The Books We Chased Together Over the Years
I want to take a moment to commemorate those books that have led me to a reading drought over the years. I fear forgetting the journey that brought me here. If you've read through them all, you probably find yourself in a similar situation.
Novels on this list
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- The Ziwei Ruins had been open for several days, drawing a crowd of cultivators from the surrounding area. Many newcomers were prevented from entering by their peers, who warned that the major Immortal Sects were joining forces to eliminate the Jade Demon Bai Mengjin within the ruins. The cultivators gathered at the entrance discussed her infamous past. Bai Mengjin was formerly the belo...
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- Yu Duoduo transmigrated from the 21st century into a three-year-old girl in the interstellar Jimo Empire, a society with a severe female shortage where every woman must marry at least seven husbands upon adulthood. The original child was born to Yu Yao and her primary husband, but after talent tests showed no mental power or potential for a plant space, the family deemed her worthless....
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- Su Ran is a transmigrator endowed with the unique Double Treasure Chest talent, allowing any treasure chest he owns to be opened twice, with the second opening yielding higher-value items tied to his dungeon performance. Growing up in an orphanage, he learned silence and caution, began working in a restaurant kitchen at fourteen, and saved every credit. At sixteen, his mental power ada...
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- Su Nuannuan, a 28‑year‑old rural girl raised by her grandmother, escaped poverty through the college entrance exam but faced relentless job discrimination and harassment. She took a loan to study abroad for a doctorate in medicine, worked part‑time to pay it off, and was finally hired by a top hospital in the capital. On the eve of her return flight, she dreamed of a girl named Su Nuan...
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- Mo Han grew up in the Far North under the care of two ice elves: Bing Ling, whom he regarded as his mother, and Feixue, who was like an affectionate aunt. He learned that his human parents were killed in a demon beast attack, but he had no memory of them and his emotional world remained peaceful, shaped by the pure love of the elves. Bing Ling taught him ice magic, and Feixue filled hi...
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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....
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- Yuan Xueyue found herself reborn to the age of twenty, the fifth year of her marriage to General Guo Liangxian of the General's Residence. The memory of her past life was a torment: her husband's favoritism toward a concubine, her adopted son Xing Ge'er's betrayal after she raised him, and her mother-in-law's relentless pressure to vacate her position as the First Wife. She resolved to...
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- Chen Dian and Yan Yu, hearts pounding, activated the time-space device they and their friends had painstakingly researched to return home. They lost consciousness and woke up on a lush green grassland in a completely unfamiliar world, with Yan Yu lying beside them. They saw a group of short, brown-skinned people dressed in rough linen chasing a goat with wooden sticks. Chen Dian and Ya...
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- Ronnie, a lone explorer in the extreme northern ice fields of Blue Star, falls into a deep glacier crevice and is impaled by an ice pillar through his lower left chest, rupturing a lung. Accepting his imminent death, he crushes the frozen blood from the pillar and eats it, then closes his eyes. He awakens inside a dark space as a dragon hatchling, breaking out of a black egg covered wi...
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- On the day Gu Yanzhi returned to the capital after completing his southern inspection tour, he looked forward to seeing his wife, Shen Weiyang. He brought her a red coral hairpin, imagining the bright color would suit her. However, when his carriage arrived at the Marquis Wei Yuan Manor, Shen Weiyang was not among the welcomers. He found her in their courtyard waiting at the dinner tab...
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- General Duan Qingfeng, still wearing his bloodstained armor, storms into the imperial court carrying a heavy black coffin and demands that Emperor Gu Rongzhan reinvestigate the death of his sister, Consort Ying, who died in the palace while pregnant. The emperor coldly refuses, insisting she died of illness, and a tense confrontation erupts. Suddenly, an infant’s cry echoes from the co...
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- Li Xuan transmigrated into a small mountain village surrounded by steep cliffs, with only a narrow passage leading out. He had no system, no cheat codes, and could not even leave the village. Over the past decade, all the other villagers either left or died, leaving him as the sole inhabitant. The only way out was through the Esha Forest, where ferocious tiger beasts roamed. Several vi...
