Raising people is a professional skill, you know?

Raising people is a professional skill, you know?
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.

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.
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Created: Mar 25th, 2023, Updated: Apr 29th, 2023
Created Mar 25th, 2023
Updated Apr 29th, 2023
KR (4.6)
0 Chapters Every 2096 Day(s) 21226 Readers 443 Reviews 07-03-2018
[CC] NO CP || [Modern Day] [Fantasy - Apocalypse] — A classic go-to novel. It was just another normal day for MC, commuting home by train when he received a webnovel chapter update notification. His favorite 3000-chapter webnovel finally reached an end after 10 years. As the only loyal reader who read all the way from the first line to its last, MC decides to send a short message to the author. However, after his strange exchange with said author, disaster breaks out. Characters and monsters from the webnovel started appearing in real life, and MC discovers that Earth has become one of the many instances of the webnovel.... more>>
KR (4.5)
631 Chapters Every 1.4 Day(s) 6151 Readers 46 Reviews 03-28-2024
[KB] NO CP || [Ancient Korea] [Murim] [Clan Building] — MC, the Plum Blossom Sword Saint of Mount Hua Sect, falls after defeating the Heavenly Demon. 100 years later, MC wakes up in an unknown child's body. To his horror, he finds that the Mount Hua Sect was no longer shining at its peak. In fact, it had declined to a point of poverty akin to a third-rate sect. Meanwhile, those who leaned on the sect in the past were now scheming for its downfall. Furious, MC takes it upon himself to restore the Mount Hua Sect to its former glory. First of all; whip the disciples into shape.... more>>
KR (4.5)
969 Chapters Every 3.5 Day(s) 37530 Readers 582 Reviews 03-26-2024
[CC] NO CP || [Medieval European Ambience] [Fantasy] — A classic go-to novel. Transmigrated into a novel as the tr*shy lout of the noble Henituse family, MC decides that his ultimate goal is to live a peaceful life as a rich young master. First things first; don't get beat up by the protagonist and die in the first few chapters. After that, he's basically free to do whatever he wants! Or, at least, that's what he thought. Conspiracies and schemes unbeknownst to him run rampant throughout the continent, and if he wants to live that peaceful life, he'll certainly need to clear the dirty waters.... more>>
KR (4.7)
211 Chapters Every 20.2 Day(s) 7149 Readers 77 Reviews 06-12-2023
[CC] NO CP || [Modern Day] [Showbiz - Idols] [Brotherhood] — MC wakes to find himself in another person's body in the past, assigned with the sudden task of debuting as a top idol by the end of the year or else a second death awaits him. Equipped with a leveling System as well as his knowledge of idols from a job in his past life, MC will need to strategize and carefully plan his way to debuting amongst the many talented stars of the idol survival show.... more>>
CN (4.6)
386 Chapters Every 5.7 Day(s) 4882 Readers 38 Reviews 01-04-2024
[KB] BL || [Ancient China] [Kingdom + Army Building] — Police officer MC sacrifices himself to protect the civilians and his squad from an explosion. When he wakes, he discovers that he had transmigrated into the Western Jin era as a beautiful but sickly young master with a declining family fortune and slimy relatives. Astute as he is, MC gets to work right away. Step 1; get rid of the profit-pests. Step 2, plagiarise future scholars and modern technology for profit. Step 3, recruit & train manpower to build an army to protect and expand his lands for profit. Step 4, profit. What could go wrong?... more>>
KR (4.3)
50 Chapters Every 31.3 Day(s) 2872 Readers 8 Reviews 05-28-2023
[KB] NO CP || [Medieval European Ambience] [Fantasy] [Kingdom Building - Architecture] — MC was just your average poor civil engineer student trying to live his life. Suddenly, he transmigrates into a webnovel that he was binge-reading as Lloyd Frontera - the heir of the declining Frontera family in the countryside, who is called tr*sh and hated by everyone; his family, subordinates, and every citizen of the fief, including his escort knight, Javier Asrahan, the protagonist. Equipped with a cranky System and his engineering skills, there was only one goal in his mind; money. Money, and more money!... more>>
CN (4.6)
80 Chapters Every 55.5 Day(s) 4043 Readers 87 Reviews 02-24-2022
[KB] BG || [Modern Day] [Fantasy - Apocalypse] [Kingdom Building] — After successfully surviving 100 days in the beta test of ’Apocalypse Calamity’, MC accepted her rewards and waited excitedly for the release of the VR game. Except, instead of making it to retail shelves, the game had become one with reality. Life’s a game (literally), and MC, by all means, is more than happy to play. What to do when life gives you lemons? Grow more lemons and start an empire, of course.... more>>
CN (4.2)
130 Chapters Every 34 Day(s) 1927 Readers 38 Reviews 11-20-2022
[KB] BG || [Ancient China] [Xianxia] [Clan Building - Culinary] — Three days after successfully obtaining a 3-star Michelin rating, MC had just happily boarded her flight to finally relax and have fun on a 128-day chefs’ tour. Except, she wakes up as a deadbeat villainess character in a xianxia novel, now in charge of a ruined sect full of heavily injured, weak, and/or problematic junior disciples. “There’s nothing in this world that cannot be solved by a good meal!”... more>>
CN (4.3)
79 Chapters Every 14.2 Day(s) 2551 Readers 22 Reviews 10-07-2023
[in progress...]
KR (4.6)
193 Chapters Every 119.3 Day(s) 7765 Readers 104 Reviews 08-25-2019
CN (4.4)
196 Chapters Every 2.1 Day(s) 5696 Readers 94 Reviews 10-23-2020
CN (4.5)
86 Chapters Every 154.7 Day(s) 7243 Readers 140 Reviews 12-16-2017
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  1. IrregularPerson
    IrregularPerson· Aug 1, 2023 06:17 AM
    i love the list, thank you
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