Qian Qiu

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Synonyms: Shanhe Jian Xin

Japanese: 千秋

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Type: Novel

Volumes: 4

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Finished

Published: Oct 26, 2018 to Nov 9, 2018

Genres: Action, Fantasy

Themes: Historical, Martial Arts

Serialization: None

Authors: Meng, Xi Shi (Story)

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Popularity: #26333

Members: 365

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Yan Wushi, leader of the demonic Huanyue sect, is a master cultivator, a brilliant strategist, and an incurable cynic. In his philosophy, every human heart is ruled by cruelty and selfishness. Anyone who believes otherwise is either a liar or a fool.

Enter the humble Shen Qiao, leader of the Daoist sect at Xuandu Mountain. He is both gracious and charitable, and exactly the type of do-gooder that Yan Wushi despises.

When Shen Qiao suffers a shocking loss in a duel and is left for dead, Yan Wushi happens upon him and concocts a plan to teach him about the wretchedness of humanity. He'll take Shen Qiao under his wing, test the limits of his faith, and lure him into demonic cultivation. After all, it is easy to remain righteous atop a mountain peak that touches the heavens. But a thousand autumns toiling on the blood-soaked earth will break any man.

(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

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Qian Qiu began as a web novel on Jinjiang Wenxue Cheng (晋江文学城) from October 2015 to March 2016, and published in print in Taiwan by Jia Fei Wen Chuang (葭霏文創) from October 26, 2018 to November 9, 2018. It was adapted into an audio drama broadcasted on the Chinese audio streaming website missevan.com.

The series has been published in English as Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu by Seven Seas Entertainment under the Danmei imprint since March 14, 2023.

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Apr 2, 2024

Fyrebirdi

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Thousand Autumns is a Chinese historical wuxian (martial arts) novel. I think this is important to note as many who read danmei will have certain expectations (mostly created by MDZS & TGCF... I know I did).

My knowledge of martial arts is minimal, my knowledge of Chinese history worse. The majority of this novel revolves around politics and the various religious sects, and their power struggles. I find it challenging to review the world building as I do not know fact from fiction. In spite of my ignorance I was able to follow the gist of the story and mostly treated it like an open-world ...

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Sep 26, 2023

bananasaur590

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[Disclaimer] It's been a few months since I finished the novel so what plot details I think were irrelevant may be slightly off, this shouldn't affect the review too much though. This is also a rant as much as it is a review sorry lol.

Thousand Autumns is a BL/danmei novel with a fairly interesting premise and a pairing with a (in my opinion) really compelling dynamic. The cynical, selfish and naturally evil Yan Wushi, and the righteous and naturally good Shen Qiao.

The first half of the novel is great. There are some really entertaining interactions between YWS and SQ, and we are given a good ... and intriguing look into the politics of the setting, and I can honestly say that up until the point where YWS was almost killed in the ambush that I enjoyed the novel and what it had to offer.

So what went wrong?

Starting with directly after the assassination attempt where YWS's soul splits causing him to develop a split personality disorder, I found this arc to be completely pointless after it ended. From what I can tell it was an attempt by the writer to both bring make SQ feel some trust, or at least some feelings of fondness, towards YWS again, especially through Ah-Yan and Xie Ling, and also to give the reader some context about his past (albeit not much).

We were shown all of these other sides of YWS that made him appear as not as one-sidedly evil as he was initially presented however when his soul pieced itself back together he immediately went back to his old ways, with none of the other parts of his soul really showing through ever again, which essentially renders the whole arc pointless, which is extra annoying as it is so irritating to read (or at least it was for me).

In this second half of the story, the political subplot also continues to develop. However the constant political discussions of what's happening outside of the main couple end up taking up such a huge amount of space that you end up just completely skimming over it when the conversation turns in that direction. And considering that by the end of the story it has made almost zero difference to the outcome, it begs the question of why was it even there in the first place. And don't even get me started on Chen Gong and whatever his deal was.

The novel as a whole wasn't written very well, and it didn't appear that well thought through. Usually my standards are fairly low and a few things here and there that are annoying to read are okay with me but one thing that was really hard to read was the fight scenes. It was so strange seeing how many words were being used to describe absolutely nothing. Maybe I'm being harsh but never have I read a novel where any fight scene has made me think "wow this author is not good at writing fight scenes", letalone a novel that makes me think that for EVERY fight scene. And what's worse was that they weren't even boring to read so my annoyance feels so baseless.

The last MAJOR problem I'm going to bring up is how the main story ended before the characters even officially got together. Now I am aware that Thousand Autumns is one of those novels where the romance is almost secondary, or at least as important as the political side of the story but COME ON. To even see them properly confess to each other (if you could even call that a confession). The romance was underdeveloped (at least on SQs side) to a point where it felt too forced for me to fully rationalise it in my head. In fact though SQ as a whole felt like a character who has no personality beyond being "good", and even though he does show an ounce of individuality when interacting with YWS, he never seems to develop as a person at any point in the novel and he ends up coming across as stale by the end.

In conclusion Thousand Autumns started off as a political danmei with huge potential but instead failed due to a combination of bad writing, and bad execution. I did honestly enjoy the first half and even though the ending was annoying the novel as a whole wasn't TOO terrible, hence the 6/10

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