#cnovel recs
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I'm alive! Technically. I'm dying of stress, but fortunately my passionate desire to ignore real life has translated to a BURST of new reading, mostly cnovels that have been on my list for like. Two years. I'm back in this pit, apparently?
One non-cnovel: A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland. It just came out last week, I am in LOVE with the anxiety writing and also both the leads, and it also just went down so smooth, I am about to go look up everything else this author has published.
Cnovel 1: Reborn With an Old Enemy on the Day of our Marriage. At the end of a decade+ long enemies to lovers arc, we tune in with our leads just as they decide to get married. On their way out of the country to do so, they reminisce about how they ruined each other's lives for so long, and should have just loved each other sooner. They fall asleep, wake up back in high school, and... do that! Very sweet, very funny, the relationship is a solid core of the story as they repair relationships with estranged family and get their friends aimed at better futures than the first time around. The stakes stay personal and intimate and it was so SOOTHING, and consistently just so funny
Cnovel 2: The Path of the Cannon Fodder's Counterattack. Kinda. Ehhhh. It was very good until the halfway point, but then the pacing got weird, it turned into a harem drama, and the emotional core was just JEALOUSY. But the early tension is fun, I just recommend peacing after the first sex scene. Two people transmigrated into the past - a boy and the girl he likes. She wants to be the emperor's consort. Their first life, after he gave everything to help her, she still poisoned him. The second time around, he is Done with her, he wants to see her struggle, but also he is undercover as a eunuch in the emperor's court, and is definitely.... not. And that's going to be an issue as the emperor takes an interest in him. The first half was fun, second half bummed me out, a lot like dreamer in the spring boudoir
Cnovel 3: Mistakenly Saving the Villain. I'm only 28/120 in so far, but having an INCREDIBLE time. A med student with ALS gets offered the chance to transmigrate into a xianxia doctor's body, and is instructed to save the protagonist from a terrible fate. He hasn't really read many of these novels and saves the wrong guy. Rather than saving an innocent white lotus from sex slavery, he saves a guy who's been stuck there for a decade. The crunch is DELICIOUS, the angst is very supported by the text, and I took notice of this because of the 'black belly' tag - it can be kind of hit or miss whether I like a book's take on it, but I'm so weak for stories where a character is soft for one (1) man, and a massive hazard to everyone else. And he deserves to do some murders. A lot of them. I support him. I haven't finished this yet, so I'm not sure how it ends, but it's very funny and intense and so refreshing as a dynamic (this is translated by chrysanthemum gardens, and their chapters aren't listed on NU these days, but just go to their site)
#cnovel recs#was that a tag i used#we just don't know#3/4 cnovels and 3/4 recs#just the sets aren't the same 😂#might mess around and bind that last one
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ohhh novel recs pretty please? favs/best of a genre/best of 2022? love your writing so what you read must be great too
Hi there.
It has been a while since you sent this. I would like you to know I didn’t ignore it -- thank you very much for your opinion of my writing, by the way! It is simply… I wanted to recommend you a lot of things. I binged to try and find some things that I could 100% recommend with my entire chest! With no stipulations! With no regret!
I only found one thing. I panicked about only having one thing, and kept trying to find more things. In retrospect, I should have gone through completed novels, because that would have stopped me from going “this was good until this one thing happened”, like I did with... several novels, but hey.
I was actually going to reread all of these just to make SURE, but if I did that, I would probably accidentally make this into a best of 2023 list, SO. Here we go.
The one novel that I will recommend with my entire chest is!!!
Demon Venerable Also Wants to Know
'Second male lead' receives copy of the shitty romance novel he lives in and immediately goes "haaaaa why the fuck am I supposed to like this female lead". He starts investigating and comes to some wild ass conclusions. Some of them utterly ridiculous! Others that show that the original shitty romance novel is not quite as brain dead as it initially seems.
I like the layers to this thing, the shenanigans they get up to, I even fully like the romance in here (BL, if you were wondering), which is kind of rare for me. Also, shout out to the most interesting og female lead in this genre I've ever seen!
This novel is without flaw! Without any possibility of error! I really, truly, had zero complaints. If I actually ranked this novel on novelupdates, I would give it a full 5 stars!
Honorable mentions:
100,000/Hour Professional Stand-in
This is the kind of cnovel you read if you are just so, so incredibly tired of our dear sister transmigrator getting pursued by some weird possessive CEO. Our mc is very calm, very heartless, and perfectly happy to extort so much money out of the people in love with her twin sister. The ending drags a little, and there is a romance in there which I think is unnecessary, but overall, still very good.
Zombie University
Ta-da! The zombie apocalypse happens, and our main character has get deal with it with his ex hovering uncomfortably right there in his adventuring party. I have not finished this novel, and in fact, I am not even caught up on this novel -- I believe I must have left off around chapter 30? -- but it gets a mention here because I really like survival-type stories, and furthermore, I was frankly blown away by the characters and the dynamics between them. I pawed sadly at the novelupdates page for about two weeks before I accepted that I wasn't getting an update anytime soon. AND NOW I SEE IT'S UPDATED WAY MORE SINCE THEN SO I WILL BE CHECKING THIS OUT AGAIN.
Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game
An unlimited/infinite flow novel, in which our mc is an NPC throughout various instances, or Nightmares, as they call them. I will admit that it can get repetitive, since a lot of the time, our characters are trying to figure out what the fuck is going on and end up reiterating some points, and then our mc is in a primarily passive role -- might be frustrating to a witty reader who is very good at putting things together themselves, but I personally liked it, haha. I was admittedly not very fond of the ending, but I enjoyed the characters finding out the mysteries behind the instances, and the larger mystery made me want to claw my hands through the pages to figure out what the fuck was happening.
I Ship My Adversary X Me
Guy ends up shipping himself with his fanon adversary. I find guy really eloquent in his narration, which only helps with the sheer ridiculousness of the situation. Living in this guy's head is so fun. There is a manhua. It is cute, but read the novel, the vibes are way goofier. Uh, there is like... one nsfw scene, if I recall correctly, but it's easily skipped, if it bothers you.
When a Fanfic Protagonist Transmigrated Into The Original Novel (kinda nsfw)
Pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. This pokes fun at the tendency to warp ostensibly straight male characters into certain BL stereotypes in fanfiction. The translation is unfinished, but what was there killed me. It is really ridiculous and I love that.
Don’t Hide From Me! (also kinda nsfw no, i change my mind, it's not super explicit, but it's significantly more nsfw than the previous two up there.)
Character A plans to confess his crush on his homophobic best friend, Character B. The plot is the leadup and followup to that. Also blatantly ridiculous, because our Character B treats our Character A in what most people would consider very unplatonic ways, which confuse character A, and also me, and also everyone I liveblogged to, because I liveblogged the entirety of my reading of this on discord. Unfinished, but on this list anyway because I screamed a lot about it and shared exactly how ridiculous it was with everyone around me and ended up roping at least three people into reading with me. It was that kind of novel. If you read, I recommend reading with friends because you will want to shake someone over it. I certainly did.
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Hi! I see you posting about a new cnovel that you're reading. What other cnovels have you read recntly/this yr? I checked out the ones from your previous list and need new recs! thanks xx
Hi, I've read so many cnovels this year so honestly just dropping my entire goodreads reading challenge here
5 stars ★★★★★
A Certain Someone (BL)
I’ll Be the Male Lead’s Sister-in-Law
Assistant Architect (BL)
I'll Have My Seatmate Beat You (BL)
Please Confess to Me
The Rebirth of an Ill-Fated Consort (kind of dark and had some triggers)
Professional Stand-in, With an Hourly Salary of 100,000 (no romance but amazing)
Marriage of the Di Daughter
Silent Reading (BL)
4 stars ★★★★
When A Snail Falls in Love
The Villain's Mother
The Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir
It's Better to be the Empress Dowager
Don’t Fall In Love With The Boss
Pampered Poisonous Royal Wife
This Damned Thirst for Survival (BL)
Don’t You Like Me (BL)
I Can Do It (BL)
3 stars ★★★
The Heart of a Smith (BL)
My Wife spoils me too much
Entrust the Rest of My Life to You
I'm currently reading Black-bellied vs. Black-bellied: Ultimate Showdown and as of chp 76/187 it is a solid 4.5 stars
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A danmei lover's biased and incomplete het web novel rec list
@mercipourleslivres thanks for inspiring me!
When it comes to Chinese web novels, I mainly read danmei. I tend not to care too much for OP heroine with a hero who dotes on her for no reason as she fights with 14 year olds narratives, nor inner courtyard fights. BUT!!! There are some het web novels I like and so here is my biased and incomplete rec list. Most of these don't have OP heroines, and very little to none courtyard fights.
Before I start, my favorite het web novel authors are: Gong Xinwen, Mo Shu Bai, Peng Lai Ke, and Jiu Lu Fei Xiang. I have yet to read anything bad by them.
Anyway, rec list:
1000 Miles of Bright Moonlight - one of my ultimate favorites, this would make such an epic drama! A smart as hell heroine, a hero who is a monk and a warrior (but also terminally?) ill and such a vivid world and amazing secondary characters (heroine’s brother is possibly my favorite supporting character of all time) and so much angst and happy ending. This has an amazing romance but it’s not romance-centric if it makes sense - ML doesn’t appear for a while. But once he does, it’s worth it!
Accompanying the Phoenix - the one that just got adapted into The Legend of Shen Li, this is high adventure and cottage core and funny and tragic and powerful ML being putty in the hands of capable FL and just EVERYTHING.
Apocalypse Arrival - Gong Xinwen’s novels are made just for me. Her heroines are always powerful as fuck and rescue abused MLs. In this novel, our heroine who lives in the post-apocalyptic world, wakes up right before that apocalypse happens. She forms a survival crew and also rescues ML who has miraculous blood and has been drained of it and is now hunted after the rescue for it. SO GOOD!!!
Black Moonlight Holds the BE Script - so fucked up, so good, with monster hero who learns to love and be human and heroine who learns to love and be human (but from the other side, her tower of perfection.) Much better than the drama which I did enjoy.
The Blue Whisper - the drama was so-so, but the novel is a bona fide angst masterpiece, which really delves into what it feels like to be imprisoned or to love.
Counterattack of the Cannon Fodder Chambermaid - I remember starting this and loving the realistic feel and the heroine and wanting to stab the hero and @mercipourleslivres telling me to be patient. She was right, by the end I was on board with both the hero (who was abused and is rather autistic-coded) and the OTP. Anyway, heroine is a servant who was a concubine in the last life and got killed as part of a rich family’s harem intrigues. In this life, she just wants to keep her head down but her life gets derailed anyway. She gets sold away and eventually made a servant in the household of an exiled prince who takes a fancy to her and she endures it because what choice does she have? All she wanted was to serve out her term and become a small time merchant. This is quite realistic about lack of options for women, especially lower class women or upper class male attitudes (ML is never vicious or mean to FL but it does not initially occur to him to wonder if she fancies him or enjoys being his concubine or w/e.) It is a DELIGHTFUL slow burn tho as they grow to love each other and grow together and become one of the most wholesome cnovel couples out there.
Dandere General and His Lord - hi there, Gong Xinwen! God, I love this one. Heroine transmigrates from modern world into a brutal slave-holding world at war (think something like Warring States era.) Our heroine transmigrates into the body of a noblewoman who just hung herself. When she comes to, she discovers that woman’s twin brother was the ruler of a city poisoned by a rival claimant and the besieging army of said claimant is about to take the city and original occupant of the body and the rest of the family chose suicide as a way to avoid dishonor. Our heroine refuses, schemes with advisors to pass as the brother and rally the troops. Once the invaders are defeated, she keeps on the masquerade and rides off to one of the never-ending wars “she” is summoned to. Our hero couldn’t be farther from this. A slave and a son of a slave, he’s escaped a horrific, starving childhood during which he narrowly avoided being murdered or raped, and ended up in the army. When the story opens, he distinguished himself in battle and as a reward, he and a few of his fellow slave warriors are invited to a banquet, where they are given some alcohol and to be playthings of any nobles who want them. One of them does not survive this but ML is lucky - heroine feels terrible and so “claims” him for herself. Instead she just tends to his wounds and sends him back. She does not fancy him or anything, she is just a human being with a conscience. And the story goes from there.
Demon King's Repayment - another delicious Gong Xinwen tale with a powerful ML dedicated to capable FL. This one is a great fantasy plot (I keep imagining it as an animated series) and a sprawling cast of amazing secondaries (and secondary OTPs - there is, I swear, an OTP that is Dong Hua x Feng Jiu done thru GXW lens) to boot.
Doomed to Be Cannon Fodder - I hesitated to put this one on the list because by the end I was not keen on how misogynistic novel got to original female lead but it was one of my earliest novels and I loved it for 90% and it’s fucking hilarious at times. Heroine transmigrates as bit villainess into a novel, all she wants is not to die, but her new attitude of “pls stay away” catches the attention of her terrifying general husband. Honestly, imo still worth it.
Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir - my n1 novel on this list, smart and fierce and don’t really read this for romance because it does not start until really late, but ice cold heroine x ice cold hero both of equal brains and ruthlessness is everything. I went from loathing the ML to finding him fascinating to adoring him (and yet he softened around the edges only for FL, he never became “nice”) and loved FL throughout; secondaries are epic. If you read only one non-danmei web novel, make it this one.
The Emperor’s Beloved Ugly Girl - my n2 novel on this list. Our heroine is the unlucky laundry maid A’Chou. She is a di daughter of an upperclass family but her family got destroyed in one of the political upheavals of the time and A’Chou, only a small child at the time, was the only survivor and was made an enslaved laundry maid. Due to various events, at the start of the novel she is a laundry maid in a minister’s household and the minister’s beloved daughter is having a fit because she’s supposed to marry the former Crown Prince which may have been great a few years back but Crown Prince had since been deposed, tortured, imprisoned and now is living in the middle of nowhere under conditions that are too meager to be called house arrest. And he’s seriously crippled too. Understandably, the young lady doesn’t want to marry him! She’d rather kill herself and so she does. And so, a desperate plan is hatched - why don’t we pretend the laundry maid is the di daughter of the minister’s household and send her off? And so A’Chu is sent as the bride. She arrives to discover a broke, seriously injured man on the verge of death…and we go from there. This is so gorgeous and tender and slow in just the right way and like AAAAAA! Secondary OTPs (one of which is MM) are also epic.
Futu Tower - the drama (Unchained Love) was a mess but the novel is such a lovely, dark exploration of coming back to life, for the ML from his dark revenge-strewn path and for heroine from not being allowed wishes of her own. She is a tribute bride, he’s a (fake) eunuch, they are both servants who use themselves to achieve goals and find peace and happiness together.
The Grand Princess - a tale where both members of the OTP reincarnate as their younger selves after killing each other in their 50s, and get a new start, this is smart and slow and so good in portraying old souls in young bodies. Their rediscovery of not just each other but themselves and their passion for living is just AAAAAA!
Heroine Saves Gentleman - Gong Xinwen novel so we have a tough martial artist lady saving a very upper class scholar and it goes from there. If elegant gorgeous ML being saved and protected (and lovingly dommed) by awesome FL is your bag, pls come right in.
Husband Be a Gentleman - schemer meet schemer. He’s an idle prince she’s perfect daughter, in reality both are wolves out for blood. Mmmm. Very OTP gets together early and is us against the world.
I’ll Be the Male Lead’s Sister in Law - one of my all time favorite novels. Heroine is made to marry a disabled nephew of the emperor. He used to be a victorious god of war but went mad and now is basically locked away and kept as a beast. GOD I LOVE THIS NOVEL SO MUCHHHHH! So much hurt/comfort and awesome OTP and after he eventually recovers, all he wants to do is to fight and murder things and dote on wifey. MMM. He’s honestly one of my fave MLs.
I Married a Disabled Tyrant After Transmigrating - if you have a Florence Nightingale complex, this is for you. Heroine wakes up as tribute bride to an almost dead dragon lord and slowly nurses him back to life as his rivals try to murder him. They are both utter adorable babies!
Let the Villain Go - another Gong Xinwen novel, this and Apocalypse Arrivals are AUs of each other. Heroine is surviving in the apocalypse, ML is the “bugbear” of the world but in reality just reacting to all abuse and torture and after she accidentally saves him, devotes himself. Fun fun fun!
Long Wind Crossing - Amazing ML and FL who grow together, clever plot, arranged marriage to love etc etc. Oh, and one point he feeds her his blood to keep her alive, what’s not to love? (Adapted into Chang Feng Du/Destined)
Lost You Forever - this is a short but delicately wistful tale of trauma and loss and love, wrapped in a high fantasy setting but so relatable despite it.
Love In Another Life: My Gentle Tyrant - so so fucked up in the best way! ML cannot live with OR without heroine. It opens on them banging in jail night before her execution (ordered by him) with corpses of men he killed for trying to defile her cooling nearby. If you want healthy relationships with respectful boundaries, gentle and considerate male leads who are modern men in period clothes, OP heroines who have everyone help them and are OP to the max, fluff and wholesomeness, that is about the worst book for you.If you want complexity, dysfunction, darkness, pain and an absolutely lyrical even if fucked up story, come right IN!!!!I am so fucking in love with the melancholy heroine, with ruthless psycho hero and the endless regret and devotion and paaaaain!
The Marquis Is Innocent - our heroine is a beautiful woman married to a warlord who hates her family. (Yes, this was gonna be The Prisoner of Beauty until SZE tax scandal.) Except she's a transmigrator from the future who knows how it ended last time around and has no interest to end up this tragically. This is in my top 5 - FL is smart but believably so (and doesn't have super battle powers) and ML is a believable period warlord. The way their relationship develops so gradually and the way his character changes so gradually as well (and the way they slowly fall in love, her slower than him) is just amazing. It is such a smart, nuanced, gorgeous slow burn. With some gonzo sex scenes :P
Mulberry Song - you like tragic endings? Come right IN! This is short and heartbreaking and wistful and very what-if.
Nightfall (Ever Night) - so long but also so smart and unusual and bloody and tho it’s not primarily a romance, you will never see another ML who loves his FL as much as Ning Que does his Sang Sang.
Offering Salted Fish to Master - in some ways, this novel is a mess, but I am recommending it because this is a rare example of "nope he's 100% a villain and murderdude and odd, but he does love the heroine" that the author commits to.
Pihanjin - yet another awesome PLK novel, this is once again, like with Marquis, a ruthless man and a beautiful woman getting a second chance on a second go-around. FL is a lot more wounded this time around though. If you LOVE watching ML grovel and slowly, gradually win FL over, this one is for you.
Princess Agents - a dark tale with an incredibly competent and militarily powerful/ruthless heroine and two terrifying men who love her (but neither is as terrifying as she is.) There is an OTP switch halfway through that shockingly makes sense and it's just SO SO GOOOOOOOD
Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage - this is probably the one “typical” novel on this list, heroine is reborn as her youngest self and gets revenge on those who wronged her last time around. It is really really well-written and heroine is competent, hero is doting and powerful etc. It’s not a trope I tend to love but I do when it’s done THIS well.
Rebirth of the Tyrant’s Pet: Regent Prince is Too Fierce: Borgias cnovel style! Our heroine was empress in last life and put her husband on the throne tho he did not love her. However, he had her executed and had his half-brother carry out the orders and heroine died horrifically. She opens her eyes and she’s a little girl again. The OTP this time around is heroine and half-brother executioner. Why do I love it? Heroine is smart and tough but also this is a rare rebirth novel where heroine does NOT decide to seek revenge for past life wrongs because they haven’t happened yet! In fact, she sees ML abused and stands up for him because he’s a kid and no kid should be mistreated and this go around he hasn’t done anything wrong. She also gets and likes her former life husband. Anyway, this is fakecest galore because she’s supposed to be their half-sister and while she knows (from past life) she is not, they do not and fall for her anyway. ML is especially gonzo, at one point carving chunks of his flesh to save her. He’s feral and unhinged and she’s the one person he worships because she protected him and like - it’s all awesome. (I love secondary ML too.)
Reborn to Love Lord Qiansui - yes, this is a eunuch novel! If you like gender tropes reversals, this one is for you. Heroine is a tough martial artist, hero is a smart as hell and powerful eunuch. A real eunuch. Heroine finds out she owes him her life and decides to protect him. This is a total delight and an awesome love story between two really scarred people. And yes, there is sex - heroine literally reads manuals on pegging :P
Return of the Swallow - so freaking long! But really good. Heroine is neither transmigrator nor reincarnator, just a smart period woman. She is a lost family daughter taken back in. Her father is a minister in a dying empire (father-daughter relationship is one of the best things in this novel), her OTP is enemy general, and the smartness and the awesomeness of this all knows no bounds.
Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes - probably the wackiest JLFX novel I read, this is quite different from Love You Seven Times drama that was adapted from it. Our deity protagonists go through a bunch of lives figuring out they fancy each other. It's light like a souffle but just as delicious.
To Be a Virtuous Wife - some people prefer 8 treasures trousseau but I never warmed up to that one. This one is so good, with smart people (who actually enjoy sex, a ratity) and a perfect mix of plot and romance.
Transmigrator Meets Reincarnator - my very first web novel. A lot lighter than a lot of the ones on this list but a total delight. Heroine transmigrates into a novel as the heroine; she has no interest in drama or chasing true love, she just wants to live a nice life with her nice husband. Too bad for her, her husband has reincarnated into his younger self and remembers how she betrayed him, so is not interested. This one is funny and light and romance doesn’t start till late on but a total delight!
Wishing You Eternal Happiness - this is tied with Dreamer as my favorite het web novel ever though it couldn’t be more different from Dreamer, with its hard-edged and hard-souled protagonists ruthlessly cleaving their way to the world and, eventually, each other, its smart cynical air. Except in one thing - the world of Wishing is just as bloody and dark. Its two protagonists are gentle, deeply wounded souls who may find salvation in each other but even something as basic as safety almost seems out of reach.
Jliafu, our heroine, is neither a modern-day transmigrator, nor some exotic princess or demoness. She is very much a period woman of her time, from a weathy merchant clan, whose beauty is her curse. You can tell the novel’s tone from that utterly bleak opening chapter where she, a favorite concubine of a capricious dying emperor, is ordered to be buried alive with him and is not even given the “grace” of white silk but slowly suffocates in the coffin, scrabbling at the lid. There is no grand threats of vengeance on her part, not dramatic opera events. Just despair and death. The whole introductory chapter is haunted by emotional ghosts - the empress’ unrequited love for the monster on the imperial bed (turning into desire for Jiafu’s suffering after he dies), the emperor slowly dying in his prime after waging too many wars, and his fear of being haunted by Pei Youan, a brilliant if sickly minister who died of illness long ago on one of imperial campaigns. There is no triumph for anyone, only loss.
When she wakes up as still a young woman, all she wants is to escape the same fate. There are no plans for power or revenge, only a desire for survival. And so she latches on asking for help from Pei Youan, the only man in her past go-around who showed any consideration and desire and ability to protect her, though he barely knew her. Pei Youan is probably my favorite het web novel ML. Despite his brains and ability, he drifts through life. In modern terms, he clearly has depression. One of the biggest, best joys of the novel is watching these two very good, very quiet, very wounded people discover happiness and love with each other. I sort of want to cry just thinking about it, tbh.
The Yandere Came During the Night - a bit of fluff that’s oddly delightful. Heroine is reborn as a (fake) sister of ML, she hurts her legs saving him and the “siblings” form a bond that ends up in fakecest delight. They are both smart and efficient and he becomes a sexy marquis etc.
#cnovel#rec list#the yandere came during the night#accompanying the phoenix#wishing you eternal happiness#to be a virtuous wife#transmigrator meets reincarnator#seven unfortunate lifetimes#i'll be the male lead's sister in law#return of the swallow#husband be a gentleman#apocalypse arrival#counterattack of the cannon fodder chambermaid#Reborn to Love Lord Qiansui#Rebirth of the Tyrant’s Pet: Regent Prince is Too Fierce#princess agents#rebirth of the malicious empress of military lineage#pihanjin#offering salted fish to master#the grand princess#mulberry song#nightfall#ever night#the marquis is innocent#long wind crossing#lost you forever#Love In Another Life: My Gentle Tyrant#let the villain go#I Married a Disabled Tyrant After Transmigrating#futu tower
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thousand mile ice plains
#wenren e#devil venerable also wants to know#dvawtk#digital#fanart#cnovel#art tag#drew the whole thing on procreate which was interesting#since i haven’t drawn on my phone in a loooong time#anyway i saw this title on a random rec list and it’s! very good!#p
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What Tai Sui is and Why Everyone Should Read It
So if you follow me, over the past couple weeks, you've probably noticed me obsessively screenshotting and posting about a book called Tai Sui. And now that I've finished it, I'd like to try and convince y'all to give it a chance.
What Is Tai Sui?
Tai Sui is a chinese web novel—a relatively unpopular work by the very popular author Priest (author of Guardian and Sha Po Lang, among others). Unlike a lot of the most popular web novels on tumblr, it's not a danmei. It's in fact rather important to the plot and themes that there is almost entirely no romance, but I promise you, it is absolutely worth it regardless.
What is Tai Sui About?
Tai Sui is a steampunk xianxia cultivation story. For those unfamiliar with xianxia and cultivation, this is a particular genre of Chinese historical fantasy.
The official summary of Tai Sui reads as follows:
“If I had a choice, I would only want to be a little insect in the mundane dust, born in confusion, dying in mediocrity, never seeing the light of day beneath the fog of Jinping City.
Better than taking this wrong road to heaven.”
You may have noticed that this summary is not in fact really a summary. It gives you a glimpse into the story's themes, mood, and destination, but it doesn't exactly tell you what happens in it.
That's because Tai Sui is one of those works that's incredibly hard to summarize. The story is incredibly wide in scope and changes massively over its course, to the point that any summary that encapsulates the whole thing is going to feel like a spoiler. However, I can try my best to add a little detail without giving too much away.
Tai Sui is the story of Xi Ping—an obnoxious, trouble-making rich boy with no interest in cultivation—who gets unwittingly involved in a plot to resurrect the "evil god" Tai Sui. This plot pulls him into the cultivation world against his will and, over time, threatens to rewrite everything he is.
Tai Sui is the end of immortality.
Why Should You Read Tai Sui?
Tai Sui is one of the most compelling stories I have ever read. It is a love letter to the power and promise of the whole world and its many mundane people. It also has some of the best worldbuilding I have ever seen.
Tai Sui is written in omniscient perspective, and though Xi Ping is very much the main character, as the story progresses, we spend more and more time alongside characters that aren't him. By the time the novel ends, his entire continent is at stake, and we the audience know that continent and its troubles inside and out from countless angles. Everyone from the immortal demigods of the cultivation world to the most wretched, miserable paupers is given a grand sense of emphasis.
Tai Sui is a deconstruction of the cultivation genre. It establishes a magic/cultivation system and its history, lets the main character live in that system for a while, and then dives deep into that system's depths. It looks at the cultivation genre, at the idea of people who leave behind their status as mortals for greater things, and asks "How does this really work?" and "Is this how the world should be?"
Tai Sui is the story of countless people who were never supposed to be powerful coming together to make the world a better place. It's well written (and very well translated), exciting, heartbreaking, and incredibly beautiful. It's also funny as hell.
I cannot recommend this story enough.
Warnings/Caveats
As I said before, Tai Sui is a deconstruction of the cultivation genre. If you're unfamiliar with this genre, while the book is certainly readable, you are going to be thrown head first into the deep end with the tropes and terminology at play. It's absolutely worth the learning curve, but it will be kind of a lot. Maybe do some light googling about what a cultivator is before you pick it up. (Or just ask a fan. I think most of us would happily explain anything that would win a new reader).
There are portrayals of people/cultures in Tai Sui that are heavily inspired by minority cultures in real-world China, and some of these portrayals play into pretty harmful stereotypes. It's not SPL "Barbarian" or TGCF Banyue levels of racist, but it's something to be aware of and careful about. I'd really recommend reading from the perspectives of those from the cultures in question (including but not limited to the post I linked) for more about the issues I'm talking about.
Tai Sui's English translation is 930,000 words long. I believe this is a strength, since its length is what allows it such an incredible scope. It is also a fucking daunting commitment, and I acknowledge that.
Finally, while Tai Sui doesn't need too many trigger warnings, it does contain some pretty viscerally upsetting depictions of inequality and mistreatment, as well as a few instances of violence toward children. You can't uplift without first seeing what the people need uplifting from, and hooboy. They need it.
There's also some scenes that are technically rather violent, but the goriness is not presented as gore, if that makes sense. It never feels intensely or overly violent in the way some fantasy novels do.
Links
If all my gushing and propagandizing has convinced you to give it a try, you can find the original Chinese version (where you can buy chapters to support the author) on JJWXC.
The complete English translation is free on the website of E. Danglars, who does a truly incredible job with the translating.
Happy reading :).
#my desperate shot at propagandizing now that my followers have sat through months of on and off obsessive tai sui posting#besties it is genuinely so good#it made me cry. and that is a fcking feat.#tai sui#priest#cnovel#webnovel#long post#I'm not putting a readmore on this bc I want to force y'all to look at it#sorry#book rec#invasion of the frogs
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You should read Little Mushroom
Hey guys! As followers know, I've just finished reading this cnovel and I'm here to do a formal rec of it.
What is Little Mushroom?
It's a chinese danmei (BL) novel by the author Shisi, originally published online, now available in official English translation from Peach Flower House.
What's it about?
This is a post-apocalyptic dystopian sci-fi novel where the protagonist is a mushroom.
What??
Yeah, he's an actual mushroom. Most of the Earth is a wasteland of radiation and mutated monsters, which means things are WEIRD AS FUCK. He comes from a particularly weird and dangerous place, and somehow he achieves sentience. His spore (child? infant? egg?) is stolen by a human and he finds a dying human called An Ze so he takes this human's form and memories and becomes human-shaped and calls himself An Zhe. Then he goes seeking out more humans to find and save his spore.
Okay, and this is a romance? With a mushroom?
Yes. Though this is honestly one of the danmei I've read that is lightest on the romance. Really the star of the show is the world-building and questions about humanity and ethics.
Characters:
An Zhe: The most adorable mushroom ever. You will love him. Everyone loves him. He's just a little mushroom trying to navigate a weird human world without the humans discovering he's really a "monster."
Lu Feng: The Arbiter, a judge authorized to kill anyone on sight that he suspects of being contaminated with xenogenic (monster) genes. And he does, a lot. Seemingly cold and unfeeling, hated by many if not most of the human population because he, yanno, keeps killing people, even if it's necessary to protect what remains of humanity. He spares An Zhe, though.
Other characters: Well, most of them don't last long. It's a vicious world. There's a lot of death. There are some nice side characters towards the end, though.
Why should I read this?
Look, it's just a really great book, okay? It's a book about a fairly grim future for humanity, and the things humanity is forced to do to survive, and dystopian elements and the struggles that result. It's about big ethical questions and big existential questions about whether humanity deserves to live and what the point of struggling to survive is...whether there is any hope for humanity and whether there's any point to hope at all.
And it's all told through the POV of a mushroom. Come on!
For all that, it's not a dark novel. The first half in particular feels pretty light, mostly because of the POV, granted. It's really funny in a lot of parts, but the undertone, the background is always this fairly grim stuff. Really unique juxtaposition. The second half gets deeper and really digs into the existential questions. And yeah it made me cry towards the end.
Minor spoilers from here on
But it does have a happy ending for the main characters and the romance, and a hopeful if not entirely happy one for humanity as a whole.
The romance is fairly light on the ground in this. An Zhe is a mushroom and he doesn't really understand sex or romance or have much interest in it for most of the book, despite people constantly trying to GET him interested. Lu Feng is clearly in the background developing feelings, but An Zhe is oblivious and just worried about his mushroom concerns, yanno? Eventually there are feelings-realization and they end up together, but it's still doesn't feel like a traditional romance. I'd say it's very ace friendly even if there are hints of sexual off-screen stuff.
Other reasons to read it:
It's short for a cnovel, and it flies by. This was my main vacation reading that I took to the pool and it was perfect. And I FLEW through vol 2 in a couple of sittings.
It's got a very nice translation and you should support this lesser known novel getting an English publication from a publisher that isn't Seven Seas.
Where do I buy it?
Both physical volumes are available from Peach Flower House. Or you can get ebooks from various ebook sellers, including Amazon. (Right now Amazon also has the paperbacks, but when I was buying they didn't.)
More Info.
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This is my mini little pitch post for "Mistakenly Saving the Villain" because ever since I've read it, it won't leave my mind and there's woefully little fan content for it. I think it might actually be my favorite webnovel now.
It is completely translated with a total of 120 chapters (translation link here) (novelupdates for full list of tags) ***extremely important to pls look at the trigger warnings and tags before reading***
It's a xianxia danmei novel about a terminally ill medical student, Song Qingshi, who transmigrates into the immortal cultivator who is master of the Medicine King's Valley. His system issued mission is "to rescue the gentle, kind and tragic protagonist shou of the novel 'The Exceptional Furnace'". Naturally, he instantly fails this task by saving the "wrong" person.
Overall, the story is about healing, so enter the story with caution, since the first half of the novel is very painful and at times quite hard to read with how heavy the subject matter is. That being said, I really admire how the author made healing a long process that can't be fixed by love alone.
Also, both the mc and the ml are veryyyyy devoted to each other, and without spoiling too much... you might think while reading that there's no way that mc can match the ml's intensity but he can ;)
I think I would recommend this story to people who enjoyed tian guan ci fu, since the past is also extremely important in misvil and the story takes place on a similarly large scale (if not larger).
I feel like this story works best when you don't have any spoilers, because the twists in this story really elevate it from being just your run of the mill transmigration story to something more like an epic. I'm still surprised that the author had an explanation that wrapped up every single loose thread while also adding a whole new layer to the novel.
For an added incentive ;) read the novel so you understand why this is literally the main couple:
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cnovel recs
A continuation of this post.
Is anyone perchance interested in more chinese web novel recs? I have been rather taken up by them last year, and have posted a number of reviews on another site.
link to recs: https://lycorxian.notion.site/49551e76236241f094d383eb206cc1c2
I haven't considered translating the reviews because the books are chiefly written in chinese yet to be translated (and goodness it's... taxing ploughing through your own terrible writing attempting to translate anything). However, if a rec list happens to interest you, that you would like to hone your chinese reading skills or are simply on the lookout for more cnovel recommendations, go ahead and have a go at these novels I recommended.
Links to the reviews are just at the rightmost part of the notion database (scroll down), they are in trad chi in consideration of the posting platform though it should simply be a matter of web browser translation to simplified chinese.
Thanks and enjoy!
Edit: since tumblr really has a grudge with my links, either try copying this: https://lycorxian.notion.site/49551e76236241f094d383eb206cc1c2
or use the QR code here
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I finished reading "How To Feed An Abyss!", coming back to the last quarter of it now that it's fully translated. It's a similar concept to "Little Mushroom" (nonhuman main character in a post-apocalyptic world) but overall a very different mood.
Bad things still happen, but HFA feels a lot more hopeful. Parts of it feel downright cozy. There are entire chapters devoted to the beauty of ordinary, mundane moments. The titular abyss (in human form) joins a community theatre (what's the point of art when the world is ending? No, what's the point if there *isn't* art?)
The romantic development is also a bigger part of the story than in Little Mushroom and although there are a couple of things I didn't like about the ship, I'm glad the romance was there. I definitely liked the fact that they could be open with each other and fully trust each other (as of about halfway through the novel; there's hidden identity and secrets before that point).
Which is to say: I recommend it! https://www.novelupdates.com/series/how-to-feed-an-abyss/
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So, I have a question to everyone out there who likes baihe novels. I've been thinking about starting to read one (I only read danmei so far) and I wanted to ask you all about your opinion.
I wanted to start with 'the beauty's blade' since it isn't a really long book and this way I could find out if I like baihe or not (I think I will, since I'm a not really straight girl yk), but I'm afraid to start it and then end up not liking it.
I also thought about reading 'female general and eldest princess' but I heard from a lot of people that it drags on a lot and that the princess is very manipulative and toxic ... I, however, have no idea how much of this is true and what I should do now.
So I would like to beg the baihe fandom for their help😅🥰🥰
#baihe#the beauty's blade#the beautys blade#female general and eldest princess#fgep#baihe fandom#baihe recs#cnovels#baihe novel#baihe novels
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𖤐 — Can Ci Pin .
Carrd
Autor: Priest.
Capítulos: 197 + 6 extras.
Género : Ciencia Ficción espacial, acción, mechas, romance bl, política.
Mi calificación : ★★★★★
" Incluso si tuviera una razón para irme un tiempo, regresaré mientras sigas aquí. "
¿Por qué deberías leer Can Ci Pin te preguntarás? Porque si eres un amante de la ciencia ficción espacial, mechas con un plus de gays, es totalmente para ti.
Can Ci Pin es una novela escrita por Priest y mi primera lectura de ella. La construcción de mundo que tiene es compleja, dividida en 8 galaxias principales que forman la Unión Interestelar, hay piratas espaciales, militares divididos en grupos y cuestiones políticas. Su mundo de primeras puede resultar difícil de entender y más aún debido al vocabulario de cosas mecánicas y de mechas, pero les juro que Priest logra asombrarte, los detalles y la historia que hay detrás, la complejidad que tiene es parte del encanto que te sumerge totalmente en esta historia.
Nos presentan al MC que es Lu Bixing viviendo en la Octava Galaxia (piensen en ello como la galaxia marginal) y con el sueño de fundar un colegio donde pueda educar a los niños del planeta Beijin, él es un genio mecánico con grandes ideales y sueños, acompañado del ML Lin Jingheng, quien inicialmente solo era un ganster en Beijin y resultó ser el Comandante del Yin Yaosai (Fortaleza Plateada, una de las más poderosas dentro del ejército de la Alianza), quien supuestamente estaba muerto. Los dos, poco a poco van descubriendo el secreto detrás del Sistema de Eden y viejos proyectos que afectaron terriblemente a la humanidad, la historia oculta detrás del control.
Es una power couple muy potente y llena de tensión, no es una relación que se de desde un inicio sino que va desarrollándose y ves cómo ambos van mutando debido a las vicisitudes. Es muy real la forma en que van enfrentando sus sentimientos debido a sus personalidades, cuestiones políticas y distancia, eventualmente tu único deseo es que huyan ellos dos y Zhan Lu (el IA asistente de Lin Jingheng) a una galaxia lejana y tengan una casita con mascotitas robots viviendo tranquilos y felices.
No solo sufres (mucho) por la pareja principal, también debido a los secundarios, todos son creados de tal manera que cada uno tiene su chispa y encanto, nadie es totalmente blanco o negro, todos tienen sus tonos de grises debido a las adversidades que han vivido, con sus propias filosofías e ideales. Realmente todos los personajes tienen su noséqué especial que te hace amarlos demasiado, son humanos y se equivocan y crecen y cambian.
Así que háganse el favor y embárquense en el vórtice que este mundo te hace entrar, fantasía espacial, política, drama, tensión, romance. No te das cuenta cuando apartas la vista y regresas a este mundo aburrido sin naves ni robots ni IAs asombrosas.
Plus, son muy golden retriever x black cat energy, su relación está llena de tensión y ellos son el peak del romance. Lin Jingheng es el verdadero sugar daddy que le compraría las galaxias enteras a Lu Bixing si pudiese.
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hello it's the cnovel anon! :) do you have other novel recs? preferably with less revenge/intense plot? dont get me wrong i loved rotme but also i would like to read a chill novel! ty
Hello, here are some sweet/interesting novels!
Very Happy BL, slice of life + fluff
Rebirth on the Doors to the Civil Affairs Bureau one of my favorite Het novels, lots of fluff!!!
The Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir: For sure need to get through like 1/3 of the book to find the ML likeable but once that happens it's amazing.
Don't fall in love with the boss: super cute and fun and it has a drama adaption
Please confess to me: very minimal drama, more slice of life and had super cute moments
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Favourite fics of 2023
Now that the year is over, I figured I'd cast my eye back over the previous year to see what were my favourite fics I discovered that year. Notably, they may not have been published last year--just the ones that I read during that time period.
I have absolutely no idea what they will be, so I'm curious to dive into my bookmarks...
MDZS/CQL
Stunted, Starving Juvenility by TomatenMark -- oooh, apparently it was last year that I consumed this. It's a behemoth of a story at over 700k words; it's a slowly sprawling tale, and I read and reread it during the same year. And it's been one of the rare WIPs that I have been following faithfully. It's an AU in which WWX and LWJ, early on during the Gusu lectures, have the extra-canonical chapters' dreams about each other (that's to say, the ravishing in the library and the peaceful domesticity) and this triggers them realizing their feelings, which in turn changes rather a lot of things. This sounds underwhelming, but the fic really is very good and rather epic in scope! I have appreciated how it depicts WWX--intensely intelligent, precocious, but in need of guidance; and he and LWJ are darling together. I only hope it keeps being this good for the next 700k words or however much it takes!
You'll See Me Again by anon -- oh man, I loved this one. It's sadly a short-ish WIP (12k> words), but the concept is brilliant: it's NHS, who's time-travelled back and is determined to fix everything by getting WWX as his younger brother, and it's told from NMJ's baffled point of view. It's very good! I just wish it were longer.
Mourning Dove by jaemyun - a WIP featuring a dark LWJ who's very fed up with the hypocrisy of the cultivation world. Hasn't updated in a while, though...
SVSSS
This was the year I read SVSSS! Boy, did I ever love it. This naturally unlocked a new fandom for me, so here are some of my favourite fics:
A Transmigrator and a Time Traveler Walk Into the Bamboo House by VeryCharismaticDragon - this is super lovely! This is Binghe who time-travels from after SQQ's self-destruction to the start of the story. And he's determined to change things, even as he's trying to understand them. The whole thing is great.
The More You Don't Know by Neery - this is sweet and angsty in just the right way. Binghe is convinced SQQ only loves him because he doesn't realize he's a demon, and does his best to hide. (There's also a canon divergence in there.)
The Peace Between Divine Pec- ah-hm sorry - uh…Peaks by AceOfDivineChlorophyll - I need to catch up with the latest chapters of this, but I have it bookmarked as "absolutely love it, mega oblivious SQQ thinks he's LBH's advisor and not realizing that he's effectively the empress (something everyone around him sees) and of course not realizing also that he's super in love with LBH."
Particular by thehoyden - a very sweet SQQ/LBH a/b/o!
The King's Avatar
This is also the year when I consumed this canon!
Born of Fire (We Shall Not Fall) by TheDefenestrator - I loved this fic so much. So much. It's my favourite take on omegaverse I've ever seen in any fic, ever. It's got a super lovely Ye Xiu/Han Wenqing slowburn and Ye Xiu joining Tyranny, but it's also set in this universe which brings this omegaverse context into everything and makes it extra delicious. It's so well done. I just hope it updates one day.
here in search of your glory by Synoshian - I also adored this long slowburn long slowburn Ye Xiu/Han Wenqing WIP where Ye Xiu joins Tyranny.
Bond/Q
a bloodless coup by Ark - scorchingly hot, great characterisations, very well done.
There's a lot more fics that I read and enjoyed last year, but these were in my bookmarks as absolute faves, so I figure it's fair enough to end it here!
#apparently 2023 was also my year of getting into cnovels#and actually looking at this list--all these are for chinese canons except bond/q#anyway if anyone wants cnovel recs I hugely recommend Married Thrice to Salted Fish and After I Married the Disabled War God as My Concubin#but moving on#fic recs#mdzs#cql#the untamed#wwx/lwj#bond/q#svsss#sqq/lbh#the king's avatar#ye xiu/han wenqing#i actually really fell into the king's avatar rabbit hole this year#it dominated my brain for weeks if not months#i had Feelings about the whole thing#but that omegaverse fic is what i'm the most feral about#2023 fic wrapup
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I'd really like to rec this to anyone who liked SVSSS. It has the meta vibes, it has the dark and devoted love interest, and I find the cultivation lore and the cast very fun.
Summary:
In a certain Mary Sue novel, the readers all liked the second love interest who pureheartedly loved the female lead, the Demonic Lord who was willing to offer up everything for her. But she only loved the male lead who hurt and mistreated her.
Readers: Why doesn’t the female lead like the Demonic Lord, why???
Demonic Lord: This Venerable also wants to know. I moreover want to know why exactly I like her?
The very self-aware Lord of Demons, in order to figure out why the female lead hates herself, carries out a heartless interview with the novel’s entire cast.
Cast: I’ve got some ****** words for you.
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The Lord of Demons, after obtaining the book, finds out that after he died in order to save the female lead, the quiet and devoted number four male lead, his subordinate Yin Hanjiang, went dark and did everything he could to take the female lead down with him.
Lord of Demons Wenren È: Yin Hanjiang, this Venerable would really like to know why you keep trying to kill the female lead.
Yin Hanjiang is silent.
Wenren È: If you don’t speak, this Venerable will cut off your tongue and have it with wine.
Yin Hanjiang: …
Wenren È: Why are you blushing?!
Translator’s summary:
Wenren È, coldly logical boss of the number one evil sect, tries to understand what love is.
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I have read many many cnovels over the years, but the one that has always stuck with me was 清明记 (Story of Qing Ming) by 清朗 (aka 赵晨光) since I first read it more than 10 years ago. It’s a short one at only 18 chapters, telling the story of the titular character Qing Ming, an assassin from the rebel city of Yu Jing. Of course he becomes ‘bosom friends’ with Pan Bai Hua a politically savvy minister from the capital... and spoiler alert, it does not end well.
This is my favourite part of the novel, describing Qing Ming entering the capital on his final mission to assassinate Pan Bai Hua. He has always been one to accept the life he has been born into but when he catches a glimpse of Pan Bai Hua in the sea of plum blossoms, he knows this man has been properly imprinted in his heart.
一面思量，他脚下步履不停，不久便到了香雪海。
那香雪海在拥雪城外东南方，是绝大的一片白梅林，约有千株左右。此刻恰是众芳摇落之际，惟这千株白梅占尽风情。远远望去，清幽绝俗，非雪海二字，不能道其颜色。
这拥雪城之名，正是由这一片香雪海而来。
此刻因已夜深，并无人来。清明走到切近，见月光清冷洁白，洒落在梅花之上，冷烟和月，映得那白梅花瓣透明如冰玉一般。更有暗香缭绕，似有若无。他深吸了一口气，心神俱醉。
一阵夜风吹过，几瓣梅花飘飘荡荡地落了下来。清明伸手轻轻接住，正如玉盘中盛了冰片，清雅之极。他不禁微笑，随口唱起了落花风，一时间便如前日雨夜听宋别离琵琶一般，浑忘了世间诸事，心中只想：这里是天上，还是人间？
初冬薄薄雪，近风淡淡云。
倜傥标高骨，玲珑傲气心。
月夜香雪海，莫过如此。
他这里心神摇曳，自说自笑，偶然一抬头间，忽见拥雪城头，不知何时竟多了一个身影。
此时月光皎洁，映得拥雪城头恰如明镜一般。那人身形高挑，素衣银冠，风神隽雅。月下看来，实是浊世一翩翩佳公子。
清明忽然一句话也说不出来，一声也笑不出来了。
城头那人，正是天子面前有名的重臣，朝里权倾一时的中书令，眼下拥雪城十万大军的统帅，相交五年的唯一知己，自己此次入城前来刺杀的对象！
眼见小潘相登临城头，身边并无随从，却也是望向东南方，正是为了赏鉴这一片香雪海。
他身在高处，月光又明亮，清明多年训练，目力比常人要好上数倍，看得分外清晰。
而潘白华虽也向香雪海方向看去，但梅林繁茂，清明又站在梅影掩映之中，却是看不分明。
清明站在树下，脑海里一片空白。
他也弄不清过了多久，不知是片刻，还是一个时辰。总之，当他再抬起头时，城头上那个素衣公子，已经不见了人影。
清明从树影中走出，忽然低低地笑出声来。
原道是胸中自有透顶洒脱，谁曾想意中却是透骨相思。
潘白华，见到你之前，我还真当自己已是此心到处悠然了。
Mild spoilers on the ending incoming.......
The author wrote an extra chapter set in modern times and gave the reincarnated PBH/QM their happy ending. While I appreciated having that extra chapter on my first reading, years later I preferred the original ending. While they cared deeply for each other and recognized that this person was the only one to truly know me, it doesn’t change the fact that they were from opposing camps. Well, PBH tried to force QM to change sides but they were always ones who walked their chosen path till the end.
I’m not sure if there are English translations out there of this author’s novels, they are really well written wuxia works. Not explicitly BL but many ‘bosom friends’ bonds.......
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On current reading materials, I finished 嫁纨绔 the novel that upcoming (maybe??) cdrama Chang Feng Du 长风渡 is based on. Really enjoyed the story and the host of characters from mains to villains, so fingers crossed that the drama gets to air and hopefully the script writers don’t mangle the story. I got started on another novel 山河枕 (Mountain and River Pillow) by the same author but got bored around chapter 55. The ML isn’t doing anything for me so far, I’m actually more interested in the ex-husband hahaha. Maybe I should try 四嫁 instead where the ex-husband is the ML!
Please throw novel recommendations my way, especially wuxia ones. I have a 12 hour flight and week long work retreat coming up zzzzzz
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