List 1- BL Collection: Short Read, Personally Reviewed and Rated

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List 1- BL Collection: Short Read, Personally Reviewed and Rated

BL novels of around 40 chapters, quick reads and short chapters as well as one shots. These reads are relatively short and can be finished in a few hours or maximum a day.

Ratings rank between 1 and 5, with 5 being an absolute winner.

Watch out for the SPOILER ALERT! To avoid reading any plot points.

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Reyleisha

Created: Nov 25th, 2020, Updated: Nov 8th, 2021

Created Nov 25th, 2020

Updated Nov 8th, 2021

CN (4.5)

#1Fight the Landlord, Fall in Love

42 Chapters Every 111.1 Day(s) 5275 Readers 77 Reviews 12-27-2020

Completed Comedy Romance Yaoi

Rating: 5/5- Aaaah this was so lovely! Sweet and healthy even if they started off as the best of enemies they really were the best of lovers by the end.... more>>

CN (4.7)

#2The Horror Movie Male Lead’s Winter

17 Chapters Every 109.1 Day(s) 3851 Readers 88 Reviews 02-17-2021

Completed Drama Romance Shounen Ai Slice of Life

Rating: 5/5- Really simple but beautiful story about not giving up even when the going gets tough. ... more>>

CN (4.4)

#3Love Stops Rumours

30 Chapters Every 158.8 Day(s) 8171 Readers 134 Reviews 12-25-2018

Completed Adult Comedy Mature Romance School Life Slice of Life Yaoi

Rating: 5/5- An immensely enjoyable read... more>>

CN (4.3)

#4If Only Time Stopped at the Moment We First Met

12 Chapters Every 233.3 Day(s) 2134 Readers 40 Reviews 10-30-2017

Completed School Life Tragedy Yaoi

Rating: 5/5: Absolutely heartbreaking, you will bawl your eyes out. ... more>>

CN (4.4)

#5Light Tea, Sweet Wine

32 Chapters Every 100.3 Day(s) 3715 Readers 36 Reviews 05-12-2021

Completed Adult Drama Romance Smut Yaoi

Rating: 5/5- Heartwarming and beautiful. Really great progress and an enjoyable short read.

CN (4)

#6Passion on the Bus

6 Chapters Every 255.3 Day(s) 3214 Readers 14 Reviews 04-18-2021

Completed Adult Mature Smut Yaoi

Rating: 5/5- Fluffy smut with a smidgeon of plot… here for it!... more>>

CN (4.7)

#7Me and My Knight

1 Chapters Every 1 Day(s) 1264 Readers 27 Reviews 08-16-2020

Completed Drama Psychological Shounen Ai Slice of Life

Rating: 5/5- Has to be my favourite one shot. So much detail, emotion and dimension. Very beautiful

CN (4.6)

#8Screen Partner

31 Chapters Every 174.9 Day(s) 7666 Readers 176 Reviews 07-11-2018

Completed Adult Mature Romance Smut Yaoi

Rating: 5/5- A really wholesome read, even with the healthy dose of smut. ... more>>

CN (4.3)

#9The Bird and the Golden Cage

0 Chapters Every 110.9 Day(s) 2772 Readers 38 Reviews N/A

Adult Drama Mature Romance Smut Yaoi

Rating: 5/5- A good mix of all romance elements in a short story. Likeable characters in a sweet and simple romance. Really nice ML.... more>>

CN (4.7)

#10Neighbors

13 Chapters Every 121.5 Day(s) 2612 Readers 40 Reviews 03-04-2021

Completed Romance Shounen Ai Slice of Life

Rating: 5/5- This was beautiful! Really loved how patient and kind the ML was and how adorably cute our squirrel MC was.... more>>

CN (4.6)

#11Rooster X Rooster

2 Chapters Every 904 Day(s) 1877 Readers 32 Reviews 08-08-2020

Completed Comedy Drama Romance Yaoi

Rating: 5/5- Hilarious! Like ABO roosters with dog blooded amnesia and chicken Valentine’s Day! What more could one ask for in a crazy short story.... more>>

JP (4.5)

#12House of Sweets ~un petit nid~

28 Chapters Every 118.7 Day(s) 2333 Readers 19 Reviews 08-31-2020

Completed Adult Drama Psychological Romance Yaoi

Rating: 5/5- Really well written with some of the best thought out angst. ... more>>

CN (4.4)

#13Living to Suffer

20 Chapters Every 195.1 Day(s) 4700 Readers 49 Reviews 09-20-2017

Completed Drama Historical Martial Arts Mature Romance Smut Tragedy Yaoi

Rating: 4.5/5- I cried is all I’m going to say. ... more>>

CN (4.6)

#14Till Death Do Us Part

27 Chapters Every 227.7 Day(s) 4547 Readers 77 Reviews 06-30-2016

Completed Drama Fantasy Historical Mature Romance Smut Yaoi

Rating: 4.5/5- I definitely cried again but it’s always good to clean out your tear ducts. ... more>>

CN (4.4)

#15Loneliness

27 Chapters Every 141.5 Day(s) 4798 Readers 59 Reviews 05-19-2022

Completed Drama Mature Psychological Romance School Life Slice of Life Smut Yaoi

Rating: 4.5/5- this was quite enjoyable and quite sad at certain points. ... more>>

CN (4.1)

#16He’s Not My Shadow Guard, He’s My Lover

21 Chapters Every 130 Day(s) 3072 Readers 38 Reviews 03-01-2020

Completed Drama Romance Shounen Ai Slice of Life

Rating: 4.5/5- Such a beautiful and heartwarming romance. ... more>>

CN (4.6)

#17They All Say I’ve Met a Ghost

48 Chapters Every 126 Day(s) 7150 Readers 128 Reviews 04-30-2020

Completed Comedy Horror Romance Shounen Ai Slice of Life Supernatural

Rating: 4.5/5- This was really interesting and unique. I really liked the MC- he was such a lovely character and so true to his ideals. ... more>>

CN (4.1)

#18The Slag Gong wants to Kill me

30 Chapters Every 129.4 Day(s) 3339 Readers 73 Reviews 04-30-2020

Completed Adult Psychological Yaoi

Rating: 4.5/5- I read this after Gaze at the Scenes of Debauchery and it was such a mood lifter. This MC is kickass and this plot is so satisfying! I do not condone mu*der, but in the context of cheating, this story would satisfy anyone who has been hurt by infidelity. ... more>>

SPOILER ALERT!

I will admit that I was hella confused about the identity of Ji Qu but irrespective, the facts point more to the editor than the film emperor. Perhaps I will re-read it again and it may be more clear. It’s an excellent read either way. A strong and intelligent MC who refused to stand for being made a fool.

His revenge was hardcore, ludicrously crazy and stomach churning but who cares about morals in fiction, (just jokes- I always care about morals. ALWAYS!) because I sided with him all the way to the end.

The MC is truly psycho though- he completely removed himself from the entire situation when he plotted the mu*der and he looked upon the entire thing as if he were a bystander. Perhaps the trigger for such cold behaviour was his suspicion that his husband wanted to kill him first to live happily ever after (I’d be hella pissed).

I like to comfort myself by thinking that perhaps if the husband came clean and walked away in the beginning, instead of cheating and making the MC a fool, the MC may have been quite okay, as he never had a great desire to fight or monopolise his husband. He even stated that he was okay being left alone. It made me feel like he knew that their marriage wasn’t satisfactory to him from the beginning.

Perhaps the selfish behaviour from the MLs family as well as how the ML actively made the MC a fool with his s*upid mistress for almost their entire marriage, was another trigger. Whatever drove the MC to reveal his inner psychopath was subtly and implicitly revealed so I don’t feel like the revenge or the MCs behaviour was out of place. It’s not as if the affair was a recent activity, both the ML’s friends and family were aware of it from the beginning, even when the MC supported that bum of an ML to start up his successful company.

It was a case of an ungrateful as*hole biting the hand that feeds him, but the ML and his friends and family just took it way too far to allow the MC to forgive and forget.I guess never mess with an author... lol.

This is a must-read! It’s gripping, excellent and smart! Mostly though, it’s satisfying to see such a profound and ruthless reaction from a person betrayed. Sometimes feeling hurt and betrayed is not enough- sometimes cold and heartless revenge is just what the doctor ordered. <<less

CN (4.5)

#19My Wife is Straight

2 Chapters Every 1114.5 Day(s) 3096 Readers 30 Reviews 05-13-2019

Completed Comedy Romance School Life Yaoi

Rating: 4/5, short and to the point. It’s pretty much 2 chapters about falling in love from two different POVs but incredibly sweet and enjoyable.... more>>

CN (4.7)

#20Waiting Until 35 Years Old

5 Chapters Every 439 Day(s) 2210 Readers 41 Reviews 07-27-2021

Completed Shounen Ai Slice of Life Tragedy

Rating: not rating. This was a look at someone’s life and despair before their death. I find it inappropriate to rate so all I will say I’d that it’s thought provoking but also really sad and despairing. ... more>>

JP (4.1)

#21Secret Nights In The Inner Palace

0 Chapters Every 2496 Day(s) 6147 Readers 56 Reviews 08-19-2018

Completed Adult Drama Fantasy Mature Romance Smut Yaoi

Rating: 4/5- For a shorter than normal story, it was well written and the characters had enough time to grow without the story being overdone or boring. I found it interesting and the smut was pretty good without overshadowing a decent plot.... more>>

JP (3.8)

#22Affection: Fate of the Pair

30 Chapters Every 141.7 Day(s) 2356 Readers 10 Reviews 11-23-2019

Fantasy Mature Romance Smut Supernatural Yaoi

Rating: 4/5- Good read. ... more>>

CN (4.3)

#23Gaze at the Scenes of Debauchery

16 Chapters Every 8.9 Day(s) 3280 Readers 101 Reviews 11-27-2018

Completed Drama Mature Tragedy Yaoi

Rating: 4/5- Very well written, moving and painful. The ending was certainly the best in my opinion. ... more>>

This is certainly tragic and painful, however what made this story really affect me was how realistic and raw it is. People are that selfish and people really are that cruel. I feel the choices the MC made really were what he thought was best for him and having encountered people like the ML in real life and seeing how destructive their actions are to the people who love them, I understood the MC mostly.

Perhaps in heteros*xual relationships, some partners are left with children and find that it’s easier or necessary to stay or hold on (this is solely my opinion). They also have something “left” even if the other person leaves them, or vice versa. This story hurts because the MC really had nothing left except all his own sacrifices and the constant pain of loving someone too deeply and watching them treat your love like tr*sh. I cannot fault the MC for his pain or decisions. I also felt that the ML truly enjoyed the helplessness and dependency he caused the MC to feel, and that really triggered me because I know of people who behave this way in reality.

Just because a person loves you, does not mean you have won, does not make you the best and certainly does not mean you own them and all that they have. Love does not mean free reign and objectification of another.

The MC was also right in not rebounding, although I also understood how his wanting to get a sense of revenge made him hurt the SLS, he stopped when he saw he was going too far. I think no one is left untouched when made to feel ab*se and neglect for years and unconsciously or consciously, they too, dole it out. We are only human after all.

I think as a whole, infidelity is taken too lightly in society and it has been for years, but for many of us who still believe in the purity and weight of love, it has a massive impact on our lives. Sometimes one only has a single opportunity to give love a chance and when that chance is betrayed, perhaps the existence of love for them is destroyed too.

This book really puts all of those feelings into words. It’s not a kind book and no one is likeable. However, real humans are not likeable either, we simply learn to love and that love makes unlikeable things acceptable. Eventually when we can no longer accept such, we can choose to move on or inflict our own evil emotions on others. Sometimes moving on may not be possible but freedom always is, one way or another.

This ending is neither happy nor sad, it’s inevitable (like Thanos said...) <<less

CN (4.5)

#24Xiao Jiu

26 Chapters Every 116.7 Day(s) 4652 Readers 74 Reviews 12-29-2020

Completed Drama Historical Romance Smut Yaoi

Rating: 4/5- So sweet and cute. I love playfully dedicated shous and tsundere gongs. ... more>>

CN (4.2)

#25How Many Steps Does It Take To Turn an SM R*pe Novella into a Comedy Skit

17 Chapters Every 108.7 Day(s) 2516 Readers 30 Reviews 01-10-2021

Completed Adult Comedy Drama Yaoi

Rating: 4/5- I laughed really hard reading this. It had a super sweet ending as well. ... more>>

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Hals· Nov 26, 2020 02:39 AM
Just happened across your list, am seeing some familiar novels and am 100% in love with your taste and ratings Looking forward to reading what else youve recced. Thank you!
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