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Date: 2026-02-18 04:46 pm (UTC)
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Happy New Year!

Date: 2026-02-18 04:54 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] aurumcalendula
I caught up on Begging the Heavens in Vain and made a tiny bit of progress on The White Haired Witch!

Date: 2026-02-18 07:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] 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!

Date: 2026-02-18 09:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] 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.
Edited Date: 2026-02-19 11:52 pm (UTC)

Date: 2026-02-18 06:42 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] silverblade219
Happy New Year! 🧧🎊

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

Date: 2026-02-19 01:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] 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.

Date: 2026-02-19 10:20 pm (UTC)
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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.
Edited Date: 2026-02-19 10:20 pm (UTC)

Date: 2026-02-26 03:50 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thawrecka
The donghua really zips through a big chunk of story, so I think it's worth giving a go! And it has style.

Date: 2026-02-20 06:17 pm (UTC)
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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!

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