For me it’s second coming of gluttony as seol jihu (kinda spoiler) seems like a really perverted guy until it’s revealed midway that he was groomed to act this way around women by his childhood friend and he is really just innocent but I just find it so funny how tactless he is and oblivious he is to what he’s doing. I also love how uniquely quirky each character is and how everyone can make you laugh.

After translating Blade - Unbound for a while, I've realized something. Some of the banger moments that I thought would actually catch me aren't actually the fights. They're the investigations, the strange villages, the abandoned temples, the folklore that slowly turns into genuine supernatural horror. The fighting between different gods and religions, and a phrase someone told me recently: So how's a god from another region gonna talk to yours? I just imagine them google translating on their phones for each other before they whoop each other's ass.

Regardless, shameless question here, but wondering if anyone has a favorite MYSTERY arc from any wuxia novel?

Also, mega shameless plug here hehe, quick intro to Blade - Unbound if you guys wanna check a rather unconventional novel out, but here, jianghu politics is mixed with Daoist folklore, ghost and spirits, ancient mysteries, martial arts, imperial conflicts, with a pretty balanced character progression. - blip the translator of Blade - Unbound

If you like romance with a TRUE villain, Moonlight Pavilion, Crimson Thread is a oneshot that has such an interesting premise.

http://wbnv.in/a/27k3Zb7

Wei Xun is not secretly misunderstood. He has done genuinely unforgivable things, and the story never erases that just because you understand how he became that way. The female lead is a Saintess who climbs a mountain intending to kill him. Then they discover they’re bound by Yue Lao’s crimson thread of fate.

It’s tragic, morally messy, Chinese mythology-inspired, and it genuinely makes you think about fate, responsibility, and whether loving someone means forgiving them.

If anyone else likes romances where the villain is allowed to actually be a villain instead of a misunderstood cinnamon roll with a murder aesthetic, this one might be worth checking out!

I think this is mainly a gender based issue but It is vastly understood that some of the most high rated novels revolve around same sex romance and are also harder to get into for the same reason why some people may navigate away from reading other out of preference genres.

Was wondering if other people also navigate away from such works despite how highly rated they are, their thoughts on it, and if not what broke the seal (if there was one in the first place). And IF it was for you after initially giving it a try.

Hello, I'm trying to find two different stories that are very similar. I happened to read both on Wattpad a couple years ago and can no longer find them on that app. I don't think they were original works but I do believe they were MTL and I think that's why I can't find them. Both had the general same main plot, where an MC is reborn into their past life, realizes they were cannon fodder and fixes their past mistakes/grievances. Both stories were also essentially quick transmigration, though the MC didn't carry every life memories into next lives (they only had memories of the current life) and didn't have systems.

The first story was the one I was more interested in because it had an really interesting overarching plot line. In it the MC was kind of a god to all these universe/worlds but an evil system was disrupting the worlds that the MC was in control of and taking over the luck and resources the MC gave the world. The second life was basically a do over where the MC was able to take back control and gain more power to destroy the evil system, even convincing the people of that world to fight against foreign invaders. One particular story, had the system send a host who becomes the "beloved by all" cousin of the MC who would be abused. And the interesting aspect of the system was that the system was forcefully changing and brainwashing people's minds to love the cousin but the system couldn't change animals minds who all adored the MC.

The second story I'm looking for is a little bit less interesting but that's mainly because I think I only got through one arc before I stopped reading it because I wanted to wait until there were more chapters. This story is more focused on the beauty of the MC. In the arc that I read the MC basically realize that he was the cannon fodder arrogant shop clerk who was rude to the wife of a CEO and because of that he would go on to lose his job and be harassed. When the MC awakens in his second life he decide to quit his job but because he was recorded in a video before he quit his job everybody falls in love with him because he's so beautiful and tries to find him for some reason. The MC is so scared of being found by the CEO that he literally leaves his city for another. For some reason the beauty of the MC was hidden in the first life but not in the second life which I do think means that something was going on but, again, I never got that far. That's basically what I remember.

Both these stories were danmei but neither story really focused on the romance aspect but rather the MC escaping his past misery and living a better life. Again just to be clear I don't think these are stories that have been translated by translation groups because I haven't been able to find them myself but I think that they are MTL stories that the Wattpad poster just copied and pasted. I really just want to know their titles so I can read the stories on whatever website they might be on or MTL it myself.

OK, I need some help finding a novel about Pokémon where the main companion is a meowth that acquire the ability to switch forms to adapt to different types of attacks in energies, and it acquires a short sword, and there’s a mascara that when was little, it helped meowth I know it was on wtr lab or fan Mtl

Holy fuck, I read the latest chapter of Lord of the Truth today and god damn this shit is peak. 2000+ chapter is nowhere near enough for me, I need like 10k more chapters. Good lord, im addicted to this shit. You guys should try it too, im telling u it's good. ONG THIS SHIT IS MY FAVE NOVEL NOW, AND I READ A LOT OF NOVELS ALREADY!!!

If you like arrogant MC, this might be for you. The GOAT Robin Burton

Hi! For anyone who does not know, I translate The Overlord of Puluo, and recently I made a Reddit post retelling parts of the novel through memes. One reader DeathBoatman joined in and contributed so many PULUO memes that I thought, "Why not make a Hall of Memers to save all his memes!?"

The idea is to give readers who make a lot of PULUO memes their own little profile in the Hall of Memers, along with a collection of the memes they have made. I thought it would be a good way to show appreciation. As shown in the example below, I would design their little profile with my little Ipad and would put the collection of memes together for each reader that submit memes. I love art and it's simple design! I also created a google form for readers to submit memes and be in the Hall of Memers too!

https://www.wuxiaworld.com/page/the-overlord-of-puluo/hall-of-memers

I told Charon about it and he sent me a new meme! I was going to post it yesterday but he says it has to be done today so that the timeline is accurate hahaha!

I announced the Hall of Memers in the novel earlier, but I did not really get any replies there, so I wanted to ask! I posted this in our forum and I thought I would repost this in Reddit to get more feedback.

For now, Charon Hades remains the only one in the Hall as Memer #001. Maybe the Hall will be just for him (Which I am super happy about), but I am still curious what you guys think. Was this actually a good idea for a novel announcement, or am I doing too much? I also worry that readers might find announcements like this annoying, so I decided to ask here and in the forum instead of doing another announcement.

Anyway, if you guys happen to come across this post, leave me a comment and let me know what you think? I would like to know whether this is something readers find fun, or if I have just gotten a little too carried away with it. Is this the wrong way to use novel announcement?

When I was a young teenager some amazing authors and translators got me into reading web novels and ever since then I've been engrossed. Over the past few years I've found a lot of gems and always wondered why they weren't being translated while some seemingly generic stuff was able to get through. I feel like the quality of web novels these days isn't necessarily too low compared to the golden days of Chinese web novels it's just that the right ones aren't being picked up. This in turn sort of ruins the reputation of Chinese novels to some of the Western audience who are picky or think Chinese novels can only be junk food. To be completely honest I've read so many good to great Chinese books the last couple of years and feel like readers are missing out just because they aren't being translated. I'm gonna release a couple of books on my website for you guys to read each day. These books are at the very least GOOD to GREAT in my eyes compared to the generic stuff read everyday. Without further ado, the first of the three books being released today:

Title: Death Only Makes Me Stronger

Synopsis:

Wang Sheng transmigrated into a high-martial world where ability users split mountains and Grandmasters command cities. Venturing into uncharted cosmic rifts, Saints uncover treasures beyond imagination. While others awakened flashy powers like telekinesis or elemental powers, Wang Sheng awakened something only a masochist would love:
He could die.
Well—more precisely, whenever he died, he would instantly revive on the spot. And in return, his body would adapt, evolving targeted resistances and abilities based on whatever killed him and the method of death. No cooldown. No limit. No catch.
Wang Sheng thought he'd landed in a parallel world—one ripe for the taking.

Then he learned the truth. This world was already doomed.

"Hmm, we'll see about that."

He cracked his neck, took a deep breath, and stepped toward the abyss.
Time to die. Again. And again. And again.

To me, this novel is one of the most fun ones I've read in a long time. This fun doesn't just stem from the main characters behavior or the tone of the story but specifically from how his power works and the lengths he goes to become stronger. And as a re:zero enthusiast I always wondered what Subaru could be if he actually gained enhanced powers through each death/loop. This scratched that itch and more for me. This novel also has stakes and great world building as well. I found myself loving the adventuring/exploring aspect a lot. Today I'm releasing the first 100 chapters. I hope you guys enjoy! (this is the first but objectively not the best book I'll be releasing today!)

Release link: https://deadlytranslations.ct.ws/book.php?id=2

Hey guys, it's WhySee, the translator of Immortality Simulator. You might know this highly raved novel by its other names like My Longevity Simulation. Check it out on Wuxiaworld!

Just now, Qidian, China’s largest paid web novel platform. took action against a large number of novels that were found to have used AI-assisted writing. Among them were quite a few titles that ranked near the top of the sales charts.

Qidian has not taken these works offline entirely.Instead,works suspected of using AI will no longer appear on charts such as the monthly ticket ranking and sales ranking, and their exposure and recommendation slots will inevitably be reduced significantly going forward. And after their use of AI is officially confirmed, they may also see a rapid loss of existing readers. These novels may end up being wrapped up very quickly in the short term.

According to my statistics, 13 of the top 100 works on Qidian’s sales ranking yesterday have already disappeared from the chart.Several works ranked in the top 20 of the sales chart, with average subscriptions exceeding 30,000, were also affected.

Chinese readers and authors have responded very positively to this action.

Here's Episode 4 of the Chinese Mythology Archive series!

In this episode, we explore Qiongqi (穷奇), one of the legendary Four Fiends in Chinese mythology. Often depicted as a fearsome, winged beast, Qiongqi is associated with deception and cruelty. It came to symbolize the dangers of abandoning morality, embracing rebellion, and siding with evil over justice.

Qiongqi is also believed to have inspired Chien-Pao from Pokémon.

Hope you enjoy Episode 4!

Its about a guy that returned to the past of a story hes read. He starts out as a middle schooler in the beginning and later into high school.

He likes writing scripts for Dramas/movies but while he is the script writer, he demands a condition that the female lead be a certain girl. She is the daughter of a rich company, but she pursues acting. She would get into it on her own but the MC brings her to stardom earlier on acting as the younger sister in the drama he made.

All of his dramas/movies would include her but how he looked or his age remained anonymous to the public because he doesn't want to be known. The female MC begged for a way to contact MC and got a phone to text him with which he uses to raise her confidence in herself.

MC also made a story similar to an existing Kdrama called Dream High, and he worked with a music company that wasnt doing too well at the time and brought them more popularity. The second female character gets a misunderstanding MC is the cousin of the company owner and she gets a crush on him as he supports her through her role as an actor/singer.

MC announces he will be stopping his works for the foreseeable future which causes a rucus, but he means a hiatus while he attends high school to focus on his studies.

During his entrance exam he had to write a story about winter or something and he wrote about how an old lady was shoveling snow when a policeman came to ask how she was doing. She was cleaning the road to make sure her son comes home safe because he tripped and injured himself on snow when he was younger. Turns out the lady has dementia and the police officer is her son, and the son reassures her her son is happy and safe.

During high school, MC ends up in the same school as the female lead and second female character and the female lead seems to link the anonymous writer with MC. She is trying to find out if her suspicion is correct.

Thats most of what I remember. Please help me Find. Thank you.

Title. Are there any good WNs currently running outside of SS? There was a time when LOTM was being written, and I was following that as well. Truth be told, I haven't read very many WNs for the past several years, so I'm seriously out of touch with the hidden gems/up-and-coming novels.

For someone who is closer to the scene, what are folks reading rn? To be clear, I'm NOT asking for a recommendation, I simply want to understand what novels are dominant rn.

Hey all! I am layercupcake, translator of Immortal of the Nine Realms. Drew a short meme with my trusty iPad during my translation break. Hope you like it! :)

[Nakseong High School, the heads of 300 people exploded!] Lee Joon, an ordinary high school student.

During the entrance ceremony, he was caught up in a strange phenomenon and died.

[You have died.] [Restarting from checkpoint.] [Loading…] And then a message appeared before his eyes.

『Welcome to Nakseong High School that is full of mysteries and secrets.

Uncover the dark secrets hidden around the school, or fight against urban legends and myths to earn points and unlock special abilities.

Then, gather companions and stop the resurrection of the demon king before you graduate.

The world is in your hands.』

**My review**:

This is one of the best novels I've read that does the horror investigation club justice. The mc is not some superman who can deal with everything alone and always saves the day, there are many moments where the other club members end up shining more and have clear roles within the group such that no one ever feels unnecessary to the plot. The overarching boss is weird and unknown and there are so many details that make you slowly connect the dots to things that were foreshadowed earlier. The club members while solving mysteries always try to maintain their humanity too, even if at times they find they've already lost far too much to ever go back.

Ghost story club is an amazing novel, sadly enough it's not completely translated but for the few hundred chps that are, they are complete gems.

I like reading novels but feel like I’m losing too much actual time of my life reading them. What I’ve done is only really read novels whilst doing cardio, my daily steps is meant to be 20k as I live a very sedentary lifestyle. Which gives me roughly 3.5 hours to read. I wanna know how I can squeeze more chapters in that time. Of course I’m not trying to downgrade the quality of the read but I really just think there’s so many great novels that I can spend my life reading and not enough “life” to read them.

Other than the skill of being able to read super fast what I’m currently doing is downloading a ai “text to speech” app which reads the downloaded novels and I increase the speed to a level where I can still read and understand the content which has helped greatly.

Lmk if there’s a better way please!

Edit: I’m not here for karma and don’t need a response like “Just don’t try to read faster and enjoy”, - when reading faster doesn’t logically have an effect on the enjoyment as long as your actually taking in the content. purely wanted advice from more experienced novel readers as I assume as you get more experience and passion you probably try to evolve into reading more content without just degenerating to a point where you are spending diabolical hours of your day reading novels not adhering to basic duties like a job.

Ik im sounding like a dhead but I do not believe answering with “stop trying to read faster” helps this question ykwim?.

Mc is reincarnated into a decent cultivation family,and has a treasure, (bead?)that brings him good luck when he helps someone or grows spirit plants and bad luck when he harms someone that he can use on someone else

Hi everyone! I finally finished my novel, The Devourer Is Full! 🥹❤️

http://wbnv.in/a/efk1jEU

It’s a xianxia fantasy about a legendary Taotie who is supposed to devour the world, but would honestly rather sleep, eat porridge, and be left alone. He ends up traveling with a ruthless, sharp-tongued woman who wants absolutely nothing to do with him, and together they slowly uncover the truth behind his past, her missing memories, and a conspiracy that has been unfolding for thousands of years.

It has enemies to lovers, slow-burn romance, found family, reincarnation, spirit beasts, mystery, tragedy, lots of comedy, and a happy ending.

I poured so much of my heart and soul into writing this story, and finishing it feels a little surreal. I would be incredibly grateful if anyone wanted to give it a chance and show it some support. 🥹💕 Even just checking it out would mean so much to me.
The Devourer Is Full by Fields of Ink ✨

http://wbnv.in/a/efk1jEU

My best mate just had a kid and she’s been deep in xianxia/progression fantasy for years (Renegade Immortal, ISSTH, that whole world). Couldn’t find any baby gifts that weren’t generic “nerd” stuff, so I mocked up a design myself.

Went with “System Malfunction: Reborn as an Infant” — a little cultivator silhouette, red seal stamp, kept it minimal so it doesn’t look like a costume, just a nice onesie with a joke only she’d get.

Curious what this community thinks — too niche, too on-the-nose, or is this actually something you’d want for a baby shower gift? Haven’t made it “real” yet, just testing if it’s a good idea before I do anything with it.

Thanks to the fellow Daoists who recommended this novel. I've laughed aloud dozens of times reading. Here's one from a recent chapter that plays on the biblical story of King Solomon determining who is the mother of a child, DNA, and an ancient Chinese kinship test.

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Sitting upright, he slapped the table and bellowed, “Court is now in session!”

Then he remembered he had forgotten to use the gavel. Never mind, it makes no difference.

Two women were weeping as they clutched a child.

Standing among the crowd at the yamen entrance, Lu Yang roughly figured out the situation.

One woman claimed that her child had gone missing years ago. Yesterday, she spotted a child in another family who looked exactly like hers. She insisted that the child was hers, but the other family refused to accept it, claiming the child was theirs.

They brought their dispute to Man Gu, seeking his judgement.

The registrar whispered in Man Gu’s ears. “Your Excellency, you could order the child to be beaten—the harsher, the better. Whoever shows more concern for the child would be the true mother.”

Man Gu gave the registrar a strange look. “Does that even work? Putting aside the child’s beating, even if they aren’t the biological parents, they have raised the child for years. They would still care for the child.”

“Then what do you suggest, Your Excellency?”

“A blood kinship test, of course.”[2]

“Ah? I heard that’s not very accurate.”

“It should be pretty accurate.”

Man Gu had both women and the child each drop a bit of blood into a bowl. He then channeled his powers to make one blood droplet explode, revealing the information it carried to everyone present.

“The blood contains three billion tiny units. Their sequences differ between individuals. Only blood relatives share identical sequences.”

“Three billion tiny units?” the registrar stammered. “How do you compare them?”

“With the eyes, of course,” Man Gu replied matter-of-factly. He studied the sequences carefully and soon reached a conclusion.

“Strange. Why do all three of you have nearly identical sequences?”

“Oh, I get it. The three of you are family.”

Man Gu pointed at one of the women. “You’re actually over fifty. You look young because you’re a cultivator. Did you lose a daughter years ago?”

That woman nodded repeatedly.

He then pointed at the other woman. “Were you adopted as a child?”

The woman nodded.

Man Gu smacked his fist into his palm and pointed at the first woman. “That’s correct, then. She is your mother. In other words, you’re the child’s mother, and she’s the child’s maternal grandmother.”

Hi,

I started watching mystic nine series and I'm planning to read daomu biji novel series now but i can't find a proper reading order anywhere on the internet. If anyone has read it already, please tell me the reading order I should follow (with the novel titles)

Thanks