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A list of novels I've read and loved. MCs are generally bamf, independent, self-sufficient, morally grey.

Genres include (quick) transmigration/rebirth, survival game, apocalypse, horror/supernatural, etc.

Time periods can be everything from historical to interstellar.

Ships have a balanced dynamic, usually a power couple who respect each other's strength and skills. Some MLs are on the edge of what I can tolerate, but tolerable because good plot/likeable MC.

Some novels have no romance.

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cywscross

Created: Jun 12th, 2022, Updated: Jan 6th, 2025

Created Jun 12th, 2022

Updated Jan 6th, 2025

CN (4)

#51The Zombie Emperor’s Domesticated Cat

107 Chapters Every 82.5 Day(s) 4654 Readers 34 Reviews 04-30-2022

Completed Action Adventure Mature Romance Supernatural Yaoi

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

CN (4.2)

#52Cannon Fodder Is King [Quick Transmigration]

67 Chapters Every 4.9 Day(s) 3269 Readers 25 Reviews 07-27-2025

Adult Adventure Fantasy Historical Mature Romance Sci-fi Shounen Ai Supernatural

7.5/10, On Hold @ch31

CN (4.6)

#53The Days I Clear Escape Games Pretending to be an NPC

0 Chapters Every 1308 Day(s) 4209 Readers 40 Reviews 01-01-2022

Completed Adventure Horror Mystery Psychological Romance Supernatural Yaoi

9.5/10, Finished... more>>

CN (4.3)

#54The Entertainment Circle is Mine

299 Chapters Every 5.3 Day(s) 4357 Readers 38 Reviews 07-24-2025

Completed Comedy Drama Psychological Romance School Life

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

CN (4.5)

#55Seize the Throne

50 Chapters Every 56.4 Day(s) 4373 Readers 54 Reviews 05-01-2023

Completed Drama Psychological Romance Sci-fi Yaoi

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

CN (3.8)

#56Superstar, No Big Deal?!

143 Chapters Every 54.7 Day(s) 2620 Readers 22 Reviews 06-12-2023

Completed Harem Romance Yaoi

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

CN (4.4)

#57Master Grim Reaper Makes His Debut in Center Position

8 Chapters Every 237.6 Day(s) 5429 Readers 33 Reviews 05-13-2024

Comedy Horror Mature Romance Slice of Life Supernatural Yaoi

8.5/10, On Hold @ch109

CN (4.3)

#58High Dimensional Invasion

253 Chapters Every 15.6 Day(s) 2674 Readers 7 Reviews 02-22-2025

Completed 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 very rare, very strong monster that can give its host a lot of perks for a while 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)

#59Ex-Girlfriend Blackens Every Day

81 Chapters Every 111.8 Day(s) 1796 Readers 38 Reviews 01-22-2023

Adult Fantasy Mature Romance Sci-fi Tragedy

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

CN (3.7)

#60The Villain’s Face Slapping Counterattack

37 Chapters Every 59 Day(s) 6755 Readers 68 Reviews 03-05-2023

Completed Action Adventure Comedy Drama Romance Supernatural Yaoi

6.5/10, On Hold @ch19... more>>

CN (4.2)

#61My Iyashikei Game

999 Chapters Every 23.3 Day(s) 2514 Readers 20 Reviews 08-20-2024

Completed 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

CN (3.8)

#62After Retiring from Marriage, I became the Favorite of a Powerful Minister

413 Chapters Every 8.1 Day(s) 2708 Readers 22 Reviews 05-09-2025

Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Josei Mystery Romance Slice of Life Supernatural

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

CN (3.8)

#63After the Breakup, I Went Viral in the Entertainment Circle

18 Chapters Every 53.5 Day(s) 462 Readers 6 Reviews 11-19-2023

Drama Fantasy Romance Supernatural

8.5/10, On Hold @ch15

CN (4.1)

#64My Evil Imperial Wife is Too Arrogant

970 Chapters Every 45.7 Day(s) 2626 Readers 36 Reviews 09-25-2023

Completed Action Comedy Fantasy Historical Josei Martial Arts Romance Shoujo Xianxia

8.5/10, On Hold @ch848... more>>

CN (3.8)

#65Group Pet Eldest Lady, She Just Wants To Be A Salted Fish

231 Chapters Every 37.4 Day(s) 1756 Readers 17 Reviews 03-16-2024

Completed Comedy Slice of Life

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

CN (3.5)

#66Wen Le of Rebirth in the End Times

102 Chapters Every 0.5 Day(s) 1368 Readers 19 Reviews 05-22-2023

Completed Action Adventure Fantasy Romance Supernatural Yaoi

8/10, Finished... more>>

CN (4.5)

311 Chapters Every 40.2 Day(s) 4654 Readers 70 Reviews 12-20-2023

Completed Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance Slice of Life

9.5/10, Finished... more>>

CN (4.2)

431 Chapters Every 13.7 Day(s) 1950 Readers 12 Reviews 05-07-2025

Adventure Drama Fantasy Horror Mystery Psychological Supernatural Xuanhuan

8/10, On Hold @ch43... more>>

CN (4.5)

#69Fortune Teller Master

546 Chapters Every 60.5 Day(s) 4325 Readers 57 Reviews 02-28-2023

Completed Comedy Mystery Psychological School Life Slice of Life Supernatural Xuanhuan

8/10, On Hold @ch129... more>>

CN (4.5)

#70The Villainess Won’t Let the Main Leads Break Up!

87 Chapters Every 52.5 Day(s) 6432 Readers 76 Reviews 08-19-2023

Completed Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Mystery Romance Xuanhuan

6.5/10, On Hold @ch5... more>>

CN (3.8)

#71[Entertainment Circle] First Love Behavior Art

122 Chapters Every 37.2 Day(s) 2275 Readers 15 Reviews 02-03-2024

Completed Comedy Drama Romance Slice of Life Yaoi

CN (3.9)

#72Show Off Once in Every World

787 Chapters Every 7.3 Day(s) 2980 Readers 31 Reviews 05-15-2025

Completed Drama Fantasy Romance

8/10, On Hold @ch160... more>>

CN (3.6)

#73Restarting the Escape Game as Max Level

263 Chapters Every 3.3 Day(s) 558 Readers 2 Reviews 07-30-2025

Comedy Horror Romance

8.5/10, On Hold @ch50... more>>

CN (4.6)

#74I Was Admitted To The Villain School

366 Chapters Every 53.1 Day(s) 5627 Readers 75 Reviews 06-19-2023

Completed Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Mystery Psychological School Life Sci-fi Supernatural

9.5/10, Finished... more>>

MR. FRIDGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SOBBINGGGGGGG

ANYWAY. This was a great read, such a unique plot tbh, lots of worldbuilding, with a solidly BAMF MC who never plays things by the book. This novel has such a weird way of entering a survival game setting lmao, MC starts off freshly dead from her role as a villainess in an entertainment circle novel (plot twist on this later on), except it doesn't seem like she's done anything villainous yet before she was hit by lightning, and now she's entering this school in the afterlife where there are four departments and you go wherever your novel-world took place, so like Western Fantasy, Modern Era, Xianxia, or Ancient Era. And to resurrect, it seems like you need to graduate, and to graduate, you have to go to class and take exams, the latter of which are the survival games.

It's a really good one, with interesting instances, and an overarching mystery plotline of why this system is in place and who the MC (and other characters) really is. I like that this novel also develops a lot of friendships along the way. The three/four(/five) "ML candidates" are all quirkier than the last, literally none of them are anything approaching the standard cold overbearing president type, and their personalities are all fleshed out really well. Also, out of all the ML candidates, only the ML and the second ML actually have feelings for her. Two of the others are more or less subtly gay for each other lmao, and the last one only has his sword in his heart XD

To be honest, I actually didn't like the ML much at the beginning. Like I was okay with him when he was first intro'd, and then I didn't like him, and then I REALLY didn't like him after his character collapse (deliberate on the author's part), but eventually he grew on me more and more, and by the end, I found the canon ship pretty acceptable.

It's just-

MR. FRIDGE TTTTT____TTTTT

We all know that the second ML position is always destined for unrequited love, but I've never quite been so heartbroken for any of them as I was for Mr. Fridge. In another novel, esp a QT genre, he could've been the ML. I loved him lots. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be. The tragedy of their relationship is that MC came and saved him at the lowest point in his life so she's always going to be this amazing important person to him, but he was just a passerby in hers, no different than all the other NPC friends she had to make to help her pass each of her exams. He just deserves more TT__TT

But it would be hard to write a fixit tbh, b/c MC's already so entangled with ML, you'd have to like get rid of that whole plotline, or make ML remain oblivious and naive so that he doesn't realize his feelings until it's too late, and the MC moves on after accepting that he's not rly into her. There's always poly, but to keep it in-character, ML isn't the type to share, and again, MC doesn't see Mr. Fridge that way, cuz like even to the very end, she doesn't even remember to try and look for him, and his ending is just so open-ended and silent T_T

But anyway, overall, it was a very good, very unique read, def recommend a try. The end was a bit abrupt, could've done with some extras, but it did tie everything up neatly and give a happy ending. <<less