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The Witch's Needle
· 2025
Su Ye, born into a scholarly family, should have been a "bai fu mei"—beautiful, wealthy, and poised—but due to her slow development and short stature,…
The Water Demon's Pool
· 2025
In the Ming dynasty, the renowned courtesan Ke Qing'er, refusing to submit to the powerful, is tricked onto a boat at the center of the lake and viola…
Flowing Splendor on the Sea: The Four-Faced Bodhisattva
Tsinghua University Press · 2022
On New Year's Eve 1917, Shanghai's celebrated detective Zheng Yun returns to his hometown and dies of violent vomiting of blood shortly after stepping…