Title: The Last Ship in Suzhou
Author: Lungs
Rating: K? It's a lungs fic. Drugs are bound to be involved.
Genre: Romance / Fantasy / Progression
Status: WIP, updates daily-ish
Pairings: Alice x David
Summary:
Everything has happened before and every instrument sounds the same.
Grudges held for generations, with no sure source of blame.
From this world seed would the skies cast a dice in its favor.
But it does not learn, it does not change.
Who would dare approach the gates?

Ripped from the comfort of our world, David and Alice must face the demons of the past and enemies of their own making. To defy the heavens is to change the world, and nothing ever changes. Except when it does.

Xianxia, done in a different way.

Link: RoyalRoad Link

Look, Lungs needs no introduction from me. LSIS is his take on the xianxia genre, hewing closer to the OG modern xianxia / wuxia works of Jin Yong than the generic slop you'll find polluting the internet.

The story is basically about 2 kinda friends, kinda not American-Chinese teens who get isekai'd into fantasy xianxia land, and how they adapt to it. There are a lot of philosophical musings underpining the magic / xianxia system, and lungs has put a lot of effort into referencing a lot of obscure chinese references that like eight of his readers understand (I'm not one of them).

Still, it's competenly written. Prose is lungs-esque (a bit wordy for my taste sometimes, but people who know me know I'm too minimialist for my own good sometimes), with a musical quality to it.

It's really hard to sell the premise of this story because it really is just a xianxia, just executed competently, with good prose, good technical writing, amazingly fun characters, no rampant misogyny plaguing the main character, a good cast of side characters, and some excellent worldbuilding.

It's xianxia done better.