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- 51 How Many Years Has the Moon Shone on My Heart? 明月何年照我心 (Not a feel-good story. This is angsty. If you want a feel-good story, you may want to skip this one. The low ratings have been getting me down.) Yan Mingchuan said, “Anran, I love you.” Anran was unimpressed, and utterly repulsed by him. The man before her was the nightmare of her life. Later, Anran stood before him, timidly gazing at his face with greedy longing. But he said, “Anran, there can never be anything between us.” Later still. The moon shone especially brightly that day. Yan Mingchua 2.5kReads7.1Score10014d adds
- 52 I'm a Killer, Don't Mess with Me 我是杀手别来惹我 Also known as: A Promotion Guide for the Dark Organization. The protagonist's enemies tamper with his parents' paternity test report, leading them to believe he isn't their biological child. This somehow lands the protagonist in the lair of a dark organization... P.S. First angst, then sweetness. 565Reads9.1Score20214d adds
- 53 The Avenger at the Wedding: I Love You from Hell 婚礼上的复仇者：我在地狱爱你 The Avenger at the Wedding: I Love You in Hell 65Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 Stop Asking Me to Forgive You. Can You Just Let Me Go Before I Die? 别求我原谅了，临死前放过我好吗 [A pure healing story. The protagonist is destined to die + guiding spirits to the afterlife] Also known as [I Guide All Living Beings Through the Mortal World] After a checkup, Lu Yuan learns that he has at most six months left to live. So Lu Yuan decides to cast aside the heavy burdens that were never his to bear and start living for himself! Just then, he encounters the “Forget Worries Tavern,” and after his death, he becomes its owner. 1.3kReads9.0Score10814d adds
- 55 You Said You’d Kill Me, So Why Do You Regret It Now? 说好的要杀我，你们怎么后悔了 [Xianxia Fantasy + Memories Revealed + No System + One Heroine + Tragedy + Slow Burn] A friendly warning: This is not a wish-fulfillment novel! This is not a wish-fulfillment novel! This is not a wish-fulfillment novel! Important things must be said three times! Before the Heavenly Void Palace. “Chen Zun, you murdered your master and betrayed the Dao. You personally trapped me in a ten-thousand-year ice cave to suffer punishment. Today, you will pay with your life!” “Demon Lord, you slaughtered 3.9kReads8.3Score37014d adds
- 56 Don’t Ask Me to Forgive You. I Just Want to Die with Dignity 别求我原谅，我只想从容赴死 [Regret and remorse] [No forgiveness] [Extreme sports] [Livestream] [Protagonist dies] Lu He enjoyed less than a month of happiness in the first half of his life. His mother became a vegetable, and they blamed him. The family business was struggling, and they blamed him. Even when his adopted younger brother only got a minor scrape, they blamed him. And now, ALS had come for him too. He was about to die. Why should he still be sensible and obedient, constantly making things difficult for himself 1.1kReads8.5Score10314d adds
- 57 A Fire That Won't Die Down 炙火难熄 Sheng Yan VS Zhou Ruochu [Childhood friends + arranged marriage to true love + love grows over time + chasing his wife to win her back] Their families arranged their marriage. Sheng Yan loved someone else, and Ruochu knew it perfectly well. In the first year of their marriage, he left her behind to work abroad. They only saw each other a few times all year. In the second year, she heard he was having a wild time overseas. She followed him abroad and saw for herself as he got involved with a gorg 2kReads6.7Score13114d adds
- 58 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? 145Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 59 The White Olive Tree: The War Rages On, but Love Runs Deep 白色橄榄树：硝烟未尽，爱已深 On the war-ravaged land of Dongguo, the sky was always gray and hazy with smoke. Amid the ruins of the cities, the thunder of artillery never ceased, as if giving voice to endless suffering. Song Ran, a young and gifted war correspondent, first met Li Zan, a brave soldier in the peacekeeping forces, amid the flames of war. The threads of fate quietly intertwined. 313Reads—Score10414d adds
- 60 He Is Gone in This Life, and the Heroines Break Down in Tears 这一世他已不在，女主们崩溃痛哭 [Reborn]+ [The Husband-Chasing Crematorium]+ [Deep Regret]+ [Cold-Hearted Protagonist] “Lin Yang, if there is another life, I only wish that we had never met.” After killing the man they loved and making this anguished vow, the seven most powerful female immortals on the Lingxuan Continent are unexpectedly reborn. In this life, their vows come true. The man they loved in their previous lives is now a stranger. And after losing Lin Yang, their lives take a tragic turn. One by one, they end up wee 5.9kReads7.3Score23114d adds
- 61 I Have Only Three Months to Live, and Now They Want My Forgiveness! 只剩三个月命，他们来求我原谅！ Chen Shu has stomach cancer and only three months left to live. In the final three months of his life, Chen Shu no longer wants to accommodate others, put the greater good first, or keep compromising. He wants to say goodbye to the past, see the world through his own eyes, and finally be himself! The irony is that all the care he once desperately wanted but could never get is finally coming his way... They all regret it now, but isn’t it too late? He doesn’t need it anymore! The one thing Chen S 1.1kReads6.6Score10014d adds
- 62 The Legitimate Daughter Took the Fall and Served Three Years in Prison. After She Cut Ties, Her Family Begged for Forgiveness 替罪嫡女入狱三年，断亲后全家跪求原谅 [Angsty historical romance + physical and emotional torment + household intrigue + true and fake heiresses + second male lead gets the girl + both leads are sexually inexperienced + groveling chase] Lu Qingyan was the marquis’s most cherished legitimate daughter. Her parents and brothers doted on her, making her the most pampered young woman in the capital. But everything changed after their adopted daughter, Lu Wanwan, joined the household. First, the parents and brothers who had once cherished 21.5kReads8.5Score1.8k14d adds
- 63 A Love That Eats to the Bone: She Came from Hell 蚀骨危情：她从地狱来 Shen Xiujin personally sent Jian Tong to prison. For three years, deprivation became the daily theme of her life. What was taken from her was no longer just the things on the surface. The day Jian Tong walked out of prison... She said, “When Shen Xiujin became my nightmare, I’d rather never sleep again, and stay exhausted until I drop dead.” 5kReads7.1Score23014d adds
- 64 Love That Cuts to the Bone 蚀骨虐情 [Tragic Romance]+ [The Husband’s Long Road to Redemption] Ruan Yunzheng loved Fu Yinghan deeply. But when his only sister was harmed and all fingers pointed at her, he sentenced her to death without hesitation! He tormented her relentlessly, body and soul, but she never gave in! Only when she was on the brink of death and explained one last time that she hadn’t done it, and he still refused to believe her, did she finally give up on him! So this man’s heart really was made of stone! When news ca 19.9kReads8.3Score1.5k14d adds
- 65 On the Seventh Day After My Death, He Dug Up My Grave 死后第七天，他刨开了我的坟 On the seventh day after my death, he dug up my grave. 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Singing for a Living in a World of Immortals 我在修仙世界卖唱讨生活 I sang “Tears Behind Bars” in the prison cell and “Ten Kneels for Father and Mother” for the demon lord. Don't think I'm all that impressive. I'm just trying to stay alive. I've been kind my whole life and never done a single bad thing, yet none of life's hardships have spared me. The world is a fine place, but I won't be coming back in my next life. A kind young man had hoped to spend an ordinary life singing for a living. But after being deceived and betrayed time and again, he was led down a 1.1kReads8.9Score12214d adds
- 67 The Women I Loved Back Then 那些年，我爱过的女人 After five years together, my girlfriend gets pregnant by her married male boss. Heartbroken, I unexpectedly meet a beautiful CEO. Amid tangled relationships and clashes in the business world, can I learn to believe in love again and turn my life around? 2.7kReads9.1Score33314d adds
- 68 Matriarchal Republic of China: The Violent Tycoon's Little Nightingale 女尊民国：暴戾财阀的小夜莺 Toxic melodrama, female pursuer, angst, one-on-one and mutually faithful. Don't talk to me about morals. I'm shallow, and if you don't like it, move along. Zhu Mingzhi always knew his place: a quiet ornament who was expected to be obedient. Once, Young Master Zhu was the light of a powerful financial family. Everything changed when the once-gentle, thoughtful heiress viciously tore apart the congratulatory gift he'd prepared with such care and demanded that he pay for a life with his own. Simply 782Reads8.7Score10014d adds
- 69 Turns Out Every Ending Is Filled with Longing 原来结尾都相思 How do you hurt someone who loves you until they’re utterly broken? Perhaps you throw their love on the ground and trample it again and again, until it’s shattered, until it’s gone. 125Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 70 The River God’s Bride: My Wedding Dress Is Made of Paper 河神娶亲：我的嫁衣是纸做的 The River God Takes a Bride: My Wedding Dress Is Made of Paper 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 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—14d adds
- 72 Seeing Spring 见春天 See Springtime 312Reads—Score2014d adds
- 73 Startling Heron 折惊鹭 Zuo Yi thinks that if Ming Li were a white egret, then he would be the eagle that broke her wings. Ming Li saves a sick, domineering man, only to see her life plunge into its darkest days. Zuo Yi: “I've seen all kinds of wild women. I refuse to believe I can't tame you.” Ming Li: “Ha! You're good at daydreaming. Let me make this clear: in this life, there will only ever be one outcome for me, Ming Li, and you, Zuo Yi. We won't stop until one of us is dead.” She defies him, he forces her. She run 684Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 74 Bloodstained, a Wild Rose with an Unyielding Spirit 血染，傲骨野玫瑰 [Women's Fiction] Important note: The heroine is not actually Xi Lianyue. This will be explained later. Because she looked like someone else, she was made to take the blame. Four years in prison were not enough. Even after her release, she still couldn't escape the mire of reality. She was forced into a pond of piranhas, used as a live test subject, made to fight Tibetan mastiffs, and had both legs broken. After all the persecution, the truth was finally revealed piece by piece. The men who had 4.4kReads9.0Score42314d adds
- 75 Male Side Character: After I Leave, the Heroine Will Regret It! 男配：我离去后，女主追悔莫及！ You spent your life helping me become a legendary songstress, yet you stayed cold and distant toward me? I treated you as the person I loved most, but you wanted to take my heart and become an immortal? I endured every hardship to become your master and teach you, but you wanted to carve me up with a thousand cuts? I was your sharpest blade, helping you become a legendary empress, but once you were done with me, you discarded me like a hunting dog and hid away your bow? You promised we’d grow ol 340Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 76 After She Died, the Capital's Crown Prince Went Mad with Grief in the Snow 她死后，京圈太子爷在雪地哭疯了 [Tragic romance + childhood sweethearts + physical and emotional torment + the hero’s long road to winning her back + a tearjerker for late-night reading] The day Jiang Wan was diagnosed with stomach cancer, Quan Xiuyuan forced her to kneel and eat slops, then cruelly destroyed her cancer medication. Jiang Wan was falsely accused of plagiarism. Quan Xiuyuan fanned the flames, ruining her career and destroying her reputation. Jiang Wan had loved Quan Xiuyuan for ten years, but he had always belie 1.6kReads6.5Score10414d adds
- 77 Have I Been Possessed? 被夺舍了？ Have I been possessed? 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 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 4Reads—Score114d adds
- 79 That Kid Who Scored 700 on the College Entrance Exam Jumped Off a Building? 高考700分的那孩子，跳楼了？ That Kid Who Scored 700 on the Gaokao, Jumped Off a Building? 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 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. 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 The Day After I Returned from a Business Trip, My Mom Killed Herself 出差回来第二天，我妈自杀了 The Day After I Got Back from a Business Trip, My Mom Took Her Own Life 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 Looking Toward Jiangnan 望江南 [Healing / Campus Romance / Bittersweet Ending] Dedicated to a brief, blazing youth! Ji Mengnan only remembered that night’s heavy rain and the river behind her, churning like boiling water. Is loving someone a lifelong thing? Everything Ji Mengnan did afterward, all the ways she tried to keep living, was because of that love. If it weren’t for Jiang Qing, she would have died at seventeen. The boy was the only ray of light in the darkness, but light never stays forever, and it doesn’t shine on h 367Reads9.1Score10114d adds
- 83 His Long-Overdue Love 他迟来的深情 Three years into their marriage, Xia Mo discovers that Fu Zhe has been cheating. When Xia Mo falls ill, Fu Zhe travels the world with his mistress. He uses marital assets to buy her a mansion and luxury watches, spending lavishly. Desperate, Xia Mo asks for a divorce. She stays calm and level-headed as she deals with the mistress, gathers evidence to reclaim the assets, and takes revenge on the scumbag, leaving him with nothing… 286Reads8.4Score10514d adds
- 84 Jiang Chuze, I Won’t Love You Anymore 江楚泽，我不会爱你了 Everyone knows that An Ruoxuan, the beautiful eldest daughter of the An family in Xingdu, chased after the cold-faced young master of the Jiang family in Beicheng from the time they were children. She tried every way she could to cling to him, earning a reputation as his little shadow and a stalker. But then the aloof young master got together with Su Munan, An Ruoxuan's best friend... Eight years later, Jiang Chuze turned around and married An Ruoxuan. She thought she was going to heaven, but i 1.5kReads8.5Score10114d adds
- 85 The Rest of His Life as a Kept Man 软饭男的后半生 The Rest of a Kept Man's Life 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 The Hidden Terminal Illness Medical Record 藏起的绝症病历 The Hidden Medical Record of a Terminal Illness 54Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 Lost Feelings 迷失的情感 Lost Feelings 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Three Years After I Transmigrated, the City Lord Became My Prisoner 穿越3年后，城主成我阶下囚 Content warning: This is a revenge story with a tragic romance. The male lead seeks redemption. It includes injury, imprisonment, and whipping, so proceed with caution. The leads are bitter enemies bound by fate, in both this life and their past lives. Angst and heartbreak, both leads are strong and devoted to each other, happy ending Proud, aloof Emperor Star VS revenge-driven Seven Killings queen In her first life, Yun Shuyue fell blindly in love with Huo Chenfeng. Little did she know the ma 1.1kReads8.1Score10314d adds
- 89 Tragedy!!! The Kidney Debt 虐！！！肾债 Heartbreaking!!! A kidney debt 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 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. 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 Baby, I'll Love You Again in My Next Life 宝宝，妈妈来生再来爱你 Baby, Mommy will love you again in our next life. 213Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 I Missed You in Your World 从你的世界错过 Xia Qianya has blood cancer and doesn't have long to live, so Sheng Tingmo takes all his resentment out on An Yuexi. If An Yuexi hadn't driven Qianya away through underhanded means four years ago, Qianya would already be his wife. She stole the happiness that should have belonged to Qianya, leaving her to die with regrets, so Sheng Tingmo hates her! So he embarked on a series of acts of revenge: bankrupting her family, sending her father to prison, and tormenting her both physically and emotiona 56Reads8.2Score3814d adds
- 93 The Boy I Found in the Heavy Snow Killed My Entire Family 大雪捡来的少年，杀了我全家 The Boy I Rescued in the Snow Killed My Entire Family 1.5kReads—Score—14d adds
- 94 A Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law's Feud 婆媳仇 My mother-in-law is a champion at double standards. When her own daughter sleeps until midmorning, she's "blessed." When I get up ten minutes late, I'm a "lazy daughter-in-law." My husband is the ultimate "dutiful son," and his catchphrase is always, "My mom has it so hard." 5.1kReads—Score24614d adds
- 95 The Cruel Abuse of the Fallen Kingdom's Grand Princess, the Ruthless Sovereign Cuts Out His Heart to Win Her Back 惨虐亡国长公主，狠戾君上剖心追 The official ending is a happy ending! The bonus chapters fulfill some readers' requests. In the first, the second male lead gets the girl; in the second, it's a happy ending! [The male lead is an utterly deranged, obsessive yandere in the early chapters! If you're a heroine-only fan and can't accept that, don't read it!!!] [Steadfast, headstrong exiled princess + ruthless, deranged new emperor] [Angst + forcible possession + forced love + imprisonment of body and heart + alternate historical se 8.1kReads8.3Score47914d adds
- 96 You Are the Light That Shines in My Darkness! 你是我黑暗里的那一束光！ Gu Jingyan had just returned from studying abroad and was about to take over the Gu family business when a car accident left him gravely injured. He lost most of his memories, went blind, and had his right leg amputated above the knee. By chance, he met the heroine, Su Wanning, who saved him. Only later did Su Wanning discover that the reclusive musician Kong Niansheng, whom she had always admired, was actually the little blind man in her arms... 662Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 97 Top-Rank Poison Consort: Reborn and Married to the Ailing Prince 一品毒妃：重生后嫁给病秧子王爷 [Fantasy historical romance + palace and household intrigue + rebirth and transmigration + angst before sweetness] Yang Susu is the third daughter born to a concubine in the General’s mansion. Rumor has it that her beauty could topple kingdoms, and that one smile over her shoulder could leave thousands lovestruck. Yet beauty is short-lived: she died at fifteen! Before her death, she suffered from a strange illness. Her face was disfigured, her limbs withered, and blood flowed from all seven ori 17.9kReads9.3Score1.6k14d adds
- 98 Even a Lowly Son-in-Law Can Throw His Weight Around 小小赘婿也猖狂 Ye Fan transmigrates. Other people transmigrate with a System or end up in an imperial household as a prince or heir. But poor Ye Fan transmigrates into a farming family and becomes a live-in son-in-law. His wife, Liu Ruyan, has someone else in her heart and has no affection for Ye Fan at all. She is determined to get rid of him so she can be with the man she loves. Ye Fan refuses to believe that, as someone who transmigrated, he can’t carve out a place for himself in this era with the knowledge 326Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 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—14d adds
- 100 15 Hell-Level Bad Endings: You Stop at Flirting, While I’m In Too Deep 15个地狱级be：你点到为止，我泥足深陷 [Modern romance + domineering CEO + substitute + marriage + tragic love] Giving your whole heart in love will only leave you in pieces. Why do you think I’ll still be here just because you turn around? That if you crook your finger, I’ll make the same mistake all over again? I’m not the kind of person who forgets the pain once the wound heals. In love, the one who holds the power is never the one being loved. It’s the one brave enough to confess their feelings and brave enough to let go. I loved 786Reads8.2Score—14d adds
