My Big Brother Is Kong Xuan

A 16-Year Bookworm's Personal Collection

As long as I’m happy

Light Shining Through Your Heart

The ancients spared no effort in their studies; they worked hard when young and achieved mastery only in old age. What you learn from books always seems shallow. To truly understand, you must put it into practice.

I'll Spend the Rest of My Life Reading With You

The ancients spared no effort in their studies; they worked hard when young and achieved mastery only in old age. What you learn from books always seems shallow. To truly understand, you must put it into practice.

Quietly Reading Good Books

Foolish people who insist on having their own way, and lowly people who insist on acting on their own authority, go against the ways of the ancients while living in the present. Such people will bring disaster upon themselves.

Summoner

Layer upon layer, lotus leaves spread out as if meeting the sky, an endless expanse of lush green. Beneath the sun, the lotus blossoms glow with especially vivid pink.

[Book Pavilion] New Books Updated Regularly

I don’t know when I started seeking out authors who write stories filled with conviction. To make characters feel alive, an author needs beautiful prose and a fluid, vivid style. But those are just the outer trappings. The protagonists and other characters need determination, courage, and dreams. That’s something an author must truly understand from the heart.

Nothing but Good Books in Sight

Reading has become an indispensable part of my life. I can’t remember when I started enjoying web novels, or even the title of the first one I read. Time keeps rolling relentlessly forward, so I’m sharing the books I love as gifts for everyone. I hope you’ll enjoy them. And if there are books you like, feel free to recommend them to me, too.

Quality Over Quantity

For a thousand miles, orioles sing amid green and red; by riverside villages and mountain towns, wine flags flutter in the breeze. Four hundred and eighty temples from the Southern Dynasties, their towers lost in mist and rain.

Kiss the Cannon Fodder

Collecting Hidden Gems in the Bud

One life, one generation, one pair of lovers: how could we bear to be torn apart and left pining in separate places? We yearn for each other and gaze toward each other, yet cannot be together. For whom does spring come? It is easy to beg for the magic potion at Blue Bridge, but once it is made, it is hard to flee to the Emerald Sea. If we could meet at the Ford of the Cowherd, we would sit together and forget our poverty.

Yunlong Loves to Read

Now I'm old, scratching my white head as I pass through Yangzhou. Tired of wandering, I want to leave by the river, where I've planted a thousand orange trees with my own hands. Two distinguished guests from the southeast, a life's work of ten thousand volumes of poetry and books: let me make a proposal to you. Don't hunt tigers on Mount Nan; go seek the title of Wealthy Marquis instead.

Stocking Up for My Next Reading Slump

Are you going through a reading slump? Can't find anything to read or figure out which book is worth picking from the pile? That's when you need someone to point you toward books with high ratings and strong reader retention, and to show you similar titles. You'll find all of that in my circle. Use it to guide your next pick. I created this list to recommend good books to everyone.

Working Hard on the Road to Godhood

Reading beneath a lamp, my eyes aren't what they used to be, but I still made it through twenty thousand tiny characters.

A Handpicked Mix

Somewhere along the way, I began seeking out the beliefs authors put into their writing. When an author wants the characters on the page to feel alive, beautiful prose and fluid characterization are necessary, but they're only the surface. The protagonists and other characters need determination, courage, and dreams. For that, an author needs to understand them deeply and write from the heart.

Xue Lang's Top Picks

Behind every outstanding book are things we never see. Authors must withstand pressure from the outside world and overcome the obstacles they set for themselves before they can give us the wonderful works we read.

Feifei's Reading List

Books are affectionate, like old friends; from dawn to dusk, they share my joys and sorrows. Before my eyes, three thousand words flow by; within my heart, not a speck of dust remains. Like a living spring, their source fills every place; like the east wind, flowers and willows renew with every season. Those who ride out in gold-trimmed saddles to seek beauty may not believe my humble home has its own spring.