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- 1 Contract Expired: Young Ladies, Please Stop Bothering Me 合约到期：大小姐们请别在打扰我 [The ex regrets it too late + a battlefield of regret + daily life + multiple heroines + a touch of yandere] After accidentally angering a wealthy young lady, Ling Qing is ordered to care for three heiresses around the clock for years. During those three years, Ling Qing gives his all, providing the young ladies with the best service and emotional support. But they don’t appreciate it, maintaining their haughty attitudes and refusing to let him relax for even a moment, right up to the final week 3.5kReads6.8Score20114d adds
- 2 You Rejected My Confession, and Now That I'm Leaving, You're Acting Like a Yandere? 表白你不接受，我走你变病娇是吧 [Ex-Lover Regrets It Too Late] [One Female Lead] [Yandere] [Slow-paced. Don't read if that's not your thing.] Qi Shi and Dan Chun have known each other since childhood. On the day of her coming-of-age ceremony, Qi Shi carefully prepared his 101st confession. "You're so annoying, such a pain. I don't like you, and I never will." Qi Shi... was devastated. But what was there to be devastated about? He'd known the answer all along. Why force it? Enough. She always says hurtful things so easily. This 635Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 3 I Toyed with Rich Heiresses, Then the Goddess Came for Me with a Knife 狂渣富家千金，女神提刀上门 [No System + Campus Romance + Everyday Life + Chasing His Husband After a Breakup + Love Triangle Showdowns + Light-Novel Style + Mild Yandere] After Lin Jundu was dumped by his gold-digging ex-girlfriend, he resolutely became a scumbag in online relationships, targeting rich heiresses. But during a university public lecture, is his identity as an online dating scumbag who has dated several wealthy heiresses about to be exposed? And in full view of everyone, the black-haired, red-eyed Tokyo exch 359Reads9.0Score10914d adds
- 4 To Hell with the Aloof, Sickly-Sweet Heiress: She's Irresistible 去你的清冷白月光病娇财阀她真香 [Reborn + yandere + possessive love + no forgiveness + everyday romance] A single heroine, no harem: a yandere heiress with a possessive love. Zhong Liting spent years chasing after someone who never loved him. In the end, he was left with nothing and even lost his life, all to pave the way for someone else. As he lay dying, he saw Sikong Yao summon the medical world's top experts and lavish every kind of expensive medication on him as if money were no object. This aloof, untouchable beauty wept 1.8kReads8.9Score13314d adds
- 5 The Yandere Actress Always Wants to Plot Against Me 病娇影后她总想对我图谋不轨 [Male-oriented angst × one heroine × she chases him after the breakup × marriage before love × older woman/younger man romance × showbiz × campus] A story of mutual salvation between two people with psychological wounds! The male lead is a sickly beauty, gentle and soft-spoken, but not weak. The heroine mistreats him at first, then chases after him later. … Sickly Lin Qingran was abused by his father and abandoned by his mother as a child. Beneath his obedient exterior lay a heart frozen and rot 4.1kReads9.0Score37514d adds
- 6 After My Red-Whiskered Plum Blossom Dumped Me, I Found My Moonlight 被朱砂痣扔了后，我捡到了白月光 “We grew up together, but we’re not joined at the hip. Could you please give me some space?” His childhood sweetheart had always been so willful. But Xiao Hongli, no one actually dies just because someone else leaves. Qin Yang was gone for a long time, and she forgot him for a long time too, until fate led him to a girl named Shen Yu'er: timid, gentle, and kind. The girl he once cherished had become a regret. Now, she was the one who lit up his life. … Xiao Hongli naively believed that, just lik 5.3kReads7.7Score37014d adds
- 7 The Cool Goddess Turns Yandere, and I Choose to Conquer Her 清冷女神变病娇，我选择征服 [Pursuing the Guy + Multiple Heroines + Light System + Everyday Life + Romantic Comedy + Extra Sweet + No Angst] Cool Goddess: Lin Mo, I’ve finally cleared away every obstacle keeping you and me apart. You’re mine, and mine alone. Cold Senior: Mo, please disrupt my discipline. Sweet Little Sister: Brother Mo, everyone else will only hurt you. I’m the only one who truly cares about you. Tsundere Girl: Lin Mo, I-I don’t like you! This is just… right, this is just a dating experience! Lin Mo: You… 215Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 8 After Being Abandoned by the Warlord's Daughter 被军阀大小姐抛弃后 [Mutual devotion, warlord, older-man romance, sweet indulgence, possessive hero, groveling pursuit] [Cheerful, innocent, secretly ruthless younger woman VS scheming, cold, arrogant older man] With chaos on the horizon, conflict was about to erupt. Shen Wannian was betrayed and fell into an enemy trap, where she was captured. Gu Shiyan, captain of the prison guards, was assigned to interrogate her. “Why aren't you eating again?” Shen Wannian: “...Kid, is this your first time interrogating a priso 1.7kReads7.2Score10514d adds
- 9 After Being Hurt to the Core, I Leave, and Seven Heiresses Weep with Regret 被伤透我离开，七位大小姐悔哭了 [Chasing Him + Regret + Heartbreak + Comedy + No System + Less Hostility + Positive Energy] (The story takes its time getting started. Things get lighthearted and funny after the appearance of the Qilin son of the Yan family.) Qin Fan was found by his grandfather on the side of the road. His grandfather raised him, put him through college, and was his only family in the world! When Qin Fan was a freshman, his grandfather accidentally fell into a reservoir and was rescued by seven wealthy young l 13.8kReads8.1Score1.4k14d adds
- 10 I Married a Yandere Heiress at First Sight, but Can't Hide My Playboy Past 闪婚病娇千金，海王身份藏不住了 [Male-oriented fiction + two yandere heroines + daily love-triangle drama + satisfying, sweet romance with multiple heroines + a desperate ex chasing him] Because his face bore a passing resemblance to someone else, Jiang Sheng spent a year fawning over Lin Xiyue, only to call out his childhood sweetheart's name while drunk. She dumped him, and he ended up in the bed of a cold, haughty, yandere heiress. After she abducted him and took him home, the heiress doted on him beyond measure, leaving ev 6.7kReads8.1Score59914d adds
- 11 Don't Cry, Campus Belle. Your Tears Disgust Me 校花别哭了，你的眼泪我嫌脏 [One heroine + everyday romance + no forgiveness!] "Han Lin, the way you have no sense of boundaries makes me sick." "I understand. I won't do it again." Han Lin had spent ten years chasing after Lu Qingxue. He was tired. He'd planned to close his heart to love, but then a pretty little girl suddenly attached herself to him. "Big brother, can I add you on WeChat?" "Big brother, can I hug you?" "Big brother, you're the best~" At first, he thought this adorable girl had been sent by heaven 5kReads9.2Score71714d adds
- 12 After My Yandere CEO Wife Imprisoned Me, I Faked My Death and Escaped 被病娇总裁妻囚禁后，我死遁了 [Main story complete, bonus chapters ongoing] [Male-oriented + one heroine + obsessive CEO + possessive confinement + wife pursues husband after breakup + no cheating + not a power fantasy + no System, not reborn + happy ending] Xia Tingyu, the darling of heaven, was an obsessive woman. Li Yan only regretted that he had realized too late how wicked she really was. Their business marriage had originally been a three-year agreement, but after Li Yan drank the spiked red wine Xia Tingyu offered him 20.8kReads8.1Score1.6k14d adds
- 13 I Let Go of My First Love and Childhood Friend for a Yandere Loli 放下白月光青梅，选择病娇萝莉 [Never looking back / one heroine / pure love / reborn / no infidelity or cuckoldry / yandere / light novel / sweet / regret arc / no System / loli mom] In his previous life, out of a promise to his elders, Lu Bei quietly devoted years of his life to his childhood sweetheart. In the end, all he got in return was, “We’re not right for each other.” After being reborn, he chose to leave the woman he had loved without ever winning her heart. Just as he decided to close his heart and give up on lo 2.1kReads8.9Score25414d adds
- 14 The Scheming Campus Belle Can't Cook but Insists I Move In with Her 腹黑校花不会做饭，非要拉我同居 [Genius male lead + witty comedy + rich female lead + mind games + unconventional wish fulfillment + she gradually falls for him] A mishap while looking for a place to rent reveals that the elegant campus beauty, adored by everyone at school, is actually a scheming senior! Not only does she force him to live at her place for free, she insists they move in together? And then... This campus beauty is full of surprises! She takes on yours truly in a battle of wits every day. Damn! She even wants to 8.2kReads9.0Score1.1k14d adds
- 15 I Raised a Monster Girlfriend 养成了个怪物女友 [I’m too lazy to edit the few chapters that dropped. If they’re gone, they’re gone.] [Cthulhu-inspired monster girl, yandere, one heroine, pure romance] The first seventeen years of his life were like a pile of mud rotting in a corner. Until one rainy night, when he brought home an extraterrestrial monster on the verge of death. He thought it was just an unreal, fantastical game of raising a pet. He fed it, gave it a name, taught it human language and rules, and watched it grow from a gooey blob 7.5kReads9.2Score91114d adds
- 16 The Campus Belle Is Such a Psycho, I Have Nowhere to Run! 病娇校花太变态，我逃无可逃！ [Everyday romance + no System and no rebirth + one heroine + sweet, satisfying romance + lovingly detailed affection + unexpectedly unhinged, yandere intensity + chaotic love-triangle showdowns + succubus] After a night of passion brought about by a twist of fate, Su Jin, newly returned from military service, finds himself pursued by Xia Zhi, the famous unhinged yandere campus beauty at Jinghai University. When Xia Zhi learns that Su Jin will be transferring to Jinghai University, she goes strai 4.4kReads5.6Score31714d adds
- 17 Yandere Love Triangle: Just How Many Little Sisters Do You Have? 病娇修罗场：你究竟有几个好妹妹 [No System + yandere + love triangle drama + romance + gaming livestream] Fang Zhou, a once-popular gaming streamer whose fame had faded, was invited onto a dating show. But he discovered that four of the five female guests were ex-girlfriends he'd treated badly. He told the pure-hearted campus beauty, “You're too innocent. I like women with a wild side.” He told the top-tier star, “Your voice sounds too affected. I like it natural.” With his ex-girlfriends acting strangely, Fang Zhou ha 5.8kReads8.9Score55114d adds
- 18 On the Self-Cultivation of a People-Pleaser 论中央空调的自我修养 [Multiple heroines + everyday life + heartwarming + healing + lighthearted] Xia Yu had enjoyed smooth sailing through the first half of his life, only to be sent back to the prologue without warning. But wasn't this way too early? Fate seemed to love playing tricks. The women who had once flashed briefly through his life, but whom he'd never gotten to know because of various circumstances, now appeared one after another ahead of schedule: A stubborn, distant rising star in voice acting; a myster 2.2kReads9.2Score11114d adds
- 19 Their Attempts to Win Him Back Failed, and They Turned Into Yanderes 追夫火葬场不成，她们变成了病娇 This world of cultivation is vast and boundless, rife with intrigue and conflict. Lin Yan has no interest in a life of fighting and killing. He cultivates only so he can live longer, raise a cute little demon as a pet, and spend the rest of his life with someone he loves. One day, he can’t resist confessing to his beautiful, alluring master. But she is the strongest person in the world, the sect leader of the Heavenly Dao Sect, and the leader of the righteous path. She is also the most beautiful 7.2kReads8.8Score61514d adds
- 20 I Marry the Yandere Eldest Princess Instead, and My White Moonlight's Heart Falls Apart 改娶病娇长公主，白月光心态崩了 [Men's Fiction] [Yandere Heiress to a Wealthy Family + Obsessively Possessive Wife + Sweet Romance] [Regret and Remorse + No Forgiveness + Identity-Reveal Face-Slapping] [One Heroine + Everyday Romance + Sweet and Satisfying] [Forced Love] In his previous life, the real young master, Qin Jiang, returned to his family and did everything he could to please them. But his biological parents drugged him and sent him to marry into a living hell in his younger brother's place. His five older sisters wa 65kReads9.3Score8.3k14d adds
- 21 The Female Lead Keeps Rewinding? This Is Just a Wife-Chasing Hell 女主无限回档？追妻火葬场罢了 [Yandere protagonist + gender-bending GL 1v1 + role-playing + behind-the-scenes + plot-driven + some angst (mild) (the protagonist is safe) + regretful pursuit] Lin Niannian transmigrates into the role of a scheming fake heiress. She thinks it’s just an ordinary story about a real and fake heiress, but then the female lead, a powerful heroine, is reborn with a cheat that lets her rewind after death, and wants to kill her. What should she do? Luckily, she gets bound to a role-playing System. To 13kReads9.3Score1.9k14d adds
- 22 Reborn: I Refuse to Fawn Over My Childhood Friend and Pick Up a Shy, Rich Heiress 重生拒绝舔青梅，捡到社恐小富婆 [Rebirth + campus romance + one heroine + sweet everyday romance + feel-good story + face-slapping] His childhood sweetheart, who cut off contact with him two and a half years ago, returns and promises to marry him as soon as the bride price is ready. He thinks she’s had a change of heart, but it turns out she’s just looking for a pushover. Yang Shu cuts his losses decisively: I’m tired. Let’s destroy everything and start over. And then the second round begins... Childhood sweetheart: What kind 17.7kReads9.4Score2.1k14d adds
- 23 I Grow Stronger Only When My Confessions Fail 告白失败才能变强 [System + wacky comedy + slice-of-life youth + overactive imagination + light novel + anime] Su Cheng transmigrates into another world. Just when he finally manages to get into a prestigious academy, he discovers that he has a System, and that the way to earn rewards is utterly ridiculous. So, for the sake of the rewards, he has no choice but to get ridiculous himself. Su Cheng: “It’s just a System mission, that’s all.” But what puzzles Su Cheng later is that he already thought he was ridicul 25kReads9.0Score2k14d adds
- 24 Villain: My Junior Sisters Are All Dark Empresses 反派：我师妹全是黑化女帝 [Villain + System + Empress + corruption + invincible + yandere] [The chase-back-to-win-her-over arc] He transmigrates into a fantasy novel world as the abandoned son of an imperial clan, exiled from an immortal domain to the lower realm. After six lifetimes of reincarnation, he only wants to be a righteous senior brother, despite being a villain by nature. However, The junior sisters he cared about most misunderstood him for five whole lifetimes. In his sixth life, he gives up trying. From then 12.9kReads8.7Score1.2k14d adds
- 25 Nine Lifetimes Unsealed, the Yandere Villainess Heroine Arrives 九世轮回解封，病娇反派女主降临 Shen Shuchou was an ordinary high school senior on Blue Star. One day, he was blessed by the great God of Runaway Trucks. When he opened his eyes again, he had arrived in another world, become a hero, and awakened a System. But his task wasn't to defeat a dragon and save a princess. Instead, he had to help the heroine in each of nine different worlds quickly become the most powerful villain. In his first life, Shen Shuchou was a wandering swordsman, and the heroine, Jiang Qianqiu, was a little b 26.8kReads8.5Score2.2k14d adds
- 26 Campus Belle, Stop Chasing Me. You're Not Worth My Devotion 校花别追了，爷的深情你不配 [Reborn] [Campus Belle] [School Life] [One Female Lead] [Top Student] In a cemetery, a girl drinks a mouthful of paraquat and, clutching a cold gravestone, falls asleep forever. Only then does Ye Lin realize who he should have protected all along. He regrets being a simp, giving everything and ending up with nothing. Not only did he lose his life, he also neglected the quiet girl who had been worth protecting for a lifetime. Filled with regret and sorrow, Ye Lin is reborn in his senior year of h 79kReads9.1Score9.2k14d adds
- 27 Tokyo: Love Comes After the Rescue 东京：恋爱要在拯救后 [Tokyo + Romance + No System + Light Novel + Redemption] “If I died, the world would become a better place, wouldn’t it?” The girl smiled faintly, then leaped onto the tracks, bursting into splashes of brilliant red. Su Ying witnessed everything and assumed it was just an ordinary train accident. But the next moment, time rewound to a few minutes earlier, and the girl was still standing there, perfectly fine. From then on, whenever someone around him died, Su Ying became trapped in an endless ti 68.3kReads9.3Score7.8k14d adds
- 28 Reborn: My Girlfriend Is Obsessively Possessive 重生：我的女友是个偏执狂 [One female lead + wife-chasing crematorium + not a yandere + no System or golden finger + an ordinary, everyday romance] Former title: Reborn: My Girlfriend Is Obsessive Xie Shu pursued Su Qianyi for ten years without ever giving up, but even at the very end of his life, he still didn't get an answer from her. He felt that he had lived a complete failure of a life. Yet just before he closed his eyes, he realized there was someone unexpected who would be devastated by his death. He thought the 14.8kReads8.9Score1.4k14d adds
- 29 Loser Heroine, Please Get a Grip. I Just Want to Be Your Guy Best Friend 败犬女主请自重，我只想当男闺蜜 [Meme Humor] + [Here for the Fun] + [Snark] + [Chasing Her Husband to the Crematorium] + [School Life] + [Healing] + [Love Triangle Chaos] + [Lighthearted Comedy] + [No Consolation for the Losing Heroines] My name is Su Zhe, and I'm surrounded by losing heroines. I think snarking on them is more fun than trying to save them. A timid, socially anxious heiress, an insecure and sensitive class monitor with a surprising side, and an abstract girl who seems optimistic: each has something they just ca 60kReads9.2Score6.3k14d adds
- 30 My Obsessive Childhood Sweetheart Has an Overwhelming Need to Possess Me, and She's Tied Me Up Again 病娇小青梅占有欲超强，又绑我了 [An intensely possessive, dangerously unstable heroine + childhood sweethearts + healing and redemption + one heroine + slice of life + no golden finger or System] [Jiang Yu: A wife should be raised from childhood~] [Ruan Xixi: A husband should be tricked into it from childhood~] Jiang Yu died after being kidnapped on the way home from a blind date with his childhood sweetheart, the girl next door. When he opened his eyes again, he saw his own corpse and the lovesick childhood sweetheart clingin 67.8kReads8.7Score11.8k14d adds
- 31 When You Finally Look Up 等到你抬起头时 [School life + no System + cozy daily life + healing + one heroine + sweet romance] “Why is your voice so flat?” “Why is your fringe so long? I can't even see your eyes.” “Can you be a little smarter? Don't believe everything I tell you.” Shen Yuerou finally reacted and raised her head. “I can't.” “Then, do you like me?” “I do.” Shen Yuerou's voice was still as flat as ever. The person in front of her was about to lose their mind! This is a story about redemption and healing. There a 17kReads9.6Score1.7k14d adds
- 32 Xuanhuan: Even the Empress's Master Has Been Reborn!? 玄幻：女帝师尊竟也重生了！？ [Fantasy / one heroine / System / both reborn / slightly obsessive heroine / devoted couple / lots of daily life / partly feel-good / tons of heroine scenes!] Wang Chen had spent a thousand years in the world of cultivation and had even awakened a System. But just when he thought he was invincible as a Great Emperor, thousands of Chosen of Fortune joined forces and mercilessly killed him! The image that appeared most often before Wang Chen’s eyes as he died was that of his peerlessly beautiful m 87.6kReads9.2Score10.5k14d adds
- 33 On a Rainy Night, My Yandere Sister Begged Me to Take Her In 雨夜，病娇妹妹求我收留 [Extra sweet] + [No System] + [Not reborn] + [Light novel] + [Not self-insert] A landmine girl, an underground idol, a debuting voice actress, a childhood-friend editor, a doujin artist... After I made a wish, they all came to my side. To fight over the one and only female lead spot, they launched into a frenzied battle of romantic rivalry. Three years later, Lu Qing clasped his hands together. “Oh, God of Inspiration, I was immature back then. Please spare me...” A completely original story wit 52.3kReads9.5Score5.8k14d adds
- 34 My Proud Little Childhood Friend Is Sweet and Clingy, and She’s Sneaking Glances at Me Again 傲娇小青梅甜又黏，又在偷看我了 "Childhood Sweethearts + One Heroine + Mutual Pining + Everyday Life + No System or Golden Finger + Healing and Redemption" "A new book from a veteran author, quality guaranteed!" Yan Shu had a childhood sweetheart, the kind who'd been at odds with him ever since they were little. In kindergarten, he gave the girls in class strawberry milk. She went home and cried to his parents that he'd stolen hers. In elementary school, he traded Christmas cards with his deskmate. She turned around and angril 59.8kReads9.5Score6.2k14d adds
- 35 The Campus Belle Has Always Been Devoted to Me, Because I Raised Her 校花始终如一，因为是我养的 [Romantic Everyday Life] [Nurturing] [Multiple Love Interests] [Daily Life] [Light Novel] [No Love Rivals] [Super Sweet, No Angst] [Happy Ending] For the sake of his first love, his ex-girlfriend runs away from their wedding on the spot and indirectly causes his parents’ deaths. He thinks his life has turned completely bleak, until a twist of fate leads a girl with absolutely no common sense to take him home. Only then does he realize just how many wonderful girls are already in his life. His ch 86kReads9.4Score9.5k14d adds
- 36 After Adopting the Down-and-Out Female Lead, I Died Horribly in Front of Her 收养落魄女主后，惨死在她面前 [In your first simulation, you transmigrate to a cultivation world.] [You become a refugee fleeing famine. Along the way, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her older brother.] [You depend on each other and become one another's only support.] [At the end of the simulation, you shield the grown girl and give your life to hold off a horde of demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in her eyes goes out too.] [In your second simulation, you transmigrate to a world where steam and mag 119.1kReads9.1Score14k14d adds
- 37 After My Confession Was Rejected, I Died Right in Front of the Campus Beauty 告白失败，我反手死在校花面前 [The main story is complete, so dive in without worry] [Yandere Protagonist] + [Plot-Driven] + [Mastermind] + [One Female Lead] + [No Marriage] + [One-on-One Pure Romance] Chi Xiaocheng could hardly believe that she had transmigrated into a melodramatic romance novel aimed at female readers. Worse, she had become a cannon-fodder villainess! Faced with a death ending from the start, Chi Xiaocheng decisively transformed into a yandere little girl and confessed to the female lead. “Taotao, you’re t 112.5kReads9.7Score11.1k14d adds
- 38 EN What Makes You Think I'll Keep Liking You Forever? 你凭什么认为我会一直喜欢你呢 [Everyday romance] [One female lead] [Mutual healing] Because of a promise made in childhood, Chen Lu spent seven whole years pursuing the girl he’d grown up with. In the end, all he got was a cold rejection. Chen Lu smiled in acceptance, but his heart had turned to ash… until he met the sweet, clumsy girl who’d come to thank him. The girl was lovely and innocent, standing alone in the rain right where the two of them had agreed to meet. “Why haven’t you left…?” The girl slowly lifted her head. 121.3kReads9.7Score14k14d adds
- 39 I Only Make Money, Never Romance: I'm the Best Professional Simp! 只赚钱不谈情，职业舔狗我最行！ (Succubus + winning back the husband + lighthearted comedy + everyday campus life + no System + not reborn + sweet and angsty) A gambling-addicted dad, an alcoholic mom, a sick little sister, and a broken-hearted him. To make money, Lu Xing chose to provide emotional support instead of doing either brainwork or manual labor. Everyone knows Lu Xing is the humble pursuer of the aloof campus beauty Wei Qingyu. He loves her to his very core and takes care of her in every possible way! Wei Q 263kReads9.5Score19.5k14d adds
