Tales of Luofu Dreams

Sina Weibo: @Dianzi Sanhuo. The author occasionally drops fan art they made themselves (?)

Zhuang Chenlan, who moonlights as an underworld guide, has just returned from a trip to the Netherworld when she hears that her childhood friend has died. But the deceased's mother is shouting in a psychiatric hospital that the killer was an ancestor from a century ago.

"How normal can a family be if they pick out a baby's grave the moment it's born?"

"Everything in the past was fake. You've all been deceived."

"She said every one of us would die."

A hide covered in unfamiliar writing, bone slips engraved with forbidden knowledge, a forum full of mysterious posts, strange spaces appearing with alarming frequency, a supernatural organization whose members are all wildly different...

As the fog lifts, a century-spanning tale of a family's fantastical history slowly unfolds.

Hatred, blasphemy, violence, murder... The members of this family are destined to be swept up in distortion and madness.

The fates of eight generations intertwine, past lives and present lives bound by cause and effect, old grudges and debts repaid, good and evil rewarded.

The past has never disappeared. It may never even have passed.

Fate has woven layer upon layer of webs over a century. No one can escape.

⊙ The focus is on the plot. There is no male lead in the traditional sense, and the pairings are all over the place. Enter at your own risk!

⊙ There are no absolute good people in the main cast! The heroine is imperfect! Everyone is a nutcase and a lunatic. The romance can be summed up as a group of fakes caught up in love and hate, with villains hurting one another.

⊙ Modern setting, with a touch of ensemble cast. The viewpoint sometimes shifts, but most of the story is still told from the heroine's perspective.

⊙ Everyone in the main cast has their own story. It may seem like a jumble, but they're all connected, so please be patient and give me the time it takes to read a book, okay?

⊙ Inspired by One Hundred Years of Solitude, Dream of the Red Chamber, and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, among others.

Theme: Creating meaning in the void and pursuing what the heart desires amid the tides of society