100 Most Popular BLs on Novel Updates
100 Most Popular BLs on Novel Updates
These novels are ranked according to the amount of readers they have. If you're suprised by the ranking, then trust me, I'm also suprised to begin with lmao. I thought some novels, such as 2ha and Silent Reading (because I hear about them EVERYWHERE), would rank a bit higher but the number of readers said otherwise.
Not sure about Silent Reading, but in 2ha's case I believe it could be because, compared to other higher-ranked novels (like The Legendary Master's Wife, Quickly Wear the Face of the Devil etc etc), it's pretty new and once its popularity sky-rocketed, it got published with eng translations and the fan translation was removed, so about 40% of readers of this novel probably bought the novel instead of reading it on NU — which is why they didn't add it to their reading list and those readers weren't counted.
Not sure about Silent Reading, but in 2ha's case I believe it could be because, compared to other higher-ranked novels (like The Legendary Master's Wife, Quickly Wear the Face of the Devil etc etc), it's pretty new and once its popularity sky-rocketed, it got published with eng translations and the fan translation was removed, so about 40% of readers of this novel probably bought the novel instead of reading it on NU — which is why they didn't add it to their reading list and those readers weren't counted.
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Created: Mar 12th, 2023, Updated: Mar 12th, 2023
Created Mar 12th, 2023
Updated Mar 12th, 2023
#26Golden Stage
0 Chapters Every 2434 Day(s) 14131 Readers 198 Reviews 12-26-2018
101 Chapters Every 129.5 Day(s) 13957 Readers 162 Reviews 08-17-2020
244 Chapters Every 82.6 Day(s) 12704 Readers 234 Reviews 01-02-2021
115 Chapters Every 30 Day(s) 13475 Readers 107 Reviews 01-23-2022
#30Sha Po Lang
72 Chapters Every 95.3 Day(s) 13939 Readers 120 Reviews 06-30-2022
0 Chapters Every 1576 Day(s) 12958 Readers 118 Reviews N/A
67 Chapters Every 151.4 Day(s) 13514 Readers 370 Reviews 07-02-2019
483 Chapters Every 38 Day(s) 11693 Readers 72 Reviews 09-16-2024
261 Chapters Every 140 Day(s) 13007 Readers 189 Reviews 01-12-2020
152 Chapters Every 115.5 Day(s) 12001 Readers 85 Reviews 05-28-2021
8 Chapters Every 88.1 Day(s) 15412 Readers 298 Reviews 02-24-2025
69 Chapters Every 168 Day(s) 11424 Readers 187 Reviews 02-22-2021
168 Chapters Every 93.3 Day(s) 13060 Readers 177 Reviews 03-19-2023
156 Chapters Every 104 Day(s) 16111 Readers 325 Reviews 07-18-2021
90 Chapters Every 6.5 Day(s) 16928 Readers 352 Reviews 05-23-2025
123 Chapters Every 117.3 Day(s) 12937 Readers 96 Reviews 04-10-2025
140 Chapters Every 67.4 Day(s) 16298 Readers 294 Reviews 09-23-2023
214 Chapters Every 134.9 Day(s) 10883 Readers 130 Reviews 03-01-2020
Comments (17)
A random question for those who came across this list: how many novels out of this list have you read (or are reading) so far?
Curious since I'm both highkey suprised and lowkey disappointed after realising that I haven't read that many of them, I really thought it'll be more but... I've read just 11
@The_yiling_patriach Damn ＼(^o^)／
I could be around your number mate.
41/100 Read or currently reading
11/100 On pause or waiting to come back to it
23/100 Dropped
The rest is either in wait list or just not interested. Suffice to say, I have contact with most of them. But there are a lot of my favorites not included in here lol.
@Thousand Miles Icefield omg I really feel you here.
I do have to say it is ashame how these are determined by number of readers. So many other good novels, IMO, get missed. I wonder if someone removes from reading list after reading if that decreases the number of readers count. I only ask because I noticed some of the ones I read and really enjoyed which I added to my list similar to this one, but removed from reading list, are rated higher than some of the ones I have read, and still enjoyed, that have higher number of readers, but I still also removed from my reading list. No clue if I am making any sense here. LOL
@Thousand Miles Icefield
Don't get me wrong, I do still like your list. It was one way I would not have considered searching for more to read. You definitely gave me more to consider.
Some of the ones I thought would be on your list just barely missed the mark.
@Endofighter Ah wait, I didn't take it wrong, I'm sorry if my reply came across like that. I'm not the best at expressing myself with words due to my dyslexia and English not being my first language. I completely understood that you was merely talking about how it's a pity that some great novels, despite having many readers, didn't get counted because they weren't added in people's reading list, and I 100% agree with this. I also wish NU had a feature to accurately tell what novels are most popular, the 'in my defence' part was just me saying that there isn't such a feature yet so I was a bit helpless while making this list. That's all. Hope you have a great day btw ₍⑅ᐢ..ᐢ₎ ♡