Way of Choices
择天记 (Zé Tiān Jì)
"Chen Changsheng was told he would not live past twenty. He chose to live anyway."
Way of Choices — Reading Order
📖 Way of Choices (Complete)
Read fan translation. The drama adaptation covers the first half of the novel.
Should You Read This?
For readers who want cultivation as literature. Mao Ni is arguably the best prose stylist in the Chinese web novel space. Way of Choices is slow, contemplative, and rewards patient reading with genuine emotional depth. The official drama adaptation was a massive hit in China.
About Way of Choices
Chen Changsheng has a terminal illness that gives him only a few years to live. He enters the most prestigious cultivation academy to find a cure, navigating deadly politics between empires and sects. Mao Ni (author of Joy of Life, Nightfall) writes literary-quality xianxia — the prose, character depth, and thematic weight are significantly above genre standards.
Original title: 择天记 (Zé Tiān Jì) — translated to English and available for Western readers.
Where to Read Way of Choices
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