Novels like A Quartet of Childhood Friends in the Snow Country
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as A Quartet of Childhood Friends in the Snow Country, best match first.
- 1 Tokyo’s Legend of Deep Devotion 东京深情传说 After his soul enters a parallel-world Tokyo, he finds himself orphaned, with his family fallen into ruin and only thirty thousand yen in savings. There's a girl who claims to be his personal attendant, and even a fiancée who doesn't get along with him. All the usual elements are in place. Kitagawa Toru is sure he's got the standard protagonist's script. But things don't seem to be going the way he imagined. A month later, he seems to have hit a snag at the part where he breaks off the engag 0Votes9.7kRecs85.8kFans
- 2 After I Was Reborn, Why Are There More Childhood Friends? 重生后，青梅怎么更多了 At twenty-eight, Xu Qing'an returned to 2002, the year he was five, carrying a heart full of regrets. Heaven takes pity on tender grass; the world grows bright again after the long dusk. Given a second life, he only wanted to make amends for his past regrets one by one and achieve a perfect ending! But... “Brother Qing'an, we’ve been childhood friends since we were little!” “What, knowing each other since we were three doesn’t count as childhood friends?” “Sure, I’m eight years older than little 0Votes33.6kRecs53.8kFans
- 3 The Kyoto Divine Disappearance Love Story 京都神隐恋爱物语 The world beyond is a desolate, empty wasteland. Soya Yoshiaki wandered in by mistake and was lucky enough to escape, but those inhuman things keep trying to drag him back. Adrift in the human world, taken in by a high school girl, watched by a shrine maiden, and kept under close surveillance by his childhood friend, who is over a thousand years old... all he wants is to stay as far away as possible from the world ordinary people cannot see. And yet... [“Defying fate is also part of fate.”] Thin 0Votes38.9kRecs121.5kFans
- 4 Romance Begins on an Island 恋爱从海岛开始 The common explanation for frequent earthquakes in Niigata is that pressure between the eastern and western tectonic plates causes a “concentrated zone of crustal deformation.” Five years later, Jiang Yuanshen transferred from Tokyo and returned to Chidori Island, just across the sea from Niigata. A massive earthquake unlike any before it had devastated Chidori Island when he was a child. On an island surrounded by deep blue waters and white gulls, among the walking hina dolls, he gradually disc 0Votes7.8kRecs26.1kFans
- 5 A Blessing of Good Food for My Nun Sister 赐予修女姐姐美食的祝福 In a bleak monastery in the frozen far north of the world, the most beautiful flowers on earth are in bloom. Flowers need clear springs to nourish them, and beautiful women need delicious food to bless them. And the one who bestows that blessing isn’t a god, but... me. Young and beautiful nuns, a chef from another world, food that makes you stronger when you eat it, and battles that set your blood racing. After tracking down all kinds of precious ingredients and eating my fill, I’ll burn off the 0Votes7.3kRecs35.5kFans
- 6 Miss, Let Me Check That 姑娘，让我格一下 During the Taikang era, foreign tribes invaded. The Great Wall collapsed, and the empire's northern frontier fell. The realm was shattered, battered by wind and rain. Corpses of the starving littered the land; for a thousand miles, bodies lay strewn across the Central Plains, which had become a living hell. Fang Weihan woke up to find himself cast as a tragic prince in a web drama starring a female lead. His childhood sweetheart and fiancée was about to break off their engagement? His former sub 0Votes14.4kRecs134kFans
- 7 Coaching in Tokyo 东京执教 After his soul transmigrates to Tokyo, he inherits a body plagued by every ailment and an old apartment building, and becomes a cram-school teacher of Chinese. He’s not much of a teacher, but he’s great at coughing up blood; he hates taking medicine, yet swallows three hundred pills a day. His colleagues are mostly weirdos, and all his students are girls with problems: “Eat me before my expiration date passes.” “Stay away from me... but not too far.” “Now, Teacher and I are accomplices.” Anyway, 3Votes30.2kRecs131.7kFans
- 8 My Childhood Friend and Maid Trained Me into a Master of Romance 我被青梅女仆培养成恋爱大师 What happens when someone grows up without the basic things life requires, like good health, intelligence, or luck? Natsume Naoki’s first twenty years were bleak, until one day, a girl claiming to be a professional maid showed up at his door. “How should I explain our relationship to other people?” “Just say I’m your childhood friend.” Smart leads, everyday romance, plenty of sweetness and no angst. Guaranteed not to break your heart. Readers with diabetes, beware! P.S. The author has already c 0Votes31.4kRecs123.7kFans
- 9 Reborn: I Don't Want to Answer Multiple-Choice Questions 重生后我不要做选择题 Back to 2002, to the beginning of it all. The future moguls have yet to rise, and the restless years of youth are not yet over. Standing at the crossroads of history and memory, Gu Changjiu catches the wind and rises with the times, lost in thought. Should I choose the first love from my previous life, or the new love in this one? Or should I simply refuse to choose? 0Votes36.7kRecs109.2kFans
- 10 Falling in Love in Kyoto After Losing My Emotions 京都从失去感情开始恋爱 “Whenever I'm in danger, you show up. You must like me, right, Simplified-kun?” “So if you don't like me, why do you keep appearing in my world...? If you really can't... could I be the one to like you?” “Brother, I can stay by your side forever~” “I can't see the slightest trace of affection in your eyes. No matter how deeply heartfelt they seem, it's only an act to match your features.” One lovely figure after another gradually overlapped with Bai Niao Jian Shu's form. The sun slowly sank, and 0Votes13.8kRecs92.1kFans
- 11 The Villainess's Banquet 恶女盛宴 An alternate California. New Yokohama. A dark metropolis teeming with chaos. A wicked woman with formidable strength breaks out of her cage, bent on fighting darkness with darkness. And I, Nance Adel, chief of Section Nine in the Special Crimes Response Division, will capture them at any cost. But there’s a little problem to sort out first... Section Nine is out of funding, so citizens, please send me 50 yuan first. Once I catch them, I’ll hire you as a security guard in Section Nine right away. 0Votes25.5kRecs197.6kFans
- 12 Just Focus on Winning Her Over 你只管攻略 “Have you ever played a gal game?” Shiina Kiri looked at the blue subtitles that had appeared in front of her. “No.” “Just focus on winning her over.” “What are you talking about?” Also known as: About How I Tricked My Voice Actress Girlfriend into Cosplaying for Me... 0Votes30.7kRecs135.4kFans
- 13 My Senior Sisters Are Not Human! 我家学姐，不是人！ I used up all my luck meeting them. Then Su Yuchen gradually discovered that the senior girls all had hidden sides, and most importantly, none of them were human! But that was okay. When misfortune is eclipsed by good fortune... they're all my wings. 0Votes68kRecs236.7kFans
- 14 Laying Low in a High-Martial World and Stacking Passives 苟在高武叠被动 After transmigrating into a high-martial world where everyone is an athlete, he also gets a golden finger that refreshes events each day and stacks passive abilities. Chen Kuang thinks he should keep a low profile and grow in secret. But the world has other plans. People keep trying to treat him like he’s not human, and his passives just keep piling up. [Flesh Reishi]: Your flesh can regenerate almost without limit, and is comparable to the finest treasures of heaven and earth. Eating it can ext 0Votes20.6kRecs328kFans
- 15 The Heiress Is Not Very Friendly Toward Me 继承人小姐对我不太友善 After his band breaks up, he returns from Tokyo to his hometown of Kobe and decides to inherit the family business, the seaside coffee shop Stardust. But when he opens the door, there is already a new heir inside. "I will never hand the position of heir to a frivolous, irresponsible man who abandoned the coffee shop!" A cold girl who confronts him head-on after he ran away and abandoned the coffee shop, a down-and-out aspiring manga artist staying there, and a mysterious girl he meets during the 0Votes68.7kRecs153.1kFans
- 16 Reborn in Tokyo After Finding Sayu, the Runaway 从捡到离家出走的沙优开始重生东京 [Tokyo from the start, lodging for the first time.] [Only by becoming stronger can I silence everyone's mouths.] [Only by becoming better can I leave no regrets in life.] A reborn boy arrives in Tokyo, and his high school life begins when he meets a girl. This book is also known as Sign-In Begins with Cohabitation, I Make Games in Tokyo, and A Perfect Life Beginning at Private Toyosaki. Care about the people you want to care about, and protect the people you want to protect. Starting today. “Sys 3Votes111.4kRecs188.2kFans
- 17 They Conquer the World for Me 她们为我打天下 A Compilation of Anecdotes from the New Dynasty [The Gaozu Emperor's Love of Beautiful Women] Empress Mi was originally married to Lu, Duke of Yu. After he was convicted of a crime and cast out, she happened to meet the Gaozu Emperor during his obscure early years, and the two became husband and wife. Lady Li was the consort of the former ruler. After being captured by the Gaozu Emperor, she became his favorite. Soon afterward, the Gaozu Emperor went west on a campaign and destroyed Zhao, taking 1Votes90.8kRecs206.2kFans
- 18 EN The Crown of Chaos 混沌冠冕 In his eighteenth year in the kingdom, Aaron finally remembered that he was a transmigrator. His situation wasn't looking good. There was no adorable little sister awakening as a Slaughter Divine Child, no Emperor on a golden throne showing up to claim him as his son, and no persecuted witches in need of rescue. Worse, with only mediocre talent, he faced the prospect of being the last of his family. If only he could take up a class that let him summon creatures with cards. Fortunately, fate had 0Votes86.1kRecs222.4kFans
- 19 The Secret Doctrine of Monsters 怪物们的密教准则 Autumn, 1840. The world was a whale rising from the depths, and in the boy’s eyes, it burst into flames. A letter from a dozen miles away, a traveler from a foreign land, and several wondrous tales of imagination. Ritualists, curios, strange species, invisible arts; Curse-killing runes, pointy-eared cat dragons, little people beneath the floorboards, castles that walk in dreams; Science and the occult, fantasy and reality. The boy tapped his cane lightly and passed across the currents of the age 5Votes31kRecs141.6kFans
- 20 Reincarnated in Another World: Villager by Day, Demon Lord by Night 转生异世界，主业村民，副业魔王 Xia Mi transmigrates into a classic JRPG and spends two and a half years as a villager in the starting village. His greatest wish is to save up enough money to marry a girl from another race and live out his days in peace. Then one day, the heroes defeat the Demon King. [Name: Xia Mi] [Class: Villager] Added: [Class: Heir to the New Demon King] [Demon King, get moving! Kill all the heroes! Restore the glory of the demon race!] Wait, has there been some kind of mistake? Xia Mi, who spends every d 0Votes35.8kRecs245.9kFans
- 21 A Guide to Tokyo Girlfriends 东京女友图鉴 The blurb doesn't do it justice, so here's the gist: it's simply everyday romance. You don't need to have read the original works to enjoy it. A Silent Voice: Three rounds of beating up Ishida Shoya, teaching Nishimiya Shoko to speak, then having Ueno Naoka steal my second button at graduation. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas: Sakura, starting today, you're going to exercise regularly and eat foods that protect your pancreas. I'll take care of any serial killers! Your Name: Swap bodies with Miyamizu 4Votes120.3kRecs269.7kFans
- 22 No Way, Even a Gentleman Must Be Guarded Against 不是吧君子也防 [Volume Two is complete. The synopsis is halfway done. Save it for later, or dive in now.] In the first year, the Princess of Great Qian met a “gentleman” for the first time. He was righteous and presided over justice. She sneered, “A hypocrite.” In the third year, amid a struggle over the imperial heirs, she lost everything by a single misstep. With her eyes closed, she awaited death. He alone stepped forward, risking his life and fortune to escort her back to the capital. She scoffed, “At leas 54Votes485.7kRecs2.9MFans
- 23 Love Comes After the Simulation 恋爱要在模拟后 [Love Simulator, at your service] [Simulations will appear as text and scenes from your memories] [Each simulation has three stages: courtship, falling in love, and turmoil/tender moments] [When the simulation ends, you will receive a score and review to help you reflect on the relationship] [Click to continue] . While in Japan, Nan Youxi got his hands on a love simulator. What was the point of a fake simulation? He had initially dismissed it. Until he discovered that he could acquire skills hon 10Votes171.1kRecs581.6kFans
- 24 Tokyo's Number One Heartthrob 东京第一深情 Heize Guang is reborn in Japan. He studies hard, gets into the University of Tokyo, and dates the campus beauty from the school next door online for half a month, only to be dumped unilaterally. Worse, his ex transfers him to someone else at a bargain-basement price. Heize Guang is dumbfounded. He can't understand how someone as handsome, wealthy, and well-educated as him could be worth only a pitiful ten thousand yen in his ex-girlfriend's eyes! Just then, a mission appears before him. Date Mis 1Votes91.7kRecs499.8kFans
- 25 Invading the Mortal World 侵入人间 ~ Xu Xiangyang has two close friends: the girl next door who lives in the same alley, and the class monitor from the class next door. Xu Xiangyang has a secret he cannot tell anyone: he knows that one of his two friends is raising a great demon capable of destroying the world... ~ Set at the end of the last century, this is a story of boys and girls who rely on one another, find comfort in one another, and make their way toward happiness togeth 17Votes238kRecs414.1kFans
- 26 EN Love Purification Protocol 恋爱净化协议 “The three essentials for an easy life are extraordinary good looks, exceptional intelligence, and a healthy, strong body. And I’ve got all three.” Reborn in a parallel world, Yan Huan, a disciplined and ambitious university student, was all set to welcome his golden years. But... more than a decade after his reincarnation, five girls with all sorts of bizarre golden fingers had set their sights on him. “...We should all stay positive.” Faced with the girls watching him like hawks and sharpening 35Votes254.9kRecs712.9kFans
- 27 My Girlfriend Is from the Future! 我的女友来自未来！ One day in September, a beautiful girl fell from the sky and appeared in He Tianran's life. She said she was reborn, and that she wanted to change the boy's future. A butterfly flaps its wings, and a breeze stirs in the heart. And so, a series of stories began to unfold, their encounters seeming at once like first meetings and reunions. Also known as: “So I'm the One Living the Dream?” and “This Isn't the Romance I Wanted” 381Votes460.3kRecs766kFans
- 28 Only After Being Reborn Did I Discover I Had a Childhood Friend 重生后才发现我有青梅 My new book, Online Chat Friend Is My Future Daughter!, is now updating. You're welcome to read it! [A childhood sweetheart's song, beginning in their earliest years] [From a sweet little angel to a mischievous little devil, from a wild tomboy to a cool, top-of-the-class girl: As childhood friends grow up together, their personalities change with their surroundings. Do you still like the girl she became, or the one she was back then?] We played among plum blossoms and rode bamboo horses, getting 28Votes188.1kRecs1MFans
- 29 The Demi-Human Girl’s Complete Guide 亚人娘补完手册 This is a century illuminated by the brilliance of human civilization. This is a world where steam engines, magic, and demi-humans coexist. This is an indictment of crimes committed in the name of expansion. “The crimson Dragon Queen will rise first, burning everything belonging to humanity to ashes in her fury.” “The mysterious Child of the Sea will unleash towering waves to wash away humanity's sins.” “The God of the Sky will leave the remnants nowhere to hide and nowhere to turn.” “The immort 213Votes271.1kRecs786.5kFans
- 30 Winter Returns 冬日重现 Zhang Shutong once had two female classmates: One was a proud heiress from a wealthy family. The other was a cool, aloof girl who served as a temple keeper in the mountains. One was murdered eight years ago. The other died eight years later. Zhang Shutong also had a secret he could tell no one: He could return to the past. But after going to all that trouble to save them, why are they fighting each other? Deep mountains, a great lake, an ancient temple, shadows beneath the water, a strin 3.1kVotes509.6kRecs1.4MFans
- 31 EN Mountains, Rivers, and the Grain Altar 山河稷 Heaven and earth are the furnace, and creation is the smith; yin and yang are the fuel, and all things are the metal. One day, the flames that refine this world will be replaced by a fire of my own. Ji means sacrifice: make offerings to the land and to the grain. 403Votes1.1MRecs3MFans
- 32 The Girl Next Door Is Adorable Today, Too 邻家今天也很可爱 After his parents divorce, Lin Lu starts living on his own. His days are peaceful and uneventful. That is, until one day, an older girl moves in next door. Though they were strangers at first, the two begin sharing a curious connection. The girl next door is so kind. She helps him with his studies and cooks for him. She’s elegant and poised, gentle and thoughtful, and even her occasional absentmindedness is utterly adorable! But somehow, things don’t seem to be going quite as they should... “The 0Votes127.2kRecs324.8kFans
- 33 EN Then Let Them Offer Their Loyalty! 那就让她们献上忠诚吧！ [A premium hit with 45,000 top-tier subscribers and an average of 27,000 paid subscribers! Guaranteed quality, read with confidence!] After transmigrating to a disaster-ravaged world in chaos, filled with all kinds of uncanny objects, Qiu Tu discovers that he has somehow slept with a powerful figure's mistress... Since he's already been found out, he might as well... go with the flow? He'll grow stronger, build his own power, recruit beautiful... beautiful and powerful subordinates, and steadily 74Votes353.7kRecs2.4MFans
- 34 EN Chronicles of a World in Chaos 乱世书 Sword at my side, wine in hand, I roam the rivers and lakes; her slender waist, so light in my grasp. A young man strides forward, a long saber over his shoulder and wine at his waist, yet the rivers and lakes in his heart remain a distant blur. Turn a page in the chronicles of a troubled age, and decades pass in the night rain of the martial world. When I suddenly look back, I have already cleaved the world of men apart. 142Votes1.5MRecs6.7MFans
- 35 Senior, Please Keep It Down! 学姐快住口！ “Update, update! Why isn’t today’s chapter up yet?” “...Senior, it’s only six in the morning.” “And what about yesterday? You only posted one chapter!” “...Everyday romance stories depend on the little details. I need inspiration when I write.” “Where do you get your inspiration, then? You’re single.” “...I use my imagination.” “Wouldn’t it be better to date someone? You could get material 0Votes139.8kRecs523.8kFans
- 36 As a Reborn Man, I Just Want to Focus on Studying 重生的我只想专心学习 “I like you…” “I'm sorry. We're still young, and our job right now is to study.” [Everyday Life] [Heartwarming] [Positive] [Upright Values] [Calm but Never Dull] [Intelligent Characters] 1Votes127.8kRecs673kFans
- 37 Shadow of the Eclipse 日食之影 Hello, everyone. My name is Ji Yun. I'm trapped on the day I went to school ten years ago. I know that in 30 seconds, a soccer ball will come flying in. It'll hit the mushroom-haired girl in the corner of the classroom. She and I grew up together. She hasn't grown into herself yet: she's a little spacey and timid, and nobody in class pays her any attention. But I'm the only one who knows that ten years from now, she'll become a classical beauty and a superstar. Under the banyan tree in five minu 14Votes183kRecs825.9kFans
- 38 EN Whispers of the Machine Age 呢喃诗章 In a new world where the steam industry is booming, I inherit a three-story apartment on the capital’s main square, take care of someone else’s cat, and listen to the whispers in my ear as I bear witness to this mysterious and bizarre era. The epic of the Sixth Epoch is about to begin. Behind the curtain, the Chosen will step into legend. Old gods, relics, steam, witches, detectives, ancient mysteries, the radiance of the Epoch... “Want to play a hand of Rhodes?” Time etches the years, and the s 2.8kVotes1.9MRecs1.3MFans
- 39 My Superpowers Refresh Every Week 我的超能力每周刷新 Chen Yuan discovered that his superpower refreshed once a week. In the first week, he saw a red number hanging over every living thing, ranging from hundreds and thousands to tens of thousands. The smallest number he'd ever seen was above a teddy bear: 0.00001. The next second, it was crushed to death by a large truck. In the second week, he discovered he could hear other people's thoughts, and he couldn't control it. Whatever was on their minds streamed straight into his head, so he no longer d 153Votes484.1kRecs2.9MFans
- 40 My Wife, Something's Not Right 我家娘子，不对劲 When he woke up, Luo Qingzhou had become a lowly illegitimate son of the Luo family, a powerful clan in the Chengguo Duke's residence of the Great Yan Empire. To help the Luo family's second young master break off his engagement, Luo Qingzhou was forced to marry into another family, wedding a supposedly mute, expressionless fool. Only after the wedding ceremony and their wedding night did he suddenly realize: "Something's not right about my wife!" But it wasn't just his wife. Her two little maid 38Votes676.2kRecs4.8MFans
- 41 EN Reborn 99 Days Before the College Entrance Exam 重生高考前99天 Chen Zhe, a provincial civil servant, unexpectedly returns to the year he was in his final year of high school. Once a wooden, shy student who blushed whenever he spoke to a girl and knew nothing but studying, he suddenly becomes adept at handling people and situations, always saying and doing just the right thing. Not only does he change the course of his life, he also draws more and more attention from girls. Girl: Chen Zhe, what are your strong points? Chen Zhe: I’m honest, and I don’t talk m 4.3kVotes2.7MRecs4.6MFans
- 42 My Girlfriend Is a Bratty Rich Heiress 我的女友是恶劣大小姐 [Then become more handsome, if you can win the heart of a beautiful girl] [If you can make your sweet talk sound even better, say it to her too] [But remember, don't make the first move] [Let the beautiful girl say it herself: “Handsome Tokyo guy with a silver tongue, I have to make you mine. You're mine.”] This is the story of a boy from Iwate Prefecture who becomes a handsome Tokyo guy. 147Votes832.1kRecs2.3MFans
- 43 My Girlfriend Is a Voice Actress 我的女友是声优 His soul transmigrates to an island nation. Though he has a System panel, he gets caught up in the minutiae of everyday life. “It’s getting cold.” A tender smile unlike any she had ever shown blossomed on the girl’s face. “No, it’s already spring, Murakami-kun.” 18Votes467.6kRecs366.5kFans
- 44 Xuande 玄德 Before you stands a scion of the Han imperial house, descendant of Emperor Jing, street brawler of Zhuo County, personally taught by the great Confucian Lu Zhi, romantic poet of the Eastern Han, the man directly responsible for making paper dear in Luoyang, master debater of the Old Text School, young leader of its reformist faction, founding ancestor of the Liu clan of Zhuo County, Zhuo Commandery, the seventh generation to inherit the Zuo Tradition of the Spring and Autumn Annals, and the Old 0Votes223.7kRecs724.5kFans
- 45 EN Red Chamber: Defying Heaven's Fall 红楼之挽天倾 A thousand beauties weep, ten thousand fair women mourn. White bones pile like mountains, their names long forgotten; all were once young lords and lovely ladies. A young man from a later age transmigrates into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, taking the place of a distant relative of the Ningguo House. To avoid being dragged down by the Jia family, he must tread carefully at every turn. Yet when he looks around, he sees a nation on the brink of chaos. To keep the Central Plains from falli 22Votes1.1MRecs1.4MFans
- 46 EN Hold Your Blade, Heroine! 女侠且慢 “Hold on, heroine. Do you know who I am?” “I do. You’re the empress’s favorite courtier, the rebel leader’s lover, and the young master of a prestigious martial arts clan. You’re playing all three sides. You’re exactly the kind of person I cut down!” The author has completed two novels with over 10,000 paid subscribers, “The Heir Is Fierce” and “The Immortal Maiden Is Fierce.” You can count on their quality and the author’s integrity. Interested readers are welcome to check out their earli 119Votes1.3MRecs2.8MFans
- 47 EN Reborn, Who Needs Romance? 都重生了谁谈恋爱啊 After struggling all the way to the age of thirty-eight without being able to afford a home, he is told that getting married requires paying a bride price of three hundred thousand yuan first. He has scrimped and saved for most of his life, worked himself to the bone, but where did all the money go? Who exactly earned it all? Jiang Qin, reborn at eighteen with countless grievances weighing on him, opens his eyes with only one thought: start a business and make money. Step one: take back the lo 275Votes1.4MRecs11MFans
- 48 EN Gazing at the Vast Sky 望长天 The Great Yan Dynasty has endured for more than 1,300 years. The emperor lies gravely ill, the crown prince governs in his stead, local immortal sects hold sway, and powerful ministers throw the imperial court into chaos. When Xu Yuan wakes, he finds himself in a ruined temple deep in the mountains on a rainy night, staring at a strange stone Buddha with a severed arm, and at that black-clad woman by the bonfire, her face hidden behind a thin veil. 35Votes508.9kRecs3.1MFans
- 49 I Teach Swordsmanship in Tokyo 我在东京教剑道 He transmigrates to Tokyo's Katsushika Ward in 1980 and inherits a dojo. His parents are dead, he has a younger sister and a house, but his savings are almost gone and he has no students. What should he do? Help, answers needed urgently. Forget it. He'll just enjoy himself. Face the wind! 0Votes878.1kRecs829.2kFans
- 50 The Long Sword at the End of Jin 晋末长剑 As the Tang poet Xu Yin wrote in his poem “The Two Jins”: “Deep schemes across three generations laid the foundations of an empire. What a pity for the widow and orphan. Cheng Ji’s crime brought Heaven’s wrath; the spear that struck a wise ruler is mourned for all eternity.” The Western Jin came to power through illegitimate means and made far too many mistakes, inheriting every ill that had accumulated since the Eastern Han and the Three Kingdoms. By the end of the Jin dynasty, the damage had b 123Votes2MRecs2.1MFans
