Ciweimao Explained: 刺猬猫, Light Novels, Fan Fiction and Blades

Ciweimao (刺猬猫, "hedgehog cat", once called 欢乐书客 or Hbooker) is the Chinese platform for light novels and fan fiction. It joined DaoSearch on 8 November, together with 17K and SFACG (SF Light Novel), which brought the site to nine platforms. Where Qidian and Zongheng are about cultivation and empire, and JJWXC about romance, Ciweimao is where readers of anime, games and ACG culture write for each other: 同人 (fan fiction) of Type-Moon, Genshin, Honkai, Arknights and KanColle, 综漫 crossovers, system stories, isekai and slice-of-life comedy.

About 10,000 Ciweimao books are listed here as of November 2026, a small slice of what the site holds. Like every new source it's still filling in, so the number moves.

The figures

A Ciweimao row shows Monthly tickets, Clicks and Favorites, with chapters and word count beside them. The book page adds Recommendations, Reviews and Blades when the book has them. There is no star rating, because Ciweimao has none.

Monthly tickets (月票) are what paying readers give a book each month, the same idea as Qidian's and Zongheng's. They are Ciweimao's headline figure and the default sort of the library.

Clicks (点击) is the lifetime read counter. It only goes up, so it says how much a book has been read, not how it is doing now.

Favorites (收藏) counts readers who put the book on their shelf.

Recommendations (推荐票) are free daily votes: enthusiasm across a wider crowd than tickets.

Blades (刀片) are Ciweimao's own. Readers send them to an author to ask for the next chapter, a 催更 in the form of a little knife. A book with many blades has readers waiting on its next update.

Reviews (书评) are the readers' written reviews, which show on the book page.

The library sorts are Monthly tickets (the default), Clicks, Favorites, Recommendations, Updated, Added and Words.

The boards

Ciweimao ranks books on eleven boards: monthly tickets, new books' tickets, clicks, favorites, recommendations, sales, blades, words written, paragraph comments (吐槽), completed books and books readers are following. Most come by week, month and all time, and can be narrowed to a category. DaoSearch keeps them all, and rows show how far a book has moved since the previous day.

Booklists

Readers make 书单, booklists, often around one fandom or one taste, each with a note from the curator on every book. A book page shows the lists it appears in.

What is hidden

DaoSearch keeps every record Ciweimao serves but hides stubs, books with fewer than five chapters and fewer than 10,000 words. A chart place, a booklist or a thousand favorites bring one back, and hidden stubs are checked again, so a book its author returns to comes back on its own. Ciweimao's comics are not novels and are never listed.

Where to start

1. Open the monthly tickets board and pick a category you like.
2. Or browse completed Ciweimao books by favorites and add a tag such as a fandom.
3. Paste a Ciweimao book link into the search box and the book comes up directly. The search guide covers that.

Explore the catalogue: Ciweimao (novels, rankings, stats).