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I read 19 baihe novels and two baihe novellas this year. Here's the full list in order of when I read them, with links to my reviews where available.

( Read more; spoilers have been kept to a minimum )

If I were giving out awards:

Best reads: To Embers We Return, Ravenous, The Little Alpaca.
Compact and compelling: Scrapped, A Broken Bough.
Fun and mostly light: Hunger. Lust.
Biggest letdowns: Above the Fates, The Wayward Disciple.
LET ME EDIT YOU: In Love with a Substitute.

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Fanjiao, the specialist platform for baihe audio content, celebrated its sixth anniversary a couple of weeks ago with a video featuring congratulatory messages from 49 baihe voice actresses. As I did with last year's video, here's a quick rundown of the voice actresses and their notable roles (I'll link back to the post about the fifth anniversary video for those voice actresses who were also featured in that).

I've uploaded the video to YouTube for ease of embedding; the original video can be viewed here on Weibo. Again, there are currently no English subtitles, but if anyone is interested in subtitling it, I'm happy to provide support!

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Just a quick round-up of the official art for the audio drama adaptation of Traitors' End (诛佞, pinyin: zhu ning) because it is absolutely stellar.

( pictures under the cut )

The audio drama is based on the historical novel of the same title by Liu Yuan Chang Ning (流鸢长凝), in which Gu Qingtang, a girl from the present day, time-travels to the ancient past and ends up being the adopted son and right-hand man of a powerful and corrupt official (this, of course, in time-honoured fashion, requires cross-dressing). She schemes to marry Yin Ning, the emperor's youngest sister, for a combination of altruistic and selfish reasons. Yin Ning is deeply unamused by this, and attempts unsuccessfully to stab Gu Qingtang on their wedding night. I reviewed the novel here and posted about the teaser for the audio drama adaptation here.

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As I mentioned in this post about the audio drama adaptation, I was quite looking forward to diving into this novel, because I'm famously weak for historical romcoms featuring a princess/cross-dressing prince consort as the main couple. The main plot of Traitors' End can be summarised thus: modern-day woman Gu Qingtang travels back in time, becomes the adopted son and right-hand man of corrupt, ambitious Grand Commandant Nian, and schemes to marry Princess Yin Ning, Emperor Yin Chang'an's youngest sister, for Reasons. Yin Ning, for her part, is Not Amused by this, and attempts to stab Gu Qingtang on their wedding night.

( major spoilers, because it's practically impossible to review the book without them; mention of rape and sexual assault )

I hasten to add that I still really enjoyed this book! Gu Qingtang and Yin Ning's relationship dynamics are a lot of fun, especially in the early part of the book, and Gu Qingtang's many food/boob jokes (readers will not be able to look at peaches or baozi the same way again for a long time) and misuse of classical poetry for innuendo purposes were a delight. Liu Yuan Chang Ning's writing is never short of competent, even if structurally there are things that could be improved on. I am also still looking forward to finishing the audio drama, especially because the author has indicated that she made a number of adaptational changes (and also, once again, because Yi Zhi Zi's 'prince consort voice' is chef's kiss).

I read the Chinese original of the novel on JJWXC here.

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When I heard that one of Liu Yuan Chang Ning's (流鸢长凝) novels was finally going to be adapted into an audio drama (for a pretty established author, it's pretty surprising that this is the first adaptation of any of her novels), I was vaguely interested, since she's one of the baihe authors I quite rate. Then they released the teaser, and I got much more into it than I was expecting. Maybe it's Yi Zhi Zi playing a cross-dressing character that did it for me?

The book which the audio drama is adapted from is Traitors' End (诛佞), a historical novel in which a (as far as I can tell) present-day woman, Gu Qingtang, travels back in time to the ancient past, ends up in the household of a scheming official, and plots to marry the emperor's younger sister Yin Ning, for reasons that are hinted at in the teaser. Unsurprisingly, Yin Ning is not at all keen on the idea, and attempts to stab Gu Qingtang on their wedding night. Things progress from there.

I've subtitled the full ten-minute teaser, which you can see here:

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The audio drama is available on the Fanjiao app (link to the (limited) webpage here), and the novel can be read on JJWXC here. It's almost certainly going to be my next read, so I'm excited to dive in.

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