# The 13 Best Danmei Novels of All Time

> Cultivation sagas, court intrigue and a few modern detectives, with the translated fan favourites sharing a shelf with newer finds. Pick the one you would re-read first.

*By YPB Team · Published October 15, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-13-best-danmei-novels-of-all-time*

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1. **Heaven Official's Blessing** — score 1000/1000
   Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's tale of a thrice-ascended god and a ghost king, a runaway hit in English.
2. **Peerless** — score 791/1000
   Meng Xi Shi's Wu Shuang, a martial-world romance from the author of Thousand Autumns.
3. **Remnants of Filth** — score 668/1000
   Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou's grim fantasy Yuwu, known for its dark tone and slow-building romance.
4. **Guardian** — score 565/1000
   Priest's supernatural police story in which a mild university professor is the last of a line of guardians against the dark.
5. **Thousand Autumns** — score 565/1000
   Meng Xi Shi's wuxia epic about a Taoist sect leader and the rival whose path keeps crossing his.
6. **The Husky and His White Cat Shizun** — score 565/1000
   Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou's Erha, a cultivation romance that starts as a comedy about a dog-like disciple and an icy master.
7. **Case File Compendium** — score 439/1000
   A modern detective danmei novel (Bing An Ben) about police work, buried secrets and a pair of investigators.
8. **The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish** — score 439/1000
   Xue Shan Bei Hu's palace romance about a fish spirit and the ruthless ruler he adopts as his person.
9. **The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System** — score 439/1000
   Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's comic transmigration story about a reader who wakes up inside a cultivation novel as its worst villain.
10. **Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation** — score 439/1000
   Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's Mo Dao Zu Shi, the cultivation saga of a reviled sorcerer who returns to a world that has moved on without him.
11. **Stars of Chaos** — score 439/1000
   Priest's Sha Po Lang, an epic of court intrigue and war that follows a young marquis and a general at the heart of it.
12. **Ballad of Sword and Wine** — score 439/1000
   Tang Jiu Qing's Qiang Jin Jiu, a political and military drama about a fallen noble and a rival heir circling each other at court.
13. **After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine** — score 0/1000
   Liu Gou Hua's transmigration romance in which a history professor wakes up as a doomed prince beside his captive general.

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