Mc have organization or loyal subordinates tag mostly OP+Harem

For people with developed brain.

My personal list for this niche genre of novels - will be adding as I read. Charisma and leadership do not come easy, but they sure as hell come naturally for these protagonists. Charismatic MCs with significant focus on character and ability growth, kingdom / army / career development & management, and/or wholesome friendships / brotherhood. Romance (if any) will only be subplots, not the main focus. I've put short descriptions and summaries of every novel, plus my thoughts on them.... more>>

Arranged from best > worst > boring reading experience. I change my ratings often. Feel free to recommend more or point out any mistakes in my sorting of this list. Cheers!

*[CC] - Collecting Companions, aka collecting and raising loyal companions. Brotherhood, friendship, blablabla. [CC] focuses more on picking up and raising companions without necessarily having to develop a full kingdom/empire.

*[KB] - Kingdom Building. I'll use this abbreviation as a general umbrella term for anything to do with (insert noun)-building and management. [KB] by association would also include raising the people in that empire/kingdom, but the novels focus more on the development/management part. <<less

Action, action, and more action with priority of adventure.

Here are the list of  stories that have apocalyptic plot for BL 

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Hello there everyone . the light novels presented in this list are by no means perfect, each one of them has its flaws and i... more>> chose them based on my taste and the rankings do matter quite a bit.                  <<less

There was a period of time where I just CRAVE Interstellar Novels! I wanted anything and I hunted for eons. ... more>>

I feel the pain of scavenging bro, so I'm providing my own list of Novels that I have finished and think they're OK to help relieve some of the time of my fellow brothren. Though the numbers are small, it's still something. <<less

Been in a hunt for similar premise ever since I read that novel, so here we go

MC has an extraordinary journey, as ordinary people to become the ruler of a country or organization. Only one female protagonist or at least no... more>> more than two girlfriends, many little brothers, kingdom and empire, knight and soldier, experimental object and s*ave, master and disciple, god and demon, and so on. <<less

Mainly (but not only) with male protagonists and without romance or with romance sub-plot (without harems). Fantasy and action oriented. As of now, not that many novels, because I'm quite picky with them so oof,,... more>>

I have a lot more novels saved in my reading lists, so feel free to check them out, if you are looking for something with similar vibes, that isn't on this list yet. 

Novels on this list are also pretty generic (similar themes and settings). Despite that I enjoyed reading them in between my classes, great stress relief after exam season! So don't expect to see a whole lot of original novels.  <<less

Let's continue the treasure hunt for novel not ordinary ones but the fantasy ones! 

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For novels that look like BL but aren't actually. Also for fun.
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So the real reason I made this is because I thought it was quite interesting how many BL shippers there are for no-romance and minimal-romance novels I've collected in my other lists. As you can imagine, most of these are novels that prominently feature male characters and their relationships with one another.... more>>

Although I do read BL, I'm not much of a shipper myself, so most of the stuff on here is here because there really are people out there shipping the MC with one of the male characters that's not canonically a love interest. Yes, I confirm these ships by searching for fanarts, fanfics, and forum articles asking if it's BL. Think of it as my weird hobby.
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I'm not going to rate or review the novels here. It's more of a compilation than a rec list. Note that I haven't read many of these, and that it is in no particular order.

There has to be an uncommon degree of fujobait going on. I'm not going to add just any series where male characters have a significant friendship. Although series with exceptionally thirsty fandoms will leak into this list anyways since, like I said, I'm not actually reading some of these. I will occasionally ramble in the description.

I'm well aware that there are plenty of other similar lists out there, so I'll link them below as I find them.
(insert after the "viewlist/" in the URL): 30062, 1733, 64324 <<less

Reincarnated in another world as a noble. Or going back to the past whatever. These novels are in no particular order :> 

levelling up along with an adventure | mc becomes op sooner or later on | i'll put some signs for each story and read if... more>> you'll like  (for others i won't since i haven't read some of them) | my personal reviews are still ongoing hehe | suggest on the comments!! :>> <<less

There won't be many novels on this list (maybe). I'm very selective. Being a cool MC is not enough. They need to be full of swag. Pure S W A G. ... more>>

So charismatic they can bend people. 

Those are the standards.  <<less

These novels focuses on world building, fighting enemies, bonds, families, kingdom building, hierarchy, adventure and action and a little bit of romance.

I really wanted to create a list with novels in which the main character plays some kind of acting role and pretends to be a different person, and also novels with MC, which are misunderstood or all of the above together.
I will sort the novels according to these criteria:... more>>

First novels (#1-10) – MC is female. Then (#11-20) MC is male. <<less

A list with characters who are fond of plotting against their enemies, are uncovering great schemes and/or of characters who are caught in the schemes of their enemies. ... more>>

Stories with big schemes that will make your mind blow and your head dizzy.

Top 17 are some of the most scheming protagonists imo, only the first three are ranked according to whom I belive are the most schemming of all, the other ones were hard to decide qwq, though they are more or less ranked too. Those guys are really cunning...

The ones more at the bottom are, either not soooo schemming or not really schemming at all, they were caught in other people's schemes and conspiracies, don't know if it would be convinient to point them out to differenciate. <<less

Romance is not the main focus, or even in sight sometimes! Let's focus on our goals and perhaps level up too! 

No beta male Japanese simps that can't look a woman in the eye without blushing or deranged Chinese psychopaths that massacre entire clans because a... more>> young master looked at their woman the wrong way. <<less

These are my favorite BL novels.... more>>

I love them so much.
(Numbers-for convenience, not for ranking)

◆Best couple : 

1.Lan Zhan-Wei Ying
2. Hua Cheng-Xie Lian
3. Fu Shen- Yan Xiaohan (Golden Stage)
4. Zhao Yunlan-Shen Wei (Guardian)
5. Lin JingHeng -Lu Bixing (Imperfections)
6. Xi Ze-Ming yu (Rebirth of a supermodel)

◆ Great Chemistry

1. Lan zhan-Wei Ying
2. Fu Shen- Yan Xiaohan (Golden Stage)
3. Xi Ze-Ming yu (Rebirth of a supermodel)

◆ Best Boyfriend

1. Lan Zhan
2. Yuan Zong (Advance Bravely)
3. Tsuzuki Ushio (Yes, No, or Maybe Half?)

◆ Cutest kid: Kid from Rebirth of a Movie Star; Pastel Colours

◆ Gentleman Boyfriend: I have made a separate list for them.

◆ Novel Couple who taught me that communication is key : Rebirth of The Golden Marriage 

◆ Best Side Characters : 

1. Record of the missing sect master
2. Mr. Melancholy wants to live a peaceful life

◆ Most handsome MC and ML :

1. Lan Zhan (ML)
2. MC, Record of the missing sect master
3. Ling Xiao (ML, The Legendary Master's Wife)
4. Ming Yu (MC, Rebirth of a supermodel)
5. MC of Tattoo

◆ Cutest ML: Qi Feng (The daily life of being the campus idol's fake boyfriend)

◆ Cutest MC : 

1.Xie Lian (Heaven official's blessing)
2.Lu Bixing (Imperfections)
3. MC (Worship me, I can make you rich)

◆ Hot Couple :

1. Are you addicted?
2. Rebirth of a supermodel

◆ Smartest MC : 

1. Guardian
2. Record of the missing sect master <<less

Novels that are in this list mainly have to do with some sort of territory management or kingdom building. The BL romance in these novels might be a subplot or play a bigger role in the story. If I find some novels that have these things outside of NU I will include them here.... more>>

Rankings ;

Active ; Novels that are featured in this list, are still being updated regularly 

Hiatus ; The group that's translating a novel puts it on hold for awhile

Inactive ; If a novel hasn't been updated for more than two months, It'll be labeled as Inactive but I'll still keep it within the list. <<less

Novels Ive read (or am reading) mostly focused on the action-adventure aspect with hints of kingdom building and business ... more>>

NO PARTICULAR ORDER <<less