Novels like Jade in the Ashes: Love Lost in a Chaotic Age
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- 51 I Don’t Want the Bellflowers Anymore 我不要桔梗花了 Yu Nianxu, Wei Mu is still here, still protecting you somewhere else. Wei Mu, don't go! Yu Nianxu, wake up! I'm still here. Wei Mu, I'm awake. Where are you? Wei Mu, I'm willing. Wei Mu, goodbye! I'll live well from now on. 154Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 52 Transmigrate into a Book: The Cannon-Fodder Original Wife Gives Up and Takes It Easy 穿书之炮灰原配摆烂记 [Not a tragedy, clever heroine, principled male lead, formidable female supporting character, no artificially dumb characters] Song Ci, a modern independent woman, transmigrates into a book and becomes a cannon-fodder first wife who is destined to be executed by being cut in half at the waist at just twenty. She read the whole book and knows the male and female leads are people she can't afford to cross. With no way to escape, she can only lie low. What should Song Guanzhou, the fourth young mad 37.7kReads8.2Score4k14d adds
- 53 For the Rest of My Life, Loving You Is My Illness 余生，爱你成疾 Eleven years ago, Lu Tingchen promised that Su Nian would be the only woman in his life. Eleven years later, he had become the powerful president of the Lu Corporation, surrounded by countless beautiful women. She was nothing but his gravely ill, worn-out wife, forced to watch him fool around outside their marriage for three years. When his mistress got pregnant and moved into their home, Su Nian became the clingy nuisance everyone accused of refusing to divorce him. “Lu Tingchen, you said I wou 289Reads6.6Score10114d adds
- 54 Beautiful Years 景年 [Angst! Angst! Angst! Angst!] My name is Jiang Nian. I was born in the height of summer and died in the depths of winter. Fate was always fleeting, and even meeting you was a blessing. We were destined to meet in this life, but not to be together. May we continue our bond in the next. The debts of this life must be repaid in this life. On the road to the afterlife, don’t look back. May we have a better fate and grow old together in the next life! I still remember the words Lin Anjing said to 511Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 55 We’re All Supporting Characters in This Story 故事里面的我们都是配角 The first time she noticed him, his eyes were lowered, a smile playing on his lips as he said in a low voice, “Little girl.” The second time, he gave her a note that read, “A full stomach leads to lust.” He gave her a knowing smile and asked what she thought of the phrase. “Sounds good,” she said. … And what happened next? Well, her secret crush came true, and they rekindled their love, but in the end, it still couldn’t withstand the cruel joke fate played on them… A short angst story about un 59Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 56 I Witness Your Wedding in the Name of Your Lawful Wife 我以正妻之名为你证婚 I Bear Witness to Your Wedding in the Name of Your Legal Wife 5.7kReads—Score67.4k14d adds
- 57 The Glass Candy He Gave Me 他给的玻璃糖 Qiu Cixiu was nothing like his name suggested. He wasn’t merciful at all! Eventually, he simply changed the character in his name to “Chi.” The chi of charging across the battlefield. That character suited his wild, rebellious nature much better. She once thought he would be her salvation, but as it turned out, he wasn’t... 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 My Dearest, on the Seventh Day of the Seventh Month 七月七日卿 Huo Shaoqing hated Qiyue and wanted nothing more than for her to disappear from his world. Qiyue loved Huo Shaoqing. After loving him for seven years, she finally understood that some kinds of love mean letting go. When death came calling, Huo Shaoqing finally realized that he had fallen deeply in love with her long ago. 283Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 59 Quick Transmigration: The Trash Extra Gets Slammed into a Shura Arena 快穿：劣质炮灰被摁进修罗场 A Qi was an ordinary, insignificant cannon-fodder character, a small stone by the roadside that nobody noticed. If someone happened to step on her, they'd kick her aside and mutter that she was in the way. But… for some reason, the eyes of all kinds of strange protagonists always seemed to land on her. An ordinary cannon-fodder character and a protagonist with issues The background classmate in a school story / the useless senior disciple in a master-and-disciple story / the ordinary childhood s 13kReads8.2Score84714d adds
- 60 He's Always So Good at Sweet-Talking Her 他惯会哄她 [Two Top Students x Childhood Friends x Mutual Devotion x Tragedy] Sunny ray of sunshine x Double-Standard Top Student Jiang Shiyuan was the brightest sun in Pei Zhiheng's world. They made many promises at seventeen, but the words "I'll be with you forever" were buried along with her in late autumn. The plane tree leaves had yet to fall from the branches in late autumn when Jiang Shiyuan's life came to an end. [My name is Jiang Shiyuan. Shi, as in time, and Yuan, as in wish. Pei Zhiheng.] [J 806Reads8.0Score10014d adds
- 61 She Isn't Coming Back 她不再回来了 [Secret crush # campus angst # reunion after years apart # both are virgins # modern romance # tragic ending] [Animated comic coming soon] At the start of the school year that autumn, Lu Zhixia’s bright, starry eyes landed on him, and she froze. Was she really going to share a desk with Jiang Chiye, her longtime nemesis? And that wasn’t all. They were living under the same roof, too. She expected them to fight until the whole world shook, but instead, Lu Zhixia found that her nemesis seemed to d 5.1kReads8.7Score59814d adds
- 62 When Spring Deepens After the Apricot Blossoms Set Fruit 杏花结子春深后 She is a lowly convict slave in the palace laundry, humble as dust. He is the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace, noble and radiant. Though their stations could hardly be further apart, they fall hopelessly in love. Only when their feelings are at their deepest does she unexpectedly learn that his father, the emperor, had her father framed so he could claim her mother for himself. Where can this ill-fated romance spanning two generations possibly lead? ----- A prince steals his minister’s wife + 1kReads—Score10514d adds
- 63 A Lifetime of Deep Love, Given to You 赠你一世情深 I have a secret I've kept in my heart: I've loved Gu Tingchen for nine whole years. When I was young, I used to follow him everywhere. As I grew older, I finally became his wife. But he gave me no love, not even a shred of tenderness. I tried to tempt him into a love affair with the promise of a divorce and the power of the Shi family, but he never wavered. He would never remember the anxious little girl who used to follow behind him so carefully. It wasn't until after our divorce that I saw the 911Reads8.8Score24614d adds
- 64 Deep in Love, Yet Unaware 情深且不知 [Tragic Romance] He was the man who killed my father, and I hated him with all my heart. In the end, I discovered I had hated the wrong person. The daughter of a bandit chief happened to save a scholar, and from then on, she gave him her heart. But her wedding night became the night her family was slaughtered. Her beloved, once the person closest to her, had become her father's killer! He was an emperor, cold and indifferent. He unexpectedly fell in love with her, yet could only push her further 67Reads7.8Score514d adds
- 65 Candy with a Tangy Bite 糖果偏酸 (The main story is complete.) The domineering, impossibly cool school bully vs. the beautiful, strong-willed, wounded little bookworm. School life, healing, and mutual secret crushes. Chutang was being bullied at school. The day she met Jihuai was the start of autumn. She was sixteen that year. Jihuai saved her, perhaps because he felt sorry for her. “You don't need to stick your nose into my business.” “Hey, I'm the one who helped you.” Desperate for a meal, Chutang shamelessly followed Jihu 89Reads—Score414d adds
- 66 My Girlfriend Abandoned Me at Our Engagement Party to Find Her One True Love 订婚宴女友抛下我，转身去找她的白月光 On the day of our engagement banquet, my fiancée left me standing there in front of everyone and ran off with another man. I took the microphone and walked onto the stage. “Today’s also a celebration of my promotion. Everyone, eat and drink your fill.” Later, she asked me to hold another engagement banquet, but I handed her an invitation instead. “Let’s skip the engagement banquet. If you’d like, you’re welcome to come to my wedding.” 142Reads5.2Score16114d adds
- 67 After We Got Engaged, She Went Looking for Her Ideal Man, So I Married Her Student 订婚后她找白月光，我娶了她学生 [He won’t look back]+ [A wife chasing her husband to the crematorium]+ [campus belle] Everyone envied Ji Qingwan. Everyone wanted to be Ji Qingwan. It was common knowledge that Ji Qingwan had a Gu Bei who loved her more than anyone. Gu Bei had supported her through five years of graduate school entrance exams and graduate studies. He went from juggling several jobs to building a business from scratch that earned ten million a year. His feelings for Ji Qingwan never changed, and he cherished her 2.6kReads7.6Score12014d adds
- 68 The Courtesan Consort: The Prince's Precious Snow 勾栏罪妃，她是王爷掌中雪 ❗️❗️ [The Long Road to Winning Her Back] In this life, the one thing he never did was tell her, “I love you.” She was snow in the palm of his hand: the moment he had her, he lost her. 🔥 [The Memory-Devouring Twin Gu: One Swallows the Past, the Other Buries the Rest of Your Life] It all began with a conspiracy! He was the emperor’s younger brother, the only prince of the direct imperial line. He was deeply in love with the current empress, his sister-in-law. Overnight, she became the daughter of 221Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Stuck at Seventeen 停留十七岁那年 [Campus romance × Youth × Mutual unrequited love × Heartbreak] Cold, rebellious boy × Sweet, well-behaved honor student * [Xie Yixiao was born wild and unruly, proud and untamed. Yet somehow, this boy fell in love with a good student from a broken home, a quiet, sweet, and sensible girl.] * [Ye Mian came from an incomplete family. Her parents weren't around when she was growing up. Then, when she was six, she learned that both of them had died. She was raised by her grandmother.] * [To part beca 2.8kReads7.2Score26614d adds
- 70 Three Years After I Transmigrated, the City Lord Became My Prisoner 穿越3年后，城主成我阶下囚 Content warning: This is a revenge story with a tragic romance. The male lead seeks redemption. It includes injury, imprisonment, and whipping, so proceed with caution. The leads are bitter enemies bound by fate, in both this life and their past lives. Angst and heartbreak, both leads are strong and devoted to each other, happy ending Proud, aloof Emperor Star VS revenge-driven Seven Killings queen In her first life, Yun Shuyue fell blindly in love with Huo Chenfeng. Little did she know the ma 1.1kReads8.1Score10314d adds
- 71 Back to My Parents' Teenage Years 穿回爸妈的少年时代 Xiao Ran woke from a deep sleep to discover she'd gone back twenty-five years, to a time when her parents were still in high school... “To Dad: I want to teach you how to be a good father. You have to study hard.” “To Mom: You're a person in your own right first, and my mother second.” A seemingly two-faced but truly obsessive heroine: Everything you see is what I want you to see. (No romance + family bonds + a little angst) 1.2kReads9.2Score11114d adds
- 72 Baby, I'll Love You Again in My Next Life 宝宝，妈妈来生再来爱你 Baby, Mommy will love you again in our next life. 213Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 I Missed You in Your World 从你的世界错过 Xia Qianya has blood cancer and doesn't have long to live, so Sheng Tingmo takes all his resentment out on An Yuexi. If An Yuexi hadn't driven Qianya away through underhanded means four years ago, Qianya would already be his wife. She stole the happiness that should have belonged to Qianya, leaving her to die with regrets, so Sheng Tingmo hates her! So he embarked on a series of acts of revenge: bankrupting her family, sending her father to prison, and tormenting her both physically and emotiona 56Reads8.2Score3814d adds
- 74 A Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law's Feud 婆媳仇 My mother-in-law is a champion at double standards. When her own daughter sleeps until midmorning, she's "blessed." When I get up ten minutes late, I'm a "lazy daughter-in-law." My husband is the ultimate "dutiful son," and his catchphrase is always, "My mom has it so hard." 5.1kReads—Score24614d adds
- 75 Alas, the Years Have Wasted My Love 奈何流年枉情深 “Manman, Jin Liang isn’t someone you can afford to love.” Three years ago, Xia Man ignored her father’s advice and stubbornly fell in love with Jin Liang. From then on, she flew straight into the flames, doomed to ruin. She endured humiliation and went to prison just to protect the person he held dearest. His heartlessness left her utterly despairing. After she was left battered and bruised, she stopped loving him. But he searched the ends of the earth for her, arriving before her, weary fro 551Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 76 May Your Heart's Desires Bring You Peace, Day and Night 心有所妄，朝暮皆安 With a Heart Full of Longing, Peace in Every Dawn and Dusk 324Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 Snow-Buried Eyes, Love Reduced to Zero 雪葬双眸，爱意归零 Snow buries her eyes, and love fades to nothing 510Reads—Score714d adds
- 78 15 Hell-Level Bad Endings: You Stop at Flirting, While I’m In Too Deep 15个地狱级be：你点到为止，我泥足深陷 [Modern romance + domineering CEO + substitute + marriage + tragic love] Giving your whole heart in love will only leave you in pieces. Why do you think I’ll still be here just because you turn around? That if you crook your finger, I’ll make the same mistake all over again? I’m not the kind of person who forgets the pain once the wound heals. In love, the one who holds the power is never the one being loved. It’s the one brave enough to confess their feelings and brave enough to let go. I loved 786Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 79 The Bluebird Flies Over Thorn Island 青鸟飞过荆棘岛 Her life was destined to be bleak, but there was someone willing to offer her his arms and warmth. She bore countless scars in this lifetime, but there was someone willing to hack through every obstacle for her and be her support. Yet would there ever be someone who could peel away her mask and see the cruel truth in her heart? She is an orphan in this beautiful world, a trapped beast in a warm cage. If you met her, would you cherish her? Would you love her? 1.2kReads9.3Score29814d adds
- 80 You Want a Male Best Friend? I’ll Make It Happen, So Why Do You Regret It? 爱找男闺蜜？我成全你们又悔什么 [Urban]+ [Power Fantasy]+ [School Beauty]+ [Lighthearted]+ [Face-Slapping]+ [Reborn]+ [Scheming]+ [Emperor Ruyan] Childhood sweethearts can’t compete with someone who appears out of nowhere. Qin Ran finally manages to beat the newcomer, but still loses to the green tea guy who’s his fiancée’s male best friend. On the day of their engagement party, the green tea guy calls, and Qin Ran’s fiancée leaves again. “Qin Ran, Feifei’s sick.” “Qin Ran, Feifei got hit by a car.” “Qin Ran, Feifei cut his wr 2.3kReads7.1Score10014d adds
- 81 My Younger Days 我的年少时 I dedicate this book to the youth I had only once, and which I regret so deeply losing! [Redemption + Unrequited Love + Mutual Devotion + Bad Ending] When you aren't brave enough as a teenager, you grow up with regrets. All these years, fate has always been like this: it has given me so much, but it has also made me lose so much. Sometimes I think, let it be. Life is long, with more sorrow than joy. It's not one particular thing that leaves you gasping for breath. It's the slow realization 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 I Don't Want Your Love, Just Your Life 不要你的爱，只要你的命 I Don’t Want Your Love, Just Your Life 46Reads—Score314d adds
- 83 The Imperial Consort of the Great Sheng Dynasty 大盛皇妃 Ensemble cast + revenge + black lotus + multiple couples + intense push and pull + a sense of fate + not mutually chaste + high-IQ palace intrigue escalating into political schemes + tragic romance + fictional history + a battlefield of love rivals The main battleground is the imperial court: beneath its glittering, splendid facade lie witty, amusing daily life and a brutal, blood-soaked core. The palace secrets are depicted in detail. Some content may be disturbing. This is a bad ending. If you 835Reads—Score10214d adds
- 84 An’an Never Grows Up 安安长不大 He was Xu Shuyan, the top student in his year and the school’s untouchable heartthrob. He was naturally aloof, wanted nothing to do with people, and always kept to himself. One day, in a torrential downpour, with lights blazing all around, he sat quietly on a stool outside the door, drenched to the skin. She couldn’t understand why, so she held an umbrella over him and took him somewhere out of the rain. After that day, she began bringing him breakfast, walking to and from school with him, and d 990Reads9.0Score19914d adds
- 85 The Unsent Love Letter in the Candy Wrapper 糖纸里未寄出的情书 The Love Letter Never Sent, Hidden in a Candy Wrapper 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 The Twelfth Second 第十二秒 Nine years ago, she vanished without a trace while pregnant, leaving him only one clue: an eleven-second phone call to his police station, and a longing she never got to express. Nine years later, a strange warning call and two photographs of her set ablaze the longing he had buried for so long. As the police investigate and he makes inquiries of his own, a flood of astonishing secrets and buried memories comes to light. Through layer upon layer of mist, her face gradually emerges... Once, t 4.8kReads9.5Score1.1k14d adds
- 87 I Transmigrated into a Book as Cannon Fodder and Married the Villainess from the Start 穿书成炮灰，开局迎娶女反派 [One heroine + farming + invincible heroine + vying for supremacy in troubled times] A quick note upfront: the male lead returns with his spirit and soul, he does not transmigrate into someone else’s body!!! The heroine has also been reborn!!! Qin Feng opened his eyes to find himself lying in an antique room, with a woman’s sobs reaching his ears. Looking over, he saw a stunning young woman clutching her last remaining clothes and wiping away her tears... Seeing this, he seemed to realize what h 4.6kReads8.6Score33614d adds
- 88 I Saved the Whole Village, Only to Become Their Plaything? My Dead Husband Returned and Slaughtered the Ungrateful 救全村却沦为玩物？亡夫归来杀光白眼狼 She saved the whole village, only to become their plaything? Her dead husband returns and slaughters every ungrateful traitor. 77Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Quick Transmigration: Why Hasn’t the Male Lead Come to Kill Me Yet? 快穿：男主怎么还没来杀我 Jing Mo was a mission-taker who played an utterly wicked villain. In each little world, all he wanted was to finish his mission early and recover his memories. But he never expected to hit a wall in the very first world. 1: Jing Mo was hated by the entire internet. He not only targeted the top-tier star, but was also buried in scandals, beyond even the Yellow River’s power to wash clean. Yet the sweet, naive male lead stubbornly stuck by his side, saying he wanted to protect him. 2: Jing Mo was 97Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 90 Where the Swallows Return, We Must Not Meet Again 燕归处，莫相逢 Her name was Jun Mo. She had spent her life on horseback and on the battlefield, battle-hardened, bold, and arrogant. He was the person she loved most, and her only weakness. She feared he might get hurt if she so much as held him in her palm, and feared he might melt if she kept him in her mouth. But a weakness is itself a poisoned blade. At first, the pain is not fatal. In the end, the fatal wound no longer hurts. No one knew that later, amid the bitter winter snow, some people were only acti 315Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 91 He Risked His Life to Protect Me, and Gave Her His Heart 他以命护我，以心予她 He Protected Me with His Life and Gave Her His Heart 346Reads—Score414d adds
- 92 One Short Tragic Romance Story a Day 一天一个短篇虐文故事 A Collection of Tragic Short Stories: Every Word Bleeds, Every Line Leaves You Aching One devastatingly heartbreaking short story every day! Modern-day missed chances intertwine with sorrows from ancient times, along with bone-deep pain drawn from true stories. These tales lay bare life’s regrets, every word striking straight to the heart until it hurts to read! If you finish without being moved, I’ll call you my “ancestor.” Come take on this lingering ache! 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 Goodbye, Hansheng 再见，寒生 A homeless boy falls in love with a stubborn rose covered in thorns. Though he knows he’ll be left bleeding, he throws himself into saving, embracing, and protecting her. The road to fame in show business is fraught with danger, and the jungle of fame and fortune is full of peril. Fans, idols, unspoken rules... Temptations lie everywhere, and only love can see through them. He is Han Sheng, an orphan who scrapes by with Bai Xiaoqi, his half sister in all but blood. He gives her his hope for a br 987Reads9.3Score26714d adds
- 94 An Engagement Banquet from the Start, and My Fiancée Abandons Me 开局订婚宴，未婚妻弃我而去 After a night of heavy drinking, orphan Zhao Lin unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of another orphan named Zhao Lin in a parallel world. He discovers that he is at an engagement banquet, and the groom is none other than himself. He has barely had time to feel happy when his fiancée, Liu Ruyan, takes a phone call and announces that the engagement banquet is off and will be held again on another date. Then, ignoring everyone’s pleas, she drives away. A real man lives between heaven and eart 1.7kReads5.5Score10014d adds
- 95 Hot and Cold 冷热 In the shifting warmth and chill of your gaze, a vow points straight to the heavens. One rainy night, the doctor Jiang Sui accidentally witnesses a murder. Having seen the entire crime unfold, she becomes the killer's target. Relying on her wits, she escapes death time and again, yet through a twist of fate, she steps into the maze of the criminal underworld. Warning: angst-heavy story. If that bothers you, don't read! 294Reads9.3Score10114d adds
- 96 A Love for Springtime: Summer Trees, Heaven’s Hope (Complete Edition) 夏有乔木雅望天堂（全集） A heartbreaking coming-of-age legend that has moved hundreds of millions of readers for seven years! Qu Weiran is a good student, excelling in both character and academics. But when his adoptive father appears, his mask is shattered, and everyone learns that he is nothing but a pitiful victim of domestic abuse. Even a boy as dark and troubled as he is keeps a girl in his heart: Xia Tong, the gentle girl he loves. But Qu Ningyuan, a boy who shares his father but not his mother, has fallen for her 5.2kReads9.4Score1.2k14d adds
- 97 Lost in a Trance 魂不守舍 Distraught 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 The Engagement Is Off? I Turn Around and Marry a Rich CEO 订婚取消？我转身和千金总裁领证 [One heroine!!! Super sweet!!!] On the day of their engagement, Lin Nan’s fiancée of five years stayed with her old flame just to put him in his place, humiliating him and turning him into a laughingstock. Unable to take it anymore, Lin Nan decisively cut ties with her. But on the night he drank himself into a stupor, he unexpectedly spent a passionate night with a rich heiress. Jiang Rou: “You have two choices. Either come with me to the civil affairs bureau and get married, or I’ll ruin your r 8.6kReads7.8Score47214d adds
- 99 Mr. Jiang, She Really Isn't Coming Back This Time 江总，这次她真的不会回来了 Mr. Jiang, She Really Isn’t Coming Back This Time 1.1kReads—Score1514d adds
- 100 Good Grief, Mr. Cen! 要命呢！岑先生 Oh, Mr. Cen! 28Reads—Score—14d adds
