Metaphor
Sort:
Evil World: There Is a Person Named C
This novel uses letter stand-ins and an allegorical style to blend neighborly voyeurism, mob siege, and family decline into an absurdist drama, suitab…
Heartbeat in the Silence
17K Novel Network · 2020
Using the metaphor of a flood dragon transforming into a true dragon, the novel tells the story of a group of young people entangled by fate and trans…
A River Runs Long
The novel A River Runs Long opens with an everyday conversation between a father and his four-year-old daughter about the origin of the surname Gao, b…
Dawn After Nine Tribulations
The book is a wuxia cultivation work in a rather traditional style, framing the jianghu as a prison with allegorical meaning; the dream loops and tria…
Seven Violets, Fleeting Years
Jinwen Fiction Network · 2017
Jiang Yuxi is a calligraphy teacher at Yushi No. 1 Middle School and a moderately well-known online writer—lazy by nature, seemingly carefree. At a cl…
Five Flavors, One Heart
Xiaoxiang Academy · 2017
This is a grounded ancient farming-life novel, whose main appeal is the realistic portrayal of human nature during famine and the granular texture of …
The Final Path
Zongheng Chinese Network · 2020
Experimental subject rainle wakes up in an unmanned laboratory and is remotely guided by the elderly scientist Shan Xiongling to escape the base. Majo…
The Ugly Flower
Baidu Novel
The story unfolds in a fantastical world where "beauty" is the supreme law: smallpox governs beauty, and people judge nobility by the smallpox marks o…
Under the Stars of a Sleepless Land
Hongxiu Tianxiang
In 2028, Mu Luyuan, founder of the tech company Gemini Interstellar, announces that he will join the United Mars Program as its first commercial volun…
The Empress Dowager's Acting Career
Jinjiang Literature City · 2016
A history major transmigrates into the body of the former dynasty’s empress and, within a single day, is promoted to Empress Dowager Zhaoyin when the …
Unrivaled Immortal
In an age of chaos when the imperial dynasty has collapsed and warlords carve up the land, Yan Lingchuan, city lord of Tianyan Capital, faces twenty t…
Reverse Play on the Black and White Board
Heiyan Reading Network
The book uses the chess metaphor of "Heaven is the board and the stars are the pieces" to link the jianghu and the imperial court. The opening uses a …
The Immortal's Chalice
Tadu Literature
In the deep mountains, Xiyao meets a blue-eyed youth who has lost his memory and names him Xia Xiche, resolving to care for him like her own brother. …
You Are My Spring Breeze
Ruochu Wenxue Wang · 2018
Lin Jing, a young single mother, takes a job as a clerk at Dingsheng Group while raising her son Momo. Summoned to a hotel and then a funeral home for…
Mudslide 1
The story unfolds between 1964 and 2021 in the Xieshan Lake area, centered on the state-run 6806 Textile Mill. Zhu Xianjin and his son Zhu Guangming p…
Pear Whispers
Shen Zhouyi fails the college entrance exam because nerves make her misread the time, and is forced back to senior year to repeat, living with her cou…
Nine Pavilions
Huayu Women's Network
A game of chess sets the stage for this tale of the Great Zhou sovereign, forever frozen at the age of thirteen. Clad in black robes and yellow vestme…
Swimming Across
Zongheng Chinese Network
College student Xiao Mo is framed and sentenced to ten years in prison after a village Party secretary named Jia Zheng retaliates against him for a si…
The Diner from a Far Land
Baoshu Website
The chief analyst of the Wanwu Group is kidnapped by his driver Wang Pu and plunges to his death; at the same time, the entire household of the former…
You Go into the Wilderness
CITIC Press · 2024
You Go into the Wilderness is a short-story collection by the writer Zhao Song, published after Fushun Stories and The Building-Block Book, containing…