Any Books With Little Romance and Writing That Isn't Cringey? 有没有那种感情线少，然后文笔不尬的书啊！

1. 1 二 The Second Young Lady Is Pretending to Be Pitiful Again 二小姐又在装可怜 Leaning on My Sword, Listening to Wind and Rain倚剑听风雨Ancient Romance713k WordsOngoing [No transmigration, no rebirth + no woman-on-woman competition + light ensemble cast] [The heroine is a powerful fighter. She acts meek and submissive in public, but is a lawless outlaw behind the scenes.] It's said that there's a place in the capital called the Flying Flower House. For a promise worth a thousand gold, you can ask for anything. With enough money, you can trade for a life, a secret, or anything at all. Looking at the Flying Flower House's books, which are bleeding money, Wen Geya 26.8kReads8.8Score5.5kShelves
2. 2 女 Disguised as a Man to Go Undercover, Codename Sang Biao 女扮男装做卧底，代号丧彪 Jade Uncarved翡玉不琢Ancient Romance590k WordsOngoing Secret identities + undercover agents + a cross-dressing heroine who grows over time + women competing for male attention + men competing for female attention (fighting over each other) + traditional handcrafting After spending a massive amount of energy to pull its Host back from the gates of death yet again, the 996 Ultimate Undercover System can’t help asking the question that’s been weighing on its soul: Host, how did you die again? After being killed by two enemies at once, Yun Congyue give 13.3kReads8.7Score2kShelves
3. 3 危 Danger! I Just Ascended, and I Already Killed the Heavenly Emperor? 危！刚飞升我就杀了天帝？ Bian Lu边鹿Fantastical Romance455k WordsOngoing Ding Jiu had just ascended to immortality when she represented the new ascendants in raising a toast to the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor took a drink… and dropped dead. Ding Jiu: “?” She tossed aside the wine cup and spun around in fury. “Who harmed my beloved Jade Emperor? Guards! Seal off the Southern Heavenly Gate, find the culprit, and avenge His Majesty!” Long afterward, the people of the Immortal Realm still couldn’t figure out how Ding Jiu, a brand-new ascendant, had turned the tables a 102.7kReads9.2Score19.1kShelves
4. 4 镇 The Female Coroner of Zhenhe Pass 镇河关的女仵作 Zhu Yi猪艺Mystery446k WordsOngoing [Set in ancient times] [Mystery and crime solving] [Episodic] [Focused on investigating strange cases] [Clever characters] [No System, no golden finger] Song Nianci was born into a family of forensic examiners. The trade had been passed down from father to son since ancient times, never to daughters. But misfortune never comes singly: hers was a generation with only one daughter. To keep the family business from dying out, her grandfather came up with a plan: find a husband to marry into the fa 3.2kReads—Score446Shelves
5. 5 异 Surviving in Another World: Humanity's Fate Rests on My Transmigration 异世求生，全球人类靠我穿越 Short-Legged Chen短腿陈Ancient Romance458k WordsCompleted The rating just came out, but it’ll go up later~ [The tags are wrong. This isn’t a historical romance; the setting is closer to a Western-style fantasy world.] [Entirely fictional world + no golden finger + not a wish-fulfillment story + lighthearted + romance, but little focus on it] Bad news: Xia Ju transmigrated. Good news: While everyone else is whisked away without warning, she received advance notice of when she’d transmigrate. Bad news: The warning only came one minute ahead of time. Bot 3.2kReads6.6Score449Shelves

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   There are few emotional dramas, and the overall feeling is healing and warm.

6. 6 她 She Doesn’t Even Take the Heavenly Dao Seriously 她连天道都不放在眼里 Luo Zhi洛枝Modern Romance1.3M WordsCompleted Secret identities + connections in all three realms + mystical grandmaster + invincible + funny + all-rounder + beloved by everyone The mystical grandmaster who had lived for who knew how many years became, in this life, Ji Wangshu, the youngest daughter who had been lost by the Ji family of Wuwang City as a child. Later, the Ji family’s doorstep was nearly trampled flat. One legendary big shot after another appeared in person. The Ji family was completely dumbfounded. What happened to the pitif 178.1kReads8.9Score24.5kShelves

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   🉑🉑🉑🉑🉑🉑🉑🉑🉑🉑🉑

7. 7 孤 After the Whole Class Shunned Me, My Childhood Sweetheart Became Crazy About Me 孤立全班后小竹马对我超爱 Yin Qi'an银柒安Modern Romance16k WordsCompleted After I Turned the Whole Class Against Me, My Childhood Friend Became Crazy About Me 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Short story, do you want to try it?

8. 8 清 A Gentle Breeze Meets the White Dew 清风遇白露 Honey Baby哈尼宝宝Modern Romance453k WordsCompleted In their previous lives, three people laid the groundwork for an entanglement that would continue into the next... One defied the will of Heaven and feared no karmic retribution, forcibly changing her fate for her; One was destined to be bound to her, their names written side by side on the Three Lives Stone; And one, after her death, set up a memorial tablet for her and built a shrine in her honor, keeping her soul from dispersing and giving it a place to return to. In this life, all three are 111Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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   This novel is okay [grass has been planted] [grass has been planted]

9. 9 女 The Female Bank President's Last Resort 女行长的穷途末路 Xu Ci珝慈Modern Romance102k WordsCompleted A teller's act of withholding checks toppled the first domino in the bank run at Yunhai City Commercial Bank. Though bank president Ma Yuquan fought desperately to contain the crisis, she ultimately could not counter the enormous fallout from the sudden disappearance of the bank's major shareholder and the head of its controlling rural bank. Ma Yuquan sensed the situation was full of hidden twists and turns, yet never revealed the secret of who she had been with during her brief disappearance, w 700Reads9.3Score105Shelves

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   Read this book, it's very good.

10. 10 老 The Old Demon Wants to Slack Off 老魔想摆烂 Wandering Cultivator野修士Eastern Fantasy446k WordsOngoing [Ensemble Cast + Eastern Fantasy + Not a Power Trip + Enlightenment Through Worldly Experience] Good is not goodness, but transcendence. Evil is not wickedness, but a means of changing fate. A mighty figure with multiple personalities and a staggering thirst for slaughter goes round and round, only to return to his childhood. The max-level powerhouse plans to lie flat, but a sage uses a beauty scheme against him. He doesn't fall for it. Just after he breaks off his engagement, the sage comes 27Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Deep fantasy, if you are tired of reading the same stories, you can try Poison!

11. 11 重 Reborn as a Volunteer Soldier's Family Member 重生为志愿军家属 Wen Hai Shi Bei文海十贝Female-Channel Fanfiction273k WordsOngoing Reborn, Lin Daiyu demands the assets her father, Lin Ruhai, left behind, only to find that the Jia family has already used them. To save face, Grandmother Jia has no choice but to make Daiyu the principal wife and demote Baochai to a concubine, setting off a bitter feud of envy and jealousy. Eventually, both Baochai and Daiyu grow weary of this unrest and agree to transmigrate through time and space a second time. In the 18th year of the Republic of China, Lin Daiyu is born into a hardworking fa —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Try this one

12. 12 爱 Falling for a Tough Girl From the Urban Village 爱上城中村女痞子 Rain Sends Dust雨送尘Urban221k WordsCompleted He's a country boy who made it big; she's a rich second-generation city girl. He's an honest man; she's a tough-talking tomboy. His defining traits are being poor and stubborn. He lives in a tiny room in an urban village, and at twenty-seven, he's still single. She's genuinely tough, with money, looks, and a whole group of young, beautiful bodyguards and girlfriends. They should never have crossed paths. But one chance late-night entanglement brought their fates together, and they fell in l 32Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Try this one.

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