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Best BL according to a picky reader

I have standards for novels, and these ones are the best BL I have found after scouring many, many BL novels. Here you'll find unique MCs, beautiful world-building, and engaging plots.

Diverse genres (horror, slice of life, mystery, historical, cultivation, transmigration, world-hopping, etc)

In no particular order (you should just read them all!)

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Created: Aug 19th, 2020, Updated: Oct 4th, 2020

Created Aug 19th, 2020

Updated Oct 4th, 2020

CN (4.4)

#26Love Stops Rumours

30 Chapters Every 131.1 Day(s) 7629 Readers 130 Reviews 12-25-2018

Completed Adult Comedy Mature Romance School Life Slice of Life Yaoi

CN (4.5)

#27The Heart of a Smith

60 Chapters Every 112.7 Day(s) 5240 Readers 64 Reviews 11-25-2019

Completed Drama Romance Smut Yaoi

CN (4.3)

#28Thrive in Catastrophe

78 Chapters Every 130.2 Day(s) 9729 Readers 153 Reviews 06-26-2019

Completed Action Adventure Mature Psychological Sci-fi Smut Yaoi

CN (4.5)

#29Spring Trees and Sunset Clouds

54 Chapters Every 139.9 Day(s) 10168 Readers 149 Reviews 09-20-2018

Completed Comedy Fantasy Mystery Romance Shounen Ai Slice of Life

CN (4.5)

#30Card Room

612 Chapters Every 48.1 Day(s) 9344 Readers 139 Reviews 05-12-2022

Completed Action Adventure Comedy Horror Mature Mystery Romance Shounen Ai

CN (4.5)

#31Laws of the Other World

104 Chapters Every 22.4 Day(s) 6860 Readers 46 Reviews 04-24-2024

Action Adventure Fantasy Romance Sci-fi Yaoi

World-building is absolutely amazing in this one (just the description of the fauna in this is worthy of a movie). Romance is quite slow, but... more>>

CN (4.6)

#32New Times, New Hell

9 Chapters Every 197 Day(s) 7720 Readers 100 Reviews 04-22-2023

Comedy Fantasy Romance Shounen Ai Slice of Life Supernatural

CN (4.3)

#33A Beta Has Dreams Too

5 Chapters Every 291.8 Day(s) 2457 Readers 26 Reviews 05-30-2020

Completed School Life Sci-fi Shounen Ai

Betas also deserve rights! A breathe of fresh air after countless cliche Alpha x Omega stories (either they have the cliche weak omega x strong... more>>

CN (4.3)

#34Spirit Hotel

123 Chapters Every 124.3 Day(s) 5989 Readers 82 Reviews 05-30-2019

Completed Comedy Fantasy Romance Shounen Ai Slice of Life Supernatural Xuanhuan

Not a lot of romance, and the story does it boring in some bits, but our MC is very unique and funny. The plot slowly... more>>

CN (4.2)

#35The Slag Gong wants to Kill me

30 Chapters Every 101.7 Day(s) 3105 Readers 72 Reviews 04-30-2020

Completed Adult Psychological Yaoi

Short and sweet. Be warned, the MC is very vindictive and he isn't kidding around with his revenge. Also not really romance-focused.

CN (4.6)

#36Mr. Melancholy Wants to Live a Peaceful Life

128 Chapters Every 85 Day(s) 8597 Readers 133 Reviews 11-12-2020

Completed Action Comedy Fantasy Romance Shounen Ai Supernatural

After reading this some more - I have some serious reservations about this novel. ... more>>

The plot is good, as well as the secondary characters and the translation quality. However, the MC is where I have doubts. These may be minor in your eyes, so I'm still keeping this novel, however after ~78 chapters I will not continue to read. 3/5 stars

**Spoilers Below**

I really have mixed feelings about Yu Hua (the MC). Like, his love for his husbands is admirable, but he's really a huge d*ck to his employees. In real life, he's deplorable and would be the boss who employees hope every day to be killed. I know it's played to comedic effect, but at some point it's too much. He barely treats them as people, taking all their pay (even though he has millions in the bank) and making them eat expired noodles or starve. As an employee in the workforce, it really disturbs me. That, and he cares about his husband TOO much? Like, [spoiler]Zhen Li is delivering earth-shattering (literally) info for a huge and consequential fight, but here's Yu Hua calculating the time that his husband gets to spend at home.[/spoiler] He cares nothing that people might die. I get that it's his character, but at this point it's beyond obsessive and gone straight to the creepy side.

AND DIRECTOR HA. [spoiler]

Director Ha was a Destroyer (enemy) turned into a dog by Yu Hua.

I understand he did horrible crap, but he thought it was all a game. Everyone's played games where they were dicks to NPCs, whether slaughtering them for rewards because we were told to or just messing with them because we were bored, and 192 was the same as us. I know I'm a d*ck in SIMS, but I am because it's a game, and the characters aren't real. 192 was just trying to clear a mission he thought of in a game. This slow degradation of his personality and soul is beyond torture at this point. Yu Hua is just reveling in his pain, in the slow erosion of this guy's entire life and existence as a person. We talk about people being treated like dogs, but 192 has gone beyond this point. It's disgusting and disturbing to read about Yu Hua's interaction with 192. Death would be a blessing to 192 at this point, because 192 has lost his entire meaning to life. At least he would die with some recognition of himself as a person.[/spoiler]

I've been reading this everyday now, mostly due to boredom, but I don't know if I will continue. Stories are supposed to be enjoyable, and while I like a good anti-hero and all, I think Yu Hua is beyond even the anti-hero trope. He genuinely disturbs me, and all I think about when I read about him is serial killers and sociopaths. They're exactly like him - obsessive, with little regard for people and a lack of empathy, and a disturbing love of torture and pain.

The plot is good, and the translation is terrific, so the three stars come from there. The characterizations of the secondary characters are amazing, just the MC is messed up. A bad MC can make or break a story, and for me, it broke the story. I don't think I can stomach any more of this. <<less

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Shadowdrop· Sep 6, 2020 01:42 AM
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