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- 51 The Substitute Bride: Ex-Husband, Let Me Go 替罪新娘：前夫，放过我 The year Tang Guanguan turned twenty, she became a substitute bride and married Huo Jinbei, a famous business tycoon she had secretly loved for years. On their wedding night, the man gripped her chin with a sinister look, his voice cruel and cold. “Tang Guanguan, why wasn’t it you who died?” She had known from the start that he married her to exact revenge, but she never imagined he could be so ruthless. At last, unable to endure his repeated torment and humiliation, Tang Guanguan could take no 907Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 52 He Bullies Her Once, Then Obsessively Clings to Her for Life 欺负她一次，就要疯缠她一辈子 [The Animated Series Is Now Available] [Ill-Mannered Playboy vs. Kindhearted Girl Studying Abroad] Wen Yan came from a wealthy family and lived a happy life, with a father and brother who loved her dearly. But she never expected that... One trip abroad and one act of kindness would drag her straight into hell. - #AngstyRomance 3.2kReads6.4Score17314d adds
- 53 Three Years After Going to Prison, the CEO’s Wife Is Reborn 入狱三年后，总裁夫人她重生了 Shen Qing is like a flower in a greenhouse, yet she falls in love with Fu Ye. Fu Ye loves only Bai Yiyi. There has never been a place for Shen Qing in his heart. On the night Bai Yiyi died, Fu Ye personally sent Shen Qing, who had loved him for more than a decade, to prison. In prison, Shen Qing has one leg broken and loses sight in one eye. Three years later, Shen Qing is released. Homeless, she lives in a public toilet, covers herself with straw, and becomes a disabled beggar. Fu Ye is heartbr 187Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 The Ruthless CEO and His Clever Little One 霸道总裁腹黑娃 Feng Jingchu is determined never to marry. All she wants is a child to keep her company for the rest of her life. Who could have guessed that the handsome, passionate man she spent that night with would be the future heir to the Shangguan family, and that her genius son would become the heir after him? Thus begins a tangled, never-ending story of a domineering CEO pursuing his wife. 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 Secretly Married, Guilty Wife: I Set His Heart Ablaze Night After Night 隐婚罪妻，夜夜在他心尖撩火 Yin Shimo deeply loved Feng Xiao, but during an operation, she caused the death of his fiancée, Jiang Wan. Convinced she had killed Jiang Wan on purpose, Feng Xiao secretly forced her into a psychiatric hospital and subjected her to cruel abuse. Two years later, suspecting she had cancer, Yin Shimo wanted to spend whatever time she had left living in the sunshine. She offered herself to Feng Xiao as a candidate for a marriage of convenience. Feng Xiao agreed to her proposal to fulfill his grandf 159Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 56 You Are My Sea of Hatred and Sky of Love 你是我的恨海情天 Three years ago, after a car accident, Shang Luo was threatened by her father into taking the blame. She thought she would end up in prison, but instead, Ye Junlin had her locked up in a psychiatric hospital. “Shang Luo, you murderer. You think you deserve to go to prison? I’ll make you wish you were dead!” He humiliated her in every way, just wanting to watch her cling to life. But this wretched woman, as stubborn as a blade of grass, had somehow stolen his heart before he knew it. 691Reads7.0Score10014d adds
- 57 After I Died, the Heir to a Wealthy Family Followed Me in Death 我死后，豪门太子爷为我殉情 After I Died, the Heir to a Wealthy Family Followed Me in Death —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Love That Cuts to the Bone 虐爱蚀骨 She loved him with all her heart, but he hated her to the core. She silently endured his relentless torment and humiliation until he had her pushed into the morgue. But after she “died,” he suddenly seemed to lose his soul, left utterly lifeless. 545Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 59 Seventeen Minutes of Battery Life, Burning Through the Rest of My Ten Years 十七分钟的电量，耗尽我十年的余生 Seventeen Minutes of Battery Life, Burning Through the Rest of My Ten Years 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 He Ignored Her for Six Years, Then Crawled on His Knees After the Divorce 冷她六年，离婚后陆总膝盖跪穿了 After one reckless night, Lu Jinghuai was cornered by the media outside a hotel and had no choice but to marry Gu Qingchen. A year later, his beloved first love killed someone overseas and needed a scapegoat to go to prison. Without hesitation, he sent Gu in her place. After five years behind bars, he returned home determined to make a life with her, only for her to place divorce papers before him. “Sign them. From now on, we go our separate ways.” His eyes reddened with regret, but she never lo 462Reads7.1Score10014d adds
- 61 The Caged Bird and the Abyss 囚鸟与深渊 "What you cannot have in your youth will haunt you for a lifetime. The thing Zhou Zhihan most wanted to destroy as a boy was Ye Tinglan's clear, bright eyes." #ForcedPossession #GrovelingToWinHerBack From school bullying to a workplace hunt, from hatred to an all-consuming need for you "I would fall into the abyss, just to wash away the dust I once stained your eyes with." "Zhou Zhihan, I don't hate you anymore. I just don't hate you." This entanglement, born in the abyss, will end in destructio 1.3kReads8.0Score11614d adds
- 62 After Prison, Miss Sheng Takes Down the CEO's Whole Family 出狱后，盛小姐炸了总裁全家 [Dual Tragic Romances + Emotional Angst, No Physical Abuse + Clear-Eyed Heroine Bent on Revenge + Male Lead’s Long Road to Winning Her Back] She was the city’s most celebrated socialite. After she was framed and imprisoned, she lost her child. Only then did she realize that the man she had loved for fifteen years was the mastermind behind it all. After her release, she wanted to do nothing but take revenge. She took back her company, her inheritance, and her reputation. She burned down his house 585Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 63 The Arrogant Mr. Gu’s Long Road to Winning Back His Wife 傲娇顾总追妻火葬场 Two years ago, she schemed relentlessly to marry him. He swore he would make the rest of her life miserable. She had always loved him, but she no longer wanted them to torment each other. Maybe leaving was for the best. Instead, Gu Jingsheng shot back viciously, “Want to leave? I’m not done tormenting you yet. Once I’m bored, you can get lost as far away as possible.” Gu Jingsheng’s smug pride crumbled in an instant after Su Yiran suddenly left. When she returned, the once-arrogant Mr. Gu actual 102Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Mr. Sheng, Stop Tormenting Her. Your Wife Is Already Dead 盛总别虐了，夫人已经死了 Three years ago, a murder case shocked Luocheng. Madam Sheng was dead, and Shi Zhiyao was the prime suspect. Hypnosis, coercion, a miscarriage: they did everything to force her to confess. Three years later, she made a triumphant return as the president of Qin Corporation. Only later did Sheng Yeye realize he was nothing but a substitute, a complete and utter joke. 78Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 65 My Mother Drove My Sister to Her Death, Then Ruined Me Too 我妈逼死了我姐，又毁了我 My Mom Drove My Sister to Her Death, Then Ruined Me —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 A Long Road to Marriage: Mr. Ning's Wife, Tormented by Guilt 婚途漫漫：宁先生的蚀骨罪妻 Also known as When Ning Meets Xia Beneath the Stars. Eight months later, pregnant Xia Xingyao was dragged into prison by Ning Jingchen. He said, “Xia Xingyao, you must pay for your sins! Your child will pay too!” After she was imprisoned, she not only lost her baby, but also her left eye. Before prison, Xia Xingyao had been stubborn and confident. After getting out, she was reduced to someone who lived in the dust, someone anyone could bully! When she finally collapsed lifeless in a pool of bloo 412Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 67 She Was the Only One Who Refused to Settle 唯独她不肯将就 She Alone Refuses to Settle 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 The Icy Snow of That Winter 那年冬天冰凉的雪 A childhood crush that blossoms into a slow-burning, heartbreaking love. For a long time, I thought that in the glow of youth, I had let myself down in countless ways, but had never owed him a thing. I never imagined that the delicate boy with the exquisitely handsome features had spent his entire youth loving me. Each of us loved the other in the way we thought was right, yet we never asked whether that was the kind of love the other wanted. Perhaps the saddest thing about love is that its endi 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 South of South City, My Longing Remains 南城以南，相思未尽 Xu Nanyan devoted her entire youth to her unrequited love for Huo Tingshen. She loved him with all her heart, down to her very bones, and even thought she would remain tied to this man for the rest of her life. That is, until the man she loved sent her to prison with his own hands... 634Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 70 After Losing Her Family, She Married a Scumbag CEO 家破人亡后她嫁给了渣总 [A passionate, tortured romance: body, heart, and soul all put through the wringer, with a desperate quest to win her back! Everyone is a villain + dark themes + plot-driven, brutal angst, read at your own risk.] After a murder robs him of his fiancée, he meticulously builds a prison of revenge, dragging her from heaven into hell. Huo Chenyuan always thought An Weilai was his to control. He never imagined that in this game, she would escape the prison and trap him in a prison of the heart, one t 23Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 71 Mr. Li Returns After Ten Years in Prison 厉先生坐牢十年回来了 His fiancée was murdered, and he was framed and sent to prison for ten years. After getting out, he insulted her in front of her family, cold and cruel, and raised the knife of revenge. But when she said, “I didn’t kill her. I was trying to save her...” it was already too late. Her family had been destroyed, and there was no forgiveness between them. There never would be. At the end of her rope, she pointed a knife at him. It was despair, collapse, and an end... When the truth came out, he was a 486Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 72 The Heiress in Chains: The Substitute Bride 千金囚：替罪新娘 “Falling in love with you is unforgivable!” Yu Qingqing looked at him in despair, smiling through her tears as she lowered her head and walked into prison. To avenge his first love, Fu Junian personally sent Yu Qingqing to prison and tortured her in every way. By the time her three-year sentence was over, she had lost the lively spark she once had and become timid and meek. In the dead of night, he held her captive in his arms. “Qingqing, it’s me, Junian, your beloved Fu Junian!” She gave a bitt 301Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 73 I Accidentally Offended a High-Priced CEO 误惹天价总裁 Two years ago, he accused her without bothering to find out the truth of breaking the leg of the woman he loved, then personally used a golf club to break one of hers. Two years later, all she wanted was to stay as far away from him as possible. But how could he ever let her go… 63Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 74 Wrongfully Married to the Wealthiest CEO, I Can't Get Him to Let Go 错嫁第一豪门霸总天天抱着不撒手 [Angsty romance + marriage first, love later + groveling pursuit + happy ending] After her fiancé cheats on her, Ye Xixi gets drunk and marries her best friend. When she sobers up, she discovers that she actually married her best friend’s third uncle, Gu Jingting. Gu Jingting is the most powerful man in the Gu family, a man of noble status and immense influence. They come from completely different worlds. But from the moment she first saw him three years ago, she fell hopelessly in love with him 29Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 75 When Our Daughter Died, My Husband Was Paying Off His First Love’s Debts 女儿惨死时，老公正替白月光还债 When our daughter died a tragic death, my husband was paying off his first love’s debts —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 Reborn, I Tear Apart the Fake Heiress Who Stole My Husband 重生后我手撕抢我老公的假千金 Reborn, I tore apart the fake heiress who tried to steal my husband 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 After Torturing His Wife to Death, Fifth Master Regrets It 虐死夫人后五爷后悔了 (Heartbreak and a groveling husband) It was the sixth year of their marriage, and the eleventh year she had loved him. She had just been diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer. She was going to die. “Shen Chun, you don’t need to waste your time putting on an act for me.” Her beloved was so gentle, yet the words he spoke were so cruel. “Is this your new trick?” Shen Chun’s face remained calm, but her eyes glistened with tears about to fall. “I have the test results.” He seemed to smile. His cool, 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 He Tortured Me, Then Came Back to Cling to Me: Mr. Li Is Wild 虐完我，又来缠我，厉总太狂野 [Gentle Yet Strong, Sweet Female Lead + Wild, Domineering CEO] [The Ex-Husband's Redemption Arc + Over-the-Top Devotion to His Wife + Both Chaste + Adorable Baby + Mending a Broken Relationship] (Completed. A little angst early on, then lots and lots of sweetness~) Shen Yi loved Li Lingbei, captivated by his wild, rakish air as a rich young heir. “Your husband has a mark in a very private place~” Li Lingbei's rumored lover made a move and destroyed Shen Yi's marriage, in which she'd been the one 25Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 79 Claimed by Force: Mr. Fu’s Beloved 强势锁爱，傅总心尖宠 The two met through a twist of fate, and Wan Ning became Fu Jingyuan's contract lover. The story begins just as their contract is about to end. Male lead: scheming. Female lead: gentle and determined. Fu Jingyuan's childhood sweetheart returns from abroad, and the two of them are about to get married. Wan Ning knows she mustn't fall for Fu Jingyuan. When the contract ends, she needs to walk away cleanly. She knows they come from different worlds. But after one incident after another, their feeli 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Addicted to the Bone: Mr. Lu Is Playing the Victim Again Today 蚀骨成瘾：陆总今天又在装可怜 Addictive to the Bone: Why Is Mr. Lu Pretending to Be Pitiful Again Today? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 On the Day My Engagement Was Broken, the Heiress of a Top Tycoon Family Stood Up for Me 退婚当天，顶级豪门千金为我撑腰 The Day My Engagement Was Called Off, the Heiress of a Top-Tier Family Stood Up for Me —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 Before the Typhoon Hits 在台风来之前 Shen Yifei was lost in him for three years. Those around them were certain she was nothing more than a minor accessory to his power. She never protested, never spoke up. Three years of infatuation, erased in a single morning. His tenderness was her only comfort in the depths of despair, and also a scheme he had quietly laid over the course of many years. Love is the greatest illusion. Some bury their deep devotion in silence, while others weave a net of tenderness with 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Love in Longcheng: Young Master Fu's Bride of Atonement 龙城囚爱：傅少的赎罪新娘 “Both reborn” + “gut-wrenching angst” + “chasing his wife to the crematorium” + “substitute” + “imprisonment and miscarriage” + “happy ending.” When Su Nuan was ten, she saved Fu Hanchuan. But Fu Hanchuan mistook her for someone else, and for ten years, he gave all his tenderness to another woman. By a twist of fate, Su Nuan and Fu Hanchuan married ten years later, only for him to send her to prison, where she suffered three miscarriages. When Fu Hanchuan learned the truth, he knelt at Su Nuan’s 209Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 Two Years After She Went to Prison: Her Whole Family Begs, but She Won’t Forgive Them 入狱两年后：全家跪求，她不原谅 [Angst before satisfaction + secret identity + absolutely no forgiveness + father and son chasing after their wife + the whole family suffers the consequences] The year Shen Qingli loved Huo Yunshen most, he personally sent her to prison. Huo Yunshen said, “Qingyin is a key person in the company. We can’t do without her, so you’ll take the blame for her.” Even the family she loved most stood united in accusing her: “Qingyin would never go to prison. Can you stop making trouble for no reason?” An 9kReads8.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 85 After Ten Years of Love, My Boyfriend Smiles as He Sends Me to Prison 深爱十年，男友笑着送我进监狱 Cen Hua loved Huo Jinshen for ten years, only for him to send her to prison with his own hands, where she endured endless torment. After her release, he demanded that she become his White Moonlight, a free blood bank. She used this to blackmail him into marrying her. Again and again, she offered him her sincere love, only for him to trample it underfoot and humiliate and torment her without mercy. She laughed, wild and cold. “You’ll regret this, Huo Jinshen!” The man’s face remained expressionle 859Reads6.5Score10414d adds
- 86 After He Hurt Her, Young Master Lu Regretted It Too Late 虐完她后，陆少追悔莫及 [Obsessive Love + Physical and Emotional Torment + The Long Road to Winning Her Back] A frame-up turned An Ning into a murderer. The man she had loved for years hated her with all his being and personally sent her to prison. When she got out, he subjected her to even more vicious revenge, torturing her until she was utterly broken and making her life a living hell. Only after she died in an accidental fire, leaving no remains behind, did he begin to regret it. Kneeling on the ground and weeping 66Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 87 The Deadly Knot: The Knot I Tied, Her World 死扣：我盘的扣子，她的人间 The Knot I Tied: Her World —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 Thrown in Prison from the Start. What's Wrong with Going a Little Crazy? 开局就被送监狱，我疯一点怎么了 [Face-slapping, scumbag-crushing power fantasy with a strong female lead + a violently unhinged heroine + a scheming, doting husband + marriage first, love later] Jiang Yan, a starving ghost who had wandered the underworld for over a thousand years, transmigrated into a novel where everyone was evil. From the start, she stabbed her fiancé's beloved, and he sent her to prison. “Just kneel down and apologize to Yaoyao, and I'll let you off.” Jiang Yan turned around and married into the family in p 189Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 89 After Prison, I Was Forced to Become His Caged Canary 出狱之后，被迫成了他的金丝雀 Three years ago, one fire, two people. Jin Dongyang sent him to prison without hesitation. Three years later, Shen Nian was released. Shen Nian was determined never to be Jin Dongyang’s lover again. All he wanted was to get away from him. But the man who stood above the clouds refused to let him go. A refined, rotten-to-the-core pursuer x a love interest who’d rather die than be anyone’s lover 323Reads8.2Score5514d adds
- 90 Snow Falls on Yao Xi 雪落瑶夕 Everyone knows the emperor has an empress, but she has never been favored. “Yun, I don't want to leave. I'm all he has.” Later, after the man she loved hurt her once again, Lin Xichun finally lost hope. Weeping, she clutched Lu Nianyun's hand and said, “Yun, take me away. Take me away from this place.” Her already frail body could no longer withstand the chill she caught while fleeing. She died outside the palace, still holding Lu Nianyun's hand. “Yun, I still won't be able to go with you to Jia 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 After the Breakup, Mr. Gu Found the Pregnancy Test and Broke Down 分手后，发现孕检单的顾总哭疯了 She had been Gu Huaizhou’s secret lover for three years. Obedient and sensible, good at reading the room and keeping him happy, always there when he called and gone when he waved her away... She wore all those labels, believing that one day she would finally warm Gu Huaizhou’s heart. Instead, all she got was a warning from him: A plaything bought with money should never dream of using a child to climb the social ladder. At last, she gave up hope, hid her pregnancy test results, and vanished from 52Reads7.7Score3714d adds
- 92 Mr. Qi, Loving You Is a Living Hell 祁先生，爱你是人间炼狱 The story begins with the words, “This woman is yours.” Then Jiang Zhiyu is framed by Qi Han’s fiancée, who hires an assassin to kill him. Because of this, Qi Han destroys the Jiang family and sends her brother to prison. In the end, does he love her, or does he just feel guilty? Let’s find out. 178Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 93 A Fleeting Marriage, a Deep Love: Ex-Husband, Get Lost 婚浅情深：前夫，请滚远点 A master once foretold that the second young master of the Huo family would be ruthless and cruel, and that the karmic retribution for his sins would one day fall upon the person he loved most. He sneered. “I never believed in fate.” That was until the day he saw the woman who loved him more than life itself cornered and screaming, “Do you know what it's like to lose a child?” Only then did he realize that karmic retribution really did exist... Shen Qingqing loved Huo Tingxiao for ten years an 270Reads8.4Score14614d adds
- 94 In Uniform, Yet Unable to Save the One Beside Me 一身警服，难渡枕边人 A police uniform, but he can’t bring the woman beside him to justice. 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 95 How Tragic! Lord Li, My Condolences: Your Wife Drowned at Sea 虐！厉总节哀：夫人她坠海身亡了 [Physical and emotional angst + both are devoted to each other + adorable child + wife-chasing crematorium] After three years of prison life without a glimmer of hope, Tang Chuyao finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel. She thought she was free. But as torrential rain poured down, she desperately begged Li Jinyi, knocking her head until it bled, just to see Xiaolang once. That was when she finally understood: she had merely traded prison for another kind of hell… Later, when Xiaolang lef 188Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 96 Mr. Si, Your Wife Wants You to Act Like a Decent Human Being 司总，夫人求你做个人 When Qiao Yan was eight, a man rescued her from a beggars’ den, and she came to see him as her only light. But on her eighteenth birthday, a frame-up led the man to forcibly remove her corneas, leaving her blind. “You’re just a pet I keep, little thing. Who do you think you are to like me?” At last, after being tormented nearly to death time and again, Qiao Yan’s heart turns to ash. Yet every time she tries to escape, she is caught and brought back. He thinks she will always be his to keep in th 190Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 97 I Love You Like My Life: The Domineering CEO's Kiss 爱你如命：霸道总裁吻上瘾 After suffering her mother's brutal death, her father's selfishness, her stepmother's abuse, and her sister's jealousy, Rong Xi keeps fighting against fate. When she returns after completing her studies, she breaks free from her prison-like shackles, only for her best friend's teasing to plunge her heart into an icy abyss once more... An elevator malfunction leaves her locked in a passionate embrace with Shao Nan. From then on, she cannot escape his clutches, yet he is surrounded by beautiful wo 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 After My Husband and His First Love Drove Our Son to His Death, I Went on a Rampage 老公和初恋逼死儿子后，我杀疯了 After my husband and his first love drove our son to his death, I went on a killing spree 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 A Flicker of Fireworks 焰火微生 Angst novel, angst novel, angst novel, angst, angst, angst, angst, angst novel, angst novel, angst novel, angst, angst, angst, angst, angst novel, angst novel, angst novel, angst, angst, angst, angst, angst novel, angst novel, angst novel, angst, angst, angst, angst, angst novel, angst novel, angst novel, angst, angst, angst, angst, angst novel, angst novel, angst novel, angst, angst, angst, angst, angst novel, angst novel, angst novel, angst, angst, angst, angst, angst novel, angst novel, angst 654Reads—Score10414d adds
- 100 Married by Contract, His Sweet Little Wife Is Pretending to Be Good Again 契约成婚，他的小娇妻又在扮乖 [Marriage first, love later + healing + groveling chase] Lin Mian returns after being missing for ten years and, as promised, marries Li Xiao, the second young master of the illustrious Li family of Jing City. There's no wedding, no congratulations. Just a cold contract slapped in front of her: two years, each getting what they need. Lin Mian plays the perfect little wife, acting cute and obedient to make him fall for her. Just as feelings begin to blossom between them, an unexpected incident oc 30Reads—Score—14d adds
