Northeastern Chinese Shaman Stories, Preferably Feel-Good or Badass 东北出马仙并且爽文或者牛逼一点的
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The Spirit Medium’s Journal: Strange Encounters on the Job 出马实录：我出马遇到的邪乎事儿
[Feng Shui and the Eight Trigrams + folk arcane arts + sorcery + Qimen Dunjia] I was born in a small county in Northeast China. My ancestors hunted fox spirits, killed yellow spirits, and soaked snakes in liquor. Our family also had a whole spirit retinue, so I was born destined to make my living this way. It was fate, so I went along with it and became a spiritual medium. Along the way, I encountered all kinds of bizarre, horrifying, and downright eerie events. [This story is adapted from real
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- 2 A Weasel Demands a Title, So I Reveal My Purple-Robed Celestial Master's True Form 黄皮子讨封，我亮出紫袍天师法身 Humorous and hilarious + traditional supernatural folklore + spirit medium rituals + no System Zhang Tiezhu staggers home drunk one night. He runs into a tailless weasel that asks him for a blessing. The weasel asks, “Do I look more like a human or a god to you?” “Heh... You look like your grandma’s leg!” The weasel says, “...Brother Zhang, cut it out. Give me a proper answer!” Zhang Tiezhu says, “Weasel, let me tell you: these days, you have to believe in science!” The weasel says, “I’m a Yello 52.9kReads8.9Score8kShelves
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The Little Prodigy of the Northern Ma Clan 北马小神童
A strange story set in a small town ninety years later. The heroine begins her shamanic calling at thirteen. On the day she was born, all the fox, yellow weasel, white weasel, willow, and rat spirits within a ten-kilometer radius knelt to welcome her. Then came a series of miraculous experiences.
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Don't Move! I've Got Connections in the Underworld 别动！姐地府有人
The continuation of Little Prodigy of the Northern Ma: filling in the gaps from before, meeting the people who came afterward, and briefly recording the everyday happenings that followed. It also teaches a few simple things that you can put into practice.
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The Spirit Medium’s Here! A Weasel Demands a Title, So I Flick It on the Forehead 出马！黄皮子讨封，我弹它脑瓜崩
A mostly story-driven tale, slightly spooky and a million times hilarious. [Spirit Mediums] [Humorous and Hilarious] [One Thrilling Moment After Another] [Not a Dull Moment in the Whole Book] After a breakup, the brash young Zhang Shitou gets drunk and runs into a weasel asking him to grant it a title. He thinks it’s just a big yellow dog. “Damn it, a good dog doesn’t block the road.” He goes right up and flicks it hard on the head. “Kid, quit flicking me. Look carefully, I’m the Yellow Immortal
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Even Evil Spirits Offer Me Cigarettes: I’m a Northeast Chinese Shaman 邪祟见我都递烟，我是东北出马仙
[Supernatural] + [Comedy] + [Ghost Hunting] + [No Female Lead] + [Folk Taboos] + [Not Invincible] + [No Cultivation] No specialist knowledge required; a collection of standalone stories. To support the temperamental Willow Immortal he worships at home, the spirit medium Zhao Dashun has scrubbed people’s backs at a bathhouse and set up a stall on an overpass. After capturing the Cat-Faced Granny, Zhao Dashun makes a name for himself in a single battle and sets out on the straight and narrow path
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- 7 Weasel Spirit! Do I Look Like a Human or a God to You? 黄皮子！你看我像人还是像神？ No specialist knowledge here, just a story. [A little horror + a whole lot of comedy + no female lead, no romance] When I was a kid, I took a nighttime shortcut and saw a weasel worshipping the moon. Remembering a story my grandma had told me, I worried it might ask me to grant it a title, so, on a whim, I shouted at it first: “Weasel! Do I look more like a person or a god to you?” The weasel froze for a moment, then said I looked like a dumbass! But from that day on, I really did become an idio 30.6kReads9.1Score2.6kShelves
- 8 Strange Tales of Northeast China 东北诡异实录 The comic adaptation of the same name is now available, also known as Mountain Spirit Lost. The comic Northeast Strange Tales is currently being serialized. Across the vast, boundless black earth of Northeast China, one strange and little-known story after another has unfolded. Now, I’ll tell you these long-buried tales of the supernatural, one by one! 32kReads9.4Score3.3kShelves
- 9 Get Up, Nobody Sleep! I'm Holding a Meeting for Ghosts! 起来都别睡，我给鬼开个会！ [Traditional]+ [Supernatural]+ [Comedy]+ [No Female Lead]+ [No CP]+ [No Cultivation] The animated comic Huang Daxian's Odd Jobs: My Host Is All Talk is now online. When Li Zhengyang was little, he went with his father to visit relatives. They were driving home at midnight when their car inexplicably stalled three times as they passed a graveyard. His relatives had plied him with liquor, but Li Zhengyang was fearless as a newborn calf. He got out of the car and yelled curses at the nearby mounds 6.7kReads8.3Score535Shelves
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Secrets of the Northern Steed 北马秘闻
After spending seven years in a daze as a fool, I was told by the Yellow Immortal that I had a spirit altar within me, and that my origins were far from ordinary. From then on, I set out on the Northern Ma path.
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I'm a Funeral Officiant, So Summoning Immortals Is Only Natural 我个殡葬司仪，会请仙也很正常吧
[One heroine + the author conducted on-site research at funeral homes, crematoriums, and cemeteries, striving for realistic details + traditional supernatural tales + professional knowledge of funerals and spirit-medium practices] (The humorous setups and parody scenes in this book, as well as the original Qingfeng spirit-medium altar, where spirits other than ancestors are invited to take up residence, were published with the approval of the author's own guardian spirits. Readers, please believ
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Tales of a Spirit Medium 出马仙往事
“First, invite Hu; second, invite Huang. Third, invite Mang; fourth, invite Chang. Offer incense in the hall, and let all the immortals come forth.” With an entirely yin birth chart, I suddenly became the village's most despised madman when I was eight years old. Ten years later, I recovered from my madness and took charge of the Hu family's altar, one of the five great immortal clans of Northeast China. From then on, the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies followed me everywhere. I thought I had
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The Female Spirit Medium 女出马仙
We read the fortunes of the dead and the living, settle debts with aggrieved spirits, and handle lost souls, hysteria, and demonic possession! If it’s anything out of the ordinary, there’s nothing our shamanic spirit medium, Wu Mei, can’t handle! Jealous colleagues come by to challenge us? No problem. We have powerful connections up above... Lord Tu Tanyue, emperor of the Qingqiu Nine-Tailed Fox Clan and so handsome he has no rivals, spoils his wife without limit. His half-fox spirit medium brid
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- 14 The White Dragon Horse Medium 白龙出马仙 Break through seven trials, meet with sudden disaster, make a blood sacrifice of an infant, refine corpse oil. One by one, long-lost secret arts resurface, and strange, mysterious events begin unfolding throughout my journey... That lantern made of human skin holds captive the youth I can never return to. 1.1kReads9.1Score100Shelves
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Northeast Spirit Medium: From the Start, the Hu Family Town Is Haunted by a Hundred Ghosts 东北弟马：开局胡家镇百诡
[Spirit-medium tradition + Northeastern Chinese customs + folk supernatural tales + feng shui secrets] My name is Chen Mo. I had just graduated from college when my grandpa passed away. On the day he died, the portrait in the mourning hall stared at me, someone spoke from inside the coffin, and his corpse even sat up on the day of the funeral. That's when I learned my grandpa hadn't died of an illness. He'd left me a whole spirit retinue: the Hu, Huang, Bai, Liu, and Hui spirits, each with formi
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The Slacker Side Character Brings Down the Whole Gang 摆烂女配，带崩全堂口
[Quick transmigration with a Ma Xian medium + Saving the heroine + One-on-one, both leads romantically inexperienced + System Awakening] [A laissez-faire philosopher x An enforcer of order x A fretful spirit entourage] I'm a disciple of the Ma Xian tradition, and I transmigrated with my entire spirit altar. The day she was bound to the Comeback System, Chen Yao was trying to figure out how to die without burdening her family. The System said, “Save the tragic supporting heroine and face-slap the
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Tales of a Northeast Chinese Spirit Medium 东北出马仙实记
[Fantasy + Supernatural Mystery + Northeastern Chinese Folk Customs + Light Comedy] My name is Hu Xiaohua. On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, a weasel squatted on top of the corn stack in my yard. With a tattered red flower perched on its head, it asked me whether it looked more like a person or a god. I took one look at it and said, “You look like your grandma’s grandson.” Ever since that day, my altar has never known a moment’s peace. My maternal uncle is the altar’s wanderin
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The Spirit Medium: My Days with the Immortals 出马仙：与仙家那些日子
(Slow-paced + light humor) A disciple of the Ma Xian tradition takes you into the mysterious world of Northeast China’s spirit mediums. Just an ordinary person, yet bound by an unbreakable connection to the spirits. Everyday mishaps that make you laugh and cry, thrilling battles of magic, and tender protection. See how an ordinary person and the spirits weave a legend together.
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- 19 Northeastern Immortals: My Tangled Encounters with Spirit Mediums 东北仙家：出马仙与我纠缠的那些 Let me take you into the world of the Chuma immortals. This isn't a power fantasy, just an account told at an unhurried pace of a Chuma immortal's experiences... In the black soil of Northeast China, the depths of the old forests hold many unknown mysteries. People say every mountain has its mountain god, every cave its master, and every willow bank its immortal; pythons can become spirits. On this land, protected by both gods and the wild, there is a kind of person known as a “Chuma immortal”.. 2.4kReads8.6Score135Shelves
- 20 I Am a Ghost Constable of the Underworld 我乃阴司鬼差 A man, a woman, one living spirit-catcher, and one spirit who has been dead for years. A pair of bickering soulmates share a humorous everyday life as they unravel mystery after mystery. See what happens along the way... 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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The First Half of a Ma Xian's Life 出马仙的前半生
Not one true disciple of the Spirit Medium tradition willingly chooses this path. They all endure hardship after hardship and are driven by desperation to take up the calling and serve as a vessel for the spirits. Next, come with me as we explore the first half of the life of a middle-aged girl. (This book is based on real events. Since it’s a novel, it naturally includes a few obviously fake special effects and fictional scenes. Please read responsibly, and don’t imitate anything in the book.)
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Fallen Phoenix 落凤
[Pure feel-good fun! The heroine is a total psycho who'll fight anyone! She never takes a loss!] My sworn sister sent me a message: "We'll never be separated." Then she disappeared. My big brother and I packed our suitcases and went to her hometown, Ancient Phoenix City, to look for her. But I kept feeling as if a pair of eyes were watching me from somewhere unseen. Those eyes, however, didn't belong to the "Golden Dragon" I'd known since childhood...
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True Tales of the Spirit Mediums: My Ten Years Serving at a Ghost Hall 出马仙纪实：我供奉鬼堂的那十年
My name is Zhou Tie. In this book, I'll tell the true story of my ten years running a spirit hall and serving ghosts. You've heard of spirit mediums... but have you heard of a ghost spirit hall? At eighteen, I established a ghost spirit hall and served ghost immortals! The presiding master was the sister my grandfather said had gone mad and died! This book has no female lead. It's not fantasy, and it's definitely not a cultivation novel! It's the true story of how I, born with an ominous yin con
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The Spirit Medium's Road: My Adventures with the Old Immortal 出马仙，我跟老仙的江湖路
A disciple of the spirit mediums of Ghost Street, in his tenth year practicing the art. His greatest wish at first was to become the biggest local thug. He never expected to become a spirit medium, and only after taking it up did he discover that people in this line of work are worse than gangsters. What kind of person you are determines what kind of spirit you get, and the spirits follow their hosts. Zhao Zhengyang’s spirit companions are all like slick socialites in leather shoes. Then he runs
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I Am a Lady Tutor 我是女先生
I'm hard to kill. These were the words I heard from the moment I was born. A blind fortune-teller said I was a White Tiger Sha, a girl born with a boy's fate, innately tough and destined to bring misfortune to my husband, my children, and myself. Everyone in the village said I wouldn't survive. My yang energy was too strong. Even if they managed to keep me alive, I'd grow up to be an idiot. But my grandma, a spirit medium who presided over the altar, refused to give up. Every year, she burned a
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- 26 I Am a Female Physiognomist 我是女相师 I was born in the twelfth lunar month of 1991, and came into the world with six fingers. The saying that people born in the Year of the Sheep have bad luck somehow became attached to me. Before I could even speak, my family sent me to live with my grandaunt, who ran a shop selling paper offerings and burial clothes. My grandaunt said I had a star spirit in my fate, and the Vermilion Bird would come to my aid. What did it matter if my destiny was cursed? As the saying goes: The Azure Dragon and W 13.2kReads9.4Score1.4kShelves
- 27 I Am Intersex 我是阴阳人 My mother said that when I was born, her first reaction was to strangle me, because it was impossible to tell whether I was male or female. My grandmother called me a freak and a jinx, saying I would only bring shame on the family. It was then that my maternal grandmother, who had traveled all the way from the countryside to visit my mother, adopted me. So, by chance, I got to enjoy a pure childhood, free from scornful looks. Following my half-immortal grandmother, I unexpectedly discovered how 8.5kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves
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This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！
A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa
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Northeast Chinese Shaman Tales: The Immortals 东北出马仙之神仙篇
Northeastern Spirit Mediums: The Immortals The Changbai Mountains and Black Riverlands conceal spiritual veins; all living things have a spirit and can embark on the path to immortality. During the Republican era, the winds sweeping through the forests and snowy plains of Northeast China carried secrets older than the frozen earth. Foxes, wolves, tigers, and leopards ran through the woods; fish, turtles, snakes, and pythons swam through rivers; eagles, sparrows, rats, and civets hid among the c
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- 30 A Northeast Healer's Chronicles: Republican Era 东北济世录民国篇 In Republican-era Northeast China, strange incidents abound, each hiding a mystery! At the Grain in Ear festival, a steamed ritual drives out demons; on the night of the summer solstice, a coffin conceals a secret in a grave; during Minor Heat, a haunted house cries out for justice; at White Dew, a plot lurks by an ancient well; and at Cold Dew, a corpse surfaces in a dry well... Zhang Jiu Shu and Hu Cuihua wield secret Daoist arts, traveling far and wide to investigate bizarre cases tied to the —Reads—Score—Shelves
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My Years as a Spirit Medium 我当出马仙的这些年
My name is Chen Jiuyang. I began cultivating under my master as a child, and officially became a spirit medium at eleven, carrying the Five Immortals with me as I wandered the world. With a Seven Kills destiny, a beauty who is but a skeleton, and a demon star bringing chaos to the age, the moment I stepped into the martial world, it was already fated that I would never escape unscathed. Leather-Skinned Ghosts, Resentful Corpse Demons, and White Bone Talisman Immortals: every strange case I encou
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- 32 National Treasure 国家宝藏 [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Smart Protagonists] There is a group of people armed with black blades and mysterious arts, born to venture into ancient tombs across the land. There is a group of people who fight without end and bleed until they are drained, dying to protect the nation's treasures. They stand before the countless people of the world, shielding them from its darkest corners. They leave the greatest glory of their people behind them, for all to behold. They share one name: Qilin. But I 38.6kReads9.4Score6.4kShelves
- 33 Grandpa, I Was Reborn, I Swear I'm Not Possessed 爷爷，我是重生，真不是鬼上身 [Traditional Mystery and Supernatural Fiction] [One Female Lead] [Period Novel] [A Funeral Master’s True Accounts] [Northeastern Chinese Funeral Customs] [Rural Life] Adapted into the short drama Eighties Funeral Master (Disclaimer: The folk techniques in this book, including Zhuyou healing rituals, are entirely fictional. Please do not imitate them. The author bears no responsibility for any problems that may arise.) Good grief, I’ve been reborn in 1986, and from the start Grandpa thinks I’m a 59.4kReads9.3Score5kShelves
- 34 Northeast China Spirit Medium: My Fox Lord Is So Fierce 东北出马仙：我家的胡爷太凶狠 My name is Liu Jin. I'm a boy from an ordinary small town in Northeast China. The only unusual thing about me was that when I was six, my mother suddenly became a spirit medium. As a child, I never understood it. But when I grew up, I started to think it might actually be a pretty good job. For some reason, though, my mother seemed particularly wary of it and never gave me a chance to get involved. Little by little, I learned the secret behind it. 19.5kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
- 35 The Outcast: Summoning Spirits? Call Tu Shan Hong Hong 一人之下：拘灵遣将？请涂山红红 Gao Xuanyu transmigrated to the world of supernatural beings and became Gao Lian’s youngest son. He joined the Ma family from a young age. Then, when he was sixteen and setting out to seek immortal fortune... [Ding! The Myriad Worlds Deity-Summoning System has bound itself to you!] From that moment on, a prodigy emerged among the Ma family’s spirit mediums! “Let stone become spirit, command a thousand demons!” [Summon: Stone Kuan, Demon Emperor of Beishan!] “Your subordinate awaits your command! 8.1kReads7.6Score538Shelves
- 36 A Decree from the Underworld 阴司有旨 Before Grandpa died, he gave me a strange ledger. The first page bore four eerie characters: “Filed with the Underworld.” And the entries weren't sums of money, but “lives.” I used that strange ledger to collect debts and settle accounts on Grandpa's behalf, and it was as if I'd become a living judge of life and death in the human world. Somewhere beyond mortal sight, everything had already been decreed... 22.3kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
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My Twenty Years as a Spirit Medium 我出马的二十年
He cultivated his character deep in the mountains, then left his secluded cave to make a name for himself across the land. Over twenty years, he broke through countless barriers and witnessed countless things. This is the true story of those twenty years, meant both to introduce this industry to those unfamiliar with it and to share experience with fellow professionals.
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My Three Lives and Three Worlds 我的三生三世啊
A fantastical tale, all beginning with two bowls of expired Meng Po soup. By the time my hair reaches my waist, the soup's effects will have slowly worn off, and love will have quietly found its way to me! But can love really overcome every obstacle?
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- 39 Not a Thing Is Left to Chance 半分不由人 It turns out that even when two people love each other, things can still end badly. The most painful love in the world is when fate brings you together but never lets you be. A princess whose kingdom has fallen meets the person who will save her, but a sea of bloodshed lies between them. In the end, fate brings them together and then tears them apart. It is never up to them! 67Reads—Score—Shelves
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After Becoming a Spirit Medium, the Nation Asked Me to Be Its Outside Expert 成了出马仙后，国家请我当外援
No CP This book has been renamed: After Becoming a Spirit Medium, the State Asked Me to Be an Outside Consultant Chen An'an, an online writer, impulsively went camping at a botanical garden. She unexpectedly came across a weasel undergoing a tribulation. It tried to borrow her luck to escape the lightning tribulation, nearly getting her struck by lightning. At the critical moment, a huge black rat appeared and kicked the weasel away from its borrowed good fortune. Then it spoke in a human voice:
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My Years as a Feng Shui Consultant in the Entertainment Industry 我在娱乐圈当风水顾问的那些年
Corpse-oil lipstick, raising little ghosts, summoning fox spirits, tattooed talismans: some celebrities will stop at nothing to get famous and go viral. My name is Chen Tian. I'm a feng shui consultant who moves in entertainment circles, specializing in handling the aftermath for celebrities who rose to fame through supernatural means.
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The Shaman's Records 萨满出马录
A true-to-life chronicle of spirit-medium practices in Northeast China. It's incredibly authentic, and everything in the book is the truth! Reader review: “Essential reading for anyone in the field!” Every pit the Longfeng Hall has stumbled into and every tear we've shed along the way: each experience can teach you how to read people, avoid traps, and steer clear of needless detours! All the scams and tricks people in the field use are laid bare and explained in full. We tell you everything o
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- 43 Immortal Fate in the Black Earth: The Shrine Hall's Lamp Never Goes Out 黑土仙缘：堂口灯不灭 Black Earth Immortal Fate: The Shrine's Lamp Never Goes Out 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The Great Macaque of Heixiazigou 黑瞎子沟的大马猴 The Giant Macaque of Heixiazigou 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Yellow Immortal Seeks a Title: A Century-Old Obsession in Changbai Mountain 黄仙讨封：长白山的百年执念 The Yellow Immortal Seeks a Title: Changbai Mountain's Century-Old Obsession —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Temperature Drop 降温℃ Temperature Drop ℃ —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Ailao Mountain: A Team-Building Trip Turns Terrifying 哀牢山：团建惊魂 Ailao Mountain: A Terrifying Team-Building Trip —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Marriage Time Difference 《婚姻时差》 Marriage Time Lag —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 They Were Pretending to Be Poor, But I Really Died 他们是装穷啊，可我真死了啊 They were pretending to be poor, but I really died. 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 A Sea of Stars Woven from Code 代码织就的星辰海 A Sea of Stars Woven from Code 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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