Novels like She’s Awful, but Unbearably Beautiful
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- 1 The Ultimate Villainess: She Topples Empires with Her Charms 顶级恶女，她靠风月倾覆江山 [Multiple Male Leads, All Pure + Villainess Revenge + Male Rivals Compete + Intense Push and Pull] Reborn as a villainess!!!! The heroine acts weak and plays mind games to win the male leads’ hearts in the early chapters. After that, she stays in control the whole time. If you don’t like it, don’t read! She was the most cherished jewel of Nanliang, yet she became Xie Jinglan’s captive plaything. She watched the dynasty fall with her own eyes, saw her younger brother die a gruesome death, and per 491Reads8.0Score10614d adds
- 2 The Villainess Takes the Throne: The Underworld Heiress Goes on a Killing Spree 恶女上位：黑道千金她杀疯了 [Just started, ratings will rise|1VN + Secret Identities + Taming Men + Flirty Push and Pull + Love and Hate] After making a mess of things abroad, Shi Yu decided to return home and keep her head down. While vacationing in the countryside, she was inexplicably recognized as a member of the Fu family. All she wanted was to take it easy and enjoy retirement, but the Fu family was full of drama, and the men around her were more entertaining with every turn. Fine. She curled her lips into a wicked 1.5kReads8.7Score19514d adds
- 3 I Wooed Five Powerful Men at Once, Then Everything Went Wrong 同时攻略五个大佬后我翻车了 [Wealthy-family CEO] + [System] + [conquest] + [battle for love] + [regret and redemption] + [1VN] Jian Xingyou transmigrates into the role of a wealthy family's stepdaughter and is blamed from the start. Her stepbrother, Fu Chenzhou, grabs her by the throat and has his way with her. The System orders her to conquer five men at once. Success earns her a new life; failure means immediate erasure. She takes the enormous compensation and moves into a luxury mansion, hoping to coast through life as 8.9kReads8.3Score1.2k14d adds
- 4 I Think My Wife Got Dumped Again 我的老婆好像又失恋了 [Unhinged + Expert Dog-Training + Love-Rival Bloodbath + Brothers Stealing Each Other's Girls] After her body was stolen from her for eight years, Bai Li opened her eyes to discover that her world was actually a tomato novel. And she'd been cast as the short-lived, wicked supporting female character. Her parents died in a car crash, her family went bankrupt, and her only close relative, her younger brother, was abused until he turned dark and wanted nothing but to kill her. Bai Li took a deep br 8.1kReads8.9Score1.3k14d adds
- 5 The White Lotus Villainess Is Forced into Love by Her Boyfriend's Friends 白莲恶女，被男友兄弟们强制爱了 [Fake siblings, turning a gay man straight, best friends turning against each other] Ming Zhi won over the four best friends of her boyfriend, Luo Qi. All because he slept with her best friend. The two people Ming Zhi had trusted most in her previous life teamed up to kill her. After she is reborn, she sets out to take revenge: Ming Zhi assumes the identity of the Lu family's long-lost daughter. Lu Jingzhou, her best friend's protector in her previous life, becomes her “big brother.” The dignifi 19.1kReads8.3Score2.7k14d adds
- 6 Play Second Fiddle for Love? This 1980s Schemer Was Really Keeping a Harem, and Now You're Complaining! 为爱做小？八零心机美人真养鱼你又不乐意！ [Alternate 1980s setting + sweet romance + true and fake heiresses + devoted couple + everyone falls for the heroine] Si Ti, a beautiful and dangerous bad woman who took pleasure in manipulating people's hearts. One day, she entered an 1980s novel and became a marginal NPC. To survive, she seduced a handsome, high-ranking military officer. But when the man fell for her, she fled overnight on a train. After an accident led her to take the place of the real heiress from the capital's elite circle, 2kReads8.7Score22214d adds
- 7 She Appeared Before the Emperor with a Pregnant Belly, and the Heirless Tyrant on the Dragon Throne Panicked 挺孕肚面圣，龙椅上绝嗣暴君慌了 (The short dramas "Year After Year, Joy with You" and "Entwined Golden Branches" are now streaming) [Historical romance power fantasy + irresistible heroine + multiple male leads + brothers competing for her + love triangle chaos] Ning Heng is an honest, traditional woman with a lustful streak. One time, while gathering herbs in the mountains, she made the mistake that so many women make and spent a night with a strange man. After unexpectedly becoming pregnant, she learned that she was the true 18.1kReads8.6Score3k14d adds
- 8 Why Are My Fiancé's Twisted Best Friends All Secretly in Love with Me? 未婚夫的变态好兄弟怎么都暗恋我 [Everyone's favorite + brothers competing for the heroine + all the male leads are sexually inexperienced] [A beautiful, sickly woman with little sense of morality VS a whole cast of men who are all psychopaths] Bie Mian is delicate and timid. She's truly innocent. She just accidentally walked into the wrong room, then discovered that the man in the bed wasn't her fiance. Shen Jingxi is the heir to the Shen family, gentle and courteous, aloof and restrained, and a famously unattainable figure in 29.7kReads8.4Score5.8k14d adds
- 9 The Wicked Woman Goes on a Rampage, and the Spoiled Bratty Young Master Loves Her to the Bone! 恶女杀疯了，纨绔恶少宠她入骨！ [A well-behaved girl reborn as a wicked woman ✖ a battlefield between two male leads] In her previous life, Su Jinyue was gentle and obedient, yet her fiancé cut out her heart while her stepfather and stepbrother plotted against her. She died horribly, and her body was discarded. Reborn, she tears off her mask and becomes a bewitching villainess, determined to make the Fu family of Jincheng pay in blood. She makes vicious dogs bow their heads and become loyal, while a seemingly refined scoundrel 198Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Quick Transmigration: The Beautiful Cannon Fodder Is a Villainous Femme Fatale Everyone Loves 快穿：漂亮炮灰是恶毒万人迷 [Stunning Heartthrob + Love at First Sight + A Battlefield of Love] Huai Qiao is hypocritical, malicious, spoiled, and selfish. She is a pretty, delicate, airheaded girl bound to a Villainous Cannon Fodder System. Every day, she bullies and torments the male leads, becoming the most hated woman around. She should have been brutally avenged and killed by the male leads after they returned in power, but instead they became obsessed with her and took her by force. World One: A beautiful cannon fod 2kReads7.2Score11814d adds
- 11 Transmigrated as the Villainess, but Bound to a Crime System 穿成恶毒女配，但绑定犯罪系统 [1vN + dog training + male rivalry + all male leads are pure] //One-line summary: The heroine will shield you from the wind and rain, but don't ask where the wind and rain came from. //A little more: Yu Qing transmigrates as a vicious female supporting character, and gets bound to two Systems at once. One is the [Crime System], which pushes her to keep doing evil and drive the male leads to corruption. The other is the [Conquest System], which tells her to be gentle and win their hearts. Though 17.7kReads9.1Score3.6k14d adds
- 12 Teasing and Tempting: Five Stoic Tycoons Are Crazy About Her 又撩又刺，五个禁欲大佬馋她入骨 [A self-serving, drama-loving beauty × a wicked, possessive man / a wild soldier king / an untouchable heartthrob / a sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside childhood friend / a younger, gloomy wolf-dog|Revenge and twists + a battle for her affection] Two years ago, Lin Jinghong was betrayed by those closest to her and sold to the Tan family, one of Nancheng’s powerful clans, who sent her to the Golden Triangle. Two years later, she returns, stepping over a sea of shattered bones. She does o 3.4kReads6.4Score19114d adds
- 13 The Soft and Delicate Supporting Lady Is Trapped in a Madman’s Sadistic Love Triangle and Forcibly Taken 娇软女配被困疯批修罗场强制掠夺 [Falsely Villainous, Actually Irresistible × Forced Love × Love Triangle Chaos × Multiple Male Leads × All Male Leads Are Chaste × Everyone Is Evil] Dai Qi, a spoiled, willful heiress who always gets her way, wakes up to discover she's trapped in a dark political intrigue novel overflowing with melodrama. In this world, the male leads have all climbed to the pinnacle of power over mountains of corpses. Each is a heaven-blessed prodigy, a dragon among men. In the original story, only the fated he 16.9kReads8.9Score2k14d adds
- 14 Beating the Matriarch, Crushing the Heir: The Wicked Maid Rises to the Top 打主母，踩世子，恶女丫鬟上青云 Green tea schemers | White lotus types | Men competing for her | A battlefield of romantic rivals | Everyone's dream girl | Taming men From the start, Lin Wu was a maid whose job was to carry water, and she was miserable. The heir's wife was spoiled rotten by her husband, acting as she pleased. She was also jealous, vicious, and suspicious. Any woman in her household could end up beaten to death by her. Lin Wu struggled for her life every day. How could she turn things around? Simple... Flirt s 3.9kReads9.2Score37414d adds
- 15 [F4] Maxing Out Their Charm Is a Waste If You Don't Train Them Like Dogs 【F4】魅力值点满不训狗可惜了 [Noble academy, everyone's favorite, male? competition, privilege, old-school melodrama.] You transmigrate into a brainless F4 romance novel packed with melodrama, old-school tropes, privilege, and. F1 is cold and abstinent, with Buddhist prayer beads around his wrist. F2 looks kind but is cruel inside and loves raising poisonous creatures. F3 is brooding and romantic, a playboy. F4 is brutal and ruthless, with little self-control. The F4 boys come from powerful families. They're cruel, unpre 2.7kReads8.7Score32114d adds
- 16 After I Tamed Those Yanderes, They All Became My Dogs 惹了病娇后，全训成狗 [Male rivals competing for her + love-triangle showdowns + satisfying wish fulfillment + female gaze + irresistible heroine + all the men try to win me over + forced love with a yandere] One day, you suddenly transmigrate into an otome game. Your role in the game is a wealthy heiress, and your mission is to survive. You find it confusing. How could a realistic game put your life in danger? Then one day, you see the impeccably dressed CEO from daytime clutching your clothes at night, his expre 8.6kReads9.1Score92714d adds
- 17 Afraid of Her 惧她 [Villainous heiress × younger loyal puppy × unhinged fiancé] [Modern romance + premium novel + sweet romance + devoted boyfriend + satisfying read + happy ending + strong heroine] If you met Qiu Ji for the first time, you'd never imagine she was a madwoman. She's a demon wearing a saint's face, a ruin built with money, a monster who takes pleasure in tormenting others. Even when she stands smiling brightly in the sunlight, she's like a sinister ghost, using false light to drag you into bottomles 17kReads9.4Score2.4k14d adds
- 18 That Flirty Little Minx Is Fickle and Wicked 小撩精她又渣又坏 [Two Yanderes + Scheming Heartbreaker + Sweet Romance + A Little Angst + Devoted to Each Other + Male Lead Starts Out as a Purehearted Brat and Later Goes Completely Crazy + The Bad Girl Turns Over a New Leaf] Rumor has it Jiang University has a ridiculously handsome campus bad boy who’s always all over the school forum. Too bad he never flirts with girls or dates. His eyes are only for games, not women. He’s the chaste bad boy everyone craves but no one can have. One day, an announcement came o 2.9kReads8.9Score21614d adds
- 19 Inferior Seduction 劣等勾引 The Scheming Maid's Road to Revenge The first time Shen Luo met Han Shu, she was his friend's maid and pet, timid and meek. A little over half a month later, when he saw her again, she was his friend's father's companion, dressed to the nines at a gala and dazzling the entire room. By the third time they met, she had become his uncle's fiancée. She had leaped three ranks in status, rising from a live-in maid at the very bottom of society to the wife of a powerful multinational corporation's bos 5.7kReads9.4Score67814d adds
- 20 Spring Runs Deep in the Golden Palace 金阙春深 [Gorgeous, timid crown princess × dark, unhinged emperor × radiant crown prince] On the day of the imperial selection, Emperor Chengming, Xiao Ke, unexpectedly ran into a “young palace maid” in the imperial gardens. The “young palace maid” was drawn into a struggle within the royal family, beginning a life of political maneuvering in which she would turn the tides. Several months later, the Eastern Palace held a grand wedding. The “young palace maid,” dressed in her phoenix coronet and red weddi 17kReads9.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 21 The Sweet, Scheming Green Tea Girl Becomes Everyone's Darling, a Heartthrob in a Love Triangle 娇软绿茶变团宠，修罗场里万人迷 [Male Lead Rivalry, Harem of Devoted Admirers, White Moonlight, All Male Leads Are Chaste, Dog-Blood Drama, Mary Sue Who Never Suffers] After suddenly dropping dead, Jiang Mingtang transmigrates into a book and becomes a vicious supporting character doomed to a miserable end. The System tells her that conquering her targets will earn her points. With enough points, she can not only be reborn, but also become filthy rich. Jiang Mingtang rubs her hands together, brimming with confidence, and di 85.1kReads9.2Score10.1k14d adds
- 22 After the Villainess Went Bankrupt, Everyone Wanted to Bully Her 恶毒女配破产后，他们都想欺负她 [Everyone’s dream girl + Coercive possession + A battlefield of male rivals] [One female lead, multiple male leads + All the men are chaste + Everyone is wicked + Soapy Mary Sue romance] Lin Wanfu is a pampered heiress, spoiled and willful, always getting everything she wants. Unfortunately, the good times don’t last. The Lin family goes bankrupt and is buried in debt. Countless people covet Lin Wanfu’s beauty and want to claim her, keeping her like a songbird in a cage that belongs only to them 10.2kReads8.8Score1.2k14d adds
- 23 The Villainess Who Became the Fake Girlfriend of an Amnesiac Big Shot 穿成假冒失忆大佬女友的恶毒女配 [Print edition signed] [Everyday life / A slow-burn romance / Cohabitation before love / Both leads have no other romantic partners / Sweet romance] After transmigrating, Song Yunfei becomes the villainess who pretends to be the girlfriend of an amnesiac CEO. In the original novel, the villainess accidentally hit the CEO of Yanjin Group with her car. Afraid of going to jail, she pretended to be his girlfriend while he had amnesia. She even lied that he was a poor nobody, then took him to a remot 67kReads9.2Score8.6k14d adds
- 24 Reborn in the Graveyard, I Go on a Rampage with the “Am I Dead?” System 墓地重生，我靠死了吗系统杀疯了 [Reborn in a graveyard + Death System + mystery and crime-solving + powerful heroine seeking revenge] [Nonstop thrills + a badass heroine + lots of twists + crushing scumbags every step of the way] ⊗ Orphan Qin Mo is kidnapped and thrown into a mass grave. After crawling out of a coffin, she unexpectedly binds herself to the [Are You Dead Yet] System. ⊗ Fail six missions in a row, and the System will erase you! ⊗ Watch Qin Mo plan each move carefully, turn the tables against all odds, and make h 1.2kReads9.2Score10214d adds
- 25 Quick Transmigration: The Beautiful, Vicious Cannon Fodder Is Everyone's Dream 快穿：恶毒貌美炮灰是万人迷 [Stunning Beauty + Love at First Sight + Everyone’s Least Favorite Becomes Everyone’s Favorite + Mary Sue + Romantic Rivalry + Vicious, Spoiled Little Troublemaker] The gorgeous but dim-witted Yun Jiao is bound to a Vicious Cannon Fodder System. She transmigrates into each world as a hated and despised little villain, or a cannon-fodder character doomed to die horribly. But no matter how much trouble Jiao Jiao causes, every world’s obsessive, love-struck villainous men dote on her until she gets 7.7kReads8.0Score45714d adds
- 26 Quick Transmigration: The Vicious Fiancée Becomes Everyone’s Dream Girl 快穿：恶毒未婚妻成了万人迷 [Print edition signed] [Quick transmigration + mildly irresistible heroine + love at first sight + sweet romance + one-on-one + both leads are virgins + face-slapping] The main story is complete; bonus chapters are being updated. In every clichéd melodrama, once the male and female leads fall in love, the male lead’s perfectly legitimate fiancée is usually reduced to a vicious supporting character. She’s obsessed with him, jealous, and willing to do anything. In the end, everyone turns against 80.5kReads8.4Score5.2k14d adds
- 27 The Heartthrob Beauty's Dog-Training Manual [Quick Transmigration] 万人迷美人训狗手册【快穿】 [Immersive story + satisfying romance + irresistible to all men + all male leads are virgins] Sang Ling is a bad woman, with an angelic face and a pitch-black heart. The “Black Lotus” System binds itself to her, tasking her with maxing out the male leads’ affection scores. 1. A money-loving online scammer and streamer: When Sang Ling arrives, the original host has already used photo filters to start an online romance with the male lead and is about to be exposed. But Sang Ling, who has alrea 43.5kReads9.0Score3.8k14d adds
- 28 The Seductive Sweetheart Struggles to Survive in a Deadly Love Triangle 钓系娇娇小美人在修罗场求生 [Signed for publication] All male leads are devoted to one woman | Ultimate love-triangle showdown | Flirtatious charmer trains men like dogs - [You are a foolish, shallow, and vicious supporting actress, jealous of the talented and universally adored heroine. You set out to target every man connected to her.] [You shoved the aloof villain onto a bed, and the brooding top student is kneeling in punishment in the bathroom.] [You drugged your proud peacock of a childhood friend and stuffed him in 47.2kReads9.4Score5.3k14d adds
- 29 I'm Panicking! I Didn't Mean to Flirt That Much [Quick Transmigration] 好慌张，不小心撩过头了【快穿】 [Pretending-to-be-innocent seductress + Dark, scheming male lead + Best friend takes the place of the boyfriend + Sweet 1v1 romance] Hurting your wife feels good for a while, then comes the hellish chase to win her back. But if your buddy has his eye on your wife, he can scatter your ashes and step over your corpse to take your place. After accidentally binding to a win-back-your-wife System, Jiang Xin is forced to travel to different worlds, take the place of girls who have been hurt by scumbag 43kReads9.1Score3.1k14d adds
- 30 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
- 31 The Gray Lotus 灰莲花 [A textbook case of realist business warfare + a deeply romantic, top-tier intellectual romance] The world has gone mad. A top-tier rich, handsome young heir is forced to compete with his wealthy wife for a lover... “If she likes me and I like her too, then we’ll each have to prove ourselves.” The male lead is loaded with resources and comes with every advantage, while the female lead has brains and beauty and rises from humble beginnings. A textbook case of realist business warfare, arranged fa 37.7kReads9.4Score4.5k14d adds
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