About the author

Yu Geng is a Chinese author about whom limited public information is available; his confirmed body of work consists of the eight titles held in the library. His writing spans social fiction, mystery and detective fiction, and classic works. His representative titles include If There Is No Tomorrow: I Am Yu Huanshui, Golden Branches and Jade Leaves, Asking the Cauldron 1939, The Last Horizon, The Search for Kin, Laughing at Cangshan, The Setter, and I Am Xia Shizhi. Judging from the titles and categories, he favors realistic subjects and plot-driven storytelling, often using the circumstances of ordinary people as an entry point and exploring social relationships and turns of fate within a framework of mystery and detection. Among these works, If There Is No Tomorrow: I Am Yu Huanshui has gained wider reader recognition through its screen adaptation. Overall, Yu Geng's works combine popular readability with a degree of social observation, and are suited to readers interested in social fiction and mystery narratives.

Written (8)

If There Is No Tomorrow: I Am Yu Huanshui cover
Rating 3.9
If There Is No Tomorrow: I Am Yu Huanshui 余耕 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 The original novel behind the hit streaming series *If There Is No Tomorrow*, starring Guo Jingfei. Adapted into a stage play of the same name that ha…
Contending for Supremacy: 1939 cover
Rating 3.7
Contending for Supremacy: 1939 余耕 Writers Publishing House · 2025 [Tomb Raiding + Antique Appraisal + Treasure Protection + War of Resistance] A new novel by Yu Geng, author of the original novel behind If There Is N…
The Last Horizon cover
Rating 3.7
The Last Horizon 余耕 Writers Publishing House · 2024 Fan Huayang and Song Boyan are police academy students who, during their senior-year internship at a police station, encounter a vicious murder and bo…
Gold Branches and Jade Leaves cover
Rating 3.8
Gold Branches and Jade Leaves 余耕 Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Jinzhi's mother was among the first batch of educated urban youth sent to the countryside. Because of a single remark from Jinzhi, her mother died in …
Laughing at Mount Cang cover
Rating 3.3
Laughing at Mount Cang 余耕 Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Yang Cangshan was born with a smile he cannot wipe off his face, and it is this smile that has offended his superiors and colleagues. A top graduate o…
The Schemer cover
Rating 3.2
The Schemer 余耕 · 2021 Born in a village of con artists, Yu Jingwei is one of the few college graduates it has ever produced. After graduation he thrives in the swindlers' u…
I Am Xia Shizhi cover
Rating 3.2
I Am Xia Shizhi 余耕 Writers Publishing House · 2021 Orphan Xia Shizhi gives her love to her husband without reserve, only to discover he has found someone else; A campus couple who overcame every obstac…
The Search for Relatives cover
Rating 3.4
The Search for Relatives 余耕 · 2018 Guo Jing enters society at the age of three. After being trafficked, he tastes the warmth and coldness of the world and longs to find his biological p…

Publishers

Writers Publishing HouseBaihua Literature and Art Publishing HouseBaihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House