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A Mature Couple (Originally Titled: Thirty Like a Wolf, Forty Like a Tiger) 熟龄夫妻(原名:三十如狼,四十如虎)
Twenty years ago, when Yang Cuiling left her family in Huluwan to marry into the Wang family in Caiyuan, she never imagined that she would one day become involved with a man other than her husband, Deng Jinzhu. She still believed what the older generation always said: marry a chicken and follow the chicken, marry a dog and follow the dog; marry a carrying pole and hold on to it. Through all the ups and downs, warmth and cold, bitterness and sweetness of life, you simply stay with him. But a seri
10.3kReads9.1Score565Shelves
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The Courtyard Through Wind and Rain 风雨四合院
This is a traditional southern-style courtyard house. Past the front gate is a covered passage, then an open courtyard, followed by the main hall. Side rooms stand on either side, and side doors at the main hall lead to the rear kitchen. There is another courtyard in the back. In the south, this kind of house is called a two-courtyard, two-hall residence. One courtyard house bears witness to half a century of love and resentment across three generations. This small home has seen the growth of th
6.2kReads9.3Score187Shelves
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Sadness 情殇
This is a new attempt to present ten novels of different styles one by one through the protagonist Wen Tao, using a pen meeting as a clue. Ten novels, ten stories, different protagonists, using different techniques, reflecting different eras, but they are all connected in a way that describes the literary world. The characters in the novels then criticize and criticize the ten works. Let readers be immersed in the book, as if they are reading the works of ten different authors.
4.7kReads9.6Score272Shelves
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Her Story as an Educated Youth 她的知青故事
Centered on Zhang Wang's love story, this novel captures the tender nuances of romance and the entrepreneurial struggles and fates of people from different walks of life in a changing era. It introduces several vivid characters, including Xu Qin and Zhang Xue, and begins with their golden childhood years. Following the twenty-four solar terms, it evokes the pastoral charm of rural life, where childhood mischief and memories of delicious food form a black-and-white film strip, aged and softened b
4.3kReads9.5Score248Shelves
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Runaway Bride 逃婚
Set in the early 1990s, Escape from an Arranged Marriage tells the story of Li Xiaohong, a village girl who bravely flees her wedding in pursuit of freedom and love. Li Xiaohong is supposed to be traded in marriage to secure a wife for her younger brother, but she refuses to accept the fate laid out for her and resolutely leaves her hometown for Longcheng. There, she and Zhao Qilei support each other, while she begins a complicated romance with Ma Mingjie, a rich second-generation heir. However,
3.6kReads9.4Score358Shelves
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The Production Team 生产队
Through the controversies surrounding the murder of an old shepherd, this book portrays life in a rural community in the 1970s. Using the format of a suspense novel to tell a traditional story, it depicts the era's classic rural characters: the production team leader who wielded absolute power, the storekeeper who abused his position for personal gain, the militia platoon leader who dreamed of joining the army, the village girl abandoned by an educated youth, the no-account who managed to make
2.7kReads9.5Score252Shelves
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Mountain Ruckus 山骚
A beautiful young woman and an old woman with disheveled hair supported a paralyzed old man as they slowly approached a new grave from down the mountain, draped in the glow of the setting sun. Then the joss paper turned into thick smoke, carrying the old woman and the paralyzed old man’s grief-stricken wails across the wilderness…
2.2kReads9.4Score170Shelves
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Beyond the Great Wall, Beyond the Great Wall 塞北塞北
This novel tells the story of the feuds between the Wei and Gu families across four generations and more than a century of history, vividly portraying the customs and culture of the lands north of the Great Wall. Through the tangled relationships between the Gu family’s men and the Wei family’s women, it explores people’s passionate pursuit of true love and their unyielding struggle against fate. It won the Dajia Bronze Award at the first Cross-Strait Online Original Literature Competition.
1.5kReads9.6Score231Shelves
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Greater Northern Shaanxi 大陕北
Gao Liang follows his father from northern Shaanxi, where he has lived for over a decade, to Beijing. In that turbulent era, some young people hold fast to their beliefs and build a better life.
1.1kReads9.5Score140Shelves
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The Village Chief Is a Woman 女村长
[Female lead + personal growth + rural life + career-building + rise to success] Mai Miao, a young woman from the countryside, misses the mark by just two points in the first college entrance exams after the system is reinstated. The village committee and elementary school hire her as a private teacher. After enduring all kinds of hardships, Mai Miao becomes the village head and leads the entire village in boldly introducing new peanut varieties, more than doubling the historical yield per mu.
1.1kReads9.5Score109Shelves
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Office Worker 上班族
After graduating from college, Wang Zhiyuan returned to his hometown, a small city, and began his career at a newspaper. There, he observed and learned from all kinds of people as he adapted to society. The harsh realities of life shattered his dreams time and again. After reflecting on his setbacks, he resolved to work hard and forge his own path. With realistic writing and the courage to face reality head-on, the author portrays the fate of an ordinary working man.
850Reads9.4Score101Shelves
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Born a Woman 生而为女
Teacher Li, who has two lovely daughters, has always worried that his family line will end when he dies. First, he brought in a son-in-law, but even after that, he still wasn’t reassured. So he drove the son-in-law away and decided to adopt his nephew instead. With no brothers of their own, how will the Li sisters be oppressed by their parents’ fierce desire to carry on the family line? Will they be able to find happiness for themselves?
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My Wife Comes from the Mountains 媳妇来自大山里
One day, the village chief brought two visitors to Lanxiang's home. They were Director Li, who had come from the city, and his son, Li Mu. From that day on, Lanxiang was responsible for taking Li Mu to and from school. Having grown up in the city, Li Mu struggled to adjust to life here, but Lanxiang's kindness and warmth gradually won him over. Time flew by, and more than two years passed in the blink of an eye. Director Li successfully completed his poverty alleviation work and was about to ret
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Loner 孤独者
The first draft of the novel "Traces of Life" narrates a series of incidents, conflicts and battles that occurred during the Republic of China in Lixi, a closed, isolated, poor and backward small mountain village with a history of dozens or hundreds of years in a southwest province. Zhong Wu is a student at a national middle school in the provincial capital. His family was poor since he was a child, and he has determined to study hard to change his destiny. By chance, he participated in a studen
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Li Wenge's Promotion (Four Volumes) 李文戈升官记(全四册)
This is one of renowned author Sun Hao’s best-known works. It is both a guide to advancement for university graduates from humble backgrounds and an essential handbook of wisdom for anyone starting out in the workplace! Li Wenge, a teacher-training college graduate from a poor family with no connections, joins the municipal personnel bureau through a chance opportunity. The other graduate who joins the bureau alongside him, Chai Fu, is the son of a wealthy businessman whose family assets amount
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Tiger's Roar 虎狂啸
During the Republic of China era, Sichuan was torn apart by warring warlords, and the situation was in turmoil. In Nanjiang County, at the southern foot of the Bashan Mountains, the local tyrant Nan held absolute power, oppressing men, abusing women, and committing every imaginable crime. The bandit Xiong Baopi burned, murdered, raped, pillaged, and kidnapped, his crimes heinous. The corrupt and impotent authorities left the people in dire straits. One night, disaster struck the home of wealthy
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Jade Cong 玉琮
The novel Jade Cong, written by Shen Jing, chairman of the Shangcheng County Federation of Literary and Art Circles, has been officially published by Changjiang Publishing Group. Through the extraordinary life of its protagonist, Huang An, and two captivating love stories, the novel tells of the joys and sorrows migrant workers face when moving to the city to start businesses after the reform and opening up, as well as the moving story of those who give back to their hometowns after becoming pr
319Reads9.5Score100Shelves
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Third Sister 三妹
By describing the work and life of "Third Sister", especially the decisions she made on several important life choices, the novel portrays the image of a traditional Chinese woman who has devoted almost everything to her family and family.
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Northeast Stories 东北往事
The 1960s: real life, raw human nature. The ordinary joys and sorrows of life, separations and reunions, and the changes of an era: this work is about them, about you, and about me. This is documentary literature without artistic embellishment. Its greatest strength is its authenticity. Spanning from the late 1950s to the present day after the Reform and Opening-Up, it depicts the tremendous changes in Chinese society and the ups and downs of ordinary people’s lives from multiple angles, perspec
203Reads5.8Score—Shelves
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Love on the Border 边境之恋
The third book in the Missing series Borderland Romance tells the story of a group of young people near the Sino-Russian border in Northeast China in the late 1980s. Their love stories span from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, capturing the distinctive local way of life and the spirit of the era, as well as relationships shaped by an isolated environment and the feuds and conflicts between families.
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White Paper, Sunlight 白纸阳光
Sunshine City, a newly built suburb of Dongfang City, is a massive affordable-housing community combining resettlement homes and subsidized housing for redevelopment projects across several old urban districts. Tens of thousands of people from all walks of life have rapidly moved in... With a large rental population, old rural customs, aging alleyways, and regional differences, the community service team faces a wide range of daunting challenges. The shortage of resources caused by lagging publi
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My Career in Labor Camp 我的劳教生涯
"My Distant Time in the Labor Camp" takes time as the axis and depicts several images of the labor camp policemen Xiao Bin, Piao Luo, and Master Lu, as well as the labor camp inmates Hu Jiatang, Liu Xiaolin, Mei Hui, and others. The main story focuses on the work and life experience of the young policeman Xiao Bin for a year. The author's stance is from a humanitarian standpoint and from a standpoint that promotes the "six-character policy" of "education, reformation, and rescue" of labor educat
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The Story of the Bamboo Grove 竹林的故事
The Story of the Bamboo Grove is one of Fei Ming’s representative early works. During this period, Fei Ming’s novels generally kept their distance from reality and social issues, and it is almost impossible to find in them any sorrow or protest from the author about real life. The Story of the Bamboo Grove is a collection of Fei Ming’s short stories, including Window, The Particular Envelope, Pomelo, The Disappearance of Young Ruan Ren, The Patient, The Washerwoman, Half a Year, My Neighbor, Fi
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Ren Funi's Long Years 任福妮的悠长岁月
Ren Funi is a cheerful young girl from the countryside. She has a playmate named Huan'er, but Huan'er is taken away to be married, and Ren Funi's own fate changes after that. She has to work, marry, and bear children, living with her wooden husband and sharp-tongued mother-in-law. What does her long life have to say? The writing is delicate and the emotions sincere. A story well worth reading.
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Life and Death 生与死
The story follows several main characters, including Liu Lisi, from their days as medical students through their journeys to becoming the best doctors. It depicts how doctors have different attitudes toward their patients. Some have a solid grasp of theory and strong ethics, doing everything they can to help their patients. Others are ignorant and corrupt, cheating and deceiving people to profit from practicing medicine. The story also portrays how patients have differing attitudes toward doctor
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The Princess's Daughter 公主的女儿
The Princess’s Daughter won first prize in the Second National Minority Literature Awards and first prize in China’s inaugural Manchu Literature Awards. This is a Beijing-style novel by Zhao Danian, a male screenwriter, novelist, and professional writer. He has served as a council member and vice chairman of the Beijing Writers Association, as well as director of its Film and Television Writing Committee. He is a member of the China Writers Association and the China Film Artists Association, and
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Song Ci Solves Injustice: The Silent Bones 宋慈洗冤:尸骨无言
In the seventh year of the Chunyou era of the Southern Song, Song Ci wrote The Washing Away of Wrongs. The world knows that the book records methods for examining corpses and solving cases. Few, however, know how many deaths beyond words Song Ci had personally encountered before writing its pages of case records and articles of law. He had seen charred bones left by raging fires, and nameless bodies that had lain at the bottom of rivers for years. He had seen truths buried by the powerful, and p
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Changbai Mountain 长白山
This is the story of an ordinary life on the black soil of Northeast China, a vivid portrait of the people who journeyed to the Northeast and made their homes in the forests of the Changbai Mountains. Spanning more than half a century, the hardships of life and the struggles of daily existence come together in an immortal hymn to life!
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The Girls’ Dormitory 女生寝室
If you’re a fan of ghost stories, this book is the perfect chance to experience psychological terror. The story takes place in a girls’ dormitory at a school, a chilling place that will fill you with dread. The plot twists and turns, with one mystery following close on the heels of another. You’re sure to be captivated by this gripping story. Do ghosts really exist in this world? Why are girls’ dormitories such frequent sites of hauntings? The most terrifying campus ghost story of 2006: the biza
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The End of the Road 穷途
None of us can choose where we are born, what we encounter, or what we go through, nor can we control all our flaws. But we can choose what we do. The romantic novel A Dead End is beloved by readers everywhere. With its excellent writing and gripping, unpredictable plot, A Dead End has deeply moved every reader who has picked it up.
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Stringless 无弦
A work on par with To Live, guaranteed to bring tears to your eyes. It tells of an individual’s turbulent fate amid the upheavals of a great era, revealing both the brilliance and the ugliness of human nature, and exploring the roots of the decline of modern history.
14Reads9.3Score—Shelves
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The Age of Passion 激情年代
Through a vivid and moving story, this work portrays the sent-down youth movement and the decades-long lives of the educated youth who took part in it. The story follows its protagonists through more than ten years of hardship and suffering, until they return to the city to attend university, only to devote themselves wholeheartedly once more to the rural lands where they had originally been sent down. After more than twenty years of painstaking effort and entrepreneurial struggle, they transfor
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The Peach Blossoms Fade with the Wind 人面桃花随风去
By the shores of Changhu Lake in Jingzhou, Hubei, there is a village called Daokouwan. An outsider named Peng Laoyao came through the turmoil of the 1940s with his wife and children. He fathered nine children in his lifetime, but only four daughters survived. Like the peach tree behind their house, they were simple and resilient, weathering rain and snow. Danshui Qianchang’s latest magnum opus, the must-read fantasy novel of 2019.
9Reads9.2Score—Shelves
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Chronicles of the Eight Sufferings Temple 八苦寺志
[Legendary Tale + No Romance + Martial World + Folk Tales] South of Qingyuan Town stands a towering mountain called Cuiluan. At its foot sits a temple known as Eight Sorrows, which has stood for more than a century. Three monks live in Eight Sorrows Temple: the abbot, Dharma name Yindeng; the senior monk Qimang; and the young monk Fugui. Qimang is a reclusive eminent monk who undergoes a tribulation every sixty-six years. When it comes, his seven orifices cease to function, his five senses grow
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Tomorrow 明天
Set in the Chinese countryside and its schools around the year 2000, this novel follows the events surrounding its sixteen-year-old protagonist, Lu Sang. It portrays the lives of women, elderly people, and children left behind in rural communities, and tells the coming-of-age story of a group of rebellious rural high school students. Through Lu Sang's growth, the novel depicts the changes in northeastern Sichuan's countryside since the start of reform and opening up, especially since the 18th N
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With Love 凭着爱
This is a more realistic version of the theme of marriage and love. It describes some of the life events that occur in the lives of men and women when they choose a partner. The views on marriage, economics, and consumption are different. The heroine Qin Ying makes the choices she faces at different times against men who have experienced three different versions. In the novel, there is a male character Deng Cheng who uses actions to pursue love, and a character Cheng Mo who pursues love with swe
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Tales of the Strange in Africa 非洲异闻录
After graduating in 2014, Zhou Yike, a young Chinese woman, went to Africa to work as an insurance investigator, spending every day with a group of “dangerous people.” Among them were local Maasai, who could fight lions with their bare hands and were so feared that even prides gave them a wide berth, as well as Somali pirates whose predecessors had even been featured in Time magazine. Her experiences were one long African adventure. These stories may completely overturn what you think you know a
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Peach Blossom Spring 桃花源记
Peach Blossom Spring is the hometown of singing, dancing and drama. The people of Peach Blossom Spring lead a poor and indifferent life. If there is anything in life that can arouse the excitement and excitement of the people in Peach Blossom Spring, it is when the commune's film screening team comes to show movies in Peach Blossom Spring. People in Peach Blossom Spring love to watch movies. Watching movies can give people in Peach Blossom Spring a brief moment of relaxation and escape from thei
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A Survival Story of Space Labor 太空打工求生记
A washed-up elite is forced to head into space to look for work. Who would have thought that even after leaving Earth, she'd still have to make an early-morning meeting? Twenty-seven-year-old Tong Yunkai was an engineer at a major tech company, specializing in machine instructions. But after bravely exposing workplace sexual harassment, the company’s algorithm labeled her a threat to its image, and she was fired. The labor dispute caused her job prospects in the big data rankings to keep plummet
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Beating Heart 怦然心动
My parents were successful people in the business world and had many envious competitors, and I was reluctantly involved. Faced with the trouble caused by teachers and principals, defecting to grandpa became the only choice. A phone call from a mysterious person allowed me to enter the best high school in the province. But the relationship here is not as simple as in an ordinary high school. When he is upset, bad news comes one after another. Zeng Xiaoyu falls from the building and Lin Zhiwei ev
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Years Like a Song (Three-Volume Set) 岁月如歌 (三册)
Years Like a Song is a modern, full-length novel told in chapters, comprising one hundred chapters and over a million words. The author pours an abundance of emotion into the work, using delicate prose and beautiful language to paint a vivid, realistic picture of life. With time as its axis and the principle of letting the story unfold naturally, the novel reflects the social changes and development of the twenty years from 1997 to 2017. Years Like a Song centers on the different stages in the l
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My Great River 我的大江大河
An inspirational story about a young man with a physical disability and an indomitable spirit. Despite having only a middle school diploma, he skipped high school and college and earned admission to a graduate program at a top university. Though he was an unqualified barber on Earth, he entered a provincial government office and rose from deputy section chief to a department-level position.
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The Luan River Family 滦河人家
The River Luan Homestead unfolds along two storylines. The main one follows the rise and fall of the Song family across three generations, from the fortunes and hardships of protagonist Song Donglai to those of his children and grandchildren. The secondary storyline portrays the everyday lives and fortunes of the families in the main courtyard and the second courtyard, painting a vivid picture of life and emotion steeped in the distinctive character of eastern Hebei. The story of protagonist Son
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The Second Organization Department 第二组织部
Li Gensheng is an old hunter from Wild Wolf Village. He meets Jin Guolu, the leader of a work team sent from the city, and the two men and their families form a deep friendship. After Li Gensheng's son, Li Jiarui, enters politics, he goes on to serve as... As a leading official, Li Jiarui abandons his ideals and convictions, disregards the law, and obstructs an organizational investigation. His actions seriously violate national laws and regulations, amount to misconduct in office, and are suspe
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Memory Repair House 记忆修理屋
Each of us is a prisoner of memory. A memory repair shop opened in a bustling downtown area. This shop does not repair things, but repairs memories. The purpose of making a wish when opening the store was to help those who are struggling and hesitant and have desires, hoping to help them start a different life. There is not much promotion in the store, but just waiting for the right person. There are two clerks, one is Zhuang Qiang who can repair memory, and the other is Wang Ye who has hyperamn
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A Stormy Life 风雨人生
The novel describes the life course of Cao Zhili, his son Cao Zhongshi and their family from the 1960s to the early 21st century. As the branch secretary of the Quanshui Brigade, Cao Zhili offended some people because of his upright personality, serious work, and disdain for unreasonable phenomena. He was criticized during the Cultural Revolution, was dismissed from his post twice, and was reinstated twice. Finally, in the early days of reform and opening up, Cao Zhili resigned voluntarily becau
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The Tide Swallows the White Sand 海潮吞噬白沙
Do people see what they witnessed in life when they’re about to die? She seems to be dying. Her eyes hurt, her nasal passages hurt, her chest hurts, and the back of her head is burning. Her body is being dragged down, pulled downward, held fast beneath an unbearable weight. Salty, bitter water pours into her nose, mouth, and ears, slowly corroding her body and consuming her flesh. It hurts just as much as it did when she was alive. Danger, it turns out, was always so close, leaving her no way
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How to Become a Writer 作家是怎样练成的
Lin Lu was born into a farming family. Influenced by his father, he began reading a great deal of literature, which inspired him to write novels and set his heart on becoming a writer. But for someone who had only completed five and a half years of primary school, becoming a writer seemed like an absurd fantasy, and he suffered repeated failures along the way. At twenty-five, he became the political team leader of a production brigade, leading the farmers of Gushu Village in their battles agains
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After Mr. Mo Xuyou Took a Plane 莫须有先生坐飞机以后
After Mr. Mo Xuyou Took a Plane is Fei Ming’s last novel. It has a quality of “returning to simplicity,” recalling the author’s life in his hometown during the years before the war, when he sought refuge there, and expressing the truths he came to understand. In “Mr. Mo Xuyou Sets to Writing,” Fei Ming explains why he wrote Treatise on Alaya Consciousness, while also shedding light on the purpose behind After Mr. Mo Xuyou Took a Plane: “Mr. Mo Xuyou is truly like a religious believer at prayer,
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A Dragon and a Snake Enter the Mortal World 入世龙蛇
Plum blossoms bloom by the thousand; blades and spears surround from every side. A golden dragon rises into the sky as blue clouds descend. A hero’s heart turns in righteous fury; the champions of the jianghu know me. Years pass in the blink of an eye; who can say who holds the reins? A flash of cold light, and blood-red mist rises. Sword in hand, I laugh atop the peaks of beauty, with tiny lotus leaves filling my gaze. Entering the World as Dragon and Snake is the first book in the Jianghu tril
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