I. Genesis of a Revolution: Ding Mo’s Subversion of Xianxia Tropes Emerging in 2003 on Qidian.com, Ding Mo’s Zhu Xian (诛仙, Slaying Immortals) ignited a paradigm shift in online serialized fiction by dismantling the genre’s romanticized heroism. Unlike predecessors depicting straightforward ascension to godhood, Ding Mo pioneered moral ambiguity within celestial cultivation – protagonists wield demonic artifacts for righteous causes while orthodox […]
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The ranking is in no particular order, just to share wonderful novels with you. “Lord of Mysteries” 《诡秘之主》 The pinnacle work of the squid who loves diving, Qidian‘s first serialized novel with more than 100,000 orders. The reason why it only ranks third in 2020 is that the novel ended in early May. And it […]