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Books by C Yanxue
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A Warm Home in the Deep Mountains 深山暖居
Lin Xiunuan, the youngest daughter of the Lin family, marries Shi Jian, a mountain hunter, to repay a debt of gratitude. He is taciturn, a fierce man the villagers find hard to approach. She is gentle and diligent, with nimble hands and a quick, perceptive mind. At first, they treat each other with courteous respect. With delicious food and clever ideas, she brings warm cooking smoke to his cold stone house. With his silent protection, he shields her from the storms in the mountains and the trou
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The Taste of the Sixties 舌尖上的六零年代
In the 1960s, material goods were scarce, but the warmth of everyday life and dreams of good food endured. Chen Mo, a descendant of imperial chefs, works in a state-run restaurant. His cooking is superb, but because of his family background, he has to be cautious in everything he does. Su He is an ordinary factory worker with a discerning palate and a sincere appreciation for fine food. One seemingly simple bowl of tofu soup lets her taste the craftsmanship he has kept hidden, and brings the tw
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Reborn in the 1970s: A Warm Northwest Wind 重生七零，西北风暖
If you could live your life over, how would you choose to live? At thirty, Li Xiulan closes her eyes amid sweat and tears. When she opens them again, she has somehow returned to 1975. She’s on a jolting truck with four gaunt children, heading for the vast Northwest to join her husband, Zhao Jianjun, whom she hardly ever sees. In her previous life, the desert winds stripped away all her brightness that year. She grew estranged from her husband and distant from her children, wearing herself down t
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The Grand Mansion's Hidden Chambers 朱门深阙
A marriage contract sends Shen Qingci, a concubine-born young woman, into the imposing and stern Duke of Zhenguo's household as a secondary wife. Within its inner quarters, her mother-in-law rules with an iron hand, her sisters-in-law scheme against one another, and the favored concubines watch her like hawks. Every step is perilous. She assumes she can do no more than endure and survive, quietly withering behind the vermilion gates. Yet her exceptional intelligence and superb medical skills rep
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Fields South of the Mountain 南山有田
Synopsis The South Mountain Has Fields is a warm, delicately told pastoral epic about the simple farming life of Chen Changqing, a boy who spends sixty years in South Mountain Village during the fictional Ning Dynasty. In the spring of his fifteenth year, Chen Changqing steps barefoot onto thawing soil during the spring planting. Under his father's guidance, he sows the first seed of his life. He and Yue Niang, a girl from a neighboring village, pledge their love with a grasshopper made of straw
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A Humble Family's Splendid Life: The Farm Girl Has a Spirit Spring 寒门锦绣：农女有灵泉
Agricultural science PhD Lin Wanxing transmigrates into the body of the most unfortunate orphan in Linjia Village. Her parents are dead, her home is bare, and her greedy relatives are eyeing her hungrily. From the start, she has only a bowl of coarse rice porridge, and now they're forcing her to marry a consumptive man to bring him good luck. In this desperate situation, she accidentally activates a bloodline spirit spring and pocket dimension. The spirit spring makes crops grow explosively, whi
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A Splendid Life in the Countryside 山野间的锦绣人生
Lin Wanqing, a 28-year-old urban professional, wakes up in an ancient mountain village as a farmer's daughter with an empty house, a frail father, and a sick mother. Facing a life of starvation, she rolls up her sleeves and decides to use her modern knowledge to change her fate. From identifying mountain produce and improving farm tools to clearing wasteland, cultivating crops, and making novel foods, she leads her closest family members from being a burden to everyone to becoming the family's b
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