Introductions

[geraineon]

Welcome! You can use this post to share a little bit of yourself! Feel free to also just post an introduction to the community instead of replying to this post! You don't have to follow any format, but here are some prompts:

1. What are you currently reading?
2. What is your favourite cnovel?
3. Do you have a favourite author?
4. What are your other hobbies and interests?
5. What do you hope to see from this community?

Comments

[salamandras]

Hi! I've only read two cnovels so far, both because I loved the live action (tv shows Guardian and Word of Honor), and I'm here to get recommendations on what to read next. I'm probably going to be a quiet presence, soaking up information, although I'll try to participate. Thanks for making this community!

Non-cnovel genres I read are many, but I usually gravitate to scifi, fantasy, and speculative fiction. I'm not sure how that matches up with cnovel genres, though.

[mekare]

:-) I'm looking forward to seeing you over there! I came into that fandom so late and am always happy to find people willing to talk.
Re DMBJ/Xu lei, feel free to check out dmbj_tombraiders (I'm not a mod, but I do occasionally post and compile stuff there). There are some posts to guide you through the novels.

[geraineon]

Hi and welcome!

I love Don't Pick Up Boyfriends From the Trash Bin! (though I have not finished reading because translation is not finished yet). I love many from your fav novels list (the only one I haven't read in that list is C Language Cultivation, but I have that on my TBR)~

Going to add Safety Manual Labor Tips of 2D too

I see that Cyan Wings is definitely popular here XD

Edited to add: and happy doomsday but that's also on tbr. Somehow my eyes just skimmed past that

[geraineon]

Hi and welcome!

And that's alright, participate whenever you feel comfy to do it~

There are few novels recommended here that you can check and I will set up recurring posts for recommendations later.

I enjoy SFF novels as well. Hm, about genres, here's one about webnovel classifications: https://immortalmountain.wordpress.com/articles/chinese-webnovel-categories/

But I don't know if that translates to books in general

[salamandras]

Oh, great resource, thank you! I'll go read it over now.

[anne]

excuse me I just got to the character named HELIAN YI and I would love to know which characters those are, because wow that was a surprise

[snowynight]

It's really an amazing ride, but I won't spoil you. 😉.

There's sadly not much discussion. Despite Little Mushroom's popularity, English fans have yet gone into the writer's other works.

[geraineon]

I actually don't remember a Helian Yi in Stars of Chaos, but this and Tian Ya Ke/Qiye are completely unrelated, if you're wondering!

[geraineon]

All the best with it~

[geraineon]

Never too late! Haha. The good thing about MDZS is that it's probably the biggest or one of the biggest danmei (maybe webnovel?) fandom in EN spaces so there's plenty of meta, fan works, etc. to go through

I joined that DMBJ comm! But haven't had time to poke around yet. Thank you!

[anne]

No, I was thinking that Cyan Wings might have been doing an homage! Hence my curiosity about the hanzi

[anne]

Is that the scene with the bonfire?

[gekidasa]

I don't remember any bonfire 😂

It's You Fangyin's last scene, and what she says

[geraineon]

Ahh. I could not remember a Helian Yi, but turns out the name is changed later so I doubt it's a homage.

[lunarriviera]

Mo Du is my faaaaaaavorite I hope you love it as much as I did! I haven't moved on, emotionally—

[lunarriviera]

I just remember the one volume of DMBJ (maybe it's Sha Hai? I can't remember anymore) at the end of which Xu Lei's author note just says something like "I didn't finish this one because I'm drunk." Like, sir pls. Be less unserious! (I also love him but…complicated, yes.)

[lunarriviera]

(Just got my vol 3 of SPL today! I'm so excited about spending the weekend with it.)

[ehyde]

Looks like we have similar taste! Of the faves you listed, the only one I haven't read is Don't Pick Up Boyfriends From the Trash Bin (although it's been on my radar as something I'd like to read). I just finished Happy Doomsday recently.

[lunarriviera]

[waves madly at everyone] hello fellow cnovel readers, very happy to be here—and thank you mod for starting this comm!

1. currently reading:

Just got Stars of Chaos/Sha Po Lang vol. 3 in the mail today LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO

2. favorite cnovel:

I finished Mo Du in like five days in late November and honestly I still haven't gotten over it. I may never get over it. I think about it constantly. I never dreamed a plot could DO all that.

3. favorite author:

Priest so far, even though I've read hardly anything. But I love her huge brilliant wild mind.

4. other hobbies/interests:

I write every day (compulsively), walk every day (reluctantly, even though I live on a beautiful island), and drink way too much matcha. Also I have a cat, Zoë. I teach literature and film to undergrads part-time and am full-time disabled (the crazy kind). And I love making friends so feel free to follow. <3

5. what I hope to see:

Just looking forward to y'all's recs, and lots of conversation about books. Out of curiosity—does anyone use Goodreads instead of/as well as NU? I'm having fun making shelves on both, and filling them with vast numbers of danmei to read—

[halfcactus]

I actually have read LYB but found the plot reveals too infodump-y for my brain—which I know is conventional, I’m just bad at processing information haha. I did really enjoy novel!Xia Dong, the outcome of Lin Shu and Nihang’s romance + appreciated the cdrama even more after reading it.

Thank you for the Tai Sui nudge! I have danmei/romance fatigue (which is why I haven’t gotten into Sha Po Lang) but enjoy priest’s writing and Edanglar’s translation enough hehe

[snowynight]

You have great taste!

Don't Pick Up Boyfriends is so good! I hope the translation will update soon.

I admire Cyan Wings for consistently good and creative work. Something's Not Right and They All Say I’ve Met a Ghost are good too.

[snowynight]

Don't Pick Up Boyfriends From the Trash Bin is great! I hope the translation will update soon.

[halfcactus]

Thank you!

Yeah I’m not opposed to romance, I’m just not in the mood to read books for the ships/romance right now. Getting recs for anything less than 100 chapters is so exciting omg haha

[halfcactus]

Would love to hear your thoughts about C Language Cultivation! I ended up not loving Little Mushroom, so I’ve been wary of the author’s other work in spite of the recs.

[halfcactus]

Ah I love the Modu audiodrama, I imprinted so hard on LWZ and the romance because of it 😭 The songs also have me by the throat.