Ohhh this is a touchy subject.... Are there Chinese BL novels? The feel I get from these xianxia novels is not that of BL, like ever! maybe a gender bender tag there?
And it somehow ends up BL, now that I can see....Otherwise BL and Wuxia or Xianxia I do not see that, I am trying to think if I have seen anything even remotely like that....but no.
OH OH I got it! One was a Historical/tactical novel and the closest thing to BL was eunich being raped by some official. I forgot what that novel was though. I cannot see myself enjoying a xianxia or Wuxia or even xuanhuan with explicit BL characters. At least not in the same sense that I get from JP BL manga.

I mean I don't even like BL movies. But give me some examples maybe it won't be so bad?

    Maybe it's because Qi think there are a lesser amount of people who wish to read bl stories over typical cultivation stories. I dunno...

      Flaffy Surprisingly, the BL novels I like the most are the Chinese ones. If you want specifically wuxia or xianxia ones there's "Founder of Diabolism", "Let me Tease You", and "Every Day the Protagonist Wants to Catch Me" are good places to start. If you want to try Chinese BL novels with different settings/tropes (modern, ancient times, apocalypse, multiple AU, rebirth, systems, etc) feel free to ask.

          Calm_Spirit Yeah, already checked novelupsdates, already went through the entire yaoi list, now looking through the shounen ai list to see if I missed anything.....haven't read Legendary Master's Wife yet, but it's been in my list of light novels to read for quite some time, I just never get around to it.

              Neverfire7 But there are BL stories with cultivation, though it's true that BL in general isn't quite popular compared to the stallion novels.

                  Hmm, not sure if this info helps but long ago in the earlier stages of QI site there was a form we could fill with the kinds of novels we wanted to read and one of the options was BL. So if there is enough people interested, QI might add these kinds of novels to the site as well.

                  It would be very interesting to see BL on Qidian...

                  I'm all for BL-
                  and will check the links provided above

                  I wouldn't focus on it myself though. I casually would enjoy it on occasions.

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                  Flaffy So I am going to try my first BL novel, True Star, and guess what? I don't thinki there is any Wuxia or Xianxia to ruin my vibe so let's see how it goes, it's also Chinese though not Qidian published but still wish me luck people as I cross the great divide!

                      I really love BL novels. They give off a different vibe compared to normal herterosexual novels. (I have yet to read a GL novel though.)
                      Sometimes the protagonist will be a calm character like in True Star (favorite!) or other.

                      Additionally, a question for anyone who reads this:
                      1. Why do we like BL novels? Especially the girls? It has nothing to do with girls, right?
                      2. Do a lot of boys like BL novels? Or do they prefer GL instead?
                      3. Or am I just overthinking it?

                        Marold

                        1. I have not finished my reading of a BL novel. But as I said once before the only BL I indulge in has been JP BL manga, which always gives me a fluffy feelings, unless its like hardcore in which sometimes the passion turns me on but otherwise not too interested in most of the hardcore stuffs. I like the feeling I get when I read JP BL manga it's like the feeling you get when you see Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in Pretty Woman. It's always magical and makes you go "Uwaaaah!". The thing that is interesting is that almost all of the JP BL manga I have read (that isn't hardcore)give me this feeling, where as I have to go on a long search for this feeling in hetero stuffs.Also would like to mention I am not interested in BL movies and TV shows, I almost always feel uncomfortable watching gay people be touchy feely in real life.

                        2. I used to know a gay guy who liked JP BL but the hardcore version he was especially interested in the rape scenes that many of them had. In my experience there are plenty of rapey like scenes in JP BL manga which in the middle either end up consensual or being total rape, but always at the end no one mentions it as rape, like the shiz is okay, then they go through the "why did I like it" thoughts and the "you changed me! it's all because of you!" rant where he confesses is "love" though its just a confession of liking men at that point so the story goes on where the dude who raped him now has to try to get him to love him and not just the sex. Very predictable storylines you know that's kinda exactly what happens in junjou romantica. You would never see such scenes in a hetero novel you would have so many feminists trashing it for the rapey like stuffs. I personally don't like the rapey stuff in some of the JP BL cause its like one sided passion and that's not what I'm looking for.
                          I am not sure about GL, to me as a girl I find it so icky! It's just like "EURGH!!", I cannot stomach it, I go as far as Soujo Ai, but when we step into the Yuri box, I am out the door! I am all for Saki but if she starts kissing Nodoka I am packing my bags!

                            Marold 1b. Why do some boys like GL, if it has nothing to do with them? Same principle.
                            2.Since I'm a girl my answer might not be helpful but in my opinion, it's more a matter of personal preference than gender. Personally, I care more about the story being good than the sexual preferences of the characters.

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