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Why Does There Have to Be a Female Lead? Some Male Leads Should Have No CP

Looking for books like Who Wants to Become a God? Didn't You All Force Me Into This? Some male leads are written as completely emotionless, but the author insists on giving them a female lead. Or the female lead is so weak that she's always holding the male lead back or becoming his Achilles' heel. What I hate most is when every time the female lead runs into

Any Stories with a Powerful, Neutral, Laid-back Protagonist Who Occasionally Acts Like a Jerk?

Any genre is fine, and I don't mind whether the protagonist is male or female. I want something where everything is under control and the protagonist gets to watch others get face-slapped and lose their temper. It'd be even better if the protagonist has a close friend. No romance, please.

Any Novels Where the Protagonist Raises Ghosts and Can Send Hundreds of Them Marching with a Wave of His Hand?

Stories where the protagonist raises ghosts, preferably with the protagonist as an evil cultivator.

Stories Where the Protagonist Is a One-Person Faction, Completely Neutral and Helping No One