Recommendations Romance novels that feels natural

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  1. iWH1te

    iWH1te Sloth Immortal under the Heavens

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    Thank you so much for your dedication and thorough recommendations. I can see that you've put an enormous deal of work in this. Thanks again, people like you keeps the site going. :D
    I'll give them a try, I'm already reading 'A Game To Make Him Fall' so it'll take a while before I pick up another novel, you were right, it's amazing. Still, not a huge huge fan, but it's good. A warming reading, just what I needed after reading for 2 years about rich scions geting beheaded because they dared to block MC's path to glory! How dare they?! Impudents! Lmao
     
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    Potatoes Well-Known Member

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    You can try Last Game
     
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    RozenKristal NUF gender bender Emperor -> Queen

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    I found a rather great ancient setting romance, like really really good. Will see if I have time to translate it after my current one. Not comedy, but it is just so damn good.
     
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    ToastedRossi Well-Known Member

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    I think that Tong Hua's novels tend be pretty good in terms of romance. Both the male and female leads get opportunities to do cool things, and they're allowed to engage in real conflict with one another. It makes for the kind of dynamic relationship that feels very different from what you see in a lot of other Romance novels.

    These books are: Bu Bu Jing Xin, Ballad of the Desert, and Song in the Clouds.

    I'm interested in untranslated Chinese Romance novels. Can you recommend any? I'm allergic to the jackass stalking bullies that tend to be the male love interests in these stories so it hasn't been easy finding good ones.
     
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    RozenKristal NUF gender bender Emperor -> Queen

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    Let me keep looking up my list. I tend to save them on facebook posts so I have to drag the bar down to search.
    Here is one that I noticed got translated to 130 or so currently on novelupdate, I finished it years ago and I have to say I really like the heroine.
    Give it a try, I will try to update the list for you:
    https://www.novelupdates.com/series/first-marriage-then-love/?pg=14 : 先婚厚爱

    This one is a bit of romance, pretty cute and it is slow, but mostly comedy. The trio in this series is fking amazing. You don't see this kind of xianxia anywhere else. Read it read it. You gonna laugh your ass off:
    www.69shu.org/book/93810/ : 师父又掉线了 (My master has disconnected again)

    This one is pretty good too:
    男主他功德无量 : http://www.ggdown.com/65/65070/index.html

    This one is multiverse transmigration, though the MC doesn't go in depth with the relationships but I think it is ok as a quick read, you be the judge: http://www.ggdown.com/44/44860/index.html




     
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    Walter vi Britannia Well-Known Member

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    You're...not even gonna mention the name?
     
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    Walter vi Britannia Well-Known Member

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    Lol. That's good. And it's not dedication or anything. Maybe you don't know but talkative people don't like to shut up. Ending it just there took all my willpower to do. If I had gone free I'd have written a 3 page essay on every novel I've ever read.
     
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    Wick Black van owner

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    I heard author abandoned this novel for searching a job ??? Is that true ?

    Game Market 1983
     
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    Bright_Lucky_Star [Previously Known as OrdinaryUser] The Blessed One

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    RozenKristal NUF gender bender Emperor -> Queen

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    I dont have the link to raw now, can't recall. Will try to post it up translated (my way of reading this novel is a bit special) chap 1 later.
     
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    Wu Jizun Well-Known Member

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    @ToastedRossi I gotta steal your reading list some day. Almost everything you read is what I read/would read. If my memory does me justice, you read 月关 stuff, as well.
     
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    Walter vi Britannia Well-Known Member

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    Oh, I just noticed. You've got gender bender emperor under your name. I'm quite a fan of gender bender myself. (Only when it's male to female and not yuri though.)

    Don't know why I am saying this. Honestly, I completely forgot what this thread was about and what I'm doing here. Not gonna bother going to the previous page to find out either.
     
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    I don't like the world, I only like you

    It's a romance told in episodic chapters. But I find the pacing well done. It's slice of life and fluff.
    I think this is as natural as you can get, since it's based off the author's real relationship with her boyfriend.
    I quite enjoyed this, but I was sad that it was short. Maybe you can give this a read :cookie:
     
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    Yeah, Yue Guan is pretty awesome; albeit a very different writer from Tong Hua. He's seemingly one of the few out there who can write good romances even in harem novels.

    Lately, I've been noticing just how good 非玩家角色's prose is. He's probably still in school, but he's been able to evoke a lot of emotion with relatively new words. He only has one notable book to his credit (and a fanfic that's pretty decent), but he's going to be good when his writing style fully matures.
     
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    Wu Jizun Well-Known Member

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    Can't speak for "good" romance or not, since it's subjective.
    I'm a sucker for 古风 style writing. It has a charm I can't resist. I haven't read 非玩家角色's stuff.
     
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    Wujigege *Christian*SIMP*Comedian

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    Summon @readerz

    I am such that any story that plagiarizes a BL would quality eg
    Ten Miles of Peach Blossom/Eternal Love
    You can also try The Eternal Love 1 and 2


    For Japanese
    The Villainess Is Being Doted on by the Crown Prince of the Neighboring Country
     
  17. readerz

    readerz Madam Jin

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    Hmmm....

    None. I don't actually read romance novels, sorry. How about a shoujo manga instead?

    Both are completely scanlated.

    1.) Kanata Kara is good. The romance feels slow but natural https://mangarock.com/manga/mrs-serie-126621

    What I like about it is that although the male lead is the typical strong, heroic type, he never abuses the heroine. He's very gentle. (y)

    2.) Seiyuu Ka-! https://mangadex.org/title/3403/seiyuu-ka - more comedic but fun romance