Update: I am dropping this project for the moment. I am not super interested in the story, and I want to focus on other projects that I’m more interested in. I may pick it up again or infrequently update, but no guarantees.
Because of the stuff with jjwxc, I’ve decided to pick another (available for free so far) novel from Changpei instead. The same thing might end up happening with cp, since it happened to qidian and jj, but only time will tell. As always, please support the author on the original platform. Here’s a link to how to support authors on gongzicp, compiled by NightskyTL
I have not read this novel (it’s still serializing), so I don’t have a comprehensive content warning list yet. I think there will be quite a few. But, based on the synopsis and the first few chapters, I’ve compiled a preliminary one below.
Content warnings: Child abuse, prostitution, alcoholism, gore, sexual assault of a minor (not described), death
Title: 青云之上 Above The Clouds*
Author: 铁锅炖大鸭 Iron Pot Stews Duck (lit. tl, don’t know if there’s a more legit one)
Blurb: The love-hate relationship of a killer female teacher and an iron-willed, upright criminal policewoman.
Summary:
Starting in junior high school, Jiang Qinglan finally had light in her life. To support herself and her useless, wastrel father, Jiang Qinglan had to start working as a prostitute at the age of 13, doing unspeakable things. Verbal and physical abuse, going to school with a battered face, were only a matter of course.
Before Xue Yunxin appeared, Jiang Qinglan had never known what others called “love.”
She gave her manhua to read, took her out for fun, and gave her food. They did everything friends and family were supposed to do. Xue Yunxin was the light in Jiang Qinglan’s heart.
“Yunxin, will you leave me?”
“No! I’ll always be with you!”
After growing up, when thinking of these words, Jiang Qinglan only felt ridiculous. Liar!
And Xue Yunxin, who’d already become a criminal policewoman, had never expected that her reunion with Jiang Qinglan would be at the arrangement of a murderer. She’d also never expected that, one day, she would stand in opposition to her own lover.
*About the title: The 青 ‘qing’ and the 云 ‘yun’ from the title appear in the names of the characters: 蒋青岚 Jiang Qinglan and 薛云歆 Xue Yunxin. I guess this could be considered their ship name lol. Together, the characters form 青云, which can refer to the sky. I translated it as Above the Clouds, as I think there is a novel of the same name with the title translated as “Above the Sky”.