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Hey everyone, I'm putting up an interest check for a Miss Forensics read along. This work by Jiu Nuan Chun Shen is a thriller and sits at 878k words in Chinese on JJWXC. With some people's copies of the physicals coming in, I thought this would be a good time to start a read along for one of many baihe novel staples of the new generation.

I will be asking for FIVE (5) people minimum to start this, as I would not want to start a thread and have it dwindle down to me speaking to a brick wall.

How it works: I'll put up a master post every 2 weeks, with the assumption of this being paced at 5 chapters a week (based on the web version) and one chapter summary posted per weekday. You would read 20k words per week at least and 50k words per week at most. If you are reading from the Traditional print, please keep in mind that the chapters are condensed, with the chapter headings from JJWXC being used as section breaks. Of course, this can be adjusted if people would like to commit and want to suggest a lower cap on the weekly word count.

Where to read: You can read Miss Forensics through JJWXC or acquired copies of the Traditional Chinese print. Please keep in mind that the Simplified Chinese print is censored. There are 5 chapters translated on Fluffy Translations, but any subsequent translated chapters found online are MTL. I do not like MTL and will not promote it, and will not be responsible for any plot interpretation discrepancies as a result of reading via MTL.

If enough people are interested, we will start on June 2nd. Any "late" postings will be attributed to time differences. If there are no changes made to the reading pace, the read along would run until December 2025.

Please let me know in the comments if you have any questions! If you are shy and don't want to publicize your questions/comments/concerns, please feel free to DM me on Dreamwidth or drop an ask in my Neospring inbox. I can then share said inquiry with my reply in the comments and maintain your anonymity.

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I know the novel has finished serialising and some of you have already finished reading it, but I've been having fun catching up in the comments of the previous chapter-by-chapter discussions so here's another read-along post. Whether you're also planning to binge-read the whole thing now that it's finished, or have already read it and want to relive the fun, or are following via

douqi's translation, come and join me!

Note: I will not be writing detailed chapter summaries because I'd like to finish the novel sometime this decade, but I'll try to give at least brief notes on what happens, to help keep track of where in the story we are. I might also switch to 20 chapters at a time rather than 10 to keep the number of posts manageable but want to get to a nice multiple of 20 first.

Discussion of Chapters 1 to 10 can be found here.

Discussion of Chapters 11 to 20 can be found here.

Discussion of Chapters 21 to 30 can be found here.

The link to the novel on JJWXC is here;

douqi's ongoing translation is here.

douqi

Discussion of Chapters 1 to 10 can be found here.

Discussion of Chapters 11 to 20 can be found here.

The link to the novel on JJWXC is here.

douqi

Discussion of Chapters 1 to 10 can be found here.

The link to the novel on JJWXC is here.

Note: I'll try to catch up a little but will probably be a few days behind the actual chapter updates from now on, especially since she's going to drop about 10k words when the novel goes into VIP.

douqi

Ning Yuan (宁远) started serlalising her much-anticipated (especially by me) historical cyberpunk novel To Embers We Return (焚情, pinyin: fen qing, formerly known as Burning Passions but that sounded too much like the kind of historical romance that has a clinch cover with the leads' hair blowing dramatically in the wind) today. Since I know at least one other comm member is reading it as it serialises, I thought I would set up this read-along post.

Here's the updated summary for the novel (I posted about the original summary here):

When Shen Ni returned home covered in glory, the emperor granted her the position of an official of the first rank, as well as the hand in marriage of the woman she had been in love with ever since her youth, Bian Jin.

Bian Jin had once been the empire's sharpest blade — a weapon in human form whose very name filled their enemies' hearts with terror. But after a string of serious battlefield injuries, she could only stand upright with the aid of a mechanical spine.

After their wedding, unresolved conflicts between the two meant that their marriage remained unconsummated, and they continued to address each other as 'shijie' and 'shimei'. Shen Ni kept a record of every single change in the sensitivity readings of every part of Bian Jin's new cybernetic body.

Each time she made adjustments to Bian Jin's body, Shen Ni would wear gloves. She knew her shijie had an obsession with cleanliness, and hated being touched.

Bian Jin: It's just a prosthetic. There's no need for all this fuss.
Shen Ni: The proprieties must be observed.
Bian Jin: Last night, I kept asking you stop, but you didn't. I didn't see you observing the proprieties then.

As Shen Ni was fine-tuning Bian Jin's body, a small mishap resulted in Bian Jin's skin developing a heightened level of sensitivity that only Shen Ni was able to trigger. The temperature in their bridal chamber rose instantly from 'cool' to 'scorching'.

Bian Jin: Are we going to test my body again tonight? Every time my sensitivity readings go up, I'll reward you.

***

Shen Ni straightened her official's hat, and met the 'gaze' of the spybeast hovering in the air. The monster who wanted to destroy the world had finally shown its cold, poisoned claws.

Her human genes summoned her to the aid of the ancient and noble civilisation that had birthed her. She would defend it to her last breath, even if it meant having her guts smeared across the landscape.

Random passerby: Hey, I think the monster who wants to destroy the world might be your wife.
Shen Ni: (nonplussed silence)
Shen Ni: What's there to love about this greedy, corrupt world? Let it be destroyed!

The fall of a degenerate society was close at hand. The land ran red with blood.

Bian Jin, her body now in peak condition thanks to Shen Ni's efforts, placed the point of her sword against Shen Ni's heart. 'Don't you understand?' she said. 'I was just using you.'

Shen Ni, completely drenched in blood, took a step forward. 'And after you're done using me, will you reward me?'

Bian Jin: ...what.

Here is the link to the novel on JJWXC. I'll write a summary of each chapter in separate comments. Please feel free to join in, even if you're not reading the novel but are have questions/reactions. Obviously, there will be spoilers in the comments!

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

Chinese GL

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