The Principal's Secret

Looking for Urban Stories, Nothing Weird with Cultivation

Looking for Books That Feel Especially Realistic

Close to real life.

Looking for Realistic Urban Fiction

Looking for Realistic Marriage Stories, Nothing Too Far-Fetched or Overly Sweet

Everyday life, realistic views on marriage, a couple working together, marital conflicts, careers, family, children, and mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationships. Keep it realistic, please. No wealthy-family romances; they feel too far-fetched.

Any Novels That Feel Really Realistic?

For example, the male and female leads could have common, everyday jobs like teaching or medicine.

Novels That Portray Human Nature as Truly Dark

I Want Stories That Make You Think, With More Than Just a Catchy Title: The Content Should Be Carefully Crafted Too

Ugh, Too Many Armchair Intellectuals. All Pen, No Ink. Better Off Reading More Books

There are so many shallow novels, especially wish-fulfillment stories. They’re written just to fit the premise, without even including the things that should be there for that genre. They’re not written for people to read. There are so many absurd stories where the characters’ intelligence gets dragged across the floor, and the writing makes it obvious the plot was thrown together on the spot.

Highly Recommended: Beautifully Written, Smart, and Absolutely Fantastic

Everyday Urban Life, No Showing Off or Face-Slapping

Looking for a Story That Will Wreck Me! Preferably Under 300 Chapters. I Almost Never Cry

Ordinary books don't get to me. Lots of books everyone says are tearjerkers leave me dry-eyed, or squeeze out just a few tears, like "The River Maple and Fishing Lights Stir Sadness", "Come Back When Dawn Breaks", and "See Spring". My threshold for tears is so high I feel like something's wrong with me, so please, everyone!

I’m Really Out of Books to Read. Everything Feels Like the Same Old Formula (Please Recommend Something New)

I’m Seriously in a Reading Slump Lately... I Lose Interest After the Opening

Something with a fresh premise, please... and no saintly female lead.

I’m So Tired of Having Nothing to Read. Fellow Cultivators, Please Share Some of Your Favorites 🙂

Please recommend me some books.

I Feel Like Crying. Recommend Books That’ll Leave My Eyes Swollen

I don’t want a melodramatic tragedy that makes no sense. I want a novel that really pulls me in. I feel like having a good cry lately. Please recommend something, any genre is fine. I just want to bawl my eyes out.