Not a c-novel, but adjacent: I'm rereading Sherwood Smith's The Phoenix Feather, a four-volume wuxia-inspired story that engages with the genre (and with historical c-dramas) at a deeper level than ye typical tropes. I read this as each volume first came out, but am now bounding straight through in preparation for reading the sequel and the recent prequel.

Highly enjoyable. Parts of it chime interestingly with the author's earlier Inda (also four volumes) but it's entirely its own story -- not to mention clearly wuxia.