Novels like A Collection of Short, Angsty Stories
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- 151 You Spent a Lifetime Hating the One Who Fought with Everything They Had to Love You 你用一辈子的恨，防了一个拼了命爱你的人 You spent a lifetime of hatred guarding yourself against someone who was willing to give everything to love you. 457Reads—Score314d adds
- 152 Qin Shi Huang: You Call This a Creepy Instance? 秦始皇:你管这叫诡异副本？ Qin Shi Huang: You Call This a Supernatural Instance? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 Creepy Arena: I Summon the Great Sage Equaling Heaven from the Start 诡异竞技场：我开局召唤齐天大圣 The Eerie Arena: I Summoned the Great Sage Equal to Heaven from the Start —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 The Azure Wutong of the Cloud Scrolls 云笈苍梧 The Azure Writs of Cangwu —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 The Regrets and Beautiful Moments of Youth 青春的那些遗憾和美好 The regrets and beautiful moments of youth 198Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 After Losing My Memory, I Dumped My Scumbag Husband 失忆后，我踹掉了渣男老公 After Losing My Memory, I Dumped My Scumbag Husband 74Reads—Score614d adds
- 157 Humanity's New Crisis a Thousand Years Later 一千年后的人类新危机 A New Crisis for Humanity a Thousand Years from Now 18Reads—Score114d adds
- 158 I Designed Your Bride's Wedding Dress with My Own Hands 我亲手为你的新娘设计了婚纱 Cover image source: XHS, Snowy Day Originally titled “Out of Focus” A secret crush is one person out of focus; loving someone you can’t have is two people on parallel lines. When you appeared, the whole world went out of focus. The first time we met, I tripped in front of you. From then on, I’ve always stumbled right where you are. Jian Lushun, goodbye forever. 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 After I Died, They All Went Mad with Regret 我死后，他们全悔疯了 After I Died, They All Regretted It 192Reads—Score414d adds
- 160 I Divorced My Husband to Set Him Free for His First Love, but He Refused 离婚成全丈夫和白月光，他却不干了 I divorced my husband to reunite him with his first love, but he refused to go along with it. 69Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 He Left Me for Dead in the Wilderness, Then Suffered Backlash and Began a Countdown to Death 重伤我弃于荒野，他惨遭反噬，生命进入倒计时 He left me for dead in the wilderness after grievously wounding me. He suffered a vicious backlash, and his life began counting down. 61Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 I Spent 100,000 on My Girlfriend, and She Went to School as a Study Companion 我给女友花了十万，她去学校做伴读 I Spent 100,000 on My Girlfriend, and She Became a School Companion Reader 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 My Wife Had Twin Boys, but Only One Is Mine 老婆生了一对双胞胎儿子，但只有一个是我的 My wife gave birth to twin boys, but only one of them is mine. 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 A Month Before Our Wedding, I Caught My Fiancée and Her Best Friend in a Hotel Secret 结婚前一个月，我在酒店撞见未婚妻和她闺蜜的秘密 A Month Before Our Wedding, I Caught My Fiancée Sharing a Secret with Her Best Friend at a Hotel 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 My Lawyer Wife Cheated with Her Scholarship Student. After Divorcing Me, She Regretted It 律师妻子出轨资助生，与我离婚后，她却后悔了 My Lawyer Wife Cheated with Her Sponsored Student and Divorced Me, but Now She Regrets It 3.1kReads—Score—14d adds
- 166 On the Night I Nearly Bled to Death in Childbirth, My Husband Claimed He’d Fallen for Someone He Shouldn’t Love 难产血崩夜，夫君自称爱上不该爱的人 On the Night I Nearly Bled to Death in Childbirth, My Husband Claimed He’d Fallen for Someone He Shouldn’t Love 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 I Only Hope We Won't Know Each Other in the Next Life 惟愿来生不相识 On the seventh day after her father's death, she learned she had terminal stomach cancer. Seven months pregnant, she begged him not to make her donate blood to his first love, but he cruelly shoved her to the ground anyway. She would never forget the icy look in his eyes... He thought the document she sent him would be divorce papers. He never imagined it would be her last letter... 82Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 168 After Dating Three Black Men, She Returned Home and Married an Honest Man for a Bride Price of 280,000 交往过三个黑人，回乡二十八万彩礼嫁给老实人 After Dating Three Black Men, She Returns to Her Hometown and Marries an Honest Man for a 280,000-Yuan Bride Price —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 The Seventh Day of the Seventh Month: She's Back 七月七日祭:她回来了 July Seventh: She's Back 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 After Dark 天黑过后 After Dark 15kReads—Score40814d adds
- 171 The Sweet Osmanthus Refuses to Follow Convention 月桂不赴世俗 The laurel does not bend to worldly conventions. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 172 After the Divorce, My Wife's Crematorium Fire Reached Her Lover's Home 离婚后，妻子的火葬场烧到了情夫家 After the divorce, my wife’s revenge came burning down her lover’s house. 376Reads—Score114d adds
- 173 I Just Want to See You Again, in Heaven or Hell 只想再见你，天堂或地狱 Sui Ning’an loved Feng Yunze with a surging tide of passion she kept hidden, but he loved her younger sister. After an accident left no trace of Sui Ning’an, Feng Yunze finally lost the wife he had treated like dirt. In his grief and madness, he announced to the world that there would only ever be one Mrs. Feng. When news of her surfaced again, Feng Yunze was overjoyed. He smashed open the door in the dead of night, his bloodshot eyes glaring at the man in her bed as he demanded, “Are you really 32Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 174 I Died Ten Meters Away from Him 我死在距离他十米的地方 [Adoptive Siblings + Tragedy + Soap-Opera Drama + Misunderstandings and Push-Pull + Irreversible Loss] Li Tangluo is gravely ill. She drives her adoptive brother, who loves her, out of the house. He begs her to let him stay, but she coldly refuses. Four years later, they meet again. He has risen to the top and is no longer the poor, down-and-out young man he once was. He uses every means at his disposal to keep her by his side, tormenting and humiliating her, and making her suffer. “Li Tangluo, 263Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 Hengchang Pawnshop on Yong'an Street: The Private Ledger That Was Never Destroyed 永安街恒昌当：那本从未销过的私账 Hengchang Pawnshop on Yong'an Street: The Private Ledger That Was Never Written Off —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 I Played Coward for Half a Year, Then the Courtesan Next Door Ran Off with the Money 我装怂半年，隔壁花魁卷款跑了 I Played the Coward for Half a Year, and the Courtesan Next Door Ran Off with the Money —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Soft Candy Locks the Edge 软糖锁锋 Soft Candy Locks the Blade —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 The 1976-Born Woman Married the Brat Born in 1999 76年的小姐姐嫁给了99年的臭弟弟 A 1976-born older sister marries a 1999-born brat. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 Su Wan's Diary: The Seven Days Before Her Death 苏晚日记——临终前七日 Su Wan's Diary: Seven Days Before Death 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 The Day the Demolition Compensation Arrived, I Lost My Right Hand 拆迁款到账那天，我失去了右手 The Day the Demolition Compensation Arrived, I Lost My Right Hand —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 A Seven-Year Dream, Ending Here 七年一梦，到此为止 Seven Years, a Dream, Now at an End 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Reborn, I Turned My Green Tea Best Friend Over to the Authorities 重生后，我把绿茶闺蜜上交国家了 After Being Reborn, I Turned My Green-Tea Best Friend Over to the State 238Reads—Score114d adds
- 183 The Childhood Sweetheart Can't Compete with the Newcomer 青梅抵不过天降 Childhood sweethearts can't compete with the one who arrives later 63Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 In My Past Life, He Skinned My Face; In This One, I Make Their Beds 上一世他剥我的脸，这一世我为他们铺床叠被 In my previous life, he peeled the skin from my face. In this life, I make their beds and fold their quilts. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Pork Rice and Starlight: Redemption for Two Nobodies 猪脚饭与星光：两个底层人的救赎 Pork Rice and Stardom: Redemption for Two People at the Bottom 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 186 Love That Came Too Late 迟来的痴爱 Yan Xizhi had always loved someone, keeping her feelings locked away in her heart. She didn't dare reveal them. She thought the two of them could never be together and would never cross paths, but she never expected one incident to bring them together and make her his wife. He was cold and indifferent toward her, and even resented her. Later, a checkup revealed that she had terminal cancer. His first love happened to return from abroad around the same time, so she chose to divorce him. After the 136Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 187 The Bellflower Is Not White 桔梗不白 Every moment spent near him was full of telltale slips. A performance called unrequited love is the hardest one to pull off. - (The male lead doesn't cheat. He appears as a ghost, hoping the heroine will finally give up on him and stop grieving. He also sacrifices his reputation so netizens will stop attacking her. If someone has to be swallowed up by public opinion, he wants it to be him. It's a self-destructive attempt to save her: he gives up his life and his good name, as long as she's all r 122Reads8.1Score10514d adds
- 188 The Sect’s Beloved Little Junior Sister: The Max-Level Expert Comes Down the Mountain 宗门团宠小师妹：满级大佬下山了 The Sect's Beloved Little Junior Sister: A Max-Level Expert Comes Down from the Mountain 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 A Wild Boar Can't Appreciate Fine Grain? But I'm the Fine Grain! 山猪吃不了细糠？可我才是细糠啊！ A wild boar can’t appreciate fine grain? But I’m the fine grain! 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 After the Werewolf Princess Lost Her Heart, the Entire Vampire Clan Was Wiped Out 狼人公主心死后，吸血鬼全族被团灭 After the Werewolf Princess’s Heart Dies, the Entire Vampire Clan Is Wiped Out 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 After Failing to Get Our Marriage License for the 99th Time, I Left Him 第99次领证失败后，我不要他了 After Failing to Get Our Marriage License for the 99th Time, I Gave Up on Him 21Reads—Score114d adds
- 192 My Husband Faked Being Under a Love Curse, Then Cried When I Actually Cursed Him 夫君谎称中情蛊，真给他下又悔哭 My husband pretended he was under a love curse. When I actually cursed him, he cried and regretted it. 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 The Real Heiress Faked Her Death on Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the One Who Used Her as a Shield Regretted It in Tears 真千金清明死遁，拿她挡灾的人悔哭了 The Real Heiress Faked Her Death on Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the One Who Used Her as a Human Shield Regretted It 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 My Best Friend Borrowed My Husband for a Fake Marriage 闺蜜借我老公假结婚 My Best Friend Borrowed My Husband for a Fake Marriage 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 My Husband's Other Phone Held the Secrets of Another Family 老公的另一部手机里，存着另一个家 My Husband's Other Phone Held the Secret to Another Family 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 After Losing My Job, I Left with Nothing. Now My Ex-Wife Begs Me to Remarry Her 失业后，我净身出户，前妻跪求复婚 After Losing My Job, I Left With Nothing, and My Ex-Wife Begged Me to Remarry Her 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 I Work as a Matron in the Imperial Palace 我在深宫当嬷嬷 I Work as a Matron in the Imperial Palace 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 Fallen Blossoms Still Drift Toward the Jade Steps 乱红犹向玉阶飞 Xiao Seru said to Wen Jinchub: “A Chu, I know you still think of Miss Lu. I'm envious, but I'm not jealous. I don't expect you to truly let her go. I only hope you'll let me stay by your side... I may not be as talented or beautiful as Miss Lu, but my love for you is just as true!” Xiao Seru also said, “A Chu, I'm so happy I can be your wife. A Chu, I like you. I really, truly like you!” But later, Xiao Seru said to Wen Jinchub: “Wen Jinchub, she pushed me!” “Is Lu Liulian's child the only one w 120Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 199 She Reported My Father-in-Law for Saving Someone, Six Years Later I Destroyed Her Contract 《她举报我岳父救人，六年后我碎她合同》 She Reported My Father-in-Law for Saving Someone. Six Years Later, I Tore Up Her Contract 165Reads—Score414d adds
- 200 Chronicles of the Ancient Wall 古墙录 Each chapter stands on its own, and this book is made up of a series of little stories. Every chapter has its own character and is full of life and fun, so feel free to pick whichever ones interest you and give them a read~ In this vast sea of people, in this boundless world, dear readers, each of us is the protagonist of our own life! Look across the ages and around the world, and see how the protagonists in these stories turn the tide. Anyone could become the protagonist, so let’s look forward 78Reads8.1Score—14d adds
