Recommendations BL that's not too cliché

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  1. AutumnSugar

    AutumnSugar Well-Known Member

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    Pls rec some BL where the main couple isn't the stereotypical seme/uke dynamic.

    Something like 'Devil Venerable Also Wants to know' or 'Don't pick up boyfriends from the trash bin' where it subverts those tropes...

    Any genre is okay but I do prefer historical/reincarnation/transmigration
     
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    I would like to recommend:
    Sha Po Lang
    Quickly wear the Face Of the Devil
    Thriller Trainee
    Global Examination

    These aren't necessarily outside of the usual dynamics, but they are pretty much all power couples
     
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    Stone Age Husband Raising Journal
    Transmigrated Into a Big Boss to Snatch Away the Cannon Fodder
    Supernatural Movie Actor App
     
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    I've been think about reading QWTFOTD, but it has alot of weird tags do you have some context about them?

    Is the last one selfcest?
     
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    Resplendor High Lord of Souls

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    -Devil’s Political Marriage : Serious dark vibes. Don't hate the ML too soon, there's some misunderstandings that get cleared up pretty quickly. So good though. Very much a PVE (protagonists vs environment) sort of story, which you don't see much of especially in such a romantic BL. Completed.

    -The Virtual Character I Personally Raised Wants to Marry Me: Focuses more on kingdom/world building but with a good amount of fluff. Not completed.

    -Picked up a Strange Knight: Perfection. Absolute perfection. A fantasy, relatively low ranking, Knight accidently transfers to modern Japan. Proceeds to slowly fall in love with his new roomate and savior. Completed but sequel is not.

    -The Virtuous Omega Disguised as the Vicious Colonel: total power couple. ML is the best trash prince ever. Delicious and interesting chemistry. Much fluff, but with some great action/mystery. Completed.

    -Don’t Pick Up Boyfriends From the Trash Bin: World hopper, but the ML is the system. Beautiful as they come to rely on each other and foil the schemes of the true villain. Another one that's not terribly light though. Not completed. Edit: which I now notice you mentioned in the comments and thus probably already read. My bad. (#'_'#)

    The Show Must Go On: ooof, this one's a doosey. Dark and smutty. Overthrows the otome genre, stuffs it in a barrel full of cement and tosses down an abyss. He cheats and manipulates his way into not only white washing himself and his daughter, but changing the values of the "heroes" as they're smacked in the face with the realities of running a kingdom. The bad guy wins in this one, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Completed and sequel in the works.

    Thrive in Catastrophe: yet another dark one. End of the world zombies but many years after the outbreak with bases being quite advanced, like sci-Fi advanced. ML does not pamper the MC but forces him to grow and survive. Hot hot smexy times near the end as well. And some great plot twists! Completed.

    Today’s Dinner is the Hero: A literal puppy of a ML, aka the demon king. Much fluff! Some smut. Kinda cliche, but not terribly so. Not completed.
     
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  9. Lunaleska

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    I recommend 'my husband is suffering from a terminal illness'
    Power couple, with a cool and calm uke and a hard mouthed soft hearted cowardly seme.
    Entertainment/buisness setting with an overthrowing golden finger heroine troupe.
    Its well done, and completed.
     
  10. SarahBlaBlaBla

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    Well, QWTFODT counts to the Quick transmigration genre ( traveling to different worlds and fullfilling quests/ survive),
    so he performs his roles as different persons in different type of worlds. Some tags or settings can appear strange, but they are actually pretty well written even if you don't like them usually.
    As for what kind of worlds there are, the following is going to be some vague spoiler:

    An apocalypse world where mc has to find a cure, a abo world, where he lets himself get castrated and joins the military, and a few "normal" worlds with different themes
     
  11. armad224

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    how about
    Dark Tales
    a very nice lovecraftian yaoi novel
     
  12. Stephanie1399

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    Yep, he is both people in one body but gets a body for second self later
     
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    Bursting After He Transmigrated into the Cannon Fodder Omega
     
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    Definitely https://www.novelupdates.com/series/golden-stage/ ...Historical...Highly recommend it if you haven't read it already...love this couple...here I'm stopping my mouth or else I'll ruin the fun by spoiling too much...

    https://www.novelupdates.com/series/silent-reading/ (love this book...MC is a not so serious about work rich businessman but always "helps and bothers" the police and ML is a cop who used to think he is the most clever and capable being on earth...once his collogue thought this is a domineering CEO cornering honest policeman script(MC also thought so but... you know...oh and MC was always top in his past relationships...)

    https://www.novelupdates.com/series/peerless/ -(Historical...MC is weak as f*ck and clever as f*ck...honestly I really admire how he clung to his life with that broken body and even use his sick body as advantage...ML is a peacock...they are not enemies but their works are similar but one is under the emperor while the other under the empress...the competition and rivalry and calling each other mean names(like dead fox-ML calls the MC,Oleander a poisonous flower just looks good-MC calls the ML)...they pit each other so much even after getting together...not much romantic plot tho,it's plot driven...
    https://www.novelupdates.com/series/my-husband-is-suffering-from-a-terminal-illness/ (transmigration,entertainment...MC is really a good schemer of business and bold...ML is rather shy...he borrows the name of the cook to give MC foods and MC calls it a coward Mouse secretly giving sugars...
    https://www.novelupdates.com/series/where-is-our-agreement-to-be-each-others-arch-rivals/ (transmigration,wuxia...MC and ML are real cuties and there are some angst...)
    https://www.novelupdates.com/series/beloved-husband/ (QT...MC is seme...pure cuteness with good plots...some angst here and there but not much)
    https://www.novelupdates.com/series/global-examination/ - Unlimited Flow...the relationship between MC and ML is really fun to read but their past story together was really ...not spoiling...the mystery and task,plot etc was great..MC and ML both has Military Training in the past so...both are strong as hell...

    so I tried not to talk too much about the books(I always do that when I talk about my fav books)...
     
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    Baldingere Roseau pensant

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    After marrying an evil god
     
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    Dao Of The Salted Fish (Salted Fish Cultivator)

    Soul Shard Captor [BL] -full of misunderstandings and extremely great SMUT
     
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    - SAYE
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    They’re both modern settings but not a neither couple’s falls into the stereotypical BL tropes, nor are the stories cliche and expected.
     
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