cnovels | Free-For-All Friday

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Time for free for all Friday, a day for random chit-chat!

Do you want to talk about the other novels you are reading or find a read-along partner? Practice your Chinese? Request for fics? Ask for beta readers? Just talk about your day?

Go right ahead!

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From:

geraineon

I am a day from flying back to Malaysia and my corner of the house is a mess and I am stressing over what I might have forgotten... not much "proper" reading done!

(I will be back to more normal activity levels on here next week. I think. Right now everything is a bit of a mess)

From:

anne

Safe travels!

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geraineon

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llonkrebboj

*Waves* Safe travels!!!! May the feeling be just a a trick of the brain in the end ~

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geraineon

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aurumcalendula

Safe travels!

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geraineon

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liliacs

Safe travels!

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geraineon

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sam_gardener

Safe travels! (Hopefully if anything is forgotten someone can send it to you?)

From:

geraineon

<3 lol about that... I ended up needing to leave a whole luggage back so I will have to have someone send stuff to me anyway orz

From:

halfcactus

AHhhhhhhhhh good luck with everything!

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geraineon

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douqi

Safe flight! Hope the big move goes well.

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geraineon

<3

... it could have been worse, but well! i'm back in malaysia and dying under the heat

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douqi

<3

well, if it's any consolation, this time next month i will also be dying in the malaysian heat, and then hopping over to visit my brother's family in australia and dying in the australian winter.

From:

dayadhvam_triad

safe travels, hope everything goes smoothly!

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geraineon

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anne

Vol 4 of QJJ arrived today! What a pretty cover.

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aurumcalendula

It's so pretty!

From:

geraineon

I should start collecting the physical copies of the books...

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aurumcalendula

I'm so excited about the cover reveal for volume 5 of QJJ! I was hoping but not expecting that Qi Zhuyin and Hua Xiangyi would get a cover (I vaguely heard that a cover featuring a side character in another series wasn't well received).

From:

geraineon

Which series that had issues with side characters on the cover? I feel like I have heard about that before but I can't recall the title.

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aurumcalendula

I think it was The Husky and His White Cat Shizun?

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llonkrebboj

So I've done it again xD Picked up a short danmei story about an orca and a humpback whale to translate on impulse because it was sooooo cute, plus the author was very educational with their orca fun facts + notes chapter and support for animal rights.

Also it's a platonic love story! Even more my thing!

(Initially had another Emperor & Crown Prince story in mind from Lofter and even asked the author for permission, but it turns out that that it wasn't finished yet LOL gotta be patient... but \o/ more food for me!!!!!)

Anyway!

So this is a free webnovel on changpei from 2018. A short, easy read and quite charming.
喜欢上食谱上的一道菜怎么办 | What do you do when you fall in love with your food by 一九四三 | 1943
https://www.gongzicp.com/novel-11596.html

I'm mostly done with the 'first pass' translation for the main story, but as that is just me with TTS and some light editing, there is much more rephrasing and editing before it's in a fit state to be seen. That being said! I'm looking for anyone who is free in late July or August and willing to beta this TL.

Edited Date: 2025-05-31 09:56 am (UTC)

From:

halfcactus

I'm crying you actually went ahead and translated it????

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llonkrebboj

I DID!!!! It was too cute. I got to the extras when they went on the humpback whale migration and one of side stories was so 🥺🥺🥺

Edited Date: 2025-06-01 03:43 am (UTC)

From:

geraineon

Not sure if someone has already contacted you about this, but if not, you can check out this list: https://cnovels.dreamwidth.org/29688.html

Feel free to make a top level post requesting for beta too!

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llonkrebboj

Oh yes! I forgot about the existence of this list 🤣 Thank you. I think I'll try people on this list first xD

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halfcactus

Right now I don't have the spoons to make a new post but I subbed a few bonus scenes (Luo Yiguo-related) from the Modu/Silent Reading audio drama and posted them here. Technically an old work that I just retrieved from Twitter then cross-posted on Youtube, but the video-editing/effects are new. XD

Otherwise I'm still neck-deep in Justice in the Dark and had a cool learning moment about an idiom (since the show is being aired in Japan and therefore hardsubbed in Japanese):

Chinese: 狗急跳牆 (a cornered dog will jump over the wall)

Japanese translation: 窮鼠猫を噛む (a cornered rat will bite the cat)

Edited Date: 2025-05-31 02:54 pm (UTC)

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lessonsinescapology

Oh I love the difference in animals of this idiom😄

Edited Date: 2025-06-03 05:52 am (UTC)

From:

geraineon

Luo Yiguo!!!

I wonder if there will be JP dub too at some point...

Interesting detail about the JP and CN idiom. Thank you for sharing~

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anne

I Can Do It will never ever get a drama, but if it did, I found us a Road: https://www.reddit.com/r/cdramasfans/comments/1kzxx8a/luo_yunxi_for_the_league_of_legends_event_today/

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geraineon

Maybe someday we can get a I Can Do It drama... I'd watch it. I don't have a particular image of Road in my mind that is not how he looks like in the audio drama art. I'll take that Road!