Question what is the first BL novel you've ever read?

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  1. efo

    efo Well-Known Member

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    so the very first BL novel I've read was The Founder of Diabolism and ohhh god I was extremely satisfied AND it was actually the first novel I've ever read. I was watching it's anime and when I take a look at comments I learned that it was actually a novel. I'm so glad that I was curious and search for it... so what is the first BL novel you've ever read?
     
  2. Owl1412

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    Quickly Wear the Face of the Devil. World-hopping is a genre that’s difficult to make meaningful imo, but this novel is at least good among its own genre. But Mo Dao Zu Shi is good overall regardless of genre
     
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    Thinking of deer fei fei
    I actually started reading this one without knowing this is BL (as at that time I didn’t know the meaning of shounen ai:blobtongue:). But I really liked the story. So, since then I stopped excluding the BL tags.
    If you count side stories, then the side couple in good morning miss undercover will be my first. But I didn’t feel anything different with these as the shou in them was pretty easy to imagine as female(might be my thinking).
     
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  4. Kansuou

    Kansuou Song of Lone Indifference.

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    Mine would be The legendary master's wife, I think
     
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    I Just Want to Be in a Relationship. I read a lot of BL comics so I decided to try reading a BL novel too. The novel turned out to be really sweet and was better than my expectations ♡ After that I was pretty much hooked me into reading BL novels one after the other.
     
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    Heaven Official's Blessing. I was both depressed and happy after reading this novel. Cried buckets.
     
  7. MisterBubbles

    MisterBubbles [The Omnipotent No. 2 at Everything]

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    Rebirth of a Movie Star

    A nice modern gem with a fairly mature protagonist and ML, a rare find lol but it was enough for me to get into the genre for some light reading.
     
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  8. efo

    efo Well-Known Member

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    I think the second novel I've read was this one ( but I'm not so sure )
     
  9. tsukimii

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    The first one I finished was Scum Villain's Self-Saving System. It was a shorter and decent read, and I definitely had a fair share of laugh out loud moments while reading the novel.
     
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  10. Mikhail-san

    Mikhail-san 『 Mika 』『 Mikshroom 』『 Your cute daughtah 』

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    I think mine was 'Very Happy', not sure hahahaha
     
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  11. albeldayuia

    albeldayuia Can't-Re Member

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    I've read a lot of slash fanfictions before, but in terms of original work it would be The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
    Wasn't even aware that it was BL :ROFLMAO: I randomly clicked on a link to the donghua when it was airing, so got impatient and read the novel instead
    If it wasn't for the fact that I never read the summary/reviews, it wouldn't be a kind of novel I'd consciously pick up. The teacher-student romance thing seemed debatable, on one side it felt disturbing and unethical but it was an enjoyable read, I was reluctant to drop it. In the end it's my main fandom at the moment and even have wrote a few fics for it, though I still don't really ship the main pairing
     
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    Lord of the Rings. Big BL energy.
     
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  13. Vermouth

    Vermouth Older but none the wiser.

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    Feng Yu Jiu Tian on Sooky’s site.

    This was nearly ten years ago when Novel Updates wasn’t around.

    :sweating_profusely:
     
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  14. MidstNost

    MidstNost 【 Reigen's Saltshaker 】【 Lingtian Raider 】

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    fox23 Digging Pits

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    Raven Evernight But they never just accepted me for the way I was…

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    “It’s not easy being your big brothers love rival” I remember I loved it but I never finished it
     
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    The Earth is Online - It turned out to be one of the best novels I've ever read, its a survival game one, and I swear even people who don't like BL novels will love this!
     
  18. albeldayuia

    albeldayuia Can't-Re Member

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    Sounds good, thanks for the rec :cookie:
     
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    Waiting For You Online
     
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    thatweebudontknow Apparently I exist

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    Heaven's official blessing
     
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