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I Am a Grain of Sand
This is a personal collection consisting mainly of prose poetry and classical-style verse. In the opening, the author describes himself as sentimental…
A Rider in Evening Snow over a Thousand Mountains
Qidian · 2022
One Rider, Evening Snow, a Thousand Mountains is a collection of poetry and prose by Zhui Liang, built mainly around short poems and line-broken essay…
The Most Beautiful Regret
Zongheng Chinese Network
The book is small in size, more like a volume of private emotional essays than a plot-driven web novel. Its appeal lies in its poetic language, which …
Jackson Yee, Oh My God!
This book was written by a paper-crane devotee who calls herself Ye Zinuo (pen name Half a Lemon). It is not a conventional narrative novel but a coll…
First Half of 2012
17K Novel Network
First Half of 2012 is a work by Xinling Lüke consisting mainly of essays, miscellaneous writings, and personal communication, with updates beginning i…
Thirteen Masterpieces
17K Novel Network · 2022
Twenty-eight-year-old Xiaoshan is a full-time writer holed up in a six-square-meter rented room, updating three hundred words a day and making a livin…
Random Essays
A college student named Mu Feixing, newly employed and constantly nagged by his mother to go on blind dates, one day encounters in his rented room a g…
Cold by Nature, That Am I
This book is a short collection of scattered poems and essays. The author speaks in first person: "Cold by nature, that am I; with others I have nothi…
The Most Beautiful Poems
A collection of poems and essays by Meng Taiqi, gathering lyrical short poems and life sketches such as First Meeting, Stargazing at Midnight, Lament …
Random Notes by Yuanpu
Random Notes by Yuanpu is a loosely structured collection of essays in which the author, writing from the area around Laoying Village in southwestern …
The Shrine Maiden's Pet Husband
Zongheng Chinese Network
A modern woman transmigrates to the Tianhe Continent and becomes Yun Ling'er (Wu Ling'er), born clutching jade, and with her shrine-maiden pets meets …
The Vampire Queen's Diary
17K Novel Network
Written in diary form, this book features a protagonist who claims to be a vampire queen who has lived for tens of thousands of years, using the alias…
Poems from the Sea of Dust, Notes of a Lonely Swan
This collection gathers classical-style verse in which the author, Chenhai Guhong ("Lonely Swan of the Sea of Dust"), records his inner journey since …
Cang's Whispers
Qidian
Cang's Whispers is a collection of web-fiction reviews serialized by Cang Yiwei on Qidian. It opens with an original theory, "The Nine Gates of Web Fi…
Travel Notes of a Childish Paramecium
The author records in first person her experience of leaving a small northern town alone for Shanghai at nearly forty. It opens with small talk with a…
Years Flow By in Silence
Told from the perspective of the heroine Ya, the novel follows a Spring Festival holiday in Guangzhou, where she lives as a migrant worker with her hu…
Youth Without a Title
· 2019
Written in first-person essays, this book records the author's growth and inner journey over the years from school into society. It opens with a look …
These Days
This book suits readers who enjoy nostalgic rural writing and plainly expressed lyric poetry. Its strengths are simple language and genuine emotion; t…
Yu Qiuyu's Prose
This book is a curated collection of Yu Qiuyu’s essays, including “Why Chinese Culture Has Endured.” Drawing on more than thirty years of systematic e…
The Cui Family's Path of Growth
This book is more a collection of miscellaneous life essays than a traditional plot novel. Its draw is the author's use of the "three realms" framewor…