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Books by 半生砚
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Lend Me the Spring Breeze to Cross the Huangpu 借我春风渡黄浦
At the age of twelve, Yang Dang, a descendant of a Guizhou tusi, drifted to Shanghai. From an exiled boy huddled on the docks, to a postal worker sorting letters, to a waiter at the neon-lit Paramount Ballroom, he struggled to survive in the mud at the bottom of Shanghai's bustling foreign concessions, honing his ability to read people and adapt to any situation. A French letter containing the Green Gang's secrets, a young police chief who stood up for him on a rainy night, a crisis he resolved
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Snow Falls on the Silent Sea 雪落寂静海
This is a story about being reborn after dignity has crumbled, and about love turning into sacrifice in the face of utter despair. On the day he went bankrupt, Wang Jinbei shut the doors of his company for the last time, standing in the rain. The world had already filed him away as a failure, until he met Su Xiaowen, a massage therapist who was nearly blind. Though she could only distinguish faint glimmers of light, she could precisely "see" the pain in others. This is a story about how broken p
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Finding Love While Working at a KTV kTV打工时,遇到爱情
Finding Love While Working at a Karaoke Bar
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The Iron Butterfly: Blossoming 铁蝴蝶·花开
Iron Butterfly: Blossoming
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The Golden Maze 黄金迷林
The Golden Labyrinth
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I Took Twelve Wives in the Great Ming 我在大明娶十二房
Zhang Xiaohua accidentally transmigrates to the Ming Dynasty and obtains Lu Ban’s medical text, only to fall victim to the “one missing gate” curse. To break it, he must find six pairs of young women, each born under an extremely yin or extremely yang fate. A thought strikes him: “General Qi, while you’re recruiting troops to fight the Japanese pirates, could you find me a wife too?” While Qi Jiguang stares in shock, Zhang Xiaohua uses his modern knowledge to devise one brilliant strategy after
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A Craftsman’s Empire: The Nine Heavenly Works 匠心江山之天工九卷
Part Two of I Married Twelve Wives in the Ming Dynasty is here. Zhang Xiaohua waited until the emperor arranged a princess's marriage for him, but he had long since stopped caring about fame and fortune. He turned in his official seal, gave up his wealth, and retreated to the misty Jiangnan with fourteen beautiful confidantes, each with her own remarkable talents. There, he built mechanical servants and enjoyed a peaceful life. Five years later, the master craftsman Lu Ban appeared in a dream an
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Beneath the Moon's Sorrow 月殇之下
A helium flash erupts on the Sun, and humanity's sparks of civilization scatter. One group retreats into the Earth's core, where they encounter the ancient Trovan people; another travels to the Moon and inherits an ark of divine miracles. As alien civilizations from deep space draw near, the civilizations of Earth and Moon are forced to unite. Eighteen Transcendent Warriors emerge, wielding the laws of space and time as they face an invasion from another dimension. This is the final chapter of d
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Record of Gods in the Mortal Realm 凡尘逐神录
The shepherd boy Bufeng rescues a mysterious swordsman in the mountains and receives his legacy. From then on, his ordinary life is turned upside down. The sect’s holy maiden falls for him, while a demonic seductress rebels for his sake. Beautiful women accompany him along the way, but so do flashing blades and deadly peril. From a remote border town to the heights of the Nine Provinces, from a common martial artist to a swordsman who cleaves open the Heavenly Gate, he survives countless brushe
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Red and Color 红与彩
This isn’t a wish-fulfillment novel. It’s a slow burn... The more you read, the more it draws you in. There are no answers here, only choices: choose the way of life that suits you... If youth had a color, what do you think it would be? For Wang Shaoqin, newly arrived in Hongcheng, youth was pure “red”: heritage, ideals, and the earnest hopes his parents placed in him. Then reality introduced him to a second palette: the gentle pink of love, like cherry blossoms; the clear blue of friendship, li
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The New Dynasty: A Usurper’s Modern Experiment 新朝:篡汉者的现代实验
In 2021, Wang Xiaole, a dual-degree graduate from a top Chinese university, couldn’t find a job because of the pandemic. While ice fishing in winter, he accidentally fell into a river. When he opened his eyes again, he had become Wang Mang, a twenty-eight-year-old palace attendant in the late Western Han dynasty. The man condemned by history as a “usurper of the Han,” yet remembered for implementing state ownership of land, abolishing slavery, and establishing a system of loans: a controversial
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