White Cat Legend Manhua Translations

Hello! Master of Records here. This blog contains translations of the 大理寺日志/White Cat Legend/Dali Temple Chronicles manhua (of questionable quallity, but I'm trying my best!). Updates on Sundays. Chapter posts tagged as #translated chapters

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Welcome!

Hello! On this blog I will try to post my (admittedly not the best) translations of the 大理寺日志/White Cat Legend/Dali Temple Chronicles comic strips. You can find the original comic strips on the author’s Weibo and Lofter or on Bilibili.

Full discosure, I haven’t been studying Chinese for very long, so if anyone ever has any corrections or suggestions, my ask box is open. This project is in great part to help improve my language skills, but I’m hoping that somebody whose knowledge of Chinese is even worse than mine will find those translations helpful. So feel free to message me if you’d like me to make a post on any of the historical details mentioned in the translation or notes!

I think in English the comic strips are known as Dali Temple Chronicles, but I’ll be using the official translation for the donghua, for reasons that I will probably explain in the next post.

Lost? Check out the master post or the first chapter

New chapters are posted every Sunday. You can also read this translation on Mangadex or on my website!

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Chapter 245 (This is a really bad time!)

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...uuuuh one of those days I'll post a chapter without a giant typo in the last line of the strip.

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Chapter 244 (Isn't he some kind of demon?)

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There's a giant typo on the last panel. I... might fix it once I have the energy to. No telling when that will happen though.

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Chapter 243 (Can't help but feel sorry)

Warnings: gore, mutilation

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Thank you, everyone who commented on the previous chapter! It has now been updated to include warnings.

Also yay for not having a migraine today, that's a rare occasion the last few weeks. When will the weather stop torturing me?..

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Chapter 242 (Blergh)

Warnings: some gore, mutilation, dead or disfigured bodies.

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Chapter 241 (Like I'm invisible)

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Almost forgot to post, but! Only almost. Enjoy Wang Qi's troubled consciousness.

Also just as a fun aside. Reminder that Wang Qi's name literally means "seven". His brother's name here - the name of the second son of the Wang family - means something like... "double blessing". Or "twofold cause for celebration". You get the idea.

Wonder if the rest of the kids are similarly numbered, and if they ran out of ideas only by kid #7 or before...

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Chapter 240 (Terrible live-in son-in-law)

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Chapter 239 (You unfilial son!)

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And the final post for today!

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...so for reasons beyond my understanding, chapter 237 just... refuses to post. The first time it showed up on my timeline long enough for me to copy the link, which now leads to nothing. Second time the "post now" button just sent it straight into nowhere.

This is a very functional website.

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...it got flagged. As potentially containing sexually explicit content. Huh.

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The post is back! At least the review process was fast this time...

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...so for reasons beyond my understanding, chapter 237 just... refuses to post. The first time it showed up on my timeline long enough for me to copy the link, which now leads to nothing. Second time the "post now" button just sent it straight into nowhere.

This is a very functional website.

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...it got flagged. As potentially containing sexually explicit content. Huh.

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...so for reasons beyond my understanding, chapter 237 just... refuses to post. The first time it showed up on my timeline long enough for me to copy the link, which now leads to nothing. Second time the "post now" button just sent it straight into nowhere.

This is a very functional website.

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Chapter 238 (No rhyme or reason)

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"When rain wets the ground, we fall and pick ourselves up." - it's an idiom about being self-reliant. I think the Khan might have taken it a little too literally.

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Third post of today's planned four! Almost back on track!

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Chapter 237 (Don't take me for a fool!)

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Ashina - the name of a Turkic tribe and the surname of its ruling dynasty.

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Second post of today's planned four! Don't miss the other chapters.

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Chapter 236 (I'd rather die from a sword)

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Um. Hi. Sorry for disappearing. I do, in fact, have a bunch of chapters translated, I just... have been very bad at actually typing them up and posting. Sorry.

Hopefully I'll make up for it today, I'm pretty sure there have been three weeks without new translations, so I'm aiming to post four chapters today. Enjoy everyone's suffering!

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do we have a release date for season 3? 👀

Summer 2026, no exact date as far as I've seen.

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Are you planning on making subs for season 3 when it comes out?

Depends on the official subtitle situation, honestly. I hope they post them in a timely manner and they will be decent subtitles; but if season 2's situation repeats itself... well, I guess I'll have to find the time.

Where? Well, don't ask that. Shh. We don't talk about that.

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hey! wanted to ask if you kept tabs on the white cat season 3 stuff, i actually saw the 2nd trailer for the season, so we know its coming this year. But since i cant read chinese, is there any further narrowing down of release in the trailer (like a month or monthly quarter) just wanted to know if youve seen this!

Not yet, as far as I've seen! The trailer only says 2026, and there is also nothing on weibo, though they've been doing some more promo from the beginning of the year. Unfortunately with donghua there is always a chance that we'll find out it's airing only a few days in advance.