diff --git a/calibre-plugin/plugin-defaults.ini b/calibre-plugin/plugin-defaults.ini
index ecb3a388..8514e4d2 100644
--- a/calibre-plugin/plugin-defaults.ini
+++ b/calibre-plugin/plugin-defaults.ini
@@ -2962,6 +2962,11 @@ extra_titlepage_entries: translator, editor
 #chardet_confidence_limit:0.9
 #website_encodings:auto,utf8,Windows-1252
 
+## Attempt to fix pseudo HTML found in some stories, that causes text to
+## seemingly disappear. In most cases this should work without any unintended
+## side-effects.
+fix_pseudo_html:false
+
 [www.whofic.com]
 website_encodings:Windows-1252,utf8
 
diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_webnovelcom.py b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_webnovelcom.py
index 5f70e0ef..0c24748b 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_webnovelcom.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_webnovelcom.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 # Adapted by GComyn on April 16, 2017
 import cgi
+import difflib
 import json
 import logging
 import re
@@ -29,14 +30,31 @@ from .. import exceptions as exceptions
 from ..htmlcleanup import stripHTML
 
 UNIX_EPOCHE = datetime.fromtimestamp(0)
+HTML_TAGS = {
+    'a', 'abbr', 'acronym', 'address', 'applet', 'area', 'article', 'aside', 'audio', 'b', 'base', 'basefont', 'bdi',
+    'bdo', 'big', 'blockquote', 'body', 'br', 'button', 'canvas', 'caption', 'center', 'cite', 'code', 'col',
+    'colgroup', 'datalist', 'dd', 'del', 'details', 'dfn', 'dialog', 'dir', 'div', 'dl', 'dt', 'em', 'embed',
+    'fieldset', 'figcaption', 'figure', 'font', 'footer', 'form', 'frame', 'frameset', 'h1> to <h6', 'head', 'header',
+    'hr', 'html', 'i', 'iframe', 'img', 'input', 'ins', 'kbd', 'label', 'legend', 'li', 'link', 'main', 'map', 'mark',
+    'menu', 'menuitem', 'meta', 'meter', 'nav', 'noframes', 'noscript', 'object', 'ol', 'optgroup', 'option', 'output',
+    'p', 'param', 'picture', 'pre', 'progress', 'q', 'rp', 'rt', 'ruby', 's', 'samp', 'script', 'section', 'select',
+    'small', 'source', 'span', 'strike', 'strong', 'style', 'sub', 'summary', 'sup', 'svg', 'table', 'tbody', 'td',
+    'template', 'textarea', 'tfoot', 'th', 'thead', 'time', 'title', 'tr', 'track', 'tt', 'u', 'ul', 'var', 'video',
+    'wbr'
+
+    # TinyMCE-specific annotations, let's ignore these just like previously
+    'anno', 'annotations'}
+
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+pseudo_html_regex = re.compile(r'(<+(?!/?(%s)>).*?>+)' % '|'.join(HTML_TAGS), re.IGNORECASE)
+real_html_regex = re.compile(r'</?(?:%s)(?:\s.*?)?\s*>' % '|'.join(HTML_TAGS), re.IGNORECASE)
 
 
 def getClass():
     return WWWWebNovelComAdapter
 
 
-def _parse_relative_date_string(string_):
+def parse_relative_date_string(string_):
     # Keep this explicit instead of replacing parentheses in case we discover a format that is not so easily
     # translated as a keyword-argument to timedelta. In practice I have only observed hours, weeks and days
     unit_to_keyword = {
@@ -74,6 +92,10 @@ def _parse_relative_date_string(string_):
     return today - time_ago
 
 
+def fix_pseudo_html(pseudo_html):
+    return pseudo_html_regex.sub(lambda match: cgi.escape(match.group(1)), pseudo_html)
+
+
 class WWWWebNovelComAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
     _GET_VIP_CONTENT_DELAY = 8
 
@@ -188,7 +210,7 @@ class WWWWebNovelComAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
         self.setDescription(url, synopsis)
 
         last_updated_string = jsondata['data']['bookInfo']['newChapterTime']
-        last_updated = _parse_relative_date_string(last_updated_string)
+        last_updated = parse_relative_date_string(last_updated_string)
 
         # Published date is always unknown, so simply don't set it
         # self.story.setMetadata('datePublished', UNIX_EPOCHE)
@@ -221,7 +243,18 @@ class WWWWebNovelComAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
 
         # Content is HTML, so return it directly
         if chapter_info['isRichFormat']:
-            return content
+            if self.getConfig('fix_pseudo_html', False):
+                return content
+
+            # Attempt to fix pseudo HTML
+            fixed_content = fix_pseudo_html(content)
+            if content != fixed_content:
+                diff = difflib.unified_diff(
+                    real_html_regex.split(content),
+                    real_html_regex.split(fixed_content),
+                    n=0, lineterm='')
+                logger.warning('fix_pseudo_html() modified content:\n%s', '\n'.join(diff))
+            return fixed_content
 
         # Content is raw text, so convert paired newlines into paragraphs like the website
         content = content.replace('\r', '')
diff --git a/fanficfare/defaults.ini b/fanficfare/defaults.ini
index fc199570..c2950f0b 100644
--- a/fanficfare/defaults.ini
+++ b/fanficfare/defaults.ini
@@ -2990,6 +2990,11 @@ extra_titlepage_entries: translator, editor
 #chardet_confidence_limit:0.9
 #website_encodings:auto,utf8,Windows-1252
 
+## Attempt to fix pseudo HTML found in some stories, that causes text to
+## seemingly disappear. In most cases this should work without any unintended
+## side-effects.
+fix_pseudo_html:false
+
 [www.whofic.com]
 website_encodings:Windows-1252,utf8