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DID YOU KNOW WE GOT A COMMUNITY HERE?

The Huaxia Pilots is the perfect place to talk about Iron Widow, Heavenly Tyrant and other Xiran Jay Zhao related stuff! You can share your memes, creations and ideas/theories there too!

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What would it take for me to no longer be a woman? If I cut off my breasts? If I cut out my womb?

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I'm a prisoner in this world, in this era, in this room, in this body. It never ends. It will never end.

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BAHAHAHHAAH QIN ZHENG WEARS A CAPE WHAT A DWEEB

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"Do you know the sharpest sentiment I felt since awakening? It's disappointment. [...] I've discovered that I made the mistake of leaving too many reactionary forces alive in my time. As soon as I vanished, they leaped to purge my government and reverse my most revolutionary policies. They retaliated without mercy against the workers and peasants who rose up at my call. Now, despite all the improvements in technology, the rich have gotten richer, and the poor have gotten poorer."

— Qin Zheng

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hi sorry :3 I finished high school and all my exams I can get back into reading the book now :3

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"When the Black Tortoise attacked the Vermilion Bird, why did you try to help us?"

"Because it was proof that, sooner or later, we would've been next."

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It's come to my attention that some people have been reading a certain scene in Heavenly Tyrant in a way I did not intend, and it's causing me so much distress that I am formally issuing a correction to the book in the form of a set of clarifying lines.

If you own a printed copy of Heavenly Tyrant right now, please take a pen and add the following lines to the top of page 434: [We can sculpt anything out of spirit metal. I could even FEEL through it. We can make this work.]

If you haven't read to that point yet, you can cover the text with a piece of paper to avoid spoilers while flipping through the book. The page is on the lefthand side.

Hopefully this scene will now read without ambiguity. I am campaigning to get the lines added in the ebook and future physical printings, including the translated editions. I've already confirmed that the Italian version (which has incredible translation work by Paolo Maria Bonora, btw) will have them in.

Thank you, everyone, and sorry for the trouble! I really thought it was plenty obvious that he was about to get pegged.

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What kind of life would that be? Being tools, being leverage, for the rest of their existence?

They're the ones who taught me how horrible that feels.

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I would rather die fighting than languish in servitude.

Qin Zheng

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LET'S FUCKING GOOOO

ughhh wheres my heavenly tyrant copy 😭😭😭😭 I'm suffering here

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ughhh wheres my heavenly tyrant copy 😭😭😭😭 I'm suffering here

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Fuck the cabin in the mountains. Let's rule the world.

Gao Yizhi

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[translation: it was a weird day, weird month, weird year, weird life]

Taco Hemingway – Modigliani

What a day.

What a month.

What a life.

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"Sorry," I say, cold as Big Sister's ashes. "You're in my way."

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What kind of life would that be? Being tools, being leverage, for the rest of their existence?

They're the ones who taught me how horrible that feels.