Recs if you like 暗河长明...
short and sweet danmei
have you ever wanted to try reading danmei, but the sheer length of the most popular offerings intimidated you? here are some novels that are short enough to be published in a single volume in translation (around 250k chinese characters or less)
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![所有人都以为我喜欢他 [Everyone Thinks That I like Him]](https://cdn.pagebound.co/books/a95c7041-55ac-47ed-bf6a-7a4694b20358/large.webp)
![穿堂惊掠琵琶声 [The Flustering Sound of the Pipa from the Hallway]](https://cdn.pagebound.co/books/08f33dbc-b7f0-4450-9c01-56451b0296b1/large.webp)
chinese webnovels 101 // 小说妹必备
a list of popular chinese webnovels, including but not limited to danmei and baihe.
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![南禅 [Nan Chan]](https://cdn.pagebound.co/books/a320be07-f542-43a0-9142-d46472213e5c/large.webp)
meet-cute? no, meet-hate // 逃不过的真香定律
a collection of terrible first impressions and the long, arduous journey from hatred to love. recommendations are very welcome!
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![飞鸥不下 [Flying Gulls Never Land; Eternal Flight of the Gull] (Manhua)](https://cdn.pagebound.co/books/2d5a14f5-5d34-45ca-8b06-afc5252adca7/large.webp)
a love that dares not speak its name
酸涩文 (n.) danmei novels about aching hearts that have been put through the wringer and back.
— 富士山不远，月亮也真的可以私有。 / mount fuji isn’t far, and the moon really can be intimately held.
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![活受罪 [Living to Suffer]](https://cdn.pagebound.co/books/faf6cbde-81e9-4d6b-8edb-90f8b150b8bf/large.webp)
![長相守 [Till Death Do Us Part]](https://cdn.pagebound.co/books/07fc9e79-1aa0-4dc2-abc7-dfccac24297e/large.webp)
wallpaper love // 墙纸爱
(n.) a homophonous play on the trope of 强制爱, in which one character (or both) has the intention of coercing the other into loving them. overlaps with the attic wife trope.
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