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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 (3.7)

#76Doomsday is Online

225 Chapters Every 15.5 Day(s) 1118 Readers 7 Reviews 05-09-2025

Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Romance Sci-fi Supernatural

8/10, On Hold @ch111... more>>

CN (4.1)

#77After Rebirth I Became a Rich Man’s Wife

103 Chapters Every 9.5 Day(s) 3449 Readers 27 Reviews 07-24-2024

Completed Drama Fantasy Mature Romance Slice of Life Yaoi

8/10, On Hold @ch34

CN (3.7)

#78Good Man Training System

49 Chapters Every 110.9 Day(s) 684 Readers 5 Reviews 03-16-2021

Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance Shoujo Slice of Life

8/10, On Hold @ch24... more>>

CN (4.6)

#79I Upended Yet Another Campus Urban Legend

233 Chapters Every 18 Day(s) 4331 Readers 36 Reviews 12-25-2024

Completed Horror Mystery Romance School Life Supernatural Yaoi

8.5/10, On Hold @ch76... more>>

CN (4)

#80Crematorium For Everyone After the False Young Master Awakens

130 Chapters Every 0.9 Day(s) 4019 Readers 50 Reviews 08-24-2024

Completed Drama Fantasy Romance Shounen Ai Yaoi

8/10, Finished... more>>

CN (4.6)

#81Little Madman’s Guide to Acting Good

207 Chapters Every 40.4 Day(s) 6597 Readers 96 Reviews 01-13-2024

Completed Drama Mature Psychological Romance Yaoi

10/10, Finished... more>>

SO GOOD. This is a rebirth vengeance novel, and the plot is done so well. MC is very capable but in a behind-the-scenes way that people around him gradually notice over time. One of my favourite things is how he's not suddenly okay again after his rebirth. In his original timeline, he'd lost his whole family and his best friend and spent ten years getting revenge for his family, and that kind of trauma/mental fatigue is actually shown. He used to be a good-for-nothing who always argued with his family, and he didn't really grow up until after tragedy hit. The author doesn't make him do a 180 just because of that though, there was still friction at first between him and his family, but you can also see how they gradually get closer and start trusting each other. I especially like how he and his brother's relationship slowly mends. Also MC has nightmares and honestly doesn't eat enough, bad habits and lack of care from his previous life, combined with suppressed anxiety and depression, and his family notices that and tries to help in their own ways even if they don't know everything. It gets worse before it gets better and his mental health is actually shown and dealt with.

Again, the plot is done really well, MC gets an edge over his enemies because he has future knowledge, but there's still pieces of the puzzle he didn't figure out in the future, and the mystery of it is revealed step by step with good suspense.

Also ML and their dynamic is pretty good. ML was MC's closest friend in the previous timeline before he died, and he was the one who helped MC when he was at one of his lowest points, so MC tries to behave in front of him, but also ML saw through him a long time ago and just thinks it's cute lol. The relationship build is gradual and lowkey and feels natural.

If I were to pick one thing I want to change, or at least for the author to include, it would be to have the MC's family remember the other timeline. Even if it's just a few chapters in the extras, I would've loved to read that, but unfortunately it doesn't look like that'll happen. <<less

CN (4.6)

#82Genius Mechanic

306 Chapters Every 3.6 Day(s) 2753 Readers 25 Reviews 07-31-2025

Action Comedy Mecha Romance Sci-fi Shounen Ai

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

CN (4)

#83After Winning The Esports Championship, I’m going To Pilot A Mecha

165 Chapters Every 24.3 Day(s) 1076 Readers 9 Reviews 08-09-2024

Completed Action Drama Fantasy Mecha Sci-fi Shounen Ai

8/10, On Hold @ch53... more>>

CN (4)

#84Sharpening The Knife Doesn’t Delay The Cutting of Vegetables With The Bow [eSports]

112 Chapters Every 28.9 Day(s) 852 Readers 4 Reviews 01-29-2025

Action Romance Sci-fi Shounen Ai

8/10, On Hold @ch57... more>>

CN (4.4)

#85Please Follow the Rules of the Game

238 Chapters Every 4 Day(s) 3620 Readers 12 Reviews 08-02-2025

Action Adventure Horror Romance Supernatural Yaoi

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

CN (4.5)

#86Gold Medal Coach

242 Chapters Every 37 Day(s) 4201 Readers 34 Reviews 02-09-2024

Completed Action Comedy Mature Romance Sports Yaoi

8.5/10, On Hold @ch199... more>>

CN (4.6)

#87Thriller Trainee

262 Chapters Every 17.3 Day(s) 11820 Readers 130 Reviews 12-30-2024

Completed Action Fantasy Horror Romance Supernatural Yaoi

8/10, On Hold @ch61... more>>

CN (3.9)

#88The Gangster Took the Scumbag Script

308 Chapters Every 0.7 Day(s) 736 Readers 5 Reviews 12-24-2024

Completed Fantasy Romance

9/10, Finished (www.mtlnovel.com/the-gangster-took-the-s*umbag-script)... more>>

CN (4.4)

#89Don’t Covet the Beautiful System!!

157 Chapters Every 47.5 Day(s) 4210 Readers 32 Reviews 08-30-2023

Completed Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance School Life Shounen Ai

8.5/10, On Hold @ch84... more>>

CN (4.5)

#90She is the Escape Boss

104 Chapters Every 52.9 Day(s) 2198 Readers 45 Reviews 08-15-2023

Completed Drama Horror Slice of Life Supernatural

9.5/10, Finished... more>>

Fem!MC QT

I really liked this one! The MC is a last boss from a survival game world so she's super OP but also doesn't know much about being human at first so she resolves her QT missions with the mindset of "whoever has the stronger fist wins" XD I really enjoy QTs where the MCs are also OP but they take the longer route of coming up with clever strategies to face-slap and achieve their goal, but this kind of MC is pretty nice too, it feels like she's just cutting all those Gordian Knots lol. Another aspect that I like is how she slowly learns what it's like to be more human over time, her missions in each world lets her experience a human's life, she gets along better with other people over time, and you can see how she develops as a person and shows more emotion after each world. Also, NO ROMANCE. It's so refreshing.

One of my favourite lines, I have to mention it here because I have never seen any MC point out the fallacy of this disgustingly popular trope so straightforwardly that it's less a slap and more a one punch KO lmao. It's from the arc where MC is the child character, and the background is where scum!ML r*ped the kid's mom years back which is how she got pregnant, and then ML finds out after a few years and he and the mom would have a bunch of intersections and ab*se, etc etc, you know that whole "romantic" dogblood drama trope. In this novel, here's the scene where child!MC meets the s*um ML's mom:

[She glanced at Lin Xiaotang, frowned, and said coldly, "Is this that b*tch's child?"

Since knowing that Leng Xiaohan had an illegitimate daughter, Leng's mother's mood had never been worse. In her opinion, this was clearly a scheming girl with ulterior motives who wants to use the child to force herself into the position as her daughter-in-law!

...

Looking at the little girl in front of her, Mother Leng had a look of disgust on her face.

But at this moment, the little girl who had been silent for a while suddenly raised her head.

"I'm not the child of a b*tch," the little girl said lightly. "I'm the child of a rapist."]

LIKE DAMN GIRL SET A BIGGER FIRE WHY DON'T YOU LMAOOOO

Anyway, it's a pretty short novel, just 103 chapters, but the QT worlds the author chose never repeats, and it's a decent selection in variety across the board, all my fav ones are included. Definitely recommend. Translation is complete. <<less

CN (4)

#91Start by Spending One Billion [Entertainment Industry]

205 Chapters Every 0.7 Day(s) 1058 Readers 13 Reviews 06-03-2025

Completed Fantasy Slice of Life

8.5/10, Finished (except extras)... more>>

CN (3.6)

#92Travelling Through the Interstellar World, Starting With the Real and Fake Daughter

243 Chapters Every 13 Day(s) 436 Readers 3 Reviews 02-19-2025

Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Mystery Romance School Life Sci-fi Supernatural

CN (3.2)

#93Cannon Fodder in the Interstellar

387 Chapters Every 2.3 Day(s) 771 Readers 3 Reviews 08-02-2025

Action Adventure Fantasy Martial Arts Mecha Romance School Life Sci-fi Slice of Life Supernatural

CN (4.6)

#94It’s My Turn to Take the Stage to Fly

299 Chapters Every 20.9 Day(s) 4913 Readers 34 Reviews 10-28-2024

Completed Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Romance Sci-fi Sports Yaoi

9/10, Finished... more>>

CN (4.5)

#95Apocalypse Star House Hoarding

335 Chapters Every 11.5 Day(s) 1801 Readers 19 Reviews 04-20-2025

Action Adventure Fantasy Martial Arts Mature Supernatural

9.5/10, Finished... more>>

Similar to Apocalypse Lord, crossed with the unlimited flow genre. Fem!MC travels to apoc worlds to complete missions, all while her own world is struck by an apocalypse. I really like how many different apoc scenarios the author has come up with, and it's also really interesting to see how the MC prepares for the apoc in her own world while protecting her family. Usually, in these kinds of novels, you have most of the plot focused on the survival game worlds, while the time spent in the original world is sort of filler, but here I actually really like both sides, and the overarching plot implies that it's all connected so I'm looking forward to how that pans out.

There is an ML but the romantic plotline is very background, I'm 180 chapters in and there's no romantic feelings in sight, although the MC and ML have grown closer after the last apoc world (and also finally confirmed for us who the ML is lmao).

Translations are very good, and translator is very fast with updates.

Finished, except for extras which are ongoing. This was such a great read, the plot was well done, the romance was background but naturally developed, and I love the character interactions. MC is very capable and decisive, I love her. Fingers crossed extras will bring her found fam back together.

Regarding the extras, it jumps right into an AU with some of the same characters but totally different plot, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the main storyline. I skimmed up to 337 (which is all there is atm) and all of it is like that so it doesn't look like it's worth reading. Or it might be if you like that AU but I got bored pretty quick, and I don't like how the ML is suddenly characterized (went full-on generic overbearing president type). I was hoping to see MC reunite with the friends she made on her journey, or even what happened to MC's other relatives, or even some development in MC and ML's romance. Unfortunately that doesn't seem like it's going to happen so you can just stop at 326 if you don't care about getting into an AU. <<less