#Di Wang Gong Lue

[rukkilill]

Hey do you know where I could read the English translation of'The Emperor's Strategy'? I watched the donghua and I really need to read it 😭

Hi there, nonny!

I haven't actually read the novel of Di Wang Gong Lue, just watched the donghua. When I got into it, there was somebody working on the novel, but they weren't very far along, and I wanted to wait until it was done.

Your question prompted me to go looking. I found it here:

https://www.novelupdates.com/series/di-wang-gong-lue/

The translation is ongoing/in-progress, with updates posted recently. Your question makes me want to read it, even though I'll have to suffer through waiting for updates... maybe we should read it together!

[kukuandkookie]

Danmei Donghua Part 3: Underrated Non-Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Works

Danmei Donghua Part 3: Underrated Non-Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Works

Today’s entry is a continuation of last last week’s, because that week’s entry got way too long lol. I am relieved that that happened though, since splitting it up means it’s easier for me to schedule my posts (and yet, I still missed last week due to not feeling too well…). But here we are now! Anyway, I hope this list helps introduce you to some new danmei donghua that you’ll end up enjoying~!…

[thegreatxdf]

Our tsundere emperor can be sweet too ❤️

[bellaroles]

Currently reading Di wang gong lue.

Well, when I don't expect too much of the romantic plotline, I've found the side characters cast to be very endearing. They're so funny. Especially the Xinan Wang's household.

[incorrect-web-novels]

Webnovel Carrd Links [Part 1]

I usually use Novel Updates, but Carrds are great to support the author, find translations not on NU, find Content Warnings, and learn more about the story / other adaptations. If there's a novel not here, it can be helpful to search the name of the novel + "carrd" or "novel updates"

Library Carrds / Carrds with Multiple Novels

Completed Baihe Carrd (click the sunglasses)

Baihe Novels Carrd 

Baihe Support 

Novel Carrd Library (Danmei & Baihe)

Aelia’s Library (Modern & Historical Danmei)

Unlimited Flow Danmei Carrd 

Danmei Recommendations List

Underrated Danmei 

Modern Danmei 

Twitter Thread with Danmei Carrds 

Author Carrds

(These authors have more works - I just listed the most popular ones/the ones I knew)

Cang Wu Bin Bai - author of Golden Stage and Fight the Landlord, Fall in Love

Cyan Wings - author of Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know, High Energy QR Code, They All Say I’ve Met a Ghost, etc.

Feitian Yexiang - author of Dinghai Fusheng Records & To Rule in a Turbulent World

Huai Shang - author of the Sword Named No Way Out

Jiang Zi Bei - author of PUBG: Online Romance of the Century, I Can Do It, and I’ve Liked Your Boyfriend for a Long Time

Liu Bing Jie - author of The Wife is First, Peach, and The White Cat’s Divine Scratching Post

Man Man He Qi Duo - author of Those Years In Quest of Honour Mine 

Meatbun Doesn’t Eat Meat - author of The Husky and His White Cat Shizun

Meng Xi Shi - author of Estranged, Peerless, Thousand Autumns, The Fourteenth Year of Chenghua, etc.

Mo Chen Huan - author of The Earth is Online and the Villain Has Something to Say

Mu Su Li - author of Panguan and Copper Coins

MXTX / Mo Xiang Tong Xiu - author of MDZS, TGCF, and SVSSS

Please Don’t Laugh novels - author of FGEP, Ruzhui, and JQWS

Priest - author of Guardian, LHJC, Can Ci Pin, Mo Du, Gumen, Liu Yao, etc.

Shui Qian Cheng - author of Wu Chang Jie 

Tang Jiuqing / t97 - author of Qiang Jin Jiu & Nan Chan

Wu Zhe - author of Unbridled, Sa Ye, Antidote, etc. 

Zhichu - author of Fanservice Paradox

Danmei / BL

2ha / the Husky and His White Cat Shizun (1, 2)

Bat / Bianfu 

Can Ci Pin

Carven Jade / Zhuo Yu 

Cold Sands

Copper Coins 

Devil Venerable Also Wants to Know

Dinghai Fusheng Records

Di Wang Gong Lue / The Emperor’s Strategy 

Don’t You Like Me? 

Encountering a Snake 

Everyone Thinks That I Like Him

Fake Slackers

Fanservice Paradox 

Fight the Landlord, Fall in Love

Fox Demon Cultivation Manual / FDCM 

Global University Entrance Examination / QQGK / Global Examination 

Golden Stage 

Green Plum Island 

Guardian 

Guomen 

How to Survive as a Villain 

Jun You Ji Fou / How is the Gentleman Feeling? 

Lie Huo Jiao Chou / LHJC 

Little Mushroom 

Liu Yao (press the 3 circles) 

MDZS / the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (1, 2, 3)

Mist (CW: glitch effect, flashing lights)

Mistakenly Saving the Villain / MISVIL

Mo Du / Silent Reading 

My Junior Still Hasn’t Killed Me

Nan Chan 

[Part 2]

[web-novel-polls]

Aroace-spec Character Tournament

[Please vote for who you believe is the most aroace-spec character, not the most popular. It will never be acceptable to post "anti-propaganda" in this tournament or invalidate a suggested identity because "they're not aroace enough." You will be blocked unless it's clearly a genuine mistake / misphrasing.]

Zhao Yue from The Bandit’s Strategy / Tu Fei Gong Lue

Submission: demisexual & demiromantic

He has a whole mental monolgue about how when he was a teenager, he never experienced neither sexual nor romantic attraction, when all other boys his age around him seemed to - and how he thought this was simply something that wasn't in his fate. And that this only changed after he met, & spent a lot of time with (the other half of main couple) Wen Liunian. (This happened when Zhao Yue was in his twenties) To me, this felt like the closest the author could come to describing a character as demi without using the actual word.

Additional Note: The Bandit's Strategy is a standalone prequel to the more well-known Di Wang Gong Lue / The Emperor's Strategy, which has a donghua. TFGL is the third book in a five book series that can be read separately.

Cale Henituse from Lout of the Count’s Family

Submission: Aroace

Not a speck of romantic interest in this man. The only thing he wants to do in bed is sleep

Additional Note: Although the official title of this novel is "Lout of the Count's Family," it's also known as "Trash of the Count's Family," which will not be used for the tournament. It is an action story with no known romance plot involving the main character.

[characterswithcolorsnamesfight]

Propaganda for General Prelim Poll 28

(Vote here)

Teiko's Basketball Club (Kuroko no Basuke / Kuroko no Basket) :

"Akashi (red), Midorima (green), Aomine (blue), Kise (yellow) & Murasakibara (purple), Kuroko (black), Momoi (peach/pink) Haizaki (grey) and Nijimura (rainbow)"

Jade Chan (Jackie Chan Adventures) :

No propaganda yet

Red (The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys ) :

"tragic robot girlfriends for the win!"

Heather Grayson (Shadow High) :

"If 'Heather' is not exactly a colour then 'Gray' is..... right?"

Blåtann (Ragnarok) :

"Blåtann is based on the famous viking King Harald Blåtann, aka. Harald Bluetooth. But this one isn't diplomatic in the slightest so he's just fictional. "

Aizawa Minto (Tokyo Mew Mew) :

No propaganda yet

Pinky (Gokushufudou / The Way of the Househusband) :

"Pinky is a Jack Russel Terrier and what a friendly dog he his! He is so good natured and loves humans!"

Proto Man (EN)/Blues (JP) (Mega Man) :

"While the name “blues” is in reference to the music genre, I think it still counts."

Duan Baiyue (Di Wang Gong Lue / The Emperor's Strategy) :

"白 (bái) character in his name means "white"! (And "Baiyue" together is "white moon")

Also I only remembered that I could submit him here while typing up an entry about him and his bf for the murder husbands bracket ^^" I love him. My special boy whose love language is "brings you a skull of your enemy for your birthday"

Yuki Haku a.k.a Baku (Naruto) :

"Haku means white in Japanese. His last name Yuki means snow. Japanese names are usually in the order of at first the last name then the given name. So his name is literally Yuki Haku, snow white.

Haku was born in a snowy village in the Land of Water.

Growing up as an orphan from the land of water, Haku was a descendant of the Yuki (snow) clan and later became a shinobi and then became a mercenary ninja.

Haku’s mask was a White Nin Hunter Mask that he usually wears during battles or while on a mission (maybe to hide is identity). He had a beautiful face that tricked most into believing he was a girl—and more than that, it hid the true power that he held in his devastating ice-based abilities. Haku is canonically indeterminate gender. (In translations he/him pronouns are used.)

3rd person pov about Haku: "He was a pure spirit – as true and clean as a newly fallen snow."

Quotes from Haku:

"Do you have anyone special in your life?"

“When people are protecting something truly precious to them. They truly can become…as strong as they need to be!”

"I'm willing to do whatever it takes to fulfill that person's dream. Doing so is my own dream."

He really manages to leave a long lasting impression.

"Can you understand? Not having a dream… not being needed by anyone… The pain of merely being alive."

In the end Haku gave his life for that person, and died without any of his dreams coming true.

His story is so tragic 😿 it made me cry reading it."

[danmei-in-polls]

Another org post, this one regarding tournaments in the submission stage.

Aside from keeping a list of tournaments, would it be helpful to collect suggested entries? So that we could coordinate getting enough submissions for danmei characters/ships to secure them a spot?

I'm putting that to a vote, but since poll options have a limited number of characters, an explanation for what each entails.

First "yes" or "no" in every option is for whether or not you personally would use the list of suggested entries (by adding your own suggestions, by submitting what others suggested... if you aren't entirely sure, err on the side of yes). "No" options will still vary by implementation; pick whatever will be least annoying for you if we do end up having a list.

Then, possible implementations: putting the suggested entries into the existing list of tournaments, which branches into putting them next to their tournament, or under 'keep reading'; or having a separate post for suggested entries (that will be linked but not 'bumped'/reblogged on its own).

For "next to their tournament", if we currently have it formatted like

Guy yuri poll

Murder husbands and wives (mlm & wlw murder couples)

that will be changed to something like

Guy yuri poll suggested: bingqiu (svsss), hualian (tgcf), wenzhou (tian ya ke, shan he ling)

Murder husbands and wives (mlm & wlw murder couples) confirmed: wenzhou (tian ya ke, shan he ling); suggested: moshang (svsss), yin hanjiang x wenren e (dvawtk), duanchu (di wang gong lue)

if you wanted to visualize this before deciding.

[verycharismaticdragon]

childhood sweethearts : ( U_U)

...but with mиrdеr : ( ✨o✨)

[yuziyou]

Duan Bai Yue & Chu Yuan

[bellaroles]

Is there a flashback chapter? Please let there be one! At this stage I feel like my copy is missing a few chapters or two.

[web-novel-polls]

Aroace-spec Character Losers' Tournament

[Please vote for who you believe is the most aroace-spec character, not the most popular. It will never be acceptable to post "anti-propaganda" in this tournament or invalidate a suggested identity because "they're not aroace enough." You will be blocked unless it's clearly a genuine mistake / misphrasing.]

Propaganda underneath the cut

Kim Dokja from Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint

Submission 1: demiromantic graysexual, romance/sex indifferent

bc yoohankim is the most qpr qpr to ever qpr

Submission 2: demiromantic graysexual

yoohankim is soo queerplatonic it makes my chest hurt. and ysa and kdj are THE qpr ever. also i read the submissions list and my jaw deadass dropped when i saw that someone else had the exact same kdj hcs as me like asjdnghfdhdbn!ksnk#**#*@*

Zhao Yue from The Bandit’s Strategy / Tu Fei Gong Lue

Submission: demisexual & demiromantic

He has a whole mental monolgue about how when he was a teenager, he never experienced neither sexual nor romantic attraction, when all other boys his age around him seemed to - and how he thought this was simply something that wasn't in his fate. And that this only changed after he met, & spent a lot of time with (the other half of main couple) Wen Liunian. (This happened when Zhao Yue was in his twenties)..........To me, this felt like the closest the author could come to describing a character as demi without using the actual word.

Propaganda 1

Translated Monologue

Additional Note: The Bandit's Strategy is a standalone prequel to the more well-known Di Wang Gong Lue / The Emperor's Strategy, which has a donghua. TFGL is the third book in a five book series that can be read separately.