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  1. 151 Red Eyes Across the Street, Vermilion Outshines Snow 隔街红眼,朱砂胜雪 11k WordsCompleted Red eyes across the street, cinnabar brighter than snow. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
  2. 152 He's Just a Fool 他只是个傻子 Two Male Leads413k WordsCompleted [Boys' Love / melodrama / happy ending / modern / angst / win-back romance / silly fool fiction] Qin Yun was deemed a failure and sent to a remote mountain village to oversee the management of a mine. There he met a fool. Though dim-witted, the fool was good at taking care of others. In this impoverished backwater, Qin Yun made a move on the only little fool he found tolerable to look at. But after hurting him recklessly again and again, Qin Yun never expected the fool to say he didn't love him 62Reads8.7Score—14d adds
  3. 153 Sleeping Peacefully Beneath the Sophora Tree 顾枕槐安 Two Male Leads63k WordsCompleted Younger man + substitute + love grows over time + regretful pursuit of the ex + putting scumbags in their place + angst, angst, and more angst!!! Before he turned eighteen, Du Huai’an had no father in his life. The year he turned eighteen, his mother, who had raised him alone, was diagnosed with stomach cancer. So she took him to meet the man who was supposedly his father. That was when he learned his father was the head of the prestigious Zhu family in Jingyuan. He entered the Zhu family as the 1.4kReads8.4Score13714d adds
  4. 154 Before He Dies, He Wants to Give Up His Allergen 临死前,他要戒掉过敏源 Two Male Leads429k WordsCompleted [Male-male romance + angst + late-blooming devotion + the hero’s long road to winning him back] Shen Pei’an was ill. On his birthday, the doctor told him he didn’t have much longer to live. He hadn’t planned to hide it. He meant to wait until Ren Xu had celebrated his birthday with him, then tell him the truth. But the big star Ren Xu never came. All Shen Pei’an got was a birthday cake that would trigger his allergies. He was twenty-eight. It was his ninth year in love with Ren Xu. There would 1.2kReads6.6Score10114d adds
  5. 155 The Sixth Day of the Sixth Month in Ninth Grade 初三的六一儿童节 Two Male Leads779k WordsCompleted A chaotic pure-love story about a finance whiz and a gang boss. A younger, reserved-but-sensual elite dom, and a fierce, tyrannical gang boss sub. Mostly lighthearted, with just a little angst for spice. 3.5kReads8.3Score77014d adds
  6. 156 I Came to You Full of Hope, Only to Realize I Was Being Naive After All. 我满怀希望来到你身边,才发现原来真是我太天真了。 8k WordsCompleted I came to you full of hope, only to realize that I really had been too naive. 37Reads—Score—14d adds
  7. 157 After Sending Me to Prison, I Drove My Jerk Ex-Husband Insane 送我入狱后,我把渣总虐疯了 Two Male Leads247k WordsCompleted This is the story of a CEO who wanted to force someone to love him, but was sent to prison and eventually gave up hope. A heartbroken, hopeless bottom × an oblivious top who doesn’t realize he’s in love Two years ago, Gu Jinbei personally sent Chi Mo to prison for illegal confinement, turning him from the powerful CEO of the Chi Group into a convict. Two years later, when they met again, Chi Mo was a convict with nothing, while Gu Jinbei had become the powerful heir apparent of the capital. Desp 3.1kReads8.4Score25114d adds
  8. 158 Love Came Too Late and Too Strong, but I Can Never Have It Again 迟来的爱太深重,可惜再也要不了 Two Male Leads115k WordsCompleted (Two male leads + angsty story + heartbreaking + urban) How could you fall in love with me? “I tried to hold myself back.” (It wasn't that I fell in love with you. You were the one who put an end to my reason.) When I realized you loved me, it was already too late. I could no longer accept it. The person you love most is right beside you, yet you can't feel his love for you. What you thought was devotion is actually separated by an intangible, impassable chasm. 624Reads—Score10114d adds
  9. 159 Though the Nation Has Fallen, the Mountains and Rivers Remain 国破尚山河 Historical262k WordsCompleted [Xiu Jueming x Sheng Pingzi; Jie Buhuo x Bo Ruye] [Excellent novel + two male leads + political intrigue + fictional setting + ancient times + tragic romance + equally matched leads + bad ending] After a thousand sails have passed, what remains when you look back? Where has the boy gone? Xiu Jueming was the young master of Linmuxia Gorge. He had lived carefree, devoting himself to martial arts, until he witnessed the most ominous celestial phenomenon in a century. Called upon in a time of crisis 56Reads8.8Score—14d adds
  10. 160 Salvation in the Deep 救赎深陷 Two Male Leads1.1M WordsCompleted [Anthology + BL + pure love + possessiveness + angst + mental illness + healing + protagonists with psychological disorders] An anthology of four stories Story One: A repressed, obsessive, manic puppy-like top VS a gentle, slow-to-realize bunny-like bottom (Li Zize and Shen Luochen). Complete. First the top suffers, then the bottom. A calculating man edges closer step by step, driving away everyone around him so he can keep his love all to himself. Story Two: A bottom with severe mental illness 52Reads—Score—14d adds
  11. 161 You Won’t Remember Me 你不会记得我 Modern Romance49k WordsCompleted [Simplified Chinese edition signed for publication] Chen Yuanwang can seem gentle even when he isn’t smiling. But he shows no one any special warmth. Qin Qiu’s unrequited love ends in regret. She never gets to taste the candied hawthorn Chen Yuanwang promised to treat her to, and he never remembers her. In her youth, he will forever be the male lead whose name fills her diary and whose initials cover her scratch paper. But she will never become his leading lady. 215Reads8.8Score5214d adds
  12. 162 The Mute’s Diary (Bad Ending) 哑巴日记(be) 8k WordsCompleted A Mute's Diary (Bad Ending) 1.1kReads—Score11014d adds
  13. 163 I've Come to Keep Our Appointment 我来赴约了 Marriage & Romance7k WordsCompleted I’ve Come to Keep Our Appointment 7Reads—Score—14d adds
  14. 164 After My Husband Gave His Kidney to His One True Love 老公把肾给了白月光后 18k WordsCompleted After My Husband Donated His Kidney to His White Moonlight 5kReads—Score2714d adds
  15. 165 Letting Go 割愛 Modern Romance48k WordsCompleted [Short tragic ending + obsessive male lead] After my mother remarried, my stepbrother, who shared neither parent with me, was always finding new ways to bully me. But after our parents died, he changed completely. He stopped bullying me and instead stayed by my side, taking care of me without ever giving up on me. It was as if he’d become a different person. 62Reads8.1Score—14d adds
  16. 166 The Merman Has Lost All Hope 鲛人他心灰意冷 Two Male Leads32k WordsCompleted The merman Chen Xiao was lured to the human world by Murong Jing's promises of love, never imagining that a trap had been laid for him long ago! He was imprisoned in the imperial dungeon and tortured day after day. It was all because Murong Jing wanted to take his most precious merman pearl and use it to save his seriously ill first love! After learning the truth, Chen Xiao died in despair. But Murong Jing had always said Chen Xiao disgusted him. So why did he go mad and try to bring him back to 791Reads8.0Score10114d adds
  17. 167 Yu Dongbie 于冬别 Modern Romance15k WordsCompleted [Signed for publication in simplified Chinese] Yu Zhe said he'd wait for her, and he would keep waiting. But Shi Taoning had no way out. She couldn't go back. 875Reads9.2Score25114d adds
  18. 168 Locked in Love, Broken by Sorrow 锁爱成殇 Two Male Leads559k WordsCompleted He was his master’s loyal shadow, a blade that could be discarded at any moment. Cheng Mu, Shen Yi’s personal bodyguard, was exceptionally skilled, reserved, and taciturn. He had no name, no family, and no regrets. He had only one conviction: protect his master, even if it cost him his life. Shen Yi was a noble young master, high above the rest, handsome and cold, with everything under his control. He had countless favored companions at his beck and call, yet he always treated Cheng Mu as if he 1.2kReads8.7Score—14d adds
  19. 169 This Is Awkward: My Ex-Wife Is Getting Married, and I Still Have to Serve at the Wedding 尴尬,前妻结婚我还要去婚宴上端盘子 8k WordsCompleted How awkward. My ex-wife is getting married, and I still have to go serve food at her wedding banquet. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
  20. 170 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 Marriage & Romance13k WordsCompleted You spent a lifetime of hatred guarding yourself against someone who was willing to give everything to love you. 457Reads—Score314d adds
  21. 171 Forced to Submit 被迫顺从 Two Male Leads238k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + angsty forced love + groveling-to-win-him-back + irresistible charmer] Emotionally cold scum gong × stubborn, down-on-his-luck beauty shou “Five million. Marry Fu Yan.” Caught in a scheme, Shen Mu was sold into the Fu family by his own mother. Fu Yan hated him to the core, simply because Shen Mu had taken the place of the person Fu Yan held dearest in his heart. “Fu Yan, how did your dad pick such a piece of junk for you?” Shen Mu became a laughingstock throughout Rongcheng. Fo 2.1kReads8.0Score10414d adds
  22. 172 Where He Belongs 他的归处 Two Male Leads22k WordsCompleted The internet was flooded with stories of Song Qing’s heroic deeds. I saw a video someone had taken: Song Qing leapt gracefully into the lake like a carp, then slowly disappeared, as if that had always been where he belonged. 3.9kReads8.1Score64414d adds
  23. 173 He Sees Spring he见春天 Modern Romance25k WordsCompleted Jiang Du thought her youth was destined to smell of disinfectant in hospital corridors and the foil stars inside medicine packets, until Wei Qingyue burst into her world carrying a quantum physics textbook. A greenhouse on a stormy night, cicadas singing at 128 Hz, a novel manuscript filled with annotations: every signal they had missed was gently corrected in a parallel universe. Eight years later, when blue plumbago bloomed out of season, meteor coordinates from the observatory guided them to 4.6kReads—Score44714d adds
  24. 174 Your Highness, Please Don’t Punish Me, This Secret Guard Can’t Take It 王爷别罚了,暗卫受不住 Two Male Leads301k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + devoted to each other + physical and emotional angst + happy ending + amnesia and faked death] [Newly rated] A cold, scheming pursuer who later grovels to win him back x a loyal puppy at first who later becomes the one in charge After the new emperor takes the throne, the ninth prince, Shi Jiu, is stripped of his title and becomes a shadow guard in Prince Yan Yan Chifeng's household. Prince Yan holds immense power and is at odds with the new emperor, so he also comes to hate Sh 4.3kReads8.8Score51314d adds
  25. 175 The Years They Loved Each Other 他们相爱的那些年 Modern Romance118k WordsCompleted Everyone in Nancheng knows that Wen Wan is the happiest princess in the city, adored by Lu Zhiyan, a decisive and ruthless man who gets things done. Everyone also knows that Wen Wan looks just like Lu Zhiyan’s ex-girlfriend, Bai Xi. Five years ago, Wen Wan was driven out of the Lu family villa in disgrace. The happy years they had shared became a blade after blade piercing her heart. Five years later, Wen Wan seals away her feelings and focuses on her career, finally becoming a CEO and brutally 20Reads—Score—14d adds
  26. 176 After Clearing a Deadly Game in a Team with the CEO, We Fell in Love 和总裁在致命游戏里组队通关后,我们恋爱了 23k WordsCompleted After Teaming Up with the CEO to Clear a Deadly Game, We Fell in Love 35Reads—Score—14d adds
  27. 177 The Blind Consort 盲妃 Two Male Leads50k WordsCompleted On the wedding day of Li Wenxing, the notorious and merciless general, and Jiang Yan, the beautiful blind young master of the Jiang family, every citizen in the city kept their doors shut and dared not step outside. The streets were empty and lifeless. Jiang Yan had loved Li Wenxing for thirteen years. He had thought Li’s promise to love him faithfully was sincere, never imagining that Li not only didn’t love him, but had long since given his heart to someone else and hated Jiang to the bone. Af 339Reads6.9Score10014d adds
  28. 178 I Miss You So Much, But I Don't Know How to Be Reborn and See You Again 我好想你,但又不知道用什么方式重生再见你 8k WordsCompleted I miss you so much, but I don't know how to be reborn and see you again. 12Reads—Score—14d adds
  29. 179 My Ex-Wife Is a Yoga Teacher 我的前妻是瑜伽老师 10k WordsCompleted My Ex-Wife Is a Yoga Instructor 41Reads—Score—14d adds
  30. 180 Making Dirty Money from Recycling? Today I Take No Pawns, Only Your Tears 回收挣黑心钱?今天不收典当,只收你的眼泪 8k WordsCompleted Making dirty money from recycling? Today, I won't take your pawned goods. I'll take your tears. 41Reads—Score—14d adds
  31. 181 You Gave Me Deep Love and Turned My Life Upside Down 予你情深,乱我一生 Two Male Leads50k WordsCompleted Eighteen years ago, Wen Ziyu was the person He Jingyang promised to stay with forever. Eighteen years later, Wen Ziyu was locked in an attic by He Jingyang and cruelly abused. He Jingyang always said Wen Ziyu owed him and that he'd make him pay little by little. But in the end, it was He Jingyang who owed Wen Ziyu a pair of eyes, a life, and a lifetime of love and devotion. 284Reads6.8Score10014d adds
  32. 182 Letters Beneath the Moss 苔痕信札 Modern Romance134k WordsCompleted Anti-narcotics officer × doctor | Realistic tragic romance | Sweetness with a hidden sting The snowy mountains can't hear the world's whispered secrets, and the sea breeze can't hear the promises that were never kept. The gods can hear promises made at the edge of the world, but they won't grant them. “If we ever fight, give me a mint.” “What do you mean?” “It means I've forgiven you.” “What if you're the one in the wrong?” “Give me one, too,” Song Qingye said with a smile. “Then I'll know to a 1.9kReads8.8Score52514d adds
  33. 183 Carving Clouds 琢云 Two Male Leads236k WordsCompleted (A little angst + happy ending + rekindled romance) Lin Zhuoxun x Xiao Yunshen A seemingly cheerful but secretly depressed bottom x a devoted, innocent top The first stirrings of love in youth are pure and passionate. I was once barren earth, but your arrival brought me back to life. 934Reads8.6Score14114d adds
  34. 184 The Spoiled Heir Was Forced to Become a Concubine! 纨绔世子被逼当妾后! Marriage & Romance11k WordsCompleted The Spoiled Young Lord Is Forced to Become a Concubine! 541Reads—Score—14d adds
  35. 185 A Frail Body That Can’t Bear the Burden 病骨难承 Two Male Leads200k WordsCompleted Two Male Leads + Poor Health Wen Xiaoqi’s life is a fall from blazing warmth into desolation. When he is gravely ill, he sleeps with Dai Yichen, severs his attachment, and runs away. He returns to the “home” he had longed for, only to discover that this so-called home is not as simple as it appears; He fights his way out, with nowhere to go, and is taken in like a stray cat by the lover he once had. He thinks he has found salvation, but it turns out to be another abyss. His health is spent, his 2.5kReads6.3Score34214d adds
  36. 186 Soul Transmigration into the Regent’s White Moonlight 魂穿摄政王的白月光 Two Male Leads699k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + equally powerful leads + tragic romance + older top + heart-wrenching + chasing his wife to the crematorium + white moonlight romance + toxic love + depressing + happy ending] Emergency room doctor Shen Shi'an died suddenly before the operating table. When he opened his eyes again, he was lying on an unfamiliar jade bed. The man before him held power over the entire court. He gently stroked Shen Shi'an's cheek, but in his eyes was the reflection of someone else. “Jinghe,” Xie 727Reads8.2Score2114d adds
  37. 187 After Being Tortured to Death, He Went on a Killing Spree 被虐杀后的他杀疯了 28k WordsCompleted After being tortured to death, he went on a killing spree 105Reads—Score314d adds
  38. 188 Loving You Was No Passing Fancy 爱你非一时兴起 Two Male Leads402k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + vulnerable bottom + coercive love + unhinged + physical and emotional abuse] A mentally ill, unhinged top and a pitiful bottom University and the working world Some angst, second male lead gets the love interest [Hypocritical, cold, pretends to be dominant top; timid, insecure, obedient bottom] Coercion begins after chapter 100 Lu Yuanming's family was very wealthy, but his parents paid him no attention and sent him to school near his grandmother's home. Yun Zhou had seen Lu Yu 33Reads—Score—14d adds
  39. 189 I Trafficked Hell Bank Notes in 1934 我在1934年倒卖冥钞 16k WordsCompleted I Sold Hell Money in 1934 13Reads—Score—14d adds
  40. 190 After Imprisoning the Woman He Loved, Lord Bo Regretted It Too Late 囚禁所爱后,薄爷他悔不当初 Two Male Leads567k WordsCompleted [Male-male romance + both leads are pure + forced love + confinement + possessiveness + sickly bottom + crematorium-style regret] Lu Yunzhi died in the year Bo Yanchen hated him most... Bo Yanchen: “Lu Yunzhi, save An Ran, and I'll give you everything you want.” Lu Yunzhi gave a bitter smile. “There's no need.” He turned and walked away, never to return! The photograph he kept close to his chest fell to the ground. On the back, several lines of writing stood out clearly. “Bo Yanchen, I paid for 6.2kReads8.1Score41514d adds
  41. 191 If I Could Start Over, I Would Hope Never to Meet You Again 要是能重来,我希望不再遇到你 6k WordsCompleted If I could do it all over again, I hope I wouldn't meet you again. 170Reads—Score414d adds
  42. 192 Snow Falls, Soundlessly! 雪落,无声! Ancient Romance9k WordsCompleted Snow falls, soundlessly! 98Reads—Score—14d adds
  43. 193 My Last Two Months: I Want to Say a Proper Goodbye to the World 最后两个月,我想与世界好好告别 Urban157k WordsCompleted At eighteen, in the prime of my youth, I was diagnosed with a terminal illness. I had only two months left to live. But I couldn't bear to leave my loving parents, my doting grandparents, or the friends and family I cherished most… Since I couldn't change the fact that I was going to die, I wanted to choose how to spend the final stretch of my life. I'd make the most of my last two months in this world and say a proper goodbye to it. 1.3kReads8.7Score10314d adds
  44. 194 The Bellflower Is Not White 桔梗不白 Modern Romance20k WordsCompleted 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 120Reads8.1Score10514d adds
  45. 195 Abyss of Scorched Bones 灼骨深渊 Two Male Leads206k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + younger man/older man romance + obsessive love + two villains + sworn enemies + scummy bottom + love and hate] [Manipulative, wicked, two-faced bottom VS tearful, unhinged beauty top] Shen Zhuo hates Shen Yuan more than anything. He used to have a happy life. When Shen Yuan showed up, he blamed the boy his father had brought home for every misfortune that followed. - Shen Yuan had never been so deeply cared for by anyone in his life. Then Shen Zhuo came along, and at last he fo 1.4kReads8.3Score11014d adds
  46. 196 After the Little Fool Ran Away, the Big Shot Went Mad 小傻子逃跑后,大佬他疯了 Two Male Leads319k WordsCompleted [Two male leads, ultra-pampering] A silly bottom who thought he was pretending to be dumb, only to discover he really was dumb, and a fatherly CEO top who thought he was aloof but turned out to be hopelessly in love. Chi Tang died, and then Chi Tang came back to life! There was a pileup on the highway. Chi Tang’s last memory was being crushed between two cars and dying a gruesome death. He closed his eyes, opened them again, and discovered that he had been reborn in the body of a fool with the s 3.1kReads8.6Score33014d adds
  47. 197 I Was Giving Birth in the Delivery Room While My Husband Helped His First Love Get an Abortion Next Door 我在产房生孩子,老公在隔壁陪初恋打胎 9k WordsCompleted I was giving birth in the delivery room, while my husband was next door accompanying his first love as she got an abortion. 137Reads—Score—14d adds
  48. 198 The Foolish Boy Died, and He Went Mad 小傻子死了,他疯了 Marriage & Romance8k WordsCompleted The Little Fool Died, and He Went Mad 6.4kReads—Score9914d adds
  49. 199 The Male Lead Gets Knifed Every Day 男主每天都在挨刀子 Two Male Leads321k WordsCompleted An accident sent Gu Yu plummeting from the heights of a prominent wealthy family into the depths of poverty! After enduring abuse at the hands of his adoptive parents and going through countless hardships to return to his birth family, he was ambushed by the family’s adopted son! His family was cold and uncaring. His parents showed him no affection, his classmates shunned him, and online users hurled insults at him. Even the marriage that was supposed to unite two wealthy families was stolen by 271Reads—Score—14d adds
  50. 200 Silently, I Thought It Was a Song 默以为歌 Two Male Leads100k WordsCompleted Short-tempered, childish top × stubborn beauty bottom (One-on-one + a huge bucket of melodrama + no regard for morals + rekindled love) If it's not for you, just leave. Don't force yourself to read. Yuan Moyan was a ray of light in Ning Ge's heart. But Yuan only saw him as the cuckoo who had taken over another bird's nest. He hated and despised him, and wanted him gone. By the time all the misunderstandings were cleared up, Ning Ge had already left, sick and frail. Only then did Yuan realize he 278Reads8.4Score—14d adds

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