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- 101 After the Deposed Crown Prince Leapt to His Death, the Emperor Regretted It 废太子一跃而下后，陛下他后悔了 From the moment I was born, my father had told me more than once that my existence was a disgrace, a mistake, and the reason future generations would criticize him. Well, he can rest easy this time. Because I’m going to die. 12.8kReads—Score31814d adds
- 102 Peace Across the Land 海晏河清 Peace and Prosperity 115Reads—Score2614d adds
- 103 The Three-Coin Tea Grows Cold, While Hatred Burns 三文茶凉，恨字滚烫 The Tea Has Gone Cold, but the Word 'Hate' Still Burns 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 The Broth Boiled Dry, and the Dead Man She Awaited Came Back 清汤滚尽，她等的死人回来了 The Broth Boiled Dry, and the Dead Man She Was Waiting for Came Back 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 She Wielded a Blade for Ten Years, Then Drove It into His Heart 她打了十年刀，最后一把捅进了他心口 She wielded a blade for ten years, then plunged it into his heart. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 158,000: The Most Expensive Lesson My Daughter Will Ever Learn 十五万八，是我女儿这辈子最贵的一堂课 158,000 yuan: the most expensive lesson my daughter will ever learn. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 After My Mission Failed, Both Male Leads Blew Up Their Souls for Me 攻略失败后，两个男主都为我自爆神魂 After My Pursuit Failed, Both Male Leads Self-Destructed Their Souls for Me —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 A Youth Wasted 虚度一个青春 Wasting Away a Youth 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 Love Unspoken 相思不知语 A shy, obedient girl struggling with depression VS a roguishly handsome, brash school bully After developing depression because of her parents' arguments, shy girl Xia Zhijin transferred schools and met Qi Jingsheng, a school bully with a wealthy family but a broken childhood. They became deskmates, but he died of illness before they could fall in love. Because of her, he became a moon born from the abyss; Because of him, she became a bright, confident sun. That summer was so passionate, yet so 830Reads6.8Score18414d adds
- 110 The Sickly CEO's Pursuit of Love Fails, So He Coughs Up Blood for Comfort GB病弱总裁追爱失败，咳血求哄 [Rekindled love after a breakup, bittersweet romance, heart-wrenching love, a hint of a love triangle with a jealous male lead, later chasing his wife, girl-boy romance, one-on-one, happy ending, both leads' first love] [The male lead suffers: frail health, stomach problems, myocarditis, neurological migraines, intermittent blindness and deafness, depression...] Cool, resilient, gentle, and cultured silk painting artist VS seemingly warm and refined but actually obsessive and deeply devoted, glo 222Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 111 After He Died, I Made a Fortune Working at a Nightclub 他死后，我在夜场上班挣大钱 After He Died, I Made Big Money Working at Nightclubs 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 A Sickly Body, a Guilty Love 病骨罪情 (The Ex-Wife’s Pursuit: A Living Hell + Second Male Lead Takes the Crown + No Getting Back Together) When Song Ci was young, she saved someone. Later, that person sent her to prison over nothing more than a single word from his first love. After she was released, torment and humiliation followed one after another. When he threw away her mother’s ashes, Song Ci had lost everything. At last, she learned her lesson. Her brain had been badly injured, and she was slowly starting to forget him. But he 1.2kReads8.2Score10114d adds
- 113 Brother, I’m Done Getting Treatment 哥哥，我不治了 Big Brother, I’m Done with Treatment 1.4kReads—Score7614d adds
- 114 Help! My Mortal Enemy Forced Me to Marry Him 救命！我被死对头给强娶了 [Completed + two male leads + love and hate + mild coercion + younger man + one-on-one + fictional setting] [Hot-tempered, sharp-tongued, narcissistic top scholar × possessive, puppy-like regent, who later turns rabid] (The main story has a tragic ending; the extras have a happy ending. Sweet with angst, angsty with sweetness.) Alternate title: Bewitched By imperial decree, Xu Ci went from a high-ranking official to a plaything kept beneath another man's body. It all began when the all-powerful 109Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 After He Called Off the Engagement, He Became Someone I Could Never Hope to Marry 退婚后，他成了我的高攀不起 After Our Engagement Was Called Off, He Became Someone I Could Never Hope to Reach —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 The Light That Once Shone on Me: Regrets 《那道曾经照亮我的光》遗憾 The Light That Once Shone on Me: Regrets 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 My Childhood Friend Ascended the Throne 我的竹马登基了 [Comedy + Zhihu-style storytelling + Ridiculous antics + Strong Male and Female Leads + Childhood Sweethearts + A Little Angst] My name is Gu Xiang, and I’m a celebrated female general. Qi Yan and I have been at odds since we were children. He’s a petty man who loves to kick people when they’re down. As for why Qi Yan loves picking on me so much, it’s because he’s jealous of me. Jealous because everyone loves me and even the flowers bloom when they see me. Chapter excerpt: “Qi Yan, what do you 853Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 118 I’m Sorry, I Don’t Dare to Love You Anymore 对不起，我不敢再爱你 Ning Anran loved Bo Yeting so much that she lost herself. But Bo Yeting didn't love her. The woman in his heart was Mu Junya, who had once risked her life to save him. But when he lost Ning Anran, and the whole truth was laid bare before him, he regretted it. He searched the entire world for Ning Anran, who had disappeared, like a madman. But she no longer dared to love him. 339Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 119 She Is Like a Clear Sky on a Midsummer Day 她如盛夏挽晴天 Three years ago, Jiang Huai, the young heir to a powerful family in the capital, abruptly broke up with his first love, Lin Chuxia. One upheaval after another followed, and then the family members she depended on were struck by misfortune too. Only then did she suddenly realize that she needed money more than love. The girl who used to talk about her dreams disappeared. In her place stood a major celebrity who cared only about profit. When they met again three years later, he realized that the p 56Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 120 The Kid Everyone Else Has 别人家的小孩 [Not a Strong Female Lead, Mild Angst] Xia Wanwan is an only child who has always excelled in both character and academics. To outsiders, she's the quintessential “other people's child,” but no one knows how much she envies other people's children. Outsiders have no idea how frightening her family is. She's insecure, afraid, and repressed. After staying silent for too long, she finally erupts, only to give in once again under her mother's latest onslaught. She once thought her world would always 12Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 121 Longing for Yun's Return 念云归 [Angsty! Angsty! Angsty! Short tragic historical romance, princess sent abroad for a political marriage] Huan Yun’s childhood name was Yun’er. From the time she was little, her mother held her close and softly sang, “Yun’er, come home. Yun’er, come home.” Yun’er never went anywhere. Mother, why do you sigh like that? In the sixteenth year of Jianzhao, Huan Yun passed away quietly in the Wuyou Palace. Mother, you don’t know. Yun’er can never return home again... 294Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 122 I Know You Came to Use Me, Yet I'm Still Willing to Take the Bait 明知你来利用我，我还愿意上钩 The Gao Group is plunged into a cash-flow crisis after an overseas project fails, and its chairman, Gao Zhenxiong, collapses from a heart attack. His eldest son, Gao Tingyu, takes charge of the wreckage, only to realize that the sole person who can save the company is Shu Hancheng, founder of Hanhai Capital: a shrewd capital hunter who built his fortune from scratch. But Shu Hancheng remains cool toward the Gao Group’s overtures. Gao Tingyu comes up with a bargaining chip: his younger sister, Ga 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 I Took Over My Nemesis's Body, Yet Fell in Love with Him! 魂穿宿敌却爱上他！ A decisive, cross-dressing female general ✖️ A scheming, obsessive, bloodthirsty powerbroker At the moment General Ling Zhao fell on the battlefield, she still clutched the bloodstained banner in her hand. Gazing toward the capital, she spat out a mouthful of blood and roared in fury: “Chu Yi! My greatest regret in this life is that I never took your head. If I get another life, I swear I'll grind your bones to dust!” To her dying day, she never knew that Chu Yi, the scheming powerbroker she hat 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 Consumed to the Bone 沉溺入骨 They agreed it would be a “business arrangement”: he would help her pay off fifty million in debt, and she would play along with his act. But Bo Nian couldn’t resist his good looks. She became addicted to him, only to discover that he was hiding a girl and protecting her fiercely. He even went so far as to take her bone marrow for that girl. Only then did Bo Nian face reality: she would never be able to warm his heart. He said, “I can’t be responsible for what happens to other people. Life and 655Reads8.2Score10314d adds
- 125 When We Divorced, I Made Her Kneel and Pay Me Back 离婚时，我让她跪着还 When We Divorced, I Made Her Kneel to Pay Me Back 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 I Tracked My Wife’s Location. The Address Was My Best Buddy’s House 追踪妻子定位，地址是我好哥们家 I Tracked My Wife’s Location. It Led to My Best Friend’s House 143Reads—Score—14d adds
- 127 After Five Years as a Live-In Son-in-Law and Househusband, My Wife Called Me Tacky. I Walked Away and Crushed Her Jewelry Empire 入赘五年成煮夫，被嫌俗后我转身，让前妻珠宝帝国崩塌 After five years as a live-in son-in-law, I became a househusband. She called me tacky, so I walked away and brought my ex-wife's jewelry empire crashing down. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 Reborn in 1998, I Dumped My Loser Boyfriend and Married the Business World's Devil, Who Spoiled Me Rotten 重生1998甩掉渣男，我转身嫁给商界阎王被他宠上天 Reborn in 1998, I dumped my terrible boyfriend and married the ruthless king of the business world, who pampered me to the skies. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 129 After Losing My Memory, I Found Out the Divorce Settlement Was a Billion. I Started My Life Over and Had a Blast 失忆后发现离婚分十亿，老娘直接重启人生嗨翻天 After losing my memory, I discovered that my divorce settlement was worth a billion. I started my life over and had the time of my life! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 He's Just a Fool 他只是个傻子 [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
- 131 CEO, Your Wife Says She'll Pay with Her Life 总裁，夫人说她以命相抵了 [Physical and emotional torment + a repentant husband chasing his wife + younger, possessive obsessive love + tragic ending, no reconciliation] After a car accident, he lost the child he had with his lover. Grieving the loss of his child, Gong Yin blamed it all on Weisheng Luobai. He destroyed her family, crippled her right hand, and ended her path to becoming a champion. Weisheng Luobai, once a gifted young woman who had made a name for herself in the capital, became a servant to his lover. 247Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Imprisoned by Love: Wildfire Scorches the Stars 囚爱：野火灼星 [Two male leads + forced love + two powerful leads + heartbreakingly angsty and sickeningly sweet] A love fated across three lifetimes, a tragic romance spanning two. He is the sharpest blade of the Six Fan Gate; I am the coldest bandit of Blackwind Stronghold. When I locked this jade-faced constable in a stone cell, all I wanted was to break his pride. The torture devices couldn’t make him talk, but they made me addicted. “Shangguan Xingyang,” I licked the blood from the corner of his lips. “T 182Reads—Score—14d adds
- 133 All My Remaining Years Turn to Ash 余生烬我皆空 Su Wanjin had secretly loved Lu Shiyan for ten years. When the Su family fell into ruin, she was forced to marry him and became a substitute for his moonlight-white love. Coldness, suspicion, and framing followed one after another. During an argument, she lost their child and was left permanently unable to have children. Heartbroken, she tried to leave, but he forcibly kept her prisoner. Only after the lies were torn apart did Lu Shiyan realize that she had been the one who saved him in the snow 6Reads—Score10414d adds
- 134 The Final Greed of Mortal Ties 尘缘最后的贪婪 After that person died a cruel death, she abandoned her path to immortality and plunged headlong into the demonic abyss. From that day onward, the pure-hearted cultivator of old was gone, replaced by a fiend with blood on her hands whom everyone feared. She had killed too many people and borne too many sins. Everyone in the world cursed her behind her back, saying she had gone mad and was beyond saving. Her trail of blood stretched to the very edge of the cultivation world. No one knew that the 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 I Was Raised in a Pigsty and Now Earn a Million a Year 猪圈里养出了百万年薪的我 I Made a Million a Year Growing Up in a Pigsty 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 My Fiancé Made Me Kneel to Protect His Beloved. I Ran into the Flames and Rose to Become a Queen 未婚夫为护白月光让我下跪，我转身冲进火海逆袭成女王 My Fiancé Made Me Kneel to Protect His One True Love. I Rushed Into the Flames and Rose to Become a Queen —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 A Marriage at a Crossroads 婚途陌路 Strangers on the Road to Marriage 49Reads—Score714d adds
- 138 He Hid in the Midsummer 他藏在盛夏里 A lonely girl, Xu Zhinan, and a sunny boy, Gu Bei A secret love can never see the light of day. When you can no longer hide your feelings, remember to walk away while you still can. The story begins when sixteen-year-old Xu Zhinan falls in love with Gu Bei at first sight. By the end, the boy she loves has married and started a family, and his bride is not her. To forget him, she starts dating, and eventually gets married. Two days before the wedding, Xu Zhinan receives an anonymous package sent 160Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 139 The Book Between Two Worlds: The Emperor’s Caged Phoenix Breaks Its Neck at Last 两界书：帝王囚凰终折颈 [Both virgins + groveling redemption + palace and household intrigue + tragic romance] On my first day as a princess sent off for a political marriage, he made me drink poisoned wine. What he didn’t know was that I was a modern-day expert in pharmacology and toxicology, a veritable King of Hell. He suspected me, despised me, and abandoned me. At every turn between life and death, he chose someone else. He thought he loved his unattainable first love, so he protected her and trusted her. He had 48Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 Longing for Our Reunion Day After Day, Forgetting Each Other Year After Year 朝朝盼重逢，念念总相忘 [Angst, angst, angst! Extremely angsty, proceed with caution!] Five years ago The golden boy Ji Lingchuan knelt on the ground, desperately begging Xia Zhiyi not to leave him. But she coldly told him to get lost, then turned around and married someone else. Five years later The bar hostess Xia Zhiyi knelt before the untouchable Mr. Ji, fawning over him. He shoved her away, saying she was filthy. He hated her, bullied her, and was consumed by the desire to take revenge on her. But when he saw a li 710Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 141 There Is a Windowless Tower in Nanjiang 南疆有座无窗的楼 In Southern Xinjiang, there stands a windowless tower 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 He Said He Cheated on Me 他说他出轨了 He Said He Cheated 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 The Thirteenth Day After My Death 我死后的第十三天 The Thirteenth Day After I Died 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 Mr. Bo, We’re Nothing but Strangers Now 薄先生，你我情同陌路 [Short Story Contest] After seven years of marriage, she has suffered endless torment at his hands. She has angina and only a year left to live, but he ignores it and plans to marry her younger sister. No one knows she is the real Mrs. Bo. Forced to kneel before her own sister and admit she is a shameless mistress seeking attention, she endures his bloodthirsty sneers and his endless humiliation and trampling of her dignity. After losing her child, she goes mad with despair and leaps from the up 131Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 145 Late at Night, I Fell into the Cold Abyss of Your Heart 深夜，堕入你凉薄的深渊 Three years ago, their marriage was a cruel act of coercion and conquest. After losing her child and being torn from the one she loved, Su Liyue learned that she was merely a dead woman’s substitute. She burned their ill-fated relationship to the ground. Only after losing her did Qin Yanfeng realize that he loved her to the depths of his soul. He was consumed by regret and went mad with grief. Three years later, the familiar woman returned, but she was no longer his Yue’er... 88Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 146 May You Be Safe Year After Year. May We Never Meet Again, Alive or Dead 愿君岁岁平安，你我生死不见 May you be safe and sound year after year. May we never meet again, in life or death. 641Reads—Score4114d adds
- 147 Interstellar Countercourse: Framed by My Beloved Wife and Imprisoned for a Century, I Return as King 星际逆航—被爱妻陷害坐牢百年归来我依然是王 Interstellar Counterattack: Framed by My Beloved Wife and Jailed for a Century, I Return Still a King 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Sister Buried Beneath My Feet 埋在我脚下的姐姐 The Sister Buried Beneath My Feet 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 If You Hadn't Left 如果你没离开 [Angsty romance, love at first sight, campus, regrets, bad ending] He was a wealthy young master who had been sent away to live with another family. She was a humble girl who had left the mountains behind. They met on the first day of school and later became classmates. She never hid her secret crush, and he never kept his feelings to himself. But after one of her loved ones died, a choice drove them apart for good. Years later... She had changed completely. But when she met him again... She bec 45Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 150 The Legend of Anle 安乐传 A new book. It has some flaws, but they’re easy enough to overlook. Sweet at first, then heartbreaking + no getting back together + making the villains pay Princess Anle’s life was so miserable that it felt like a dream. She gave her whole heart and got nothing but scars in return. After two years, her passionate love finally turned to ashes. She would rather die than be his wife again. There was no love left between them, only hatred, and they would fight to the death. Before she died, she said 58Reads—Score—14d adds
