
Startling by Each Step
步步惊心
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- Completed
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- 432k Words
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- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Palace & Household Intrigue
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- 3y ago
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- Fanqie
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Angsty Romance!! He Makes Her Suffer, Then Has to Beg for Her Back
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The novel is much better than the TV series, so emotional. This is probably the only novel that I have read many times. Although I have different feelings when I read it ten years ago and now, I still shed tears for the characters in the book over and over again.
Excellent works can stand the test of time. A book that is nearly 20 years old is still fresh when you read it.
Tonghua is truly a master of tragedy. If such a cruel story were written by a brainless writer, and placed in an alternate era, the ending would probably be a happy one. It's a pity that the author chose an interpretation based on a real historical background. It must be a dramatization based on cruel historical facts, and it is a tragic tragedy engraved in the bone marrow. Such a cruel and heart-wrenching story made into a TV series will definitely not be able to restore the shock brought by the original work. Fortunately, I have not watched it. Only by interpreting the author's understanding of such a period of history from the perspective of an ordinary person who has traveled through time, coupled with the author's thorough understanding of human nature and world principles, can he write such tragic helplessness and desolation in a profound way, which made me unable to let go of it for a long time after reading it.
Bu Bu Jing Xin is the best time travel book I have ever read. I feel like I have truly entered this book and watched the plots in the book take place one by one. My emotions fluctuate with Ruoxi's joys and sorrows. I understand the tragedy and irreversibility of history. In the tide of history, we can only go with the flow and cannot do anything about the predetermined results. I understand Yinzhen's pain. Later generations judged him to be sinister and suspicious. A single sentence of the Kangxi and Qianlong Dynasties can lead to his great achievements in twelve years. How could he not feel hurt by his biological mother's blatant favoritism and neglect? How could he not hate it? All brothers are winners in their own lives, but in history, only one person can become the winner of history, and be respected by thousands of people. So nine sons fight for the throne, and they fight against each other. The wheels of history run through this bloody land, and the bloody battle only lasts a few pages in the history book. And they are not wrong. They are all fighting for themselves, their families, and the future. They just have different positions.
"Wrong, right, right, grudges and resentments, in the end, the sun and the moon are silent, and the water passes without a trace. What is difficult to abandon is just a little bit of obsession!" This is the sentence that impressed me the most after reading this book. This sentence can also summarize the reasons why everyone in the book loves, hates, hates, and is obsessed. The author uses delicate writing to focus on the general environment of the deep palace, and every word of her words tells readers: Ruoxi's life is destined to be tragic. The reason is not whether she loves the fourth master or the eighth master, but because she is kind, but is limited by the contradiction that her status cannot affect the life or death of the person she cares about. After reading the full text, I just feel that it is easy to be involved in Ruoxi's emotions, anger, sorrow, and joy. It is a masterpiece that I will never forget even if I finish reading it for a long time.
Absolutely amazing. It really makes me cry more and more after watching it. It's so cruel. Everything is fate. While watching it, the scene reproduces the scenes in the TV series. It can be said that almost everything is correct, but it has more details than the TV series. I have a deeper understanding of the places that I didn't understand before. I saw the psychological descriptions of each person that have never been filmed. The author is great!
"Step by Step" has been republished, and I read it again. It's really sad and sad, but maybe this is the best ending for Ruoxi. This novel and TV series are truly transcendent, with a first-person perspective of a time-traveling woman, a detailed depiction of the feudal dynasty, an emotional description of the protagonists, and a tragic description of the fate of the characters. It is a tragic setting that can change history just because you are from the future. The trajectory of history has its own direction. As the saying goes, everything is caused by cause and effect, and everything is fate.
I have already watched the TV series, but I still like this book. Although the acting skills of the central actors are good, after reading the book, I felt that it was not one ten thousandth as good as the plot in the book. Thank you to the author for writing such a touching story!
I have watched the TV series more than 20 times. I have loved watching it since it aired in junior high school. Since graduating from college, there has been no good TV series that I watch over and over again. The TV series is 99% faithful to the novel. The monologue needs to be more detailed in the novel. While watching, all I thought about were the characters in the drama version. I want to say that the drama version is really classic, and every character comes from the original work. Love every character. Ruoxi and Yutan are in a dilemma. The emperor's grace and punishment from the Holy Ancestor. Fourth Master's warmth, Yongzheng's helplessness and hatred. The Thirteenth Master changed from a chivalrous man to a frail and sickly man. The Fourteenth Master has not changed. Master Shi is straightforward. Master Jiu is vicious. Ba Ye is as gentle as jade. I can't get out every time I watch it. . .
I can only say that Tong Hua's novel is really wonderful. It not only presents a high-level love story between a man and a woman in a way that mediocre people like me, but also makes up for the lack and forgetfulness of history. I just get up at 3 o'clock in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, but I still miss it and refuse to let it go. I slept with my phone😪📱, I kept looking at it, but I couldn't stand it anymore, so I just listened to it, and I just wanted to finish it in one breath. I shed countless tears and snot without knowing it, and finally, accompanied by piles of white and wrinkled tissues, I had a pair of fish bubble eyes🐠 till dawn. It's a good read. Even after more than ten years, I read this book through the memories of the TV series. Every step of my life is wonderful and eye-catching👀. Definitely worth watching, I give it 100 points. Thank you Tonghua for giving us such a good work.