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I translated and subtitled a fansong from Chinese to English! It's called 霜华未归 Shuanghua has yet to return, and it's a Modao Zushi/Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation fansong for a few minor characters. Spoilers up to ch 42 of the translation.

"霜华未归 Shuanghua has yet to return [eng sub] – 魔道祖师 Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation" (Watch on YouTube)

My own description of the canon, featuring neither of the characters who appear in this video:

Our main character, Wei Wuxian, is a smart and shameless guy driven to necromancy by circumstances (think self-sacrificing kind mad scientist with class issues), and is hated by the entire cultivational world. He was killed when his powers backfired on him while besieged. 13 years later, a gay lunatic performs a demonic sacrifice ritual to get revenge on his asshole family, and suddenly Wei Wuxian has an all-new body, an all-new mystery to solve relating to a disembodied hand, and this super righteous iceberg guy Lan Wangji has suddenly started protecting him. Oh, and while he's at it, he wants to keep his true identity secret, because if he doesn't, people will come to murder him and he'd rather not die again.

The novel is super gripping, and it's told in the present and flashbacks to the past that shed light on how this kind-hearted guy could come to be hated by the entire cultivational world. It's really dark, but the darkness is only really blatant when one thinks about it a bit more. Wei Wuxian is shameless and hilarious as a protagonist and narrator, and he has a lot of good interactions with both his eventual love interest and a bunch of other people that are ripe material for fic, and the secondary characters have their own interactions with each other.