Appreciation of the Self: A Journey in the Small World
Here are some books that I truly admire, ones I'd love to reread, consider adding to my collection as physical copies, and others that I find really impressive.
Novels on this list
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- A man with an incurable fatal illness spends his final days in a hospital room, watching a pale purple plant he found in the garden grow rapidly. When it blooms, a Grim Reaper appears to guide his soul to another world. The plant, called Otherworld Grass, connects worlds with its roots. The man’s soul is pulled across realms, and he reincarnates into a new body—a four‑ or five‑year‑old...
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- Jiang Chen transmigrated into the body of a Jinyiwei Lishi, a third-rate martial artist, in a Great Ming Dynasty where extraordinary martial power existed. He woke to find himself and a dozen Jinyiwei comrades drugged by their superior Li Chengqi, a Houtian Realm martial artist. Li Chengqi colluded with Demonic Monk Jueming to sell them to the Demonic Sect in exchange for cultivation r...
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- Jiang Nan, a graduate of a prestigious university, finds herself unemployed and forced to return to her rural hometown after resigning from her job in Shangjing. Her parents are farmers, her two elder sisters work exhausting shifts in a factory, and the family lives in poverty. Once the pride of the Jiang family, Jiang Nan struggles with the reality of her situation.She accidentally bi...
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- Su Hong, a former office worker in Sheng City, was granted the Apocalypse Simulation Game, a system that allowed him to simulate the coming apocalypse and bring one reward back to reality per simulation. After three simulations at his company where he experienced the real pain of death, he realized the apocalypse was inevitable and resigned. Returning to his Garden Community apartment,...
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- Qin Bai, a third-year university student, discovered months ago that he was the illegitimate son of the wealthy Qin family, brought back to serve as a marriage pawn. During an arranged meeting with Shen Muyu, the second young mistress of the Shen Corporation, she presented an extravagant dowry list—8.88 million in cash, a villa, a Rolls-Royce, and gold. After reading the overwhelming l...
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- Lin Xiaoxiao, a modern office worker who died after being hit by a car while working overtime, awakens in an unfamiliar antique bed. Initially believing she has been rescued by a wealthy tycoon, she soon realizes from the words of an elderly woman called Granny Gui that she is the Empress Dowager of an ancient palace, rendered disoriented by a recent high fever. Panic sets in when she...
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- Lu An, the youngest son of the Zhenbei Marquis Lu Xiao, is not a normal six-year-old child. He carries the soul of a seasoned mercenary from a previous life and has transmigrated into this feudal household. From the original novel, he remembers the plot that will lead to the extermination of the entire Lu family. The story begins as he hides behind a screen in the main hall, observing...
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- 【System detected host, do you want to start?】【Countdown, 3! 2! 1! 0!】【Host did not respond, system automatically starts, starting...】【Startup failed! System self-checking...】【Self-check complete, system damaged by more than half, disconnected damaged parts, restart! Starting...】【System has started, wish the host a pleasant journey!】Mo Yunxuan transmigrated to a high-martial world of cu...
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- Qiao Wantang, a fencing athlete, transmigrates after choking on hot soy milk. She awakens as a pregnant, impoverished peasant girl in the Da Li Dynasty. Her cousin Qiao Xuemei drugged the original host and caused her to be with Xie Yuanzhou, the third young master of the Xie family, so Xuemei could steal the original host's fiancé, the scholar Xie Yuanbo. The biased Qiao grandparents a...
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- Shen Fei, a 20-year-old chemistry PhD from the year 2280, time-traveled into the body of Sun Mengxia, a 14-year-old girl giving birth in a ruined temple during a rainstorm. The original owner died during childbirth, and Shen Fei woke up in agony, realizing she was now a mother. The infant boy was small and purplish, but alive. After fainting again, Shen Fei discovered her high-tech pla...
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- Jiang Que transmigrated into a cultivation webnovel as the villainous sister of the Female Protagonist Jiang Fusheng, awakening on the very day of her original body's death. The original Jiang Que stole Azure Blood Grass meant to heal Jiang Fusheng's eyes and insulted her, enraging the four Male Protagonists who doted on the Female Protagonist. Second Senior Brother Ye Lingchuan held h...
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- In the tenth year of Chun Jia, the second branch of the Ruyang Bo Mansion hosted a flower viewing banquet. A shabby carriage with a straw canopy and an old, mangy horse stopped at the entrance. The driver, an ugly, coarse old woman named Zhang Ma, refused to move and shouted at the steward. She announced that the madam and young master of the mansion were inside, demanding the main gat...
