3 Murim Novels With a Female MC: Official Webnovel Picks

Of the murim novels with a female MC that you can read officially in English, only one is still updating: Murim's Weakest Princess. Start there. The other two Webnovel Originals are worth knowing about, but one hasn't posted a chapter in five years and the other is a short, R18-tagged premise that stopped two years ago.

Murim Novels With a Female MC at a Glance

To make this list, a book needed an official Webnovel page, a woman or girl named as the lead in its synopsis, and a murim setting. Murim is the Korean reading of the Chinese wulin: the terms "have been borrowed into Korean as gangho (강호) and murim (무림) to refer to fiction set in Chinese-inspired martial arts worlds." That rule leaves out plenty of female-led cultivation stories, which is why the list is short. It also leaves out books where a modern reader wakes up inside a murim story; those have their own ranked list.

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1. Murim's Weakest Princess: Start Here

Image: Webnovel cover for Murim's Weakest Princess, by Destiny_Aitsuji

Read it if you want a family story where getting strong is also getting better; skip it if you want a ruthless adult swordswoman. The setup: "when the youngest princess of the murim lord was born, her golden core had to be sealed immediately because her talent for harvesting qi was too strong." The book follows her "as she regains her talent as the weakest murim princess."

We read chapter 1 on October 16, and it's a birth scene. On Celestial Dragon Mountain, the newborn's qi shakes the walls, and her father, the sect leader Zhao Mingfeng, chooses to cut her off from it rather than lose her. He shouts "Seal!", then cradles her and names her: "Even if you become the world's unrivalled weakling, you will always be the pride and joy of our Celestial Dragon Sect." That line tells you the tone. In her note under the chapter, the author admits "It's my first time writing anything Eastern Fantasy".

The listing is upfront about what's coming: "Psychologically painful. Happy ending. Emotional healing. Prepare tissues." Tags include Weak to Strong, Slice of Life, Cultivation, Tragedy, Sweet and Healing. The latest chapter, "Chapter 353: Anji", went up two months before our check, the only recent update on this list. Reader SolsticeSunrise wrote that "The author's love for family and fluff is still the same as ever." Read Murim's Weakest Princess on Webnovel.

2. Murim Recurve: Good Lead, No Ending

Image: Webnovel cover for Murim Recurve, by Overlord_Venus

Read it if a strange world matters more to you than a finished one; skip it if open endings bother you. The synopsis opens "At the lowest point of her life", when "the daughter of a noble family encounters a human", a being of myth in her world, and "inherits his fate." Then: "Blinded, and betrayed," she learns "Her world wasn’t real." It's the highest-rated with a real sample behind it, and tagged Cultivation, Mystery, Survival, Revenge and Weak to Strong.

The problem is time. The latest chapter, "Chapter 372: A Staircase to the Bottom", is five years old and the book isn't marked Completed. Reader imagineTishaD praised the lead ("I like the character Re'Kha, she is so strong both mentally and physically") and promised "The update stability will never let you down", which has aged badly. Read Murim Recurve on Webnovel only if you're fine stopping mid-story.

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3. Diary of Murim's Genius Assassin: Adults Only, and Stalled

Image: Webnovel cover for Diary of Murim's Genius Assassin, by ThreeBigHotMen

Read it only as a premise sample, and only if R18 is fine with you. "The Divine Thief, Jo Do-Yoon, was one of the most feared martial artists in all of Jianghu." He dies trying "to steal the Murim Alliance's most priced treasure, the Divine Pearl", and "was reincarnated fifty years in the future as the daughter of Tang Clan!" The twist is brutal: "Her eyes are completely blind, she is mute, her hearing is faint, and her body is small and fragile!" Webnovel tags it R18 and Ecchi alongside Yuri, Reincarnation and Cultivation, and the author warns "There will be brutal and sensual scenes along the way". It's only 21 chapters long and hasn't updated in two years.

Do Female-Lead Murim Novels Get Kinder Ratings?

A perfect 5 from 15 ratings looks great, but read it with care. On r/noveltranslations, bluesilvergrass noticed that "all the FL novels I've read never even had a rating below 4", and ExaltedCrown's answer was simple: "Less people reading that + those reading have higher interest in that = higher average score." Not everyone agreed it's just bias. huangjoey, who mostly reads cultivation, found female-lead novels "of a significantly higher standard" in "attention to detail, realism and writing quality". Either way, check the chapter count and the last update date before you trust the stars.

Our Take

Start with Murim's Weakest Princess. It's the only one of these three still moving, and its first chapter gives you a reason to care about the heroine before she can even talk. Murim Recurve has the more interesting lead but no ending in sight, and Diary is a premise with nothing behind it yet. All three sit on Webnovel, so check whether Webnovel is worth paying for before you unlock a long run. If you want a wider pool, our best xianxia novels with female lead list has more finished options, wuxia vs xianxia explains those two genres, and murim vs wuxia shows where murim splits off from them.

How We Checked This

On October 16, 2026 we reopened the three Webnovel listings and their tables of contents, read chapter 1 of Murim's Weakest Princess, and rechecked the Reddit thread and Wikipedia's jianghu article. Murim Recurve's last chapter now reads five years old, so we've updated that.

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References

• Murim's Weakest Princess on Webnovel
• Murim Recurve on Webnovel
• Diary of Murim's Genius Assassin on Webnovel
• Wikipedia: Jianghu
• r/noveltranslations: why novels with female protagonists rate higher