Frostwing

Frostwing is a fantasy web novel by Salty Fish Duke, serialized on Qidian from 2017 and completed in March 2019, running to about 1.5679 million Chinese characters. The story opens on a northern glacier: a dwarf mercenary sees half a dragon wing blotting out the sky and trembles, while the owner of those crimson pupils looks down and declares—welcome to my laboratory. The protagonist, Baihe Frostwing, transmigrates into a white dragon in a world built on the DND system, carrying an infinite-flow artifact in the form of a "twenty-sided die" that can cross between realms, and thereafter shuttles among other worlds, kicking up trouble in the guise of an unhinged evil dragon. The work uses DND rules as its worldbuilding foundation and blends in an infinite-flow dungeon structure, entering the worlds of several well-known works and systems in turn; in his laboratory the protagonist holds forth on bizarre projects like genetic modification, bio-booster armor, and the conversion of flesh into energy, mixing mad scientist with giant dragon to create a distinctive style of wild imagination. The author calls it an "infinite-flow, DND, brain-hole self-indulgence piece"; the prose is brisk and jumpy, dense with ideas, packing parody of all kinds of settings and memes into a limited length—a fantasy web novel that leans fan-oriented, prizing fun over rigor. The book reached Qidian's homepage strong-recommendation list, accumulated more than fifty thousand collections, and received an annual honor.