Unfortunately, Footnote 2 was way too long to insert on gdocs, and I can't figure out a way for everyone to see comments, so this is the best way I can do this. Footnote 2:'Shibeili' refers to the two 'li-ke' (science/math) homerooms of Shibei Junior Middle School. Shibei Junior Middle School does, in fact, exist, and it is a very, very famous school as Shibeili are two of the most outstanding homerooms in the entire country, almost all of its 80 students going to very famous upper middle schools/high schools after they leave.
For context, in China, students are separated into humanities or science homerooms, which determine what path the students want to take in the future (and also affects what schools they apply to for college). There may also be homerooms focusing on arts, but the big two are humanities and science. These homerooms are just like the ones we have in America, except Chinese students stay with their homerooms for the entirety of their time at the school, taking every class every year with the same 30-40 people. Again, no matter what 'homeroom' they're in, students learn every subject but have a concentration in their own, i.e. humanities or science. For most schools, homerooms are assigned by the students' rank, but for very competitive schools like Shibei JMS, students may have to test into homerooms, especially the two science homerooms since Shibeili is so academically excellent. Also for context (and to explain Chen Shanshan's grade level), what Americans refer to as 'middle school' is actually junior middle school in China, and what we think of as 'high school' is actually upper middle school (and college is 'big school'). China's elementary school is actually six grades, and each middle school is three grades. So Chen Shanshan is in 初一, or her first year of junior middle school, but in America, that would actually be seventh grade, if we're going by 12 grade levels. Here, I've chosen to go by American standards to make it easier for English-speaking readers to understand, but I think it's important to remember that Chen Shanshan has only just entered junior middle school and is still, in fact, a very young child. (Yes, this will be important later.)
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Hi guys, this is Huayu. If you tried to access my site last week (or if you follow my Twitter), you'll probably know that it was down.
The reason for this is because JJWXC (the parent site of many Chinese webnovels) will be pushing out an international version of its site. They are recruiting BL translators, but long story short, the contract was really shady and it gives way for shitty people to steal the hard work of legitimate fan translators. Because of that, and because JJWXC will likely be cracking down on copyright, many fan translators have chosen to either drop their projects or protect their translations. As many of you may know, I'm a broke and busy college student. I am unable to pay for premium Wordpress, so I can't protect my translations behind a password. I am also unwilling to make people pay for translations through Kofi, because that's just against everything I value as a fan translator. Because of that, I've chosen to make a discord server to share my translations in. Discord is a platform that's free to join (although it may be blocked in some countries) and I use it often to chat with my friends. In this translation server, I can share my translations with you, and you can discuss the novels you read with other fans! ALL I ASK is that you respect the rules of the server and do not distribute my translations. If someone wants access to my translations, please redirect them to this site or my Twitter, where I will have all of the information that they need. * IMPORTANT: This does also mean that NovelUpdates will no longer show my translations, past or future. I strongly recommend you to follow my Twitter, since that's where I announce everything relevant to my translations. In addition to TEIO, I will likely be working on some other novels as well, so you can choose to keep up with those too if you want. Happy reading! |
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