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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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I Became a Literary Giant in Russia 我在俄国当文豪
(The first foreign-literary-giant novel on Qidian to average over 10,000 monthly subscriptions) Many years later, when Nabokov was teaching Russian literature in America, this was how he did it. In a darkened room, he first switched on a lamp in the corner and said, “Pushkin was the first beacon of Russian literature.” Then he switched on a lamp in the middle of the room and said, “This is Gogol.” He turned on another lamp and declared, “This is Chekhov.” Then he strode to the window, yanked ope
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I'm Not a Literary Giant 我不是文豪
(This is not a copycat novel. No transmigration, no rebirth, no System, and no golden finger.) Many years later, when Wang Zixu stood at the Nobel Prize in Literature ceremony, he would remember that distant afternoon when his wife cut her hand. Back then, he was a clerk at a public institution in a small city. He had little money, and the literary world was a door he could find no way into. Now, he was the literary world's undisputed leading figure across the lands of three rivers, four lakes,
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Turbulent 1979! 激荡1979!
This literary giant is no ordinary man! He wears luxury watches, drives expensive cars, lives in a mansion, and is close to several actresses. He shaped not only one generation's childhood, but the childhoods of several generations, and their childhood idols, too. Want to know why he's so bold? Wei Ming: “I was already earning foreign currency back in 1980. The culture I exported on my own was worth about as much as the entire contemporary literary scene. I've spent my whole life writing novels.
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A Literary Master Among the Seventy-Two Tenants 人在七十二家房客当文豪
Hao Yun was an ambitious young man of the 21st century. One day, out of nostalgia, he watched some old discs and ended up transmigrating into the obscure Republican-era TV drama from Guangdong Province, *72 Tenants*. Where the heck have I ended up? The Republican era? You've got to be kidding me! The worst part is, this TV drama has a total of 2,380 episodes! It was still being serialized in 2026, making it an absolute slog. When will I ever get home?!
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Reborn as a Literary Prodigy in Tokyo After My Readers Destroyed Me 被读者爆杀后,转生东京文豪少女
Everyone knows it! Chinese writers are great at tragedy and making readers cry. Everyday life? Can't write it. Comedy? Too awkward. Urban fiction? It lacks the warmth of everyday life... But give them a tragic ending, and their writing comes alive! They seem to shed their mediocrity in an instant, each one like the Star of Literature come down to earth! And then. This writer, who created countless classic novels and literary works, became the most commercially successful author of the new era, s
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1836: I Become a Literary Giant in Britain 1836:我在大英当文豪
“And now, please welcome the Poet Laureate of the British Empire, recipient of the Order of the Garter, lifelong president of the Royal Literary Society, Queen Victoria's most trusted private adviser, foreign member of the Academie Francaise and holder of the Grand Cross of Honor, Dickens's rival and dear friend, the uncrowned king of literature, the esteemed Lord Michel Leblanc!” Michel stood on the platform outside Buckingham Palace. He surveyed the fervent faces below, then glanced at Queen V
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1978: Started Working as a Substitute Driver at Peking University 1978:从在北大代班司机开始
Chen Luo is an article commentator and part-time writer. Wake up and go back to 1978. His father is a car driver at Peking University. Chen Luo has a close relationship with the teachers at the school, especially the older the teachers, the better the relationship. Liu Zhenyun: "Who is this?" "Who do you want to keep your luggage? Vice President of Peking University." "Who is the other one?" Chen Luo: "Professor, professor, still professor!" On the day of admission, Chen Luo planned to submit a
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A Literary Life in Tokyo, Starting with the Villainess Clan Head! 东京文豪生活,从恶女家主开始!
In the eighth year of the Heisei era, Ryunosuke's family fell on hard times. Once known as the “Master of Chengjiang Hall” and the “Master of the Wogui Grotto,” he was sold to a household as a servant. Life as a servant was no picnic: up before the chickens and to bed later than the dogs. Fortunately, when Ryunosuke turned eighteen, he received a divine decree and awakened the wisdom of his past life. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Snow Country... One literary masterpiece after another came
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1978: A Literary Giant's Story Begins with a Misunderstanding 1978:文豪从被误解开始
Reborn in a northeastern mining town in 1978, Han Jun'an faces failure in the college entrance exams and a frail body. With no other options, he rolls up his sleeves and turns to writing for a living. He doesn't care about making it into the history books, only about earning enough money. But then... “We need satirists brave enough to speak their minds!” “He must have a deeper meaning!” “He exposed the harsh realities of life all by himself!” The pioneer of satirical literature, predating Scar L
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Literary Master, 1979: I’m the Gatekeeper at the Teachers’ College 文豪1979:我在师大当门房
I’ve said it before: foreigners don’t understand foreign languages. Yang Yi, renowned writer and translation scholar
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Literary Giant: This Uncle Is Bursting with Talent 文豪:这大叔才华横溢
"Drama before the twenty-first century belonged to Shakespeare, while drama after the twenty-first century belongs to Zhao Jibai. In between, playwrights such as Chekhov and Ibsen served as the link." This was the conclusion reached by later generations when writing the history of drama. This book is also known as: "Who Are You Alluding to with Animal Farm?" "The Playwright Who Stands Shoulder to Shoulder with Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century" "Influence: One Article Serialized Simultaneo
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Literary Giant of the Korean Peninsula, 2008 半岛文豪2008
[Peninsula] [Literary genius] [Multiple heroines] In the East, there are Lu Xun, Lao She, Mao Dun... They anchor themselves to the land with their words and question the fate of their nation... In Japan, there are Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Yasunari Kawabata, Haruki Murakami... Between beauty and destruction, they explore the depths of the human soul... And what about the Peninsula? Though widely recognized as a country with an exceptionally strong, even distorted, sense of national pride, it seem
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1979: A Literary Great's Leisurely Life 1979:文豪的悠闲人生
[From fewer than two hundred first-time subscriptions to over 10,000 peak subscriptions, it only gets better later on, so feel free to enjoy it] Living another life, Chen Weidong looks at his newborn son and his three-year-old daughter. There is also that familiar yet unfamiliar little village, but he is no longer the same young man he once was. After wasting half his life, this time he wants to live it properly. He had achieved nothing in his previous life. In this one, he only wants to make up
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My Era, 1979! 我的时代1979!
[Period setting, slow burn, original literary genius, academia, professor, one female lead. Read with caution if that's not your thing.] When Xu Chengjun was electrocuted to death amid piles of paperwork in 2024, he opened his eyes again to find himself a sent-down youth in rural Anhui in 1979. From the jolting country roads and donkey carts, to the lectern at Fudan University's Chinese Department, Xu Chengjun stands at the dawn of Reform and Opening Up. With a pen in his left hand, he unravels
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The Rise of the Entertainment Age 风起文娱时代
Who is Li Mu? A student at the Shanghai Theatre Academy! The youngest bestselling author! A star, director, tycoon... the entertainment industry's ultimate ruler! A leading figure in Chinese entertainment's new era: a man blessed with both literary talent and leading-man charm. He makes stars bow, capital look up, and time itself stand in awe! Multiple heroines, a slow burn, and meticulous detail. No transmigration or rebirth, and his golden finger is kept firmly in check. If you don't like that
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The Iron-Fisted Literary Giant of 1977 1977的铁拳文豪
In 1977, Chinese literature stood at a crossroads. Banners of every kind flew across the sky, yet no one asked a simple question: What did the people want to read? Lu Shu sent out A Love Letter to Grandma. It was a letter from a Chaoshan village, writing of love and resilience grown from the soil. Some said he was the foremost figure in contemporary Chinese literature. He said, "I merely kicked each of those crooked posteriors straight." One pen, reshaping the literary spirit of an era.
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Shanghai Literary Master, 1980 沪上文豪1980
Lu Ze, a literature lecturer in the twenty-first century, is reborn in Shanghai in 1980 as a young man forced to stay home because of illness. In the material-scarce yet intellectually awakening 1980s, the literary treasure trove spanning four decades in his mind will be his foundation as he makes his way through this great era.
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Literary Giant, 1978: Crowdfunding My Way into Peking University 文豪1978:从众筹上北大开始
Back in 1978, he was from the start in a disastrous situation! A father who had died young, a frail mother, and a younger sister still in elementary school... The family had nothing to their name and had already been living beyond their means for several years. Fortunately, he still had an admission letter from Peking University's Chinese Department. With the twenty-five yuan and thirteen eggs collected for him by the villagers and elders, Xu Lu shouldered his luggage and set foot in the capital
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1979: A Life in Dreams 1979戏梦人生
Life is but a play, and Zhong Shan’s performance took the stage again in 1979. His mother’s funeral left him in the worst possible position from the start. His spineless father came a thousand miles to claim him, the village beauty pursued him with affection, and when he arrived in the capital, he didn’t even have a bed to sleep in… But what could he do? Zhong Shan started out as a temporary stagehand, pulling curtains. He joined Chen Xiao’er to create a movie miracle, saved a theater on the bri
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1978: A Young Writer Joins the Army 1978:军队来了个年轻作家
“If Zhou Shuren could do it, why can't I, Liu Jimin?” Also known as A Young Writer Joins the Army in 1978 Liu Jimin was reborn in 1978. Originally a medic in a company, he was recommended for university after earning merit for saving lives, becoming a worker-peasant-soldier student at a medical university. Unfortunately, he knew nothing about medicine, and it was also an age when literature was flourishing. So he decided to follow in the footsteps of Mr. Lu Xun and abandon medicine for literatur
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A Literary Giant of the Wanli Era, Starting by Buying Two Maidservant Sisters 万历文豪,从买下丫鬟姐妹开始
After transmigrating into the body of a dissolute young master, he studies alone in Nanjing and comes across a broker selling a pair of trembling little maids. They’re sisters, foreign beauties, barely clothed and utterly pitiable. After buying them, he has two more little mouths to feed. Then, when trouble comes his way, he has no choice but to take up his writing brush and give the people of the Great Ming a taste of something good ahead of its time. From then on, there’s no stopping him. He r
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Tokyo Editor, Starting from Binding the Young Lady 东京编辑,从绑定文青大小姐开始
In Tokyo after the bubble economy burst, Shono Yue and the mystery of the womb were solved. Facing the prospect of being fired from his high-paying personal training job, Zhuang Yeyue decisively chose not to do it and instead turned to an editing job that he loved. I thought about just eating and waiting to die. But suddenly I can see the branch of my destiny related to editing work. By making choices related to these attributes, you can earn rewards. Cash, real estate, skills, favorability
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Literary Giant 1913: Walking Through Republican China 文豪1913:行走在民国
1913. The skies were dark and stormy, and Beiping was in turmoil. Lin Yanzhi’s immediate priorities were to make money and win people’s hearts. He copied poems not for fame, nor wrote essays for profit. He did so because his mind held grand visions and his eyes contained mountains and rivers. Every word was a gem that astonished the room; every piece was a masterpiece that stirred the capital. In the struggle between old and new, and the debate over classical and vernacular writing, some hailed
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Tokyo: Starting from Social Fear and Becoming an ACG God 东京:从社恐开始化身ACG大神
Traveling to neon Tokyo and becoming an ordinary and handsome high school student, Mochizuki Kanade, a socially fearful boy, made up his mind to start his own journey to the throne. As a result, the world's most talented cartoonist and gifted animation director suddenly appeared. From "Juju Kaibai" and "Puella Magi Madoka Magica", they shocked the entire Tokyo entertainment industry. Many years later, Kanade Mochizuki, who had already become famous, was interviewed: "Mr. Mochizuki, what was your
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Literary Giant, 1978 文豪1978
After transmigrating to 1978, Lin Chaoyang had planned to lie flat and live as a carefree slacker, making up for all the hard work of his previous life. But before he could put his plan into action, the educated youth who had married him, gotten into university, then disappeared for half a year without a word, suddenly showed up at the production team. “Chaoyang, come to Yanjing with me!” the young woman said. His business venture hadn’t even gotten off the ground, and he was already living off
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Literary Giant, 1982: Starting with a Divorce 文豪1982:从离婚开始
Wordsmith Kong Zhe worked himself to death trying to meet a deadline. After transmigrating, he became the “good-for-nothing” everyone at the Bingcheng Electric Motor Factory mocked. He had failed the college entrance exam five years in a row, was saddled with enormous debt, and had been abandoned by his wife, who ran off. “Kong Zhe, give up. We're from two different worlds now.” In her letter, his wife denounced him as utterly worthless. It was a hellish start from the very beginning. Everyone a
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Literary Titan 1983 文豪1983
(A reborn literary master's story, no System. Every work is interpreted and adapted to fit its era.) Sixty-year-old Yu Qie sat there, gazing fondly at the reflection of his twenty-year-old self in his eyes. Back then, he had just submitted his first novel and was hailed as a rising star in the literary world. Now he was famous throughout the world, the conscience of the late twentieth century and the final pinnacle of human literature. The Akutagawa Prize, the Mao Dun Literature Prize, the Kafka
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1987: in the Beginning, the Daughter-In-Law Came to Propose Marriage. 1987:开局媳妇儿上门提亲
"Era + Writers + Daily Life + Literary Copy" Shen Yizhou, who has worked in the field of education and training all his life, was reborn in 1987 and was told that he would still have to undergo a severe beating in the college entrance examination. At first, Shen Yizhou resisted. His dream was to become a cultural person and write several masterpieces to achieve wealth and freedom. Unexpectedly, his father-in-law brought him a beautiful daughter-in-law. His literary dream can be put aside for the
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Literary Master, 1979 文豪1979
In 1979, Li Yu takes up literature as his pen and beautiful women as his companions, writing a life of unrestrained abandon. Yu Minhong: Li Yu is someone I can never surpass. Gu Cheng: I like his poetry. Lu Yao: He wasn't the first person to tell me to quit smoking. Mo Yan: I devote myself deeply to one field, while he's good at many things. I'm not as good as he is in that regard. Yu Hua: Damn, his writing is incredible! Han Han: I grew up reading Li Yu's novels. Guo Xiaosi: I'm a huge fan of L
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Literary Master, 1979: Starting with Youth 文豪1979:从芳华开始
Liu Feng, a university student majoring in Chinese literature, accidentally transmigrates into the role of Liu Feng, a soldier on the 1979 battlefield in Youth. Before he can figure out what’s going on, he is wounded in an explosion and pulled off the front lines. When he wakes up, he meets Xiao Suizi at a field hospital. She has come to interview him. The dream fades to ash. Now Liu Feng, whose humble origins will be mocked by later generations, helplessly realizes that all he can do is wri
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Literary Giant, 1949 文豪1949
"Who said we don't have creative writers here?!" "Here, there is one!" A farmer from the future who wants to be a writer. 1949 Was a special era, in which a hundred flowers bloomed in all industries and a hundred schools of thought contended. In the field of literature, there are numerous talents and excellent works. A large number of writers such as Lu, Guo, Mao, Lao Cao, Jin, Zhao, Sun and Bai Yao stood out. Jiang Fan, who comes from later generations, is destined to become one of them in th
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Reborn in 1978: Starting by Beating Up the Literary World 重生1978,从暴打文坛开始
In his previous life, he was an online novelist nobody took seriously in 2026. In this life, he is an orphan who placed second in his province's 1978 college entrance exams. Other people write novels for the love of it. He writes first and foremost to put food on the table. Other people start magazines and wait for government funding. He starts one by placing an ad that brings in 300,000 subscribers. From a short story to a novel called The Rush, from a pile of old porcelain bowls to a rare Monk
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The Fantasy Literary Giant of 1860 幻想文豪1860
After transmigrating to an alternate world with a Victorian flavor, penniless Dorian finds that his mind contains every book he read in his previous life. What else is there to say? I have to start plagiarizing immediately! He casually writes down a few jokes to test the waters, but to his surprise... The manuscript starts glowing. This world has a supernatural power known as [Phantom Books]. One of the most important conditions for their creation is the author’s “experience.” When *Mr. Hakimi’s
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Japanese Literary Giant: Starting from the Bubble Era 日本文豪:从泡沫时代开始
Japan has had two literary masters who won the Nobel Prize. The first was Yasunari Kawabata, who wrote Snow Country, the pinnacle of Japanese literature. The second was Kenzaburo Oe, renowned for his serious, socially critical fiction. The status of a literary master is especially exalted in Japan. In the eyes of the public, a Japanese prime minister may not rank as highly as a world-class literary master. But literature is not noble simply because it is lofty. It is noble because it gives voice
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Travel Through 78, Starting from College 穿越78,从上大学开始
Xie Xinxue traveled back in time to the early summer of 1978 and became a young man from Beijing who went to the countryside on the prairie. He had a modern library in his mind with a massive collection of books and audio-visual digital works. He relied on this knowledge to take the college entrance examination that year, became the provincial champion and was admitted to Peking University, and successfully returned to Sijiu City. Use the vast amount of information in the library to write famous
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Tokyo: The Experiential Literary Master 东京:体验系文豪
Everyone gets the same kind of golden finger when it comes to literary greats. When they’re reborn, some get an all-purpose search engine, some get an intelligent Literary System, and some get nothing more than flashes of inspiration. But Watanabe’s literary golden finger awakened when he was eighteen, along with memories from his past life, and it seems to be the sort that lets him experience things firsthand. [Quest 1: Try and fail at several methods of suicide, such as hanging, inhaling car e
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Tokyo's Great Writer: It All Began When I Found a Wandering Girl 东京文豪,从捡到浪人少女开始
“Here’s my diploma.” On his way home, he ran into a wandering girl who was planning to repeat her final year. After looking at his diploma, Hoshino Makoto decided to take her home. The aloof beauty he meets at a bookstore is actually a socially anxious girl with a surprising side. The publisher’s seemingly cold and heartless heiress editor comes from an incredibly powerful family, and is cold on the outside but warm on the inside. Then there’s the tsundere brat of a fellow author... I’m a litera
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Reborn in 2005: The Literary Genius of Synthesis 重生05,合成系文豪
[Student] + [Teacher] = Short Story [???] Bai Yizhi is reborn in 2005 and awakens the Literary Inspiration Tag Synthesis System. Combining tags grants him literary works. With heaven practically spoon-feeding him, he steps into the literary world, and from then on, the literary scene gains a presence no one can ever ignore. Years later, Time magazine puts him on its cover: “His arrival made every writer from the '80s and '90s pale in comparison.”
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Tokyo: From Manga to Entertainment Industry Mogul! 东京:从漫画到文娱领域大神!
Kiritani Subaru transmigrated to Tokyo in a parallel world. The year was 1991. An ordinary office worker, he experienced a Mushoku Tensei and was reborn as a high school student about to enter university. His parents told him to fend for himself. Just as he was reluctantly preparing to find a part-time job, a System appeared. [Emotion Harvest System] [By stirring other people's emotions, you can convert them into points, which can be exchanged for rewards] With this System, Kiritani Subaru start
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The Red-Hot Years: A Passionate Life Starting as an Educated Youth 火红年代:从知青开始的激情岁月
A junior office worker from the 21st century suddenly transmigrates to a fiery era of extreme scarcity, where people lack both clothing and food. In these years, when youth burns bright and passion runs high, amid the surging tides of reform and opening up, he rediscovers the true meaning of life. In his previous life, he worked himself to the bone as a corporate drone. This time, he’ll take the time to enjoy life. Starting today, he’ll be a happy ordinary man: growing crops, hunting, trainin
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Just Promoted to the Old Days, I Returned to the Senior High School Classroom! 刚晋升旧日,我回到高三教室!
Su Mu died unexpectedly during the original promotion ceremony and traveled back to the senior high school classroom. Bad news: He's lost all his powers. Good news: He can harvest emotional restorative powers! Better news: In another world, he made his fortune as a copywriter and has rich experience. So... "Recently, Su Mu, who was only 17 years old, created "Five Centimeters per Second" and its sales reached an astonishing 5 million copies!" "With this book, he became one of the most popular au
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Naruto: Jiraiya, I'm the True Literary Master 火影:自来也,我才是大文豪
After transmigrating to the ninja world several years ago, Chi Huanyi became an orphan of Konoha’s Second Great Ninja War. He and Rin were childhood friends, inseparable since they were young, and he often had to deal with Obito, who looked ready to eat him alive... Chi Huanyi had practically maxed out his cannon-fodder buffs, but he wasn’t worried at all. Really. After all, as a distinguished transmigrator, he’d only encountered a tiny accident. In Konoha Year 42, the gears of fate began to tur
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All My Girlfriends Are Literary Geniuses 我的女友都是真文豪
After transmigrating to a parallel world, Li Qinglian gains the [Literary Masterpiece Completion Plan]. Complete the masterpieces of literary giants to receive corresponding rewards. [You helped Shakespeare complete Hamlet. Reward: The Prince's Six Arts] [You helped Andersen complete The Little Mermaid. Reward: Potion of Exchange] [You helped Osamu Dazai complete The Setting Sun. Reward: Time Capsule] [You helped Kahlil Gibran complete The Garden of the Prophet. Reward: Noble Soul] The rewards w
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Tokyo: I'm This Kind of Person, but You're Not My Type 东京:我是这种人,但你不是这块
Transmigrating to Tokyo in a parallel timeline in 1978. The bubble has only just begun, and endless development and opportunities lie within it. After transmigrating, Aoki learned through his memories that both his parents were dead, he had no younger sister but did have a house, as well as a modest company. He thought he could enjoy a carefree, comfortable middle-class life. Reality, however, taught him a lesson: the house had already been repossessed by the bank, the company was on the verge o
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The Great English Novelist 1833 大英文豪1833
Many years later... God: “Congratulations. You have become a writer at the summit of humanity's literary Olympus.” “Then... what about Jonathan Rochester?” God paused. “It's been a long time since anyone called me that.” Fatty Qiu: “Britain's greatest natural treasure is the brilliance of its literature. One Rochester is enough to keep Britain from ever falling.” Thomas Carlyle: “Mr. Rochester, I have just witnessed the birth of Shakespeare. What I mean is, you will be the Zeus of humanity's
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Literary Titan, 1978: I Have a Lesson to Teach the Literary World 文豪1978:我得给文坛上堂课
Liu Yimin, who was burning through his life to scrape together money, unexpectedly returns to 1978 and becomes a Chinese teacher at a township-run junior high school, with his job about to be cut. His family frets over his employment, but he couldn't care less. With a change of identity, he becomes a college student of the era. Amid the mighty tide of reform and opening up, a pen becomes his means of making a living. “I'm a Chinese teacher, so of course I can write, right? I produce a lot? That'
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Entertainment in 1981: The Leisurely Life of an Ordinary Man 文娱1981:俗人的悠闲人生
In the early 1980s, after a long winter, the cultural sphere began to thaw. People’s inner worlds were like parched wastelands, and they thirsted desperately for entertainment and culture. Wu Liuyi returned to this restless era with no dreams of fame and fortune. All he hoped for was to earn an honest living with his pen. He didn’t fret over whether his writing was popular or highbrow. He simply wrote the stories ordinary people loved to read. Before he knew it, he had amassed more wealth than h
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Tokyo Literary Master: Starting in the Late Eighties 东京文豪:从八十年代末开始
The late 1980s: the Showa era came to an end, and the Heisei era began. That year, the Nikkei index surged to its peak of 38,915 points, while land prices in Tokyo could have bought the entire United States. It was an age of revelry, when people waved ten-thousand-yen bills in taxis, and also an age when people possessed nothing but money. Kitahara Iwa, who had transmigrated, stood in the chilly wind of Roppongi with only 4,600 yen left in his pocket. Faced with a world so noisy that it kept peo
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Great Ming Literary Master, 1556 大明文豪1556
In the bitter winter of 1534, Lu Qinhui opens his eyes to the freezing wind. Years later... Yan Shifan: “Go ahead, stir things up! I’ll gladly risk my life playing along with you!” Yan Maoqing: “The emperor gets a million, we get a million, and the other two million go back to his hometown!” Gao Gong: “Who are you calling Gao the Cannon? Lu Qinhui is the real cannon!” Xu Jie: “He’s as cunning as a fox. Is the position of Grand Secretary of the Cabinet destined to elude me?” Yan Song: “In court,
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