I'm Starved for Something to Read. I Want a Cat-Type Male Lead, but Every Search Gives Me Dad-Type Leads. Please Help Me! 😭 书荒了想看猫系男主一搜全是爹系，救救孩子吧😭

1. 1 惊 What! The Haughty Little Cat I Found Is an Idol 惊！捡到的傲娇小猫是偶像 Bai Yun Yinzi白芸银子Modern Romance298k WordsCompleted [Sweet romance + showbiz + real heiress + wealthy family + one-on-one romance] [A real heiress who never lets anyone take advantage of her × a haughty, scheming catlike food streamer] Jiang Zhiyu was found by the Gu family and returned as their real daughter, but unfortunately, they didn't care for her. So Jiang Zhiyu accepted anything they offered: she'd take the money, pocket the bank cards, move into any house, and drive any car... Later, the Gu family went bankrupt. Jiang Zhiyu, now fabulous 1.7kReads9.2Score275Shelves

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   This is one of the few novels I've read from the first chapter to the last, and I even finished the extra chapters. It's truly amazing! 🥰😢 The kitten is so cute! 🐱 And the little fish is like a little sun! 🔆

2. 2 驯 The Cat-Taming Chronicles 驯猫记 Little One小小Ancient Romance201k WordsCompleted The story of a well-bred young lady who falls in love with a killer from the martial world. An older woman-younger man romance: the male lead’s age is unclear, but he’s probably three years younger. Lin Zhiruo: A young lady of a marquis’s household, gentle and easygoing, who falls in love with the male lead at first sight. Jin Shu: Proud and aloof, inexperienced in worldly affairs, does whatever he pleases, hopelessly lovestruck, and ranked last in Cat Manners Class. 3.2kReads8.2Score343Shelves

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   Absolutely amazing! Absolutely amazing!

3. 3 男 After the Male Lead Crawls Through the Darkness, He Fights to Be His Cool and Distant Wife’s Biggest Simp 男主阴暗爬行后争做清冷老婆舔狗 Gu Yue咕月Two Male Leads1.0M WordsCompleted [Quick Transmigration + Two Male Leads + Everyone's Favorite + Mutual Devotion + Dog-Training Romance + Fragmented Attack] [A catlike, sharp-featured bottom × tops who all have a bit of a dog in them] Xie Rong transfers from the cannon-fodder group to the villain group. Besides playing the villain, he also has to keep the main couple's romance on track. He thinks the task sounds easy enough: just act like a villain and do bad things. He follows the plot and causes trouble, doing his utmost to ma 19.5kReads9.3Score2kShelves

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   This book is [I understand][I understand][I understand] The male lead has a fierce cat face, but he's actually a tsundere. The male lead is the seme who falls in love with the seme at first sight. The seme pursues the seme. Those who like seme-only stories should not read this!

4. 4 全 Global Livestream: The Strongest Eerie Being Slaughters Everyone 全球直播：最强诡异，杀穿全场 Yun Weiqing云微青Mystery726k WordsOngoing If I stand at the very top, then wiping everything out will be all the more fun ♬ (The protagonist is uncanny! Non-human, no female lead, invincible against anyone below the god tier from the start, with stronger opponents above him. Includes, but is not limited to, non-humans, tentacles, hypnosis and brainwashing, body modification, object fetishism, swarms of insects, cannibalism, and all kinds of strange creatures. Contains religious, gender, and political commentary. There isn’t much, but p 6.8kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves

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   The main character, a cat named Mao Su, is absolutely adorable—a proud and unruly little kitten! The plot is good, the writing is good, and the character development is good!!

5. 5 穿 How Am I Supposed to Do This After Reincarnating as the Male Lead's Cat? 穿成男主的猫肿么破 Mo Yan默彦Two Male Leads289k WordsCompleted Xu Xu is a homebody who’s recently become obsessed with a sugary Mary Sue novel called Conquering the Whole World. He never expected to wake up as the male lead Jiang Jinye’s beloved little black cat. At first, the cat is doted on, but later the heroine decides it’s too much of a nuisance and throws it out onto the street, where it gets run over and killed. Unwilling to let his life end like that, Xu Xu decides to save his feline life, escape from the male lead, and avoid his deadly fate. He mak 125Reads—Score—Shelves
6. 6 喵EN Meow! Young Master, Stop Touching My Tail! 喵！大少爷不要再摸我的尾巴啦！ Su He粟禾Modern Romance313k WordsCompleted Cute pets + sweet romance + goofy fun + doted-on heroine + devoted, fatherly boyfriend Xue Yao lost her life while coming to someone’s rescue. When she woke up again, she had become a fluffy, soft little cat, a golden shaded British Shorthair, no less. Well, looks like she’d be living the good life in this one. She thought her owner would be a kindhearted little girl, but it turned out the girl had bought her for her cold, stern older brother. Her new owner was perfect in every way: striking bro 1.7kReads9.2Score204Shelves
7. 7 惊EN Horror: I Created the Anomaly Containment Association 惊悚：我打造了异轨收容会 Chi Yisheng赤亦生Mystery2.7M WordsOngoing [Horror + Satisfying Power Fantasy + Director’s Tall-Tale Style] Horror games descended upon Blue Star, turning into one eerie dungeon after another. The monsters inside stepped into the real world, and from then on, the world was overrun with the uncanny. Only by conquering every dungeon could humanity stop the supernatural from consuming the world. Otherwise, the eerie realms would merge with reality and turn the human world into a living hell! Shen Yu bound himself to an Anomaly Containmen 48.6kReads9.1Score4.2kShelves

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   It's an ensemble piece, featuring a cat-like character named Bai Zhuo, the first character to stand out. She interacts quite a bit with the main character, and while there's no romantic pairing, it's still worth shipping. If you don't mind these things, you can give it a try.

8. 8 哎 Hehe! Didn't See That Coming! My Companion Is Every Kind of Weapon 哎嘿！没想到吧！我伴生是全武器 Si Si汜巳Fantastical Romance632k WordsCompleted [Complete! Enjoy with confidence!] [No CP, but feel free to ship whoever you like!] [Lots of slice-of-life] [Aimed more at female readers] [Lots of catlike character portrayal] [Important: The male lead will gradually grow up. He's just a little kid at the beginning, and his development is a bit delayed because he's a picky eater. (╬•̀皿•́)] Twelve-year-old Ning Yizhou is the most bizarre psychic power awakener in the entire galaxy. While everyone else awakens a bonded weapon at sixteen, he awak 6.3kReads9.3Score916Shelves

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   A cat-like protagonist, twelve years old? The group's darling, very good.

9. 9 变 After Turning into a Cat, I Won Over My Idol with Sheer Shamelessness 变成猫猫后靠厚脸皮攻略偶像 Wan Louyu万楼愈Two Male Leads368k WordsCompleted [Two male leads] [Both pure, body and soul! Let me emphasize this again: both male leads are pure in body and soul! Anything that seems impure has its reasons! Please stop asking!] Esports player Wen Renyu wakes up one day to find he’s turned into a palm-sized kitten! What? The runs? ...A minor issue, a little embarrassing, that’s all... What? Sleeping together?! ...I’m just a kitten, this is no big deal, no big deal (not really)... Wait, a bath?! Nothing to see here, nothing to see here… 3.3kReads9.5Score541Shelves
10. 10 矿 Raising a Child on a Mining Planet, the Commander Insists on Being My Husband 矿星带崽，指挥官非要当我老公 Flying Milkshake会飞的奶昔Two Male Leads527k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + raising a child among the stars + the child can turn human + pocket dimension + devoted couple + sweet romance] Lin Yu transmigrates into the interstellar age and becomes an unfortunate soul on a polluted mining planet. Struggling to survive each day, he not only takes in a black kitten who loves scavenging, but also happens to pick up a badly injured, amnesiac man so devastatingly handsome it defies description. When the man wakes up and sees their shabby den, the fragrant f 868Reads8.6Score160Shelves

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    It's really good, highly recommended!

11. 11 捡 I Picked Up a Puppy, and He Immediately Called Me His Husband 捡到一只小狗，他竟直接叫我老公 Guangwu Anwen光武暗文Two Male Leads60k WordsCompleted [Male Leads + Forced Love + Extreme Contrast] Luo Sheng’s greatest wish is to save enough money to marry a wife. One day, while hunting, he brings home a little black dog covered in wounds. Once the dog recovers, it transforms right before his eyes into a peerlessly handsome man wearing no clothes! The handsome man gazes at Luo Sheng with clear, innocent eyes and calls him, “Husband.” Luo Sheng: “??? He wants to be my wife?!” Only later does he learn that the man is the legendary domineering pri 379Reads—Score102Shelves
12. 12 猫 Feline Devotion 猫系偏爱 Wild Greenery绿野蔓生Modern Romance974k WordsCompleted [A sweet romance, with equal parts love story and plot] After an accident, Ji Jinge joins the city’s special operations team. She assumes it’s a special unit tasked with stopping terrorist attacks and keeping the public safe. But after joining, she discovers that every member is nonhuman. Well, nonhuman or not, they’re still serving the people. But could you stop rubbing up against me in your original form, Boss?! A sweet, naive cutie who can really throw down vs. a tsundere who thinks, “I don’ 2.6kReads9.2Score281Shelves
13. 13 从 Starting Out as a Full-Time Undercover Agent in Northern Myanmar 从缅北开始做全职卧底 Moonlight Before My Bed床前明月光Mystery1.2M WordsOngoing “Perhaps the beings created in darkness can also defeat the darkness.” After being kidnapped, Mu Guang, born with a personality disorder, is trafficked to northern Myanmar. Faced with death and threats, he stays calm, decisive, and ruthless, earning the admiration of a drug lord. But no one knows that this antisocial man has long been an undercover police officer... Five years later, a new police officer named Mu Guang reports for duty at the Shun'an Municipal Public Security Bureau, only to be 10.3kReads9.5Score1.2kShelves

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    Without a romantic pairing, it feels like being a proud and aloof kitten.

14. 14 公 Highway Survival: Why Is the Boss Inspecting Monster Supplies? 公路求生：大佬咋在验收怪物物资 Icebreaking Sledgehammer破冰大锤子Sports1.6M WordsCompleted [Road Survival raft + Infinite Dungeon Progression + Stockpiling] [Not an ensemble story, with a lone-wolf focus. Team battles only begin much later, after around chapter 450. Not a war-between-nations story, and not a rebirth story.] The early chapters borrow general elements from road-survival stories, such as vehicles, professions, and service stations. The story gradually opens up around chapter 100, combining an infinite-dungeon format with a road-survival setting. Current dungeons include 87.4kReads9.2Score8.4kShelves
15. 15 我 I Contain Hauntings in the Dark World 我在暗世界里收容诡物 I Am Different我则异於是Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted [Infinite Flow + Hypnotically Charming Male Lead With a Harem of Admirers + No Female Lead + Ensemble Cast + Overwhelming Combat Power + Recklessly Courting Death] After Xie Wudao dies, he finds himself in a dark world full of filth and strange creatures. Here, the only hope of staying alive is himself. Every instance contains a strange creature. Contain one, and he gains its supernatural ability, allowing him to command it in battle. The more strange creatures a player has, the more limitless t 22.7kReads9.3Score3.6kShelves
16. 16 开EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 Purple Spirit Wind and Snow紫灵风雪Eastern Fantasy6.1M WordsCompleted [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 538.9kReads9.7Score71.1kShelves
17. 17 变 Help, I've Turned into a Kitten! 变成小猫咪了肿么破 Yan Mai厌麦Two Male Leads271k WordsCompleted [Two male leads Slow burn Everyday life Each other’s first love] After an accident, Yu Miao turned into a little cat and was taken in by someone. Yu Miao never gave up on becoming human again. When he learned that he could transform once his bond with his owner reached a certain level, he began a whole campaign of acting cute and begging for affection. He and his owner grew closer by the day, and he also learned the truth about his origins by chance. But his owner had already realized he wasn’t 52Reads6.6Score—Shelves

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