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The Blind Concubine (Xia NiangNiang) [瞎娘娘]
Xi Ni - 2012
The blind concubine has a snow white cat. Day after day, year after year, he lives quietly in the courtyard of the cold palace. It is as if he has already been forgotten by the entire imperial palace. Until one day, the young emperor accidentally chances upon him…
游戏加载中 [Game Loading]
龙柒 (Long Qi) - 2019
The disadvantage was that all games were boring! Then one day, the words ‘Game loading’ appeared in front of his eyes and he began to clear real games!The emperor of luck ran into a bottleneck in the first game.Game Name: Love to the Left or RightThe vampire prince has invited you to a meal. Will you go?Xie Xi: I won’t go.Arrow through the heart. The vampire prince says you can’t leave him and takes your life.After loading the file, Xie Xi changed the option: I will go.The housekeeper has cut off your head because of love and hatred.Xie Xi: ???
Seizing Dreams [夺梦]
Arise Zhang - 2018
He led Yu Hao in solving the countless riddles that abounded in the realm of the conscious, and lit up the fire beacons on the meandering Great Wall.Thereafter, the darkness retreated, the sun rose, and when the long night was thoroughly lit up, the him who existed in reality was reborn.The black dragon that roared, the lighthouse and demonic eye on the coastline, the rain forest before Chichén Itzá, the fierce beasts that wreaked havoc in the Colosseum…the bizarre projection of reality in one’s consciousness reflected the hidden place that the sunlight in reality couldn’t touch – the innumerable sins of the human heart.The journey of seizing dreams continues, and one can only hope that the sun will continue illuminating the human heart.…Fire beacons on the Great Wall were lit up to signal a border invasion.
论救错反派的下场 Mistakenly Saving the Villain
凤羽涅 [Feng Yu Nie] - 2020
Professor System has issued a mission: to rescue the gentle, kind and tragic protagonist shou of the novel “The Exceptional Furnace”.Song ‘Scholar-Tyrant’ Qingshi: “Don’t worry, Professor! I can definitely ensure the patient’s recovery!”In the Immortal Realm:Song Qingshi praised from the bottom of his heart: “My patient is the kindest and most beautiful little angel in the world.”Yue Wuhuan quietly washed the blood from his hands and smiled softly: “En.”Song Qingshi swore from the bottom of his heart: “As a doctor, I will never covet nor take advantage of my beautiful patient!”Yue Wuhuan took full and complete advantage of the doctor and smiled softly: “En.”Song Qingshi affirmed from the bottom of his heart: “Under my loving care, the patient will never be blackened!”Yue Wuhuan secretly hid his monstrously evil thoughts and smiled softly: “En.”At that inextinguishable summit, upon thousand and thousands of soul lamps, he sat on the god’s throne of white bone, guarding that piece of stone.“You are the only one in this world who treats me tenderly.”“And so, you are the only one I treat tenderly.”Scholar-tyrant Song was absolutely delighted: “Professor! Can I get full marks?”Professor System exploded: “You fool! You saved the wrong person!”
The Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage
千山茶客 - 2014
Yet, after returning five years later, there was no place to fit in the Inner Palace.The beauty in his arms smiled brightly, “Older sister, the country is stabilized and you should retire.”Her daughter had met with a violent death and the Crown Prince, her son, was disposed. Not one of the Shen family members – who had sacrificed themselves for the country – were lucky enough to escape. In one dynasty, everything was overturned: her clan had perished and she needed to mourn for her children!Shen Miao never did thought that as a married couple who went through trials and tribulations and mutually assisted one another was just a stage joke to him!He said, “Seeing that you have followed Zhen for twenty years, Zhen will grant you with an intact corpse. You should be grateful this great act of kindness.”Under the three Chi of white silk, Shen Miao made a malicious vow: In the time to come, she will take part in each and everyone’s end!Upon rebirth, she returned to the time when she was fourteen, where the tragedy had yet to occur: her family were still alive and she was still the pure, amiable, quiet and yielding Di daughter of military lineage.Her relatives had all been hiding their black hearts. Her female cousins are ruthless and malicious, her new Yiniang is like a tiger watching its prey, and the disreputable man is wanting to repeat of events.Her family must be protected, the huge enmity must be avenged, the Imperial seat of the country must also be part of the trophy. In this lifetime, let’s see who can beat the others!But that little marquis from the Xie family, the arrogant and obstinate spear carrying youth, stood biasedly at her side and proudly said, “It is only the measly fall of the Imperial power. Remember this, the world belongs to you. You– Belong to me!”
斗地主之恋 Fight the Landlord, Fall in Love
苍梧宾白 - 2019
[1]Two eldest young masters who looked down on each other were forced into a blind date. Each discovered that the other was the immoral scoundrel who had poured cold water or thrown rotten tomatoes on him during a game of Fight The Landlord two days prior.Now what?Well, secure a partner first and figure the rest out later.[1] popular Chinese card game with an online app version.
Captive Prince
C.S. Pacat - 2012
S. Pacat comes the first in her critically acclaimed trilogy—with a bonus story.Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos. But when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.Beautiful, manipulative, and deadly, his new master, Prince Laurent, epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.For Damen, there is just one rule: never, ever reveal his true identity. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else…Includes an exclusive extra story!
Chongfei Manual
风荷游月
Before her rebirth, Wei Luo was an innocent little girl.After rebirth, she appeared lovable on the outside but was a different person on the inside.Those who learned of her true nature yielded to her.Only the prince regent regarded her as a treasure; no matter how much he pampered her, it was not enough for him.Anything she wanted, he gave her, including the princess position that she didn’t want, which he stubbornly pushed onto her.
The Peach Blossom Debt 桃花债
Da Feng Gua Guo - 2008
However, Yao Xiang has affinity for a poor scholar. Driven to despair, Song Yao mistakenly eats an elixir pill of immortality by chance, soaring into the heaven.Meanwhile, in heaven, Tianshu Xing and Nanming emperor are involved in a love affair. Because of this, they are demoted and forced to descend to earth by the Jade Emperor as a punishment. The Jade Emperor then ordered Song Yao to descend to Earth and break up the two lovebirds. Song Yao’s close friend, Hengwen Qing, accompanied him back to Earth. Decreed by fate, Song Yao is reborn as the eldest son of a feudal lord and brought the weak and fragile scholar, Tianshu Xing, into his mansion. The entanglement in his past life, the cause and effect of his reincarnation... Song Yao plays the role of a bridge connecting people with the red string of fate, while being destined to live a lonely life forever.丞相公子宋珧迷恋花魁瑶湘,瑶湘却与一个穷书生情投意合。失魂落魄的宋珧因缘际会误食了仙丹,就此飞升成了神仙。天庭的天枢星君和南明帝君犯了错,被玉帝贬下凡界,玉帝钦点宋珧下凡将他二人进行折磨。宋珧的知己好友衡文清君也随其来到人间,却遇上了命中注定的劫数。宋珧在下界做了一个藩王世子,把文弱的天枢星君强抢入府…前世纠葛,因果轮回,宋珧在别人的情戏里扮演搭线的桥,自己确是个永世孤鸾的命。
To Be a Virtuous Wife
月下蝶影 - 2013
A time traveling romance - from the author's description:"As a virtuous wife, does it include tolerating his cousin, enduring his concubines, bearing his mother?If you will not let me live freely, why would I let you live in satisfaction?Did fate let women time-travel so she could learn the three morals and four virtues?Rather than act like a coward and live, it would be better to live in satisfaction and die."Translated from Chinese
Hua Hua You Long [花花遊龍]
Xing Bao Ni
* Note: There's a manhua adaptation here - Hua Hua You Long 1
Thrive in Catastrophe
焦糖冬瓜
And throughout his adventure, he met an alluring(?) killing machine, who he started to have fantasies on after they had an accidental kiss…Xiao Yan: Did I fall for him? But he’s a man!Maya: Who knows…. maybe it’s the other way round?
These Violent Delights
Micah Nemerever - 2020
A talented artist, Paul is sensitive and agonizingly insecure, incomprehensible to his working-class family, and desolate with grief over his father’s recent death. Paul sees the wealthy, effortlessly charming Julian as his sole intellectual equal—an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. He idolizes his friend for his magnetic confidence. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel. And admiration isn’t the same as trust.As their friendship spirals into an all-consuming intimacy, Paul is desperate to protect their precarious bond, even as it becomes clear that pressures from the outside world are nothing compared with the brutality they are capable of inflicting on one another. Separation is out of the question. But as their orbit compresses and their grip on one another tightens, they are drawn to an act of irrevocable violence that will force the young men to confront a shattering truth at the core of their relationship. Exquisitely plotted, unfolding with a propulsive ferocity, These Violent Delights is a novel of escalating dread and an excavation of the unsettling depths of human desire.The Secret History meets Call Me by Your Name in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel—a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.
Beijing Comrades
Beijing Tongzhi - 1998
Despite divergent lives, the two men spend their nights together, establishing a deep connection. When loyalties are tested, Handong is left questioning his secrets, his choices, and his very identity.Beijing Comrades is the story of a torrid love affair set against the sociopolitical unrest of late-eighties China. Due to its depiction of gay sexuality and its critique of the totalitarian government, it was originally published anonymously on an underground gay website within mainland China. This riveting and heartbreaking novel, circulated throughout China in 1998, quickly developed a cult following, and remains a central work of queer literature from the People's Republic of China. This is the first English-language translation of Beijing Comrades.Bei Tong is the anonymous author of Beijing Comrades. The author's real-world identity has been a subject of ongoing debate since the novel was first published.
The Path of the Cannon Fodder’s Counterattack
Mao Niao
As long as your golden finger is bigger than Mo Qi’s.But how did Mo Qi’s Mary Sue halo end up in his body! He is still a straight man who likes beauties! He definitely, definitely doesn’t want to turn bent!