Read-in-Progress Wednesday

[geraineon]

This is your weekly read-in-progress post~

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[geraineon]

Continued Three Hundred Years of Longing a bit... starting to enjoy it a little less though. I think maybe I need longer gaps between Mu Su Li's works (I reread Panguan last year because of a read-along I organized) Highlight for spoilers!*because, as much as I love characters in pain and then doing stuff for each other, I also want variety and maybe too much of a thing can get a little tiring... and then it just becomes another one thing and while devoted-to-each-other is great, again, too much of a thing. I think Panguan strikes a nice balance but I'm not enjoying it as much in this novel. The callbacks and tying in stuff is neat though (again, something this author seems to like to do).*

[aurumcalendula]

That's good to know re: Three Hundred Years of Longing (and Mu Su Li's works in general)! I'm planning to read it eventually and it helps to have an idea how to set my expectations.

[silverblade219]

New interview for Fei Tian Ye Xiang : https://www.danmeinews.com/2026/02/02/danmei-author-interview-meet-fei-tian-ye-xiang-arise-zhang/

[aurumcalendula]

I missed that earlier - thank you for mentioning it!

[aurumcalendula]

I caught up on Dragon Subjugation Incantation and Begging the Heavens in Vain!

Highlight for spoilers! *I'm really enjoying seeing Luo Qingci and Ruan Li's romance progressing and how intense thy are about each other (robes are torn open to check for injuries, Ruan Li feeds Luo Qingci her (Ruan Li) heart's blood to heal her, and Ruan Li kisses Luo Qingci for the first time.

Begging the Heavens in Vain is more plot focused, but I suspect there might be more romance progress now that Song Juguang has decided to rejoin events instead of just watching from afar.*

ETA: Also To Embers We Return! I liked finding out a bit more about Han Fu.

[duckprintspress]

only c-novel is still me picking away at Daomu Biji in Chinese. I have so many other cnovels on my tbr, but I ended up with a bunch of novels in Libby coming through at once and those have due dates so I have to do them first, sigh.

[douqi]

Work is once again trying to murder me, but I did get in 10+ chapters of Jue Ge's The Flame Tree, 2009 CEO romance. Intriguingly, it looks like the subordinate is the cold, aloof one that CEO jiejie has to melt...

[lee_bella]

Finished Fake Demon Lord (伪魔头) by The One Who Tells Stories Under the Bridge (天桥底下说书的), a self-cest cultivation/wuxia story. It has both humour and angst. I quite liked it.

I've been reading a few self-cest stories lately. One thing I've noticed is that even if the stories have moments of humour, they tend to have a bittersweet tang to them, since the only person the MC can trust and love wholeheartedly is his other self.