Novels like Deity Investigation Report
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The Northern Kingdom's Sovereignty 北境王权
The wars of the gods sent flames roaring across the sky. Their deaths plunged the earth into an eternal, frozen winter. Beneath the radiance of divinity, supernatural legions are replacing the authority of the gods... The Empire's Templar Knights trample over the bones of giants. Nightmare Knights roam the Grand Duke's lands in great numbers, while entire armies of vampires sleep in ancient coffins throughout the Count's domain. Through his spiritual perception, Ryan opened portal after portal t
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The Immortal Ascension Exam: From Nobody to Immortal Official Through Relentless Effort 大考登仙，从草芥肝成仙官
“In the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty, all power belongs to the court.” “Important spells require a license to practice. Every cultivation craft must be graded and ranked through examinations.” “A single edict can appoint a mountain or river deity. One examination can determine the course of a lifetime.” “You’re no more than a blade of grass. How dare you aspire to immortality?” The examiner gazed at him over the seal in his hand, his eyes blazing like torches. Su Qin possessed a proficiency panel
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Put Your Supernatural Powers Away! 快收了神通吧！
[Child, remember this: Heaven and Earth hold ten parts fortune. Three parts are literary talent, seven are martial prowess, and one can tip the balance!] [...10...3+7+1... Huh? Ancestor, something doesn't seem quite right...]
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From Dockworker to King of Fog City 从码头苦力开始横推雾都
The Victorian era: steam roars, smog blankets the land, and extraordinary creatures lurk everywhere. The Church, the nobility, and the financial magnates hold power in a precarious balance, while heresy takes root. Gas lamps, steam trains, smog, guns, potions, extraordinary relics… Xilun struggles to survive as a laborer. With the help of Deep Crimson, he discovers that practicing a skill improves it, with constant feedback and permanent gains. From [Basic Marksmanship (Beginner)], he grinds his
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Mythic Dreamer 神话空想家
Many years later, Xia Mingwei would still remember the time he spent with the girl in a little attic in Tokyo.
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Mythic Scroll Artist: From the Start, the God of Wealth Zhao Gongming 神话绘卷师：开局财神赵公明
This is a world invaded by other dimensions, where all kinds of otherworldly demons and monsters run rampant. Things from legends and fantasies, once brought to life by artists’ brushes, have become extraordinary illustrated scrolls, stepping in to save a world on the brink of collapse. Wu Xian, a veteran original artist, died from overwork and arrived in this world. He thought he’d have a chance to soar to the top, but soon discovered that without money, he couldn’t get anywhere here. Despite
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The Nine Provinces Immortal Abode: A First-Clear Guide 九州仙府首通指南
The cultivation path of Jiuzhou has reached a long impasse. Ascension is out of reach, and internal troubles keep mounting. So, without further ado, let us welcome The global first-clear player of Original X's Abyss The global first-clear player of Star XXX's Abyss The global first-clear player of Absolute XX's Abyss Wu Ming! He will bring his talents to the Jiuzhou Continent and seek out a new path to immortality for us all. Let us look forward to his outstanding performance!
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The True Lord Has Arrived 真君驾到
Yaoguai, demons, immortals, gods, strange tales, and the jianghu. In the tavern, a foreign barmaid smiles as she dodges a patron's hand, her tail swaying beneath her skirt. In the night market, who knows how many figures beneath those hoods are human and how many are ghosts? A fierce tiger roams the mountains, while an ancient dragon sleeps in Dongting Lake. One sword, one person, one book. The road lies ahead, the Dao within the heart, and the sword in hand. Slay demons and vanquish evil. Immor
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The Elf Cultivator 精灵族的修仙者
An Dong discovered that he had transmigrated into the game Chronicles of the Dawn and become an elf. The good news: Elves are long-lived, an immortal race. The bad news: Over the next tens of thousands of years, this continent would be ravaged by bloodshed and turmoil: the Dragon God would fall, all races would vie for supremacy, the undead would bring disaster, and the gods would rise... The slightest misstep could cost him his life. Fortunately, he had an ancient jade slip with him, containing
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The Abyssal Soundstage 深渊片场
Ning Xu went to a movie theater to watch a film, but the screen pulled him inside, making him one of the actors in the Abyss Cinema. From then on, he had to keep playing all kinds of roles in one real horror-movie world after another. But the wronged spirits and monsters he faced were real. To survive, he had no choice but to find ways to gain various actor privileges, while escaping the death curses of evil spirits and hovering on the razor's edge between life and death...
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Welcome to the Ability Store! 欢迎光临能力商店！
At the age of 26, Chen Xuan acquired a peculiar shop. Suddenly, the familiar world became completely different… Cultivators, historical figures, and rebels from the future all became his customers, all because his shop sold exactly what they needed most: “Abilities.”
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The Story of Minglan: I, the Young Grand Secretary, Rule as Regent 知否：我，小阁老，摄政天下
[The author already has a popular Story of Minglan fanfic] [Peak subscriptions: 30,000+] [You can enjoy this even if you don’t know the original plot] You ask who I am? A loyal, upright, good, and virtuous minister in the eyes of the emperor; a worthy chancellor who brought about “governance through noninterference” in the eyes of the civil officials; the architect of a golden age in the eyes of the people. Though I entered the Grand Secretariat six times, became chancellor five times, helped em
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Demonic Cultivator 魔修
[I humbly beseech the Heavenly Book to show me what opportunity awaits me today.] [In a cold pool fifty miles beyond the mountain gate, there is a spirit fish you can catch.] [I humbly beseech the Heavenly Book to show me the cultivation method best suited to me.] [Mount Lu Sword Sect’s seventh-grade The White-Robed Yuan, A Sixty-Year Song of Slaying Dragons; Qixia Mountain’s fifth-grade The Rainbow-Gathering, Mist-Refining Profound Scripture; the Innate Demon Sect’s third-grade The Profound Lor
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Genius Playground 天才游乐场
A text message sent by accident to three days earlier gave Jiang Ran and his two companions the key to a Pandora's box that could alter history and change the flow of time. Winning the lottery, getting top grades, bringing a dead upperclassman back to life, making up for life's regrets... The trio used a time machine to fulfill all kinds of wishes, like gods who could do anything. Until one day, a text message from the future warned them! At that moment, secrets hidden in the fog of history bega
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Emei Initiate: Golden Perk at the Start 人在峨眉，开局获取金色词条
Everyone says, “Wudang is good, Shaolin is mighty, and the Holy Flame of the Ming Cult burns across the rivers and seas.” But in Gu Shaoan's eyes, choosing a sect based only on its martial arts and reputation is downright shallow. Joining a sect means sharing in its honor and disgrace. How could a decision like that be made lightly? After glancing at his golden talent trait, [A Nun's Favor], Gu Shaoan resolutely joined Emei. Master, please protect me.
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The Edge of Pure Land 净土边缘
The Earth Chronicles record: December 2534: Suffering from a terminal illness, Lu Bu'er secretly dabbled in forbidden powers. By studying the life structure of the specters, he used his own illness to create the ability to devour them. Such an act forsook the dignity of being human, and he deserves to be executed by all! August 2535: The world's tragedy: a demon ascends the throne. May 2536: Tragic news: the rebel king Lu Bu'er is closing in on the City of the Lord! July 2537: Let us welcome the
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History Is Sick 历史病了
An unknown affliction struck the long river of history, sinking it into the reflections of the present. Ancient Celestial Venerables awoke from the past, seeking forbidden secrets. Great masters used the years as their game board and all living beings as pieces, plotting across the ages. Familiar ancient legends, folk monsters, and even the heroes people once worshiped became warped by the affliction, turning into eerie beings sunk in the abyss of the past. A once wise and mighty emperor became
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Tokyo: My Movie Star Equipment Slots 东京：我的影帝装备栏
In 1988, Tokyo's bubble economy was at its height. Kitahara Shin, reborn with a handsome face and superb acting skills honed through his previous life, found himself unable to make any headway in the entertainment industry because he lacked “star quality.” Until one late night, he borrowed a light in front of a vending machine and picked up a silver Zippo casually discarded by Akina Nakamori, the “original songstress.” [Equipment: Songstress's Heartbroken Lighter (Purple)] [Trait Acquired: Confe
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Herald of Calamity 天灾信使
The Messenger is an MMORPG that has won the Global Best Game Operations Award ten years in a row. It was also the first online game in the world to surpass ten million concurrent players. Yan Qing had never played it before. Now, he is the game’s only player.
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The Devil's Bible 恶魔圣经
No female lead. Dark tone, boss protagonist, nonhuman protagonist. An original Western fantasy setting in another world. “Why? Why can you break the contract?!” In response to the desperate question, the demon unfolded the contract. The contract enlarged, revealing the ‘paper’ it was made of. It consisted of countless tiny threads woven together in a particular pattern, forming words that carried information. [Supplementary Clause One: ...] [Supplementary Clause Two: ...] [Final Supplementary Cl
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Chinese Showbiz 1995 华娱1995
This book is also known as The Star Who No Longer Wants to Grind and Chinese Entertainment: Please Call Me Principal! The King of Grinding to Death, reborn in 1995! Starting with an arts-exam training school... he becomes the king of Chinese entertainment! Many years later... The entertainment industry is filled with graduates of my arts-exam training schools. Please call me... Principal! The author of the completed works Online Game: The Great Thief and The Movie Emperor Doesn't Want to Be a Eu
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The Great Song’s Literary Giant 大宋文豪
Jiayou Year One. The fighting between the Song and Xia was dying down, and the Qingli era was already a thing of the past. Lu Beigu, a professor of Chinese language and literature, awoke beside Anle Creek. Before his eyes lay an age of flourishing culture and brilliant talents. That year, Su Shi cried, “A wind from a thousand miles, how exhilarating!” as he traveled from Shu to the capital. Zeng Gong failed the exams time and again, disheartened and destitute, while Zhang Heng waited confidently
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After Taking Over the Underworld, I Became the Boss of All Horrors 接管地府后，我成了诡异头子
Zheng Que transmigrates to the world of cultivation and begins working hard to improve his skills. “Ghost Bride, why haven’t you done anything today?” “Have you mined the spirit-stone veins?” “Have you gathered the spirit herbs?” “Look at Painted Skin over there. She’s already mined three whole spirit-stone mines today!” “If you keep slacking off, how am I, your master, supposed to buy a custom airship from the Heavenly Artifact Sect and live in the finest cave abode in the Xuanyuan Pavilion?” “
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Invading America 入侵美利坚
From the start, it all begins with several palm-sized strips of cloth in a laundry basket…
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The Heavenly Principles Protocol 天理协议
April 6: I confirmed that I'm severely nearsighted. This isn't ordinary myopia. I simply can't tell mythical creatures apart from ordinary humans. To my eyes, the two species look exactly alike! June 14: The news reported a bunch of terrifying creatures lurking outside my shop. Oh my god, I always thought they were just ordinary people. We were chatting and laughing in the shop, arms around each other's shoulders! July 22: I can't tell them apart. I really can't! All the special effects have bee
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Reborn Before Doomsday: My Backer Is the State 重生末日前：我的后盾是国家
The apocalypse arrived without warning. Everyone across the world died in agony for reasons unknown. Jiang Yang woke to discover that he had been reborn ten days before the apocalypse. Ten days, and I alone am supposed to save the world? Jiang Yang abandoned that idea without hesitation and immediately reported the apocalypse intel. From this moment on, my backing is the entire nation!
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Teaching in Naruto: The System Says I'm Tsunade's Student 在火影教书，系统说我是纲手学生
[Congratulations, Host. You are now six years old. The Strongest Naruto Development System has been activated.] [Mission 1: Become Tsunade's disciple and become the New Legendary Sannin alongside your classmates Naruto and Sasuke.] "What kind of brain-dead System is this? I'm already twenty-one, and Naruto and Sasuke are my students. How am I supposed to become Tsunade's disciple? Answer me!" [Mission 2: Help your deskmate, Hinata Hyuga, get her scarf back.] [Mission 3: Graffiti Hokage Rock with
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I’m Immortal, So I Speedrun Horror Games 不死的我速通灵异游戏
“As the record holder for the most cleared supernatural instances, what's your secret to speedrunning them?” “Always treat death with reverence.” “Do you mean that even the strongest can die, so you must be cautious no matter what kind of supernatural phenomenon you face?” “No, I mean, I was looking to die in the first place.” Wu Wang smiled, slit his wrist, drank a bottle of paraquat, and walked away as if he'd made up his mind. He entered another supernatural instance with a 0% survival rate.
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Folk Customs: Beginning with a Nuo Opera Troupe 民俗从傩戏班子开始
He transmigrates into a dynasty that never existed in history and becomes the heir to a four-person Nuo opera troupe. Natural disasters, human calamities, strange creatures, demons. The first thing Wu Feng does is make sure he can bring his entire Nuo opera troupe back from the mountains. As for what to do after that, Wu Feng figures he should probably get a household registration in the county seat. After all, in a place like this, the big cities and wealthy families seem much safer…
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Biographies of the Sword Immortals of Shu Mountain 蜀山剑仙列传
Since ancient times, outstanding talents have loved to flaunt their arrogance, never knowing that Heaven's will cannot be fathomed. Beneath the Executioner's Immortal Sword, no innocent souls remain. On this journey to the Nether River, do not lose your way.
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Illegitimate Son of a Noble House 高门庶子
[Alternate history + over 10,000 first-month subscriptions] I transmigrated to a dynasty called Dayu and became a well-known young nobleman from a powerful family in the capital, Sheng'an. My father is the magistrate of Sheng'an, a third-rank official. My stepmother is from the Cui clan, one of the Five Great Families of the capital, an illustrious noble house. Their son is a dashing young genius, handsome and talented. Before he was even fifteen, he passed the provincial examinations as a juren
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Curses of the Mountains and Seas 咒禁山海
In the twenty-eighth year of Zhizheng, the emperor ascended the throne and issued an edict: No one may go out to sea! No one may go out to sea! No one may go out to sea! In the fourth year of Xiaokang, a ghost coffin in the Zhuo River leaped up the Dragon Gate, taking every corpse diver in the river with it. In the eighth year of Xuande, the treasure fleet returned to Liujiagang, but not a single person was aboard... Open the history books, and the waterways of the world, along with the vast eas
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Surging Waves at Sunset 惊涛落日
Wang Yi transmigrated. The moment he looked up, he saw the bright red Rising Sun emblem on a plane passing overhead. The rage in his blood was awakened. He didn't know whose body he had transmigrated into, where he was, or even what kind of cheat ability he had. He only knew he was going to slaughter them all. “You damn bastards can keep your ‘seven lives for the country’ and your Kudan-zaka! I'll blow Kudan-zaka and every toilet on it sky-high!” (“Seven lives for the country” was the Japanese i
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Reversing the Yellow Springs 黄泉逆行
Calamity descends, swallowing the world. With their last reserves of strength, humanity builds towering walls and mighty cities to preserve the final spark of civilization. Now calamity stirs once more. Humanity will go on the offensive! Witness the heroes, follow their example, become a hero yourself! (For readers who don't like passionate stories, the post-apocalypse, or multiple heroines, please don't flame the author.)
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From Kengan to Beating the One Piece World 从拳愿暴打海贼王开始
Armed with a secret realm mutual aid plan, Guan Yi can use the skills of one secret realm to conquer another secret realm that is still awaiting conquest. Can the martial arts of Kengan Ashura make a name for themselves in the world of One Piece? After a century of cultivating techniques in The Outcast, could he take on Bleach? Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Naruto, The Seven Deadly Sins, Hunter x Hunter: what sparks will fly when skills from different worlds come together? Secret realm against
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Commanding the Ancestors: Building an Immortal Clan Since the Eastern Han 操控祖宗，从东汉开始创不朽世家
Gu Yi, who had just graduated, received a strange game console. Then he discovered that the things inside the game console could not only be manifested in reality, but that the characters he controlled within it were all the founding ancestors of his own family. From that moment on, an immortal clan whose legacy had been passed down since the beginning of the Eastern Han began to rise slowly through the river of history. He personally controlled his ancestor as the ancestor conquered the rea
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Arcane Detective of the Steam Age 蒸汽世界的奥秘侦探
This is an age of infinite possibilities: steam and steel, gears and clockwork. Steam power and differential engines symbolize the boundless future of human civilization. Yet no one notices that beneath the haze of steam, in the shadow of steel, the dark and mysterious arcane has never gone away. A traveler from a distant land will lift the veil shrouding this turbulent, free, dreamlike world, and write a history and legend of his own… A work by Xibei Mao. Completion
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The Primordial Law 元始法则
The “Dao Cities” among the stars; “Zuzhou,” the birthplace of the earliest sprouts of cultivation; “Shencang Ancient Marsh,” the source of water in the vast cosmos; and the “Battleaxe Void,” a forbidden zone of darkness. There is also the Celestial Realm hidden within the macroscopic world, and the netherworld of the underworld hidden within the microscopic one. The microscopic world of Earth... Under a microscope, a Buddha's relic the size of a bean looks like a pale-red planet. Towering mounta
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The Secret Buyer 隐秘买家
My name is Zhang Fusheng, an ordinary man in the High Martial Era. But I can buy anything, and sell anything. Innate potential, comprehension, cultivation, luck, lifespan, identity, and destiny. All it takes is a contract. But the other party must enter the deal willingly. So I sell wealth to the poor and buy their health, while selling health to the gravely ill and buying their comprehension. I kept the comprehension for myself. I bought decades of hard-earned swordsmanship from hundreds of swo
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A Nobody Becomes King 草芥称王
The groom is brutally killed on his way to the wedding. To save the marriage alliance between two powerful families, the bride wants me, her family’s advisor and the groom’s lookalike, to take his place?
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Mortal Cultivator 俗仙
Those who cultivate immortality have no worries about firewood, rice, oil, or salt, but they cannot escape the greed, anger, delusion, love, hatred, desire, passion, and grudges of the mortal world!
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Hurry, Hurry, as the Law Commands 急急如律令
Your supernatural stuff is only just coming back? I've been haunted by a ghost for over two years! And you're telling me the most vicious spell in the world is one I created?
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The Mad Demon of Myriad Lives 万生痴魔
Get a bowl, fill it with soil, count one, two, three, four, five. Plant a toad and grow a train, plant a soybean and grow a tiger. Cultivate a fine craft, and you'll enjoy a life of ease, free from hardship. There are three hundred and sixty trades among all living things. Which path is the one to rule them all? That carpenter has real skill, snapping a chalk line to divide yin from yang, joining mortise and tenon to subdue the eight wilds. This blacksmith has a knack, making iron and fire ring
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Ascension Through Beast Taming 御兽飞升
All paths are weak and struggling. Tame beasts and ascend to immortality!
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Bodhisattva, Please Help Me Cultivate! 菩萨，请助我修行！
[This is a game between the old era and the new era.] [The laws of the new era forbid the demons and monsters of the old era from existing, but they secretly watch and wait for the light.] [Heir to the new era, you must not allow the laws laid down by your ancestors to be broken. Take up your weapon and defend the era that belongs to you!] Ao Peng studied the game that had suddenly appeared before him, then looked at the games everyone else was playing. [You take the road on the left and are bit
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Stop Hypnotizing Me, Villainous Princess! 别再催眠我了，反派皇女！
[30,000 average subscriptions. Read with confidence.] After transmigrating to another world, Lin En was kidnapped from the start. His captor was the villainous princess from the original story. To control him, she planned to use him in a hypnosis experiment. At the critical moment, Lin En thought fast and acted as though the experiment had succeeded, fooling her with his performance. But this was only a stopgap measure. In the original story, her ending was tragic, and everyone around her met a
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Martial Way! 武道！
[Over 30,000 average paid readers, read with confidence] Walled compounds, opium dens, flower streets, casinos, secret societies, chief inspectors... Li Xiuwen transmigrates to Xianghai, now ruled by a colonial government. The old martial world still lingers in this era, while hidden currents of the supernatural surge beneath the surface. Martial arts schools stand everywhere, and heroes and villains alike rise to prominence. In this cramped steel jungle, martial arts schools of all kinds flouri
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Literary Giant 1879: Lone in France 文豪1879：独行法兰西
Victor Hugo: “You all call me ‘the conscience of France,’ but right now it’s beating in Lionel’s chest!” Émile Zola: “‘Naturalism’ or ‘Realism’? No, only Lionel’s ‘Modernism’ belongs to the twentieth century!” Gustave Flaubert: “Maupassant is my finest student. Lionel is my kindred spirit.” Guy de Maupassant: “Lionel’s only flaw is that he hasn’t contracted the noble, virile disease of syphilis.” Anton Chekhov: “What else do we need in this life besides sunshine, air, water, and laughter? Why, L
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The Strange Old Domain 旧域怪诞
As time passed, Zhang Wenda increasingly felt that things in his memories had grown abstract. He couldn’t tell whether they really had, or whether his memories had distorted them. But when he suddenly came face to face with those things again, he realized that something was wrong with this world.
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Borrowed Sword 借剑
"Just now, my sword was summoned away by a shout of 'Ten Thousand Swords Return to Their Origin.' What should I do?" "Waiting for an answer, and I'm in a real hurry. I wonder if I'll get it back..."
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