Firstborn seems so interesting! I can’t wait to read it in its entirety when it’s done and posted, because the snippets you’ve given seem so good!
though I did want to ask: what characters did you intend for Xiang’s name? (I assume her full name is Zhuo Xiang?)
hope you have a fun time writing it!
Thank you so much, I'm so excited that you're interested in Firstborn! It is very dear to me.
Oof, naming characters: the part of writing for Chinese fandoms where I feel most out of my depth. I'm happy to share my thinking, but very open to feedback!
Fangs of Fortune isn't set in any real historical period, so I kind of had my choice about naming conventions, and I liked the practice--observed in some periods and social classes--of giving an infant a milk name that was not particularly significant, and sometimes even affectionately derogatory. 😂 So the baby's milk name is 响, the xiǎng for "noise / noisy," because she's so loud when she cries. Zhuo Yichen will give her a real name when she's older!