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Books by 黛黛猫
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Picking Up Divine Authorities in Indian Mythology 我在印度神话捡神格
College student Lin Ye touched a Shiva stone carving engraved with Sanskrit in a museum. When he opened his eyes, he had become a Chandala, an outcast in ancient India, and was clutching a talking bronze fragment: a Vedic Fragment that could absorb shards of the divine essence of mythological figures. While others were worked like oxen under the caste system, he secretly learned Vishnu's Illusion Art through the fragment, setting up a fortune-telling stall by the roadside. Even kings had to wait
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The Comments Are in Tears: I Win the Villain's Devotion by Spoiling the Plot 弹幕爆哭：我靠剧透把反派撩成忠
When Su Wan wakes up, she discovers that she’s the vicious supporting female character in a wealthy-family melodrama. In the original story, she’s just signed divorce papers with Lu Chenyuan, a top-tier star and financial tycoon, when her scumbag former fiancé, Lin Zimo, tricks her out of her fortune. Then her cousin, Su Rou, sells her to northern Myanmar, where she dies a horrific death! Thankfully, Heaven has opened its eyes: golden bullet comments that only she can see suddenly flood the scre
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Listening to Monsters at Midnight: I Own a Supernatural Story Harvester 夜半听妖：我有一座怪谈收割机
“They say that if you press your ear to this old radio, you can ‘hear’ the next person who is going to die All I wanted was to survive, but by accident, I became the sole collector of debts from a million supernatural tales.”
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No Blood Ties Beneath the Eaves 檐下无血缘
The day seventeen-year-old Su Yan was sent to live with the Gu family, plane-tree leaves covered the ground. She stood in the entryway, clutching a faded stuffed toy, and saw Gu Yanci for the first time. Her so-called “older brother” leaned against the stair rail, the sleeves of his white shirt rolled up to his forearms, one finger tucked into an open book. His gaze was as cold as a frozen lake. Under the Gu family’s roof, they were brother and sister who treated each other with “icy” politeness
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Quick Transmigration: The Max-Level Big Shot Goes on a Killing Spree 快穿：满级大佬杀疯了
Su Jinyuan, the youngest “Order Keeper” in the Interstellar Alliance, is betrayed while purging the ultimate BUG, and her soul is shattered in a temporal storm. When she opens her eyes again, she is bound to a “Revenge System” on the verge of breaking down. She learns that she must travel through countless small worlds and carry out revenge for Hosts who died with grievances, in order to piece her soul back together. In the first world, she is a wealthy heiress abandoned by her family after her
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Your Highness, Your Minion Is Causing Trouble Again 王爷，你的马仔又作妖了
After dying from overwork, Lin Xiaoxiao, a modern-day corporate drone, wakes up in the body of Shen Qingwu, daughter of the poorest county magistrate in the Great Jing Dynasty. The original Shen Qingwu jumped into a river to escape an arranged marriage. The moment Lin opens her eyes, she’s bound into a bridal sedan and sent to marry Prince Jing’an, Xiao Jue, rumored to be a “mass murderer, a living King of Hell reborn,” in a marriage meant to bring him good fortune.
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I Bought Three Buildings in the CBD by Hunting Ghosts 我靠捉鬼在CBD买了三套楼
On the day Su Yanci inherited her grandfather’s old bookstore, she found a yellow talisman tucked inside the ledger. The drawing on it wasn’t a lucky cat, but a snarling hanged ghost. As a top student in finance, she had planned to throw this feudal superstition in the trash. That very night, though, a “customer” came knocking: a white-collar ghost in a suit clung to her leg and wept, saying an “overtime-to-death ghost” had taken his desk, and if he didn’t reincarnate soon, he’d never meet his K
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The Path of the Profound: From Underworld Runner to Judge of the Three Realms 玄途：从阴差到三界判官
Shen Yan was born in a yin year, yin month, and yin day. Since childhood, he has been able to see the “things” invisible to everyone else, and people regard him as an ill omen. When he was eighteen, a bronze plaque covered in ghostly markings was unearthed at his family’s old home. Overnight, he was dragged into the rift between yin and yang, where evil spirits came for his life and vengeful ghosts clung to his soul. Even the old ghost in the City God Temple warned him, “Kid, with a birth chart
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The Curio Shop: Strange Tales Beneath the Eaves 镇物行：檐角下的异闻录
In the old alleys of Jiuhe City stands a general store that opens only on rainy days. Its owner is a young man named Shen Yan, who always wears a faded silver bangle on his left wrist. They say it lets him hear the voices of objects that hold evil at bay. These warding objects were left behind by the old generation: a chipped blue-and-white porcelain bowl keeps a water wraith trapped in a well; a polished copper bell locks a shadow wraith against a wall; even the headless stone lion at the entra
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A Taoist Robe Cut and Sewn into a Wedding Dress 道袍裁作嫁衣缝
Xie Qingci, the last keeper of the scriptures on Mount Qingxuan, had guarded the third floor of the Scripture Pavilion for eighteen years. Her robes were always washed until they had faded white, and her fingertips were perpetually stained with vermilion. Aside from applying gold leaf to the statues of the Three Pure Ones, her only task was repairing ancient scriptures that chewed their own pages. It was said that the scriptures imprisoned the remnants of ancient deities, and revealing even a si
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The Story of the Seventh Suspect 第七个嫌疑人的故事
In the incinerator of an abandoned factory, a charred corpse clutched half of a rusted police badge. It was the third “badge-and-burned-body case” in three months. Shen Yan, a former forensic pathologist now suspended from duty and running a secondhand bookstore, always had the lingering smell of disinfectant on his fingertips. He recognized the half badge: it had belonged to his mentor, Old Zhou, who had “died in the line of duty” in an accident three years ago. The method of burning the body w
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Haunted House Notes: The Ninth Tenant 凶宅笔记，第九个房客
On a rainy night, the old house at No. 14 Chengnan Road welcomes its ninth lodger. The fates of the first eight are all recorded in police case files: the first hanged herself from a loft beam, with seven copper coins scattered at her feet; the second drowned in a bathtub with no water in it, her fingernails packed with plaster dust; the third was strangled by an “invisible hand” in the living room, where the only evidence left behind was half a button marked by teeth...
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Silent Screams: Shadows at the Back of the Classroom 无声的尖叫：教室后排的阴影
At the back of the classroom of Class 3, Grade 11, one seat is always empty. They say that anyone who sits there will “disappear” within three months. They don’t transfer schools or drop out. It’s as if they were pencil marks erased by a rubber, until even the traces of their existence grow hazy. Lin Yan is a new transfer student, quiet and reserved, and always wears a cotton glove on his left hand, washed so pale it’s nearly white. On his first day in the seat his homeroom teacher calls “forbid
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The Midnight Knocking 午夜叫门声
At 3:17 a.m., just as dawn mist snuffed out the city’s neon lights, someone knocked on Chen Yan’s front door. “Knock, knock, knock.” The sound was faint, like someone scraping a fingernail against the door, yet it struck his eardrum with uncanny precision. This was the 28th time he’d heard the knocking at exactly the same hour. As the night-shift attendant at a folklore archive, Chen Yan was always receiving “strange” files: a backward-walking figure hidden in the mirror of an old Republic-era m
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The Midnight Anonymous Letter 午夜匿名信
Three bizarre murders occur in succession in Jiangcheng: a retired professor dies in a study locked from the inside, with only half a cup of tea left to cool at the scene; an online celebrity suddenly suffocates while livestreaming, and the camera catches only a glimpse of a black-gloved hand; an architectural designer is found collapsed on the rooftop of a newly completed skyscraper, with seven shards of porcelain scattered beside him.
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Snow on the Embers: The Power Minister and the Wild King 烬上雪：权臣与野王
Winter, Year 37 of Beishuo. Xie Linzhou, the Grand Tutor who held power over the imperial court, found a blood-soaked man at a snowy hunting ground. The man had the eyes of a wild wolf and was wrapped in tattered animal hides. A feral tattoo still marked his neck: Shen Ye, a remnant of the Northern Frontier’s Wuhuan tribe, whom the imperial court branded as “barbarians.”
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Pagoda Tree Blossoms Beneath the Red Wall 红墙下的槐花
In a Beijing hutong in 1983, sixteen-year-old Su Zhenyue clutched the tin biscuit box her mother had left behind and stood beneath the red wall, counting to the seventeenth locust tree. Hidden inside the box was half of a faded photograph: a man in a polyester shirt holding a baby, with the foundations of the China World Trade Center under construction behind him. The neighbors said he was the father she had never met, but Auntie Wang from the neighborhood committee always muttered while hanging
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A Flower in a Cage and Snow in the Palm of Your Hand 囚笼之花与掌心雪
Su Yan first meets Fu Sinian in an abandoned factory as rain pours down. The man is chained to a rusted iron frame, covered in wounds, yet a venomous fire burns in his eyes. He looks like a lone wolf trapped in a cage. She thinks she has simply come across someone in need of help, unaware that fate has handed her a set of shackles. Fu Sinian is the “Raven,” a name that strikes fear throughout the underworld. His hands are stained with blood, yet when Su Yan bandages his wounds, he lets her press
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Growth Rings in the Scent of Wheat 麦香里的年轮
The northern plains in 1963 were always scented with the dry smell of wheat straw on the wind. Nineteen-year-old Lin Yanqiu followed a group of sent-down youths to the Hongxing Production Brigade. She wore a faded blue cotton shirt and cloth shoes caked in yellow earth, but the bookish air in her eyes hadn’t been worn away. It was the one “hope” she’d brought from the city that hadn’t been confiscated. Chen Wangshu, the brigade’s work-point clerk, had arrived two years earlier. He was as quiet a
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Summer Night Breeze and Rain 夏夜晚风雨
Seventeen-year-old Lin Wanxing often slips into the shade of the plane trees in an old alley at dusk to watch Jiang Xunian, from the art studio next door, staring blankly at his canvas. His cuffs are always stained with turpentine, and his eyes hold a haze she can’t understand.
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A Stardust Pact in the Ashes 灰烬里的星尘契约
On a magical continent shrouded by the “Fog of Oblivion,” sixteen-year-old Elaria is the last “Stardust Weaver.” Silver threads can be drawn from the stars at her fingertips and woven into fleeting illusions of reality. But after an accident, she is falsely accused of being a “Fogcaller” and imprisoned in the empire’s most heavily guarded obsidian prison. Deep within the prison, she meets Karen, a silent prisoner. The man wears iron shackles that suppress his magic, and ancient runes burned into
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Whispers in the Misty Isles 雾屿森语
Chapter One: Cloth Shoes in a Tree Hollow The mist of Jingzhe, thick with the briny smell of the sea, rolled over the ridges of Wuyu Island. Su Yan’s rubber boots crushed a third rotten leaf. A soft rustle echoed through the woods, startling several egrets into flapping up from among the mangroves’ aerial roots. Their wingtips brushed her hat brim, and a feather flecked with salt drifted down. “Still being naughty.” Smiling, she tucked the feather into her patrol journal. With her fingertip, she
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The Love Letter He Hid Was in My Bag 他藏的情书在我包里
When plane tree leaves blanketed the sports field at Xinghua High School, Lin Xiaoxing walked nervously into Class 3 of her second year, carrying her faded, freshly washed backpack. She was the school’s notorious bottom-of-the-class student, always scraping by with passing marks in math. Her new deskmate, Gu Yanze, was the top student in their grade year after year, and even made winning the long-distance race at the sports meet look easy.
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The Obsessive CEO’s Prey 病娇总裁的猎物
Deep in the neon-lit financial district, two souls are bound together by fate. Shen Yanci is, on the surface, the CEO of Xingyan Capital, a firm commanding hundreds of billions in assets. Beneath his cool, chaste exterior lies an almost deranged possessiveness toward his “prey.” Ten years ago, he rescued the boy Lin Ye from the ruins of a fire and came to regard him as his one and only “possession,” gently enclosing every step he took in a gilded cage. Lin Ye was once the son of a fallen militar
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The Lone Phoenix of the Imperial Palace: The Empress’s Blade and Hairpin 凤阙孤凰：女帝的刀与簪
In the thirty-seventh year of Dayao, the late emperor died suddenly, leaving behind his only heir: Princess Chu Weilan, who had just come of age. The powerful ministers pressured her to abdicate, citing the rule that “a woman may not rule from the court.” But Xiao Che, commander of the Imperial Guards, burst into the side hall with a bloodied sword. “If Your Highness is willing to ascend the throne, I will carve a path of blood for Your Majesty.” Chu Weilan clenched the imperial phoenix seal in
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Shanghai in Turmoil: Two Stars Shine as One 沪上风云：双璧同辉
Shanghai, 1928. The neon lights of the French Concession reflect over the smoke of war on the Huangpu River. The songs and dancing of the city’s bustling foreign concessions cannot conceal the blades flashing in the shadows. Shen Yanzhi is an architectural designer who has returned from studying abroad. Born into a prominent Jiangnan family, he is forced to come home and uncover the truth after his family becomes entangled in an arms-smuggling case. Impeccably dressed in a suit and gold-rimmed g
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Frostlight Stained by the Ashen Abyss 烬渊染霜华
Ling Xi, the Frostlight Immortal of the Ninth Heaven, was born bearing the “Spirit Devouring” curse. Everything she touched withered, and only the “Ember Lotus” growing on the far bank of the River of Forgetfulness could ease her pain. She kept watch by the river for three thousand years, waiting for the legendary lotus that could break her curse. Then, on a snowy night, she came upon Yuan Che, the Demon Realm’s God of War, who had fallen from the Immortal Execution Platform, drenched in blood.
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Echoes from the Abyss: My Revenge Game 深渊回响，我的复仇游戏
Five years ago, the Su family, a commercial powerhouse in Haicheng, collapsed overnight. At a press conference, the father was accused of “business fraud” and jumped to his death. The mother suffered a mental breakdown from the shock and mysteriously disappeared after being sent to a sanatorium. Su Chen, who had just received an acceptance letter from a prestigious university abroad, had both legs broken at the airport and was thrown into a rubbish dump on the outskirts of the city. He was lucky
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Flowers in Bloom at the End of the World: They Walk Over Corpses 末日繁花：她们踏尸而行
Three months after the red fog descended, the city lies in ruins. Veterinarian Shen Yanqiu carries her medical kit through hordes of corpses. Whenever her scalpel cracks open a zombie’s skull, she remembers the afternoon she last put a pet to sleep. Back then, she still didn’t know that “mercy” would become the most extravagant luxury in the apocalypse. Former special police officer Yue Ling swings a fire axe through a security door. Her eyes, behind her goggles, are cold as ice. The little girl
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Echoes of the Deep: Coral and His Tides 深海回响：珊瑚与他的潮汐
Cang Lan, a seventeen-year-old girl of the Jiaoqi Clan, is the most “useless” being in the deep sea. She has none of her people’s defensive venomous spines, no ability to control the ocean currents, and can only hear the whispers of coral. When her clan turns on itself in a fight for the “Heart of the Sea,” the core that maintains the balance of energy in the deep ocean, she is thrown into the eye of a storm as a sacrifice. There, she accidentally awakens Mo Yuan, the “Sea Guardian” who has slep
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When the Wind Turns Against Me, I Choose to Fly 逆风时，我偏要飞
Seventeen-year-old Jiang Ye is a weed crushed into the mud by fate. His father died young, his mother is seriously ill, and he struggles to keep their broken family afloat in the urban village. By day, he hauls bricks at construction sites to scrape together money for her medical bills. At night, he hunches over his textbooks in a makeshift site dormitory. Everyone thinks he should accept his lot, just like the generation before him, and waste away at the bottom of society. Until one day, an acc
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Moon in a Cage 囚笼之月
Su Yan thought she would spend her whole life trapped in a damp attic studio, until a man named Lu Zhuo barged into her life like a storm. A powerful business tycoon who could make the market rise and fall with a flick of his hand, he hid an unquestionable forcefulness beneath his cold, stern features. With just one sentence, “From today on, you belong to me,” he turned her world upside down. She fought desperately, but he locked her in a gilded cage, cutting off every connection she had with th
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After the Matchmaker God Quit, the Underworld King and I Fell in Love 月老辞职后，我和冥王He了
I am the Red Thread Immortal, in charge of matchmaking. I’ve spent three thousand years tying red strings in the Hall of the Moon Elder. I’ve seen the most outrageous cross-border romances (what are Cowherd and Weaver Girl to me? I once tied Chang’e to the God of War on Mars), and broken up the most melodramatic doomed relationships (like the time I knotted Daji and King Zhou’s red thread into an irreparable tangle).
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When Snow Falls on Inazuma, We Share an Umbrella 稻妻雪落时，与你共执伞
When Kong set foot on Inazuma with Paimon, he never imagined he would form such a deep bond with the eldest daughter of the Kamisato clan, the White Heron Princess. When they first met, she was the Shogunate’s cultured young lady, bound by etiquette and as cool as frost beneath the moon. To oppose the Vision Hunt Decree, she secretly handed him a snow-streaked umbrella in the dead of night. He was a Traveler who had crossed worlds, setting off into the unknown in search of his sister, yet in her
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Phoenix Sovereign of the Nine Heavens: My Husbands Are Top-Tier Stars 凤主九霄：我的夫君们是顶流
In the Great Feng Dynasty, women rule while men support their wives and raise their children. Feng Li, the Marquis of Zhenbei, is the youngest woman ever to hold the title. Though she commands a powerful army, the noble ladies of the capital avoid her because she is said to bring bad luck to her husbands. Her first three fiancés either fell off their horses and broke their legs or choked on a poem until they could barely breathe. The last clutched a pillar on their wedding night and cried, “Spar
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A Billion-Dollar Marriage Pact: CEO Lu’s Contract Wife 1千亿婚约：陆总的契约娇妻
Su Wan was once the cherished heiress of the Su family. But after a family crisis sends her from the heights into the depths, she is forced to sign a contract and marry Lu Shiyan, CEO of the Lu Group, a man rumored to be cold and ruthless, with a business empire at his command. She does it to save her gravely ill younger brother.
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Top-Tier Star Couple: Still Sabotaging Each Other Today 顶流夫妇：今天也在互坑
Everyone online knew that award-winning actor Jiang Yan and rising star Su Qingyuan were mortal enemies in showbiz, a pair who could never share the same stage. Backstage at an awards ceremony, he splashed red wine all over her and mocked her as a “resource-backed actress with no talent.” She retaliated by jamming her high heel into his limited-edition suit and calling him a “traffic-obsessed hack with no integrity.” When the hashtag #JiangYanAndSuQingyuanShareTheStageForTheFirstTimeInDecades sh
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Madam Is Secretly Falling for Him Again 夫人又在偷偷心动
Su Wanxing, heiress to the Su Group, married Lu Shiyan, president of the Lu Group and a top-tier star of the business world, through a contract marriage. Everyone thought it was a business alliance in which both sides got what they wanted, but no one knew that Lu Shiyan had secretly loved Su Wanxing for years.
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Twin Jewels of the Mystic Sect: Sword Bones and a Fox’s Heart 玄门双璧：剑骨与狐心
A secret lies beneath the snow that has never melted in Kunlun Ruins: Shen Qingci, a good-for-nothing disciple cast out by his sect, has half a fox demon’s core sealed inside him. He thought he would have to scrape by in the mortal world for the rest of his life, but during an exorcism mission, he crossed paths with Xie Linyuan, the first seat of the Lingxiao Sect, arriving on his flying sword. Xie Linyuan was a legend in the cultivation world, with the thunder of the Ninth Heaven hidden in his
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Top-Tier Star Queen: From Castoff to Global Powerhouse 顶流女王：从弃女到全球大佬
Su Wan was abandoned by her family and left to fend for herself in a garbage dump. Then she unexpectedly awakened the ability to Analyze All Things. One glance reveals an object's ingredients, the desires in a person's heart, the rise and fall of the stock market, and even the underlying logic of any field.
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Detective, Your Cheongsam Is Coming Apart! 探长，你的旗袍开线了！
Su Qingyuan, a physics doctorate who returned from studying abroad, arrived with a case full of experimental equipment for “the supernatural” and, by a twist of fate, became a specially appointed consultant for a Shanghai police station. She solved cases using nothing but formulas: calculating a falling victim's trajectory with a parabola, reconstructing gunshots through voiceprint analysis, and even estimating a killer's weight from the depth of their footprints. The only problem was that she k
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Echoes of the Rift: When a Jungler Meets a Support's Heart 峡谷回响：当打野撞上辅助心
No one in esports has failed to hear of Lu Chen, the jungling king. He is the youngest FMVP in the Honor of Kings professional league, able to pull off Luna's endless combos beneath the moon until his opponents surrender. Yet he keeps to himself like a lone wolf in the Rift, always stone-faced in interviews. His fans call him the Ice-Cold Jungle King.
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Rift's Jungle King: From Bronze to the World Stage 峡谷野王：从青铜到世界
The day eighteen-year-old Lin Ye broke his right arm, the entire internet cafe mocked him as a "cripple" who couldn't even play properly in Bronze. He had once been the most talented jungler on his school team, but a malicious foul had wrecked his hand. Forced to give up his professional dream, he became a loser who could get called a "thrower" by his teammates even in Diamond. Then, on a stormy night, he hit one last Flash on a battered keyboard. A line of text suddenly appeared on the screen:
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Xiangxi Butterfly Gu: The Saintess, the Outsider, and a Thousand-Year Curse 湘西蝶蛊：圣女与外乡人的千年咒
Deep in western Hunan lies Luoyin Village, an ancient Miao settlement that safeguards the secret of the Butterfly Gu, a power protected for a thousand years. Only the clan’s Holy Maiden can awaken the Butterfly Gu with her bloodline and fend off the eerie miasma lurking in the mountains. But this secret leaves the Holy Maiden burdened with a curse that brings misfortune to those she loves. Shen Yan, an outsider researching folk customs, enters Luoyin Village to investigate the Miao borderland no
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Embers Reignited: My Revenge Begins on a Mountain of Corpses 烬火重燃：我的复仇从尸山开始
Su Wan died on a winter night at twenty-five, shoved off a rooftop by the two people she trusted most: her fiancé, Shen Zhiyan, and her stepsister, Su Yao. They stole her inheritance, forged a “suicide” note, and even kissed at her funeral, laughing at how stupid she had been. Consumed by a towering hatred, she is reborn at seventeen, just after her mother's death, when her stepsister has just joined the family and Shen Zhiyan is still pretending to be her devoted childhood sweetheart. The innoc
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Trouble in Green Bamboo Village: My Neighbor Is a Ghost Officer 青竹村不太平：我的邻居是鬼差
After graduating from university, Lin Yanci turned down a high-paying job in the city. Taking the old compass his grandfather left him and half a copy of Records of Exorcisms, he returned to his hometown, Qingzhu Village, a place so remote it was barely visible on maps. The villagers all thought he was foolish to leave a comfortable life in the city and come back to this impoverished backwater to “scrape by.” Only Lin Yanci knew why he had returned: to fulfill his grandfather’s dying wish, prote
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Monster Hunter’s Journal: I Tame the Classic of Mountains and Seas with My Imagination 猎怪手记：我靠脑洞驯服山海经
Su Yan finds a copy of the Classic of Mountains and Seas with missing pages at an antique market. She takes the inscription on its title page, “Use your imagination as bait to fish for mountain-and-sea spirits,” as a joke, until one late night, while drawing a design, the mechanical nine-tailed fox in her sketch suddenly leaps off the page and smashes her coffee cup with its jaws. The spirits she had criticized as “badly designed” can actually be brought to life through her “imaginative redesign
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Echoes of a Deserted Island: A Long-Buried Confession 孤岛回响：尘封的告白
In 1938, Shanghai falls to the Japanese, and the International Settlement becomes an isolated island. Su Manqing, a forensic pathologist who has returned from studying abroad, moves into Jingyuan, where her younger sister, Su Manli, worked before her “accidental” fall from a building. The mansion lies deep in the French Concession. In name, it is a cultural salon frequented by the elite; in truth, dark currents swirl beneath the surface. Her sister’s diary contains little beyond scattered, loves
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Forest Radio: Live Survival in the Animal Kingdom 森林电台：动物界的生存直播
Deep in the secret realm humans call the "Misty Forest" lies a secret known only to the animals: in the hollow of a thousand-year-old spruce stands a "forest radio station" built from spiderwebs, dead branches, and a wild beehive. Every morning, the orangutan "Old Mai" turns the dial right on time and taps the microphone, a hollow acorn shell, with his calloused knuckles. "This is FM 9.9, Forest Frequency. Today's news: bass are migrating up the valley. Squirrels hiding pinecones, watch out. The
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