Harem other then a few where it is not the focus or somewhat believable due to the novel setting every harem novel I have read as been at the cost of the stories quality usually so forced as well that every time a harem part comes it just kills the chapter. Also for example the MC clearly is already in love with someone else, but they force a harem to happen even though he is perfectly happy having just one girl. Seriously one of the novels I read wasn't tagged as a harem was a masterpiece at first, but 200 chapters in the harem cliches started popping up bringing the story quality down so much what makes it worse is that the MC spent the whole novel clearly in love with someone already having done amazing emotional scenes that made you attached to the relationship, but he flirts with every single girl despite having no feelings for them. The story also had almost zero romance and what it does have is so force at times that you can tell it is just done for the sake of it rather then the story.

Seriously the harem genre is one that is made to disappoint and does not go well with other genres and serious stories.

Tomoyuki of course not. Because I like Yuri and GL. 🥰
But I also like the non BL/GL.
And I like Harem too.
So.... if its Yuri/GL and its Harem too....
Thats a win win solution for me. 😍

      SrtaA

      Omg! I found a like-minded author/ reader!

      I don't like to write about smart MC that knows everything/ plan everything in advance. Yes, I know that is too easy to write and many readers like super smart MCs but to me, is emotionless, cardboard and illogical. That is why some authors (chinese/ japanese writers) made them die once and reborn so that their second life is suddenly very smart. But their first life isn't smart....you know...it still make no sense at all lol...at least to me.

      But well, the readers like smart MC that can kill all they hate, take all they need...but you know they are young kids and their tastes:X

      I prefer to write more toward western fantasy; heroes may be foolish but brave while smart characters are the rogues but unscrupulous.

      I used to play role playing games like D&D. I notice something disturbing. Players that like rogues are true rogues in real life too. They are smarter, cunning and unscrupulous lol. And have little friends.

        Two genres I hate are technically under the romance sub-genre. They are harem and billionaire stories.

        Harem because I just don't like how these stories are usually projected. It always ends up with characters being one dimensional and I just feel like a lot of these stories feel... Unnecessary, if you know what I mean?

        And billionaire stories just rub me the wrong way. Most of the time, these are just filled to the brim with cliche tropes and unhealthy power dynamic. Yuck. It's not that healthy to read into them. They make both the girl and boy in these stories bland usually...

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          yaoyueyi Okay. Thanks for the confirmation. I guess if we want to make polls or something, we could use outside other free site and present those as link here?

              Athena_of_Perez exactly like why cannot i find one romace novel on this website where the male lead is not a goddamn CEO. Like come one can't we have a regular person for once. What so great about CEOs.
              Perhaps because I am a guy and CEOs ae like a female fantasy and thus don't get it, but still man. Like can't there be something new for once!

                  Harems and abusive romances are a no-no to me, especially abusive romance. I don't like people romanticizing r*pe. Please no...

                  I think I can handle some CEO and mafia romances as long as they're still making sense but I shy away if the male MC is too perfect and flawless.

                  Bad and sad ending is also a no-no because I don't need tragedy when I seek for entertainment in story because real life is tragic enough. LOL~ XD

                  Also, 'damsel in distress'? I can't stand a female MC who can't do anything but to wait for the male MC to save her.

                  ThePotatoKing I think there's still a lot of non-CEO male lead stories out there, just getting swamped by the CEO stories because they're more popular. My male MC is a regular detective while the female MC is an oncologist so none of them have a fancy lifestyle. Since I write one, I believe they're exist but hidden. XD Maybe Webnovel should make a 'Non-Billionaires' category? LOL

                    Abbeysensei

                    Abbeysensei YESSS! i hate when the mc just curses and they treat it like its cool or something sometimes its funny but not EVERY DAMN SECONDS like seriously some novel have leads where every time they open their mouth curses and foul words come out of their mouth it really is unattractive and annoying
                    I wish to hit people who think its cool and sexy

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