Dream of the Red Chamber, Not Yet Awakened 红楼梦未醒

I read books and have also tried my hand at writing. I published Dream of the Red Chamber Unfinished on June 11, 2017, and signed a contract for it, but it hasn't gone on sale yet. I've put the books I like here. Writing is hard work: authors type, update, and revise their work over and over. I won't even get into the mental effort involved. After a book is uploaded, nobody clicks on it. That's the kind of ordeal most new authors have to endure these days. Some authors get caught in a cycle of writing, revising, uploading, promoting, and suffering. My own work is among them, of course. Once a book is uploaded and meets its readers, some will like it and others won't. Since it's serialized, readers may like it at first and then drop it later. With so many authors working hard and an immense number of online novels out there, this is only to be expected. I've picked a few books I enjoy for this list, so you won't have to go searching for them. Of course, I've also included my own Dream of the Red Chamber Unfinished. It's the book I know best, since I'm always writing, revising, and uploading it. My story features Jia Baoyu, a character familiar to readers of Dream of the Red Chamber, who later renames himself Tongling Baoyu. It follows his journey to cultivate immortality. Starting out as a scholar too weak to even truss a chicken, he encounters cultivation and sets his sights on becoming an immortal. He also finds himself entangled with many beautiful women, caught in all kinds of romantic complications and endless inner turmoil. Tongling Baoyu has to cultivate and grow stronger if he wants to see Lin Meimei. Dual cultivation is the fastest way to increase his strength, but he worries that if Lin Meimei finds out he's leveling up through dual cultivation, she'll want nothing to do with him. But if he doesn't level up, he can't see her. That's the dilemma. After he sees Lin Meimei...