Cang Yue

Cang Yue, whose real name is Wang Yang, was born on May 15, 1979, in Wenling, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province. She is a contemporary Chinese wuxia and fantasy writer and architect, and holds a master's degree in architecture from Zhejiang University. She began publishing her work online in 2001 and has continued writing ever since; 22 of her works are included in the collection. Her representative works include the Mirror series, the Listening Snow Tower series, the Feather series, the Dingjian Pavilion series, Seven Nights of Snow, and Flower Mirror. Mirror: Twin Cities was the original novel of the television drama of the same name. Her works are commonly categorized as otherworld-continent fiction and wuxia novels, and are typically grounded in Eastern fantasy, blending the spirit of the wuxia world with the grand imagination of a fictional universe, with delicate plotting and intense emotional portrayals. Several of her works have been adapted for television, and she has had a broad influence among readers of contemporary Chinese genre fiction.