Read-in-Progress Wednesday

[geraineon]

This is your weekly read-in-progress post for you to talk about what you're currently reading and reactions and feelings (if any)!

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[duckprintspress]

About 2/3rds through The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish last volume. It actually hasn't been as agonizingly kidfic as I was afraid it'd be!

[dayadhvam_triad]

Still following 穿越成宋徽宗公主, which regularly kills me every other chapter update with its surreal/dark/absurd humor sprinkled through (otherwise somewhat-to-super depressing) srs plot. Also here to drop recs for two complete novels that I recently finished:

海豚沉没时 by 匹萨娘子
Modern-day suspense thriller about a woman whose relationship with her fiance is... complicated, I really don't wanna say more without spoiling it but it is oof good and also rage-inducing. If you enjoyed priest's Bridge Tower or the cdrama A Murderous Affair in Horizon Tower, you may enjoy this. m/f but not at all a romance. [no tl]

穿进赛博游戏后干掉BOSS成功上位 by 桉柏
this novel was recced to me by a relative some time ago, I finally got around to reading it, and holy shit! now I Get why this became a big hit during its '21-22 serialization. Speaking as someone who doesn't naturally gravitate toward the genre, I got sucked into this excellent unlimited flow story that incorporates cyberpunk, Cthulhu, and Fourth Disaster elements with a compelling female protag & ensemble cast—and very well-paced too, as the narrative switches back and forth between realities (couldn't help but compare the writing to that of ORV as I read, and for all that I love ORV imo it really suffers from pacing and bloat issues). It's labeled yanqing but basically reads as gen; I think I'd need to squint with a 100x magnifying glass to catch any romance at all. [complete tl see foxaholic links at novelupdates]

[liliacs]

I haven't been reading as much cnovels as I'd wish because of rl reasons, but I have a couple of reading-adjacent questions to ask if that's okay!

1 - Does anyone have advice for finding smut scenes the author posted elsewhere and then took down? Usually, finding smut scenes that were posted on JJWXC then removed seems pretty simple, but I have no idea how to find ones that were originally on Weibo or Lofter or somewhere else.

2 - How does JJWXC order the comments on the novel page? I feel like before, you'd see the newest comments regardless of chapter, but then it turned into newest comments on the last chapter. But then the other day, I clicked on a book and it had the former format. Does it just depend on the author? And is there any way to change the format? Asking because I prefer the former format to the latter and I don't like the change.

[aurumcalendula]

I caught up with chapter 41 and 42 of Seeking Immortality in Vain and chapter 5 of Lost and Found. I'm I'm loving the political intrigue and slow-burn chemistry in the former and I'm curious how things play out in the latter (it honestly feels kinda like a psychological thriller at the moment, but there don't seem to be tags to that effect on Novel Updates).

[halfcactus]

Justice in the Dark (Modu cdrama) has picked up steeply in the second half. It took me like... 5 days to get through the latest ep just because there were soooo many feelings. And some interesting adaptation choices in last weekend's eps that skirt around the censorship but make it abundantly clear that 1) the characters slept together, 2) they're using the interrogation room to have a conversation about their relationship. I'm pretty excited to rewatch the whole thing with English subs.

Book-wise, I have started yet another book even though I already have like... 2 other books I'm actively reading and 3 I put in the backburner. I'm also now on the epilogue chapters of my fav manhwa Goldiluck the Black Kitten and my feelings (and tears) continue to accumulate. 🥺 I really hope there's gonna be an English print publication, though the chances are very slim.