I've caught up on a bunch of the newly-released chapters for To Embers We Return, which continues to be excellent. There's an amped-up action section with body horror followed by an absolutely hilarious one where they have to Highlight for spoilers! *pretend for the benefit of the emperor's spies that they've been having a lot of loving conjugal sex, and the sex toy box makes a return.*

I also read a bit more of I, Qinghuan which is moving towards a standard 'young disciple in training' arc now, which I'm hoping won't be too long. Highlight for spoilers! *It also annoys me slightly that most of the major sects are all depicted as either evil or evil-with-a-veneer-of-righteousness. It was a subversion with Jin Yong wrote it, and even then he was a lot more subtle about the whole thing (not all sects are evil, some sects have bad people in them but also good, like life), but now it's just a tired trope. Someone needs to do a subversion of the subversion, stat.*