Caressing the Young Master

Any Novels Where the Protagonist Grows Step by Step?

I’d prefer a longer main storyline, not a brainless power fantasy where the protagonist steamrolls everyone. Something like Soul Land or Battle Through the Heavens, but any genre is fine.

Pure Ancient-Style Stories, No Transmigration or Rebirth

Please Recommend Some Good Assassin Novels

Something like "Black List" or "Human Weapon". Any recommendations in that vein?

Feels Like Most Novels These Days Are About Rebirth and Transmigration. I’m in a Reading Slump.

I’m looking for female-oriented cultivation or martial arts novels with no rebirth or transmigration, a romantic pairing, and well-developed characters. Most stories these days seem to follow the same formula. I really miss the novels from five or six years ago, when there were so many different kinds.