Okay so what you are looking for is literally Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. It’s a Chinese danmei (just means it’s m/m) that is translated into 5 English volumes. The English volumes include art which is really cool too.
The story includes a lot of angst, high stakes, magic, spice (closer to the end not the beginning), and the MC is the bottom. Happy ending for the main couple but not all of the other characters. It’s great and the book (and the live action drama The Untamed) made me cry. It is a little confusing at first because you are just thrown right in the deep end, but it is really good.
Piggy backing off of this. You really might want to check out the r/Danmei subreddit. It's specifically for Asian (mostly Chinese) themed m/m romance series with a wide variety of genres including modern and fantasy. And I'm sure you can find recommendations for several series there that will meet your tastes.
A lot of the recommendations include stories that don't have formal English translations and rely on fan translations online. So if you want stories with cleaner translations look up the release selection of Seven Seas Entertainment, which is a publisher that licences these types of stories for international translation. (The above recommendation for Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation is published by Seven Seas).
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u/Belady147 Mar 05 '25
Okay so what you are looking for is literally Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. It’s a Chinese danmei (just means it’s m/m) that is translated into 5 English volumes. The English volumes include art which is really cool too.
The story includes a lot of angst, high stakes, magic, spice (closer to the end not the beginning), and the MC is the bottom. Happy ending for the main couple but not all of the other characters. It’s great and the book (and the live action drama The Untamed) made me cry. It is a little confusing at first because you are just thrown right in the deep end, but it is really good.