Recommended Picks from Guo Xia
Some stories leave an indelible mark on our hearts, staying with us long after we turn the last page. Lines like "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, don’t underestimate the young and poor!" and "I hope to meet you again in the future!" resonate deeply. The dawn illuminates every inch of land that I claim as my own, and I will hold onto it until the last star falls. What remains when all stars have fallen? Only you and I, existing together as the sun and moon.
In moments of separation, longing can stretch across lifetimes: "When I look back, it feels like we’ve lived three lifetimes apart." If time could rewind, she would tell her beloved, "My life is just a fleeting moment, so I’ll love you for that moment alone. If my existence is nothing more than a blip for you, then I will cherish that blip." Even the nearest stars are separated by an insurmountable distance.
Can gods really do everything? When the divine light dims, who will save humanity? Even if one were to forsake their heart and soul…
Novels on this list
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- Si Shuo, originally a modern human, wakes from a coma after a heart transplant to find herself in the Beast World continent, where a cold mechanical voice announces the binding of the Peanut System. The system modifies her body into a special-grade “easy to conceive” physique and presents her with a main quest. She is in a stone cave belonging to her half-sister Yu Jiao, an orange cat...
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- Lin Zi, an apocalypse survivor, awakens in a new body in an interstellar beast world where female beastmasters outnumber males, leading to a system where one female can marry multiple beastmen. She inherits the identity of Lin Zi, a spoiled and reckless girl manipulated and framed by her aunt Lin Fang’s family. Lin Fang’s daughter, Lin Huan, stole Lin Zi’s three fiancés and framed Lin...
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- In January 1978, at Qin Family Village Back Mountain, Rong Yan transmigrated into the book as the original host, an Educated Youth Girl targeted for ruin. Liu Er, a local hooligan, attempted to assault her, but she fought back with her modern Sanda champion skills, severely beating him. Qin Ye, her newlywed husband, arrived and broke Liu Er's leg. Gu Lan, the instigator, brought people...
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- Yu Mu, the chief prodigy of the Yunhe Sect, was brought before the Law Enforcement Hall accused of stealing the earth vein energy and murdering thirteen disciples. His junior sister Liu He testified against him. Instead of defending himself, Yu Mu admitted to the guilt, knowing from his past life that arguing served no purpose. In that previous existence, he had fought the Child of Des...
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- Xiao Xi is a six-year-old girl abandoned at birth in Shencheng. She was found by a childless couple but abandoned again when they had their own child. She survives by collecting bottles and cardboard, living in a shack at the North City Garbage Dump. She wears a jade thumb ring engraved with "Xi", the only link to her family. One year ago, an elderly scrap collector felt a connection a...
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- Lu Ran spent one hundred thousand years atop Kunlun Peak, waiting for the chance to ascend. After successfully enduring the nine bolts of tribulation lightning he ascends but arrives in the Spirit Realm instead of the Immortal Realm. He appears in an Immortal Washing Pool where he meets Mu Yunzong and his party from the Great Luo Sword Sect who are retrieving their young lady Mu Yao th...
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- Duan Yunfeng transmigrated into the body of a twenty-four-year-old food delivery man in a cramped rented apartment. Before he could fully process the shock, the Spendthrift Tycoon Rebate System bound to him. The system offered rebates on money spent on women with an appearance score of at least ninety out of one hundred, and critical hits could grant special rewards. All rebates were s...
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- Kozō is a water bear (tardigrade) reborn in the Naruto world, bound to the Myriad Heavens Devouring System. He starts in the Swamp of the Dead, one of the three sacred lands, gnawing on tree bark infused with Nature Energy. His body, nourished by Chakra and Nature Energy, grows larger, but he remains trapped under the watch of the colossal Slug Sage. When he attempts to devour a Slug,...
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- Chu Qing, a young man reborn after being betrayed by Biancheng King Ding Xie at the moment he was about to become King Chu Jiang in his previous life, returns to his hometown of Luo City three days before the Terror Era is set to descend. In his past life, Luo City was one of the first megacities destroyed, its destruction rooted in the First Rank Evil God from the Dragon King Temple,...
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- The protagonist, Tong Yi, was left at a dilapidated Taoist temple on a mountain in Maoming when he was just over seven years old. His father had died, and his mother, unable to support him, begged the old Taoist priest to take him in before abandoning him at the temple entrance. After two days without food, the temple's Second Martial Uncle brought him inside, and he acknowledged the s...
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- In Tai'an Year 12, Shen Xingnong, a sixteen-year-old peasant girl from Plum Blossom Village, lies on a long bench in the Futai County yamen, receiving five strokes of the board for daring to file a lawsuit against her great-grandmother, Li Shi. Li Shi, along with her granddaughter Shen Mingzhu, insists that Xingnong and her mentally unstable mother are "vile bastards" whose presence in...
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- Wu Yin, a cultivator from Wufang Valley, wakes up in a modern city with no memory of her past and no spiritual power. Penniless and hungry, she resorts to fortune-telling in exchange for meals, using a cardboard sign that reads "One reading, one thousand yuan." At a small restaurant, she catches the attention of Tan Ci, the CEO of Tan Corporation, who is confined to a wheelchair. After...
