Female-Led Romance / Satisfying No-Romance Novels 女主言情/无cp爽文

1. 1 从 Starting from Zero: A Cultivation Family Simulator 从零开始的修仙家族模拟器 Walking with the Gods与神同行Romance878k WordsCompleted You play a family-building game. You start as an ordinary mortal, without even the faintest trace of a cultivator in sight, yet the goal is to build the greatest cultivation clan in the world. Unlike an ordinary family game, this one lets you pass the game down through generations. You can create each new clan leader, your apparent descendant, from scratch. After countless generations of hard work, you look at your overflowing inheritance points and the traits you’ve given the next clan leader y 86.6kFavorites81.4kClicks/ch319.5kGifts

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   The ancient Greek god who controls wish-fulfillment novels, so happy he flies to the heavens; players persecute the cultivation world in their daily lives.

2. 2 四 Four-Hospital Patient Discussion Forum [Infinite] 四院病友交流论坛[无限] Colorful Rice炫彩大米Romance823k WordsCompleted Yu Xiao had a terminal illness with almost no hope of recovery, and she'd long since made peace with it. Every day, she calmly waited to die. One day, an app automatically downloaded onto her phone: Fourth Hospital Patient Forum. Fourth Hospital? Wasn't the local Fourth Hospital a psychiatric hospital? She opened it and saw the first post: [Guide to the Morgue] Yu Xiao: ??? The second post: [A roundup of all the ghosts and monsters I've encountered over the years] Yu Xiao: No wonder it's a 221.8kFavorites314.4kClicks/ch232.9kGifts

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   I don't really like infinite flow novels, but this one was pretty good. It's been so long that I can't remember much of the plot.

3. 3 谋 [Three Kingdoms] Can Strategists Not Ascend the Throne? [三国]谋士不可以登基吗？ River Wind a Thousand Miles Away千里江风No CP2.9M WordsCompleted [Three Kingdoms power struggle. The heroine isn't a strategist, she's a ruler.] [Complete. Anti-piracy measures cover 50% of the text. The full story is being polished and proofread. I take no responsibility for pirated versions.] The seventh year of Guanghe. The Yellow Turban Rebellion. Qiao Yan is bound to Strategist System No. 068 and awakens in the body of a dying little girl amid the starving dead. The System tells her that her goal is to become the greatest strategist under heaven. Sitting 189.2kFavorites328.2kClicks/ch829.9kGifts

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   Qiao Yan is just too strong, so satisfying! The protagonist is invincible, and the author did a good job of researching the historical facts.

4. 4 二 Half a Spoiler 二分之一剧透 Tianze Shiruò天泽时若Romance657k WordsCompleted As a game addict who transmigrated into a game, Wen Yanran has a unique advantage that countless other transmigrators lack. First, she starts at the top: she’s the emperor from the start. Second, she comes with a game-assistance System, a standard feature for any protagonist. * Just as Wen Yanran was fretting over her ability to manage a large team, the World Will that had helped her transmigrate offered a friendly reminder: to prevent the current world from restarting over and over, the transmi 164.9kFavorites283kClicks/ch317.8kGifts

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   Dihua flow, awesome! Highlight: It's best to forget about thinking when watching this.

5. 5 强 How the Strong Are Made 强者是怎样炼成的 Old Liver Mom老肝妈Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [This novel goes premium on the 22nd!] No blurb could do justice to the utterly outrageous content of this novel. She died, then was reborn. When she opened her eyes, she found she’d become a dinosaur, while her former kindred, now human beings, were studying her. They called her the Tyrannosaurus Rex! 1. A leveling-up story, slow burn, with a couple. 2. The female lead doesn’t remember who she is at first. 3. A crossover of horror and Marvel/DC. Theme: What joy it is to crush fate bene 160.8kFavorites216.7kClicks/ch2.2MGifts

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   The story is about character progression, the female lead is somewhere between human and inhuman, and her weight increases significantly. There's relatively little romance, the male lead has a low profile, and there aren't any major red flags.

6. 6 异 A Guide to Running a Shop on an Otherworldly Shopping Street 异世界商店街经营指南 Sugar Dependent依赖糖分Romance1.1M WordsCompleted My new story, The Daily Life of Running a Strange Tale Shopping Street, is now available. Please add it to your reading list! - Lu Yao binds to the Otherworldly Shopkeeping Wish-Granting System. By continually opening shops in other worlds, she can eventually have one wish granted. Before long, an abandoned shopping street in the city is quietly given a new lease on life. The shops are in the present world, but their customers come from parallel worlds. - Shop One: A Snack Shop in a Horror World 137.9kFavorites234.2kClicks/ch310.8kGifts

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   The first part of the "Otherworld Shop Management" series mainly tells the story of Lu Yao opening shops in various worlds. Highlight: The shop-opening plot is good, the romance is so-so, the male lead has a low presence, but he's still quite important.

7. 7 为 For the Throne 为皇 Old Liver Mom老肝妈Romance1.6M WordsCompleted Blurb: When she wakes, she finds herself in an unfamiliar world… She can’t read the writing or understand the language. A group of people dressed in bizarre clothes, “barbarians” by her standards, are talking among themselves, some in fear and others in excitement. When the divine voice sounds in her mind once more, and the limitless gate opens before her, she faces countless possibilities, from life to death. For the first time, Li Yundan discovers a way of life more thrilling than power str 133.1kFavorites167.6kClicks/ch584.7kGifts

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   The romance is so-so, but the female lead's power-ups are satisfying! The early chapters were a bit immature; more like a non-role-playing quick transmigration story than an infinite flow novel. What impressed me most was her incredible luck with every lottery draw—I was so envious!

8. 8 大 Has the Grand Archmage Made Any Money Today? 大奥术师她今天赚钱了吗 Pang Ha胖哈Romance2.3M WordsCompleted My new novel, After the Demolition, My Whole Family Made the Pig-Butchering Scam List, is now available in my author profile. Please add my upcoming novel, Can Infinite Failures Only Deduct Love?, to your collection. Thank you!~ Synopsis: A murder takes place in District 13, a low-class slum in the alchemical fantasy game world of Arcane Throne, a world of low-level citizens, alchemy, and a touch of Western fantasy. The wooden door opens. Xie Keli, a scoundrel who used to roam the streets, stu 114.8kFavorites171.8kClicks/ch1.3MGifts

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   There are ambiguous relationships between characters, both male and female, but there's actually no romantic pairing. The battles are just so exciting! In Fat Ha's stories, even the cannon fodder characters have their own cleverness. He always likes to twist and turn and then twist and turn again. Highlight: The female lead uses a special item to create a disguise (male), and the real body only officially appears later. The ratio of screen time for the disguised body to the real body is about 3:1, and the story has a bit of a gaze (regardless of gender).

9. 9 在 The Days of a Night Watchman in Ancient Times 在古代打更的日子 The Great World大世界Romance1.4M WordsCompleted New novel, The Hidden Bell, is updating daily! This novel will be available to paying readers starting August 3, 2022. I hope you’ll support it! Love you all! A cry pulled Gu Zhao from the world of the dead back to the realm of the living. Life is beautiful. Life can also be bitter. Birth, aging, sickness, death; parting from loved ones; meeting those you resent; wanting what you cannot have... Gu Zhao thought poverty was the greatest hardship in life. Unable to do hard physical labor, she c 106.7kFavorites203.2kClicks/ch313.6kGifts

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   Effortless and smooth upgrades! Basically no angst.

10. 10 灵 After the Spiritual Energy Revival 灵气复苏之后 Pang Ha胖哈Romance1.5M WordsCompleted My author page's new novel, After the Demolition, My Whole Family Made the Pig-Butchering Scam List, is now underway! Coming soon: Can Infinite Failures Only Deduct Love? Please add them to your reading lists, thank you!~ P.S. I'm terrible at titles and blurbs. If you like strong female leads, try my older novels in the same genre, The Old Wang Is Gone, So We Went to Reclaim the Wasteland and Hold Tight to the Wrench in Your Hand. Trust me and stick with it for a few more chapters. (Judging by 93.6kFavorites153.1kClicks/ch703.6kGifts

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    This battle is so satisfying! A story by Fat Ha, no romance.

11. 11 请 Please Keep a Firm Grip on Your Wrench 请握紧你手中扳手 Pang Ha胖哈Romance1.1M WordsCompleted My new novel, After the Demolition, My Whole Family Made the Pig-Butchering Scam List, is now open for advance collection. Also accepting advance follows for Can Infinite Failures Only Deduct Love? Please add them to your collection, thanks!~ Blurb: Jian Ruo, an auto mechanic with a terminal illness and crushing debts, crawled out from under a car. The bespectacled man in a sharp suit standing before her told her that her wealthy biological father had finally found her. But there was a catch: s 93.5kFavorites157.5kClicks/ch279.4kGifts

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    Love you, sis! [Heart emoji] Awesome! Also by Fat Ha, I like plot twists, the main character is portrayed as beautiful, strong, and tragic, but there's actually no romantic pairing.

12. 12 征 Conquering the Universe Starts in an Eggshell 征服宇宙从蛋壳开始 Wei Wo Wu Jiu薇我无酒Romance641k WordsCompleted Ling Rulu transmigrated into an otome game she'd played before. When she woke inside an eggshell, she heard a deafening chorus of celebration. Countless voices wept with joy at her birth. In this life, she had a special identity: the sole queen of the insect race. System: [Our mission is completely risk-free. You don't have to do anything, and the entire insect race will cherish you. Isn't that a great deal?] In the main story, as a delicate and precious queen, all she had to do was live in 81.4kFavorites101kClicks/ch118.4kGifts

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    A female-dominated worldview—this book could serve as an enlightenment for women's thinking. One scene that left a deep impression was Menstruation Day. Dreaming of such a world—how wonderful!

13. 13 在 Playing an NPC in the Old Gods' Game [Infinite] 在旧神游戏中扮演NPC[无限] Mu Xi Qingting木兮蜻蜓Romance960k WordsCompleted * A print edition has been signed for publication. Preorders come with a special or author-signed edition. See the author’s Weibo for details. * The blurb for the new novel, Mr. Monsters (Sweet Treats with Nonhumans), is at the bottom. * Blurb: Lu Yunong falls asleep amid an endless nightmare in the real world, then wakes up in a beginner-level instance. When she opens her eyes, a crowd of players with “countdowns to death” over their heads gaze at her eagerly. [Ding-dong!] [When the instance i 65.9kFavorites100.9kClicks/ch106kGifts

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    Awesome! Highlight: The ending felt a bit rushed later on, with many things left unexplained, but it's still a decent "feel-good" story.

14. 14 大 The Ming Dynasty's First Grand Secretary 大明第一首辅 Brown Sugar Jasmine Milk Tea黑糖茉莉奶茶Romance3.7M WordsCompleted Jiang Yunyun wakes up as an unfavored concubine-born son of the Jiang family in Yangzhou. Her biological father is cruel, her stepmother is unkind, her talented elder brother is cold-hearted, her sharp-tongued younger brother has a rotten heart, and her beautiful sisters are full of worries. Even she is about to be given away as a gift to some i 60.3kFavorites77.6kClicks/ch257kGifts

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    Jiang Xiaoyun's path to promotion is exhilarating! Highlight: The protagonist is quite talented in governance, but she repeatedly falls into traps in the power struggles among high-ranking officials and nobles, always ending in regret.

15. 15 异 Guide to Running a Shop in Another World II 异世界商店街经营指南二 Sugar Dependent依赖糖分Romance1.6M WordsCompleted - Lu Yao binds herself to an Otherworldly Shopkeeping Wish-Fulfillment System. By opening stores in other worlds, she can eventually make one wish come true. Before long, an abandoned shopping street in the city quietly gets a makeover. The shops belong to the present world, but they connect to parallel worlds. - A snack shop, a nail salon, a blind-box store, a fluffy-pet shop 50.5kFavorites62.1kClicks/ch366.3kGifts

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    The second part of Lu Yao's "Opening a Shop in Another World" had a well-written romantic subplot at the end. Highlight: In the Eighth Shop, there's a plot where the villain, to create obstacles, sets up a fake female lead who falls in love with a male character. This leads to the male character engaging in a "stand-in literature" scenario, a story that clashes with the style of other dimensions.

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