The Ambitions of a Guild Receptionist
公会看板娘之野望
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- Completed
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- Western Fantasy
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- 6y ago
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Miscellaneous Recommendations, Mostly Not Fluff
I'll keep updating this.
The Withered Lily Garden.
Updated 2026.9.27. Collecting high-quality GL novels. (All finished reading.) P.S. I'll flag any disgusting dealbreakers. Removed the ones I didn't enjoy.
Top-Tier Gender-Swap Audiobooks
Mostly gender-bender novels in audiobook form. I've listened to almost all of them, so go ahead and give them a try.
Interesting Novels
Some novels I had read.
Everyday Gender-Bending Stories
I don't have many to recommend. Slice-of-life novels are genuinely rare, and even fewer are the kind I actually enjoy. Every now and then I'll also recommend something outside the slice-of-life genre, since great works aren't limited to just one category. A Certain Red Fruit:
Some Novels with Good Plots, Both Straight and Yuri
I can finally make a reading list! I don't like gender-bender romance. I've read both yuri and solo-protagonist stories, and I'll recommend some that I think are good. (Most importantly, most of them are really long!)
Personal Reading Log (Read)
For personal recordkeeping. I may organize this list later.
Yuri Cuddles
Featuring gender-bender, yuri, female protagonists, and more. Updates are reliable, the writing and plot are solid, and there's plenty to read. Regular updates, and all the idle authors have been roasted. There may be a few flaws, but these are all top-quality picks, so enjoy without worry.
Books That Break the Usual Mold
These should all be female-protagonist or TS stories. The books here differ to some extent from popular titles and familiar tropes. If you've read too many conventional stories and are feeling burned out, you can browse this list for something different.
Yuri / Gender-Bender Yuri: Yuri Is Supreme
First of all, I'm not a yuri fan. I forgot what happened in the middle and at the end. Anyway, girls cuddling up together is just the best. I've read every book on this list, they're free of unpleasant surprises, and they all have pretty good prose. (I'll keep updating the list!)
My Favorite Genres
Keeping track of books that suit my tastes
My Favorites, A Hundred Picks
Books I enjoy, with female protagonists in yuri or solo romances
Books with a Unique Flavor
These are some of the more distinctive books I've come across on Pinecone.
Long, High-Quality Novels (Gender-Bender Yuri and Gender-Bender Solo Romance)
I guarantee every book on this list is over 1.5 million words, so you'll be crying, "Where did the time go?!" Quality guaranteed, too! I don't recommend bad books. They're all top-notch works on Pinecone. This list covers both obscure and popular titles. If you're out of things to read, come take a look. Obscure just means less popular, not poorly written... In short, I want to spare more readers the pain of finding something to read. Everything here features gender transformation, either into a
Pretty Good Books
Was it 2017 when I first came here? Or even earlier? I don't remember. Over the many years I've spent reading on this site, I've found a number of books worth reading. Reading has changed along with our fast-paced society, from something that shook the soul and guided our thoughts to disposable entertainment that fills the void and kills time. But we shouldn't, and mustn't, forget that reading is ultimately meant to offer guidance. Here are some good books from this site that have survived the t
Must-Read Novels on Pinecone, Worth Every Penny
A collection of all the novels I enjoy, in the hope that they might help fellow readers find something to read.
A Collection of Excellent Gender-Bender Yuri Novels Averaging Over 2 Million Characters
I live for gender-bender yuri, but I can't stand having to wait ages for a story to get going before there's enough to read! Books are meant to be binged! These books have clearly got enough chapters now ੭ ᐕ)੭ I'm going to read and read to my heart's content! 'Fight!' (Pointless close-up of a body part)
Good, Clean Reads on SF Lately
Um... how should I put it? These are books I've been slowly collecting on SF over the years! They're all pretty good, and I've removed the ones that stopped updating. No poison, no landmines, safe even for readers with zero tolerance. There's a wide range of genres: pure romance, harem, yuri, gender bender, and so on. Feel free to read them. I've personally vetted every one.
Good Books That Don't Get Recommended
Other worlds, romance, transformation, fantasy, and some good books that don't get recommended much
Female Protagonists, Including Yuri
Top Gender-Transformation Stories
[Underrated stories that stand apart from the world, break free of copycat formulas, and are written with care] I won't recommend the many popular gender-bender stories. If you want to learn about those, check Bilibili. This list mainly recommends underrated gender-bender stories. There are even some that are exclusively about women marrying women, but I won't include those for now. I'll add them gradually when I feel like it. Three stars: good stories Four stars: excellent stories Five sta
Gender-Bender Yuri and Femboys
Good writing, no frustrating plot points, and no characters acting like idiots. I've been reading web novels for six or seven years, so I can tell a good book from a bad one. (I've tried to find every possible flaw, even the ones most of you probably won't notice.)
A Bookworm's Awesome Reading List
Excellent works with great writing and plots. These are the best books I've found over the years, so good you won't care what genre they are. (Most books these days are hard to describe. There are so many generic, paint-by-numbers stories that finding a good one feels like panning for gold in the sand.)
Highly Recommended Girls' Love Novels
This list is for recommending my favorite yuri novels among all the ones I've read on Bilibili Comics. I hope you find something you like in it (≧∇≦)/
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My favorite book, I read it in elementary school and now I'm in college. The plot really impressed me. I couldn't afford to read it in elementary school, so I gave up, and I haven't read it since. Recently, I started reading it again, rereading my old books. This book is truly my favorite; it's full of memories. Although the later parts weren't pure romance, shattering my childhood fantasy, I'm still grateful for the wonderful memories it brought me.
Six years ago, in 2017, I stumbled upon this blog, and its humorous and slice-of-life writing style soothed some of my sadness and disappointment. Now, returning to this familiar place, I can't help but open the blog again and reminisce about the feelings I had back then. Thank you Yang Qing and Bolubao. The past cannot be retrieved, but a piece of writing or a work can transcend time and space to bring the same emotion. I hope that the author and the platform will treat the retention or rejection of the work with care, because it holds the beautiful memories of countless readers.
A mine clearance that doesn't suit my taste
I forgot I'd read it, so I redoed it, opened the table of contents, and saw "Was the autopsy last night comfortable?" In the title. Unpleasant memories flooded back—that was the chapter that turned me off. My personality is such that I stay far away from people with problems, and the worst part is that the two characters ended up together! I can't accept that. To warn others, there's a scene where the protagonist is dissected by a plot mission, without anesthesia, while fully awake. The protagonist is completely helpless, crying and screaming during the dissection. Afterwards, their memory is erased, and they calmly accept the truth. In the end, the person who dissected the protagonist even...
Hmm, this might be a good work.
Hmm, this might be a good work. 5 Million words. I've read it twice, from junior high to high school to repeating a year and then to university... That night, I suddenly remembered this novel, then opened the first chapter, then the second (which I think is called "Psychological Test")… My heart felt heavy, but the words I wanted to say were on the tip of my tongue. Four years is too long. I've wasted my talents, squandered my youth, lost my integrity, and missed so much. Now, rereading this book, I roughly understand Yang Qing's meaning.
Give me a cup of Morning Star.
I'm so grateful to the author for giving me the opportunity to savor such a story. Calling it just a story might not be quite right; it's their story, and every character is a living, breathing being. I love their lives and yearn for them. The book has an ending, but in my heart, their lives will never end. "Welcome to the Stone House," hearing Xiao Lan say those words again, I felt as if I could see twelve-year-old Xiao Lan again, that black-haired girl with red eyes. If—and I mean if—I had the chance, "Please give me another cup of Morning Star..."
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Why did everyone in the story change? The once innocent Xiao Lan grew up to be so wretched; the president, who supposedly pursued justice, couldn't distinguish between good and evil; and Berlani became scheming… Perhaps this is what growing up is like. Even so, Xiao Lan and Bai Ye are growing closer and closer… ...
I like this story, and I love it deeply.
The story ends on the summer solstice of 2020. Perhaps they've found their direction—a stable job, an excellent and appreciative boss, their other half, their beloved, their family, their children. The dream faded that summer, and the youthful you has matured. Of course, wherever you are, I think we are all grateful for this story; it's beautiful and moving, like an epic, like the carefree laughter of youth. (Actually, I didn't have the money to read the full story; I only read the free chapters.)
Unforgettable
Is it considered an open ending? As readers, we often want to know the fate of every character, eagerly hoping for a definite, perfect ending. At the same time, a definite ending also leaves little room for imagination. The characters' stories are finished; there will be no new stories. Everything is predetermined, and they will gradually fade from memory with the passage of time. Afterwards, we can only imagine their daily lives. But occasionally, when we reflect on the past and recall reading such a work, we can freely imagine those unfinished stories—and perhaps even revise them...
Thoughts
Today, I finally finished reading the ending... Even though I'd already turned off my computer, and even though I had to get up early the next day... I was still driven by the emotions in my heart to write thousands of words, then delete them all... All my words boil down to one sentence: Thank you, author, thank you for everything you've given us. Years later, I still often recall the joy your work initially brought me. This is my first, and perhaps last, book review for you. Your work has become an emotion in my heart that will never fade. Nothing in the future can shake its place in my heart. Thank you again.
He remained silent, seemingly without sorrow.
When I read Hakuin Zenji's words, "Silence seems to dispel sorrow," I thought of Uru. A mute man who had worked seven or eight jobs, and was even laid off at thirty, Uru simply smiled at his superiors and silently accepted it. In his turbulent life, pain may have lingered in his heart more than once, but life gave him hardship, and he cultivated roses from it. He felt pain but didn't express it, facing it with equanimity as if he had no suffering at all—this was Uru's way of dealing with the world. Clearly, his heart was filled with love for life. How could someone who loves life not be kind? So he extended a helping hand to Meng'er. Without complaining or blaming others...