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Hello, Liu Zongyuan 你好，柳宗元
At thirteen, he shocked the court by writing a petition on his father's behalf. At twenty-one, he passed the imperial exams and became Chang'an's most dazzling young prodigy. He wanted to be a good official, but ended up stumbling into the quagmire of reform. The emperor died, his political enemies struck back, and overnight he fell from the heart of power to a desolate frontier. In a ruined temple in Yongzhou, he wrote, “A lonely boat, an old man fishing in the snow on a cold river.” Amid Liuzh
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Yue's Soul Is Not Extinguished: the Story of the Yue Family's Army's Fight Against Jin Fengyun 岳魂未灭：岳家军后传之抗金风云
On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month in the eleventh year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei, Yue Yun and Zhang Xian were killed in Fengbo Pavilion. The news spread like a bolt from the blue throughout every inch of the Southern Song Dynasty. The people were devastated, and the Yue family army, which was once powerful in the world, was immersed in great grief. In the camp of the Yue Family Army, all the soldiers had red eyes and clenched the weapons in their hands. Their ang
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Hello, Su Shi 你好，苏轼
At twenty, he was famous throughout the capital. Even the emperor called him a man fit to be prime minister. But from then on, his life was a string of false accusations, prison, demotions, and exile. He was sent from the capital to Hangzhou, Huangzhou, and Huizhou, then cast away to the edge of the world as it was known then: Danzhou on Hainan Island. For anyone else, this might have been a tragedy. But on a barren slope in Huangzhou, he rolled up his trousers and began farming, giving himself
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Hello, Ouyang Xiu: The Making of a Great Song Dynasty Writer 你好，欧阳修：大宋文宗炼成记
I am Ouyang Xiu. My father died when I was four, and our family was so poor we had no paper. My mother taught me to write by tracing characters in the sand with reeds. I failed the examinations twice, but never gave up. After being demoted three times, I wrote The Pavilion of the Drunken Old Man. I presided over the imperial examinations and selected Su Shi, Su Zhe, and Zeng Gong, helping uphold half the literary world of the Great Song. I lived an incorruptible life with an unyielding spirit. W
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I Save Her by Borrowing Lives 我靠借命拯救她
To save the life of the person I secretly loved, who had died a tragic death, I signed a “time loan” contract. Every time I turned back time, I owed ten years of my life. Soon, I discovered that she was a prime asset targeted by the Time Bank, and my younger sister was next on its list. To protect them, I went from a fugitive debtor to the architect of a new order, leading debtors around the world to topple the Time Bank. In the end, a new time economy was established, but I forgot everything an
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A Gardenia Heart to Greet You at Dawn 予你晨曦栀子心
The “line of demarcation” marked by the plane trees is the prelude to youth, while the wedding vows beneath the osmanthus tree are its romantic finale. Over seven years, Su Wanzhi, a clearheaded and resilient history class representative, and Lu Chenxing, a devoted and protective physics prodigy, go from bickering desk mates to soulmates. Their mutual devotion carries them through a sweet romance that lasts from school uniforms to wedding dresses. The lively and straightforward Song Qianqian win
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