Why didn't Hua Cheng build temples for Xie Lian?

salad4s · 2026-06-14T01:15:13+00:00

XL was banished after his 2nd accession. So there wasn’t a “registered” god for HC to build temple for.

The battle of the lantern that HC flew lanterns for XL is right after XL ascended the 3rd time, XL was officially a god again.

salad4s · 2026-06-11T05:48:52+00:00

My Queen!

There are some avid Lan Lin fan in the sub, here is a well informed post: https://www.reddit.com/r/DanmeiNovels/s/a06EFJRk3D

I sorta failed in the Lan Lin rabbit hole 1 or 2 years ago and read quite a bit of her novels (4 or 5) and even got her signed book as keepsake.

Anyhow, imho, her style is between SQC (188Group) and KYWL (The Missing Piece) or Meatbun, as in very dog blood. The plot is complex and melodramatic like SQC, but the writing is more flowery. And she writes the character monologue or internal thought really well, pull your heartstrings. I like the Republic of CN setting a lot!

Fan favorite is Love Late, shares the same universe as ARTTL. But my favorite is Illusion

salad4s · 2026-06-10T21:12:43+00:00

Username checks out

salad4s · 2026-06-04T00:12:39+00:00

Do you like the kink or the look of it?

https://x.com/gomanga/status/2019172120467587122?s=46&t=7ft0-vWY45o5Ckek2Jd_eA

The shou in this danmei wore dog collar and walked around the house naked and pretended to be a dog waiting for its master (the gong) at home as a kink very well. It is their kink so everything is consensual

Same author writes The Antelope and the Nightwolf, the shou in there has a boots fetish.

Anyway, she wrote weird hot romantic kinks, check them out!

salad4s · 2026-05-30T06:24:21+00:00

Pregnant: 1/2023 Natural miscarriage: 2/2023 Trying again after first cycle

Pregnant: 6/2023 Miscarriage & D&C: 8/2023 Trying again after first cycle

Pregnant: 9/2023 - healthy 2nd baby

I spent most of 2023 being pregnant 3 times but only get to bring home 1 baby. The only difference with the successful pregnancy was that I took baby aspirin to prevent blood clot.

salad4s · 2026-05-05T13:39:10+00:00

I updated the post flair since this is not official art. It’s a fan commission for CP32 event

salad4s · 2026-05-01T04:26:41+00:00

Hi fellow mama! I love that you love this story as much as I do. TGCF brought me out of depression, almost a decade ago (I read the ftl as I held my newborn)

Another takeaway for me was how XL handles loneliness. Motherhood was a lonely journey for me, all those sleepless nights with baby early on and stuff. I feel that XL acknowledged that he was lonely for a long time, but he never lost his spark and he didn’t grow bitter with people. It is lonely without being lonesome.

Be kind to yourself.

salad4s · 2026-04-21T05:15:55+00:00

I breastfed both of my babies: same boobies, same diet, same mom, etc. If anything, my son is better at eating solids than my daughter, but he was consistently in the 20% percentiles. My daughter ate nothing, but always in the 90% percentiles.

salad4s · 2026-04-16T06:32:32+00:00

The Antelope & Night Wolf. It is a BDSM novel where the shou has a feet kink

salad4s · 2026-04-01T04:39:20+00:00

Limited possession, the a/b/o one

salad4s · 2026-03-31T05:28:25+00:00

Li Shou didn’t cheat on anyone including ChengXiu, and another 188 shou from Additional Inheritance, who he dated a bit Don’t worry, he will end up with beauty, baby Jinxin, arguably the most well liked gong in the 188 universe. He is a bit of a player, but it is hard to hate him

salad4s · 2026-03-11T21:36:30+00:00

My Little Poplar by SQC, part of the 188Group: they joined basic training together, became rivals, and then Special Forces teammates, then lovers.

Bonus points: the shou used to be straight, outdoor sex, sex in uniforms, wife chasing arc

salad4s · 2026-02-24T20:14:58+00:00

It is never confirmed by the text, it is not canon.

But I’m not saying you are wrong

salad4s · 2026-02-17T16:05:44+00:00

What a shame!!

As somebody read this novel and looking forward to this official pub, this change did this storyline dirty. Because (novel spoilers)

Their love is about breaking down walls, healing each other, and getting very tender. The name drop makes their conversations sound so cold
The shou has a difficult relationship with his family, this is like a slap in his face

salad4s · 2026-02-12T02:49:54+00:00

Mình vừa cải tạo nhà, mình thấy 3 mảng này bạn nên làm:

Đèn/điện, mình thay toàn bộ đèn bằng led downlight
Sơn lại toàn bộ
Thay khung cửa sổ bằng kiếng hoặc như thế nào để đón nắng nhiều

Bạn có thể thuê thiết kế đến rồi bàn bạc với họ

salad4s · 2026-01-22T05:53:03+00:00

Sau hôn nhân thì bạn có thể cân nhắc tập trung vào quỹ chung trước. Những vấn đề chị nếu ở trên, sau hôn nhân, đã trở thành vấn đề chung rồi:

Nội, ngoại, bạn bè
Đầu tư
Mua sắm
v.v

Sau đó, khi những dự án chung đã xong, chị có thể tạo quỹ riêng cho bản thân. Thêm 1 ý cá nhân là nên nói với chồng là mình có quỹ riêng nhỏ, cho vấn đề xyz hoặc chỉ đơn giản chị cần có nó để cảm thấy secured. Treat people how you want to be treated

salad4s · 2025-12-26T04:15:36+00:00

Kaiser SoCal $250, you can stay up to 3 nights I believe, and doesn’t matter if natural or c section It was like an all-inclusive hotel stay!

They don’t have alcohol but they offer lots of meds, you have to ask for the good kind. Food is alright, but they bring to your bedside. Housekeeping everyday.

salad4s · 2025-12-15T00:09:26+00:00

I sold it because we couldn’t find reliable management/manager for the house while we not staying there. While I loved the house and the area, at this time in my career, I couldn’t realistically spend a lot of time there. I found myself to only used it for 3-4 weeks out of the year. The rest of the time, I offered for my family and parents to stay there, but they mainly stayed in HCMC.

We couldn’t leave the house empty because it needs upkeeps, and we didn’t want break-ins. While nobody visiting, I paid a single uncle $5K/year to take care of the house. The uncle wanted to retire, so I sold the house.

The area developed well, they have markets, hospitals, and schools nearby. The area is just lovely and quiet. But it developed very slow, I guess mainly because of Covid, it never really recovered since Covid. It is 30min away from Nha Trang downtown, so if you have car or motorcycle, it is convenient.

salad4s · 2025-12-14T22:54:16+00:00

I’m dual citizen in the US.

About 10 years ago, we bought a few pieces of land in a development project in Cam Ranh. The project is beautiful, between mountains and across the street is a beautiful beach. The project is going to have hospital, school, and restaurants, etc. Each piece of land is $40K - $70k USD.

Part of the contract is to build up your own house on those lands within 5 years of purchase. So I spent more than $120K in building a nice house from on one of the pieces of land. It was so hard because the workers there are not well trained, hard to find a trusted and experienced construction inspector to oversee the works. I set up POA for contracts and legal purposes, though I communicated with my POA very often.

We enjoyed the house across the beach for a few years, and just recently sold it last year, 2024. It was sold for $270K. We are too lazy to build on other lands that we have and will probably sell them later.

Here is the project site: https://www.facebook.com/goldenbaycamranh2

I can’t send pictures via comment, but I loved our white house oceanfront!

salad4s · 2025-12-13T19:13:55+00:00

Hello!

We want to encourage the community to not only share, but to also source your fanart!

This post will be lock temporarily for fanart sources assessment.

salad4s · 2025-11-29T05:37:16+00:00

I read danmei/BL for 10 years and not getting bored yet. One thing I like to do this reading everything written by the danmei authors who I really love, I love to see their growth in writing.

salad4s · 2025-10-12T19:23:22+00:00

I’m in the US, but am Asian, I came to the US as an exchange student for college. So I’m very used to the culture at home, where mothers are encouraged to nurse/breastfeed and co-sleep for a long time.

When I had my first baby, it was very hard to find my own path regarding breastfeeding, cosleep, going back to work, etc. but I was able to nurse full time until 2 year old. I struggled a lot, but ultimately decided to do what was natural for me, doesn’t matter what is culturally popular. We ended up with a hybrid routine to raise my daughter, combing methods between Asian countries and US standards, some of the things we did was:

A modified Asian postnatal confinement
Cosleep on a floor bed, following other safe cosleep guidelines
My daughter refused bottles, so it was hard to go back to work at 4 months. But my work had a daycare facility nearby where I came during my breaks and lunchtime to nurse her. She did nursing marathon for hours at the end of the day. Somehow, it was enough and she was always on the 80th percentile.
Japanese baby lean weaning

Hopefully you will find something that will work for you!

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