The Record of the Yu Cauldron

Chinese mythology has enjoyed the broadest readership and audience from ancient times to the present. Every era has had fertile ground for passing these stories down, and every era has seen countless new and old versions appear. In recent years, the country has paid great attention to exploring Chinese mythological themes, giving rise to a new crop of works and IP based on mythology.

Yu Ding Ji is a novel painstakingly crafted by 17K author Zuoyou Dongxi. With Gun and Yu the Great at its heart, it blends xianwu, mythology, fantasy, transmigration, epic, magical battles, and real-world allegory. It tells a new mythological tale of Gun and Yu the Great taming the floods, as a modern nobody transmigrates to ancient times.

The novel has a detailed outline and comprises 28 volumes and 800 to 1,000 chapters, totaling 3 to 3.5 million Chinese characters, with additional side stories.

A novel sure to set young readers' blood racing and draw them deeply into the story, it has something for everyone who loves mythology and heroic epics.

The book is accessible, smoothly written, vivid, and easy to adapt into a dramatic story. Drawing on carefully researched traditional myths as its core material, it also breaks through the traditional framework and sets the story against a much broader world. It weaves in many plausible elements, making the story more expansive, compelling, and readable, while giving the carefully conceived, large-scale new IP in the novel even more room to grow.