Novels like I Lost to His Tenderness
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- 51 Sweet, Sweet Tension 甜蜜暧昧 Gorgeous sales champion and scheming CEO A sweet little short story~ On a bar terrace, Xiang Qingzhi puts an arm around a handsome young man. “You look just like the scheming CEO at my company.” Fu Xuan raises an eyebrow. “That much?” “Yeah, but you’re even more handsome!” “Tipsy cat, do you know who I am?” Fu Xuan’s gaze lingers on her face for a moment. She’s coolly alluring, and undeniably captivating, the sort of woman who makes a man want to conquer her. “You talk too much. Are you coming o —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 I Have Eight Hundred Thousand Men Under Me. Why Should I Put Up with This Humiliation? 我手下八十万，让我受这窝囊气？ I Have 800,000 Men Under Me. Why Should I Put Up with This Humiliation? 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 Be Good, Don't Tease Me. Save the Kisses for When We Get Home 乖，别闹，回家再亲 [Bold, gorgeous woman × cool, reserved man] Sweet romance: both virgins! Lin Huan fell for Chong Li the moment she laid eyes on him. He was cool and distant when he faced her, but when his beloved pet nestled against him for attention, he reached out to rub its head and smiled. “Be good. Don't make a fuss.” His voice was clear and gentle, almost unbearably tender. Lin Huan had always been direct and efficient, and she resolved to win him over. But to her surprise, he was the one who said, “Let's 511Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 54 My Sister's Best Friend Is Ten Years Older Than Me, and This Mature Beauty Is Irresistible 姐姐闺蜜大我十岁，御姐太诱人 My Sister's Best Friend Is Ten Years Older Than Me, and This Mature Beauty Is Irresistible 3.8kReads—Score11414d adds
- 55 After Our Honeymoon Went Viral 蜜月旅行上热搜后 Xu Fanfan was bored, so she picked up her phone and scrolled through Weibo. An explosive trending topic filled the screen: “Top-tier star Zhou Yichen embroiled in another dating scandal” She tapped the photo open and took a look. Wasn’t the woman in it… her? 1Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 56 One Pack of Spicy Snacks, and My Childhood Sweetheart's Sweetness Goes Through the Roof 一包辣条，我的小青梅她甜度爆表 One Pack of Spicy Strips, and My Childhood Friend's Sweetness Goes Through the Roof 543Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 Stand Right There 乖乖站在那里 [Sweet romance + campus life + devoted couple + short story + aloof at first, clingy later] [Soft-hearted, sweet heroine x noble, reserved hero] Everyone around Zhou Chi knows he keeps his distance from women. Some say he even dislikes them. He’s casual and laid-back, indifferent to everything, cool and distant, and a little hard to please. But who would have guessed this big shot would actually be coaxing the transfer student? And secretly taking liberties with her, too. Someone even saw Zhou C 1kReads8.7Score12814d adds
- 58 Ten Billion for Having a Baby! The Jealous Master Ze Coaxes His Pampered Wife 生孩给十亿！醋缸泽爷哄养娇妻 (A doting marriage + male rivals sent to the doghouse + devoted to each other, flirting both ways) Jiang Yang is an intern at a law firm, cool and cautious. But in the eyes of the company's powerful boss, she's breathtakingly beautiful, with a bewitching allure! When they're alone, the man holds her captive in his arms, coaxing her sweetly in a low voice, possessive and domineering: “Little vixen, marry me. I'll treat you well.” Jiang Yang looks so sweet and delicate, tears clinging to her rosy 321Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 59 The CEO Is Actually a Hopeless Romantic 总裁居然是超级恋爱脑 The CEO Is Surprisingly a Hopeless Romantic 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 On Our Wedding Night, My Frail Husband Suddenly Wants to Kiss Me? 新婚夜，病弱老公突然要亲我？ [Love after marriage + substitute bride + doting husband + two powerful figures pretending to be harmless] Xie Zhan is a pitiful woman who has lost both her marriage and her memory. She takes the place of her savior’s daughter as a bride, bringing good fortune to the groom. She expects her new husband to be a sickly, emaciated man, but instead he turns out to be a prince as magnificent as a god. [Scene One] On their wedding night, Gu Chenye gazes at the girl before him, who is clearly a spy d 13Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 61 Reborn to Those Warm Days of Youth 重生年少温暖时光 [Rebirth + sweet romance + one-on-one, both devoted only to each other] Amid the ruins, a young couple clung tightly to each other, both long dead. Before being reborn, Lin Ran had no parents or younger brother. At last she found a husband, only for them both to meet their deaths shortly after getting married. When Lin Ran opened her eyes again, she found herself back at eighteen. She had yet to receive her college entrance exam admission letter, her younger brother was still alive, and the lett 126Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 62 After I Took a Tumble, I Decided to Stop Playing Hard to Get 摔了一跤后，我决定不矜持了 After Qi Hao took a tumble while hiking, she somehow came away with a truly shameless streak. She stuck to Pei Jiashen all day, kissing and hugging him and asking him to carry her, and was practically ready to make their intimacy known to the whole world. Pei Jiashen, meanwhile, was overjoyed. His girl had finally started making the first move, and he no longer had to keep holding himself back. What a relief. 61Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 63 Contractual Lapdog: When the Agreement Expires, It Becomes a Love Triangle from Hell 合约舔狗，协议到期变成修罗场 A Contractual Simp, Turning into a Battlefield of Love Once the Agreement Expires 492Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 The Yandere CEO Only Wants to Tell Me She Loves Me 病娇女总裁只想说爱我 The Yandere CEO Only Wants to Say She Loves Me 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 Reborn, I Only Want to Be My Brother's Darling 重生后，只做哥哥的掌中娇 Mu Qingge was reborn on the day she ran into danger. In her previous life, she remembered being rescued by the current emperor’s third prince. She fell for him and swore she would marry no one else. But he had only ever used her. From beginning to end, what he wanted was the influence of the Grand Secretary behind her. Her older brother backed the third prince for her sake, but after he rose to power, he slaughtered everyone in the Mu household. So after being reborn, she ran in the opposite dir 835Reads8.4Score10014d adds
- 66 Hey, Classmate, You Dropped a White Rabbit Candy 喂同学，你掉了颗大白兔 The person she met at seventeen still makes her heart flutter at twenty-six. Blurb One: Shen Cian has been giving Zhao Yanshu the cold shoulder for three whole days. It all started when he got a new deskmate. Zhao Yanshu isn’t worried as he watches her puff out her cheeks. He simply holds out the cup of lotus-seed-heart tea in his hand. “Try some?” Shen Cian thinks he’s finally caught on. She takes a sip from the cup he’s holding, and her face immediately scrunches up. “What is this stuff? Why i 67Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 67 Deliberately Tempting You 蓄意招惹 [Scheming, calculating big bad wolf VS cool, composed little white rabbit; investor VS high school math teacher] The first time they meet, Li Yangchen can tell there’s something off about the way Mo Yiyan looks at her. She feels like prey being hunted. She doesn’t believe in love at first sight and turns him down tactfully, but some people are born with an irresistible aura of temptation that leaves you nowhere to run. Mo Yiyan plots at every turn and presses her relentlessly. His bold pursuit g 1.3kReads8.9Score10914d adds
- 68 The Rich CEO Took Me as Her Boyfriend in Lieu of Pay 白富美总裁，她做我女朋友抵工资 The Rich CEO Agreed to Be My Girlfriend in Lieu of Pay 511Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 So Sweet! Flirting with the Obsessive CEO to Her Heart's Content 超甜！在病娇总裁心尖肆意撩火 [A completed, sugary-sweet story with no angst, a slightly goofy entertainment-industry setting, and a devoted couple who flirt and spoil each other] Su Ranran, a delicate, top-tier star and enchanting beauty, transmigrates into a book! She becomes the ill-fated heroine of an angsty novel. To change her destined death, she tries every way she can to flirt with her husband and win his favor. “Honey, taste my lips. They’re definitely sweeter than sugar.” To her surprise, Gu Yaocheng, the abstinent 144Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 70 My Blind Date Is Actually a Devilish Female Boss? 相亲对象竟是魔鬼女上司？ My Blind Date Is Actually My Devilish Female Boss? 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 The Concubine's Scheme: A Talented Woman's Face-Slapping Revenge 庶女谋：才女打脸记 I am Li Shuying, the peerless beauty and talented young woman whom everyone in the capital admires. Yet because of a concubine-born daughter with a different soul, I became a laughingstock throughout the city. She recites the poem Bring in the Wine and whips up mandarin-duck hot pot. Even my childhood sweetheart and fiancé has fallen under her spell. Everyone mocks me: “So much for the capital's greatest talent. You can't even outshine a good-for-nothing concubine's daughter!” Little do they kno 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 After Rejecting the Crown Prince, I Was Courted by Someone Else 拒婚太子后，我被人求娶了 Before the imperial marriage decree, the Crown Prince said he was marrying me only for my family's status. If that's the case, I don't need to be Crown Princess. Fate has its own designs. As it turns out, the person I was looking for from the very beginning was never the Crown Prince. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 Born as the Legitimate Daughter, I’m Doted on Without End 穿成嫡女宠不休 I’m Su Ruojun. I was transported into a historical romance novel I’d read, becoming the cannon-fodder villainess whose life was stolen by her reborn legitimate older sister, and who was disfigured and tortured to death. In my previous life, she climbed over my corpse to ascend the throne as empress. In this life, she returned reborn and sneered as she tried to shove me into a pit of fire. “Crown Princess? You’re only fit to marry a wastrel!” But what she didn’t know was this: I had a modern supe —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 Sandalwood Bones 檀骨 I was a wild weed, but thanks to a benevolent master, I took human form. When we met again, he had become the revered Imperial Preceptor. I said I wanted to repay him, but he told me humans and demons belonged to different worlds. Later, his eyes reddened as he pinned me beneath him, calling me little demon over and over... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 75 The Heroine's Dream Script: A Chambermaid's Rise to Female Imperial Preceptor 爽文女主剧本：通房丫鬟逆袭女国师 I was a bedchamber maid offered up by my own mother to the beds of the powerful. Then, on a rainy night in a mass grave, I tore open my scabbed wounds and was reborn. Everyone laughed at my deluded hopes of currying favor with the capital’s most eligible young master. They didn’t know I gripped a bloodstained pen, using every stroke to rip away the aristocratic clans’ pretense of respectability and climbing over their backs to become the empire’s first female Imperial Preceptor. I would make eve —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 Addicted to Being Your Substitute: The Princess's Replacement Lover 替爱成瘾：长公主的替身男宠 A man often appears in my dreams. Dressed all in black, he kneels before me and calls me A Li. I searched the entire capital, but all I found was an unfaithful counterfeit. If he’s not the right one, then I’ll find another. If one won’t do, I’ll try two. If two won’t do, then three. One of them is bound to be the right one. Later, just when I thought I’d finally found him, the Third Prince of Jing appeared. Why does he look so much like him, too? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 The Bandit's Wife Isn't Getting Away 压寨夫人休想逃 A year ago, I saw a woman in trouble and drew my sword to save her. It was love at first sight. A year later, I reunited with my beauty, but this wasn’t a chance encounter. It was a trap. Why were there two brides on my wedding night? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 Reborn as the Villainess, I Changed My Fate with My Dancing Skills 穿成恶毒女配后，我靠舞技逆天改命 On my first day reincarnated as the villainess, I kicked aside the original script. The second male lead was brooding and possessive? The heroine was a fake innocent? The hero was blind and heartless? Fine. I’d be the villain! “I tore up my fragile-little-flower act and pinned the second male lead against the throne on the eve of his coronation. ‘Jiang Li, either marry me or kill me. Pick one.’ “Later, the history books recorded: Empress Wen Cheng, née Su, conquered the realm with a single dance —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 My Childhood Friend Entered the Palace Disguised as a Eunuch, but I Only Love the Old Emperor 竹马扮假太监入宫，我却只爱老皇帝 I was born with a face capable of bringing kingdoms to ruin, and I was determined to climb into the emperor’s bed on the back of a favor every woman envied. The old emperor doted on me beyond reason. My childhood sweetheart castrated himself and became a fake eunuch for my sake. Everyone called me a seductress, but there was no room for a shred of true affection in the palace. He held me every night as I fell asleep, yet over a single rumor, he personally sent me to the Cold Palace. He knelt at —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 The Cold, Aloof Grand Tutor Is Tamed into a Puppy by the Bossy Princess 清冷太傅被霸道公主驯成小狗 I fell for Pei Heng, the aloof, dignified, strict, and old-fashioned Grand Tutor. Every day, apart from eating and sleeping, the two things he cared about most were teaching and avoiding me. I was willful and spoiled, the sort who wouldn’t turn back until I hit a wall. He was silver-tongued, winning everyone over with his eloquence. All I wanted was to part my lips and win him over. Later, I accidentally discovered the “secrets” he’d hidden in a compartment: “Today I met a little ‘tigress.’ She’ 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 81 I Disguised Myself as My Brother to Get Close to My Fiancé, and Now He Seems to Have Fallen for Me 假扮成哥哥接近未婚夫，他好像被我掰弯了 The Second Prince was my intended fiancé, and I’d been in love with him at first sight since childhood. To get close to him, I disguised myself as my twin brother and went to school with him. Then rumors started circulating around the palace that the Second Prince was gay! On our wedding night, he actually abandoned me and spent month after month at my brother’s secret estate. So who cheated on whom: did I cuckold myself, or did my brother cuckold me?! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 Ten Years Turned Plum Wine Sweet: The Young Lord's Thirty-Six Strategies to Win His Love Back 梅子十年酸成糖：少主的追妻三十六计 The female thief Xie Mingyin was ordered by her master to sneak into Biyun Manor and steal a treasure. Who would have thought the young manor lord, Qi Yu, would hold a sword to her while shielding his clothes, forcing her into a fake marriage? A sham wedding shouldn’t have stopped her from continuing the theft. But the young lord kept trying to seduce her every few days, and it was seriously messing with her head. Only when he said, “She’s my one weakness,” did Xie Mingyin realize that the theft 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 I Got into the Wrong Bed, but Married the Right Man 爬错床，嫁对郎 A young girl's panicked face stared back from the bronze mirror, her skin pale as jade, a pair of entwined lotuses embroidered on her green silk trousers. I clutched a pink bellyband embroidered with mandarin ducks at play, listening to footsteps approach from beyond the door. Cold sweat beaded on my forehead. “Young Master, Madam wants to see you!” The young page's shout sounded like music from heaven. I had transmigrated! I had transmigrated into the body of a maid named Li Luo. According to t 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 Bite Me, Ginseng Spirit: A Kiss for the Young General 咬我一口，人参精诱吻小将军 When the ginseng spirit A Heng plucked a thousand-year-old root to sell for money for her benefactor, the reincarnation of the young general, his silver armor stained with blood, held a medicine pestle in his hand... Three hundred years later, the spirit ginseng he had protected was going to sell herself to show her love for him. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Reborn as a Disposable Eunuch, I Heard the Brooding Prince Say He Likes Me 穿成炮灰太监，阴郁王爷说他喜欢我 I somehow transmigrated into a book. I became a eunuch sent to steal Prince Yu's secret documents. I was standing in the study, completely bewildered, when a large group of people burst through the door. Prince Yu led them, his face dark with anger, and demanded that I hand over what I was hiding. I stammered and refused to take it out no matter what. Then the guards tried to snatch it from me, and the object in my arms hit the floor. A page from a very explicit comic was clearly visible to ever —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 The Heir Refused My Proposal, So I Married His Father 世子拒婚，我转嫁世子他爹 On the night of the Lantern Festival, I risked my life to save the emperor. He offered me a reward and said he would grant any request I made. Everyone thought I would ask him to arrange a marriage between me and Wei Zhao, heir to the Duke of Wei. After all, everyone in the capital knew how obsessed I was with him. But Wei Zhao wasn't the one I asked the emperor to marry me to. It was his father, Wei Yuan. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Reborn as a Palace Maid, I Used Accounting to Rise Through the Harem Ranks 穿成宫女，我靠当会计宫斗升职 A plate of sour apricots went missing from the imperial kitchen, and they were going to execute me, the palace maid in charge of preserved fruits. I dropped to my knees, already prepared. I took a ledger from my sleeve and presented it with both hands. “Eunuch, please take a look!” “Every debit has a credit, and debits must equal credits!” 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 The Weed Spirit Ran Off with the Divine Lord 野草成精拐走神君 I had barely taken human form when I was struck by heavenly lightning. I stumbled into a mountain god's temple, where I spotted a delicate-looking young scholar standing by the offering table. As I clung to his leg and begged him to save me, I was already scheming how to eat him. But after slobbering all over him, I froze in shock. Help! I think I've profaned a divine lord! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 I Ran into a Man Who Seems Even Richer Than Me 偶遇一男子，目测财力恐在我之上 I happened to meet a man. Judging by appearances, he may be richer than me. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 My Dream Guy's Ex-Girlfriend Got Divorced 男神的前女友离婚了 [Sweet romance] Shen Shumei stood at the door, her makeup impeccable. She looked at me, then at the man beside me. “Geng Yao, about what we talked about yesterday, I’d still like to discuss it with you in person...” “Oh.” Geng Yao cut her off immediately, then turned to me and said, “Yueyue, why don’t you head home first?” ??? Didn’t Geng Yao say he had plans to play ball with someone last night? Where’s my twenty-six-foot machete?! 50Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 91 This Guy's Handsome and Plays by His Own Rules 这个大哥人帅路子野 Possessive obsession + healing + sweet romance The unruly boy she met that year went mad and pulled her into his arms this year. A notorious troublemaker transferred to No. 1 High School. They said he was wild and untamable. Zhou Nian didn’t know how she’d gotten on his bad side, but after only a few encounters, he was already threatening to flip up her bangs. At last, one day, He Zhi saw that she had no impression of him at all. Unable to hold back, he gripped her chin and forced her to look at 93Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 92 Here, Have Some Candy. Come With Me 糖给你，跟我走 [By an award-winning sweet-romance author] [From school uniforms to wedding gowns] [Sweet all the way through, with no contrived misunderstandings] [1v1 + each other's first love + mutual salvation + both choosing each other + healing] Shi Lu is afraid of new environments and new people. But after moving to Licheng, she has a dream: she is standing in a forest when someone approaches her through the mist. When she wakes, she heads to her new school after transferring: Licheng High School. Determ 2.2kReads9.4Score59714d adds
- 93 Exiled, I Fell for a Rough Soldier 流放后，我看上了糙汉兵痞 I'm blessed with unbelievable luck. Even on the road to exile, I managed to be there when a general amnesty was declared. But my fiancé still looked down on my status. He broke off our engagement and wanted to take me as a concubine instead. So I turned to the officer in charge of our escort. He had plenty of flaws: vulgar, ruthless, illiterate, and a complete rogue... but he was handsome enough. At first, I only meant to use him to find my family. Then I discovered he had a bit of a chivalrous 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 Baby, Don't Break Up With Me: The Capital's Crown Prince Begs for Another Chance, Eyes Red 宝宝别分手，京圈太子红眼求和好 [Delicate, hypersensitive beauty x unruly heir to a powerful Beijing family] (The rating just came out, so it may rise.) [Second chance romance + forced love + bittersweet secret crush + both sexually inexperienced + push and pull] The night they met again, he pinned her against the door. “Xu Chuwei, you actually dare show your face here.” Xu Chuwei had once been the quietest presence in Song Zhiyu’s life. So quiet that when they broke up, he merely blew a ring of smoke into the night and didn’t 1.5kReads8.1Score12814d adds
- 95 Finding Her in the Depths 深处见伊人 This book is also known as My Convenient Husband Told Me He Loved Me Before the Plane Crash [Entertainment industry + reborn + marriage alliance + sweet romance] A taciturn CEO VS a glamorous actress The male lead has been plotting this for years, secretly in love with her all along! Lu Jianshen and Ning Yi had been married for three years, treating each other with courtesy and respect. Then a plane crash sent Ning Yi back to the day she met Lu Jianshen! Remembering the words “I love you” that L 50Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 96 My Childhood Friend Turned Out to Be a Professor 竹马居然是教授 Devoted only to each other + scheming, taciturn childhood sweetheart + childhood sweetheart who plays innocent while hiding her sharp claws How did adult Shang Yiqi win over his childhood sweetheart and bring her home as his wife? How did childhood sweetheart Wen Huanhuan get her taciturn childhood friend to marry her, just as he wanted? How do the two of them use their wits to take on outside enemies in their ordinary daily lives? 332Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 97 The Succubus Queen I Summoned Became My Wife 我召唤的魅魔女王变成我老婆 The Succubus Queen I Summoned Became My Wife 248Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 After Calling Off the Engagement, I Became the Apple of a Beijing Tycoon's Eye 退婚后我成了京城大佬的心尖宠 Everyone thought the Xu family’s eldest daughter, Jing Se, who had come from the countryside, was shamelessly meeting a mysterious man in secret. The Gu family’s young master announced that he was engaged to Xu Manqing, the Xu family’s second daughter, and everyone waited to laugh at the eldest daughter. Instead, they found her sitting in the arms of Fu Yanci, the capital’s most sought-after young master. “Honey, I want this.” The young master smiled and slipped a diamond ring onto her finger. “ 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 The Sweetest Darling of Them All! Spoiled Rotten After Marrying Into a Tycoon's Family 超甜团宠！嫁入豪门后被惯坏 Completed [Everyone’s Darling + Devoted to Each Other + Wife-Doting + Wealthy Family + Mutual Devotion + Happy Ending] Content warning: The heroine is cute and adorable; the hero isn’t a yandere or seriously ill. The characters don’t have surnames, so they’re hard to remember. Gorgeous, adorable, brilliant little flirt X gentle, fatherly ice-cold CEO A warm, everyday story. The heroine is doted on by everyone, and it’s all sweetness with no angst. The hero sings her to sleep, feeds her, buys her 43Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 100 Mr. Bodyguard, May I Borrow You for a While? 保镖先生，可以借你一用吗？ 53Reads6.9Score—14d adds
