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Zama, regret, too late, guilty pleasure faceslapping list.

Zama, regret, too late, guilty pleasure faceslapping list.
Guilty pleasures where characters look down on the mc and do horrible things to mc, only for them to later regret it. will not include kicked out of guilds one cause I'll make another list on it in the future. warning: writing might be subpar-bad, and can be super frustrating with how some of the characters act,.

I mostly read male MC-dominated novels (and mostly Chinese), but I’ve been branching out into stories with female protagonists lately and I’ve actually been enjoying them quite a bit. 
Complex Family RelationshipsAbusive CharactersSecond ChanceRevengeBetrayalHated Protagonist
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TEJJY
TEJJY
Created: Feb 7th, 2025, Updated: Jul 14th, 2025
Created Feb 7th, 2025
Updated Jul 14th, 2025
CN (2.4)
#1After Being Reborn, I Refuse To Be The Holy Son Of The Sect Anymore
390 Chapters Every 2.5 Day(s) 777 Readers 10 Reviews 07-22-2025
Action Adult Drama Ecchi Mature Romance Xianxia
CN (2.7)
#2After Being Expelled From the Sect, the Master and Senior Sisters Regretted It for Life
50 Chapters Every 2.9 Day(s) 500 Readers 2 Reviews 07-20-2025
Action Comedy Harem Romance Xuanhuan
CN (2.9)
#3After the Villain Stopped Simping for the Heroine, the Heroine Regretted It!
52 Chapters Every 2.5 Day(s) 534 Readers 1 Reviews 07-22-2025
Action Adult Comedy Ecchi Harem Mature Romance Xianxia Xuanhuan
KR (2.9)
#4The Defeated Heroine I Married Cannot Forget The Protagonist
0 Chapters Every 119 Day(s) 352 Readers 2 Reviews 03-25-2025
Drama Fantasy Harem Romance
CN (2.4)
#5After Rebirth, I Severed Ties, and My Whole Family Regrets and Cries
6 Chapters Every 38.5 Day(s) 116 Readers 1 Reviews 12-04-2024
Drama Martial Arts Romance School Life Slice of Life
CN (2.8)
#6Delayed Affection is Cheaper than Grass; Why Cry When I Depart?
117 Chapters Every 16.5 Day(s) 317 Readers 10 Reviews 12-30-2024
Drama Harem Martial Arts Psychological Tragedy
CN (3)
#7My Girlfriend Eloped at the Engagement Party? I Will Kill Her Entire Family
33 Chapters Every 5.8 Day(s) 308 Readers 2 Reviews 07-03-2025
Action Comedy Harem Martial Arts Romance
CN (3.3)
#8Villain: Gouging Out the Heroine’s Spiritual Eyes at the Beginning
43 Chapters Every 3.3 Day(s) 435 Readers 1 Reviews 07-21-2025
Action Romance Xianxia
KR (4)
#9Damn Family
278 Chapters Every 5.5 Day(s) 986 Readers 20 Reviews 06-08-2025
Action Comedy Drama Fantasy Mature Romance Tragedy
JP (2.9)
#10Netorare Ureshii! Iinazuke no Morahara Osananajimi ga Netorareta Kedo, Madou no Kokuhaku wo Ketta Bishoujo-tachi ga, Ore to Osananajimi ga Wakareta Totan ni Koigokoro wo Arawa ni Shite Kurun da ga.
40 Chapters Every 23.7 Day(s) 377 Readers 2 Reviews 08-11-2024
Completed Comedy Ecchi Harem Romance School Life
JP (3)
#11Kensei Ni Uragirareta Osananajimi Tabiji
118 Chapters Every 6.7 Day(s) 625 Readers 7 Reviews 07-20-2025
Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Harem Mature Seinen
CN (3.4)
#12Get Lost Female Protagonist! I Choose the Villainess!
76 Chapters Every 3.3 Day(s) 857 Readers 2 Reviews 07-21-2025
Action Adult Comedy Drama Ecchi Fantasy Mystery Romance Xuanhuan
KR (2.7)
#13I Became the Academy’s Overpowered Gunmage
134 Chapters Every 4 Day(s) 466 Readers 3 Reviews 07-03-2025
Action Adult Adventure Drama Fantasy Harem Mature Mystery School Life Supernatural
KR (3.3)
#14The Disciples I Had Abandoned Came to Me
0 Chapters Every 105 Day(s) 488 Readers 6 Reviews 04-09-2025
Action Adventure Drama Ecchi Fantasy Mystery School Life Sci-fi Supernatural Tragedy
KR (3.4)
#15The Sponsored Heroines Are Coming for Me
287 Chapters Every 8.3 Day(s) 2844 Readers 18 Reviews 04-27-2025
Action Adult Comedy Fantasy Harem Mystery Romance School Life Seinen Tragedy
KR (3)
#16I Ended My Engagement With The Woman Who Despised Me
58 Chapters Every 7.9 Day(s) 570 Readers 9 Reviews 04-15-2025
Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Harem Romance
CN (2.5)
#17The Elder Brother Is Not As Good As the Younger? Then Let’s Settle It Inside the Human Emperor Banner
1 Chapters Every 218 Day(s) 42 Readers 0 Reviews 12-16-2024
Action Adventure Harem Martial Arts Xianxia
CN (2.4)
#18My Stepmother Begs Me to Save Her Son with a Bone Marrow Donation
28 Chapters Every 8.9 Day(s) 323 Readers 0 Reviews 07-21-2025
Action Adult Comedy Drama Ecchi Harem Mature
CN (2.8)
#19After Being Kicked Out, Seven Sisters Turned Against the Family One After Another
72 Chapters Every 4.5 Day(s) 520 Readers 2 Reviews 07-19-2025
Adult Comedy Drama Ecchi Harem Mature Psychological Romance School Life
CN (2.6)
#20After I Let Go, She Regretted It Deeply
80 Chapters Every 3.2 Day(s) 366 Readers 2 Reviews 07-20-2025
Action Adult Adventure Comedy Drama Ecchi Harem Psychological Romance
damn there's a lot of darkstar tl's in this list. ... more>>
CN (2.5)
#21After Rebirth, I Quit the Sect—Senior and Junior Sisters Regret It Bitterly!
75 Chapters Every 4.4 Day(s) 511 Readers 1 Reviews 07-14-2025
Action Drama Harem Romance Xuanhuan
definitely worth a read if you're only in it for the satisfying cathartic moments of mc's past sect regretting and groveling after losing the mc.... more>>
CN (3.4)
#22The Eight Empresses Betrayed Me, Only to Deeply Regret It After Being Reborn
107 Chapters Every 3.4 Day(s) 1032 Readers 10 Reviews 07-20-2025
Action Adventure Drama Harem Romance Tragedy Xianxia
JP (3.6)
#23Regret it Yourself ~Be Happy with the Saint you Chose~
23 Chapters Every 66.3 Day(s) 936 Readers 8 Reviews 01-28-2023
Completed Drama Fantasy Romance Shoujo Slice of Life Tragedy
CN (2.9)
#24You Choose an Adopted Son, I Choose Madness
84 Chapters Every 3.5 Day(s) 310 Readers 4 Reviews 07-20-2025
Action Adult Comedy Drama Ecchi Harem Psychological Romance School Life
JP (3.3)
#25After Being Betrayed By My Beloved Childhood Friend and Best friend, It Was Another Childhood friend Who Saved Me
60 Chapters Every 68.6 Day(s) 743 Readers 7 Reviews 10-30-2022
Completed Drama Romance
Close to no faceslapping and getting past the first few chapters is hard as hell, but the karma and regret payoff is so satisfying
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  1. TEJJY
    TEJJY· Author · Jun 4, 2025 08:45 PM

    BTW in case I get bored of this genre and decide to either stop reading them or update this list, just check out these for new stuff:  Darkstar, Noice, and Splendour translations for CN . Soafp, Foxaholic, Yuki Kitsuneko, Mainichitl, Zeus, Zetro, Dasui,  and Sainokan for JP. As for the KR stuff, the only consistent one that translates these types of novels are Nhvnovel, Kari. I can't find any more KR translators that specifically go out their way to pick up revenge wish fulfilment novels.

    Bcat00 for cn novels with female mc.

    Anastrisha novelupdates lists for switched at birth tropes.

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    • peroxide
      peroxide· Jul 12, 2025 01:01 PM
      Just to add to this, Darkstar has been hit by a cease and desist and has been permanently shut down
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    • TEJJY
      TEJJY· Author · Jul 13, 2025 07:32 AM
      no darkstar just changes site name/domain like every half a year or something. they were galaxy scans before. 
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  2. Joospinch
    Joospinch· Jun 30, 2025 05:49 AM
    Please consider adding this novel it hits hard: https://www.novelupdates.info/series/after-i-died-my-dao-companion-drowns-in-endless-regret/
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    • TEJJY
      TEJJY· Author · Jun 30, 2025 06:45 AM
      Thx for the recommendation.  I usually browse the betrayal tag because it's the tag that's mostly in line with this list. There are actually a lot of things to add in this list that isn't betrayal so I'll miss a few. NU should really add a 'regret' tag. Would make me easier to find novels like these.
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  3. TEJJY
    TEJJY· Author · Feb 7, 2025 02:25 AM
    some of these don't contain faceslapping, it's mostly the cn ones that do.
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  4. San Meas
    San Meas· Jul 7, 2025 06:36 AM
    Thank you TEJJIY for compiling novels of this niche genre.
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    • TEJJY
      TEJJY· Author · Jul 8, 2025 03:44 AM
      imo it isn't really niche. there's a tag for this one literally called zama in jp where it's basically thsi whole list about regret. and cn has hundreds of not thousands of novels about it too, not sure if there's a name for the genre tho. lol. especially qimao, in that site alone, i red at least 30+ novels about the holy son being betrayed. anwyays no problem. feel free to comment and reply if you've found other novels that fits this list, would appreciate it because i'm also a sucker for this trope.
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  5. MrKoffee
    MrKoffee· Jun 13, 2025 05:57 PM
    Thanks for the list of translators! I enjoy this genre, but wasn't show who to check.
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