Cross' Library (2)

RegisterLogin

Theme

Cross' Library (2)

A list of novels I've read and loved. Genres include one or more of the following:

- Strong/Clever/OP Protagonist
- Morally Grey Character(s)
- Transmigration/Reincarnation/Rebirth/Time Travel
- Game Elements/Game World
- Survival Game/Unlimited Flow
- Other/Fantasy World
- Apocalypse
- Plot + No Romance
- Plot + Power Couple/Healthy Relationship
- Slice of Life
- Historical Setting/Interstellar
- Horror/Supernatural

*I won't include every novel I read here, just the ones I really think are worth at least a try. There are also a few I dropped but I felt like it was more personal bias or a pet peeve that made me drop it/give it a low score, and objectively, other people might like it.

*Regularly updated.

*First reclist here: www.novelupdates.com/viewlist/12895/

0 13374 94

19 Followers

cywscross

Created: Jun 12th, 2022, Updated: Jan 30th, 2024

Created Jun 12th, 2022

Updated Jan 30th, 2024

CN (4.2)

#51The Only Favourite Ugly Husband

297 Chapters Every 49.3 Day(s) 9288 Readers 138 Reviews 07-12-2022

Completed Adventure Romance Shounen Ai Slice of Life Yaoi

7/10, On Hold @ch26

CN (3.3)

#52Interstellar Spell Carder

104 Chapters Every 3.9 Day(s) 1588 Readers 19 Reviews 06-03-2024

Adventure Fantasy Mecha Romance Yaoi

8/10, On Hold @ch55... more>>

CN (4)

#53The Zombie Emperor’s Domesticated Cat

107 Chapters Every 3.3 Day(s) 4128 Readers 33 Reviews 04-30-2022

Completed Action Adventure Mature Romance Supernatural Yaoi

8/10, On Hold @ ch62... more>>

CN (4.3)

#54Cannon Fodder Is King [Quick Transmigration]

21 Chapters Every 8.3 Day(s) 2788 Readers 21 Reviews 06-02-2024

Adult Adventure Fantasy Historical Mature Romance Sci-fi Supernatural Yaoi

7.5/10, On Hold @ch31

CN (4.6)

#55The Days I Clear Escape Games Pretending to be an NPC

0 Chapters Every 891 Day(s) 3187 Readers 31 Reviews 01-01-2022

Horror Mystery Psychological Shounen Ai Supernatural

9.5/10, Currently Reading... more>>

CN (4.4)

#56The Entertainment Circle is Mine

187 Chapters Every 3.7 Day(s) 3767 Readers 36 Reviews 06-04-2024

Comedy Drama Psychological Romance School Life

8/10, On Hold @ch87... more>>

CN (4.5)

#57Seize the Throne

50 Chapters Every 28.7 Day(s) 3724 Readers 45 Reviews 05-01-2023

Completed Drama Psychological Romance Shounen Ai

7.5/10, On Hold @ch25... more>>

CN (3.8)

#58Superstar, No Big Deal?!

143 Chapters Every 26.9 Day(s) 2391 Readers 22 Reviews 06-12-2023

Completed Romance Yaoi

7.5/10, On Hold @ch31... more>>

CN (4.4)

#59Master Grim Reaper Makes His Debut in Center Position

8 Chapters Every 185.6 Day(s) 5119 Readers 32 Reviews 05-13-2024

Comedy Horror Mature Romance Slice of Life Supernatural Yaoi

8.5/10, On Hold @ch109

CN (4.3)

#60High Dimensional Invasion

154 Chapters Every 3.8 Day(s) 1598 Readers 3 Reviews 05-16-2024

Adventure Fantasy Horror Mature Psychological Sci-fi Supernatural Yaoi

9/10, Currently Reading... more>>

Sort of an inverse survival game world, so the novel takes place in a tech-advanced cyberpunk world that gets invaded by other worlds on the regular, and people can get trapped in "instances" (called Space Folds) if they happen to be in the area. Others with abilities/upgrades might voluntarily enter them to get stronger/farm for artifacts/monster corpses/etc..

MC isn't the completely OP type despite what the summary implies but he's pretty BAMF for someone who basically starts out near the bottom rungs of society, and he gets BAMF-ier as the story progresses. The ML is def the OP type since he's the heir of the richest/strongest family in the world, and he's had so many expensive mechanical modifications done to him (and also there's some secret background about his identity) since he was young (this is a normal thing in this world, there's like three ways to get stronger, and robotic replacements are one of them) that he's somewhat dissociated from his emotions. But he's also very direct about his intention to "woo" the MC, and there's none of that stuck-up cold CEO president trope in his character. And likewise, MC isn't exactly the blushy pure virg*n type and has 1001 priorities before romance even enters the picture, so right now (@ch34), the both of them are just settling into something like friends. Although some of their interactions are actually kind of cute, and I like the progress of their relationship a lot. Probably my favourite thing about them is that ML isn't constantly trying to protect MC. Like in other novels, even when MC can hold their own perfectly well, you have MLs that follow them into instances or jump in front of them to protect them, but here, when MC goes to a Space Fold, ML's just like good luck, come back safe, do you have any idea how difficult that is to find in cnovels T_T But yeah, ML practically insists on MC getting stronger so he can hold his own, and MC is more than willing to do that b/c he wants to be able to better protect himself too, he's the type who knows what he wants and will take any opportunity to achieve his goals, and despite the different starting points in strength (and social status), they actually balance out pretty well. So I approve of this ship very much.

Then there's the Eternal Life Abyss, who is a baby monster planted in MC (this is a second way for ppl to get stronger -- biological modification), and it's actually super cute lol. He calls MC "Mom", and its most frequent word is "hungry!" XD This type of monster is the parasitic kind (general info about it is that it's a rare, very strong monster that can give its host a lot of perks but it's still a parasite) but it was abandoned by its original mom for a mental deficiency (that's how humans managed to catch it), so as it begins to grow, it gets very attached to MC and chooses not to eat him because it understands that MC wouldn't like that, plus it would lose him forever.

There's actually a lot of pseudo-cannibalism in this novel, it's great. Like after the Eternal Life Abyss is implanted in MC, MC can't eat regular human food anymore so he either goes for nutritional solutions or monsters, and monsters taste like really good food to him. <<less

CN (3.8)

#61Ex-Girlfriend Blackens Every Day

81 Chapters Every 84 Day(s) 1721 Readers 38 Reviews 01-22-2023

Adult Fantasy Mature Romance Sci-fi Tragedy

6.5/10, On Hold @ch42... more>>

CN (3.7)

#62The Villain’s Face Slapping Counterattack

37 Chapters Every 31.3 Day(s) 6489 Readers 63 Reviews 03-05-2023

Completed Action Adventure Comedy Drama Romance Supernatural Yaoi

7.5/10, On Hold @ch19... more>>

CN (4.3)

#63My Iyashikei Game

953 Chapters Every 1.4 Day(s) 2256 Readers 19 Reviews 06-08-2024

Action Adventure Horror Mature Mystery Psychological Supernatural Tragedy

9/10, On Hold @ch533... more>>

I'm enjoying this one a lot, it's just the right level of horror for me, not overly scary but the tension is there and drives the plot forward. The MC is pretty capable too, like if I was actually in his situation, I would've died like ten times over in the first ten chapters lmao. He's a newbie to this horror stuff so it takes a little time for him to adjust, but he handles each situation well and doesn't panic or drop the ball, he's a professional actor too so he's good at faking it til he makes it lol. And the mysteries he investigates and solves along the way while fending off ghosts are really interesting and well-plotted.

It's by the same author as My House of Horrors, which I think most people have heard of? I actually tried that one before but back then, there weren't that many chapters translated yet so I didn't get very far and I don't even remember the little I've read anymore. Judging by some of the comments (omg 90% of the comments under each chapter of this novel is about the other novel, it's a little annoying), it seems like the My House of Horrors MC is more bamf and blasé about everything right from the start because he's been dealing with ghost stuff since he was a kid? So general consensus seems to be that My Iyashikei Game MC is like a little brother to the MHoH MC lol. But so far, I think this MC has been developed well, his reactions at first to being dragged into a horror show of a VR game is pretty realistic but once he realizes that there's no escaping it, he buckles down and works to get stronger and keep surviving through the game, and he's also a pretty empathetic person which helps him connect to some of the ghosts. And as a side-effect, he starts getting acting gigs for horror movies because he has real experience with facing killers and being almost killed by them lol.

This novel is called My Iyashikei Game (slice-of-life games that are meant to be mentally/emotionally healing) because it helps heal both the player (MC quickly gets new appreciation for life, he was kind of low-key depressed with social anxiety before the game) and the ghosts inside the game (the ghosts correspond to victims or killers in real life cold cases).

There are two translator groups listed for this novel but it's by the same person, they just moved over to Hosted Novels. They update once a day and the quality is fantastic, it's amazing. <<less