Recommendations from a Veteran Bookworm
After reading Qidian novels for over twenty years, I've evolved from a novice to an experienced reader.
Novels on this list
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- Jiang Wu, the eldest senior sister of Yi Jian Sect, heard an inner demon’s voice in her sea of consciousness for a year, constantly telling her about her miserable end. After a battle with a Nascent Soul peak demon beast, her golden core shattered and her top-grade lightning spiritual root was dug out, leaving her crippled except for the undiggable glazed sword bone. She realized her s...
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- Zhang Buran, the youngest Celestial Master in the history of the Daoist Alliance, lost all his magical power at age twenty-two after being cursed by the King of Ten Thousand Ghosts during a battle to end a Hundred Ghosts Night Parade. Reduced to an ordinary man, he retired from Daoist duties and relied on a childhood marriage contract to marry into the wealthy Wen family, becoming the...
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- Xie Shiyu, grief-stricken after her father is killed by a tiger while hunting to prevent her forced marriage to the Liu family idiot, goes to the Cheng family seeking money for a proper burial. Cheng Feng, her childhood sweetheart, and his mother scheme to disgrace her by luring her into sex, planning to expose the act and force a marriage without expenses. Overhearing their plot, Xie...
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- Han Cuiyin is reborn into her first life after experiencing a second life in the Eternal Life Realm, finding herself in Yan Family Village in early autumn. She is the abandoned daughter of Yan Shunhua and the official Han Zhen, raised in poverty by indifferent maternal relatives. Her mother was sent to a nunnery under the pretext of prayer, and Han Cuiyin has been surviving by cultivat...
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- Wen Jiayue wakes in the dim room, the stench of blood in the air, and finds herself back in her bed at the Marquis Manor. She had killed the Eldest Princess and died, but now she is alive, her body aching from childbirth. Shen Fuhan enters, and her anger erupts. She accuses him of neglect, of never caring for her or their daughter, of only pursuing power. He questions her about letters...
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- Lin Feng quit his high-pressure corporate job and returned to his inherited home in Hai City. Living alone after his parents passed away, his only close support came from his neighbor Zhang Yurou, the wife of his distant relative Lin Youzhi. The very next morning, a total solar eclipse struck. Giant red armored beetles swarmed the city. Lin Youzhi was fatally attacked. Before dying, he...
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- At the Yin-Yang boundary on a moonless night, a desolate courtyard materialized where a young woman named Chang Ming played chess with two paper figures, Golden Boy and Jade Girl. She ran the Artifact Spirit Pawnshop, a mysterious establishment that pawned relics and fulfilled wishes for ghosts, spirits, and the living. A young scholar in mourning clothes, Yun Yichu, arrived by followi...
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- Qin Ge is a poverty-stricken freshman at Donghai University who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer, given only months to live. Leaving the hospital, he passes through a crowded alley where a vendor sells trinkets and peace charms. He spots a tattered book titled "Joy of Union Manual" and flips through it, finding diagrams and texts about "Cultivating Yin Yang, Joy of Union" a...
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- Lu Qing'an transmigrated into a cultivation world and gained the ability to increase his lifespan by destroying life forces. After over ten thousand years of cultivation, he reached the Great Ascension Tenth Layer in the Mortal Realm, accumulated a lifespan of two hundred and fifty thousand years through burning grass, killing beasts, and other means, and chose to live in seclusion in...
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- Li Wuyya, a five-year-old girl, transmigrated from the apocalypse into a military household at Tianling Village Post Station, a desolate outpost on the northwestern frontier of Great Chu. She was born as a twin with her brother Li Qilang, and they lived under harsh conditions of extreme heat, scarce water, and meager food. Her father, Li Changsen, was a squad leader in the garrison, an...
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- In the Song Dynasty, martial arts flourished and rankings such as the Tiangang and Disha Lists determined prestige. The Hangzhou Prefect Feng Shaoqing organized a martial arts competition for his beautiful and talented daughter Feng Suzhen. Many young heroes, including the Prime Minister's son Liu Changying and the Marquis's son Dongfang Sheng, participated. The tournament was supervis...
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- Ning Nuan, the eldest daughter of the Ning family's main branch, suffers from the grandmother's favoritism toward the younger branches. Her cousins Ning Qing and Ning Xin constantly steal her fabrics, incense, and jewelry. Her father insists on yielding for harmony, and her mother, the gentle First Madam, has always endured and compensated privately, leaving Ning Nuan without support....
