Jiang Ziya's Memoirs

Name: Jiang Ziya's Memoirs
Author: Purple Lily

姜子牙回忆录

by Purple Lily (紫百合)

Status: Completed
Length: 511k Words
Genre: Eastern Fantasy
Subgenre: Eastern Cultivation
Updated: 6mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

In a nutshell:

A hundred-year-old good-for-nothing who can't do anything right is forced by Heaven to appoint 365 gods, yet somehow fails to secure a divine title for himself. Still, he thinks it was worth it.

In a little more detail:

At seventy-two, Jiang Ziya went up the mountain to study the Dao, but after forty-three years he still hadn't learned a thing. After coming back down, the wind blew away the flour he was trying to sell, a wolf made off with the mutton he was selling, and his butcher wife called him a “useless coward” every day. He finally scraped together a living telling fortunes, only to get dragged into the great mission of Investiture of the Gods. His opponent was his own junior fellow disciple, Shen Gongbao; his boss was King Wen of Zhou, who had eaten his eldest son; and his client was Yuanshi Tianzun, who never said more than half a sentence. Leading a pack of troubled kids including Nezha, Yang Jian, and Lei Zhenzi, he fought his way through the Ten Unique Formations and the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, appointing 365 gods but leaving no place for himself. In the end, he returned to the State of Qi, dug a pond by the city gate, and fished with a straight hook, waiting for someone who would never come.

Style: Funny and lively, with tears behind the laughter. Beneath its absurd exterior lies a deeply moving sincerity. It may be about gods fighting, but at heart it's about how ordinary people stand their ground rather than kneel before fate.

Stats

31Chapters

20Reads · 30 days

330Reads · all time

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