Recommendations BL fantasy/historical/(wu/xian)xia EQUAL CP Yaoi (NOT shounen-ai)

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  1. monozuki

    monozuki Active Member

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    Hi,

    I'm having a hard time finding new material to read using the NU search. Looking for yaoi novels (any type) placed in a fantasy/historical (can be xianxia or wuxia as well) setting. They should fit the following criteria:
    • Must be fantasy/historical. No sci-fi/modern and especially no high school themes. Adult characters only
    • Couple on EQUAL footing, no overbearing/overly dominant gongs, MC and ML respect each other
    • Completely translated (or nearly and often updated), with good quality english translation
    • Strong/Clever/Black belly/Indifferent MC.. basically anything but not weak and deffinitely NOT scarred of ML
    • Engaging plot, fine with war/politics/court drama/some angst. No over the top revenge plots.
    • Must be *yaoi* and not shounen-ai in terms of papapa.. Absolutely no rape or mpreg. If put in terms of MXTX novels (since most people should be familiar with these) I'd like something like MDZS. TGCF is too light and SVSSS is way too rape-y, couldn't get through it.
    • Power Couple, with no shou/gong positions assigned would be perfect (though, the only one I've read thus far to match that would be Golden Stage)
    • Long. The longer the better.

    Examples of novels I liked:
    • MDZS (great characters and plot, aside from the incense burner extra, wished WWX was less of a shou though)
    • TGCF (way too light, great CP)
    • Fox Demon Cultivation Manual (too light, engaging)
    • Golden Stage (too light, great CP)
    • Nan Chan (though ML is borderline too gong-ish)
    • Stuff by Priest: Guardian and Sha Po Lang (not finished them yet, both seem too light. But characters are great, some of my favourites. Engaging plot)
    • Record of the Missing Sect Master (too light, barely enough romance, not a fan of just one arc throughout, still engaging. MC too shou ML too gong tho)

    Novels I don't like:
    • Legendary Master's Wife (read through over 700 chapters waiting for MC to finally grow a backbone against ML. Never happened. ML too gong-ish, overbearing, OP, and humiliates MC)
    • SVSSS (couldn't get through the rape)
    • 2HA (again, rape)
    • Those Years In Quest Of Honour Mine (MC afraid of ML, otherwise could've been nice)
    • The Reader and Protagonist Definitely Have to Be in True Love (weak MC)
    • Tyrant Pampering Wife Diary (mpreg, MC afraid of ML)

    Themes I don't want to see:
    • rape
    • mpreg
    • weak MC
    • Overbearing/abusive ML

    Anything you thing might fit these.. I can bend on sci-fi/modern prohibition if it fits the other conditions. As I said above, I've had problems finding things that would fit, mainly because I'm looking for novels that don't fade to black or skim by smut and often times even entries listed as yaoi seem to lack in this department. On the other hand, I don't want porn books either, MDZS was pretty much perfect in this regard. Hard to find something like it since.

    Any help will be greatly appreciated!
    Many thanks,

    monozuki
     
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    h.r.a Well-Known Member

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  3. rhianirory

    rhianirory Well-Known Member

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    don't have any historical or cultivation stories that fit but the closest I can think of couple-wise is The Earth is Online, Card Room, Meeting a Demonic Cultivator, Even God Cries which are all Infinite Flow/ Supernatural/ Modern/ Survival Game.
     
  4. monozuki

    monozuki Active Member

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    Hey, thanks! Just had a look and it looks interesting, slow burn is totally fine. However it says it's shounen-ai, not yaoi?

    A second reply, cool! Thanks!

    The Earth is Online - the recs say there's no smut in it even though there's the yaoi tag? (argh hate when they do this :C) If not true, it might be interesting!
    Card Room - not too fond of this type of game setting (not the same as transmigration into an RPG-like game, which I like)
    Meeting a Demonic Cultivator, Even God Cries - this one seems to be the closest to, will definitely check it out!

    Thanks (and keep them coming please, haha)
     
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  5. rosyprimrose

    rosyprimrose Well-Known Member

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    Well I have medicine does not have explicit scenes. It is the best that suits your specs so far. The majority of the novels have overbearing gongs.
    I don't know if you'll like Rebirth of the Supreme Celestial Being. It has a bit of dog blood drama, but the gong does pamper the shou and the shou is a little devil.
     
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    the romance is slow burn in Earth is Online and honestly It's been too long, I can't remember if has smut in the extras like MDZS or not. what I liked was the MC and ML are equal partners; the MC is not naive or stupid and the ML doesn't abuse, belittle, or treat the MC like a five year old child.

    it's getting harder to find Chinese yaoi with actual smut since the government's censor committee put in the "nothing below the neck" rule a couple years ago. now all you get is maybe kissing and vague references to trains and tunnels or comments about harmony and unity.
     
  7. monozuki

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    Bah, shame about I Have Medicine, I will put it aside on my smut-less to read pile, coz am intrigued.
    But yeah, it really gets on my nerves how authors bend over backwards to think of new gimmicks constantly and yet the most obvious - getting rid of the cliched, ridden to death tropes (naive/weak/submissive shou, dominant/overbearing/abusive gong, annoying female villains etc..) is somehow not the obvious solution.
    Rebirth of the Supreme Celestial Being - this one is tricky - skimmed through recs and opinions seem divided, but your comment addresses my biggest worries (that is to say, being like Legendary Master's Wife), so will carefully give it a spin as well.

    Earth is Online does seem interesting, it's certainly different and what you're saying makes it even more so. Shame about the smut part though, will go on my smut-less pile as well for now (unles there's someone who might shed some light on this matter)

    Yeah the censorship sucks ass. Though, looking at the amount of BL novels that come from China, comared with Korea or Japan, I'm starting to wonder whether the sheer volume of em that float over to us is not thanks to that very censorship. You know, kinda the same effect as prohibition in USA. Still sucks tho.