Novels like Wu Xiaofoye's Love Is Heart-Wrenching
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Wu Xiaofoye's Love Is Heart-Wrenching, best match first.
- 1 The Sharp-Tongued, World-Weary Heartthrob Gets Dotingly Spoiled on a Tomb-Raiding Trip 毒舌厌世万人迷去盗墓被团宠了 The whole team dotes on him + Everyone is unhinged + Original tomb My heart is like a dead tree, my body like a boat untethered. Who is the madman everyone on the streets fears and avoids talking about? He’s cold, sharp-tongued, and takes death in stride. He’d rather be alone. Yet he’s soft-hearted and has his own rules for dealing with things. Just as he thought he’d have to live out a dull, dreary life, he met a group of people who were a little troublesome, but quite interesting. But it seeme 2.7kReads8.7Score449Shelves
- 2 Tomb Raiding: The Walnut Seller 盗墓：那个卖核桃的 [Dual Male Leads] + [Angst] + [Severe Protagonist Suffering, Not for the Faint of Heart] 2026 editor’s note: Please read the author’s statement in the book’s discussion section. Thank you, everyone. The protagonist is completely love-struck, extremely so, and there will be no switching love interests. If you can’t accept that, feel free to leave using the top-right corner. Li Cu × Qian Heng After spending seven or eight years out in the dirt, Qian Heng had thoroughly wrecked his health. With now 2.9kReads9.3Score558Shelves
- 3 Tomb Raiding: The Mute Slave Becomes Everyone's Darling 盗墓：哑奴他成了团宠 Lu Li was a male dan actor, heir to a master of Chinese opera, blessed with both a beautiful voice and a handsome face. Unfortunately, the sweet, clear voice that charmed audiences onstage became a weapon in everyday life. His little mouth could spit out a stream of cutting insults without a single swear word. He never expected karma to catch up with him so quickly. A plane crash reduced him to nothing. When he opened his eyes again, he had become the only son of a noodle-stall owner. He was bur 8.4kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
- 4 The Corrupted Moon Was Redeemed After Her Rebirth 黑化月亮复生后，被救赎了 Fan Favorite / Pairing Undecided (Anything Is Possible) / Mutual Salvation / White Moonlight Returns from the Dead Qing Yan died in the Zhang Family Ancient Tower, in Black Glasses' arms. Years later, he returned and appeared before the Nine Gates once more, but everything had changed beyond recognition. Suspicion and heart palpitations, probing and cautiousness. After countless rescues and glimmers of hope, who, in the end, saved whom? Are you really him... Did you really come back...? Now tha 6.9kReads9.3Score1.4kShelves
- 5 Hei Ye's Gorgeous, Strong, Tragic Beauty Can No Longer Hide His Secret Identity! 黑爷家的美强惨马甲不保啦！ [Secret identities + universally adored + shipping your own CP] Many years ago, Jiang Xu transmigrated into the body of Hei Xiazi’s younger brother. In the end, however, Hei Xiazi killed him amid the curses of everyone around him. After the System brought him back to life, Jiang Xu geared up from head to toe, donned a secret identity, and joined the main storyline so he could destroy the Wang family’s computational system. He’d planned to push Wu Xie to grow while posing as a stranger, and sneak 19.6kReads9.5Score3.2kShelves
- 6 I Transmigrated into The Grave Robbers' Chronicles, and They All Fell Apart After I Faked My Death 穿越盗笔，假死后他们都崩溃了 Qing Yan transmigrated into the world of The Grave Robbers' Chronicles twenty years ago, and Zhang Qiling and Hei Xiazi raised him like a pig for all those years. Then, forced by a Corpse Beetle Pill to become a player in the game, Qing Yan accidentally uncovered a shocking secret about himself. From then on, the Nine Houses had another lunatic... No, that's not right. Qing Yan: Sorry, Brother Xiao Hei! I didn't mean to! Hei Xiazi: Kid, you sure put on a good act. Qing Yan: Sorry, Brother X 10.9kReads9.4Score1.8kShelves
- 7 The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Posing as a Mysterious, Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic Man 盗笔：装出个高深莫测但美强惨 "The only Grave Robbers' Chronicles fic rated 9.6, come see!" [Starting with the Old Nine Gates, Beloved by All, Pick Your Favorite Pairing + Slightly Everyone's Favorite + Everyone Imagines the Powerful Heartbreaking Beauty] Third-person narration I transmigrated, but not completely. At that very moment, my body was lying right beside me, playing the part of a breathtakingly beautiful vegetative patient. The good news: I could create an immortal secret identity. The bad news: the System told me 44.6kReads9.6Score6.2kShelves
- 8 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
