Shallow Joy Like a Dog, Deep Love Like a Gale
Inspired by a poem from Li Xuejing, I stumbled upon something intriguing and decided to make a note of it. I realized that sharing book recommendations can also be quite enjoyable. Thus, this book list came into existence. It all boils down to fate and chance. Discovering these books together is truly serendipitous. If you find something you like, feel free to follow along!
Novels on this list
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- Rhode, reborn into a medieval fantasy world as the illegitimate son of Earl Tulip, carries the game system "Manor Story" from his previous life. This system grants abilities through completing tasks, but it remains locked for seven years due to his lack of territory. When the Emperor, enraged by his brother's murder in the lawless Northern Border Wilderness, decrees that noble children...
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- Qiu Yi is a man from 2025 who suddenly arrived on Earth in 2176, a world transformed by the appearance of mysterious Light Streams in 2100 that unleashed a devastating black mist and endless weird events. The global population plummeted, and exploratory Suicide Squads were formed to investigate the Light Streams, which led to a terrifying parallel world with its own laws, ecosystem, an...
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- Princess Yuan Zhen of Great Hao had always been a lively princess, but she fell into a sudden listlessness, staying in her chambers for consecutive days without tending to her appearance. The cause was a recurring dream that was not chaotic but coherent, spanning a full ten years. In every night’s vision, she witnessed the fall of her kingdom. The Northern Rong army, led by Prince Muro...
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- Lu Ye transmigrated into a chaotic martial arts era where warlords divided territories, feudal lords warred constantly, and evil spirits plagued the world. He joined the Scarlet Cloud Sect in Xuanzhou as a menial disciple after barely passing the inspection. Because he had no silver to bribe, he was assigned to guard the Library Pavilion, a quiet post with no profit. Upon transmigratio...
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- In the third year of the Taiqing era of the Liang dynasty, the imperial capital Jiankang was besieged by the rebel Hou Jing. The city descended into a living hell of carnage and starvation, with aristocratic clans massacred. Xie Yuqing, the eldest legitimate daughter of the Xie clan, fled in a carriage with her younger siblings to save them. When soldiers came to capture her, she entru...
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- Minato, a young girl living in a dysfunctional family, is killed by her father after he murders her mother and a police officer. She meets a frivolous god who reincarnates her into a fantasy world, granting her a part of his power in the form of an options menu. She wakes up bound to a log being carried by goblins in a forest. The goblins plan to boil her alive. Still tied, Minato disc...
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- On Chinese New Year's Eve, the authority on the Dark Web, 'Black Butterfly', released explosive news: the leader of the 'Wolf Organization', 'Wolf King', failed a mission in a small African country, sustained severe injuries, and unwilling to be captured, detonated explosives, dying without a burial. Wolf King was revered as the King of Assassins, his martial prowess S-rank. The news s...
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- Sun Hang regains consciousness in a hospital after a strange object attack incident that leaves him with severe brain trauma and complete amnesia. A doctor and nurse inform him that his surgery was successful, but his memory is temporarily lost. A female official from the Investigation Bureau soon arrives and delivers the grim news: Sun Hang incurred a medical debt of nearly four milli...
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- Lu Jiuyang, an eighteen-year-old third-year student at Lingang No. 1 High School, carries a secret identity: he is a reborn individual. In his previous life, he was adopted by Maoshan from a young age and cultivated Daoist magic in a world overrun by ghosts and zombies. He became a Heavenly Master in his mid-twenties, destroying countless demons with heavenly thunder. During a catastro...
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- In the torrential rain, the Zhao Family Village villagers caught a rapist, but the rapist was beaten to death in the chaos. The dead man was Liu Cheng, the young master of the Liu Family Corporation, a notorious playboy who had tried to rape Zhao Yining, a young girl from the village. When the police arrived, led by detective Li Gang, they found the village united and ready to fight. Z...
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- Shen Qingli was reborn after a tragic death, swearing never to join the Jadeite Sect again. In her previous life, her birth mother Zhao Yue, the Saintess of the Jadeite Sect, brutally extracted her Phoenix Bone while she was still alive at the age of fifteen. Shen Qingli had cultivated the Phoenix Bone through nine Nirvana rebirths in a lava cave, a perfect bone forged by her own despe...
