Can You Recommend Novels People Read Before 2023? 可以推荐23年之前大家看过的小说吗?
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The Cool, Frail Beauty Is Everyone's Darling 清冷病美人他是万人迷
[Quick transmigration, two male leads, protagonist is the one pursued, breathtakingly beautiful god adored by everyone, jealousy-fueled showdowns, possessive love, no fixed pairing in the small worlds, no pairing in the ending] World One: He becomes a useless guide who can soothe only one sentinel. He's lazy and willful, yet the sentinels fight over him. World Two: He becomes the scum top in a noble academy story. Why have his brothers and underlings started looking at him differently? World Thr
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- 2 I Was Supposed to Have a Male Supporting Character System, but Became Everyone’s Crush 明明绑定男配系统,却成了万人迷 [Dual male leads + quick transmigration + uke-focused + fragmented seme + everyone’s favorite] After Shen Shining died, a guy calling himself the Male Supporting Character System came looking for him. According to the System, as long as Shen Shining traveled to small worlds to complete male supporting character missions and earned enough experience, he could redeem a resurrection token and come back to life. Shen Shining’s response: Huh? Me? Later… Shen Shining: System, get out here and explain 5kReads8.5Score54414d adds
- 3 Quick Transmigration: Peacock Straight Men Deserve to Be Forced 快穿:孔雀直男就该被强制啊 [Slow transmigration + dual male leads + love rivals + irresistible charmer + devoted tops (unfaithful ones need not apply) + competing suitors] A silly, peacock-proud straight trust-fund playboy bottom × sliced-up tops with every kind of personality * The rating just went live, so it may be a little low. * The first world leans toward gender-bender. The protagonist starts catfishing online after the girl he was dating cheats on him. If that is not your thing, feel free to skip it~ After a car 54Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 4 Life Simulator: The Aloof Prison Warden Is Everyone’s Dream 模拟人生:清冷典狱长是万人迷 (The low rating is because Tomato is targeting me. I've been bullied by big capital.) [Two male leads, quick transmigration, adored by everyone, gloomy and clingy top, both pure, equally matched, changing reality] "Dog-training queen bottom X devoted, obsessive dog top" [Welcome to the Life Simulation Space Station! Here, Hosts will experience a wonderful life unlike anything they've ever known!] Shen Du: “Speak plainly.” [Simulation World One: You are the warden of Atlantis Prison. Your target 2.8kReads8.9Score48814d adds
- 5 Quick Transmigration: The Protagonist's Brother Doesn't Want to Be Everyone's Darling 快穿:主角的哥哥不想当万人迷 Content warning: Updates are irregular, whenever the author feels like it. [An unconventional male harem protagonist, two male leads, no ship wars and no split personalities. He leaves all sorts of people utterly smitten.] My name is Chi Xingyu. I'm straight. Long story short, I died. The cause doesn't matter. Then I was bound to a System and tasked with playing the older brother of all kinds of protagonists, caring for, educating, and protecting them. [World One: Turns Out My Little Brother Is 5.2kReads8.1Score47814d adds
- 6 Quick Transmigration: The Pretty Little Cannon Fodder Didn't Intentionally Derail the Plot 快穿:漂亮小炮灰没有故意崩剧情 [Quick transmigration, two male leads + shou's POV + both pure, 1v1 + mild everyone-loves-him vibes + melodramatic love triangle + fake coercion, real competition between suitors] The Hated Cannon Fodder Acting System binds itself to Chao Mingyue and orders him to enter small worlds as a cannon fodder, follow the plot, and become the little cog that helps the male and female leads fall in love! But something seems off about the way the plot is going... World One: The Ill-Tempered, Arrogant Young 861Reads8.8Score10614d adds
- 7 I'm Just the Male Supporting Lead, Yet Somehow I Became His White Moonlight 男配我啊,一不小心成白月光咯 [Two male leads + silly, sweet romance + everyone’s favorite] Jiang Lin has always been a dedicated foil, quietly protecting the protagonist’s happiness without asking for anything in return. But what happens when he takes his role too far and actually wins the protagonist’s heart? World One: Can a sickly beauty get caught in a love triangle? A mother who’s hopelessly in love, a gold-digging father, a vast family fortune, and him, frail and ill. World Two: The beta husband just wants to take i 3.3kReads8.6Score37814d adds
- 8 The Femboy Scams Without Limits, Luring Straight Men Into His Trap 男娘坑钱无下限,钓着直男哐哐骗 [Male-male leads × love triangle chaos × face-slapping comeuppance × winning back his wife after driving her away × two straight men turned gay × younger top × mildly coercive and twisted × sweet and angsty × both virgins] [A cold, desireless, money-over-love cross-dressing bottom × a rich second-generation top who starts out arrogant and sharp-tongued, then turns into a lovesick maniac] Jiang Xuyan was an orphan. To make money, he dressed as a woman and worked as a suggestive livestreamer every 5.1kReads9.2Score76514d adds
- 9 Quick Transmigration: Can I Please Stop Being Cannon Fodder? 快穿:可不可以不要当炮灰呀 [Extra chapters updating] [Two male leads + love triangle showdown + all-around heartthrob + fragments + 1v1] Chu Yun was a cannon-fodder wage slave who was summoned by a System after his death to complete missions in fictional worlds. His physical strength was 0, but his charm was maxed out, making him a total weakling. He worked diligently, yet the plot kept veering off course… Why are they all looking at me so strangely? * [World One] The scruffy guy in a campus novel ✓ An unremarkable, grubb 1.1kReads8.8Score12914d adds
- 10 The Down-and-Out CEO Bullied by Millions 落难霸总亿人欺 11.2kReads9.3Score1.1k14d adds
- 11 A Straight Guy This Pretty Is Destined to Be Someone’s Wife 直男太漂亮就是要当老婆的 Warning: Don’t read! Amateur writing, an embarrassing old work, not a power fantasy. Real coercion, twisted relationships, imprisonment, old-school melodrama, a despairing straight male bottom, dark and disturbing. The first world is badly written, so I recommend skipping it. [Two male leads + quick transmigration + straight man + melodrama + love rivals + unhinged characters + coercive pursuit + no CP in the main story + one-on-one alternate ending in the extras] Jiang Mu is straight. He hasn’t 4.9kReads8.9Score38014d adds
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The Reborn Immortal King of the City 都市之仙王重生
An immortal king is reborn and returns with all the divine abilities and secret arts from his previous life, dominating the city. What’s the problem with being too powerful? Medicine? I can make a divine pill that keeps every illness at bay, so why would I need medical skills! Martial arts? I practice the Way and immortal arts!
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Villain: My Little Brother is the Chosen One 反派:我的弟弟是天选之子
"Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain
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Book Transmigration: Becoming an Evil Senior Brother 穿书:做个邪恶的大师兄
This novel has two male leads!!! They're both men! Make sure you know that before you start reading! [Cultivation + transmigrate into a book + reborn + unhinged + a husband chasing his spouse to the crematorium] When Su Qingbei discovers that he has transmigrated into a book as a villainous cannon-fodder character, he doesn't panic. As a man who knows the plot, he believes he can prevent the male lead from turning evil. When he senses that the male lead's feelings for him have changed, he still
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Writing a Diary in the Jie Sect, Tongtian Gets Played for a Fool 人在截教写日记,通天被玩坏了
Ying Yuan woke up one day to find that he had transmigrated to Mount Kunlun in the Primordial World. He had become an evil dragon, formed from the power of wickedness at the dawn of creation. As an innate evil dragon, he was steeped in wickedness and burdened by karma. The Human Religion refused to take him in, the Chan Sect despised him and called for his death, and the Dragon Clan of the Four Seas wanted nothing to do with him. With no other choice, he joined the Jie Sect as an outer sect disc
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The Empress Was Once a Pitiful Little Girl, and I Adopted Her 女帝还是小可怜,被我收养
[Rebirth + power fantasy + genius protagonist + empress + races vying for supremacy. The pace may be a little slow at first. After 100,000 words, he becomes the strongest prodigy at his level; after 200,000 words, no prodigy can match him; after 300,000 words, they get back together; after 700,000 words, he has become an invincible Heavenly Emperor across all the heavens.] A thousand years ago, she was a little beggar. A thousand years later, she had become the Empress of the Heavens, revered b
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With My Hands Behind My Back, I Transmigrated to the 1970s, Where I Can Make Trouble and Money with Ease 小手一背穿七零,搞事赚钱样样行
Also known as "Transmigrating into a Book Set in the Seventies: I Collect Eighty-Eight Paychecks Every Month" Su He woke up one day and transmigrated into a period novel, becoming a fake heiress who had been sent back to her village. In the book, the ungrateful real heiress was practically blessed by cheat codes, with schemes and tricks appearing one after another. The Su family ended up destroyed, while the original owner wished she were dead. Looking at her impoverished home and family members
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- 18 The Adorable Little Fortune-Teller Is Fierce 神算小萌妃超凶哒 Ji Zhenzhen has struck the jackpot in this life. Her father is the formidable Duke Who Guards the Nation, her seven older brothers are all little tyrants, and her convenient husband is Master Kongli, an immortal-like sage. Ha ha ha, life is sweet! Then one day, Ji Zhenzhen awakens a half-baked Heaven’s Eye and learns that her father is actually a major cannon-fodder character! The big cannon fodder thinks about rebelling every day, and a whole band of little cannon fodder behind him is ready to 2.8kReads9.2Score39414d adds
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Seriously, What Alpha Eats Little Cakes? 离谱,谁家Alpha吃小蛋糕啊
[This book has been acquired for publication. Tap the author’s profile for more details] [Two powerful leads + chasing his lover + scheming + intense romantic tension + ABO] Ji Chi was a top-tier Alpha, the son of Jiangcheng’s richest man and a born favorite of fortune. Everyone assumed he would marry an Omega from an equally powerful family. He thought so too. That was before this top-tier Alpha started avoiding an Omega with no pheromones day after day. Things took a strange turn. Friend 1: “Y
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The Language of the Three Corpses 三尸语
You’ve heard of people who died with their eyes open, but have you ever heard of a dead person whose mouth wouldn’t close? His grandfather’s death turns the life of a broke college student upside down. A corpse glares, a soul is hooked; a corpse opens its mouth, and disaster strikes twice. As one bizarre incident after another unfolds, he accidentally discovers that there’s far more to it than ghosts…
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Proving the Dao in Dreams: From the Start, I Scheme Against Cultivators 梦中证道,开局算计修仙者
After transmigrating to the world of immortal cultivation, he spends ten years searching for a way forward, yet can barely make any progress. Fortunately, he has a golden finger that lets him weave dreams. So he painstakingly lays his plans, finally waiting for cultivators to arrive. From then on, he cultivates in dreams and proves the Dao in dreams! He turns illusion into reality and ultimately becomes an unrivaled Immortal Venerable.
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Time Stop from the Start, Even Evil Gods Have to Kneel Before Me! 时停起手,邪神也得给我跪下!
[Time Stop + Apocalypse + Superpowers + Arrogance + Forgetting Your Roots + Rejecting Inner Turmoil] Bai Ye transmigrated to the age of the Great Cataclysm, two hundred years in the future. This world was full of danger, its people were honest and simple, and mutated beasts ran rampant. But he wasn't worried. Because he could stop time for one minute every day. If he didn't use it today, he could save it up for tomorrow. When time across the world hit zero, he would be the only one who could mov
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- 23 Film and TV Crossover: The Unconventional Supporting Female Lead 【综影视】非常规结局女配 A crossover of film and television worlds, featuring unconventional, irresistible pairings, with the occasional modern drama world mixed in. Male leads and supporting male characters, freed from the influence of the original plots, Start taking an interest in the insignificant female supporting characters from the original stories, Setting the plots on entirely different paths. What will ultimately become of the original heroines? (Some worlds might get a little shameless.) The rating is low bec 443Reads7.1Score16914d adds
- 24 Quick Transmigration: Every World Starts in Hell 快穿:每次都是地狱开局 [No romance pairings / alternate history / nation and family] [Please don't use AI to generate the heroine. The author commissioned the illustrations at personal expense.] Yin Lingyu is one unlucky girl. In her quick transmigration missions, she always gets the most hellish start and has to roll up her sleeves and climb her way up, becoming the beautiful, tragic woman everyone admires. World One: The top scholar's younger sister, sold into a brothel. (Setting: Li Shimin of the Tang dynasty) Worl 20.4kReads9.5Score1.9k14d adds
- 25 Jujutsu Kaisen: Summer Has Come, Summer Has Come 【咒术回战】夏了,夏了 A product of going off the rails, written for my own amusement. All pairings, healing everyday-life story, lots of headcanons. Everyone's awful. Please forgive any out-of-character moments. There'll be some angst along the way, but the ending is happy. There are also three timelines, and the heroine isn't human. (I want to fulfill my dream of keeping everyone alive, so the heroine is very overpowered and adored. If that's not your thing, please don't read.) Xia Zhimian's dream in both her lives 3.7kReads9.3Score46514d adds
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After Becoming the Substitute Bride of a Comatose Prince, the Imperial Physician Wife Slays Left and Right 替嫁植物人王爷后,医妃嘎嘎乱杀
[One devoted couple + special space + satisfying read + strong heroine + sweet romance + crushing the scumbags] Ji Yuntang, a military doctor and PhD from the 24th century, transmigrates as the true daughter of a marquis’s household. From the start, her whole family forces her to marry in place of the fake heiress. Even worse, the man she’s to marry is a comatose prince, completely paralyzed except for the ability to move his head. No problem! With silver needles and a surgical knife in her left
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- 27 EN The Creatures That We Are 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
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The Middle-Aged Slacker's Comeback 中年颓废男人的逆袭
The story is about an unemployed man in his forties whose life is going poorly. After accidentally ingesting something, a tiny stream of energy forms inside him. Through long experimentation, he gradually grows stronger and uses his inner power to change his life. The story depicts the man's transformation and everything that happens along the way, touching on physical health, friends, relatives, Taoism, officialdom, the entertainment industry, sports, and more. This is my first novel. You're we
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- 29 I Just Became His Disciple, and My Master Ascended! 刚拜师,师傅就飞升而去! Huang Hua, a 17-year-old from E City in the Yanhuang Kingdom on Planet Earth, is beaten black and blue by a group of thugs. By chance, he runs into the Venerable Wufa, a powerful cultivator at the ascension stage who is passing by Earth. The Venerable says he and Huang Hua are fated to meet and wants to take him as a disciple. Thinking he’s run into a con artist, Huang Hua refuses a thousand times over. The Venerable Wufa takes him to Kunlun’s Forbidden Realm and puts him through such torment th 16Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Heart Flutters After Marriage: CEO Ling’s Pursuit of His Wife 婚后心动:凌总追妻有点甜
The print edition is now available for preorder across the web, with limited signed copies, author-signed copies, and exclusive art prints. Available on Pinduoduo, Tmall, and Dangdang. This is the first publication, so please show your support! Su Xi and Ling Jiuzhe have been married for three years, yet have never met, and almost nobody knows about it. At night, Su Xi is the CEO’s wife, lounging in Ling Jiuzhe’s villa, playing with his dog and relaxing on a sofa he designed and had custom-made
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Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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- 32 EN The House of Dread 诡舍 [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 705.5kReads9.6Score103.9k14d adds
- 33 EN Don't Worry, Senior—I'll Protect You 学姐别怕,我来保护你 [Heart-Pounding Engine 2: Pure White Love Letter has been published] [Lighthearted daily life] + [Single female lead] + [No System] + [Not reborn] + [Sweet romance] In high school, Luo Ye had a secret crush on a girl for three years. He even got into the same university as her, and they agreed to start dating if they both got in. But the girl unexpectedly went back on her word. Heartbroken, Luo Ye became a romance novelist. Unexpectedly, before university even began, the novel he wrote shot to t 312.7kReads9.8Score31.4k14d adds
- 34 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
- 35 You Become What You Eat, and Before Long I Swept Through the Cultivation World 吃啥补啥,吃着吃着就横扫修真界 As long as you eat, you grow stronger. A food lover’s spring has arrived. Whether it’s a home-cooked meal or a delicacy from the sea, whether it flies in the sky, swims in the water, or runs on land, once it’s in your stomach, it can unleash its full potential. Come on, watch me eat my way to dominating the cultivation world! 467Reads7.6Score—14d adds
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A Brotherly Bond, with the Younger Brother on Top 兄友弟“攻”
Brotherly Bonds, Little Brother as the Top
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After the Divorce, My Wealthy Ex-Husband Begged Me to Remarry Him 离婚后豪门前夫跪求我复婚
Qin Yan wants Bai Wanwan to be a sweet, sensible Mrs. Qin. Bai Wanwan thinks to herself: Sure, I look sweet. Everyone around Qin Yan knows there's someone else living in his heart, his white moonlight, but Bai Wanwan pretends not to know. At last, one day, Qin Yan risks everything for his beloved, and Bai Wanwan sees her chance. She successfully tricks him into divorcing her. Only after the divorce does Qin Yan realize he's been fooled. He gradually discovers that his little wife isn't sweet at
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Quick Transmigration: The Villain Has Turned Dark Again 快穿之反派又黑化了
Nan Xun encounters an indestructible divine beast that can take her across different worlds. She helps it gather merit points, and once the task is complete, she can return to the past and change the fate of dying far from home. But now she regrets it. She regrets it so much her guts are turning green. Damn it, she has to earn those merit points from villainous big bosses with a corruption score of 100 and an evil score of 100! She only wanted to purify the hearts of those evil bosses. Holy crap
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Intangible Heritage Awakens: I Open a Traditional Arts School in the Stars 非遗觉醒:我在星际开非遗技校
Your civilization has received a negative review. Extinction countdown: 48 hours. When Jiang Yan, an intangible cultural heritage restorer, receives a notice from the Interstellar Court, he is repairing a quantum satellite using a Ming-dynasty porcelain-mending technique. Then the cracks in the porcelain reveal attack coordinates for Orion. Earth launches its most desperate fight for survival: Shadow puppetry controls alien warships, Suzhou ballads rewrite AI programs, and Northeast China’s Err
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Quick Transmigration: Villain, You Look Familiar! 【快穿】反派,我眼熟你!
After inexplicably binding to a conquest System, Zhong Xiaoshu set out to conquer the villains. Xuanhuan, alternate worlds, modern settings, post-apocalyptic worlds, ancient times, and the stars: she goes through them all. There isn't a single villainous big boss Zhong Xiaoshu can't handle. When she meets an old ancestor, she acts cute; when she meets a treacherous minister, she takes him by force; even when faced with zombies and the undead, she conquers them! What if a villainous big boss is g
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- 41 Quick Transmigration: The Supporting Villainess Is on Her Knees Again 快穿:女配又跪了 Chi Yuan, a gold-medal plane-hopping tasker, was betrayed by the System and had no choice but to travel to different worlds to collect the scattered soul fragments of her boss, Shen Zhaomu, across three thousand planes. As an excellent tasker, Chi Yuan was a natural at winning people over. But this ridiculous setup, where she had to chase the same soul through three thousand worlds and win over the same person each time? No way was she agreeing to that! One moment he was a cold, aloof campus hea 11.4kReads9.2Score94014d adds
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After Journey to the West: Bajie Goes Wild Too 西游后记之八戒也疯狂
Everyone says I'm useless, greedy, and lecherous. Since the person who called me “Idiot” has already been killed by you all, Today, I'll show every god and Buddha in the heavens who can rival me, high above the Ninth Heaven!
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- 43 This Princess Consort Is a Force to Be Reckoned With, and She Deserves to Be Spoiled! 这个王妃路子野,得宠! The Prince Regent says, “My princess consort is of royal blood, a delicate flower who can't lift a finger.” Meanwhile, the Prince Regent's consort, a whip in her left hand and a blade in her right, beats a gang of rebels until they flee in terror. The Prince Regent says again, “My consort only knows how to sew. How would she know anything about the occult?” A century-old ghost, sewn up like a kite by the Prince Regent's consort, weeps as it flies through the sky. The Prince Regent sighs again. “ 7.8kReads9.3Score1.2k14d adds
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In Place of Jin 代晋
This is an age of shining stars, of refined gentlemen and poetry shared over wine. This is the darkest of ages, where life is worthless and corpses pile into mountains. Through the endless night, who will be the light that brings dawn? On this sunken earth, who will save the people? The realm is shared by the Wang and Ma clans. But who will share the realm with me?
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