
Neither Strangers Nor Friends
不生不熟
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 247k Words
- Genre
- Danmei (BL)
- Era
- Modern Era
- Updated
- 2y ago
- Source
- JJWXC
Synopsis
Other names
- Neither Raw nor RipeEarlier English title
In booklists 266
Explore more →A Collection of Mature Men
My own, not especially rigorous collection of danmei with mature male characters. Mostly urban stories. The collection may be incomplete. I recommend opening the relevant authors' profiles ().
Five-Star Reads_2
Really good novels
A Cat’s Flower Language Is First Come, First Served [BL]
[Historical danmei / modern danmei / mostly sweet, with little angst] Adorable catboy bottoms, all precious babies. (Five stars = reread for my own enjoyment.)
Personal Favorites
A simple record of my personal tastes. Everything here gets five stars. These are the tropes I hate
Peach Blossom Spring (A Bit of Everything)
A place that lets me catch my breath while I'm doing my best to get through life.
Books This Picky Reader Couldn't Stop Thinking About
BL. I love cute stories, but not stupidly naive heroines. Every book deserves five stars. Please follow my list~
A Bit of Everything, All Fully Purchased
I prefer melodramatic romance, stories focused on a couple, and easy, mindless wish-fulfillment reads. I haven't bought some in full because they have locked chapters
Books I've Read, Saved for Myself
Enjoyed these. Four stars means five stars, and three stars means four stars. This stupid System won't let me give five stars.
4.5 Stars and Up
Since 2022, I've been sorting these into four- and five-star reads. Worth rereading and savoring, and I like couples who are evenly matched.
Sweet Stories | Modern BL | ②
Heavily reliant on sweet BL stories, though I can handle a little angst. A big collection of modern-day BL, including three- to five-star reads. If I haven't bought the extras, I haven't fully subscribed.
Delicious! I’m Digging In!
I especially love second-chance romances, old flames rekindling, sickly characters, self-deprecating loyal puppy semes, and gentle semes. I love harem-protagonist ukes and beautiful, strong-but-tragic ukes. There are more seme-focused stories here, but as long as the writing is good, everything is good.
A Very Mixed Bag of Books
A bit of everything.
Books I Love to Read
Highly recommended
Stories That Feel Like Real Life
Slow-burn stories with good writing that I’ve read and can still remember. (Why does this feel like it’s turning into a column for Wu Zhe and Bu Wen Sanjiu?)
So Good, Worth Rereading Again and Again
I love stories with mutual affection, strong leads, humor, and ensemble casts. Some are so good I’ve reread them over and over.
Never Gets Old
Personal favorites
BL with Lots of Romance That I Really Love
All personal favorites that I will reread countless times, adding more whenever I come across them. Most feature a bottom as the main character or have an unclear perspective. Stories with a top protagonist or switching will be marked.
Open to All Genres
The ones I personally think are good. A bit of everything: BG, BL, and no romance.
No Angst, Mostly Equally Matched Couples
My long reviews reflect my personal feelings and aren’t guaranteed to be completely fair. Please don’t take offense if I upset gong or shou fans! Let’s keep the internet friendly, speak civilly, and respect one another.
Stories I Keep Coming Back To
You always have to go home and take a look, hehe.
Ten Years of Reading Notes
A record of some great stories I've read on JJ. I love sweet romances and am a die-hard shipper. I'm happy with both relationship-focused and plot-driven stories. Older love interests, historical romance, food stories, and period dramas.
Worth Revisiting
Sharing some of the books I've read over the years that I keep coming back to
Romance Between Mature Men
I like reading about love between mature men
Cute Shou-Centric Stories
Worth reading
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I haven't opened Jinjiang for many, many years. When I saw Zuoyan, Teacher Sanjiu said that some people said that you wrote this book poorly, which is not true at all. This is one of your works that I like very much. It has nothing to do with whether you are sexually active or not, nothing to do with your previous relationship experiences, and nothing to do with your age. Love is just love. I will always admire people who can continue to be fully committed to a relationship after being fully committed to it, because I can't do that. But what is very different between Le Zhi and Fang Chi and others is that they have known each other since they were young and are each other's best friends. The friendship when they were young was always very strong. Even now I can say that the relationship during that period was actually gender-neutral. If I like you and I want to be friends with you, then I will be 1000% good to you. There is no reason. But in fact, when I think about it later, is there really no reason? Or maybe there is a layer of love mixed in with that kind of kindness that I am not aware of. Maybe it is. I personally think this work is great. Maybe it's because I've reached the age of "middle-aged love" that many readers criticize, but I can understand everything I want to express. I even wanted to cry after reading it. Maybe it's because I can no longer be so involved in a relationship. Thank you for not asking Teacher Sanjiu.
Read the full article. From the aged dog to the prairie fire to the still life, the life in Sanjiu's works is quiet and long, and the emotions are delicate and beautiful. It is indeed strange to say that I have read a lot of pure love novels, but in the relationships written by Sanjiu, I often forget about gender and only pay attention to the emotional nature of the characters. Regardless of gender, those characters are always careful and prudent about starting a relationship. After starting, they will be serious and serious again. If there are problems between the two people, they will work hard to repair them. If they can't be repaired, they will simply break it off. This kind of healthy and down-to-earth emotional attitude is really rare in online articles nowadays. Among the Internet articles that fill the screen with the image of a vacillating protagonist who talks but does not speak in order to highlight the pull of the character, Sanjiu's article allows me to feel the lasting beauty of true love in an era of junk fast food culture.
What a happy book!! It's a long and narrow story. I'm very surprised by the theme of "Changing Attacks" because it's easy to write and write in such a way that the attack is mindless and licking. In addition, this book has an ex-boyfriend of eight years, which makes me even more scared. But on the other hand, I'm also very curious about how the author will reconcile the eight-year relationship and let him disappear like this. I can only say that Sanjiu's characterization is really great regardless of whether he is daring to love or hate, and he can afford to let go. This kind of almost free and easy personality makes him withdraw from a relationship very quickly. Moreover, before they fell in love, Chi and Lezhi already had an extraordinary tacit understanding. A love that can be understood with one look is worthless than the kind of love that needs to be accommodated at all times. Coupled with Xiao Hei's naivety, eight years of love is not worth staying with Lezhi. The author also wrote about Fang Chi's life story. In fact, it can be guessed from the previous article. But when Lao Han actually said the words "picked up" in front of Fang Chi, I felt as sad and sad as Fang Chi. When the story of Fang Chi's life story was further deepened in the later chapters, I could feel that he was actually a very insecure person. The last thing that surprised me was the setting of Sister Pang. Those two chapters were really tearful. Sister Pang is really a great woman. She may not be a good mother. But in the love she could express, she really gave a lot to her three children. Although Lao Han did something wrong, he only committed a common problem that normal people have - selfishness. He could not be as selfless as Pang Qing, who "doesn't care". But despite this, he did not treat Fang Chi badly in terms of food, housing and other material things. Human nature is too complicated, there is no right or wrong, and we can only see a group of ordinary people supporting a group of love. I made up my mind to read this book because I was actually attracted by one of dy's videos. The content was about begging for someone who is a good lover. Someone mentioned Le Zhi in the comment area. After reading the following, I became more and more sure that the netizen did not lie to me. Le Zhi is really good at loving people. He understands Fang Chi's unspeakable secret, the fragility that cannot be shown, the endless loneliness in his heart and the desire to be loved. He is willing to use up everything he has to give Fang Chi the only love that belongs to him. There will be no quarrels, no deception, no betrayal between them, only the endless and endless love. Thank you Buwen Sanjiu for writing the story. It is very warm and touching.
I read it again and am still moved by the slow pace of this story. It's so well written!
A particularly beautiful story [Orange Heart]
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2026.10.1 I also want to say goodbye, Le Zhi, Fang Chi, goodbye, happy forever.
Fang Chi and Le Zhi should always be well! I am very happy to see you happy🥹🥹
I really like the style of this article, hahaha, 🐰
We all need to bravely say goodbye to the past. If you are lucky enough to meet the right person, then stay with your lover for the rest of your life. If you haven't met anyone yet, you should live a new life happily.