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
133 Chapters Every 143.9 Day(s) 10078 Readers 120 Reviews 08-09-2019
206 Chapters Every 131.1 Day(s) 10661 Readers 172 Reviews 02-20-2020
95 Chapters Every 127.2 Day(s) 10965 Readers 133 Reviews 04-26-2020
113 Chapters Every 99.2 Day(s) 9576 Readers 58 Reviews 01-02-2022
164 Chapters Every 138.3 Day(s) 9483 Readers 95 Reviews 12-31-2019
385 Chapters Every 1.5 Day(s) 10103 Readers 86 Reviews 06-26-2025
#84Guardian
84 Chapters Every 160.9 Day(s) 10603 Readers 84 Reviews 11-08-2019
297 Chapters Every 74.7 Day(s) 10176 Readers 146 Reviews 07-12-2022
784 Chapters Every 86.6 Day(s) 9424 Readers 89 Reviews 10-23-2023
254 Chapters Every 0.5 Day(s) 13846 Readers 130 Reviews 12-20-2024
109 Chapters Every 121.1 Day(s) 10300 Readers 129 Reviews 08-24-2020
357 Chapters Every 5.1 Day(s) 9761 Readers 67 Reviews 06-23-2025
145 Chapters Every 16 Day(s) 9237 Readers 62 Reviews 12-16-2024
79 Chapters Every 110.3 Day(s) 10099 Readers 146 Reviews 01-22-2021
82 Chapters Every 119.9 Day(s) 11179 Readers 110 Reviews 09-16-2020
225 Chapters Every 26.4 Day(s) 10902 Readers 101 Reviews 08-23-2024
143 Chapters Every 1.5 Day(s) 9782 Readers 157 Reviews 10-29-2020
#97I Can Do It
145 Chapters Every 96.5 Day(s) 11632 Readers 210 Reviews 05-02-2024
341 Chapters Every 111.5 Day(s) 10173 Readers 151 Reviews 06-09-2025
0 Chapters Every 2344 Day(s) 9536 Readers 154 Reviews 01-25-2019
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₎ ♡