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Do Not Wants (DNWs):

• Non-con (including role-play & threats of)*; Sex Without Attraction; Involuntary Exposure (e.g. leaked nudes, being walked in on during sex, etc.)
• Permanent Major Character Death*; Unhappy Endings
• Infidelity; Love Triangles; Unrequested Polyamory; Open Relationships; Actually Unrequited Love.
• Detailed depictions of conflict (internal & external) or bigotry due to race, religion, gender, or sexuality (brief canonical references are fine)
• References to contemporary* real world political events & politicians, disasters, and tragedies (e.g. COVID-19, 9/11, 2016 US elections, etc.)

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Female General & Eldest Princess | 女将军和长公主

Read: English Translation (168/168)

Lin Wanyue & Li Xian

This super iddy novel with politics, identity porn, and pining just hit every spot I could want in this genre. So, a lot of my prompts are just going to be me pointing incoherently at canon and saying "More like this, please!"

Lin Wanyue pines so beautifully, so tragically and with so much thirst & enthusiasm. I love that she's intelligent when it comes to military strategy, but hopeless when it comes to the murky waters of politics and the darker side of human nature. Li Xian is exactly the cold/ruthless type with a hidden soft spot that I can't get enough of. I love that she's so competent and Machiavellian, and I adored her helpless attempts at denial that she's definitely not falling for Lin Wanyue and 100% does not see Lin Wanyue as anything but a pawn in her schemes.

General Likes:

• Pining: Before marriage, during marriage, Lin Wanyue's thirsty pining gives me life.
• Competence Kink: Anytime Lin Wanyue does archery, Lin Wanyue's intelligence in battle strategy, Li Xian's politicking & scheming, the two of them working together as a power couple.
• Fake Dating/Marriage: The two of them pretending to be a couple while on the run was great, and I'd love to see more scenarios of that. Even better if we get a more extended marriage before the eventual reveal, where they have to pretend in front of the imperial court while schemes are happening.
• Hurt/Comfort: All those scenes of Li Xian taking care of a wounded Lin Wanyue. Especially Li Xian using her own hair to stitch up Lin Wanyue's wounds. I just love anything with Lin Wanyue being reckless about her own safety and Li Xian nursing her back to health after. Li Xian is always so guarded about showing any weaknesses that any occasion where she allows herself to relax and trust with Lin Wanyue holding and comforting her would be great too.

Prompts:

• Rebuilding the Village: Snapshots of their lives post-canon, re-building Lin Wanyue's old village, meeting new people, just being peaceful and happy.
• Underworld Adventures: I love the extra of Lin Wanyue and Li Xian giving up their place in the reincarnation cycle just to spend eternity with each other in the underworld. I'll bet they could cause such havoc as the ghost general and her cunning strategist!
• Past Lives: The mention of their past lives where they'd encountered each other but just barely missed getting together is so intriguing to me. I would love to explore what kind of people they were in the past and how they interacted. Some kind of dream reminiscence? Fragments of memories? A 5+1?
• Ghost AU: What if Lin Wanyue hadn't survived her village's massacre? I can see her resentful spirit lingering on this earth until she's had her vengeance, and Li Xian deciding to make use of a supernatural pawn (maybe she's actually the one who summons Lin Wanyue's spirit for her own nefarious purposes?)
• Time Travel/Time Loop: There's so much tragedy & loss that happened at her military camp, so much of it due to scheming. If Lin Wanyue could re-do it, what would she do and could she succeed? What if it puts her up against Li Xian's plans?
• Cross-dressing AU: What if in order to protect her brother, Li Xian swaps places with him and cross-dresses as well? How does that change her interactions with Lin Wanyue?

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I Ship My Adversary X Me | 我磕了对家x我的cp

Read: English Translation (32/47)

Gu Yiliang & Wei Yanzi

This super meta, absolutely hilarious book about an actor falling into fandom and shipping himself with his co-star until they actually fall in love is like a balm on my soul. Wei Yanzi is possibly the most hilarious narrator I've read in a long time (his enthusiasm for fandom is so relatable), and Gu Yiliang is so sweet and kind. This book pretty much set the standard for romantic comedies for me. I also adore how much the author's love for fandom comes through. Like: yes fandom has a lot of OTT ridiculousness and drama, but it never feels mean-spirited or condescending like it does in a lot of mainstream meta depictions of fans.

General Likes:

• Unconventional Formats: The meta premise of this book is really friendly to unconventional formats, so I'd be thrilled to see any of: shipper speculations, a sub-section of that giant 100+ page shipping manifesto, Lofter / Weibo / QQ / WeChat social media interactions, in-universe RPF fanfic, light-hearted fandom wars (i.e. about something petty and low-stakes, like that famous war of Orlando Bloom fans arguing over his favorite vegetable, not something too nasty or personal).
• Mundane Setting + Magic or Sci-Fi:I love adding Sci-fi, Fantasy, Xianxia twists to mundane setting. I can see Wei Yanzi being the worst fox spirit ever (no one buys that he's just a human actor), maybe Gu Yiliang is actually an AI, or they are secretly superheroes (bonus for useless powers).
• Outsider POV: I'm especially fond of Wei Yanzi's manager Xiao Chen (or Little Chen), but any outsider POV from their co-stars, fans or friends (mis)understanding their interactions would be fun. Do the people close to them assume they're already dating before they even realize it? Or are there still people who think they're rivals? I love what the ISMM audio drama did portraying the fan reactions to all the ship fuel these two provide (both the shippers and the non- shippers), so more of that would be great too.

Prompts:

• Fandom Newbie: Wei Yanzi trying (but not quite succeeding) at fitting in when joining the fanclubs' group chats, Wei Yanzi learning something new in the wild wild west of fanfiction, Wei Yanzi trying to (subtly) influence fandom characterization of himself, Wei Yanzi encountering his first abandoned WIP and coping with being left on a cliffhanger. There's so much you can play with here, so feel free to get more creative than me!
• Variety Show Appearances: I love how creative and fun some of the Chinese variety show challenges can be, so I'd be all over any fics where either or both participate in a variety show. Room escape game? Murder mystery game? Or any game where they get to be silly. Or any game that shows off how hilariously bad Wei Yanzi's acting is. Or maybe Wei Yanzi's photographic memory comes in surprisingly handy somewhere.
• Unofficial Shipping Fuel Competition: Wei Yanzi thinks that being the only one of the pair who actually is aware of fandom, he ought to be the main provider of shipping fuel. But Gu Yiliang keeps out-doing him without even trying. So the two of them end up in a silent, escalating competition of increasingly romantic gestures.
• Fake Dating: The popularity of the Niangzi army prompts their PR people to ask if they'd be willing to go beyond fanservice and fake date for publicity.
• Hilarious Sexual Experimentation: Come on. At some point, Wei Yanzi will definitely try out something he read in a fanfic once.
• Exchange Shenanigans: Wei Yanzi signs up for or creates a fic exchange. This time, he will go against the fandom trends and write himself topping! As for whether he succeeds or not and whether he pulls in Gu Yiliang to help with the research...

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Omniscient Reader's POV | 전지적 독자 시점

Read: English Translation (551/551)

Kim Dokja & Yoo Joonghyuk

This novel is probably one of my top favorite takes on the "reader transmigrates into a book" trope. I love how it goes very heavy into the meta concept of the reader, the writer, and the story - drawing influences from history and mythology - and really digs into the cognitive dissonance of being transported into a fictional world, and what separates a character vs a person.

The absolute highlight of this book for me is the slow-burn rivals-to-friends relationship between Kim Dokja & Yoo Joonghyuk. They start off grudgingly using each other for pragmatic reasons, while thinking very little of the other person. Over the course of the events, they eventually come to trust and admire each other (still grudgingly of course) until they would willingly die for each other. ("Only I can kill him!" is literally my favorite trope in this type of dynamic, and Yoo Joonghyuk actually declares this at one point!).

I ship Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk very hard, so feel free to include the ship as part of any of my general prompts as well!

General Likes:

• Loyalty Kink: I love how intensely protective Kim Dokja & Yoo Joonghyuk are of each other, even if they would never admit it out loud.
• Creepy Horror Scenarios - Haunted Mansion? Zombie Apocalypse scenario? Some sort of scenario where people have to confront their worst fears? We've had doomed prophecies, what about curses? Tentacled eldritch horrors are canon already, but I wouldn't mind more exploration or confrontations against them.
• Outsider POV: What do the other constellations think of their adventures? Uriel is obviously seeing them through shippy glasses. Maybe Gabriel & Jophiel too when they saw Kim Dokja stroking Yoo Joonghyuk's hair?

General Prompts

• Kim Dokja's Company Ruins Your Favorite Myth or Legend - The arc where Kim Dokja & Co. re-write (and ruin in the most hilarious way) Journey to the West is the greatest arc of this book for me, and I'd love to see an AU where Kim Dokja's Company take on another myth/legend/famous story. How will Kim Dokja's friends change the story so that he's forced to do nothing and finally take a damned vacation? Can they miscast Yoo Joonghyuk even more badly than they did when they cast him as Zhu Bajie? (Bonus if Kim Dokja & Yoo Joonghyuk are cast as a couple in the remake.)
• The 0th Round - Any missing scenes or adventures featuring the Demon King of Salvation & Yoo Joonghyuk's first, original life.
• 999th's Yoo Joonghyuk - I love this version of Yoo Joonghyuk, especially his adorable murim dumpling form. More cute and hilarious interactions between the two would be great.
• Identity Theft - More adventures of Kim Dokja & Yoo Joonghyuk performing feats of heroism (or not-so-heroic feats) while pretending to be the other person.
• Star Reward AU - What if Yoo Joonghyuk had succeeded in taking the star reward that gave him life or death rights over Kim Dokja? How do they resolve Yoo Joonghyuk's refusal to let Kim Dokja sacrifice himself vs Kim Dokja's quest for the ■■? Does Kim Dokja still manage to find loopholes to sacrifice himself anyway? Or maybe this forces them to actually communicate (with words rather than swords) for a change?

Shippy Kim Dokja/Yoo Joonghyuk Prompts

Everything about why I love these two as friends who'd die for each other is exactly why I love them as a romantic ship as well.

• Life and Death Companions - Kim Dokja & Yoo Joonghyuk discover that there's more to their Life and Death Companions story: Accidental soulbond? Accidental marriage? A sudden revelation when their Life & Death Companion story begins playing while they're on a totally-not-a-date? The possibilities are endless!
• Matchmaking In-Laws - Canon divergence where Hades and Persephones continue their match-making attempts, landing quite logically on Yoo Joonghyuk as Kim Dokja's potential spouse.
• Prophecy - Incarnation Kim Dokja will be killed by the person he loves most. What if Yoo Joonghyuk didn't turn around and leave when they were about to use the Affection Reader on him to discover the identity of the person Kim Dokja loves the most? Maybe this prophecy spurs Kim Dokja to re-evaluate why he spends every second sentence talking about how handsome Yoo Joonghyuk looks?
• Uriel the Shipper - Has she managed to pull others from Eden into her shipping fanclub? Or maybe she can give them both a personal quest?

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Peerless | 无双

Read: English Translation (171/187)

Cui Buqu & Feng Xiao

This book is so tropey and iddy, and it's everything I never knew I wanted about a rivals-to-lovers pairing. Mystery solving, cross-dressing, undercover as a couple, fake marriage, fake make-outs, hilarious bickering, and two ruthlessly competent characters who despite their differences are on equal grounds when it comes to scheming & plotting. And most of all, I love how hard they fell for each other, and how equally hard they're denying that they have any feelings for each other (all while risking their lives for each other and taking care of each other).

I love Cui Buqu's tenacity, his unwilling to go away, and how he's fearless despite not having any martial arts skills because he can out-wit his opponent and succeed. I love Feng Xiao's shameless confidence in himself, his constant showboating, and the depths he hides beneath his boasting.

General Likes:

• Political Scheming - General courtly intrigue, political scheming, conspiracies.
• Petty Rivalry Shenanigans - Zuoyue Bureau vs Jiejian Bureau, Cui Buqu vs Feng Xiao, and the pettiest ways they make life difficult for each other.
• Verbal Sparring - I would read 10k words of nothing happening except Cui Buqu and Feng Xiao insulting each other and trying to dig verbal pits for each other in increasingly creative ways and still not get tired of it.
• Cross-Dressing - Feng Xiao cross-dressing and looking devastatingly beautiful.

Prompts

• Illness - Feng Xiao takes care of Cui Buqu during a flare-up of his illness. Not that he cares or is worried or anything.
• Illusions/Nightmares - Whether through illusion arrays or magical incense or (insert plot device here), I'd love it if they both got trapped in their fantasies or nightmares (or perhaps fittingly, a nightmare fantasy scenario earlier on in their relationship where they end up in a sexual illusion with each other).
• Case-fic/Mystery Solving - A supernatural mystery? A strange locked room murder?
• Marriage Proposal - I have no doubts their eventual marriage proposal would end up being a competition too.
• Fake Enemies - The canon gives us so much fake dating, but what about the opposite? They have to pretend to hate each other's guts, which sounds like the easiest thing in the world, except...?
• Overthrowing a Dynasty, nbd - Canon divergence where Cui Buqu makes good on his word to overthrow the Southern Dynasty in return for saving Feng Xiao's life.

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Trash of the Count's Family | 백작가의 망나니가 되었다

Read: English Translation (612/?)

Cale Henituse & Alberu Crossman

I love accidental hero + found family tropes, and this book really delivers. I love its optimistic and heart-warming tone despite the threats of war & dark backstories/world-building. They're a ragtag unconventional bunch who somehow band together to become heroes, pulling off unlikely wins and having heart-warming adventures together all while making the reader laugh.

Cale Henituse has to be one of the funniest protagonists I've had the pleasure of reading: his ultimate desire to laze about relaxing for the rest of his life is so relatable, but he also has a strong sense of honor and justice, so he won't let his laziness stand in the way of doing what's right either. I love how he ends up inadvertently collecting all kinds of heroes during his quest to be a slacker. One of the reader comments on this novel said: Cale can't throw a stone without hitting a lost protagonist. And that's so accurate.

I love Alberu for being the only person who sees Cale for who he is (and vice versa when it comes to his dark elf heritage), their honesty with each other, his exasperation for Cale and the complications he brings, and how their initial dislike has grown into a strong friendship/sworn brotherhood filled with trolling each other.

I ship Cale/Alberu if you want to make any of my general prompts shippy.

General Likes

• Humor/Misunderstandings:Everyone misunderstanding both Cale & Alberu, thinking they're powerful, noble heroes while the two of them are plotting to make the other person do all the heavy lifting/handle the drudgework.
• Political Maneuvering: I love all the power-plays and maneuvering going on behind the various nations' conflicts, and how Cale & Alberu work together to build up their power (even if Cale's way of helping keeps giving Alberu a headache).
• Outsider POV: Whether from the nobles, or from the other characters on their team, I'd love to know how they see Cale & Alberu's unusual friendship, especially when they're both putting up an act with Cale's fake compliments and Alberu's fake politeness.
• Hurt/Comfort: Cale's reckless disregard for his own health & life means he's a prime candidate to be comforted and pampered while recovering from his battles.

General Prompts:

• Post-Canon: Cale's slacker life is threatened by Alberu's attempts to make him prime minister.
• Test of Despair AU: What if the Sealed God's test had been a psychological test instead, where Cale is stuck in a time loop trying and failing to fix his past? What form would Alberu take in this test to try and save Cale from the time loop & save Cale's old friends?
• Undercover: Alberu going undercover is always so funny, especially when he doesn't have to pretend to be a dignified royal. And Cale's disguise as Naru was surprisingly good. Any adventure where they both go undercover together would be a lot of fun.
• Fantasy Adventure: I love all the different people/races/unusual places they visit and the wonder of new discoveries. Are there any minor characters in the book that they can stumble upon (and save)? What about some new ancient powers? A village in need of some heroes? A murder mystery investigation?

Cale/Alberu Shippy Prompts:

• Undercover Couple: Cale & Alberu's undercover identities require them to be a couple.
• Political Marriage: AU where instead of entering into a sworn brotherhood, Cale & Alberu decide to enter into a political marriage (and feelings ensue.)
• Hair Stroking: Cale's habit of stroking Tigeru's mane carries over to Cale subconsciously stroking Alberu's hair when Alberu is in human form.
• Battle Couple: Alberu is really coming into his own heritage & powers, and Cale is only growing more confident and strong as well. I'd love any fic where the two of them kick ass and take names together, being protective of each other, etc.

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