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there's heavens official blessing (tgcf) , grandmaster of demonic cultivation (mdzs, im reading that rn) and the scum villain's self-saving system (svsss)

there's also more but i gotta look those up

tgcf has 8 books, mdzs has 5 books, and svsss has 4 (the last one of svsss is epilogue + side stories)

also if you like that kind I'd highly suggest link click (shiguang dailiren) and omniscient reader's viewpoint. they're admittedly not historical and for censorship purposes not canon, but the world building, characters, artstyle (webtoon for orv, anime for link click) and unraveling plot make for an awesome experience. orv is complete as novels but still being serialised for webtoon, they're like 320 episodes into it. to my knowledge, link click is written as a show first and adapter to manhua later, the show just came out with half of their third season, while the manhua covers the first 2 seasons over the span of 8 novels.

I like these in particular bc they bring that same energy of tiny actions meaning a lot in context of a character's past or the symbolism of certain objects, and also keep me hooked

“Jim is the closest friend I have in the world. I’m very proud of him”. 

friend I have in the world. I’m

very proud of him”.

What's the nonbinary version of homeboy/homegirl

Like when you tell me "society always rewards masculinity in women, therefore trans men are rewarded" you're telling me you doesn't have a grasp on how society works in which it assigns you a sex upon birth and want you to stay that gender forever and that what makes a woman feminine or masculine is both cultural and arbitrary. You also show yourself as someone who never thought about it outside your culture and/or social circle. Yes, USAmerican, the women in your culture are able to wear pants and explore their genders (allegedly) and sexuality. But in more conservative areas a women will have her first kid at 15 and be a housewife for the rest of her life married to a guy 20 years older than her, never existing outside a birthing machine, mother and wife. Always beinh punished for having interests outside of it.

That woman in a third world country that tried to cut her hair short got killed off for trying to be too masculine.

That girl in a small conservative town that kissed her girl friend on 9th grade got beaten up and sent to conversion therapy and will come back repressed and will never discover she would like to be a man.

That girl being raised Christian will be a mysogynist to every woman in her life and think all men are dangerous rapists and that her life purpose is to be a mother and a wife and will never get the chance to discover she would like to cut her hair short, dye it, wear masculine clothes and kiss other women.