JJWXC catalogue
Books by 蝉衣草
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- 18
From the JJWXC books we index, matched on the author's name.
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Silhouette 背影
The life of a woman who fights tooth and nail for her fate cannot be summed up by calling it a series of twists and turns. Open her story and read it. Follow my pen and savor it slowly. You are sure to come away with something... Theme: Slowly telling the story of an ordinary woman whose life is full of hardship. Life has its ripples and hidden currents, but that is simply how life is. We must face it bravely to have hope of moving forward.
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The Ugly Girl's Search for a Husband 丑女相男
A tough girl born with a somewhat ugly appearance happens to have a heart as bright as sunshine. An ugly girl is destined for an unconventional life, but will fate make up for the misfortune she was born with? Or will it only heap more trouble onto an already difficult life? Open the story and read on... Theme:
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A Chance Encounter 邂逅
A brief trip back home for a funeral led to an unexpected twist of fate. There were gains and sorrows, bitterness and helplessness. Please follow my words and experience it, one step at a time. Theme: Love in extraordinary times is delicate. There are regrets, but also bittersweet gains!
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Love Like Sand Through Your Fingers 爱若指间沙
She meets a handsome foreigner in Beijing. Swept up in an impulsive romance, she quits her job as a doctor at a Beijing hospital and travels alone to Germany. Will life reward her with a happy ending, or will it cruelly abandon her and destroy her faith in her future and destiny? Theme:
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The Woman in a Doomed Romance 孽缘中的女人
A true story of the love and hate between a lame man and a flirtatious woman, set in a rural village on the North China Plain.
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Because You Stepped into My Frame 因为你闯进了我的镜头
A chance encounter on a winding journey, a love that came too late, yet brought the last tenderness of a lifetime. Theme:
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White Datura 白花曼陀罗
A severely over-the-hill Beijing spinster marries a wealthy old man abroad. She wrestles with her greedy desires, torn between money and her lover, while terrifying horrors follow close behind...
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You Are the One I Wait for in This Life 你是我今生的等待
This story continues the novel Love Like Sand Between the Fingers. After her divorce, the doctor Xu Wen returns from Germany to her home in Beijing with a newborn baby. What stories will unfold in her life in Beijing? Theme:
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The Right Person 正确的人
Hans spent his whole life longing for the love he was denied as a child. When someone finally gave him love, he trained that love into obedience. That cuts deeper than calling him a "bad person." Because Hans's greatest tragedy is this: He doesn't love pain. He doesn't love fighting. He can't even bear to be without Anna. But he has grown used to understanding love as control. Dependence as possession. Fear as anger. So whenever happiness appears, he destroys it with his own hands. Because happi
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The Mountains, Rivers, and You 山河与卿
It was the spring of 1924, and Changsha was soaked in endless rain. At twenty-four, Lu Yanchuan came from a poor family. His father had died early, leaving behind a large family of younger siblings. He was intelligent and quiet, with a scholar's clear-eyed awareness and the stubbornness of someone forced to bow to life's demands. After one job rejection after another, he had thought he would spend his whole life caught between poverty and responsibility. At twenty-five, Zhou Jingyi met him in a
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North of Hamburg 汉堡以北
North of Hamburg is a contemporary literary novel about the distance between mother and daughter, a fractured identity, and shattered ideals. The story follows a reserved mother from China and her mixed-race daughter, who grew up in Europe. The daughter lives in northern Hamburg, a "white zone" symbolizing emotional coldness, political correctness, and abstract goodwill. She builds her family around her ideals: vegetarianism, environmentalism, and moral education. But as reality begins to crack,
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The Last Spring 最后一个春天
Before retiring, Cheng Yuanshan was a high school physics teacher. After forty years of marriage, his wife, Zhang Jie, had become an inseparable part of his life. After she died of illness, he lived alone, slowly learning to live with loss through long, quiet days. Song Chunlan is a caregiver, six or seven years younger than Cheng Yuanshan. She has neither an impressive education nor a comfortable retirement, but she possesses the plain, practical intelligence, consideration, and good sense of
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The Sound of Time (Volume One) 岁月有声（第一卷）
Xu Qinglan and Lin Ruishan meet in their twenties, in the best years of their lives. One is steady and restrained; the other bright and passionate. They go from lovers to spouses, then, during the pandemic, welcome the twins they've been waiting for. Scrambling for masks, lockdowns in their neighborhood, video calls across oceans, a faint cough in the middle of the night... These small, vivid moments once made them believe that as long as they loved each other, there was no hard time they couldn
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Volume Two: The Northern Wind Rises 卷二：北风起
The north wind rises, its howling grows fierce. The embers in Jiangnan have yet to cool, while undercurrents are already stirring in Beiping. Shen Zhiguang rescued Shen Huaiyi in Jiangnan, only to become entangled in a deeper game of chess. The old Shen family case was not over. The true mastermind, "that person," had finally emerged in the north. Secret files, memories, betrayal, and death all pointed to the same name: Shen Huaijue. The truth about his father's death had been buried layer upon
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In the Wind's Whisper 风声里
In Beiping in 1936, the winds carried danger, and the snow fell heavy. The people of the city kept their heads bowed beneath the weight of it all. An old case buried for more than a decade, the Jiang Shoucheng treason case, began to stir quietly on a winter night. Newspaper editor Shen Yanqiu received an anonymous letter containing nothing but a string of top-secret numbers. It was like someone striking a match in the darkness, forcing him to look deeper. Soldier Lu Chengyu heard a suppressed or
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The Qihua Terrace 绮花台
The lights of Qihuatai shine late into the night, like a dream from which no one can wake. Xue Qihua stands in the light, his face a theatrical masterpiece, his heart as sharp as a blade. He is the most dazzling dan-role actor in a chaotic age, and its most dangerous bargaining chip. Some want to elevate him, some want to destroy him, but he himself has never truly known freedom. Gu Zhixing first saw him beneath the dim lights backstage. Xue Qihua had removed his makeup, his cool elegance like a
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Raindrops on the Blue-Stone Alley 雨滴青石巷
One accident sent Wang Jingshu from a bright, proud life plunging to rock bottom. With her body left impaired and her old love gone, she shut herself away in a world no one could reach, no longer daring to hope for a future. Lin Ziheng insisted on entering that world. He saw her at her lowest, her stubbornness, and the wounds she refused to let heal, yet he still chose to stay. Step by step, he helped her learn to stand again and trust in life once more. Meanwhile, Shen Zhixing thought he had al
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Encounter - Extra Chapter 邂逅 — 番外篇
Cindy returns from overseas because of her father's illness and the person she loves, and her love for Yuchen continues. But after this older-woman-younger-man couple gets married, some unexpected things happen in their lives. What trials will their love have to weather? Theme: The twists and turns of an older-woman-younger-man romance
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