Recommendations Female Main Character

Discussion in 'I'm Looking For...' started by Aki Aki, May 12, 2021.

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Do Chinese FMC's brains turn to mush around the MLs?

  1. Yes, their man is god!

    29.3%
  2. No, They don't need their man's help! They do 1% of the work themselves

    34.1%
  3. Their men depend on them! (????)

    7.3%
  4. FMC meh~

    12.2%
  5. I like eating fried chicken

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  1. Aki Aki

    Aki Aki Aki Aki Aki Aki Aki ⚓️

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    I am looking for a novel with a female main character that does not have romance because Chinese FMCs tend to turn into potatoes who only see how powerful their man is when they are around their love interests.

    • No Romance or ML must disappear for major part like normal Xianxia harem members
    • Cultivation or a system for power scaling
    • I don't want to kill all my brain cells MTLing, I would like to keep my English safe thank you.
    • Preferably long but if it's good, that doesn't matter.
     
  2. shahijohn

    shahijohn Well-Known Member

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    Doomsday Wonderland

    It's CN but she kills her boyfriend in the beginning of the novel (he was a villain).
     
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    God slayer Retired God Slayer

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    Azarinth Healer from Royal road is great
     
  4. Ddraig

    Ddraig Frostfire Dragon|Retired lurker|FFF|Loved by RNG

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    Forge of Destiny (rrl | sv) + Threads of Destiny (sv)

    The rrl version is the "cleaned" version and has both forge and threads under "forge of destiny". It is currently at around ~1200th forum page of ToD. The latest chapter is on page 2675.
     
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  5. shahijohn

    shahijohn Well-Known Member

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    Most CN FL novels like CEO or hidden marriage etc type novels.
    And all those thing have lot of readers too.
    Most stories be like her step sister cheat with fiancé. Or tried to drug and make her sleep with someone else but end up sleeping with MC and then going on .....
    Hhh I saw that thing a lot lol.
    Same thing again and again but still have lot of readers
     
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    God slayer Retired God Slayer

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    I advise you to go to royal road if you want some fmc characters without romance
     
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  7. Aki Aki

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    This looks really great thank you! No romance too! And very long bonus points for that!

    If this is about artefact crafting too, that's bonus points +100! I love crafting novels too but didn't want to ask for too much. Thanks a lot!

    Yeah tired of those. The really good romance novels are the shorter ones that are well written. I actually like romance novels but the badly written ones are just too terrible.
     
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  8. Ddraig

    Ddraig Frostfire Dragon|Retired lurker|FFF|Loved by RNG

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    It is not, she goes down on a music-related path.
     
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    That's fine, I guess that would have been too much to ask for. Music sounds pretty interesting too. I've never read a novel where the protagonist uses music. It's always one of those random Jade beauties.
     
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    The Job of an Imperial Concubine
    The FMC stays level-headed throughout the novel and doesn't fall for the Emperor. Highly recommended!

    Rebirth of the Evil Mother-in-Law
    However, there's a romance subplot near the end.
     
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    KizunaAi Cookie Lover ~ I love fuwa fuwa dolls ~

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    Nein, they don't turn to potatoes, their brain is melted till it's not functioning anymore! :blobdead:
    That is an insult to a potato! :blobspearpeek:
     
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    A Dragon Idol’s Reincarnation Tale. System.
    Azarinth Healer. System.
    Forge of Destiny. Cultivation.
    Lament of the Fallen. Cultivation-like.
    Magic-Smithing. (Crafter Mc) System.
    Power Overwhelming. Cultivation-like.
    Salvos. System.
    Song of the Void. Cultivation-like/sci-fi
    The Power of Ten. System.
    This Quest is Bullshit. System.

    All from RoyalRoad.
     
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    Crossing to the Future, it’s Not Easy to Be a Man: in which MC pretends to be a guy, while training her team like a true tiger mom. Technically it has a late romantic subplot, but there's not actually much progress in it, even though there are already 1500 chapters out. Like most sci-fi CNs, the worldbuilding is kind of eh, so just turn off your braincells when thinking about that aspect. Slight nationalism in earlier chapters, which doesn't appear in later chapters.

    Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder’s Record of Counterattacks: I'm fairly sure this one has no romance at all, but I haven't read much of it.

    I Reincarnated as a Noble Girl Villainess But Why Did It Turn Out This Way? (WN) (LN): I read the WN a long time ago, actually. Dunno why it has the romance genre, I don't remember there being any romance at all.

    Edit: oh yeah, do try Heroine Saves A Gentleman.
     
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  15. Isabelle

    Isabelle Always in love with potatoes (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠✧⁠*⁠。

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    You're right, Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder’s Record of Counterattacks has no romance at all!! It makes this novel so special to me :blobrofl:( even if I do love reading romance too)
    About Heroine Saves A Gentleman, I found it to be super good, but it is SO homophobic that I found myself obligated to dropp, so I don't recommend it (we do found some level of it into other stories, but into this one is just too much, really uncomfortable):blobsad:
     
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    So Many things to read! Thanks a bunch!! RoyalRoad seems like the place to go for me~

    I don't really mind slight amounts of romance as long as it doesn't interfere with the plot. Although sci-fi is not particularly a genre I read much of, I'll give it a try. The QT one seems really good! Thanks for the recs,
     
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