Looking for a Martial Arts Romance About Bickering Rivals, Not Princes and Princesses 求江湖文，会武功的欢喜冤家，不要王爷王妃那种
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Martial Arts Are Dead, and the Spirit Body Awakens 武学已死，灵体觉醒
[One female lead | Ensemble wuxia | Jianghu intrigue | No System, no transmigration] Xiao Yuan can’t use martial arts, but he can break down every move in the world. He’s a walking database of martial arts. Ye Xiaolan knows nothing about the rules, yet learns any technique at a glance. Before she knows it, she’s triggered a Class B alert across the jianghu. She threatens him with her whip: “Let’s negotiate this amicably. You teach me martial arts, and I’ll help you beat people up.” Xiao Yuan: “Y
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As Moonlight Clears, the Clouds Grow Deep 且以月清云雾深
Rumor has it that Sima Yue Bai, master of Zisu Manor, holds the Ring of the Martial World Supreme. The three great sects have coveted it for a long time and are determined to claim it for themselves. Sima Yue Bai and Yun Wu were closer than brothers, kindred spirits who seemed to transcend romantic love. Then they turned against each other, fighting and nursing bitter grudges. Sima Yue Bai fell into the demonic path because a god who could reach the heavens coveted the demonic eye within him and
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Snow Falls on the Boughs, Frost Covers Them All 雪落枝头上满霜
Daxueping was destined to be anything but peaceful today. Especially at the turn from late autumn to early winter, as the cold northern wind swept tiny flakes of snow across the withered grassland and toward the Crescent Lake, frozen solid. Three young boys, one chance encounter, one narrow escape from death, and a brotherhood that would last a lifetime.
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The Heiress Thief: My Poison King Husband Helps Me Disguise Myself and Take Revenge 千金女贼，毒王夫君助我易容复仇
[No female-dominant, male-stronger romance! A calculating, cool-headed, vengeful assassin heroine x a patient, revenge-driven, jade-faced poison master] (A little household intrigue + revenge, political schemes, and ruling the realm + mutual salvation. An imaginary setting modeled on the Song dynasty, so please don't overanalyze the history.) Betrayed by her closest friend from the start, top assassin Chu Qingge has her meridians shattered and narrowly escapes death. To uncover the truth and mak
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Spring and Autumn in the Entertainment World 娱乐春秋
In a fictional world of martial arts and a hundred schools, a modern person tells the locals that cultivation isn’t the only way to get what you want. Want to be the young hero everyone in the martial world adores? Easy, as long as you’re sincere... For example, why not invite your junior sister for a drink? Confucius said: “When you transmigrate, don’t just toil away at cultivation. The locals aren’t as capable as you!” The heavens make a board, the stars make its pieces, and knowledge is the g
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Snow Flies Over the Mountain Pass 关山飞雪
[Wuxia + Court Politics + War + Schemes + No System + No Transmigration] “Your destiny is noble beyond words, yet you are fated to live your whole life alone and unsupported.” At court, he is a wise ruler with the power of life and death. He wages war in every direction and brings the barbarians to heel. In the martial world, he gradually rises to become the strongest Martial Emperor. His fame spreads throughout the realm, and heroes bow before him. Can he finally break the curse of fate and fin
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The Real Culprit Behind the Massacre Wasn't the Person I've Hated for Ten Years 灭门血案的真凶，不是我恨了十年的人
The real culprit behind the massacre that wiped out my family wasn’t the person I’d hated for ten years
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The Eastern Depot Hunts Me for a Thousand Miles, Only to Be Slaughtered to the Last Man 东厂追杀我千里，反被我屠尽满门
The Eastern Depot chased me for a thousand miles, only to have me wipe out their entire household.
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It All Began When I Killed Kunshan Longge 从斩杀昆山龙哥开始
Starting with the Slaying of Kunshan Longge
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Ten Years with One Sword, the Rest of My Life with You 一剑十年，余生皆你
One Sword, Ten Years, and You for the Rest of My Life
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A Sword Like a Falling Star 陨星一剑
A Sword Like a Falling Star
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They Framed Me for Killing a Cop? I’ll Wipe Out the Entire Drug Cartel! 杀警罪名扣我头？我直接灭了整个毒枭！
They pin the cop-killing charge on me? I’ll wipe out the entire drug cartel!
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Ace Cop Turned Fugitive: I Send a Drug Lord to the Execution Ground in Three Days 王牌警察变逃犯，毒枭三天被我送刑场
Ace Cop Turned Fugitive: I Send a Drug Lord to the Execution Grounds in Three Days
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My Family's Scandalous Drama Spans Three Generations, and No One Has Ever Topped It 我家狗血传三代，至今无人能超越
My Family's Scandal Has Spanned Three Generations, and No One Has Ever Outdone It
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My Dad's 70th Birthday, and My First Love Shows Up in a Wheelchair 我爹七十大寿，初恋坐轮椅上门
My Dad's 70th Birthday, and My First Love Shows Up in a Wheelchair
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My Mom Remarried and Had Six Kids; My Sister Married My Brother, and My Dad Lost It 我妈改嫁生6娃，妹嫁哥，亲爹崩了
My Mom Remarried and Had Six Kids. My Sister Married My Brother, and My Real Dad Lost It
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Hong Kong, 1987: From Temple Street Thug to Financial Tycoon 香江1987：从庙街混混到金融大鳄
Hong Kong, 1987: From Temple Street Hoodlum to Financial Tycoon
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My Family's Gossip Shook the Whole Village 我家的瓜，炸翻了全村
My Family's Scandal Blew the Whole Village Away
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The Day I Announced My Marriage, I Angered My Dad into a Stroke 领证官宣那天，我爹被我气到中风
The Day I Announced My Marriage, I Made My Dad So Mad He Had a Stroke
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She Turned This Upside-Down World on Its Head 她掀翻了这黑白颠倒的江湖
She overturned this world of the martial underworld, where right and wrong had been turned upside down.
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The Witness I'm Protecting Is the Drug Lord's Own Daughter! 我保护的证人，竟是毒枭亲生女儿！
The witness I was protecting turned out to be the drug lord's own daughter!
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Everyone on the Team Knows Who the Mole Is Except Me 全队都知道内鬼是谁，除了我
Everyone on the Team Knows Who the Mole Is, Except Me
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Framed, I Took On an Entire Crime Syndicate in Two Days 我被诬陷后，两天单挑整个犯罪集团
After I Was Framed, I Took On an Entire Crime Syndicate in Two Days
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Just How Unhinged Was the Older Generation's Gossip? 老一辈人的瓜到底有多癫
Just How Wild Were the Older Generation's Scandals?
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Abstinence Temple: Starting with a Broken Vow 戒色寺，从破戒开始
At the Abstinence Temple, starting with breaking the rules
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The Hundred Immortals of Luoyang 洛阳百仙行
Wu Zetian sets a trap with the “Gathering of a Hundred Immortals.” A bronze token means a chance to live, but it is also a death warrant! “Take the tokens by any means necessary. In fifteen days, the road to Luoyang will run red with blood!” At Di Huaiying’s command, the highway from Chang’an to Luoyang instantly becomes a deadly hunting ground. There is a mountain demon with a corpse-swallowing sorcery, a poisonous monk who hides a blade behind his smile, and a surviving heir of the previous dy
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The Warrior Queen 兵王女帝
She is a 21st-century Chinese military heroine, a woman of valor. He is a prince rumored to be feeble-minded and frail. One day, she transmigrates, and fate brings them together, their opposing forces bound to clash. When they first meet, he is cold and merciless, throwing her straight into a hellish battlefield. The second time, she is an ice-cold beauty, utterly heartless, hailed as the female emperor of war. The third time, she smiles as she watches him seize power over the world, willing to
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After Her Body Was Dumped, She Became the Villain Legion’s Cherished Darling 被抛尸后，她成了反派军团家团宠
[Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her
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The Kunlun Hero: A Classic Wuxia Novel 经典武侠小说昆仑枭雄
Introduction to the classic wuxia novel The Hero of Kunlun: Cui Pingzhi could no longer keep calm. His whole body seemed to tremble as he spoke, and his eyes were sharp and terrifying, like those of a hawk or falcon. Yet he knew how formidable his enemies were, especially the masked woman before him, whose clear, graceful bearing was like a jade grove. She was one of the very best, and he could not afford to let his guard down. The so-called First Floor, Second Halls, Three Altars, Four Gates, a
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Purple Lightning and Green Frost 紫电青霜
At his master's behest, young hero Ge Longxiang visits the Cold Cloud Immortal, Ge Qingshuang, to discuss the upcoming sword tournament on Mount Huang. On the way through Tianxin Valley, he happens upon the black-clad Dragon Maiden Bai Qingqing, and the two gradually fall for each other. Purple Lightning and Green Frost are the names of two ancient treasured swords. It is said that Sun Quan, ruler of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, possessed six treasured swords, two of which were called Pu
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The Iron Flute Divine Sword: A Wuxia Novel 武侠小说铁笛神剑
Synopsis of The Iron Flute and Divine Sword: It is said that Zhong Gang, an old man from Mount Huang; Zhou Tiansheng, the Cloud-Riding Swordsman; and Ji Feng, the Thousand-Folly Scholar, were known together as the Three Friends of Mount Huang. Their iron flute, divine sword, and folding fan were renowned across the land, their fame eclipsing all the heroes of the realm. Though the three were sworn brothers and close friends, each had mastered a different style of martial arts. They had not learn
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The Hidden Hero of the Martial World 风尘侠隐
Synopsis of Feng Chen Xia Yin, a wuxia novel by Wolong Sheng: The reclusive hero Luo Jiufeng and his wife, who live on Mount Heng, are suddenly besieged by dozens of powerful enemies. Both die bitterly in the wilderness, and their two children are taken away. Five years later, the handsome and dashing Luo Yanqiu completes his training and sets out into the jianghu with sword in hand to avenge his parents. The head of the Snow Mountain Sect, Daoist Zixu, gathers powerful figures from the underwor
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The Soul-Seizing Banner 【夺魂旗】
Shangguan Ling travels through the Central Plains with her master, the reclusive hero of the southern frontier, Xie Dongyang. Along the way, they meet the silver-bearded swordsman Fang Baichuan. Fang says that the Soul-Seizing Banner, one of the Five Peerless Wonders of the World, has been absent from the martial world for more than twenty years, but has suddenly reappeared.
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The Fluttering Escort Banner: A Martial Arts Tale 武侠小说镖旗飘飘
Synopsis of the wuxia novel The Fluttering Escort Flag: On their way to Kaifeng, escorts from the Tiger Might Escort Agency are attacked again and again by martial artists. The attackers include both underworld fiends and members of orthodox sects. The escorts suffer heavy casualties and lose the ability to fight back. When a fiend slashes open the carriage carrying a government official’s daughter, he suddenly cries out in alarm and flees in panic with his men. Chief Escort Guan Zhongyue rushes
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Heavenly Fragrance Dash 天香飙
An introduction to Wolong Sheng's wuxia novel The Heavenly Fragrance: The story of The Heavenly Fragrance is gripping and vivid, with a message that gives one much to ponder. It can only be called a tragedy among tragedies! Hu Boling, the cold-faced Yama and leader of the bandits across the six northern provinces, was once a black-hearted killer who had taken countless lives. But after marrying the gentle and kind Gu Hanxiang, he was transformed by her influence, suddenly withdrew from the marti
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The White Bone Command 【白骨令】
Synopsis of Gu Long’s martial arts novel The White Bone Order: In a stone chamber at the deepest end of the cave, Wei Qianli sat in a daze, his thoughts in turmoil. For one thing, he had no idea what was going through Kang Yu’s enormous bald head. For another, he couldn’t tell whether what he had done that day was the smartest course of action. He spotted a box in the corner and went over to look. Inside were two smoked chickens, several steamed buns, and a large bottle of water. These provision
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Plum Blossom Blood 梅花血
In Gu Long's martial arts novel Plum Blossom Blood, "Ironblood Ink Dragon" Yan Xiaofei visits his sworn elder brother Shang Heng in Plum Blossom Blood, only to discover that all three members of the Shang family have been slaughtered, their blood spilled on the spot. This is the origin of the book's title. Trouble keeps piling up for Yan Xiaofei. Someone impersonates him and dismantles the Jiujiang Branch of the Thirty-Six Yangtze River Halls overnight, leading the gang's leader, Situ Wen, to re
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The Tale of the Flower-Shaking Eagle 摇花放鹰传
Synopsis of Wo Longsheng's wuxia novel, The Flower-Swaying Eagle: Su Bailing had no equal in the world, though he longed for one. Arrogant in his youth and fiercely competitive in middle age, he had no confidante worthy of his regard and no enemy who could give him a proper fight. With nowhere to put his abundant talent, he played a trick on the martial world of later generations. He poured his pent-up anguish and pain into building an underground fortress, leaving behind two plans, one righteou
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Young Master Long Qi Receives an Imperial Order to Solve a Case 龙七少领旨破案
Introduction to Long Qishao Takes an Imperial Decree to Solve a Case, a traditional wuxia novel by Dugu Hong: The prince's daughter suddenly disappears. The prince sets a deadline for solving the case, then goes back on his word, and eventually kills himself out of guilt. The seventh young master of the foremost martial arts family, the Longs, disguises himself and slips into the capital, but his identity is exposed all the same. Long Qishao receives an imperial decree to solve the case, only to
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The Martial Arts Novel: Roar of the Snow Mountain 武侠小说雪山长啸
Introduction to the wuxia novel Snow Mountain’s Long Roar: Snow Mountain’s Long Roar tells the story of sword immortals, with Yue Huaibing and Yuchi Lanyou as its protagonists. Two years ago, at a wild inn run by a foreign woman at the foot of the snowy mountain, he caught a glimpse of Yuchi Qingyou. That fleeting image had somehow taken such deep root in his heart.
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The Golden Phoenix Scissors: A Wuxia Novel 武侠小说金凤剪
Introduction to Jin Feng Jian, a wuxia novel by Wolong Sheng: Chaos erupts at the Prince of Jin's residence in Nanjing, and the princess consort is murdered. Chief Constable Yang recruits the young hero Yue Xiu to investigate the bloody crime. Having inherited the teachings of an extraordinary knight, Yue Xiu is unmatched in the world with his fists, palms, and weapons. When the young hero arrives at the Yang residence, he meets Miss Yang Yuyan by chance. Not only is she exceptionally beautiful
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Watering Horses by the Yellow River 饮马黄河
About Drinking Horses at the Yellow River, a classic wuxia novel by Sima Ling: Drinking Horses at the Yellow River is a brilliant work from the later period of Sima Ling’s career. It intertwines characters’ martial arts prowess with their moral cultivation, drawing on Mencius’s words, “A noble spirit, vast and unyielding,” to create a fresh theory of the spirit of wuxia. In doing so, it frees traditional martial arts from the fleeting spectacle of flashy, hollow moves and elevates them to the e
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The Vast Jianghu of Wuxia Novels 武侠小说浩荡江湖
The wuxia novel "Vast Jianghu" Zhao Yufei, a supreme master of the Shaolin Sect, uses the Buddhist “Great Golden Bell Divine Skill” to break the “Seven Demonic Notes” of the Water Immortal Palace at Water Immortal Boat No. 3. His peerless bearing wins him the heart of Wu Xianke, its hostess. Later, at Water Immortal Boat No. 1, Zhao Yufei elopes with the hostess Yu Biting and steals the “Sound Measuring Device,” throwing the Water Immortal Palace into chaos. To save a beauty’s life, Zhao Yufei b
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The Heartbreak Dart 断肠镖
A golden dart from the Han dynasty bears a martial arts secret engraved upon it. Wherever it appears, the martial world goes mad with desire. Fifteen years later, Shen Yanfei, son of Shen Jian, knows nothing of what happened before. Fleeing from gambling debts, he reaches Seven Star Ridge, where the Asura Fan recognizes him as a martial arts prodigy seen only once in a century and takes him as a disciple. Qin Yuqiao, daughter of Qin Xuanzhen, falls in love with Shen Yanfei at first sight and giv
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The Legend of Huafeng 花凤传
Introduction to Wolong Sheng's wuxia novel The Tale of Hua Feng: A white-clad young woman, as beautiful as a flower and ethereal as an immortal, leaves Python Valley with her senior brother. She is Hua Feng, a peerless beauty of unsurpassed grace, adored by all who see her. Delicate and lovely, she has a bewitching charm that captivates the heart. On her first venture into the martial world, she is lured aboard the Golden Dragon Prince's ship, where she shares his bed for several days. Her senio
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Jade and Green Duckweed 碧玉青萍
Introduction to "Jade and Green Duckweed": The "Jade Beauty" Wen Bing and several sect leaders set a trap on Mount Great Hanyang in Lushan, hoping to lure the "White-Haired Ghost Mother" Xiao Ying there, avenge her mother's murder, and rid the martial world of a menace. But their plan is accidentally foiled by Dugu Ce, a disciple of the Great Compassionate One, one of the "Two Marvels of Buddhism and Taoism." The "White-Haired Ghost Mother" sees the danger and flees. After learning that the "Whi
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The Nameless Flute 【无名箫】
The wuxia novel The Nameless Flute: The flute's distant melody drifts from an ancient temple, carrying endless melancholy; the flashing blades mingle with the many grudges of the martial world. The story opens with the five righteous heroes of the Central Plains being cruelly poisoned. Shangguan Qi, a disciple of their leader, is lucky enough to escape and hides in the library of an ancient monastery, where he studies martial arts. After enduring countless hardships, he finally ventures into the
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My Martial Arts Rank Second to Last in the World 我的武功天下倒数第二
He is a swordsman known throughout the martial world as Gu Longfei, half man and half ghost, the greatest of sword masters. His swordsmanship is so fast that it’s impossible to see. Wherever he appears, corrupt officials and crooked villains all lose their heads. Never provoke him. Push him too far, and he can split into hundreds of clones to attack his enemies all at once. He is a terrifying swordsman, and his sword style is called the Yuqi Heavenly Sword, also known as the Living Dead Sword. I
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The Water-Bending Fatebreaker 倾水逆命人
“Flowers bloom on two sides; life lies between Buddha and demon.” When a quiet village is disturbed and the prelude to a chaotic age begins... You become an immortal, I become a ghost. Together, we’ll defy fate! When I return from the dead, I’ll meet the banished immortal. Pairing: A wild, fearless girl and a banished immortal of a Daoist priest Rivals: A proud beauty who follows the way of might versus a fate-defying hero who follows the way of righteousness Note: 1. This is a plot-driven stor
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Half Drunk, Half Clearheaded 半醉半清明
No transmigration! No System! Not a wish-fulfillment story! [Pure historical romance] [Sweet romance] [Fictional power struggles] [Wuxia] Character pairing: innocent and sweet on the outside, scheming within × roguishly handsome and carefree, with no sense of responsibility An unreliable strategist from the Imperial Guard and a dashing cavalryman capture a great fiend by the seaside, and bring along their enemy’s young daughter on the journey to the capital. Her future seemed destined for loneli
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