SAME!! Please recommend me some of those I am in DIRE need
Right, well off the top of my head, I recommend the following:
The Moon-Painting Alchemist (ongoing story, fantasy, drama): The MC (an alchemist) and other alchemists in the country, get ordered by the king to create a mirror that can show a person's future spouse/love. Whilst taking on this task, the MC runs into trouble with some bandits and rescues a seemingly ordinary child from them. The child is actually a member of the royal family (unbeknownst to the alchemist) who has been cursed, and is seeking help on how to uplift his curse.
A Mail From My Dead Lover (ongoing story, mystery, supernatural, horror, drama): The MC receives haunting and disturbing e-mails from his partner who recently passed away, and later an incident takes place that has him seeking help from online message boards. There he meets a person who takes the MC's concerns seriously and tries to help him unravel the mystery of why his deceased partner is seemingly haunting him.
On or Off (completed story, slice of life, comedy): A group of friends have created a game app and are set to pitch it to a company. The presenter (MC) somehow fucks up the presentation and is advised he has no further opportunity to pitch the game. He takes it upon himself to rectify his mistake for the good of his group, and endeavours to seduce the head of the development department in order to get the group's game pitched again.
Semantic Error (completed story, slice of life, comedy): A university student (MC) gives one of his partners in a group project negative scores across the board as the partner didn't attend any of the group project meetings or contribute anything to the group project. This causes the partner to have to re-do his final year, and he's hellbent on trying to figure out why the MC did what he did. He proceed to follow the MC everywhere he goes, interrupts his usual routine, and does anything he can to press his buttons.
Happy reading!
The man who can't taste
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You’re literally such an angel, thanks a ton for including the genres and descriptions!! I really appreciate it :)
They’ve been on my tbr for a while! Good to know they’re worth reading :) thanks for the recs
Ofc. I literally could not stop reading. I was so immersed it's not even funny >.<
Np, my guy
No bother at all, happy to help!
Some recs from my favs. All longer yaoi
Perfect Buddy-
office romance, my platonic ideal of an enemies to lovers romance; both ppl acting like jerks but neither being psychopaths, with a "I hate him so much I wanna punch him in the face with my lips" kinda vibe.
High-strung uke x puppy top who knows he's an intimidating guy so he acts like a goofball himbo to put ppl at ease.
The Affairs of the Otherworld Depend on the Corporate Slave-
workaholic businessman accidently gets summoned along with the highschooler saintess. Immediately requests a job in accounting then starts overhauling the department because workaholic. Uke also has no immune resistance to magic and is saved by the Captain of the knights when he collapses. Captain realizes that uke can and will work himself to death if no one stops him and tries to convince the man to regularly eat and sleep.
What's with this Strange Dream-
College student (MC seme) gets a job assisting a shaman(uke) who goes into ppl's dreams to rid them of their demons. Assistant accidently gets pulled into the dream with the shaman. It's mostly an excuse to have sex in all different scenarios (historical, highscool, fantasy, etc) but the characters are good and it's not toxic or rapey.
Don't mix Business with Pleasure-
College setting. Uke is a BL author who prefers to write toxic tops. Uke meets ML and thinks he's a boring nice guy, but then he sees ML blackmailing a guy in an alley. Uke decides this guy is his new muse and openly follows him around, ML is reasonably pissed about this guy stalking him.
(Slight Spoiler: top isn't toxic, his hostility is perfectly justified)
Nerd Project-
College Setting, beautiful art, slowburn. Lucas thinks his girlfriend might have something going on with the beefy nerd in the science department, so he follows the guy around for a day or so to see if they're meeting up. Nerdy guy *Does Not* like being stalked (tragic backstory implied) and kicks his ass. And then oops now they're roomates^^.
The misunderstanding is cleared up fairly early on and Lucas quickly dumps his gf (no cheating).
Netkama Punch-
Video game setting, slow burn.
Uke starts gaming again after not playing for a couple years, and meets the asshole who kicked his ass and inspired him to quit. Uke decides to catfish him. Uke is objectively bad at catfishing as he can't stop cursing Seme out when he's being an asshole. Seme does end up falling for him tho and uke comes to consider him a friend. Regretting his actions, uke returns everything seme bought for him and ghosts him out of shame. Then Seme finds his address.
The Mountain Branches Dream of Goblins-
Modern day, fantasy. Ghost hunter x Goblin. Badass Uke must eat ghosts to stay alive. Goblin was trapped for a thousand yrs by his lover, and thinks uke(come to hunt him) is that lover. Goblin wants revenge.
(Also uke is actually badass, not just badass for half a chapter and then the seme just tosses him around like a sack of potatoes for the rest of the story)
This plot is fucking TIGHT - love when manwhas provide excellency in all the main categories (art, character development, and storyline)