet all worldly romance ends in vain. 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 My Longing Endures, Though Beauty Fades 相思未尽朱颜改 Gu Qingyan, if there is another life, let’s not meet again. Loving you hurts too much. I can’t bear it. But after she disappeared, why did he search for her like a madman? 8Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 6 He Is the Snow and Moon of This World 他是人间雪与月 Jing Zhi once loved Mo Junze deeply. Then he killed their child. 15Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 7 I Once Loved You More Than I Hated You 我曾爱你比恨深 I lay on the operating table, barely clinging to life, while outside the operating room, my husband signed a consent form to save the baby and give up on me… In that moment, my love for him burned away completely, leaving nothing but boundless hatred! But after coming back from the brink of death, I survived, and my premature son was there by my side. 18Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 8 A Love So Deep, a Longing Unforgotten 情深不解相思意 In his eyes, she was the most despicable of princess consorts. He carved out her heart and drove nails into her bones. But when she really died, his heart had nowhere left to call home... 26Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 9 A Bridal Procession Ten Miles Long, Yet Time Turns My Hair Gray 十里红妆催华发 She may have a face just like hers, but she was the one he loved, and I was the one who died for him... 49Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 10 When the Splendor Faded, Half the City Was Left in Ruins 繁华落尽半城殇 He told her, “Jinxiu, I will marry no one but you in this life. When I return from Jiangnan, I’ll give you a magnificent wedding.” But all that happiness was destroyed by a cruel conspiracy. On the day of his wedding, her blood was drained from her body, and she barely survived. With the splendor gone and half the city in mourning, she still died in his arms. Ling Su, may the rest of your life be peaceful. Let’s meet again in our next life... 118Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 11 A Concubine's Love Is Hard to Win Back 小妾难再爱 Liu Yan’er’s greatest dream was to spend her whole life with Shangguan Ling, the two of them belonging only to each other. But after he passed the imperial examinations and earned a position, everything changed. Not only did he take a new wife, he demoted Liu Yan’er to concubine. In the Shangguan household, she suffered constant torment and grew physically and emotionally exhausted. Her youthful dream had shattered. When she tried to leave, dragging her ailing body along, he said… 88Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Dreams of Palace Intrigue 深宫斗梦 All the sacrifices I made, risking my life, were worth less than the radiant smile she gave him when she turned around. 5Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 13 Half a Life Adrift, a Beauty Intoxicated 半生飘摇红颜醉 He once promised her a vast realm of mountains and rivers, and vowed to give her a wedding procession stretching for ten miles. But in the blink of an eye, he subjected her to every humiliation and torment. Nalan Ya: “I love you, and I hate you. May we become strangers from this day on, never to meet again in this life or any other.” Now he sat alone with his vast realm of mountains and rivers, and the ten-mile wedding finery remained behind as well. 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 I Love You, But This Is Where It Ends 我爱你，到此为止 So our love was worth no more than a heart. Your beloved wants my heart? I'll give it to you! But when news of my death comes from the operating room, Ji Musheng, will your heart ache? 41Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 15 I Love You with My Life 我用生命去爱你 He used every means at his disposal to ruin her, to tear her apart, condemning her to a lifetime of sorrow, anguish, and even indignity. But why, after seeing the woman he had destroyed with his own hands, did he lose his reason and go mad...? 29Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 16 Once, We Pledged Our Lives to Each Other 也曾生死许 He said, “Nan Huaiyue, I love you.” Yet he traded my life and our child’s for hers… 37Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 17 Mr. Ex-Husband, You’re Out 前夫先生，请出局 Ni Yuke never expected that she would marry Ye Jinchen in this lifetime. A sinister scheme made her dream come true, but it also made him hate her to the core… 14Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 18 I Once Crossed Mountains and Rivers with the Years 曾以岁月渡山河 She gave her whole heart and was rewarded with wounds all over. Seven years later, her passion had finally turned to ashes. Just as Xiao Yan thought she was about to fall off a cliff, Murong Yu reached out and pulled her back, only to personally shove her into another abyss! Now all that remained was for everything to turn to dust. Once, she had only herself. From now on, the whole world would be filled with familiar faces. 15Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 19 The Bandit’s Darling 匪宠 Third Master’s wine, Third Master’s gun, Third Master’s fists and feet conquering the world, and his most beloved little sweetheart. In all his life, Third Master cried for only one person. After she was gone, time passed so slowly. At last, Li Mucheng came to understand: fingers are too short, mountains too high, and the waters too far. The people you miss in this life are gone from your reach forever. 9Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 20 The Road Ahead Is One of Heartbreak 此去离殇 “You never deserved to be my wife.” Once, she had loved him with all her heart, only to be met with his cold rejection. Time passed, and she died before his eyes. All the love she had never gotten to confess became a sharp sword plunging into his heart… 238Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 21 No One Will Ever Be Like You Again 从此无人再像你 Much later, Shen Muchen finally understood that no one would ever love him more than she loved her own life again. 49Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 22 Longing Makes You Grow Old 相思令人老 She was his wife, the Regent Princess Consort. She had once helped him win the realm. He forced her to kneel before his lover. He forced her to give up her child. He said he would sell her into a brothel. Her heart turned to ashes, and she set herself ablaze. Only then did he realize that all along, he was the one who couldn’t let go. 41Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 23 My Heart Remains as It Was 妾心如故 He hated her. In a single night, he slaughtered her entire family. He hated her, and wanted nothing more than to torture her to death, drawing blood from her heart every day for the woman he cherished. But when he used the same hands stained with her family’s blood to kill her child, she laughed bitterly, and her black hair turned white overnight. This time, she was the one who hated him, but he was the one who regretted it. “Ling Yumo, this hatred has seeped into my blood and carved itself into 55Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 24 I Heard Love Had Come Back 听说爱情回来过 He has someone he loves, so his hatred for her runs bone-deep. For three years, she tried to warm his heart, hoping he would change his mind. But he heartlessly cut the child from her womb, then sent her to the operating table to suffer a fate worse than death! She lost a kidney, and her child disappeared. She thought that was hell. But then, in a carefully planned fire, he pushed her into the flames to save the woman he loved. She struggled desperately in the fire, only to meet his cold indiffe 53Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 25 I Loved You Until My Hair Turned White 我慕君心雪白头 She loved him so much, but he never saw it. He only misunderstood her and hurt her again and again, with his own hands, while watching others hurt her too… He put her life at risk, made her lose their child, and let the person she hated most humiliate and bully her. Even when she went mad, he still refused to let her go… He simply watched her suffer and watched her hurt. If she ever gets another chance, she will never love him again! 50Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 26 After His Wife Left Because of His Abuse, Mr. Mu Knelt and Begged Her to Come Back 夫人被虐离开后，慕总跪地求复合 After three years of marriage, Qiao Xi had grown used to him coldly bringing up divorce, and to him never letting go of the other woman in his heart. When she discovered she was pregnant, she told him right away, only for him to cruelly send her to the operating table. He coldly threw a divorce agreement at her and forced her to sign. “You disgust me. You make me sick.” “Heh.” Qiao Xi let out a mocking laugh. “I’m not getting divorced. I’m going to make you sick to death.” After Qiao Xi left, he 45Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 27 Nothing Hurts More Than Loving You 最痛不过我爱你 Zhou Ansheng killed himself, just as she wished. He gave Mrs. Xiao's place to the woman he cherished most. She loved him for so many years, and lost everything: her self-respect and pride, her closest family, her family business, and even the child she had yet to carry to term... Blood from her wrists stained the flowers along the road to the underworld, and every blossom knew how deeply she had loved him! She said, “I hope there is no next life. I hope we never meet again. The most painful thin 25Reads5.4Score199Shelves
- 28 He Came Along, and It Was Like Being Intoxicated by the World 他来恰似人间中毒 Shiyi loved with humility, fearlessness, and despair. In the end, she lost her body and her life. In this heart-wrenching love affair, blades flashed without end, and no one could win. The ending was tragic because she realized the truth too late, while Lou Qianhua had understood it all too clearly from the very beginning. 116Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 29 Love's Poison Is Hard to Cure, I Love You to the Bone 情毒难解，爱你入骨 Shen Ke never imagined that the marriage she had longed for would become a living hell, all because they had loved the wrong people. He wanted her to pay for her blood debt, and all she could do was cling to life. In the end… “Shen Ke, how can there be a woman as vicious as you?” Tears streaming down her face, she said in despair, “Ji Siyan, whether it’s love or hate, I don’t want to go through any more of it with you.” 11Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 30 Fate Deals Me a Love Trap 风月赐我相思局 Before their wedding, he told her that he would take her as his consort and give her the rank of princess consort, but nothing more. But he had no idea that she would offer him her life with her own hands, so he could save the woman he loved, risking everything just to spend what little time she had left by his side. At the end of her life, she looked at his seemingly panicked face with sorrowful eyes and smiled. “Mo Yuan, in the next life, I only wish we’d never met!” 53Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 31 All My Longing Turned to Ash 相思尽成灰 He destroyed her kingdom and castrated her husband. Her heart turned to ash... 31Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 32 The Blossoms Have Yet to Fall, but the Songs Have Ended 繁花未落笙歌尽 “Did you ever truly love me?” she asked. “Never...” he replied. She smiled. So the love she had longed for had all been a beautiful dream, and all it brought her was utter ruin... 26Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 33 Early Summer Breeze, Love Watched Over in Our Youth 初夏若风，青春里的爱情守望 Early Summer Breeze, Love’s Vigil in Youth 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 I Swear by My Love, Though It Brings Me Sorrow 敬我相思不成悲 She was a peerlessly beautiful young woman, famous throughout the land, yet fate had placed her in a brothel. Meng Zhijun believed Murong Yan was the man meant for her. She endured humiliation and kept her head bowed, all so she could stay by his side. She thought they would grow old together. But the man she loved most broke her fingers and ruined her face. In the end, he carved the bones from her body, one by one, and made them into a shocking bone flute. “A Zhi, look. Your bones are perfect f 58Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 35 My Sky Turned Black 我的天空成了黑色 Gu Zhi spent eight years loving someone, just as stubbornly and humbly as her name suggested. Zhi Zhuo thought life would be wonderful without her. Later, he realized it was a complete mess! But by the time he came to his senses, all she had left him was a cold, resolute silhouette walking away… 14Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 36 Reunited in the Heart of the Lake 重逢，在湖光深处 One shake brought two people thousands of miles apart together, but their growing connection was burdened by too many things beyond their control. What is meant to be will come to pass; what isn’t, cannot be forced. It’s just a shame… 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 Love's Longing, Doomed to Turn to Ashes 相思应恨劫成灰 Her face was still pale, her colorless lips curling into a cold smile. Two trails of tears slid from the corners of her eyes. She reached up, pulled a gold hairpin from her bun, and plunged it hard into Chi Yumo’s shoulder. She hated him. A man so heartless and faithless deserved to die. “Chi Yumo, I, Shangguan Linlang, truly loved the wrong man.” “You deserve to die. Go to hell and never be reborn.” “You and Lin Rouyan are both devils. I curse you to never find peace in any lifetime.” 21Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 38 I’ll Love You to the End of the World 爱你到世界尽头 Su Muxing loved Gu Mingshan so much she was willing to take a bullet for him. But when a man doesn’t love you, even if you take your heart out and place it in his hands, he’ll still think the blood on it is too dirty. So Gu Mingshan locked Su Muxing in a basement full of poisonous snakes and even killed her two children with his own hands. Gu Mingshan called her a vain woman who would stop at nothing. But one day, when the truth finally came to light, Gu Mingshan clutched his blood-soaked chest 23Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 39 After the Divorce, My Trash Husband Regretted It 离婚后，渣男老公后悔了 I'm pregnant. It's my husband Gu Yuchen's. I miscarried. It was caused by my husband Gu Yuchen's first love. After half a month in a coma, I opened my eyes to find divorce papers from my husband. Everyone thought I wouldn't agree, but I picked up a pen and signed. Damn it, how is Gu Yuchen as gentle as a hot young guy? How is he as good at taking care of me? Being rid of the cheating jerk and his shameless mistress, then having fifty billion to spend however I want? What's not to love? I was ove —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Love So Deep, Desolation to the Bone 用情至深，刺骨荒凉 To save the woman he loved, she lay on the operating table and endured the agony of having her kidney removed. But she never imagined he could be cruel enough to have their child taken from her with his own hands, cause her parents’ deaths, and finally drive her to the end of her rope… 86Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 41 Your Grace Endures, Like Snow in All Its Splendor 风华如雪，君如故 Risking her life to give birth, he resolutely snatched the baby from her arms, saying she was unworthy. Imprisoned and unable to earn his forgiveness no matter how she pleaded, she heard him say she was guilty. Unworthy because she loved him humbly, guilty because she loved him obsessively. She said, “Chu Nanyi, this time, shall I sentence myself to death?” The game is over. Will you come back or not? 43Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 42 I Give You My Life, Never Betraying Our Love 倾我一世，不负相思 She loved him with all her heart and insisted on marrying him. Who could have known that he wanted her dead? To save the woman he loved, he needed the child in her womb as medicine. In the end, he put her in a coffin and suffocated her alive. Only then did she realize she had loved the wrong man. If she gets another life, she will never meet him or fall in love with him again! 68Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 43 True Love Without Regret 真爱无悔 True Love Without Regrets —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Love Turned to Ruin 婚爱成殇 After five years of marriage, Sang Nian still hadn't managed to warm Chi Yi's heart. For the sake of their sick child, she drugged Chi Yi, but all she got in return was his deep-seated hatred and vengeance. She lost the child... 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 I Volunteered to Be a Stand-In and Died, Then His White Moonlight Went Mad 我自愿当替身死后，白月光疯了 After I willingly died as a stand-in, the woman he loved went mad 415Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 You Are Everything in My Memories 记忆深处，你是全部 What does it feel like to love someone yet be forced to hate her? Tang Junhao woke night after night with his heart torn apart, wishing he could rip the three characters “Su Qingyi” out of his mind, but no matter how much he suffered, he couldn’t do it. He thought tormenting her would make him feel a little better. But when Su Qingyi vanished from his life completely, he panicked... It turned out that, deep in my memories, you were everything! 21Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 47 After Being Assaulted, the CEO’s Ex-Wife Returns Reborn 总裁前妻被侵犯后，涅槃归来 After Her Ex-Husband’s CEO Wife Was Assaulted, She Returned Reborn —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Gu Nian's Deep Love 顾念情深 He said, “Gu Nian, wait for me a little longer. I promise I’ll make you happy.” She remembered what he had said so many years ago. Four years later, he came back. He returned as Jiangcheng’s most powerful man. Pinning her against the cold wall, he gritted his teeth and said, “Love me? You’re not worthy!” “Why don’t you just die?” And she really was going to die. 109Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 49 I Shared Hardship With My Heartless Lover, While He Shared Happiness With His True Love 我陪薄情郎共苦，他与白月光同甘。 I stood by my cold-hearted lover through every hardship, while he shared every joy with the woman he had always cherished. 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 You Never Once Chose Me 你从不曾偏爱我 Throughout their three years of marriage, she kept hoping he would turn around and look at her. But his heart belonged only to the woman he cherished most. When he caused their child’s death, she turned away in despair. Yet he grabbed her hand and said, “I don’t want a divorce!” 79Reads6.5Score—Shelves
