Novels like After the Villainess Woke Up
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- 101 Reborn and Awakened: This Time, I Won’t Be a Love-Struck Fool 重生觉醒，这次我不做恋爱脑 [Both leads reborn + school life + gloomy, manipulative green-tea male lead + healing] Only after Lin Wu died did she learn that she was the villainess in a campus romance novel. Born into a wealthy family and blessed with a pretty face, she was still nothing more than a stepping stone in the sweet love story of the hero and heroine. Even though she and Xie Yanhui had grown up together and were engaged. Xie Yanhui only ever had eyes for the pure, poor Xia Ruoruo. Sadly, she was too obsessed to l 114.9kReads9.1Score23.2k14d adds
- 102 After Seeing the On-Screen Comments, I Lured My Archrival into Pouting 看见弹幕后，死对头被我钓成翘嘴 [Live comments + sweet romance + childhood friends + face-slapping] [High-maintenance heiress and dance student VS sharp-tongued, refined childhood friend and CEO] On her twentieth birthday, Wen Xu happily went to a hotel to celebrate with the man she had pursued for three years. Just as she was about to give herself to her boyfriend, a line of live comments appeared before her eyes. [The supporting female character doesn’t actually think the male lead is coming to celebrate with her, does she? 8.5kReads9.0Score1k14d adds
- 103 The Book Transmigrator Tears into the Reborn Woman, Even Ripping Out Her Hair Ornaments 穿书女手撕重生女，头花都扯掉了 (Don’t worry about the rating. New books have few readers at first, but it will rise.) [A transmigrated woman takes on a reborn woman] [Fictional ancient setting, no need to nitpick] Gu Qingli transmigrated into a satisfying revenge novel about a woman reborn. She wasn’t the heroine, but the wicked supporting character who had killed her, and the first person the heroine would take revenge on after being reborn. Gu Qingli herself had been born into a political family. She was gentle, quiet, an 13.1kReads8.9Score1k14d adds
- 104 The Beloved Cousin of the Real Heiress 穿成真千金的团宠堂姐 [Campus Life, Strong Male and Female Leads, Everyone’s Darling, Mutual Devotion, Healing Each Other, Satisfying and Sweet] Cheng Zhuo somehow winds up inside a novel about a real and fake heiress, as the cousin of the true heiress, who is reborn and destined to be reduced to a cannon-fodder character. The cousin comes from a good family, has a great figure and a beautiful face, and is the family’s beloved little princess. Holding such a winning hand as everyone’s darling, Cheng Zhuo can’t unders 11.4kReads9.0Score91014d adds
- 105 Quick Transmigration: The Sweet and Soft Female Lead 快穿：女配娇又软 [Love at first sight + beautiful and ruthless] Shen Xiantang was a wicked woman who wreaked havoc throughout the cultivation world. After failing her tribulation, she was captured by a System. To be reborn and change her fate, she decided to sign an agreement with the System, completing tasks in exchange for a chance to turn back time. She travels through various minor worlds, with just one task: survive. It sounds simple, but Shen Xiantang got stuck with an unreliable System. After delivering t 14.2kReads8.5Score85414d adds
- 106 After I Stopped Being a Doormat, the Cold Boy Turned Dark 不当舔狗后，清冷少年黑化了 [Yandere forced love + groveling redemption + a System with little presence + funny moments and references] Defiant but timid heroine X wicked, cruel yandere Shen Suihuan dreamed that Lou Yan tortured her to death. When she jolted awake, she was told it wasn't a dream, but her fate. She was just a cannon-fodder supporting character in the novel The Aloof Campus Heartthrob's Domineering Love, born to be a stepping stone on the leads' path to love. To stay alive, Shen Suihuan drew up a plan overni 16.8kReads8.9Score1.4k14d adds
- 107 Behind My Ex-Husband's Back, I Marry the Crown Prince of Beijing's Elite Circle! 瞒着前夫，我二嫁京圈太子爷！ Three months after Ruan Wan got married, a crowd of suitors suddenly appeared out of nowhere. A rich young heir confessed his love to her. A scheming pretty-boy was willing to be the other man for love. A top-tier star declared his love for her in public. But when she actually got divorced, all those men vanished. * At her ex-husband's wedding, Ruan Wan saw those “suitors” again. They discussed her casually: “Ruan Wan? We were just having a little fun with her.” “If it weren't for making things 22.9kReads8.9Score3.6k14d adds
- 108 Book Transmigration: The Fake Heiress Awakens Her Reverse Mind-Reading Ability 穿书：假千金她觉醒了反向读心术 [The whole An family can hear thoughts + transmigrate into a book + secret identities + absurd comedy + villainess + family darling + male lead included] An Mu always felt she was completely different from the rest of the An family. With the An family’s excellent genes, they shouldn’t have been able to produce someone as ridiculous as her. Unless it was a genetic mutation... It wasn’t until she saw An Ran that she awakened. Only then did she discover that she had transmigrated into a book as the 5.2kReads9.4Score65414d adds
- 109 I Became the Male Lead's Vicious Ex-Girlfriend 穿成男主的恶毒前女友 [Angst, childhood sweethearts, physical and emotional torment, groveling for a second chance] Lin Zhizhi discovered that she had transmigrated into a romance novel called The Years of Secret Love. It was bad enough that she hadn’t become the heroine, but she’d ended up as the male lead’s beautiful yet wicked ex-girlfriend. At first, this ex-girlfriend put on a convincing act. At school, everyone adored her, though only the boys. She appeared just twice in the novel: first, when she suddenly show 20.4kReads8.7Score1k14d adds
- 110 The Moment I Opened My Eyes, I Was Lying in a Pervert's Arms, Being Fed to My Heart's Content 刚睁眼，就躺在变态怀里被喂饱饱 Shi Ning and Qin Heyu had been married by contract for three years. On the day their marriage ended, she was ready to sign the divorce papers. Comments: If the villainess dares to sign the divorce papers, the dark villain who’s had a crush on her for ten years will chain her up in the attic and force her to love him! Comments: Villainess, all you have to do is give the villain a look that leaves him to figure it out for himself. You don’t even have to flirt with him or coax him. This lovesick vi 22.8kReads8.9Score2.7k14d adds
- 111 Supporting Actress? More Like the Star! The Wild Rose Takes the Entertainment World by Storm 女配？C位！野玫瑰杀疯娱乐圈 [Nontraditional idol competition + awakened supporting heroine + stage queen + two stars from the entertainment world + two powerful families + plenty of couple moments] After Qin Yan awakens her self-awareness as a supporting character in a book, she becomes bold, beautiful, and unstoppable, making a spectacular comeback on a talent show and shining in every episode! Round 1: “Born to Reign.” She transforms into a fierce, untamed warrior and fires the first shot in her battle to become queen! R 5.6kReads9.4Score1k14d adds
- 112 The Villainess Is Reborn: The Supporting Female Lead Refuses to Play Along 反派重生 : 女配她不干了 Yin Susu opened her eyes and, wow, she had been reborn for the second time. The plot was exactly the same, and so were all the awful problems. She had planned to spend this life eating her fill and waiting to die, just coasting along until the supporting female character reached the end of her life and this whole existence was over. But she still wasn’t willing to accept her fate! If the heroine had a golden finger, then she’d just have to break it. 12.3kReads9.1Score1.1k14d adds
- 113 Everyone Wants to Win Over My Childhood Sweetheart 所有人都想攻略我的青梅竹马 Synopsis: [Low-EQ, soft and adorable heroine VS sharp-tongued childhood-friend hero] What would you do if you discovered that the world you’d lived in all your life was actually a novel, and your childhood sweetheart was its male lead, the kind who would eventually destroy the world? Gu Siyu says… Why not just give up? She’s only a minor cannon-fodder character. There’s nothing she can do to help. Hopefully those people who transmigrated into the book will try harder and stop the world from bein 68.4kReads9.3Score8.1k14d adds
- 114 Reborn as the Villainess, I Keep the Male Lead for Myself from the Start 穿成恶毒女配，开局我先圈养男主 Does a girl transmigrated into the role of a villainess have to cling to the male lead to survive? Faced with the male lead, covered in wounds and brutally humiliated, Yu Tai smiled faintly and showed everyone how to sleep with the male lead from the start. Worried about getting caught in a romantic rivalry with the original heroine? She glanced at the demon beast she'd raised like a daughter. Yu Tai sighed. How about meeting the heroine who insists on taking a male form? After her identity as a 10kReads9.4Score1.2k14d adds
- 115 The Wicked Supporting Character in an Apocalypse Novel? I’ll Be Arrogant While I Can 末世文恶毒女配？嚣张一日是一日 (Published) [Heroine’s return + space + interplanar trade + zombie crystals + mutated plants and animals] After Jiang Yuntan died suddenly from working through the night, she transmigrated into an apocalypse novel. The good news: She became a wealthy young lady with a handsome, rich fiancé. The bad news: She was the vicious female supporting character, her fiancé was the male lead, and she arrived just after pushing the heroine into a horde of zombies. The family heirloom jade bangle her fiancé 59kReads8.9Score5.8k14d adds
- 116 Quick Transmigration: After the Vicious Female Supporting Character Becomes a Bewitching Beauty 快穿：当恶毒女配是娇媚尤物后 [Selfish, Vicious Female Lead + Beloved by All + Love at First Sight + No Fixed Couple + Immersive Roleplay] Ye Jiaoyue is a succubus who feeds on love, and beauty is her natural gift. After an accident binds her to a System, she begins traveling between worlds and playing the villainess. From then on, the favored sons of heaven in every world fall at her feet, eyes burning with desire. They become lovesick and obsessed with her! ① The gold-digging roommate of the female lead in a runaway-with-t 15.2kReads8.2Score65414d adds
- 117 The Capitalist's Daughter Liquidated Her Family Fortune and Joined the Army to Find Her Husband 掏空家产，资本家小姐去部队寻夫 Original title: “Emptying the Family Fortune: The Capitalist's Daughter Goes to the Army to Find Her Husband” [Military marriage + Transmigrate into a Book + Pocket dimension + Putting scumbags in their place + Love grows over time + Exceptionally fit military officer, her childhood betrothed VS dazzling capitalist's daughter] Jiang Si was fair-skinned, beautiful, and radiant. Who would have thought that after waking up, she would find herself in a period novel, as a well-known capitalist's daug 45.8kReads9.2Score5.7k14d adds
- 118 Quick Transmigration: The Wicked Female Lead Plays the Poor Little Thing Online 快穿恶毒女配在线装小可怜 [A touch of being everyone's favorite + play the pig to eat the tiger + fast-paced + a little bittersweet at first, then sweet + 1v1 + not a face-slapping power fantasy + heroine and supporting heroine are friends] Jiang Yan was a calculating little sweetheart, but the System told her she was a vicious supporting female character, the kind no one would ever love. Jiang Yan prepared herself to shine on her own, but the characters in her mission worlds refused to follow the plot! Jiang Yan was puz 14.2kReads9.2Score91814d adds
- 119 A Mom Raising Her Kid, Teary-Eyed 亲妈带娃眼泪汪汪 ☞ Updates on weekdays. Thanks for liking and supporting the story. If it’s not your thing, feel free to move on. P.S. I should warn readers who haven’t started yet. ① The heroine accidentally kisses the second male lead. A lot of readers can’t accept this. If you haven’t read it yet and that bothers you, I don’t recommend reading. Written for fun, read for fun The System is mostly just for show and only appears now and then. Yusu stood before them, a full five-foot-seven, her face stern. The thr 48kReads8.9Score5.5k14d adds
- 120 Quick Transmigration: The Supporting Female Character Becomes the Villain Boss 快穿之女配成了反派BOSS [Quick transmigration + sweet romance + one-on-one + strong heroine] The supporting female character is supposed to move the romance between the male and female leads forward, but Su Jiu refused to play along. Why settle for being a supporting character when she could be the big boss? She took a terrible hand and played it into a royal flush. [System: Host, your mission is to change the supporting character’s fate, not destroy the world!!!] [Who cares about missions? My happiness comes first.] Y 13.2kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 121 The Fierce, Flirtatious Darling in the Arms of a Sinister Tycoon 阴鸷大佬怀里的小娇娇又凶又撩 [The short drama of the same name, The Villain with a Dark Personality Keeps Blushing Because of Her, is now streaming.] Qu Qingzhi transmigrates into a book and becomes a vicious supporting female character. Facing a man who will eventually turn into a powerful villain, she trembles with fear inside, but has no choice but to maintain the original owner's spoiled, overbearing persona. She humiliates him arrogantly: “Xie Muhan, get down on your knees and beg me to be your girlfriend.” Xie Muhan's 13.3kReads9.4Score1.6k14d adds
- 122 A Cannon-Fodder Supporting Lady’s Survival Guide to Clinging to the Infinite-Flow Male Lead 抱紧无限流男主的炮灰女配生存法 Content warning: The female lead is not a strong-woman heroine. She grows gradually, and this is a funny, sweet romance. Romance is the main focus; the infinite-flow survival games are secondary. Please avoid if that’s not your thing. Note: The story includes infinite-flow plots and similar content. Readers with strong moral sensibilities may want to steer clear. Lin Shuang transmigrates into a modern fantasy novel aimed at male readers, becoming the rich young lady who goes on a blind date with 26.1kReads9.4Score2.7k14d adds
- 123 I Wake Up Ready to Fight. If the Villain Won't Do It, I Will 两眼一睁就是干，反派不干我来干 Guan Yu accidentally transmigrates into a book and discovers she has become the vicious supporting female character in a domineering CEO novel: the early-dead wife of the story’s big bad. The System she gets bound to isn’t a redemption System, but a Villainess System. As the name suggests, a villainess targets everyone equally and makes sure nobody has a good time! On a dating reality show, each pair of contestants is given a limited budget. Every other team keeps generously offering to let the 47.6kReads9.1Score6.3k14d adds
- 124 After Becoming the Villainess, the Princess Gives Up! 穿成恶毒女配后，公主她摆烂了！ [Short drama now streaming] [Showbiz + CEO + Secret Crush + Married First, Love Later + Face-Slapping Everyone + Sweet and Satisfying] Jiang Yue transmigrated into a book. She became the villainess in a CEO romance novel. In the original story, she did every evil thing imaginable: drugging the male lead, abusing her biological son, who would grow up to become the villain, bullying the female lead, whom everyone adored, and tormenting the male supporting characters, who would all go on to become 37.8kReads9.2Score3k14d adds
- 125 After Eloping with Her Childhood Friend, Her Rugged Commander Husband Went Crazy 和竹马私奔后，糙汉首长急疯了 [Short drama adaptation now streaming] [Period setting + military marriage + sweet, satisfying romance + married first, love later + winning back his wife!] Song Shengsheng had a nightmare and discovered that she was the cannon-fodder villainess in a period novel: the male lead’s first wife, who died young. In the book, beauty was her only asset. To escape her husband, she wrote a letter reporting that her military officer husband came from a politically suspect background. That wasn’t all. When 33kReads8.8Score2.9k14d adds
- 126 After Becoming a Cultivation Novel's Female Side Character, I Don't Want to Be Cannon Fodder 穿成修仙女配后不想当炮灰 [Female-Led Cultivation, No Romance] [Mutated Wind Spirit Root + Hidden Weapons] Reincarnated as the villainess in a cultivation novel, she gets the best setup possible: the Northern Border’s greatest beauty and a genius disciple with a mutated Wind Spirit Root. But since she isn’t destined to be the heroine, Duan Jiaojiao decides to stay away from her and turn down the powerful Canglan Sect, joining the “pickpocket sect” Kongkong Sect instead. Who could have guessed that this much-hated “pickpo 5.5kReads9.2Score54814d adds
- 127 She Hid Her Pregnancy and Left the Child Behind; Reborn, I Won't Chase Him Again 藏起孕肚去父留子，重生我不追了 (Publication deal signed) Reborn, one-on-one, both pure, aloof beauty goes mad for love, husband-chasing crematorium (A heartbroken heroine x a hero who wants to be her dog) A Shang stole the position of Xie Hengyu's wife. Everyone knows Xie Hengyu is a sword cultivator prodigy with a brilliant future in the cultivation world, while A Shang is merely a lowly half-demon who became his wife through underhanded means. In the end, she was falsely accused of colluding with the demon clan and died a t 39.7kReads9.1Score3.4k14d adds
- 128 The Fake Heiress Just Gives Up and Goes Crazy! 假千金她直接摆烂发疯啦！ The physical edition of Alternative Brilliance goes on presale on the 18th! What should you do if you become the fake heiress in a story about a real and fake heiress? Lie flat when it’s time to lie flat, and go crazy when it’s time to go crazy! Yan Zhizhi met the real heiress, Ning Yue, on a variety show. Then everyone realized Yan Zhizhi wasn’t quite the same as the person they’d known before. She’d gone crazy! When faced with a setback, everyone else tried to work through it. She just lay fla 39kReads9.4Score4.2k14d adds
- 129 The Girl Who Was My Moonlight Is Done with This! 白月光她不干了！ “You are the beautiful, high-born second female lead, the childhood sweetheart who returns from abroad as everyone’s unattainable ideal. You marry the CEO of a multinational corporation for a business alliance. But you can’t help falling for the male lead, your childhood friend, and you constantly scheme against the innocent, sweet female lead. In the end, the leads live happily ever after, while your husband and family abandon you, and you die a horrible death.” After transmigrating into the an 74.1kReads9.2Score7.6k14d adds
- 130 Reborn as a Tycoon's Wicked Ex-Wife, I Became the Whole Family's Darling 穿成大佬恶毒前妻后，被全家团宠 [Transmigrate into a book set in the 1970s + personal space + sweet romance and raising kids + love grows over time + transmigrated heroine vs. reborn heroine] When she opens her eyes, Jiang Yuman finds herself transmigrated into a book as the male lead’s wicked ex-wife, who is six months pregnant. In the book, the original owner dreams of becoming an official’s wife and tries every trick in the book to marry into the Fu family. But when the Fu family is falsely accused, stripped of their positi 136.6kReads9.1Score16.2k14d adds
- 131 The Capital's Most Notorious Beauty 京城第一祸水 Currently being published [rival suitors in a dramatic love triangle + top-tier schemer + supporting villainess fights back + everyone comes around] [Historical romance + told entirely from the wicked supporting female character’s perspective] ❣️Blurb One Qiao Wanyan learned from a storybook that she was nothing but a wicked supporting character who abandoned her childhood sweetheart and chased after wealth and status. She sowed discord, poisoned her elder sister, and committed every imaginable 58.2kReads9.3Score7.7k14d adds
- 132 Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder Keeps Running into Yandere Obsessives 快穿：炮灰她总遇到病娇偏执狂 [Quick transmigration + yandere + devoted couple + possessive love + delicate, soft-hearted, airheaded beauty heroine + one-on-one romance] Yun Wu is the Host of a Quick Transmigration Cannon-Fodder System. She becomes cannon fodder in the novels of various worlds, but then she suddenly realizes that the male lead in every world seems to be that same person... The orphaned cannon-fodder girl in an ancient romance, the villainous supporting character in a school story, the cannon-fodder wife in a 69.8kReads9.2Score3.6k14d adds
- 133 Huanhuan Is Here! 欢欢欢欢欢欢欢欢来了 [Everyone’s favorite + sweet romance] After binding herself to a System, Yu Huan became the ex-girlfriend of the male lead in every world. But she was only a supporting character. As soon as the heroine appeared, she, the woman who wasn’t destined for him, would soon be written out. Transmigrating into the substitute for the man’s unrequited love, Yu Huan happily spent his money on food, drink, and fun, waiting for the heroine to return from abroad so she could take her breakup settlement and en 81.7kReads9.1Score6.1k14d adds
- 134 The Crown of the Dark Moon 黑月光冠冕 [The first print volume is now available] [Sweet Romance in a Wealthy Family] + [A Forbidden Love Falls from Its Pedestal] + [Characters Awaken] + [A Chaotic Love Rival Showdown] “You are a cannon-fodder character in this world. Your character tags are: beautiful, vicious, and stupid. When you were eight, you were adopted by the Shen family, the most powerful family in Whale Harbor. The head of the family treasured you like a gem, but you joined forces with your villainous mother to scheme agai 305.9kReads9.5Score42.1k14d adds
- 135 Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂 [Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and 117kReads9.6Score13.7k14d adds
- 136 Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春 [Print edition now available] Sang Nian accidentally climbs into the world of cultivation and becomes the vicious supporting female character who meets a tragic end in the book. System: Your mission is to marry the male supporting character, Xie Chenzhou, abuse him, humiliate him, and then get killed by him. Sang Nian: OK (brandishes little whip) (hits herself) (collapses with a thud) System: (silence) (stares at the sky) System: Mission changed. Win him over, or go mine coal. Sang Nian: (smiles 183.4kReads9.5Score25.3k14d adds
