Read-in-Progress Wednesday

[geraineon]

Happy Lunar New Year to everyone who celebrates!

This is your weekly read-in-progress post~

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[geraineon]

Lots of family stuff and food and just generally Chinese New Year celebration things so no, haven't been reading (also rushing to finish up game events because playing multiple live service Chinese games means I do not have enough time for all the new year events xD).

[aurumcalendula]

Happy New Year!

[aurumcalendula]

I caught up on Begging the Heavens in Vain and made a tiny bit of progress on The White Haired Witch!

[ehyde]

Is The White Haired Witch the same as this? If so, I've been thinking of reading it, and I'd be interested in your thoughts!

[aurumcalendula]

Yep!

tbh so far (~25% of the way through), there's been less of a focus on Lian Nichang than I'd expected.

ETA: So far there's a bunch of focus on political intrigue and wuxia sect power struggles, which was not necessarily what I was expecting.

[silverblade219]

Happy New Year! 🧧🎊

Started reading The Beauty’s Blade, really enjoying it so far.

[geraineon]

Thanks!

[lee_bella]

Happy Lunar New Year!

I read a couple danmei novels by Dan Jin (丹锦), who loves writing about power couples and a teasing shou. There's not much angst. I think I've just found my new comfort food author.

[geraineon]

Always nice to have a new author you can binge through~

[thawrecka]

I'm 14 chapters into The Beauty's Blade by Mei Ren Jian, and it's so frothy and fun. I love how it's that classic structure of new people showing up for them to fight constantly.

I'm also 46 pages into Peerless volume 2 by Meng Xi Shi. Cui Buqu and Feng Xiao are so entertaining and so childish towards each other. I look forward to seeing how their schemes go!

But also I watched all of the donghua of Lord of Mysteries this week, so I've put all my other books on pause to go read volume 1 of that. It's a bit purple prose-y at times, and the translation uses a bunch of weird clunky adverbs (though I increasingly see all translations do that in recent years; are adverbs no longer considered bad writing??), but I read seven chapters last night after I got home with a copy of the paperback, and I'm absorbed. Zhou Mingrui is so sneaky.

[geraineon]

I had a lot of trouble finishing Lord of Mysteries... Maybe I should just watch the donghua

[thawrecka]

The donghua really zips through a big chunk of story, so I think it's worth giving a go! And it has style.

[bluapapilio]

I've read 9 chapters of I Just Want to Be in a Relationship (我就想谈个恋爱) so far, it's about an actor who regresses and meets an autistic math genius. I hesitated after a few chapters because the autistic guy needs a caretaker not a boyfriend but after researching, there is growth etc. It's not perfect in other ways but I'll continue!

[geraineon]

Mm, yeah I am a little wary of these type of stories. Good to know that there's growth