Recommendations BL with elegant/pretty/melancholic MC

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  1. ScaredyKat

    ScaredyKat Well-Known Member

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    I'm a sucker for pretty faces and preferably long hair, if it has mentions of androgyny, even better. I'm looking for the respectable, suffering-in-silence kind of beauty here. Who doesn't want a man like that, eh. Almost like a white lotus? I like those too.
    Though we like moderate angst, bad endings are an absolute no-no. My fragile heart can't take that shit.
     
  2. TaffyGirl13

    TaffyGirl13 just a casual translator~

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    Heaven Official’s Blessing!
     
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    etsuhun Mer-Mer-Mer-Merm4id!

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    Where is Our Agreement to be Each Other’s Arch-Rivals?
    Heaven Official's Blessing
    Turing’s Code
    You might like some of these! I'd say they have mild personalities but not the cutesy/annoying type.
     
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    IceLight303 Well-Known Member

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    The last part really got to me. :blobjoy: I like a little angst but my fragile heart can't take BEs either. I cry like crazy and feel sad for a while after. I just can't take it.
     
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    Sometimes the bad ending is a necessity, so I can't blame the author, but yeah, the aftermath of being depressed for weeks later is not to be underestimated. Once I went in search of tragedy to test my limits and found 'Decieve' which was only 5 chapters long, and I thought, what can five chapters do to me and MAN I've never regretted it so bad in my life, and there was no way it couldve ended well anyway, but I was still so heartbroken I cried just talking about it to my friends.
     
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    Oooh those are some good ones!! Thankyooouu
     
  7. nevelvir

    nevelvir Master Sleepers

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    You should probably try reading 'The Villain Has Something to Say' :blobReach:
     
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    The wife is first - MC suffers a lot but then ML is reborn and decides to treat him well
     
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    Try reading Cold Sands. It's BE though. Was sure a sob fest
     
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    Beloved Enemy MC also has a mild personality but idk abt androgynous looks. Quite angsty but HE
     
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    welp I just read Deceive because you implied not to and I didn't cry. I died inside.
     
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    Yes, I've read Cold Sands, and yes it was hellla frustrating. I've seen clips of the Beloved Enemy live action, but somehow never read the book, I'll give that a go, thanks.
     
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    My condolences. I feel a cruel happiness in knowing someone else just shared my pain.
     
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    I never regretted anything as much as I regret reading Cold Sands...that book freaking destroyed me and I'm still unable to recover and read any enemies to lovers trope book...I used to love that trope but...I read it in last August and it still hunts me...I can't remember and wanna know the age gap of MC and ML but I don't have the heart to re-read and find out...If any of u remember, tell me...I handled ten years of loving u the most and many other CN tragedies pretty well but hell I wish I never knew about this book...any suggestion on how to recover from this misery???I really need it...
     
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    If_It_Fits_It_Ships Klein best boi

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    I will suggest some modern day ones as there are many historical and cultivation ones with long haired MC/ML...
    https://www.novelupdates.com/series/rainbow-amber/
    the seme ML has very long hair and described as beautiful...both MC and ML are mature people and acts like it...
    https://www.novelupdates.com/series/silent-reading/
    MC has shoulder length hair and glasses, not to mention really elegant and flirty...messed up childhood with a sadist dad and psychological trauma...scheming deeply for revenge...and god the plot, it's awesome...
    https://www.novelupdates.com/series/i-only-like-your-character-settings/
    Long haired,flirty,painter,seriously playboy seme(the playboy and seme part changed after ML but still likes to tease juniors, not serious tho)...f*cked up childhood with a scum father...high iq, expert in mathematics and puzzles beside painting...many people discriminated saying he's a man but looks like a woman cz he's that beautiful (it's a gender people not an insult) before he got famous in the painter circle...
     
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