My (historical) danmei full of pain

My (historical) danmei full of pain
List of angsty danmeis I've read and enjoyed, full of delicious, excruciating pain. Most of them are set in ancient times.
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Created: Nov 12th, 2021, Updated: Aug 30th, 2023
Created Nov 12th, 2021
Updated Aug 30th, 2023
CN (4.7)
15 Chapters Every 175.8 Day(s) 24855 Readers 540 Reviews 02-06-2024
Best of the best. Absolute must-read for every danmei fan. A masterpiece. Beautifully written, meticulously planned. Excellent retrospections, nicely-paced relationship's growth and unfolding, and satisfying smut.... more>>
CN (4.7)
23 Chapters Every 104.9 Day(s) 20372 Readers 474 Reviews 11-29-2020
Same author as MDZS, another tremendous piece of literature. Great, but not overwhelming length, meticulous planning, explicit world creation. Full of warm and heartbreaking feelings,... more>>
CN (4.4)
0 Chapters Every 1859 Day(s) 23469 Readers 459 Reviews 05-01-2017
Because it's the same author as MDZS and TGCF, I honestly expected more. I enjoyed reading it, not gonna lie, but wasn't as immersed as... more>>
CN (4.4)
241 Chapters Every 61.7 Day(s) 14294 Readers 223 Reviews 11-27-2021
Webnovel-style. I love it wholeheartedly, both the novel itself and its translation by SmollStarks. It's tragical, interesting, twisted, angsty, yet at the same time it's... more>>
CN (4.4)
65 Chapters Every 45.9 Day(s) 15621 Readers 383 Reviews 04-27-2023
Another masterpiece. Higher level of literature, language, pain and relationship. Beautiful, heartbreaking, with explicit smut. And great (unfortunately still ongoing) translation. Worth rereading once it... more>>
CN (4.5)
34 Chapters Every 103.3 Day(s) 8517 Readers 87 Reviews 06-01-2020
Work of art. Beautifully written, meticulously planned, complicated and unpredictable plot with just-enough-amount of twists, and lots of suffering. Delicious, excruciating pain you can enjoy... more>>
CN (4.5)
145 Chapters Every 63.1 Day(s) 14656 Readers 180 Reviews 04-09-2023
Beautifully designed world and serene climate, amazing narrative (non-obvious and original: multiple POV) and usage of language (great translation by superglue of the latter part... more>>
CN (4.7)
97 Chapters Every 98.5 Day(s) 8906 Readers 103 Reviews 01-06-2022
Interesting, but complicated, mainly historically and politically oriented plot. Way harder to read, get immersed and enjoy than Thousand Autumns. Literally took me weeks to... more>>
CN (4.6)
72 Chapters Every 61 Day(s) 12112 Readers 107 Reviews 06-30-2022
Very Priest-like. Magnificent world creation, beautiful steampunk setting and climate, great action, original and interesting unfolding of the plot. Unfortunately, less focused on romance and... more>>
CN (4.5)
0 Chapters Every 1243 Day(s) 8398 Readers 94 Reviews 11-01-2020
Great, very interesting plot, world creation, climate and setting. Not-as-satisfying writing, though. As much as I liked the images painted by the author in my... more>>
CN (4.2)
214 Chapters Every 100.6 Day(s) 10024 Readers 124 Reviews 03-01-2020
Webnovel-style. Modern, about e-sports and a long road to accept one's s*xual orientation. Interesting idea and plot full of feeling of longing. Even though it's... more>>
CN (4.3)
12 Chapters Every 196.1 Day(s) 1982 Readers 37 Reviews 10-30-2017
Short modern story perfect to torture oneself. Simple, unfortunately not-that-enjoyable style of writing and language usage. Pain level: 100/5. Overall: 4+/5
CN (4.5)
54 Chapters Every 137.8 Day(s) 10102 Readers 148 Reviews 09-20-2018
Rather short story. One OP and one sickly mc. Peaceful climate, slow-paced writing and plot, very satisfying character growth and _realistic_ (!), non abrupt healing... more>>
CN (4.5)
46 Chapters Every 6.7 Day(s) 4536 Readers 79 Reviews 08-08-2015
Pain from the first till the last page. Tragical in every meaning of this word. Beautiful smut. Explicit descriptions of feelings and excruciatingly painful inner... more>>
CN (4.4)
115 Chapters Every 124.1 Day(s) 12022 Readers 99 Reviews 09-16-2019
Relatively short, really well written. Fantastic comedic undertone and nicely constructed mystery, non-predictable plot. Interesting both main and side characters, also nice romance construction. Pain... more>>
CN (4.1)
91 Chapters Every 112.6 Day(s) 16639 Readers 142 Reviews 09-29-2020
Very webnovel-like, lightly written, with short chapters and not-too-complicated plot. Enjoyable fast read. Definitely romance-oriented. Sometimes surprisingly painful. Shares many similarities with SVSSS (while being... more>>
CN (4.6)
1 Chapters Every 1864 Day(s) 7389 Readers 124 Reviews 01-25-2019
Rather webnovel-style. The balance between descriptions of imperial intrigues and relationship growth is perfect. There's pain, but there's also the same amount of funny stuff,... more>>
CN (4.7)
1 Chapters Every 191 Day(s) 11817 Readers 256 Reviews 09-21-2023
An absolute masterpiece. Superb writing and translation. Very original sci-fi world setting, horror-like climate, meticulously constructed, complicated plot focused on action and mystery solving, interesting,... more>>
CN (4.1)
98 Chapters Every 30.7 Day(s) 1990 Readers 38 Reviews 02-12-2023
Webnovel set in ABO universe. Revised MTL translation. Story full of misunderstandings, lack of communication, abuse and angst. It's the kind which frustrates you so... more>>
CN (4.3)
69 Chapters Every 63.3 Day(s) 2446 Readers 33 Reviews 04-30-2022
Modern webnovel-style story; it gives off a feeling that it could have happened in real life. Love is pure and sweet, main characters are caring... more>>
CN (4.5)
110 Chapters Every 16.1 Day(s) 3811 Readers 51 Reviews 08-02-2023
Modern webnovel-style story wonderfully written and translated. Unpredictable plot with a retrospection explaining the whole story appearing only near the end - showing all the... more>>
CN (4.4)
0 Chapters Every 2139 Day(s) 11648 Readers 101 Reviews 07-15-2018
CN (4.6)
19 Chapters Every 86.9 Day(s) 2623 Readers 24 Reviews 09-30-2020
CN (4.6)
131 Chapters Every 43.9 Day(s) 17161 Readers 406 Reviews 06-22-2023
CN (4.8)
0 Chapters Every 1523 Day(s) 11940 Readers 293 Reviews 01-28-2020
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