Looking for Stories with a Male Lead Who's a Bit Socially Awkward or Cool and Aloof, Not Too Dumbed Down 求男主有点社恐或者说男主清冷的文章，不小白

1. 1 打 What If I Can't Beat Them? Guess I'll Have to Win Them Over 打不赢怎么办？只好选择攻略了 A Useless One a一只废物aEastern Fantasy2.3M WordsCompleted [One heroine, lots of everyday life, no angst, a single romance] Su Bei tries to clear the game Fantasy World. After staying up all night and failing a hundred times, he finally ends this miserable experience. Not by beating the game, but by giving up. Wait! How did I transmigrate? But as Su Bei digs deeper, the truth has already changed beyond recognition… This is a redemption story spanning fifty thousand years. 32.6kReads9.4Score3.7kShelves

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   The male protagonist is terrified

2. 2 9 The 1990s: Why Date When I've Transmigrated into a Book? 90年代：穿书了谁还谈恋爱啊 Xi He琋和Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Lin Ting had just secured funding when she transmigrated into a romance novel where everyone was eight hundred percent love-brained. From the start, she was stuck in an icy wasteland with a talkative male lead threatening to kill her. Lin Ting: “Date you? I'd rather get a dog.” The original male lead: “...?” No space, no System, no mind-reading ability... Luckily, she still had a business brain running at full speed. “I'm never dating anyone. Not in this life.” “If I run out of money, I can earn 68.3kReads9.3Score7.4kShelves

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   This book is similar to the history of the heroine's entrepreneurship and family development. The writing style is relaxed and interesting. The heroine is very smart and powerful. The male protagonist is the second generation of society's richest people. Because his family is very rich, he doesn't want to talk and others may think he is cold. Hahahaha

3. 3 穿 After Becoming the Doomed Cannon-Fodder Master, I Gave Up as a Socially Anxious Recluse 穿成早死的炮灰师尊后社恐摆烂了 Ze Que泽雀Two Male Leads686k WordsCompleted [Two Male Leads + Yandere + Transmigrate into a Book + Villain] Socially anxious master x yandere disciple, with the disciple younger Transmigrated into the role of a despised cannon-fodder master, Yan Huailiu finds the System offline from the start. A severe social phobic, he's stuck with the task of reforming the villain and plans to keep his head down until the ending, then go home. Facing his villain disciple as he grows up, Yan Huailiu tries desperately to curry favor: “What a good boy yo 9.2kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves

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   So cool. . . I read it in one go, who knows. . . . . Blessed are those who love to read master-disciple stories.

4. 4 我 I'm a Socially Anxious Guy, and My Goddess Wife Refuses to Divorce Me 我！社恐，女神老婆不肯跟我离婚 The Center Seat at the Dinner Table饭桌C位Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Urban Slice of Life + No System + Entertainment Industry + Both Leads Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] [Three completed novels of over a million characters each. Quality guaranteed!] Li Shuo, a man with severe social anxiety, has barely transmigrated to a parallel world when his stepmother drags him off to meet a potential bride at her home. On the very day of the meeting, a “female ghost” accidentally pulls him into the civil affairs bureau, and they get married in a flash… He thought all they h 269.7kReads8.5Score43.6kShelves

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   The male protagonist is afraid of society, the female protagonist is a celebrity, and the female protagonist chases the male protagonist

5. 5 离 Unbelievable! An Introvert on a Dating Show? Are You Kidding Me? 离谱！社恐上恋综，你在搞笑吧？ Ethereal Young Master Yi Changsheng飘渺公子亦长生Urban387k WordsCompleted [Entertainment Industry Copycat + Urban Slice of Life + Feel-Good Miracle Doctor] P.S. The plot is satisfying, but the story needs time to build. If you don’t like it, don’t complain. I’m not changing it anyway! Hmph! Lin Xieyi transmigrates to a parallel world, only to be humiliated and dumped after his first love cheats on him, despite their eight-year relationship! He was planning to focus on making money, but his social anxiety gave his ex-girlfriend the chance to maliciously sign him up 177Reads5.7Score—Shelves

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   The male protagonist Lin Xieyi is a social terror. As soon as he traveled to the new world, he was told that his girlfriend wanted to break up with him, but they were not familiar with each other. Fearful of society, he joined a love show and entered the entertainment industry with Blue Star's entertainment works! The male protagonist has autism and was forced to get married by his family when he was older. However, he was forced to get married by someone at the Civil Affairs Bureau. The problem was that this was not his blind date. In order to avoid trouble, he had no choice but to get married first...

6. 6 社 The Socially Awkward Girl Transmigrates Into a Social Butterfly: The Laid-Back Actress Just Wants to Retire 社恐穿社牛：咸鱼影后只想退休 The Dorm Mom at the Sports University体院宿管大妈Modern Romance205k WordsCompleted [Transmigration + laid-back heroine + adored by everyone + introverted heroine grows into an extrovert + childhood betrothal to a domineering CEO hero + food + sweet romance] How does an introvert go from being hated by the whole internet to having the whole internet begging her not to leave showbiz? Quick-transmigration agency repair worker 10086 slipped and fell into the body of celebrity Bai Luoxi. The laid-back worker only wanted to coast along until retirement, but this was too hard. How co 8Reads8.2Score—Shelves
7. 7 社 After 18 Years of Social Anxiety, How Much Trouble Can Revealing My Secret Identities Cause? 社恐十八年，我爆亿点马甲怎么了 Bashun八寻Modern Romance1.9M WordsCompleted Tang Qin, the youngest actress ever to win two major awards, dies after falling into the sea and is reborn in the body of Tang Zixi, a socially anxious underachiever who was bullied to death. To her classmates, Tang Zixi is unkempt, ugly, and useless, but they don’t know she was a computer prodigy who could code at the age of six! At the arts exam, with the love of her past life watching, she takes the stage looking like an ugly duckling and dazzles everyone with her acting. Rong Xichuan is face 41Reads—Score—Shelves
8. 8 王 Honor of Kings: The Cool-Headed Pro Player's Everyday Life 王者荣耀：职业选手的高冷日常 Little Ma Just Wants to Work in a Factory小马只想进厂Sports2.1M WordsCompleted Du Lang is a withdrawn boy who gets no love from either parent. To ease his older sister's burden, he resolutely gives up his studies and enters the esports scene as a professional player. But can someone explain what is going on with these other pros? When he takes on five opponents at once with Gongsun Li in the Rift: Everyone: Lang Dad, the esports prodigy! When he accidentally shows off his cooking at night: Everyone: Lang Dad, please feed us! When he quietly sings into a microphone: Everyon 4.8kReads8.8Score491Shelves

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   It's really beautiful!!!

9. 9 社 My Socially Anxious Boss Is Shaking in His Boots 社恐上司，他瑟瑟发抖 Ji Xu季叙Modern Romance226k WordsCompleted [Shy, Sweet Male Boss x Cheerful, Outgoing Female Assistant], Sweet Romance Song Shi is intensely shy and socially anxious. He takes his work seriously and is both a renowned manga artist and a shareholder in the company. Whenever he reviews a draft, he looks at his assistants with those timid, wide eyes and says, “Redraw it.” They grit their teeth, but their hearts go soft all the same. How could they not, when Song Shi is so handsome? Finally, one day, a new assistant named Qin Ge joins his te 23Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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   Recommended, good looking

10. 10 社 The Socially Anxious CEO Vs. the Homebody Director 社恐总裁vs宅女总监 Ling Meow铃喵呜Modern Romance466k WordsCompleted (The score is low because there aren’t many reviews.) [Smart leads, slow burn, good communication, sweet romance, one-on-one] [Socially anxious gaming-company CEO × homebody director at an entertainment company] After countless rounds of negotiations, the contract was supposed to be signed today. Had the other party’s actual controller changed? Qin Nanfeng, legal director at YN Entertainment, the biggest music company in the country, tossed her long, slightly wavy hair and boarded yet another re 282Reads7.3Score—Shelves
11. 11 原 The Original Plot Is Ruined, So This Socially Anxious Girl Will Have to Improvise 原书剧情已崩，社恐请自行发挥 Custard Bun No. 2奶黄包2号Two Male Leads748k WordsCompleted Transmigration into a book + raising a child + healing An Yan unexpectedly transmigrates into a CEO romance novel as the protagonist’s disposable partner. He has an arrangement with Jiang Qi: he must take care of Jiang Qi’s son. But because he’s a pushover, his family tricks him and his friends lead him astray. In the end, he angers Jiang Qi, gets thrown out of the Jiang family, and is left to fend for himself. When An Yan arrives, none of that has happened yet. He promptly blocks all those so-c 2.4kReads9.2Score229Shelves

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    🌈🌈The male protagonist is a social terror. He travels to a boss novel and becomes the cannon fodder companion of the protagonist. He discovers that the two of them have signed an agreement. After looking at the amount of liquidated damages, An Yan finally understands why the original owner was cannon fodder. What kind of sky-high liquidated damages is this? Wouldn't it be nice to make money according to the agreement?

12. 12 发 After Going Crazy, I Became a Hot Commodity for Survival in the Apocalypse 发疯后，我在末世求生成了香饽饽 Rich Little Lamb羊暴富儿Sci-Fi & Apocalypse722k WordsCompleted (Infinite flow + wild imagination + space upgrades + an overpowered golden finger) For no apparent reason, Jiang Youmian got bound to a ridiculous, useless System and became an utterly ordinary seller of [useless items]. But as it turned out... Her sales locations were anything but ordinary. Cities overrun by zombies, islands battered by hurricanes, underground passages swept away by floods, desolate deserts, extreme cold and heat, endless earthquakes, viral outbreaks... Jiang Youmian pressed a 8kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves

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    Unlimited Streaming➕The end of the world. The heroine has tied up a sales system and needs to sell props to other players. The hero: a socially fearful boss who is always cheated by the heroine.

13. 13 浮 The Floating Sky Never Falls 浮天不落 Rouge Conch胭脂螺Eastern Fantasy2.2M WordsCompleted The floating sky never falls; the immortal sect endures forever. This is a story about a genius who lacks for nothing: talent, resources, or powerful connections. There are no brainless villains who show up just to help the protagonist level up, nor is the protagonist a tragic figure who builds a huge harem. Instead, there are all kinds of worldbuilding details the author, a hopeless settings fanatic, just couldn't resist writing, bringing to life my own personal dream of cultivating immortality 44.9kReads8.8Score4.4kShelves

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    The protagonist is very cold

14. 14 清 The Cool-Hearted Music Cultivator Swings Her Sword and Silences the Entire Cultivation World 清冷乐修一挥剑，反手沉默修仙界 Shen Zhanxing沈占星Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Romance pairing, one-on-one, happy ending, both physically and emotionally faithful, equally powerful] [Statement: This is 100% original. I started writing it on April 1, 2023! Stop copying my opening and stealing my ideas. Have you no shame?] Cool and aloof, perfunctory junior sister × unpredictable half-demon senior brother A genius musician dies during a concert tour and, after death, transmigrates into a book, becoming the cannon-fodder second female lead in a Mary Sue cultivation romance. 7.8kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
15. 15 在 Making My Debut in the Horror Livestream 在惊悚直播中c位出道 Chuyue出月Modern Romance426k WordsCompleted [Mid-to-Short Campus Novel Writing Contest] Accidentally caught up in a horror livestream, Chu Yu chooses to live as boldly as she can. Her teammates: ...Yeah, she’s definitely bold enough. Once selected to become a horror streamer, you have to complete an endless variety of terrifying livestream challenges. To the viewers, the only difference is between dying and waiting to die. Somehow, Chu Yu manages to bring something new to the table. In a hotel where dawn will never come, she wields a bloo 672Reads9.1Score100Shelves

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    I'll start with the first book whose male protagonist's character design I really love, but it's not finished yet. I'm looking for a finished book. The second book has online male and female protagonists' IQs. It's not a noob, and it's super good-looking.

16. 16 书 Yan Ruyu Is in the Book 书中自有颜如聿 Nightfire夜火火Modern Romance2.1M WordsCompleted Jiang Ruishu thinks Qin Yu is the legal profession’s version of a bitter truth dispenser. The more handsome he is, the sharper his tongue. Love is too much trouble! Qin Yu thinks Jiang Ruishu is the queen of schemes among judges. The kinder she sounds, the more hypocritical she is inside. Stay as far away from her as possible! But neither of them expected to spend their whole lives falling for each other. 2.7kReads9.5Score462Shelves
17. 17 炮 Reborn as Cannon Fodder: I Really Don’t Want to Be the Funny Girl 炮灰重生：我真不想当搞笑女啊 Bai Kaxi白卡兮Modern Romance288k WordsOngoing [Goofy, showbiz, feel-good, sweet romance] "Socially anxious guy vs. social butterfly girl" As a cannon-fodder character, Liu Lannian won a lottery and got a fresh start. In her previous life, she was a shy girl with paper-thin skin. This time, she let her true nature show. To save cannon fodder from bizarre deaths, she said in her deep voice, “Don’t be scared. I’m right here.” When she ran into an old man trying to scam her, she opened her banking app. “This is all the money I have. Can I help 18Reads8.4Score—Shelves

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    Modern novel, the male protagonist is socially fearful, the female protagonist is socially awkward, and the whole crew is hilarious (´｡･v･｡`)

18. 18 龙 Why Won't Mr. Long Check Out? 龙总为何不退房 Fan Bai饭白Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [The short drama adaptation, Couple Play, has been scheduled for release! Tune in to Tencent Video on March 27!] The Zhulang Oster Royal Hotel is the only hotel in the world that caters exclusively to domineering CEOs. Long Qing owns the hotel and is the most domineering CEO of them all. They say no one can work for Long Qing for more than three months, but Yu Xianxian has lasted three years. Long Qing: “I want the hotel’s full guest list in three seconds.” Yu Xianxian: “Right away, Mr. Long.” 4.3kReads9.0Score593Shelves

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    ① An Yan is a social terrorist, but he is revealed to be the cannon fodder companion of the protagonist in a book about a tyrant. The original owner had a cowardly character and was deceived by his family and deceived by his friends. He offended Jiang Qi and was driven out of the house to fend for himself. Before the plot started, An Yan decisively blocked those relatives and friends to make money.

19. 19 我 I Really Don’t Want to Be Famous 我真的不想红 Tofu and Scallions豆腐小葱Urban309k WordsOngoing A socially anxious, internet-addicted gaming prodigy transmigrates to a parallel world, determined to keep playing professionally, only to run into a Superstar System that's hell-bent on making its Host famous across the globe. “System, I really don't want to be famous.” “No, you do.” —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This book is completely consistent with

20. 20 全 The Entire Imperial Harem Is Trapped in a Death Game 全后宫穿进逃生游戏 The Ball Beyond the Mountain山那边的球Modern Romance1.4M WordsCompleted Have you ever seen a dignified, graceful empress flip her hand and kill someone with a silver needle from ten meters away? Have you ever seen a refined, elegant imperial consort beat a zombie’s head so far into the floor that you couldn’t pry it out? Have you ever seen a proud, stunning Jieyu sway her hips down the runway, while an entire row of male celebrities below are her ex-boyfriends? Xia Qingyang has. All three are her teammates. Xia Qingyang once transmigrated into the body of a harem co 684Reads9.4Score126Shelves

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    This book is also good, but it's disgusting that it's not finished.

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