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JJWXCRomance

A Gentle Blade

温柔刀

by Xiao Yang (小央)

Status
Completed
Length
212k Words
Genre
Romance
Updated
3y ago
Source
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59Chapters
39.1kFavorites
9.3Score
21.9kNutrient gifts
40.3kClicks per chapter
8.3kComments

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Good Reads

BG romance. I love that heart-pounding, gut-wrenching feeling when reading. I'm especially into messy love-triangle showdowns, revenge-after-the-breakup arcs, dark and obsessive relationship dynamics, and some satisfying power fantasies

Level C
72Books24Follows18dUpdated

The Finest Reads I've Ever Devoured

Nuanced relationships and excellent female character writing.

Level A
10Books2Follows19dUpdated

Angsty Romance

Love and hate tangled together, and genuine happiness. Both the male and female leads have issues; neither is an absolute male-or-female worshipper. They hurt each other!

Level B
18Books10Follows19dUpdated

Keepers

Pure BG. I don't follow authors' personal lives or drama. Apologies in advance if anything here is a dealbreaker. All are either fully purchased or free to read

Level B
68Books18Follows21dUpdated

Couldn't Stop Reading Until the End (Romance/No Romance)

My tastes are all over the place. Recommending novels that hooked me and kept me reading straight through. Romance or no-couple stories, but the female lead has to be the protagonist!

Level B
95Books142Follows27dUpdated

I Want to Read BG for the Rest of My Life

Representative or memorable works I've read. May include gender-bender. I've bought physical copies of almost all of T's works, but I haven't bought every volume online for a few of them.

Level C
72Books2Follows1moUpdated

Cute Young Love

BG romance / boys and girls / young couples / realism / two adorably clueless people falling in love

Level A
14Books17Follows1moUpdated

Modern Romance

A few contemporary romances.

Level C
70Books3Follows1moUpdated

The Romance Is Great to Ship, BG Only

My ratings are highly subjective, based purely on how I felt after finishing each book and how memorable it was.

Level A
84Books110Follows2moUpdated

Novels I'd Love to Read Again with No Memory

Mostly toxic, gloomy dog-like men

Level B
12Books2Follows2moUpdated

For Personal Use: Dropped, On Hold, and Notes

Saving books I haven't finished or didn't like after finishing. Entirely a matter of personal taste and extremely subjective.

Level C
21Books0Follows2moUpdated

Just Take This Recommendation, One Bite And You'll Be Hooked

I'm an omnivorous reader. As long as the writing is good, please recommend all the books you can! I usually wait until I've reread something to write a review so I can remember it better, but I've forgotten a bit.

Level B
23Books17Follows2moUpdated

Stories I Want to Revisit at Every Stage of Life

Stories I've read at least five times.

Level B
6Books0Follows3moUpdated

Absolutely Blown Away!

My personal picks

Level A
10Books9Follows5moUpdated

Some Fully Subscribed Romance Novels~

These look pretty good. A cure for a reading slump.

Level A
75Books1.2kFollows5moUpdated

Romance

So good, so good, so good! Give them all the stars!

Level C
14Books1Follows6moUpdated

BG Stories I Dropped, More Picks

Some BG stories that aren’t on my harem-protagonist list. The System wouldn’t let me give too many five-star ratings, so I rated them all four stars instead.

Level C
80Books6Follows6moUpdated

Mixed-Grain Rice

I prefer angsty melodramas with happy endings, but sometimes I read pure fluff with no angst.

Level B
75Books12Follows8moUpdated

Revenge and Angsty Romance Collection (Updated Regularly)

I don’t like groveling-ex-romance or angsty stories, but I can’t help clicking in to sample them. I haven’t bought every chapter of any of these, but they’ve all earned four stars. I’ll say a few words about the ones I’ve bought more of.

Level C
68Books0Follows8moUpdated

Task Recommendations: All Romance

A task, but all the recommendations are books I’ve finished. Feel free to make a similar list and we can follow each other. Some books here are unfinished, and some I read on my last account and haven’t bought again

Level A
28Books1Follows9moUpdated

Young Couples

Dating at such a young age

Level A
13Books13Follows9moUpdated

Great Het Romance

Let it be a dream. Even after reading for so long, I'm still moved.

Level A
6Books6Follows1yUpdated

Book Recommendations, Mostly Romance

Writing some thoughts on stories I've finished (updates will be slow)

Level B
24Books5Follows1yUpdated

Romance Recommendations 2

Stories with well-written romance and plotlines that don’t follow formulas.

Level B
17Books5Follows1yUpdated