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Joy of Life – An Eastern Epic of Revenge, Power and Redemption
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“Between him and the throne stands his mother’s ghost – and the father who murdered her.”
★ Permanent collection of the National Library of China
Selected as one of the “Top 10 Most Influential IPs in Chinese Internet Literature” (2019) – an officially recognized masterpiece.
★ A fable about karma: “the kindness of one generation blesses the next.”
The title comes from a poem in Dream of the Red Chamber, meaning: If your ancestors did good, you will be protected. Ye Qingmei planted the seeds of a better civilization; though she died, her son Fan Xian grew up to avenge her and end the man who murdered her.
★ One of the most successful online novels in China – now a blockbuster TV series.
- TV adaptation won Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor at the Shanghai TV Festival (Magnolia Awards) , plus 5 nominations.
8.0/10 on Douban (780,000+ ratings).
- Over 13 billion total views on Tencent Video and iQiyi.
- Weibo main topic reached 12 billion reads.
- The first web-streamed series nominated for the Magnolia Awards.
★ The ultimate “overpowered protagonist” setup:
- His teachers: Fei Jie (master of poisons) and Wu Zhu (the world’s greatest fighter).
- His adoptive father: Fan Jian, a powerful noble.
- His mother’s close friend: Chen Pingping, director of the secret police.
- His biological father: the Emperor himself.
- A modern literature graduate reincarnates into a medieval world, armed with a dead engineer mother’s legacy and a sniper rifle. He must survive the deadliest political game.
【Influence】
Joy Of Life was first published in 2007 on web and finished in 2009, making it one of Mao Ni's most popular works and one of the most sought after novels. The paid subscriptions of the novel is 42.23 million, and over 3 million fans are engaged in lively discussions about the work in its fan forum.
During its serialization, the novel has won the first place repeatedly in the bestseller chart, the monthly votes chart and the 24-hour bestseller chart. It won the First Place of the First Internet Literature Biennial Awards in November 2015 and the first Tianma Literary Award in August 2020 and got the honor of "Permanent Collection of the National Library of China".
Currently, the paper version of Joy OfLife has sold 1 .5 million copies; its audiobook have been listened over 1.5 billion times online; and the first season of its TV adaptation was launched on 26 November 2019. It has 770, 000 reviews on Douban with a superb rating of 8/10 and a total video view of over 13 billion on Tencent Video and iQIYI. On Weibo, the hashtag #JoyOfIife was read over 12 billion times. The show has become the most-discussed phenomenal hit of the year in China in 2019 and has won two awards for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor at the 26th Shanghai TV Festival White Magnolia Award. The second season of the series is in production right now. In addition, the mobile game of Joy of Life was launched on 25 March 2022, with over 6 million bookings.
★ Permanent collection of the National Library of China
Selected as one of the “Top 10 Most Influential IPs in Chinese Internet Literature” (2019) – an officially recognized masterpiece.
★ A fable about karma: “the kindness of one generation blesses the next.”
The title comes from a poem in Dream of the Red Chamber, meaning: If your ancestors did good, you will be protected. Ye Qingmei planted the seeds of a better civilization; though she died, her son Fan Xian grew up to avenge her and end the man who murdered her.
★ One of the most successful online novels in China – now a blockbuster TV series.
- TV adaptation won Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor at the Shanghai TV Festival (Magnolia Awards) , plus 5 nominations.
8.0/10 on Douban (780,000+ ratings).
- Over 13 billion total views on Tencent Video and iQiyi.
- Weibo main topic reached 12 billion reads.
- The first web-streamed series nominated for the Magnolia Awards.
★ The ultimate “overpowered protagonist” setup:
- His teachers: Fei Jie (master of poisons) and Wu Zhu (the world’s greatest fighter).
- His adoptive father: Fan Jian, a powerful noble.
- His mother’s close friend: Chen Pingping, director of the secret police.
- His biological father: the Emperor himself.
- A modern literature graduate reincarnates into a medieval world, armed with a dead engineer mother’s legacy and a sniper rifle. He must survive the deadliest political game.
【Influence】
Joy Of Life was first published in 2007 on web and finished in 2009, making it one of Mao Ni's most popular works and one of the most sought after novels. The paid subscriptions of the novel is 42.23 million, and over 3 million fans are engaged in lively discussions about the work in its fan forum.
During its serialization, the novel has won the first place repeatedly in the bestseller chart, the monthly votes chart and the 24-hour bestseller chart. It won the First Place of the First Internet Literature Biennial Awards in November 2015 and the first Tianma Literary Award in August 2020 and got the honor of "Permanent Collection of the National Library of China".
Currently, the paper version of Joy OfLife has sold 1 .5 million copies; its audiobook have been listened over 1.5 billion times online; and the first season of its TV adaptation was launched on 26 November 2019. It has 770, 000 reviews on Douban with a superb rating of 8/10 and a total video view of over 13 billion on Tencent Video and iQIYI. On Weibo, the hashtag #JoyOfIife was read over 12 billion times. The show has become the most-discussed phenomenal hit of the year in China in 2019 and has won two awards for Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor at the 26th Shanghai TV Festival White Magnolia Award. The second season of the series is in production right now. In addition, the mobile game of Joy of Life was launched on 25 March 2022, with over 6 million bookings.
Description
A young man from modern times travels through time to another world, the ancient kingdom of Qing, and he is reborn as the illegitimate son of Emperor of Qing. Through the trials and tribulations from his family, the society and the imperial government, he grows up and becomes the pillar of the kingdom, unravels the mystery of his origin and discovers the truth that this otherworld is the very future of humanity.
Author
Mao Ni (pen name; real name Xiaofeng) was born in 1977 in Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential Chinese internet novelists. He was named one of the “Top 10 Xuanhuan (fantasy) Writers of the 20 Years of Chinese Internet Literature” and one of the “Top 100 Great Web Writers” by Chenggua, a leading Chinese online literature platform.
Major works:
Zhuque Ji (The Story of the Vermilion Bird), Qing Yu Nian (Joy of Life), Jian Ke (The Interstellar), Jiang Ye (The Nightwatcher), Ze Tian Ji (The Path Toward Heaven), Da Dao Chao Tian (The Great Way), Ying Xiu Shi Nian Shi (Ten Years of Yingxiu).
Writing career:
In May 2007, Mao Ni began serializing Joy of Life on Qidian, China’s largest web novel platform. He completed the novel two years later, with a total length of over 3.8 million Chinese characters.
Selected awards and honors:
Zhuque Ji won First Prize in the Fantasy & Martial Arts category of the 4th Sina Original Literature Competition (2007).
Jian Ke won the Silver Prize of the 1st West Lake Genre Literature Biennale (2013). In 2018, it was ranked first on the list of “20 Influential Works in 20 Years of Chinese Internet Literature.”
Jiang Ye won the Gold Prize of the 1st Internet Literature Biennial Awards (2015).
Joy of Life was permanently collected by the National Library of China (August 2020).
Writing style and critical reception:
Mao Ni is renowned for his grand plotting, vivid ensemble casts, and deep philosophical reflections. Professor Shao Yanjun of Peking University has praised him as the heir to Jin Yong (the legendary master of Chinese martial arts fiction). She states that Mao Ni “has inherited and developed the tradition of modern Chinese genre fiction since the May Fourth New Literature Movement, while possessing an authentic, native-born internet sensibility. His writing represents the highest achievement of Chinese internet genre fiction today.”
Major works:
Zhuque Ji (The Story of the Vermilion Bird), Qing Yu Nian (Joy of Life), Jian Ke (The Interstellar), Jiang Ye (The Nightwatcher), Ze Tian Ji (The Path Toward Heaven), Da Dao Chao Tian (The Great Way), Ying Xiu Shi Nian Shi (Ten Years of Yingxiu).
Writing career:
In May 2007, Mao Ni began serializing Joy of Life on Qidian, China’s largest web novel platform. He completed the novel two years later, with a total length of over 3.8 million Chinese characters.
Selected awards and honors:
Zhuque Ji won First Prize in the Fantasy & Martial Arts category of the 4th Sina Original Literature Competition (2007).
Jian Ke won the Silver Prize of the 1st West Lake Genre Literature Biennale (2013). In 2018, it was ranked first on the list of “20 Influential Works in 20 Years of Chinese Internet Literature.”
Jiang Ye won the Gold Prize of the 1st Internet Literature Biennial Awards (2015).
Joy of Life was permanently collected by the National Library of China (August 2020).
Writing style and critical reception:
Mao Ni is renowned for his grand plotting, vivid ensemble casts, and deep philosophical reflections. Professor Shao Yanjun of Peking University has praised him as the heir to Jin Yong (the legendary master of Chinese martial arts fiction). She states that Mao Ni “has inherited and developed the tradition of modern Chinese genre fiction since the May Fourth New Literature Movement, while possessing an authentic, native-born internet sensibility. His writing represents the highest achievement of Chinese internet genre fiction today.”
Contents
【Synopsis】
The story is set not in ancient China, but in a distant future after a nuclear holocaust. Human civilization has collapsed. A military science museum in the Arctic – called the “Temple” – survived. Its AI decides that technological progress leads to human extinction, so it sends out robotic envoys to keep humanity trapped in a feudal era. One of those envoys is Wu Zhu, a blindfolded super-fighter.
Ye Qingmei, a female engineering PhD from our modern world, time-travels into this post-apocalyptic age. She escapes the Temple with Wu Zhu, martial arts manuals, and a sniper rifle. She raises a weak prince to become Emperor of the most powerful state – Qing. She creates a treasury, a secret police to watch the Emperor himself, and introduces modern concepts. She becomes pregnant by the Emperor. But the Emperor fears her brilliance. On the day she gives birth, he orchestrates her murder.
Fan Xian is that baby – but with a twist: he is also a reincarnated modern man (a bedridden bookworm who died in his previous life). Raised in a remote coastal town by Wu Zhu and a poison master, he has no idea who his mother was. He only knows that strangers keep trying to kill him.
As a young man, Fan Xian is summoned to the capital to marry a noblewoman. He falls in love at first sight with Lin Wan’er – who turns out to be exactly his arranged fiancée. But the capital is a nest of vipers: princes, generals, the Empress Dowager, and the mysterious Director of the secret police all have their own plots. Fan Xian uses his wits, his martial arts, and his modern knowledge to survive – and to slowly uncover the truth about his mother’s death.
The final secret: the man who ordered Ye Qingmei’s death was not the Empress Dowager, not a rival noble, but the Emperor himself – Fan Xian’s own biological father. The Emperor could not tolerate a woman more brilliant and more beloved than him. Fan Xian’s only choice: to kill the Emperor.
In a climactic battle inside the Forbidden City, Fan Xian uses his mother’s sniper rifle and Wu Zhu’s help to defeat a man who has become the world’s greatest martial artist. He does not take the throne. He walks away, to live a quiet life with his wife and children, opening a small school to teach children – continuing his mother’s dream in the only way that lasts: education.
The title Joy of Life (literally “Celebrating the Extra Years”) refers to the second life Fan Xian was given. But it also means: the good you do lives on in your children. The “cursed child” becomes the true king – not by blood, but by choice.
【Highlights】
In Joy of Life, the first fantasy plus science fiction novel, the author, with his wild imagination, creates a fictional world of ancient times, similar to that in A Song of Ice and Fire, where all the kingdoms are at war, creating a group of fascinating characters. The story combines fantasy and martial arts with political conspiracies, depicting a decades- long and turbulent struggle for power. And the author ultimately reveals that this seemingly ancient and backward world is not humanity's past, but their future, which shows his reflection on modern warfare and the fate of mankind.
The novel tells the story of a young terminal patient Fan Xian from modern times got reborn in an ancient world. He aims to enjoy his life to the fullest, clutches wealth and power, and inches closer to the highest power of the Qing Kingdom, until he uncovers the mystery of his origin and the truth of this world, when he begins to avenge his mother and fight for his ideals. The overt plot of the novel is the growth of Fan Xian and the covert plot is the life of Fan Xian's mother, Ye Qingmei. Fan Xian, the main character, is a modern man, so his perspective and way of thinking makes it easy for the readers to build emotional connections with him. Fan Xian's legendary growth offers you that feel-goodness unique to online literature, while the covert plot of Fan Xian's mother, Ye Qingmei, reflects author's deep literary skills and humanism, giving the work a profound connotation of traditional literature.
The story is set not in ancient China, but in a distant future after a nuclear holocaust. Human civilization has collapsed. A military science museum in the Arctic – called the “Temple” – survived. Its AI decides that technological progress leads to human extinction, so it sends out robotic envoys to keep humanity trapped in a feudal era. One of those envoys is Wu Zhu, a blindfolded super-fighter.
Ye Qingmei, a female engineering PhD from our modern world, time-travels into this post-apocalyptic age. She escapes the Temple with Wu Zhu, martial arts manuals, and a sniper rifle. She raises a weak prince to become Emperor of the most powerful state – Qing. She creates a treasury, a secret police to watch the Emperor himself, and introduces modern concepts. She becomes pregnant by the Emperor. But the Emperor fears her brilliance. On the day she gives birth, he orchestrates her murder.
Fan Xian is that baby – but with a twist: he is also a reincarnated modern man (a bedridden bookworm who died in his previous life). Raised in a remote coastal town by Wu Zhu and a poison master, he has no idea who his mother was. He only knows that strangers keep trying to kill him.
As a young man, Fan Xian is summoned to the capital to marry a noblewoman. He falls in love at first sight with Lin Wan’er – who turns out to be exactly his arranged fiancée. But the capital is a nest of vipers: princes, generals, the Empress Dowager, and the mysterious Director of the secret police all have their own plots. Fan Xian uses his wits, his martial arts, and his modern knowledge to survive – and to slowly uncover the truth about his mother’s death.
The final secret: the man who ordered Ye Qingmei’s death was not the Empress Dowager, not a rival noble, but the Emperor himself – Fan Xian’s own biological father. The Emperor could not tolerate a woman more brilliant and more beloved than him. Fan Xian’s only choice: to kill the Emperor.
In a climactic battle inside the Forbidden City, Fan Xian uses his mother’s sniper rifle and Wu Zhu’s help to defeat a man who has become the world’s greatest martial artist. He does not take the throne. He walks away, to live a quiet life with his wife and children, opening a small school to teach children – continuing his mother’s dream in the only way that lasts: education.
The title Joy of Life (literally “Celebrating the Extra Years”) refers to the second life Fan Xian was given. But it also means: the good you do lives on in your children. The “cursed child” becomes the true king – not by blood, but by choice.
【Highlights】
In Joy of Life, the first fantasy plus science fiction novel, the author, with his wild imagination, creates a fictional world of ancient times, similar to that in A Song of Ice and Fire, where all the kingdoms are at war, creating a group of fascinating characters. The story combines fantasy and martial arts with political conspiracies, depicting a decades- long and turbulent struggle for power. And the author ultimately reveals that this seemingly ancient and backward world is not humanity's past, but their future, which shows his reflection on modern warfare and the fate of mankind.
The novel tells the story of a young terminal patient Fan Xian from modern times got reborn in an ancient world. He aims to enjoy his life to the fullest, clutches wealth and power, and inches closer to the highest power of the Qing Kingdom, until he uncovers the mystery of his origin and the truth of this world, when he begins to avenge his mother and fight for his ideals. The overt plot of the novel is the growth of Fan Xian and the covert plot is the life of Fan Xian's mother, Ye Qingmei. Fan Xian, the main character, is a modern man, so his perspective and way of thinking makes it easy for the readers to build emotional connections with him. Fan Xian's legendary growth offers you that feel-goodness unique to online literature, while the covert plot of Fan Xian's mother, Ye Qingmei, reflects author's deep literary skills and humanism, giving the work a profound connotation of traditional literature.
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