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Books by Old Man Shiyao
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Heavenly Return: The Jian Lineage 天回简脉
Bian Que enters the world with the Tianhui Medical Slips, wielding the “four methods of diagnosis: inspection, listening and smelling, inquiry, and pulse-taking” to expose the Alchemy Sect’s scheme involving a corrupting elixir and the Shamanic Medicine Sect’s bird-plague curse. He sets up a medical tent in Linzi and saves the people, laying the initial foundations for “treating illness once it has arisen.” He then heads north to the Xiongnu, dispels a bone curse and battles a poison cult. In th
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The Great Tang’s Poems and Smoke 大唐诗烟记
At a banquet in Tengwang Pavilion in the sixth year of the Yonghui era of the Tang dynasty, Su Yan, the son of a court historian, attends with his family’s heirloom bronze inkstone. The inkstone, entrusted to his family by Empress Zhangsun, is the “key to the literary heritage of the Great Tang” and holds the secret that “the fortunes of poetry are the fortunes of the nation.” He sees the impoverished scholar Wang Bo overturn the power balance with his Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng. But
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Palace Museum Restorer: From the Start, I Dismantled the Guardian Object on Jingshan Hill 故宫修复师：开局拆了景山镇物
Lin Yan bears the family’s original sin of trafficking in components stolen from the Forbidden City. After joining the palace as a restoration specialist, he triggers a crisis involving the protective object at Jingshan while verifying his great-grandfather’s notes. His mentor, Old Zhou, reveals the old feud between Lin’s family and Nirvana, an organization that wants to replace traditional architecture with modern buildings. Lin Yan teams up with Su Xiao, an undercover agent for Nirvana and the
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Abyss of the Candlestick Chart K线深渊
Set against the A-share market from 2015 to 2025, this novel follows Chen Mo over the course of a decade. Once a software engineer, he is plunged into a stock-market crash after being wiped out by leveraged trading. He goes on to become a private equity researcher, expose the secrets behind market manipulation, and lead efforts to protect investors. Across five volumes, the story focuses in turn on the leverage frenzy, the mysteries of market manipulation, the quantitative investing crackdown, t
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The Seasons of Herbal Medicine 本草光阴
Herbal Days uses an old apothecary as its lens, turning the everyday lives of Uncle Wei and Xiaoman into stories steeped in time, one medicinal herb at a time. From the gentle sweetness of Five-Red Soup to the pungent bite of the Four-Insect Formula, from the tenacious reach of Sinomenium vine to rhubarb’s fierce potency, each herb is linked to the hands of the older generation: Grandpa’s bamboo knife for gathering Sinomenium vine, Grandma’s enamel bowl for serving Five-Red Soup, and the hours U
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Tale of an Official's Return: A Snowy Land Calls Him Home 出官记：雪域归心
This is no ordinary travelogue, but an “unconventional” record of a pilgrimage of the spirit. It begins with an ordinary cycling trip along Route 318 through Sichuan and Tibet. But as wheels grind over stones and wind sweeps through prayer flags, the journey becomes a transformation that reaches deep into the soul. After spending half his life immersed in the bureaucracy, an official retires, sets aside his fountain pen and suit, and takes to the high-altitude road. What he sheds is more than th
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The Twelfth Meridian of New York 纽约的第十二条经络
Lin Yan, a Chinese-American practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, runs the Qing Nang Clinic in New York’s Chinatown. With a bronze medicinal grinder passed down from her grandfather and his yellowed medical records, she uses root-cause diagnosis and treatment to pierce the illusion of “treating symptoms, not causes,” striking at the commercial logic behind Western medicine’s “rapid relief” and the pharmaceutical giant Speedy Recovery’s monopoly. Her consultations are like a precise socia
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The Philosophical Proving Ground: I Ascend to Godhood Through Meaning 哲学试炼场：我靠意义封神
“Lin Mo, a young man who had decided to lie flat, is suddenly swept into a mysterious philosophical trial. Heidegger's ‘being-toward-death’ becomes a series of deadly puzzles in the Valley of Life and Death, while Camus's ‘revolt against the absurd’ turns into the survival rule of a despairing maze. After awakening the ‘Meaning Anchor’ skill, he transforms philosophical thought into the power to break through impossible situations: shattering his existential crisis in the ‘Void Black Hole,’ team
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A Prison Called Home 人间家狱
The everyday lives of four generations of the Lu family reflect the struggles faced by generations of Chinese people. The crushing burden of down payments and mortgages, the strictures of wedding invitations and betrothals, the distortion of education obsessed with academic success, and the ties of caring for the elderly: four cages turn “home” from a warm harbor into a prison holding three generations captive. Eldest son Xiaofeng and Su Qing rush to fulfill wooden-chair orders to pay their mor
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