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I translated the new Golden Terrace extra released on JJWXC back in September 2025 and posted it to my wordpress (where all the other Golden Terrace extras I translated have also been moved to)！Enjoy more of Yanfu being disgustingly married~

i know that in the danmei fandom theres a huge anti-piracy policy but people are already saying that golden terrace has been permanently sold out everywhere and it really breaks my heart. i dont want an amazing translation of my favorite novel to disappear forever and i most of all would hate to see new fans of the novel not have access to it.

so the publishing house Peach Flower House (who published Golden Terrace, Little Mushoom, In The Dark and other works) has announced they will be closing, and are running a closing sale until November 30 www.peachflowerhouse.com/closing

I've been seeing a lot more people reading and getting into Golden Terrace/Stage recently, so I thought I'd share the link to my GDoc translation of the extras!

I’ve spotted some confusion about the extra chapters (known in CN as 番外）here and there, so to clarify, there are a total of nine extras as of October 2024.

This GDoc contains the translation of two Golden Terrace (Stage) extras and the special insert included with the simplified Chinese print. The first extra, 封侯 (Fenghou, translated as Sealed as Marquis), is an extra exclusive to the simplified Chinese print published by Tiandi Press, while the second, 留香 (Liuxiang, translated as Lingering Fragrance) is an extra released on Weibo by the author on the 20th of December 2023.

The jjwxc version has 3 (Menggui, Empire, Final Reunion), the English version by Peach Flower House has 5 (Menggui, Empire, Huadian, Tryst, Final Reunion), the uncensored traditional Chinese print by Jiafei Publishing House has 7 (Menggui, Empire, Huadian, Dispelling Cold, Flower Festival, Tryst, Final Reunion), while the censored, simplified Chinese print by Tiandi Press has 4 [Menggui, Huadian, Fenghou (Sealed as Marquis), and Empire].

hey can we talk. can we stop it with the white savior pinkwashing queer paternalism that white libs always seems to hold when talking about queer people/gender-nonconforming people from countries where gay rights isn’t a legislated reality (i.e. often developing countries/countries where the majority ethnicity is non-white).

you haven’t been on weibo, you haven’t ever been to China. you haven’t walked the streets of chengdu which is the unofficial queer capital in the country, you don’t know what slangs and jokes we use to talk about queerness.

you read whatever your war crime aiding and abetting news sources spoonfeed you because you never went out of your way to befriend Chinese people in real life, you accept whatever reality is easiest for you to stomach—that Chinese people, well, “the government and the mainstream social media” at least, are ontologically evil and are intolerant to a fault; that Chinese people are so different than you (who are so liberal and tolerant and queer and punk) that these “special few Chinese people who are queer” need YOUR approval and YOUR protection and YOUR help.

I’ve spent a good portion of my life living in China, I have family there. I have queer friends there. My parents had colleagues and friends who are officially or unofficially out at work. I met my first butch-femme lesbian couple in China. I met my first trans man uncle in China. A large part of my middle school friend group turned out to be queer and have found people who they care about and who care and protect them in turn.