Baihe (百合) is Chinese girls’ love fiction, written on the same web-novel sites as danmei. Baiheverse publishes 13 baihe manhua you can read now and a completed baihe novel in official English. For a danmei reader, start with Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!, a transmigration story set in a cultivation sect.
Three danmei novels published in English, each beside the baihe story on Baiheverse that shares its hook.
Written into the villain’s role
A modern doctor wakes up in a cultivation novel as its villainess, and the system wants the heroine kept alive.
Meet the villainessWaiting across centuries
An emperor’s ghost waits more than a thousand years in her own tomb before anyone looks straight at her. A completed novel.
Read the novelOpposites drawn together
A noblewoman praised as a goddess and a marquis’s daughter feared as a demon, set against each other from the first page.
Start readingHave No Fear, Shijie’s Here! is an ongoing xianxia baihe manhua in official English, free to start. Tap a picture to see it large.
“Will be Shijie’s dog!”
Lan Qinghe, a doctor, dies saving a friend and wakes up inside a cultivation novel as its villainess. A system called Bai Ling gives her one task: keep the heroine alive until the story ends. She is ready to grovel her way to the last page.
“Hold on tight.”
The heroine is a fearsome fighter, cold to everyone and hopeless with directions. The one she keeps rescuing is the villainess sent to keep her safe.
The capital has already judged them: one a goddess, the other a demon.
Shen Qingshuang is praised for her grace, and her family means to send her to the palace. Mu Yunzhao is rumored to have trained hawks in the West Regions, and says a woman can inherit a title. They cannot stand each other, and neither can look away. Turn a card for the line behind it.
Who’s who
Shen QingshuangThe Jade Guanyin
Mu YunzhaoThe Flaming Rakshasa
Will Guanyin tame Rakshasa, or will Rakshasa corrupt Guanyin?
Straight Girl Trap is a completed Chinese GL manhua about two women who both insist they are straight: Zhou Yuanyou, a cold-faced boss, and Zhan Ying, her new hire. Every kindness looks like a signal, and every signal comes with an excuse.
Zhan Ying is sure her cold boss has a crush on her. Ms. Zhou says it is nothing, between two girls.
Friendly enough, if you don’t look at her face.
Then she dries Zhan Ying’s hair for her.
Asked this close, it is hard to say yes.
Tongtong stops top student Lin Luxi on the stairs after school and says she has proof. Each of them is sure she knows the other’s secret. Both are wrong, and the blackmail that follows is a Coke and a bag of chips.
| Lin Luxi | Point | Tongtong |
|---|---|---|
| The top student nobody worries about | The girl the class calls a green tea | |
| Tongtong has found out she likes girls | Lin Luxi has a sugar daddy | |
| Lets herself be blackmailed, a little too happily | Offers her own savings so Lin Luxi can quit the old man |
Wei Zai, emperor of Zhou (927–968), died and stayed on as a ghost in her mausoleum. More than a thousand years later, a young woman tours the tomb who shares a name and a face with Wei Zai’s old minister, Xu Qingchu.
Also an audiobook in Mandarin with English subtitles, and a free audio drama. Listen to the audiobook
Every series above, plus Seeing Xinghuo Again, with the setting and the danmei taste each one answers. Each tick is one section.
| No. | Cover | Series | Setting | If you like | Length | Status | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!Cultivation · Transmigration · 29 sections so far · Ongoing · Free to start | Cultivation | Transmigration | 29 sections so far | Ongoing · Free to start | Start reading | |
 | Jade SeductionCourt and clan · Rivals · 1 section so far · Ongoing · Free to start | Court and clan | Rivals | 1 section so far | Ongoing · Free to start | Start reading | |
 | Clandestine AffairRepublican era · A stranger in a mirror · New · Officially licensed | Republican era | A stranger in a mirror | First chapter soon | New | Subscribe | |
 | The Clouds of Past MillenniaAncient and modern · Ghost, reincarnation · 29 sections · Completed · Free to start | Ancient and modern | Ghost, reincarnation | 29 sections | Completed · Free to start | Start reading | |
 | Straight Girl TrapOffice · Slow burn · 139 sections · Completed · Free to start | Office | Slow burn | 139 sections | Completed · Free to start | Start reading | |
 | I Got Blackmailed by the Green Tea Bitch in ClassSchool · Misunderstandings · 45 sections so far · Ongoing · Free to start | School | Misunderstandings | 45 sections so far | Ongoing · Free to start | Start reading | |
 | Remaking of the Unforgotten LoveModern mystery · Childhood friends · 18 sections so far · Ongoing · Free to start | Modern mystery | Childhood friends | 18 sections so far | Ongoing · Free to start | Start reading | |
 | Seeing Xinghuo AgainSchool ghost · The supernatural · 50 sections · Completed · Free to start | School ghost | The supernatural | 50 sections | Completed · Free to start | Start reading |
The publisher of the danmei above also licenses baihe novels in English.
Yes: girls’ love in Chinese fiction is called baihe (百合), and it is danmei’s counterpart rather than a copy of it. Both are written on the same Chinese web-novel sites and adapted into comics and audio dramas. For a first baihe, try Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!; for how the words baihe, yuri and GL differ, see What Does Baihe Mean?
Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here! is a cultivation-sect baihe, Ongoing and free to start. A modern doctor wakes up as the villainess of a cultivation novel. Read Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!, or see more in Xianxia Yuri to Read in English.
The Clouds of Past Millennia is a completed baihe novel in 29 sections, free to start. Read The Clouds of Past Millennia online, chapter by chapter. Seven Seas has licensed more in print; Baihe Novels in English lists them all.
The Clouds of Past Millennia has a free audio drama and an audiobook, both in Mandarin with English subtitles. Start with the audio drama, or go on to the audiobook.
Jade Seduction is set among the noble clans of an ancient capital; Clandestine Affair is set in 1920s Republican-era China. Start Jade Seduction now, or subscribe to Clandestine Affair; Ancient & Historical Baihe to Read in English has more.
Straight Girl Trap is completed in 139 sections and free to start. A boss and her new hire both insist they are straight. Read Straight Girl Trap; for school instead of office, the completed Seeing Xinghuo Again.
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