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Heelo mousie! Love your blog! Do you mind recommending some of your favourite Chinese BL novels or shows?

I've seen the untamed and read it. I'm currently reading heaven's official blessing and I saw the donghua. Anything other than these two?

Awww, thank you!

Novels: I am gonna be lazy and literally copy/paste the entire danmei section of my top 10 web novels post (except MXTX’s stuff since you are already reading it.) Let me know if you need help finding any of these.

Lord Seventh - I am only partway through this so far, but it’s already on the list because it’s smart and somehow intense AND laid-back (not sure how this works, but it does) and is honestly just a really really solid and smart period novel, with the OTP a cherry on top of a narrative sundae. Plus, I love the concept of MC deciding he is not going for his supposedly fated love - he’s tried for six lifetimes, always with disaster, and he’s just plain done and tired. When he opens his life in his seventh reincarnation and sees the person he would have given up the world for, he genuinely feels nothing at all. (Spoiler - his OTP is actually a barbarian shaman this time around, thank you Lord!)

Golden Stage - my perfect comfort novel. Probably the least angsty of any danmei novel on this list (which still means plenty angsty :P) It also has a dedicated, smart OTP that is an OTP for the bulk of the book - I think you will notice that in most of the novels in this list, I go for “OTP against the world” trope - I can’t stand love triangles and the same. Anyway, Fu Shen, is a famous general whose fame is making the emperor antsy. When he gets injured and can’t walk any more, the emperor gladly recalls him and marries him off to his most faithful court lackey, the head of sort of secret police, Yan Xiaohan. The emperor intends it both as a check on the general and a general spite move since the two men always clash in court whenever they meet. But not all is at is seems. They used to be friends a long time ago, had a falling out, and one of the loveliest parts of the novel is them finding their way to each other, but there is also finding the middle path between their two very different philosophies and ways of being, not to mention solving a conspiracy or dozen, and putting a new dynasty on the throne, among other things. It always makes me think, a little, of “if Mei Changsu x Jingyan were canon.”

Sha Po Lang - if you like a lot of fantasy politics and world-building and steampunk with your novels, this one is for you. This one is VERY plot-heavy with smart, dedicated characters and a deconstruction of many traditional virtues - our protagonist Chang Geng, a long-lost son of the Emperor, is someone who wants to modernize the country but also take down the current emperor his brother for progress’ sake and the person he’s in love with is the general who saved him when he was a kid who is nominally his foster father. Anyway, the romance is mainly a garnish in this one, not even a big side dish, but the relationship between two smart, dedicated, deadly individuals with very different concepts of duty is fascinating long before it turns romantic. And if you like angst, while overall it’s not as angsty as e.g., Meatbun stuff, Chang Geng’s childhood is the stuff of nightmares and probably freaks me out more than anything else in any novel on this list, 2ha included.

To Rule In a Turbulent World (LSWW) - gay Minglan. No seriously. This is how I think of it. it’s a slice of life period novel with fascinating characters and setting that happens to have a gay OTP, not a romance in a period setting per se and I always prefer stories where the romance is not the only thing that is going on. It’s meticulously written and smart and deals with character development and somehow makes daily minutia fascinating. Our protagonist, You Miao, is the son of a fabulously wealthy merchant, sent to the capital to make connections and study. As the story starts, he sees his friend’s servants beating someone to death, feels bad, and buys him because, as we discover gradually and organically, You Miao may be wealthy and occasionally immature but he is a genuinely good person. The person he buys is a barbarian from beyond the wall, named Li Zhifeng. It’s touch and go if the man will survive but eventually he does and You Miao, who by then has to return home, gives him his papers and lets him go. However, LZF decides to stick with You Miao instead, both out of sense of debt for YM saving his life and because he genuinely likes him (and yet, there is no instalove on either of their parts, their bodies have fun a lot quicker than their souls.) Anyway, the two take up farming, get involved in the imperial exams and it’s the life of prosperity and peace, until an invasion happens and things go rapidly to hell. This is so nuanced, so smart (smart people in this actually ARE!) and has secondary characters who are just as complex as the mains (for example, I ended up adoring YM’s friend, the one who starts the plot by almost beating LZF to death for no reason) because the novel never forgets that few people are all villain. There is a lovely character arc or two - watching YM grow up and LZF thaw - there is the fact that You Miao is a unicorn in web novels being laid back and calm. This whole thing is a masterpiece.

Stains of Filth (Yuwu) - want the emotional hit of 2ha but want to read something half its length? Well, the author of 2ha is here to eviscerate you in a shorter amount of time. This has the beautiful world-building, plot twists that all make sense and, at the center of it all, an intense and all-consuming and gloriously painful relationship between two generals - one aristocratic loner Mo Xi, and the other gregarious former slave general Gu Mang. Once they were best friends and lovers, but when the novel starts, Gu Mang has long turned traitor and went to serve the enemy kingdom and has now been returned and Mo Xi, who now commands the remnants of his slave army, has to cope with the fact that he has never been able to get over the man who stabbed him through the heart. Literally. This novel has a gorgeously looping structure, with flashbacks interwoven into present storyline. There is so much love and longing and sacrifice in this that I am tearing up a bit just thinking of it. If you don’t love Mo Xi and Gu Mang, separately and together, by the end of it, you have no soul.

The Dumb Husky and His White Cat Shizun (2ha/erha) - if you’ve been following my tumblr for more than a hot second, you know my obsession with this novel. Honestly, even if I were to make a list of my top 10 novels of any kind, not just webnovels, this would be on the list. It has everything I want - a complicated, intricate plot with an insane amount of plot twists, all of which are both unexpected and make total sense, a rich and large cast of characters, a truly epic OTP that makes me bawl, emotional intensity that sometimes maxes even me out and so much character nuance and growth. Also, Moran is my favorite web novel character ever, hands down.

Anyway, the plot (or at least the way it first appears) is that the evil emperor of the cultivation world, Taxian Jun, kills himself at 32 and wakes up in the body of his 16 year old self, birth name Moran. Excited to get a redo, Moran wants to save his supposed true love Shimei, whose death the last go-around pushed him towards evil. He also wants to avoid entanglement with Chu Wanning, his shizun and sworn enemy in past life. And that’s all you are best off knowing, trust me. The only hint I am going to give is oooh boy the mother of all unreliable narrators has arrived!

The novel starts light and funny on boil the frog principle - if someone told me I would be full bawling multiple times with this novel, I’d have thought they were insane, but i swear my eyes hurt by the end of it. I started out being amused and/or disliking the mains and by the end I would die for either of them.

The Wife is First - OK, this one did not make my top 10 web novels but it’s a sweet, fun gay cottagecore fest. Our ML, a royal prince, and his spouse, a smart if delicate aristocrat, keep house, eat noodles, play with their pet tiger, make out and spoil each other rotten, while occasionally fighting battles and outwitting their court enemies. It’s so very mellow. That couple redefines low drama - they are both nice and functional and use their brains. It’s as if a nice jock and a nice nerd got together and then proceeded to be wholesome all over the place.

I mean, the set up could be dramatic - our ML the prince, lost his fight for the throne and is about to be killed. The only person who stayed loyal to him is his arranged husband the aristocrat guy who ML never treated nicely since he resented marrying him (marrying a man in that world is done to remove someone from the ability to inherit the throne.) And yet the husband stood by him not out of love but beliefs in loyalty blah blah. Anyway, he transmigrates back into the past right after their wedding night and is all “I got a second chance OMG! I don’t want the throne what is even the point? I want to live a good long life and treat the only person who stood by me really well!” And he proceeds to do so to the shock of the aristocrat who had a very unpleasant wedding night and generally can tell the man he just married would rather eat nails than be married to him. But soon enough (no seriously, it’s not many chapters at all) he believes the prince is sincere blah blah and then they get together and they pretty much become cottagecore goals.

In terms of dramas, I only do period dramas (or novels) so I am not the person to be able to recommend any modern BLs. There is a flood of upcoming (hopefully) period BL dramas but it’s relatively thin on the ground now. The two I will recommend is Word of Honor (which is AMAZING) and Winter Begonia (which I just started watching but which owns me already.) I have a tag for both - the one for the former is huge and I cannot recommend either strongly enough. I’ve heard good things about The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, but I am not big on mysteries so haven’t watched it for myself.

In terms of the upcoming BLs, the ones I am most looking forward to are Immortality and Winner Is King, but The Society of the Four Leaves also looks promising.

#asks #cdrama #cnovel

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Affection

A/N: This is my first time writing for Peter so I hope it doesn’t flop. I think it’s really cute though.

Summery: Peter is very affectionate and he loves when his shy girl is affectionate towards him

Pairing: Peter Parker x Stark Reader

Word count: 1.4k+

Warnings: It is tooth rotting fluff

You never outright said you were dating. Everyone knew, but you never made an official announcement. Nothing really changed about the dynamic between you and Peter since before you started dating either. You were always close to each other; it was just how you guys liked to be.

Maybe it was the subtle changes, like how Peter kissed you more often. Not that forehead kisses were all that rare before when you were “just friends” but now they appeared a few more times a day. Or maybe it was the fact that Peter always had some kind of contact with you. Again, not that you guys weren’t always super close together before, but now it was almost constant.

The thing that must have really tipped it off was how affectionate you had become. You were never big on hugs and the whole deal, but ever since Peter finally gained the courage to ask you out, you were a little more physical. It was the shy grabbing of his hand while you sat in the lab and watched your dad work on something and the simple head on shoulder lean that made Peter beam.

You were sitting together at lunch when MJ caught on.

“What’s up with you two today? You’re acting like second graders sitting next to their crush,” she commented. It was kinda true, you had been acting a little shyer than usual around Peter. The whole relationship thing was very new to you.

You giggled at Peter’s confused expression. He had only asked you out three days ago. You were studying in his room together and he casually asked you out.

You were sitting at his desk, writing a paper for AP Lang while he sat on his bed. He was supposed to be working on a robotics assignment but he kept getting distracted.

He thought you looked more beautiful than ever. You were wearing his hoodie because you were complaining about being cold earlier. Your hair was in a ponytail as usual, and you looked like you were about to fall asleep any second. He thought it might’ve been from boredom at first but he realized that he was thinking about you: Y/N Stark. You were on a competitive essay writing team. Writing an essay was fun for you. It must have been the sleep deprivation. Things had been a little hectic lately.

“Pete, did you hear anything I just said?” you asked with a hint of a smile on your face. “Where are you tonight?”

“Sorry,” he said. “I’m getting lost in your beauty.” He smiled when you giggled.

“Okay, Prince Charming. Tell me which sentence sounds better.”

He listed while you read part of your essay to him. “The second one.”

“Thanks.” You turned back to your laptop and he went back to staring at you.

“Y/N,” he said, prompting you to turn in your chair and look back at him.

“Peter.”

“Have I told you how pretty you look tonight?”

“Yes. As matter of fact, you told me about twenty seconds ago.”

“Well, it’s true.”

“You look quite handsome yourself.”

“You know,” He got off his bed and walked towards you. “I think you're pretty in more than just the ‘you’re my beautiful best friend’ kind of way. I think you’re pretty in the ‘I have a crush on you and your beauty is so distracting but I love it’ kind of way.” You could see the nerves in the eyes and they were probably pretty close to the butterflies you felt in your stomach.

“I think you’re pretty handsome in the ‘you’re so handsome that my dad noticed me staring at you’ kind of way,” you said, looking up from the spot you had been intensely staring at.

“Do you wanna make it ‘you’re so pretty ‘cause you’re my girlfriend’ kind of way?” He placed his hand over yours. His face was impossibly close. If you leaned forward even the tiniest bit, you could kiss him.

“Yeah.” It came out as a whisper.

Peter grinned and leaned forward, pressing his soft lips against yours.

“I think you’re really handsome in the ‘you’re my boyfriend’ kind of way.”

“What makes you say that?” he asked MJ, his thumb rubbing circles into your hand under the table.

“You guys are acting weird. You usually talk to each other more than this,” Mj said, accidentally brushing her orange off the table. “Shoot.” She leaned down to grab it and noticed your hands under the table.

You leaned your head on Peter’s shoulder for a second. You had only been dating for three days but wow, you loved him.

“You guys are holding hands,” MJ said, eyes squinted as she put the pieces together. “You guys are dating?” Her face lit up at the realization.

“Hey guys,” Ned said as he approached the table.

“Y/N and Peter are dating.”

“What? When did this happen? How did you not tell us?”

“Relax, guys,” you said. “We just got together on Friday.”

“You still could’ve texted us,” Ned insisted. “I can’t believe you didn’t tell us!”

The next person to notice was Nat. You had just come back from a mission and Peter seemed to be a little more clingy with you than usual. You had hurt your knee a little and Peter was all over you.

He was like that every time you got hurt, no matter how small the injury was, but this time, he was a little more insistent that you let him take care of you. He eventually calmed down enough for you to fall asleep on him.

“What’s up with him?” Tony mumbled as he walked past the two of you. You were on the couch, Peter’s head propped up by the armrest while you laid on top of him.

“They’ve been super close for the past week,” Nat mumbled. “Peter was all over Y/N when we got back.”

“Well she’s all over him now.”

“I bet Parker finally made a move.” She turned to Tony with a smirk on her face.

“Finally. I’ve been telling them for months to just go at it already. Peter was all like ‘I don’t think she likes me back’ and I was so tired of listening to it. I kept saying ‘just ask my daughter out already, yeesh’. He took forever to follow those orders. ” He looked at you for a second before turning around and heading up to his room for the night.

Nat smiled as she grabbed a blanket and put it over you. “Finally.”

Eventually people started figuring it out. If the constant affection wasn’t enough to tell them, Peter’s promposal was.

He made a sign that said “My Spidey sense thinks you might want to go to Prom with me. Is it ever wrong?”

“Why’d you make a sign, you idiot? Of course I’m gonna go with you,” you said between laughs.

“I can’t just expect you to go with me, I have to ask you,” Peter insisted, dropping the sign as you came towards him to give him a hug.

“I love you, ya goof,” you murmured, pressing you lips on his.

“Love you too, pretty girl,” he said once you took a breath, leaning back in for another because he could simply never get enough.

Your shyness was common knowledge just about everywhere. You didn’t talk to a lot of people, you avoided answering questions in class if you could, and you were the last person to volunteer to present. You also weren’t huge on giving affection.

Sure, Peter had a hand on you every chance he could get. Whether it be your hand or the small of you back, he was always touching you in some way. He gave you forehead kisses every chance he got because he knew you loved them and he was always up for a hug. He was a big fan of PDA. You were not. Even with just a few people around, you were very reserved about how you interacted with him.

That’s why he was surprised this morning. He was sitting in the kitchen, talking to Steve and Sam. He didn’t even notice your tired figure coming up behind him.

You wrapped your arms around him and buried your face in his neck. He jumped slightly, caught off guard. He turned his head to look at you and press a kiss to the top of your head.

“Mornin’, baby,” he mumbled into your hair with a smile.

“You’re really warm.” You lifted your head to look at him. “I’m not even that cold but this feels really nice.”

“You’re up early today,” he commented. It was seven. You usually weren’t up until eight.

“I missed you.”

“Once I finish breakfast we can go back to your room and cuddle, yeah?”

“I’d like that.”

It was moments like that he cherished most.

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