#i only started learning to read chinese in fall 2021 and i actually only understood very very basic mandarin before that

[qilingxiong]

ok sorry not sorry to be a busybody about it but having gone swimming in your mlc tag, unpaid promo to Please Give The Novel A Try for a li lianhua who isn't here to be anybody's ghost (the ghost is only in other people's eyes!! yes there was hatred once but he's already moved on babey!! and spends 95% of the novel being a lil shit and living his Best Life) (also the turnips convo with biqiu is literally from the novel, that's novel!lianhua talking) + happier endings all around (imo)

aaaaaa hello!! i would love to read the novel and maybe i'll work up to it someday (this sounds GREAT), but the thing is my chinese proficiency isn't good enough yet 😔 i've only just started out being able to read fic set in the present day in the last couple months and i am not trusting whatever a mtl version will spit out if i just input the text into a translator, unfortunately. i am very much bookmarking the link though and i really hope that one day my reading will be good enough!!

thank you so much for the rec though, and to anyone who's more fluent than me i am signal boosting this as a reading suggestion 💜