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douqi ([personal profile] douqi) wrote in [community profile] cnovels 2025-01-03 10:03 pm (UTC)

Re: beginnings and endings, I have real a weakness for things where the ending mirrors the beginning. In Purely by Accident (shameless plug: read the completed translation here! there's an epub!), the romance begins with Highlight for spoilers!*our cross-dressing bandit chief's bandit bros abducting a princess for her (due to the stronghold-wide consensus that she needs to get laid)* and the novel ends with Highlight for spoilers!*the princess abducting the bandit chief right back* In Ravenous, the novel begins with Highlight for spoilers!*our resident fox demon not having eaten a single bite of food in three thousand years because she's cursed to only be able to eat her girlfriend* and ends with Highlight for spoilers!*her nervously eating her first meal in literal millennia.*

Memorable from a jiejie solidarity point of view (as previously discussed), is the ending of To Embers We Return, Highlight for spoilers!*where jiejie finally gets to take a nap because there's literally nothing left for her to worry about.*

Memorable for its complete self-indulgence is the ending of Miss Forensics, which involves Highlight for spoilers!*Two weddings with four costume changes, two honourable retirements from the police force, and IVF twins, one of whom becomes a famous webnovelist whose breakout work is a long-runner crime thriller baihe novel.*

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