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Yes... I finally caught up to the hype haha.

Mo Dao Zu Shi by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Translation by ExR



On a fleeting whim I decided to try out the novel and was entranced. Love, love, loved it! You can really see how much planning the author MXTX put into it and I love me some complex characters. I love having visuals (and so many things are amazing unsaid), but novels just have so much room to put in other details! This novel has so many things I love about stories so it's definitely going on my shelf, although I can't understand the original text it literally scratches all my itches. The line between angst and edge is tricky and it pretty much nailed it for me! I can definitely see my tastes now aha.

I do so hope that it gets an official English release one day! In the mean time I already went and snapped up some official merchandise. The worst thing about missing a fandom in its heyday is missing out on the convention artist alley opportunities to get merch haha... especially since the copyright control on this series is so tight. I'm definitely looking to get art though! I have already scoured for the audio dramas and donghua/live drama soundtracks as well haha!



Getting into the novel... )


General thoughts about the novel... may contain spoilers )

Squik, t/w, mild spoilers )
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Today I finished reading a novel! I liked reading it, although it was a distraction from things I needed to do (well it also distracted me from my depressive thoughts so hey!). Been slowly getting through it for the last week or so.
It's called Lessons on Raising a Partner written by Ācí Gūniáng.
The translation is by ExR.


Basically the story is a big sci-fi space opera!

The story follows an elf-cum-baby grass plant named Hai'an. Something goes awry during his magical rite of age passage and he is transmigrated to the body of a cute little seeding in a different world.

There he comes to be owned by a retired marshall named Auguste, and is taken to explore a space-age. Auguste is actually a dragon, and he currently searching for the others of his race. While caring for his cute little plant, Auguste finds that it is quite intelligent and begins falling in love with the plant Hai'an.

It's weird to see the ML fall for a plant but hey! Open mind open heart-- right? They do point out that plants can have personalities and IQs, it's still odd but at least we know the mc is technically an elf. Plus Hai'an is so cute as a plant (oh no could my perversion be getting that much stranger...)

General thoughts about the novel... )

Andddd opops I accidentally deleted an entire portion with a lot of my dedtailed thoughts...
Some vague spoilers/squiks, nothing that will spoil the overall plot imo )

Anyways I think it's worth taking a chance to read!

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