2024-12-31 - Reading List
Happy New Year, last post of 2024
This is what I'm reading the week of 2024-12-31. I only included the ones I've added to my bookshelf to continuous reading.
Sorry I'm late, been playing too much POE2 EA.... Happy New Year !
You can see my previous reading lists Here: www.chaosdrifter.cc
I'm native Chinese speaker so I read the raw from Qidian. you can try finding the English translation on NovelUpdate, LnCrawl or try places like ReadOMNI where Advanced LLM models are used for MTL that should be more understandable and consistent than google translate. OR you can use Chatgpt/QWEN/Claude/Groq with the chrome plugin immersive translate (just sign up and get your own API key for the cloud LLMs)
美食：深夜摆摊，竟被全网追杀！ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Delicious Food: manning a food cart in midnight, chased by the whole internet !)
Chinese cooking, system, no harem, slice of life
MC has a system that grants him a small food cart to start, and a visual system with timings to teach him how to cut, prepare, and cook delicious food from simple ingredients. MC has to complete missions such as sell $1000 in a night to upgrade the cart and the system. He starts selling egg dumplings near some massage parlor and many patrons instead of going for the food massage, stood in line to buy the dumplings. Then the masseuses came out to see where their customer went and got lured in with the food as well. It is kind of funny, definitely slow paced and focused on cooking food and how delicious it is. certainly brings back some memories. Might not appeal to folks who never tasted those food before and thus would be hard to relate.
异界妖僧系统，但我没穿越啊 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
(Alternate Realm Evil Monk system, but I didn't transmigrate ! )
system, no harem, urban life, slice of life
MC is a high school student that was suddenly granted the "Evil Monk system" which seeks to make the MC the most powerful, and evil monk in the realm. The only issues is that the system thinks MC is in an alternate realm with spirit energies and cultivation society. But MC is actually in the current modern world so 90% of the system awards, like the Heavenly Devil dual cultivation Sumatra is useless since there is no spirit energy at all. System tried its best to adjust to such reality, like thinking the high school is a cultivation sect, the library is a technique collection temple, asking girls to help with math is making them do unspeakable acts. etc. etc. The premise is kind of funny and I'm curious to see how the author use it. So far it is ok, too much slice of life stuff like first love, college entrance exam, etc. etc. there are some magical stuff happening but not much, hopefully it gets better later.
我在亡灵学院造军火 (I'm making weapons in the Lich Academy) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
no system, no harem, no simp MC
MC transmigrated into a world where the True Axiom of Death has been broken into many pieces.
So the proper order of life and death is now out of balance, MC is tasked with retrieving all the pieces from the various evil gods and abyss lords that stole it and put things back to norm. He inherited from power from what's left over of the Axiom so he use it to make Modern weapons. the one thing I like about it is that the book starts with MC already possessing such power so we see he summons elite skeletons with full military gears like a Navy Seal and use it to fight monsters. Tanks, Helicopters made of bones and flesh are also present. It is an interesting concept, I got lured by the title, so far so good.
I have so much backlog of novels to keep up (as one can see from my weekly post) so I won't be adding too many new books.
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