A Cold-Faced but Adorable Male Lead (´இωஇ`) 冷脸萌男主(´இωஇ｀)

1. 1 信 Esports: Pheromones Say We Were Made for Each Other 【电竞】信息素说我们天生一对 Yes, Yes, Yes, You're Right对对对你说的对Two Male Leads378k WordsCompleted Thick-skinned, secretly passionate top vs. cold-faced, all-talk bottom [1v1] [Esports] [ABO] Chi Feifan caught his scumbag boyfriend cheating. Furious, he kicked open the door to a private karaoke room and beat the man up without a word. He never imagined that this trip would somehow end with him passing out and waking up in the hospital. The good news was that he was fine, apart from having undergone a second differentiation and become an Omega. The bad news was that his glands had not develope 24.3kReads9.3Score5.5kShelves

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   Totally cold-faced and cute, all carefully selected

2. 2 我 My Wife Is Adorable, But If You Find Out, You're Dead 我老婆很可爱，但你知道就死定了 Zhaozhao Is Not Zhaozhao朝朝不是找找Two Male Leads288k WordsCompleted Say a quiet little “May fortune come my way” to a life full of gorgeous men. [Cold-faced, cute-mouthed, sharp-tongued, soft-hearted bottom x mixed-race, flirtatious, alpha-male top] [Flirty top, cool bottom (pseudo) rivals-to-lovers, real and fake young masters, wish-fulfillment, straight guy turned gay by the top] As the real young master who was switched at birth, Pei Jingci has one simple reason for entering a wealthy family: to make money. When people insult him, he says, “If you call me ugl 14.8kReads9.0Score2.4kShelves
3. 3 对 After My Rival Streamer’s Identity Was Exposed, I Fell for Them 对家主播掉马后我真香了 FawnsTwo Male Leads283k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + One-on-one + Gaming + Livestreaming + Younger man + Two strong leads + Both pure] [Quiet, sultry, ruthless pro gamer and jungler, Gong: Ling Yu/LING × Gentle senior in person, venomous trash-talking mage online, Shou: Lu You/You Yi] The game is Honor of Kings. Both leads are streamers, not esports pros. The setting is fictional, with no real-life counterparts. - Ling Yu and Lu You are both top streamers in the Honor of Kings category. Last year, a match left them at odds, and t 15.1kReads9.3Score2.8kShelves
4. 4 校 The School Bully Turned Omega, and Now the Obsessive Alpha Is Losing Control 校霸B变O后，撩得偏执A失控了 Azure Mountain Isles蔚蓝山屿Two Male Leads347k WordsCompleted [ABO + sweet romance + two powerful leads + happy ending + college setting, adult protagonists] [Arrogant campus bully young master x scheming, seemingly proper alpha] Shen Xingyan, a notorious campus bully at Jin University, had been unlucky since childhood. He choked on water, tripped while walking, and was plagued by all sorts of ailments, big and small. As a beta, he loved chasing after people. Once he won them over, he would break up with them in less than a day. The whole school even sta 7.4kReads9.4Score1.6kShelves
5. 5 我 [Literary Genius] I Desperately Heal the Main Cast 【文豪】我给主角团拼命回血 Little Xie Having a Meal吃饭的小解Anime Fanfiction853k WordsCompleted [Transmigration] [Bungo Stray Dogs] [Original Male Lead] [No Romance] [Making Up for Regrets] [Bungo Stray Dogs] The word “Transmigration” has always seemed to hold a special appeal for people. But when Xie Shuyi truly arrives in the world of the literary greats, he realizes that the violence and madness hidden within this city far exceed anything he could have imagined. As the boy's bright, curious eyes are utterly crushed, he gradually sinks into darkness: hollow, numb, and despairing. Even th 2.1kReads9.1Score278Shelves
6. 6 求 A Guide to Getting Your Husband Killed 求丈夫去世教程 Poisoned by a Devil Mushroom魔鬼蘑菇中毒Two Male Leads416k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + tragic love and bitter hatred + adversaries turned lovers + happy ending + imprisonment and coercion + both reborn + both villains + both devoted to each other] Original title: The Barren Sea of Happiness In the year when their hatred was at its fiercest, Li Quegui floored the accelerator and sent his husband and sworn enemy to his death, then took his own life. When he opened his eyes again, Lin Xianqiu was sitting by the bed, looking at him with concern. He was seven years y 9.1kReads9.4Score1.6kShelves
7. 7 高 Aloof, Masked Assassin? No, a Softhearted Savior 高冷覆面刺客？不，是心软救世主 anzawaModern Romance588k WordsOngoing [Starts with a leveling-up arc, then becomes invincible][Straight-laced male protagonist, a little like a male power fantasy, often speechless at the gay men around him, no romance] “Hello, Mr. Xie Qing. As one of China's six S-rank Hunters and the world's only White Dragon Druid, you're a powerhouse who also serves as a bard, assassin, swordsman, berserker, priest, and more...” Time was precious. The reporter flipped through the interview outline and had to skip the lengthy introduction to get 13kReads9.4Score1.2kShelves

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   Don't miss this book, Xiaoqing is really super cute [shy]

8. 8 地 The Coldest Cutie on Earth Is Actually a Brooding, Possessive Man 地表第一冷脸萌竟然是个阴湿男 Making Rock Sugar Pear Soup煮冰糖梨水Modern Romance378k WordsCompleted [Sensitive, gloomy, cold-faced cutie x warm, outgoing, cheerful cutie] [Campus | Love at First Sight | Both Pure] When An Li first arrived, she met a cute, puppy-like boy who rescued her from a terrible situation. This little "puppy" was not only sweet-looking, but had a lovely personality too. He just had some hearing loss, which made An Li feel even more protective of him. Though she said she would treat the "puppy" just like anyone else, when she noticed how sensitive and insecure he could be 17.8kReads8.7Score5.9kShelves

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   This is really amazing. I was immediately shocked. Oh my god, how could there be such cute male and female protagonists? The male protagonist is cold-faced and cute, so pitiful. He has gone through a lot of things. The female protagonist is warm-faced and cute. She is a complete little girl. I like her character very much. Micro group portrait

9. 9 抬 That Wasn’t an Apology, It Was a Raised Hand. You Still Need Training, Vengeful Ghost 抬手不是抱歉，是厉鬼你还得练 Unknown Rivers and Mountains不知山河Modern Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Romance, violent delinquent girl x pure-hearted good boy] After Qin Buli is brought back to the wealthy Rong family, she discovers that the whole household has been torn to shreds by ghosts and monsters. A female ghost from ancient times lives inside the antique painting her father is obsessed with. The little bird her mother keeps is actually her eldest daughter, who died young. Her eldest brother is caught in a deadly romantic curse, her second brother has been cursed by a child ghost, and he 12.1kReads8.8Score2kShelves
10. 10 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 101.1kReads9.2Score10.6kShelves

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    This little Jiang Yi is completely cold-faced and cute, and is very sweet. She looks like a lone wolf rather than a group, very good-looking, and there is no female protagonist, and the male protagonist has no CP, which means that you can have sex at will!

11. 11 和 The Royal Husband Sent as a Hostage: Imprisoned, He Keeps Getting Cornered on the Emperor's Bed 和亲男后：囚禁后总被皇帝堵床上 Sen Yan森琰Two Male Leads478k WordsOngoing [Two Male Leads: Dominant Emperor Top and Consort Prince Bottom. Older, Fatherly Top, Ten-Year Age Gap. Love at First Sight, Unscrupulous Tactics, Taking by Force, Intense Push and Pull, Imprisonment, Forced Love in a Dark Room.] Chu Zhao was Great He's most beautiful man and its greatest general. He had gone to battle ten times and crushed the grassland enemies each time. But on his eleventh campaign, Chu Zhao was defeated by the grassland king, Huyan Lie, and driven to the city gates. Below th 30.7kReads7.0Score3.9kShelves

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    This book is beautiful [I also strongly recommend it][I also strongly recommend it][I also strongly recommend it][Send my heart to you]

12. 12 穿 Reborn as the Firstborn of a Concubine: My Legitimate Brother Is an Immortal Emperor! 穿越庶长兄：嫡弟竟是仙帝转世！ Tonight, I'll Bask in the Moonlight今晚晒月亮Xianxia1.4M WordsOngoing [Signed for print publication | Two male leads who are brothers (family and friendship, no romance) | Lighthearted comedy with a hint of ensemble cast | Satisfying, never groveling | Two powerhouses at the peak in the later story] After transmigrating overnight, Yun Qing became the eldest illegitimate son of a top cultivation family. The good news: He was born with a Chaos Dao Embryo and Ancient Double Pupils. In this life, he could grasp the sun, pluck the stars, and reach the very summit of th 214.5kReads9.6Score18.7kShelves

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    Even when I went there, I didn't know if it was a good match or not.

13. 13 穿 After Transmigrating as the Fake Young Master, I Became Wildly Popular in the Interstellar Era Through Card Making 穿成假少爷后，我靠制卡爆红星际 The Canned Food Tastes Bad罐头不好吃Two Male Leads654k WordsCompleted [Dual male leads + interstellar + transmigrate into a book + cannon fodder + card crafting + mental power + special abilities + mechas + campus life + livestreaming] Blurb One: After transmigrating into a book as a cannon-fodder character with F-rank mental power, a reputation for doing every manner of evil, and a record of coming last in class, who was hated by everyone and had even been dumped by his fiance, Qi Shu checked his terminal and found himself 30 billion star coins in debt from the s 21.1kReads9.2Score3.7kShelves
14. 14 我 Why Are All the Clansfolk I Summon Such Jokers? 我召唤的族人，怎么全是乐子人？ Yi Pingping一平平Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.4M WordsCompleted In the era of the Interstellar Alliance, countless races have united to fight off the invasion of the insectoid race. Among all the races, humanity is the weakest. As the only human to enter the Lord's Academy, he is assigned a remote, desolate planet. Danger lurks everywhere, and the insectoids could discover and devour him at any moment. Unless he can develop his own people and planet, Wei Yuan will not only fail to graduate, he may not survive. Luckily, transmigration comes with a System. Wei 33.3kReads9.1Score3.8kShelves
15. 15 冷 The Cold-Faced, Adorable Interstellar Crown Prince Is Doted on by Villains on a Dating Show 冷脸萌星际太子在恋综被恶人团宠 Wan Zhou Ye万舟叶Two Male Leads154k WordsCompleted [Two male leads + both virginal + everyone’s favorite + all characters are villains + pseudo transmigration into a book + everyone reborn + equally powerful leads] A cold-faced cutie is surrounded by a pack of sinister, obsessive men. Enqi stayed up all night reading a space-opera ensemble political thriller. Every member of the main cast was ruthless, making the whole lot of them villains. When Enqi woke up, he had transmigrated into the body of the novel’s villainous crown prince, entering the 237Reads—Score100Shelves
16. 16 禁 No Cheats Allowed: Summoning Chinese Heroic Spirits in Another World 禁止开挂：在异世召唤华夏牌灵 Crossing the Winter Crow度寒鸦Modern Romance376k WordsCompleted [Card Summoning, a Growing Heroine, a Hero Who Wins Himself Over, Appears Later] Fu Sui transmigrated into a strange world. Everyone here is born with a bonded card, and at the age of twelve they can summon their fated card spirit. What’s more, the world is crawling with corrupted demons. To them, humans are nothing but delicious little cakes. Help! She doesn’t want to become an after-dinner snack. So Fu Sui can only summon every ounce of strength she has to call upon the Goddess Nuwa to save he 23.3kReads8.8Score4.4kShelves

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    I want to see a male protagonist similar to this one

17. 17 欢 Welcome to the Game of the Gods 欢迎进入神明游戏 Orange Sesame Snow Beauty橘芝雪艳Two Male Leads858k WordsOngoing [Two male leads + horror game + a wide variety of Overseer Bosses + high intelligence and combat prowess + solving the game] An unknown-species bottom × a god who gives his all for love The world fell into darkness. The Divine Game: a path to godhood. The Harbingers of Calamity lurked out of sight. The Judges stood high above, while the Overseers slaughtered without restraint. The Chosen laughed arrogantly, while the Candidates screamed and struggled to survive. The Rioters ripped bloody heads f 15kReads9.4Score2.8kShelves

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    This should count, right?

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