Liu Sheng's Story of Finding Lotus
by Wu Jingsuo
About This Novel
"Liu Sheng's Search for a Lotus" is a novel about a talented man and a beautiful woman, telling the tortuous and touching love story between Liu Yichun, a talented man from Jiangdong, Sun Bilian, a lady of the imperial family, and his maid Miao Lingxiu. Liu Yichun had both civil and military skills since he was a child, and had outstanding talents. He met Sun Bilian by chance and fell in love with each other. However, due to the obstruction of secular ethics and villains, their relationship went through twists and turns. After making great achievements in putting down the rebellion, Liu Yichun was finally granted a marriage by his uncle Jin, and betrothed his maid Miao Lingxiu (actually the daughter of an official) to him, which fulfilled the prophecy made in his early years that "you will get new lotus roots when you look for lotus, and you will get spiritual seedlings after winning laurels". Through delicate emotional descriptions and tortuous plot design, the novel shows the struggle of young men and women against love and destiny under feudal ethics, as well as the traditional narrative model in which talented men and beautiful women eventually get married.
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