
The Plain-Featured Empress
无盐为后
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- Completed
- Length
- 1.1M Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Palace & Household Intrigue
- Updated
- 5y ago
- Source
- Fanqie
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Pure Historical Romance
No transmigration, no being reborn, no System.
Looking for an Elegant Historical Chinese Romance Without Outlandish, Over-the-Top, or Brain-Dead Tropes
I want something with elegant, delicate writing. Not the kind that opens with someone getting disfigured or having their heart cut out. That's too melodramatic and clumsy. And no side characters like concubine-born daughters or female antagonists publicly attacking the heroine at banquets. People like that wouldn't survive three hours in ancient times unless they were faking their deaths. It's so unrealistic.
Underrated Romance: Engaging and Free of Tired Tropes
In a Reading Slump With High Standards, Preferably Ancient Romance, Thank You 😊
I have high standards and don't like melodramatic plots. I'm looking for an ancient-era romance. Please avoid the trope where the male lead chases his wife after losing her.
Lao Fanquie Stories!! The Classics from Years Ago! Not Today's Web Novels!
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Looking for Stories Based on Empresses in the Palace, Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace, or Story of Yanxi Palace, Without Replacing the Original Female Leads
Lately, I’ve really been into palace-intrigue novels. Mary Sue palace dramas are great too, especially ones with an incredibly beautiful, universally adored heroine.
Any Stories With a Scheming, Calculating, Coolheaded Female Lead?
Any stories with a female lead who's skilled at political intrigue, extremely calculating, and calm and collected?
Looking for Historical Romance That Takes Your Breath Away to the Core!!!!!
Transmigrate into History and Fall in Love with Famous Figures
Looking for books similar to *Quick Transmigration: The Empress Was Born with Bewitching Charm*.
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Quiet and Engaging, Best Read with Some Thought
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Stories About an Imperial Noble Consort Who Is Especially Cherished by the Emperor
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A Qing-Dynasty Transmigration Story: She Doesn't Want to Enter the Palace, but the Emperor Insists
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Pure Ancient-Style Stories, No Transmigration or Rebirth
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This book is very relevant to history. The ancients are different from us after all. Even today, there is no cat that does not steal sex, not to mention that person is an emperor. But every time I see His Majesty doting on others, those concubines are pregnant one by one, and when the Queen says she feels dirty, she still tolerates it. I couldn't help but burst into tears, but in the end, I thought about it, Your Majesty loves his Queen very much. For a lord of the world to do this, it is considered infatuated, but I feel sorry for the Queen. It's okay that she is an ancient, but she is a modern woman. How sad, disgusting, and painful she must be...
It is a good-looking article. I have read too many stories about the emperor who only has one wife in his life. Suddenly I saw this book, and I was so moved... The heroine went from never loving, to loving, to loving deeply, and the male protagonist of the emperor also gradually changed, making everything natural and making readers worried. There was a time in the middle that I wanted to turn to the back to see if the ending was he, but I couldn't accept be... Fortunately, everything was well arranged, and there were several extras about the characters, and the author was very considerate. I have a special feeling lingering after watching it, I can't express it [face covering] but I still recommend it
Brothers, the author has successfully created a Virgin Queen who repays evil with kindness, which moved me. If someone slaps me on the left cheek, I will definitely give the other cheek as well.
Very interesting and very informative. The history is adapted, but the ending is happy and not sad at all. The writing is not sluggish, there is no exaggerated aura of the protagonist, it is solid. The writing is also good, not flashy, but solid.
This should be regarded as one of the most beautiful things to watch in the palace. It is adapted on the basis of the original history. It is not outstanding, but it is very interesting. It has careful thought and single-mindedness, which are rare and valuable in modern times, and even more rare in that era. It also has to ensure that the wild flowers on the roadside are not stepped on. It is very beautiful.
A particularly nice novel tells the story of Shenzong and Queen Wang. Although it is time travel, it gives people a very comfortable feeling. The emperor here is real. He may really like someone, but in his original concept, he would think that three wives and four concubines are normal, not to mention that he is an emperor. In addition, this is also very historical. Although there are some changes in the second half, the changes are very comfortable. I love this novel so much, I really hope it can be made into a TV series
This is the most shocking romance novel I have ever read, really. Watching a person slowly change for one person, there are good things and bad things. There are quarrels, it's very real, and you can understand some things. I hope there will be a follow-up, really, but shortcomings are also a kind of beauty.
A very interesting novel, I almost missed it because of its short length. I like the author's writing style very much, and the narration feels really great. Maybe readers who are not familiar with the world will think that the Virgin is not decisive, but those who have experienced a lot will know that whether it is the failure to expose the stepmother in childhood or the tolerance of the stepsister after becoming a queen, everything is just for fear of hurting the jade bottle. It is precisely the broad-mindedness that the author created for the heroine that attracted me the most. From escaping from the emperor at the beginning to giving each other a chance later, it is really real and great.
The author's writing is very good. I have always liked reading palace fighting novels, and I rarely feel depressed. Maybe it has something to do with my liking for reading refreshing novels, but this book left me very distraught. The author's delicate writing style revealed the involuntary emotions of everyone in the palace. The character of the heroine is really suitable for being a queen, but she is better off not being a queen. A monogamous modern person must be forced to accept the three palaces and six courtyards of the feudal society, with three thousand beauties, as the author said It is written that after the emperor sleeps with someone, the heroine, the queen, needs to stamp the record of his sleeping with other women in the history. The hero may be good enough as a monarch in the feudal era, but I always feel that the heroine deserves better, and is the heroine really not assimilated in the end? She wanders repeatedly between reason and love, and finally reconciles with the times. In fact, what I feel most for the heroine is heartache and pity. A girl who has received modern education in her teenage years, Even in ancient times, she was loved by her grandmother and father. She wanted to be a couple for the rest of her life, but in the end she was almost forced into the palace and became a queen. She has a very good, warm and considerate personality, and protects and helps those close to her. Unlike most people in the harem, she does not regard human life as trivial. She always has a kind of backbone for the women in the harem, "Why should a woman embarrass a woman?" There is nothing wrong with asking for perfection. After all, this can avoid more quarrels and sadness. Sometimes she will do some very irrational things. For example, when she is at odds with the emperor, she will suddenly have a kind of self-esteem that makes her unable to lower her head. Some things cannot be said, but I personally think that what she has done is good enough. She is also a girl who is afraid of pain and hardship. I hope that next time she will not be bound to the palace or feudalism, and be a free and firm person. What does the emperor say? He may really love the queen, and he will only have an awkward temper and stubbornness towards the people he likes, but he really likes a lot of people, and he is sincere. This sincerity is very rare in the deep palace, so he will not do it for him because the heroine does not cherish it. He is jealous and angry, and will personally cook loquat water for the heroine. He will feel guilty, reflect, and give orders to "protect the queen." But this does not stop him from continuing to dote on other concubines. He also has difficulties, but he is already the most powerful person in the feudal era, and so is the heroine. He is self-interested, aloof and self-centered in that era, he is stubborn, the world is in his eyes, he is pitiful, and he is always tormented in the palace. In the end, he is healed by the heroine, and in the end he is affectionate. I've only read half of it. The author's writing is very good, but the female protagonist should be cautious. There are a lot of abuses in the early stages. It's the longest book review I've ever written. It's almost the same as a high school Chinese composition. Don't look at the female protagonist, she's a bit frustrated.
Very interesting and very informative. The history is adapted, but the ending is happy and not sad at all. The writing is not sluggish, there is no exaggerated aura of the protagonist, it is solid. The writing is also good, not flashy, but solid.