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Currently listening to the audiobook and oh my god, it’s actually perfect

I don’t normally update statuses but today has been a momentous occasion and I wanted to share the news!

3 Danmei novels written by MXTX will be getting an official English translation and the first volumes published this year! I’m so proud of the fandom as well as the translators for their perseverance and passion!

Link to announcements: https://twitter.com/gomanga/status/14...?

I am completely sucked into this book, which is surprising because I found ‘Sapiens’ to be a complete and utter bore that I couldn’t even get passed the first 30 pages without my eyes drooping. So far, it seems that ‘Homo Deus’ has a strong thesis / recurring theme that I can’t help but be spellbind by, even when it’s all quite scary and uncertain.

“Love, oh love.
Was this not its very image?
Hard and hot, it was the scorching, fierce, blade that dissected you.
Gentle and soft, it was the vivacious tenderness that enveloped you.”

- And that is the end for all the human translations! Time to delve into the edited MTL’s! I will be re-reading the HTL’s from ch. 156 onwards in the future, but I need to know what happens !!!

“Love and desire were never meant to be broken up, never to be separated. To be attracted to the other’s appearance, be bewitched by the other’s voice, the other’s scent, even a single glance, wanting to conquer, wanting to possess, wanting to leave his own scent in that flesh that originally had no connection to him, wanting to drive his fervour into the other’s body.”

- AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!! JUST LOVE!!!!!

“This man, who was dropping to one knee in front of him, looking up at him, and saying,
‘Shizun, I want to hold an umbrella over you for as long as I live.’”

- These last 10 chapters have been Mo Ran simping for Chu Wanning so hard that my poor heart can’t handle

“I want to start over, but why must you haunt me so, in my dreams, in my drunken stupors, in the dimming light of fading candles, jumping out when I least expect it to curse me with that twisted face of yours!

Cursing me with a thousand deaths, cursing me with retribution and comeuppance.”

- I’M. LIVING. FOR. MO RAN’S. REPENTING ARC. YES.

“A great tree like this didn’t have branches that quivered like flowers, stirring affection in people’s hearts, nor did it sway with the wind like strings of vines, seductive and enticing.

He only stood there in silence and severity, very steady and dependable, blocking wind and rain for the passerby without word, allowing those under the tree to hide from the scorching sun.”

- God damn this beautiful

“Mo Ran wished he could cut open his own chest and give him his heart, just to hear his heartbeat again. He wished he could drain his own blood to fill his veins, just to see the colour on his face again.”

- I cried over a bowl of fucking spicy wontons.

“He could only carry you on his back and climb up the stairs of Sisheng Peak, step by step…”

- 3799 steps… I…
- End of book 1, 97 chapters in, and 27% done with this story.
- Just a lot of pain.
- Can’t wait for even more pain.

“It was I who wronged you; I won’t blame you, in life or in death.”

- *im heading off to the tallest mountain on sisheng peak and jumping off*

“‘You don’t know him, but anytime anything happens, he always gives me hell… he really doesn’t like me at all.’

But Chu Wanning was asleep, and these words scattered weightlessly into the silence of the night without an answer, just like the misunderstandings coiled around them for decades and decades across two lifetimes.”

- AAAAAAGGGGHHHHH

“So it turns out that the most disgusting thing in this world weren’t ghosts or demons, but those cowardly, worthless beasts wearing human skin hiding in the crowd, willing to say and to do anything just to endure their own survival.”

- Chu Wanning is an adorable little kid and Mo Ran is a dumb dog. I live. Also, pain.

“So it turns out that the most disgusting thing in this world weren’t ghosts or demons, but those cowardly, worthless beasts wearing human skin hiding in the crowd, willing to say and to do anything just to endure their own survival.”

- Chu Wanning is an adorable little kid and Mo Ran is a dumb dog. I live. Also, pain.

“After all, everyone wanted warmth.

Especially a stray dog that had frozen in the bitter cold so many times that the mere sight of slated roads made him tremble in anticipation of snow, of the coming winter.”

- I’m getting more and more attached to meatbun’s writing (and Rynn’s translation) and how poignant it’s becoming amidst all the comedic chaos.

“Tianwen’s gold and Jiangui’s scarlet danced together, light resplendent in their wake, magnificent to behold. The willow vines ripped through the once-calm waters, stirring it to life and tearing it apart - gold and scarlet intertwining, evenly matched, loath to part!”

- I’m clenching my fists more and more from exasperation or excitement I don’t know

“One on the bridge, leaves rustling in the wind; one under the bridge, rain splashing in the river.

For a moment, neither spoke, both simply looking at each other.

The misty rain blurred the line between heaven and earth most poignantly. Fallen bamboo leaves drifted between the two of them, now and again, carried by the wind and the rain.”

- The deeper I get into this story the more I just wanna hulk out

“Mo Ran’s head was all messed up. He watched that person from outside the window, but the person inside never noticed. He couldn’t see Chu Wanning’s face, and Chu Wanning couldn’t see his.

And so the white cat knelt all night, never turning around.

And so the dumb dog stood all night, never once leaving.”

“Chu Wanning and Mo Ran both ignored the weeping woman; Chu Wanning didn’t know how to comfort people, and Mo Ran had no compassion to speak of.”

- Chu Wanning & Mo Ran just got fake married by corpses and then shoved inside a coffin to celebrate their nuptials. Mo Ran got hard. Love them.

"If Shi Mei was the pure white moonlight of his heart, then Chu Wanning was the piece of fish bone stuck in his throat. He would pull it out and crush it, or else swallow it and let it be dissolved by stomach acid."

- I forgot how hilarious this story was and how god damn conventionally unlikable this hero is. I can feel the pain in the horizon and I'm just 2% in (by 2% that's like 10 chapters read... *cries*)

350 chapters. Fuck. Here we go.

Okay I think I’m ready for my heart to be broken and then repaired by WangXian again…. Ahhhhhhhhh !!! I’ll be listening / reading the audio drama in the re-read this time … quite afraid… immensely afraid.

So I just woke up on a sleep deprived Thursday and I really really really wanted to re-read these books. I stopped reading up to book 4 and I have the rest of the books in my Kindle that I brought ages ago, but never got around to reading. I’m going to change this right now by re reading these books. I’m so excited!

Okay I’m actually doing this, I’ve seen so much hype from this series and I’m going to cave. Also, I’ve been watching a lot of Haikyuu!! lately and want a sports story but gay. Sign me up!!

The set up has been brilliant to read and every word that I’ve read has been so precisely crafted and orchestrated; it’s ingrained in my mind.

Doing my annual re read of this book and I’m ready with my my pens, highlighters, sticky notes and tabs

GAHHH I LOVE IT WHY HAVEN’T I READ THIS ALREADY OMG

Finally starting this!!! (Only like a year too late lol)

I’m seeing all the 5 star reviews and I’m just thinking... eh? I like it so far, don’t get me wrong, but it’s just a bit too repetitive ... ? Eeeek