Do you know what I hate most about female lead stories on webnovel? It's that they are all related to romance. For example:
- Sci-fi romance
- Fantasy Romance
- Contemporary Romance
- Urban Romance
- History Romance
- General Romance
Almost all the tags are romance!
Even the teen genre books have romance.
I'm really getting sick of all the sappy romance and shit. Everytime I read a book with a female lead as the main character, she always starts off strong but becomes useless infront of the male lead. Like what the hell man! What happened to all your cool superpowers and skills, did they all go to shit???!!! Does the female lead really need to be a damsel in distress for the male lead to save all the time? Or be forced into a relationship or something?! I'm starting to lose faith in webnovels, honestly.
Compared to the male lead novels which has more variety and not just romance, I just can't take it anymore...I really hope that in the future there will be more novels with female leads without romance, I feel that would be so much more interesting...
Also, I don't know about you guys but I just can't stand harem novels. I feel disgusted when I think about the main character hooking up with a bunch of men/women. I also don't fancy the idea of polygamy...This of course is only my opinion, anyone care to share their preferences. Anywya sorry for ranting, just super pissed off atm.
Female Lead & Male Lead Stories (Stupid Romance Novels)
CKCelesyHalo then you can try my novel Murim Recurve. It is a horror/mystery-based novel set in a low fantasy. The lead is a female.
Yass, I've read about that a lot, too. Thus, somehow my writing is driven by a strong independent women lead. However, I also start off with them leaning on people particularly the love interest until slowly learning to stand on their feet as realization kicks in that the person they could truly rely on is their selves.
CKCelesyHalo I write the female lead with no romance, but it's a failed recipe here. It's not a story a majority of females want to read
I can offer my story, Fallen into ancient China. The tags say it's a historical romance, but it's actually not. It tells about a girl who suffers from depression. her friends managed to get her to vacation to China but then they ended up time traveling to ancient china and the girl travels to find her friends. There is no romance except maybe platonic love between the characters. Here's the link: https://www.webnovel.com/book/fallen-into-ancient-china_19423194505282505
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I agree with your opinion here, there's only romance genre present for the female lead.
I reckon there are more than a thousand novel with billionaire.
I mean why do girls love billionaire so much, maybe they were handsome with six-pack abs. And lots of cash. But I mean is there nothing for poor guys. You gotta tame that retard billionaire.
Then next thing, aren't there enough vampires and werewolf?
Well, maybe they were never enough.
Now for the male lead:
There are so many systems. There have system for everything. From generic cultivation to harem system. I suppose in few years the mc would need a system for peeing.
It's as if the system was the main character of the book.
I know WN is influencing it with ther contest but the author should take note of what they were writing, I am saying this for both female and male lead.
Well, there are a few good examples in this too. Like the top-rated on WN, Vampire system.
There the author did a good job. The book's main focus was on the relationship between the characters, their growth, a little mystery and the handicap of becoming a vampire. The author tried to keep the system as minimalist as possible, which worked in a great way. Others should attempt to follow in this way, or the system might take the leading role.
Another problem I discovered is the female character as if they were existed to be for the protagonist. Not even two dimensional.
Ps: the above examples are not indicating towards anyone, these are my thoughts. Maybe you would disagree with me.
This post should be pinned. Any moderator out there?
You could say it's a stupid thing that the female lead must fall for the male lead.
silent_walker I reckon there are more than a thousand novel with billionaire.
I mean why do girls love billionaire so much, maybe they were handsome with six-pack abs. And lots of cash. But I mean is there nothing for poor guys. You gotta tame that retard billionaire.
Because it's the standard Cinderella formula. Many girls want to marry the handsome prince and become a princess, get served by retinues of maids, wear expensive and branded clothing, and live in a mansion (modern day castles). It's the ultimate princess fantasy. That's why all these stories have the same old evil stepmothers and stepsisters. It's directly ported over from Cinderella.
silent_walker This post should be pinned. Any moderator out there?
No. Otherwise you might as well pin 90% of the other posts complaining about one thing or another (harem, CEO, etc.).
PeculiarStorymaker You could say it's a stupid thing that the female lead must fall for the male lead.
You could also complain that it's a stupid thing that the male lead must fall for the female lead. But then she's always a Mary Sue, so either everybody loves her because of how awesome she is (or how pitiful she is), or everyone hates her because they are insanely jealous of her and thus they must plot to murder her and steal everything from her for no reason other than because she's the Mary Sue protagonist.
CKCelesyHalo
I know, right i hate it I wish they didn't add that to every female lead I mean, my story really not about romance at all but hell, they have to attract that on the tag it's stupid
Tomoyuki Because it's the standard Cinderella formula. Many girls want to marry the handsome prince and become a princess, get served by retinues of maids, wear expensive and branded clothing, and live in a mansion (modern day castles). It's the ultimate princess fantasy. That's why all these stories have the same old evil stepmothers and stepsisters. It's directly ported over from Cinderella.
Lots of female would be offended hearing that.
Tomoyuki out there?
No. Otherwise you might as well pin 90% of the other posts complaining about one thing or another (harem, CEO, etc.).
In my view all of them are in the same category.
Taming Retard billionaire or the smut content to gain horny readers.
silent_walker What the f? Why would they be offended? I was talking about the girls who read these stories, not girls in general.
silent_walker In my view all of them are in the same category.
So why would you want to pin this thread specifically when there are literally hundreds of similar threads already created?
Tomoyuki So why would you want to pin this thread specifically when there are literally hundreds of similar threads already created?
I didn't notice much