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Books by Lei Xiaotian, Who Likes Water Hyacinths
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The Age of Tempering 2 淬火年代2
In the late autumn of 1974, Zhou Weidong, a young lathe operator in Northeast China’s old industrial heartland, finds himself facing the collapse of his family after his father is disabled by a workplace injury. Then he unexpectedly discovers mechanical blueprints from the Japanese puppet-state era, hidden away by his father. Desperate to save his family, he risks sneaking into an abandoned Manchurian Railway repair plant and using scrap from the workshop to replicate German precision jigs, draw
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The Yellow Springs Code 黄泉密码
Set during the Republican era, this story follows several tomb-raiding families as they plunder graves in the Changbai Mountains. It explores their inherited tomb-raiding techniques, the rules of their schools, and the intricacies, history, and culture of the trade. The story draws on traditional tomb-raiding schools, including the Mojin Xiaowei, the Banshan Daoren, and the Xieling Lishi, and the schools that evolved from them.
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Heaven's Ordeal Against Fate 2 逆命天劫2
“The Lu family’s mastery of feng shui can glimpse the secrets of heaven, but whenever the number three comes around, heavenly punishment is certain.” Since the Ming dynasty, the Lu family has been renowned for its generations of expertise in feng shui and yin-yang arts. But they carry a cruel fate: once every three generations, one member will meet a “heavenly tribulation” and die at the age of thirty. The curse began when an ancestor defied heaven to alter an emperor’s fate, revealing too many
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Wheel of Ash and Silence 烬寂之轮
My new work is out! Please come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Tracing the Golden Vein: The Secret Cave of 1911 金脉寻踪:辛亥秘窟
During the Xinhai era, the Qing court fell and warlords carved up the country. Chen Jiuzhi, the eighteenth-generation heir to the Mojin clan, went into hiding in Liulichang, Beiping, with his family’s Compass for Dividing Gold and Locating Cavities. He used the cover of an antique dealer to conceal his identity. The appearance of a mysterious map drew him into a maelstrom of competing treasure hunters: Beiyang warlords, Japanese ronin, and the occult sects of the martial world. The map pointed t
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A Delivery Rider's Fated Path 外卖员的道缘人生
Chen Mo never imagined that his electric scooter for food deliveries would lead him down a path to the heavens. Two years after graduating from a second-tier college, he had sent out 487 resumes, and all he had to show for it was an account as a delivery rider. Every day, he raced against the clock and fought off bad reviews, relying on his credit card just to pay the rent. Then, on a stormy day, beneath an old pagoda tree, he met a robed old man who said he wanted to take him as a disciple. “Un
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The Day I Sacked the City, I Knocked on the Palace Gates 屠城那日,我叩开了皇宫大门
On the day the enemy nation massacres an entire city, Shen Zhao carries the enemy general’s head, blood staining the palace gates as he tolls the death knell of Great Wei’s imperial power. He was once the son of a loyal minister. Now he is a demon of vengeance. Pei Yan, confidant of the new emperor, is ordered to capture him, but among the case files of the massacre, he discovers his mother’s final words: the massacre was a trap laid by the imperial family. Liu Wuyi, the orphaned daughter of an
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Blades Sing in Troubled Times 乱世刀鸣
In the third year of Yongchang, the Great Liang Dynasty was nearing its end. Feng Chen, a centurion in the frontier army, received a bloodstained military order: slaughter every last one of the hundred-plus people in Qinglin Village. When he led his troops into the village, he spotted a familiar figure at the front of the crowd: the limping old doctor who had once saved his life with half a bowl of rice porridge. With the order in hand and a blade at his side, Feng Chen felt his first doubts abo
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The Humble Dignity 卑微的尊严
Zhong Jianguo, known as “Little Zhong,” was once the village’s envy as a construction contractor. At the height of his success, he had more than twenty people working for him and drove an Audi to upscale restaurants. Now, at thirty-seven, he was hiding in a construction-site container, counting his last three cigarettes. Outside were workers demanding their wages; on his phone was the bank’s final warning; on WeChat was a reminder from his ex-wife to pay child support. These days, the work is ea
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