Discussion Most used lines in novels?

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  1. historicalbean

    historicalbean Well-Known Member

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    What are some lines you come across the most?

    For Chinese web novels I got:
    “[…] didn’t know whether to laugh or cry”
    “[…] skin white like jade”
    “A smile that was not yet a smile”

    I haven’t read enough Korean or Japanese novels to see a pattern.
     
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    Dont you dare...
    difference as large as heaven and earth
     
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    I see this a lot and I honestly dk why but - "teardrops hanging on their lashes" - its not exactly this but you get the idea.
     
  4. Jasad

    Jasad ...not oldschool, just old...

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    you forget the mount tai line~
     
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    0000000 I B SMILING!

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    You are courting death!
    Impossible!
     
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    Aachiin0914 ☼Sunnyshies☼

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    You'll see this everywhere in cn novel, esp with a low key but op mc-- the line about "mountains beyond mountains" and something about dragons...hahaha...I forgot about the whole lines...
     
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    i your father say that the most used line is probably "jade-like skin"
     
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    "xxx belongs to me!" or sth like that. :blobsalt:
     
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    I have seen that so much! No matter the novel time period lol

    with red lips and pearly white teeth
     
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    Calm down, little ancestor and don't forget to scram and roll with a thousand mud horses running rampant~
     
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    Something something comparing reddened eyes on the verge of crying to a rabbit's.
     
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    Hoouuujae60 No One from Nowhere

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    "Eyelashes like fans" "sword eyebrows" "eyes like grapes" lol
     
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    Issis 'Feeling is a Gift and a Curse'

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    Slender hand / smooth brow
    He looked coldy at me. (Something like that)
    I am your father/ call me dad.
    ***k your mom
    Chuckle coldly
    He narrowed his eyes/ slightly raised his eyebrows/ his pupil shrank slightly
    Slightly
    Something realted to embracing me tightly as if...
    This young brother is obviously the type of idiot that would help to count the money after being sold off.
    Aiya i can't remember them now:cry:
     
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    "Jade-like skin" always make me cringe.
     
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    historicalbean Well-Known Member

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    Oooh and there’s always porcelain references
     
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    not to mention "soft/white as tofu" or "like a new boiled egg" lines.

    "beauty that could bring down cities/ kingdoms" lines

    for chinese novels all I could think off the top of my head are the beauty references since they really always put emphasis on beauty.
     
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    Aqua_the_idiot my decisions are justified by my name

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    "Jewel like eyes" I don't particularly find it cringe now tbh I am used to it
     
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    "Eyelashes trembles as it scratches my heart" "long curled eyelashes" " Red plump lips that makes you wanna kiss them" "a slender and powerful waist"
    Something like that
     
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    Powerful waist

    *wheezes*
     
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    Probably the "cold laugh/smile" aka sneer. It's a rule you have to do that before saying something.

    Variations of 說時遲那時快 (quicker than words can tell) aka it takes a long time to explain but happened in an instant, etc.