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Joy of Life

庆余年 · 猫腻

by Mao Ni

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☯ Xianxia / Cultivation 🏯 Historical

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A modern man dies and wakes up as an infant in a corrupt Qing-style dynasty — with all his adult cynicism intact.

Fan Xian grows up in a world of poisons, assassins and palace intrigue, armed with modern sense and a mysterious blind old servant who massacres anything that threatens him. The 2019 Tencent drama made him globally famous — this is the longer, sharper novel that fans insist is even better.

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