Novels like After Seven Years as a Substitute, I Turn to Ash
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- 151 Help! My Mortal Enemy Forced Me to Marry Him 救命!我被死对头给强娶了 [Completed + two male leads + love and hate + mild coercion + younger man + one-on-one + fictional setting] [Hot-tempered, sharp-tongued, narcissistic top scholar × possessive, puppy-like regent, who later turns rabid] (The main story has a tragic ending; the extras have a happy ending. Sweet with angst, angsty with sweetness.) Alternate title: Bewitched By imperial decree, Xu Ci went from a high-ranking official to a plaything kept beneath another man's body. It all began when the all-powerful 115Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 When the Guardians Fell 守护陷落时 When the Guardians Fell 544Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 After I Gave Up Loving Him, My CEO Husband Regretted It 我放弃爱他后,总裁老公后悔了 After I Gave Up on Loving Him, My CEO Husband Regretted It 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 Strangers for the Rest of Our Lives 此生陌路不复 When Chu Junmo forcibly tears open her wound, leaving it drenched in blood, Li Fuyi knows she must pay for the crime she committed at eighteen. Because of him, she found the light; because of him, she descended into eternal night. There are no winners in this battle. There are only two people doomed to endless ruin. 595Reads8.2Score102Shelves
- 155 Clouds Drift Away, Yet the Clear Evening Sky Remains 一云归去,不负晚晴 When he drove her to her death, he said, “I will never regret what I did to you!” So she fell from a high-rise, shattered beyond recognition. Yet he searched the whole world, desperate to find even a trace of her… 96Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 156 Three Years as a Live-In Son-in-Law, Today I Lay Down My Armor and Return to the Sect 三年赘婿,今日卸甲归宗 Three Years as a Live-In Son-in-Law, Today I Lay Down My Armor and Return to the Sect 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 157 The Wood Is Dancing 木头在起舞 [Dual heroines] Carpenter × apprentice It was an ordinary day in the small town of the Yu family. Yang Qianfeng went to the market to shop and came across a girl being beaten and scolded by her mother at a stall. On a whim, Yang Qianfeng stepped in and brought the girl back to her family's carpentry shop as an apprentice. The girl loved to dance and often tried to get Yang Qianfeng to dance with her, but Yang Qianfeng always refused. The stage in their small town was too small, so Yang Qianfeng 76Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 158 If I Could Start Over, I Would Hope Never to Meet You Again 要是能重来,我希望不再遇到你 If I could do it all over again, I hope I wouldn't meet you again. 292Reads—Score—Shelves
- 159 If You Can't Have It, Destroy It? 得不到就毁掉? If You Can't Have It, Destroy It? 196Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 When His Wife Cheated, He Decided to Let Her Be with Her Lover 妻子的不忠,他决定成全她俩 After His Wife's Betrayal, He Decided to Let Her Be with Her Lover 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 161 Frogs Are So Cute. Why Would You Hurt Me? 蛙蛙那么可爱,你为什么要伤害我? Frogs are so adorable. Why would you hurt me? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 Reborn as a Freshman, I Tore Apart the Class President's Four-Year Moral Blackmail 重生大一,我撕碎班长四年道德绑架 Reborn as a college freshman, I tore apart the class monitor's four-year campaign of moral blackmail. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 After Giving My Brother All 2.46 Million, I Turned Around and Took Over My Father-in-Law's Business Empire 246万全给弟弟后,我转身接手了岳父的商业帝国 After Giving My Brother All 2.46 Million, I Turned Around and Took Over My Father-in-Law's Business Empire —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 My Boss Made a Secret Group Chat. I Added Just One Person, and They Were All Done For 老板私密建群,我只拉进一个人,他们全完了 The Boss Started a Secret Group Chat. I Added Just One Person, and They Were All Finished 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 The Mountains and Seas Between Me and My Love 我与所爱隔山海 You were the only sunlight and warmth in my life, but you left me with nothing but despair, and made me feel so filthy... 72Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 166 The Love We Missed 错过的深爱 The Love We Lost 795Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 After My Husband Gave His Kidney to His One True Love 老公把肾给了白月光后 After My Husband Donated His Kidney to His White Moonlight 7kReads—Score171Shelves
- 168 Silent Rain 雨无声 A timid, insecure heroine with depression × a sunny, gentle, refined hero [Sweet and angsty, with a bad ending] [He saves her] After an accident turned Shi Yu’s world upside down, she shut herself away and never came back out. She never expected to meet that person. She thought their paths would part for good after high school graduation. Yet when they met again, she still couldn’t help paying attention to him. From then on, her world slowly brightened, and she found her salvation. Shen Jingyan 604Reads8.7Score105Shelves
- 169 A Long, Lingering Farewell 沉沉落落永别离 A long, long farewell, with parting that lasts forever 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 I Was Raised in a Pigsty and Now Earn a Million a Year 猪圈里养出了百万年薪的我 I Made a Million a Year Growing Up in a Pigsty 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 My Fiancé Made Me Kneel to Protect His Beloved. I Ran into the Flames and Rose to Become a Queen 未婚夫为护白月光让我下跪,我转身冲进火海逆袭成女王 My Fiancé Made Me Kneel to Protect His One True Love. I Rushed Into the Flames and Rose to Become a Queen —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 You Spent a Lifetime Hating the One Who Fought with Everything They Had to Love You 你用一辈子的恨,防了一个拼了命爱你的人 You spent a lifetime of hatred guarding yourself against someone who was willing to give everything to love you. 592Reads—Score—Shelves
- 173 My Younger Brother Actually Followed Me Here 我的弟弟竟然跟过来了 Two male leads, brothers who live next door. They meet by chance on a wall, and together see things through to the end. If lots of people want to read it, I'll write my next book from the younger brother's perspective. This one is mainly told from the older brother's perspective, with him as the pursuer. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 The Regrets and Beautiful Moments of Youth 青春的那些遗憾和美好 The regrets and beautiful moments of youth 195Reads—Score—Shelves
- 175 If There Is Love in Heaven 如果天堂有爱情 Even though falling in love with Gu Yu was a disaster, Xia Yisheng never regretted it. 36Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 176 For Revenge, I Told My Wife to Seduce Someone Else 为了复仇,我叫妻子勾引别人 For Revenge, I Had My Wife Seduce Someone Else —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 Three-Year Contract: I Clear Every Obstacle for My CEO Wife 契约三年,我为总裁妻子摆平一切障碍 I Signed a Three-Year Contract and Cleared Every Obstacle for My CEO Wife —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 178 After My Ex-Wife Left With Nothing, She Forced Me to Divide Our Assets Again and Wanted Me to Raise Another Man’s Child 前妻净身出户后,逼我重分财产,还想让我养别人的孩子 After my ex-wife walked away with nothing, she forced me to divide our assets again and even wanted me to raise someone else's child. 444Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 I Gave You My Heart, and You Left Me with Empty Joy 掏心于你,赠我一场空欢喜 When Shi Yi was by his side, Huo Zhanting spent every day wondering when that wicked man would die. Later, Shi Yi really did die, and Qiao Ran returned to his side. Yet Huo Zhanting spent every day wondering when Shi Yi would come back. 85Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 180 My Wife Had Twin Boys, but Only One Is Mine 老婆生了一对双胞胎儿子,但只有一个是我的 My wife gave birth to twin boys, but only one of them is mine. 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 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. 150Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 182 When the Pear Blossoms Fall, Longing Turns to Ash 梨花落,相思烬 A misunderstanding in their youth made Bai Jinhan hate Chu Lihua to the core. When he returns, he forcefully keeps her by his side, all so he can get even. What he doesn’t know is that she has already given everything for their love... Later, when every pear blossom has fallen and longing turns to sorrow, Chu Lihua slips away without a sound, while Bai Jinhan goes mad in a way that shakes the world... 123Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 183 The Wind Will Remember Him for Me 风会替我记住他 [School life + mutual crushes + healing + Be] Don't look at my embarrassing past. Don't make me beg you. “Gentle and sensitive” Qi Zhiyou x “sunny and outgoing” Cheng Weizhui Ten years after Qi Zhiyou died, Cheng Weizhui learned of her death. He spent a year in a daze before finally taking his own life. Scenes from his life replayed in his mind. Early autumn. When they first met, he had smiled and asked her, “What are you doing here?” Later, at a temple, he had sincerely prayed, “May my girl liv 50Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 184 The CEO's Sunshine Is Covered in Wounds 总裁的骄阳遍体鳞伤 [Angst and abuse + chasing his wife + unhinged obsession + coercive love: possessive CEO and resilient ray of sunshine] She was Q University’s ray of sunshine, forever searching for the moonlight that would illuminate her life. At eighteen, she ran away from her wedding to take the college entrance exam, driving her grandfather, her only family, to his death. At twenty-five, she was framed for murder and tortured and imprisoned by Lin Chen for eight years. … She found her only sister, but every 289Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 185 Loving You Is a Sickness No Medicine Can Cure 爱你成疾,药石无医 They had known each other for ten years and been classmates for four. Shu Ning loved Xiao Zhanting with all her heart, giving him one of her kidneys, losing a child for him, and breaking her own heart. Yet Xiao Zhanting hated her with a passion and personally sent her to her death... 40Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 186 No Such Person Exists 杳无此人 [Undercover Assassin vs. Narcotics Detective] “Jinchen, after I’m gone, I’m entrusting my sister to you.” “Don’t tell her what happened to me. She cries at the drop of a hat, and if she finds out, she’ll cry her head off.” “Yu Jinyan, you big liar! Now that you’re gone, who’s going to protect me? I have no family left…” The day after Yu Jinyan died, Yu Jinchu vanished without a trace, as if she had disappeared from the face of the earth. Jiang Jinchen searched for her like a madman. Seven years 346Reads—Score125Shelves
- 187 A Youth Wasted 虚度一个青春 Wasting Away a Youth 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 One Last Rainfall Before We Part 最后一阵诉别雨 [Mutual pining | A little campus romance | Short BE | Male lead dies, female lead finds peace] The sky waits for the rain, and I wait for you. Song Ting'an never got to see his rain. From that song by Jay Chou, with lyrics by Vincent Fang. “The sky waits for the rain, and I wait for you.” He listened to it again and again. Song Tianqing, the character in Song Ting'an's book, got to meet his Yue Yuyu. But Song Ting'an never got to meet his Li Yanyu. His chance of survival was only twenty perc 374Reads8.0Score114Shelves
- 189 A Damn Misunderstanding 该死的误会 That Darned Misunderstanding 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 My Friend Has Infertility 我的朋友有不育症 My Friend Has Infertility —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 One-Man Show 独角戏 [Signed for simplified Chinese publication] I wish I were brave, but when it comes to loving you, I always feel so unworthy. 415Reads8.8Score109Shelves
- 192 Goodbye Forever, Brother Bo 薄哥哥,再也不见了 [Heartbreaking] When she learned she had only a year to live, Bo Qingyuan fled, escaping the hell Bo Muchao had kept her in for six years. She was an unwanted extra, taken in when the Bo family adopted Bo Yinyin. For five years, she served as a bone marrow donor for Bo Yinyin. After Yinyin died, everyone called her a murderer and said she had to atone. Six years imprisoned, six years tormented. Surely she had paid for even the gravest sin by now? At the end of her life, she said, “Brother Bo, le 2.6kReads6.7Score215Shelves
- 193 Red Roses in December 十二月的红玫瑰 (Dual male leads, angsty 1v1 romance, both devoted only to each other, bad ending, power couple, mutual salvation, pure love with plenty of heartbreak.) My dear Mr. Mo: I’m sorry. In the end, I failed to keep my promise to you and became a coward who fled this world. If you can forgive my selfishness and weakness, then when spring returns next year, please leave a bouquet of red roses at my grave. Choose the most beautiful one in the flower shop. I think I’ll be able to smell its fragrance. [Nei 86Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 194 My Birth Mother Died While I Was in Prison. When the Truth Came Out, My Whole Family Went Insane 入狱三年亲妈死,真相曝光全家疯了 After three years in prison, I learn my mother died. When the truth comes out, my whole family loses their minds 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 Three Years Ago, He Said His Sister Was the Best. Three Years Later, He Asked, ‘Are You Trying to Drive Me to My Death?’ 三年前他说姐姐最好了,三年后他说你要逼死我吗 Three years ago, he said, “My big sister is the best.” Three years later, he said, “Are you trying to drive me to my death?” 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 The Rent Is 1.8 Million. I'm Not Renewing the Lease. Now the Landlord Regrets It! 租金一百八十万,我不租了,房东后悔了! The rent is 1.8 million. I'm not renting anymore. Now the landlord regrets it! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 The Mad Crown Prince’s Cherished Captive 疯批皇兄的掌中娇 [A possessive, obsessive Crown Prince X a beautiful, delicate Princess] [The male lead is unhinged, obsessive, and fiercely controlling + the Princess is as sweet and delicate as her name suggests + she can never escape his grasp + both are virgins] Zhao Jiaojiao’s father was the top candidate in the palace examinations, and her mother was the daughter of a Minister of the Court of Justice. But before Zhao Jiaojiao was born, her father was framed by a villain and died in prison. The entire Zhao 167Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 198 After Mom Hanged Herself With a Blood Vine, Dad Married His Mistress 妈用血藤上吊后,我爸娶了小三 After Mom Hanged Herself with a Bloodvine, Dad Married His Mistress 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 A Disgraced Miracle Doctor? One Needle Revives a Terminally Ill Tycoon 神医废婿?一针救活绝症大佬 A Useless Live-in Son-in-Law of a Divine Doctor? One Needle Saves a Terminally Ill Tycoon 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 In the End, Deep Love Leaves Nothing but Heartbreak 情深终负尽 After five years of dating and three years of marriage, Qin Yue underwent IVF more than a dozen times, but in the end Gu Yanzhi still rejected her. “You can't have children. You're not fit to be my wife.” Later, Gu Yanzhi saw another man tenderly holding Qin Yue, whose belly was swollen with pregnancy... 162Reads8.0Score—Shelves

















































