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- 51 [Southern Archives] From the Start, I Run Into a Zongzi? 【南部档案】开局就遇上粽子？ (I’m terrible at writing blurbs, my prose is amateurish, my imagination runs wild, and I’ve made up a mountain of details. I just write whatever comes to mind.) Leng Youling transmigrated. Well, all right. Since I’m here, I’ll make the best of it. Nothing is impossible to get through. And if it is, just sleep on it. It’ll pass eventually. Yanzai: Youling, you haven’t finished today’s tasks. No lying down. A Ling: I don’t care. Auntie isn’t here, so I’m lying down. Xiazai: Youling, your godmother 412Reads—Score119Shelves
- 52 Old Dreams of the South Seas: Salt and Shrimp, Together in Death 南洋旧梦之盐虾同归 In a little house, I listen to the spring rain through the night. How many young swordsmen wander in Xianyang? Alone in the cold night, I drift through the world. I gaze to the ends of the earth, longing for the swordsman’s return. When will the east wind return to the little house? When will it bring the wandering swordsman home? Listening to the wind and watching the rain, I find comfort in life. The swordsman’s home is where his heart belongs. This is a modern AU fanfic of The Southern Archiv 17Reads—Score100Shelves
- 53 Southern Archives: My Road to Redemption 南部档案之我的救赎之路 Zhang Huaiyu looked at Zhang Haixia and Zhang Haiyan standing before him. They didn’t know him. But he knew them. He had known them for many years. Zhang Haixia, his chest pierced through, blood staining the stone steps of the Southern Archives. Zhang Haiyan, his spine broken, his eyes as hollow as a dried-up well. He had transmigrated into a book and returned for one reason: to change this ending. The System had given him pain suppression. He took blows meant for them, endured the traps, and bo 573Reads—Score122Shelves
- 54 Southern Archives: Death Is Only the Beginning of Love 南部档案：死亡只是相爱的开始 [A Southern Archives fanfic + Two powerful leads + Reborn + Short arcs + Happy ending] Zhang Haixia & Zhang Hailou Apologies for the out-of-character writing! Apologies for the out-of-character writing!! Apologies for the out-of-character writing!!! Zhang Hailou: “Xiazi, it’s not worth it…” Zhang Haixia: “Even as a ghost, you’re not getting away from me.” 116Reads—Score117Shelves
- 55 Haiyan Is Reborn and Gets Together with Xiazi 海盐重生，和虾仔在一起了。 Salt was reborn and got together with Shrimp. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Shrimp Sent with Sea Salt, Returning Home Year After Year (Southern Files Fanfiction) 海盐寄虾，岁岁归栖（南部档案同人） Sea Salt for the Shrimp, Home to Roost Year After Year (A Southern Archives Fanfic) 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 Southern Files: Zhang Hailou and Zhang Haixia Fight Side by Side 南部档案:张海楼和张海虾并肩作战 Southern Archives: Zhang Hailou and Zhang Haixia Fight Side by Side 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Southern Files: Embers of the Withered Sea 南部档案枯海余烬 Southern Archives: Embers of the Withered Sea 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 Southern Files: Find the Little Brother and Save Zhang Haiqi 南部档案:找到小哥，张海琪得救 Southern Archives: Finding Xiao Ge Saves Zhang Haiqi 43Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 Southern Files: The Heartbound Pact 南部档案：同心契 Updated daily at midnight. A tragic romance with a happy ending. My next novel will be either a campus story or an infinite-flow adventure. I enjoy terrible puns and love reading your comments. Wishing all my readers happiness every day. Killing the one you love with your own hands is a calamity the Zhang twins cannot escape. Zhang Hailou drove a short blade into Zhang Haixia’s heart with his own hands, after ancient Qiang sorcery had completely corrupted him and turned him evil. From then on, 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 Southern Archives: Hailou and Haixia After Being Reborn 南部档案馆之重生后海楼与海侠 [Archive of the Strange fanfic + Salt-Baked Shrimp + Two Male Leads + HE] Zhang Hailou × Zhang Haixia pairing, with their character backgrounds reimagined. I cried so hard that I had to write something sweet to comfort myself. Obsession and redemption. I stole you from the hands of Death. No one gets to take you away again, not even you yourself., Zhang Hailou Given another chance at life, I'll love you under a different identity. No one can keep us apart, not even you., Zhang Haixia 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Archives of the South: Xia Zai, We're a Perfect Match! Top-Tier! Made for Each Other! 南部档案：虾仔，我们绝配！顶配！天仙配！ Southern Archives: Xia Zai, we’re a perfect match! The ultimate pairing! A match made in heaven! 64Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 The Nanyang Cat Pact 南洋猫契 [Southern Archives] Original female protagonist & Zhang Haixia & Zhang Hailou. OOC warning. Modern girl Lin Beiyu is gifted a mysterious necklace for her kindness. During a blood-red full moon, she transmigrates to Nanyang in Southern Archives and turns into a white cat with blue-green heterochromatic eyes. Trapped in a cat’s body, she can briefly return to human form when her mind or will grows scattered. The fate of the world in the book is already set. To change the tragedies that befall Zhan 102Reads—Score201Shelves
- 64 Southern Archives: After Awakening the System, I'm in a Love Polygon Every Day 南部档案：觉醒系统后天天修罗场 [System] [Love triangle] [Righting past wrongs] [Flirtatious push and pull] Based on the TV adaptation. Apologies for the out-of-character moments; this story includes many personal interpretations. After staying up all night to finish the finale of The South Archives, Lin Chuyi cries her eyes out, gets electrocuted, and transmigrates. She becomes the third orphan adopted by Zhang Haiqi, and the childhood friend and junior sister of Haiyan and Haixia! Looking at the young Zhang Hailou, who has y 41Reads—Score115Shelves
- 65 Hai Lou’s Rebirth 海楼重生记 Lou Xia (The author is totally obsessed with this couple and wants to try writing out the story I've imagined. This is my first time writing, just for fun, so please don't flame me if it's not your thing.) When Zhang Hailou is reborn during the investigation into the Panhua Haijiao case, what will he do, knowing everything that's going to happen? 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 Southern Files: Shrimp Boy Is Mine 南部档案之虾仔是我的 So the clan leader is my brother! After Zhang Haixia fakes his death, Zhang Qiling arrives and is reunited with his aunt and nephew, Zhang Haiqi. Later on, Xia Zai won't turn evil, and he and Hailou will retrace their steps through Bailuo Jing, finding love and staying together! The family of three will head to Changbai Mountain and take Xiaoge back to Xiamen! (Zhang Hailou, may you get the family, lover, and clan you long for this time. I hope you have a happy, long life, you calamity-bringer! 1.3kReads—Score113Shelves
- 67 Southern Files: Reborn, Why Would Anyone Want This Psycho Junior Brother? 南部档案：重生谁还要这疯批师弟 [Reborn] [Two Male Leads] [Sweet Romance] [Twin Qilins] [Southern Archives] "Don't be afraid, Zhang Haixia. Let's go home." He sobbed as he drove the knife into Zhang Haiyan's heart. Zhang Haixia was reborn in the year of the Great Famine, when he was ten years old. In his previous life, he had a junior brother named Zhang Haiyan, and in the end, the two became enemies and turned on each other. In this life, he found Zhang Haiyan before their master could. He gave him money and a boat ticket, th 37Reads—Score142Shelves
- 68 Salt Shrimp: Twin Bonds 盐虾：双生结 "Meeting you was both a knot and a calamity. Across two lives and two worlds, we have been entangled with each other without end." The basic idea is that there are two parallel worlds. In one, Yan is the version from the drama. He lived for a hundred years, alone in a world without Xia. In the other, Yan died for love aboard the Nan'an and was reborn ten years earlier, before anything had happened. If the Yan who died for love received all the memories of the Yan who lived for a hundred years, 442Reads—Score104Shelves
- 69 Though Crossing Brings No Suffering [Lou Xia] 但渡无所苦【楼侠】 (A sweet, slice-of-life story, truly very everyday and laid-back. Every chapter has a happy ending, so jump in without worry.) A century ago, to protect Zhang Haixia, he sealed him inside a blind tomb with the worm inside him. From that day on, Zhang Haixia ceased to exist in the world, leaving only Zhang Hailou, who went by the alias "Little Zhang," to wait alone for a century amid the blood and chaos of Nanyang. A hundred years later, he came through the rain to Rain Village and asked the Iro 739Reads—Score108Shelves
- 70 Southern Archives: Xia Zai, This Time I'll Protect You 南部档案：虾仔，这次我来守护你 Completed · [Two Male Leads, A Mix of Sweetness and Angst, HE, 1v1, A flirtatious, seductive, possessive shrimp who loves to bait others × a salty, self-proclaimed straight man who gets hooked without realizing it] At the very end, a bolt of heavenly lightning sent Zhang Hailou and Zhang Haixia back to the eve of the Nan'an voyage, reborn. Zhang Haixia returned with all his memories from his previous life. As he watched Yan bouncing around every day, his eyes grew even more tender and affectiona 1.6kReads7.3Score224Shelves
- 71 Chronicles of Old Nanyang 南洋旧志 [Southern Archives, happy-ending version] Salt-Baked Shrimp. The story of Zhang Hailou returning to the beginning to save Zhang Haixia. Bodhisattvas fear causes; ordinary people fear consequences. I am no Bodhisattva who can stop everything from happening. I am only an ordinary man who refuses to let go and watch the person he loves leave. Defying fate comes at a price. Destiny cannot be changed, only transferred. The Evil God's ancestral court, the Panhua Sea Reef, the Nanan... Zhang Hailou us 2.2kReads8.9Score410Shelves
- 72 Southern Archives: The Gloomy Big Shrimp and His Sweet Little Wife 南部档案：阴郁大虾和他的小娇妻 Please note, this is a Xiake Tower story. [Brooding male ghost top × crazy, pampered wife bottom] [Xiake Tower × derivative fanfiction × seemingly innocent but secretly calculating × happy ending] Republican-era Nanyang, the southern branch of the archives. Zhang Haixia and Zhang Hailou were both orphans of the Hai generation, adopted as children by the curator, Zhang Haiqi. One was steady, refined, and exceptionally shrewd. The other was flamboyant, unhinged, and terrifyingly strong. Everyone c 2.3kReads8.4Score333Shelves
- 73 The Southern Archives: Time Can Turn Back 南部档案，岁月可回头 [Fan fiction + dual male leads] If you could turn back time, what would you choose? Make the same mistakes again... or... forge a new path… 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 Southern Archives: Shrimp Is So Tough, He Won't Die 南部档案：虾仔那么厉害才不会死 (The rating came out on July 31, 2026. It'll go up later, so enjoy it without worry~) [Salt-baked shrimp + reunion after three years + sweet romance + mutual doting + equally matched leads + lost and found again + possessive obsession + apologies for the author's headcanons] [Zhang Hailou × Zhang Haixia] It's Salted Shrimp~ [Devoted puppy Salt × flirtatious queen Shrimp] Sweet romance and a new detective plot, too. You won't regret getting invested~ Headcanon: Haixia still has a dual personality 1.2kReads8.8Score116Shelves
- 75 Southern Archives: The Return of the Dark and Fair Moonlights 南部档案：黑白月光归来 Lou-Xia Couple + Sweet Romance + Childhood Sweethearts + Mystery Solving If a room erupts in a deafening racket, Zhang Hailou is grappling with Black Shrimp at close quarters... The outcome is anyone’s guess... If it’s quiet, White Shrimp has the upper hand, and Zhang Hailou has gotten his way again. Zhang Haixia is resurrected but loses his memory. Zhang Hailou grins wickedly: “You’re my wife. Call me hubby.” Zhang Haixia: “I lost my memory, not my intelligence.” Zhang Hailou: “I’m doomed. I ha 364Reads—Score100Shelves
- 76 Southern Archives: Forced into Love by Black Shrimp and White Shrimp 南部档案：被黑虾白虾强制爱了 Dual male leads + mind-reading + split personality + Xia-Yan HE. In the miasma-ridden Nanyang of the Republican era, Zhang Hailou of the Zhang family's Southern Archives accidentally inhales a mutagenic toxin while breaking into the Evil God's ancestral temple. When he wakes, he discovers that whenever he makes physical contact with Zhang Haixia, he can hear his thoughts. He means to pry into the secrets of Zhang Haixia, the “greatest mind in Nanyang,” but one touch exposes a shocking secret: [H 1.6kReads8.2Score247Shelves
- 77 Southern Archives: Salt and Shrimp, a Lifetime Together 南部档案【盐与虾，此生长】 The thing Zhang Haiyan regrets most in his life is letting go of Zhang Haixia’s hand in the thick fog of Pan Hua Sea Reef. He regrets being so reckless in his youth that he insisted on investigating the Pan Hua Sea Reef case. He regrets letting his big mouth expose the entire Southern Archives, and most of all, he regrets watching Zhang Haixia take several knife wounds and collapse in a pool of blood aboard the Nan’an. After Zhang Haixia died, Zhang Haiyan became a true member of the Zhang famil 690Reads—Score119Shelves
- 78 Southern Archives: Qilin Returns to the Soul, and Xia Zai Loves Hailou Most 南部档案：麒麟归魂虾仔独爱海楼 ⌠Bottom protagonist + all pairings + The Grave Robbers' Chronicles fanwork + Southern Archives + reborn and redemption + absurd comedy + main pairings: Black Shrimp/White Shrimp/Hailou + secondary pairing: Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling⌡ (A Sea Salt pairing might be added, too.) Middle-aged Zhang Hailou was reborn. When he opened his eyes, he discovered: One: Zhang Haixia was still alive. Wonderful. Two: His younger self hadn't disappeared. Not good. Three: The soul of Zhang Haixia, who had been with h 511Reads—Score103Shelves
- 79 Southern Archives: Reincarnated as a Beautiful Mermaid, I Was Kept in Captivity 南部档案：穿成漂亮人鱼被圈养了 [A Southern Archives story that makes up for past regrets, 1v1, happy ending, OOC warning, original setting details, Zhang Haixia x Ning Wei, not a strong female lead, not a wish-fulfillment story, defying fate] The underworld is short on reincarnation slots. Ning Wei can only qualify for priority reincarnation by completing a transmigration mission. By mistake, she transmigrates at random into the unknown world of Southern Archives, and becomes the last mermaid in the South Seas! Ning Wei flick 7.4kReads8.4Score1.5kShelves
- 80 The Tower Hero 楼侠 [Southern Archives + Zhang Hailou + Zhang Haixia + Fanfiction + Two Male Leads] (The story may be revised at any time, and sometimes an entire chapter will change, so I don't recommend waiting for a backlog to build up. ۶•͈⚇•͈♡) This is a fanfiction pairing Zhang Hailou × Zhang Haixia from Southern Archives. It features some what-ifs and some childhood memories of the Salt-Baked Shrimp, based on details that were only briefly mentioned in the original novel. I've recently revised it, so it may d 128Reads—Score102Shelves
- 81 Tomb Raiding: The Whole Team Transmigrates into Southern Archives 盗墓：全员穿进南部档案 [Wu Xie vs. Zhang Qiling, Zhang Haiyan vs. Zhang Haixia, Hei Xiazi vs. Xie Yuchen] The best years of Wu Xie's life were spent in Yucun. He felt his life had been worthwhile, and that it would be nice to spend his final moments there... When he opened his eyes again, a little girl wrapped her arms around his leg, clinging to him and calling him Daddy. What a horrifying sight. He was still so young. How could he have a child that big? He decided to ditch the little tyke and run for it, but where w 58Reads—Score132Shelves
- 82 Zhang Haixia’s Secret Love Diary 张海侠的暗恋日记 Zhang Haixia's Secret Crush Diary 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 Zhang Haixia’s Secret Love Diary 2 张海侠的暗恋日记2 Zhang Haixia's Secret Crush Diary 2 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 Southern Archives: Reborn, I Made Xia Zai Feel So Good 南部档案：重生后虾仔被我亲爽了 [Salt-Baked Shrimp + reborn + pursuing his love + two equally strong leads + healing regrets + Shrimp's split personality (restrained and sharp-tongued by day, crazed and twisted by night)] [Some creative liberties + apologies for out-of-character moments + two couples in total] [Salt Shrimp gets plenty of romance; the plot moves slowly] Only after Shrimp died did Zhang Hailou realize how he felt. Reborn, with everything yet to happen, he swore to protect everyone at the Archives and make the wi 847Reads6.8Score119Shelves
- 85 Southern Archives: Sea Salt Reborn 南部档案之海盐重生 [Healing regrets + two equally powerful leads + Sentinel and Guide + mainly Xia Yan, with some Yan Xia too] The rating was just added, so it’ll gradually go up~ “Shrimp, I really can’t go on without a future that has you in it. This time, I still want to take three steps back…” If the most shattered sea salt could return to the happiest starting point, then perhaps they could have a different ending. 1.8kReads8.8Score297Shelves
- 86 Southern Archives: The White Moonlight Rescue Plan 南部档案：白月光拯救计划 [One woman, two men + redemption + adapted from the TV series + tomb-raiding mystery] (There will be OOC!) The east wind rose in the small tower overnight, and the wandering swordsman returned to his home in Xianyang. Zhang Hailou and Zhang Haixia had handled plenty of cases. The Evil God of Nanyang, the Salt Lake Murders, the Duskgrass Curse: they’d seen every kind of strange thing. But never anything like this. They met a girl who’d rather starve than give up begging. When they asked her name 1.6kReads6.8Score122Shelves
- 87 Southern Archives: The Salt Went Mad After Losing Its Shrimp Guide 南部档案：失去虾向导后的盐疯了 [Yan-Xia CP | Sentinel/Guide AU | Powerful leads find redemption together | Mystery-solving main plot | Rewriting the Nan’an’s ending | Happy ending] A raging fire aboard the Nan’an wiped out the strongest Sentinel-Guide pair in the south. Everyone said that Zhang Haixia, an S-rank Guide, had drowned, and that his Sentinel, Zhang Haiyan, had gone completely mad. His mental landscape was shattered, his senses overloaded. He snapped at everyone and became the mad Sentinel no one at the archives da 425Reads—Score108Shelves
- 88 Southern Archives: After the Nanyang Moonlight Came Back from the Dead 南部档案：南洋白月光死而复生后 [Salt-Baked Shrimp + Rebirth + White Moonlight + Revenge + Feel-Good Read] [All regrets have been resolved, so read with peace of mind] What does it feel like to get back what you lost? No one knows better than he does. The person who meant more to him than family was ensnared in layer upon layer of traps, and he took everyone aboard the ship down with him in a sacrifice for that person. He didn’t care whether the moonlight shone on him. The moon belonged high in the sky. Whoever destroyed his m 627Reads7.7Score100Shelves
- 89 Southern Archives: It Could Only Be You 南部档案：只会是你 [Southern Archives fanfiction: both are reborn + devoted to each other + equally powerful + dote on each other] "Zhang Haixia & Zhang Hailou" Shrimp and Salt There are original elements, original elements, original elements. Apologies for any OOC. “Xiazi, I'm so grateful that heaven has given me another chance...” I posted the rating on July 15, 2026!!! I actually got a rating!!! 1.4kReads8.7Score171Shelves
- 90 Southern Archives: The Hidden Thread-and-Pearl Scheme Is Complete, Xia Zai Returns to a House Full of Fireworks 南部档案：暗线穿珠局完成·虾仔回归.满堂烟火 Southern Archives: The Hidden Pearl-Stringing Operation Is Complete, Xia Zai Returns to a House Full of Celebration 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Southern Archives: The Hands-in-Pockets Silhouette in the Archives Fooled Everyone 南部档案：档案馆那个插兜的背影，骗了所有人 Southern Archives: The Figure with Hands in His Pockets at the Archives Fooled Everyone 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 Southern Files: Zhang Haixia Won't Die Today 南部档案：张海侠不死于今日 Zhang Hailou returned from a hundred years in the future to before it all began. Zhang Haixia was still alive. Young, sharp, calm, and still quick to reach out before Zhang Hailou could get himself into trouble. Watching his younger self call him Xiazi as if it were the most natural thing in the world, Brother Zhang finally understood: Zhang Haixia’s death hadn’t begun with the final battle. It had begun with every “I’ll go,” every time he took care of things, every time he left an escape ro 1.1kReads8.1Score158Shelves
- 93 Archive 444 444号档案馆 “I listened to spring rain all night in a little tower. So many young swordsmen roam Xianyang...” Eighty years after Zhang Haixia’s death, Zhang Hailou accidentally wandered into a place called Convenience Store No. 444. There was a clerk whose eyes could see ghosts, and a mysterious, muttering underworld messenger. Ghosts? Could they see Xiazai, too? ... 161Reads—Score106Shelves
- 94 Southern Archives: Reborn at Xiamen Harbor, I Must Protect My Xia Zai (Part 1) 南部档案：重生回厦城码头，我要护住我的虾仔（上） Southern Archives: Reborn at the Xiamen City Wharf, I’ll Protect My Xia Zai (Part 1) 15Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Southern Archives: Reborn at Xiamen Harbor, I Must Protect My Xia Zai (Part 2) 南部档案：重生回厦城码头，我要护住我的虾仔（下） Southern Archives: Reborn at the Xiamen City Wharf, I’ll Protect My Xia Zai (Part 2) 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 Southern Archives: The East Wind Blows Through the Tower Again Tonight 南部档案：小楼今夜又东风 The entire novel is complete! You're warmly invited to read! A Zhang Haiyan fanfic set in The Southern Archives. Zhang Hailou / Yan X Nan Xi [Original female lead + bickering enemies + love grows over time + equally matched + healing + one-on-one romance] Nan Xi's first impression of Zhang Hailou: a cross-dressing, sharp-tongued jerk who never stopped running his mouth. Nan Xi's final introduction of Zhang Hailou: my sharp-tongued husband. 1.7kReads8.1Score216Shelves
- 97 Southern Archives: She's My Wife. Who Dares Lay a Hand on Her? 南部档案：我老婆，你们谁敢动！ In the third year of the Republic, warlord Mo Yun Gao of Nanyang began crazily seizing Duskgrass in his quest for immortality. The Zhang family's Southern Archives were plunged into crisis, and agents of the Hai generation suffered heavy casualties. Director Zhang Hai Qi poured her heart and soul into the archives, unaware that the “beloved” she had lost fifty years ago at an ancient god's altar deep underground was sitting in a teahouse on the streets of Xiacheng, sipping tea. Fifty years ago, 3.8kReads—Score298Shelves
- 98 Southern Archives: The Heroes of Xia Lou Must All Return Safely to Xiacheng! 南部档案：侠楼都要好好回厦城！ A fanwork based on the Southern Archives drama What if that explosion had been Zhang Hailou protecting Zhang Haixia? If this world is made up of different timelines, could there be one in which Zhang Hailou managed to protect Zhang Haixia? Zhang Haixia (Shrimp) × Zhang Hailou (Salt) A little tower hears spring rain all night; how many years has the Xianyang swordsman wandered? I'm sure you've also wondered what might have happened if the people caught in that explosion had been switched. This st 109Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 Southern Archives: Homecoming 南部档案:归巢 South Archives: Return to the Nest 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Southern Archives: Dreaming of Butterflies 南部档案:梦蝶 South Archives: Dreaming of Butterflies 13Reads—Score—Shelves
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