Glass Rhinestones
玻璃水钻
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 111k Words
- Genre
- Romance
- Era
- Modern Era
- Updated
- 2y ago
- Source
- JJWXC
Synopsis
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Straight Romance
A bit of everything.
Personal Favorites and Female-Lead Fans
A mix of genres, all with solid writing. (The star ratings are random. I’ve loved every one of these at some point. Maybe they don’t hold up as well now, but I hope they help fellow readers find something they like.)
Comfort Reads [BG]
Slowly updating (preferences: yandere characters, spoiled divas, green tea schemers, melodrama, villains, sweet-on-the-outside-but-dark-inside characters, airheads, love triangles, forced love)
Modern Romance I've Read
Modern romance novels I've read, as the title says. Includes GB. Personal list, all ratings are subjective.
2025 BG Reading List
My 2025 BG favorites! Mutual devotion, childhood sweethearts, and strictly one-on-one romance.
Romance: A Guide to Falling for Fictional Characters
Purely personal taste
Completed Stories with Fewer Than 50,000 Favorites
Both BL and BG, I’ll read anything, really. For romance, I lean toward historical Chinese settings, palace and household intrigue, imperial examinations, and that sort of thing, but they’re not always from the female lead’s perspective. Danmei is even more varied.
Love-Brained Male Leads
I can't remember if every one of these has a mutually inexperienced couple.
You're Missing Out If You Don't Read These
One day I opened this reading list and thought, Wow, this person's taste is amazing! (Dives headfirst into the books)
A Grab Bag of Romance, BL, and Everyone-Loves-Them Stories
Sweet, sour, bitter, and tart
Heathers
The good women and bad women I love
Zeng Zeng Dai Jiao Bu
Daijoubu desu ka
Books Worth Saving
For my own records.
Highly Rated Romance with Strong Heroines, Tormenting the Men, and Love Triangles
Career-focused: the romance takes up less than half the story, so I classify it as a romance. Stories about powerful women in love, with devoted pursuers, male rivals vying for her, or men getting their hearts broken.
Not Bad
For my own records. I recommend this list less than my other one. I'll gradually add reasons for the flaws and regrets in these books.
Noble and Wealthy
Good reads.
Delicious Reads
All kinds of genres, BG. The System won't let me give a rating without a five-star book
Favorites
It's good!
Xiao Yang, Please Come Back
I miss you so much.
When Fate Brings Us Face to Face, We Can't Escape It, BG
Suddenly, tangled lines appeared in my palm~ I love shipping couples who are destined to be together, or couples where I insist on forcing fate. I don't like pure sweetness, there has to be at least a little angst.
Delicious Female Characters Deserve Everything!
I prefer strong female protagonists who think independently and make their own decisions. Whether sweet, spicy, or bittersweet, they are all our adorable girls! Some have a period of choosing among love interests, some are eventually 1v1, and some have no CP.
Female-Centric, So Good!!! BG
Female-centered stories, with the heroine coming first and the male lead being optional.
Tasty Romance
I don’t read much romance, so I won’t sort these into subgenres. I really love all of them and sometimes pull them out to reread.
The Xiao Yang Universe
The heroines in Xiao Yang's stories are all so captivating
