#Case File Compendium

[vestatsk]

[talk-danmei-to-me]

pls pls pls pls make a list of all danmei people should read. I am thirsty for love and angst and pls be my salvation

Omg I can't say no to that!

Full disclosure, I've only been reading danmei since May. Also, I only read official translations. Others may be able to give a wider range.

But since you asked so nicely, let's go!

1) Yuwu/Remnants of Filth

Obviously, my number 1 is going to be the danmei I spend 80% of my time here trying to convince people to read.

Yuwu is a gift for fans of angst, literally opens with the MC getting stabbed in the heart and Meatbun doesn't let up from there.

Fun fact - the only Meatbun without non-con elements in the primary ship.

Sad fact - it also lacks her usual comedy.

Why I love it: Mo Xi, my princess, genuinely the saddest boy in all of danmei. I'm ridiculously invested in Ximang's quest for happiness.

2) 2ha/Erha/The Husky and his White Cat Shizun

At it's heart (at least to where the official translations are up to) 2ha is a romantic comedy. Tropes you may have found in other danmei hit so good (ghost weddings and shizun fucking).

Fun fact - Has my favourite confession scene out of all danmei I've read.

Sad fact - Being Meatbun's most popular work, you can basically collect spoilers like pokemon cards. Not even ao3 tags are safe.

Why I love it - Meatbun's smut writing is S tier and Mo Ran is one of my favourite protaganists... although he has some competition.

3) Ballad of Sword and Wine

I feel like I need to formally apologise for sleeping on this series after reading the first volume. It’s so, so juicy! Obsessed with the character dynamics and it’s always a winner when the main couple starts to dabble with each other in the first volume. It’s not Meatbun levels of smut peddling but I appreciate Tang Jiu Qing’s hustle. If you love courtly politics, graphic descriptions of violence and the most insane levels of sexual tension you will ever read. You need this danmei in your life.

Fun fact - I am as obsessed with Cezhou as Xiao Chiye is with the nape of Shen Lanzhou’s neck.

Sad fact - The sheer amount of characters will drive you insane.

4) To Rule in a Turbulent World

Enter You Miao! His introduction made me fall in love with him just as fast as I did Mo Ran! There's a reason everyone raves about chapter 3. Hilarious, horny and wholesome. The side characters are amazing, the main couple is adorable and it's giving hints of political powerplays. Also the first danmei I've read that seems to really deliver when it comes to skinship. The main couple literally can't keep their hands to themselves.

Fun fact - I'm only 50% through but I am buying every single Fei Tian Ye Xiang 7 seas is about to release day 1.

Sad fact - there's no pictures. Also I'm not sure how angsty it's going to get.

Bonus: For the toxic yaoi fan in your life

Meatbun's most unhinged work. She's peddling all the toxic smut fans of bl mangas and manhwas will be familiar with. Even though it's modern it made me nostalgic for that reason. He Yu is a clown and I adore him. Meatbun is airing all her kinks with this one and I'm not mad about it.

Fun fact- This is the first modern danmei I've read. Also, one of the more fun uses of the straight man trope I've read.

Sad fact - Vol 3 cliffhanger!

Why I love it - It's just pure Meatbun chaos.

(Am I just exposing myself as a Meatbun stan, probably, but she delivers every time.)

[mivamoon]

[r-0-x-4-s]

chinese novels' translation will have you reading yaoi, yuri and hetero at the same time

[fourthgorgon]

i love the way meatbun writes couples. she creates a manly, traditional, masculine man with well defined moral code and strong sense of values then puts him next to a younger guy who looks very composed and respectful to everyone else. the younger guy is waiting for him in a closet made of glass with his horny gay thoughts and 20 cm schlong. now you're the babygirl of this dingus

[petr-n]

He Yu?

[faetookmyname]

The difference between MXTX and Meatbun doesn’t eat meat is the difference between the tags of hurt/comfort and Dead Dove.

You have to think about MXTX for ten seconds to get sad, meanwhile Meatbun punches you in the throat.

[lunarriviera]

[its-ezraaa]

2ha chapter 137:

~4 years later, case file compendium chapter 112:

... Meatbun did it. She fucking did it. She wrote a modern world BL with a CEO who drives a tractor.

[httpwanning]

Meatbun boys

[deadpigeonx7x]

He's a freak, help him😭

[owlmaya]

he could have never imagined that the cake, and that Xie Xue… never existed at all

[talk-danmei-to-me]

Pondering whether I should start treating 7 seas danmei translations like pokemon and y'know buy them all.

[ai-the-broccoli]

my first/introduction danmei novel was BAB, which was great but has also made it so that my experience with danmei novels have been very interesting. while I was reading 2ha, there was a short while when I was temporarily thrown off & slightly put off by what a nice person mo ran was and how healthy(?) ranwan was being, especially the first bit of time after 2.0 era started. and then, as I was in the middle of reading SVSSS, I frequently couldn't help but keep feeling like "woah I'm amazed, for someone with such a character setting, Luo Binghe is really so absurdly kind, sweet, gentlemanly, pure of heart, innocent, sane, stable, and sexually normal, like it just constantly surprises me so much just how... tame and stable he is compared to what I was expecting". which is not exactly quite the Standard Binghe Experience, apparently! wild.

[dracaenacamael]

Meatbun’s writing style in Case File Compendium seems to be a combination of “anthropologist who believes ostensibly straight men are a separate species worthy of study” and “I think ‘men writing women’ memes are hilarious. Quick what’s the male equivalent of ‘breasting boobily?’”

[jumpropequeennn]

Xie Qingcheng is the older brother who was forced to go through a difficult level in the game and loses

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