Startling Heron
折惊鹭
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 206k Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Palace & Household Intrigue
- Updated
- 4y ago
- English
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I Can’t Get Into Anything!!!! Please Recommend Something!!!
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High-Quality Angst! An Original Plot, a Smart Hero, and Beautifully Written Short Stories
Short Angsty Novels with a Massive Emotional Aftershock!!!
Short stories, tearjerkers, the kind that absolutely destroy you and make your heart ache. Best not to read them at night...
Historical Romance with Power Struggles and a Minister with Obsessive, Pathological Possessiveness. Recommendations, Please
Please Share Your Number One Historical Romance! I’m Out of Books to Read!
BE Aesthetics: The Kind of Story That Makes Me Cry Until I Can't Breathe and My Liver Hurts
Overpowerful Male Leads Who Take What They Want by Force, Historical or Modern Romance
The Ultimate in Possessive Love! Love at First Sight! Forced Love! The Male Lead Is Powerful and Influential
Looking for Forceful- Pursuit Romance! Recommend Your Top Picks
A forceful romance, with smart characters and no melodrama. Happy ending, and the sweeter the better~
🔥 Historical Romance With a Male Lead Who Holds Immense Power and Is Extremely Possessive
Looking for Heartbreaking Angst!! The Kind That Hurts to the Bone! Angst from Start to Finish, Not a Sweet Moment in Sight
A really angsty story with an angsty ending, and at most just a tiny bit of sweetness along the way.
Looking for Angsty Stories That Break Your Heart and Keep You Up at Night
The kind that’ll make you cry your eyes out.
Stories That Wrench Your Heart: Utterly, Utterly Heartbreaking
Please, fellow readers, recommend a book that’s angsty from beginning to end, the kind that makes your heart ache, and where the male lead regrets everything in the end.
Angst! More Angst!! The Kind That Makes You Lose Ten Pounds Just From Reading!!!
Bad Endings! Bad Endings! Bad Endings! Bad Ending Aesthetic! No Mindless Angst! Great Writing, Please!
I want that beautiful-but-tragic kind of romance, the sort that makes your heart ache as you cry!! Short stories, please. Thanks, everyone!
Are There Really No Empresses in the Palace Fics With Intelligent Characters?
I mean, even a wish-fulfillment story shouldn’t be mindless wish fulfillment. Can palace-intrigue stories give us a smart female lead for once? (And an author who knows what they're doing.) The female lead's plot armor makes everyone except the readers stupid 😅😅😅
Dear Authors, Come Recommend Your Own Books!
Authors, please come recommend your own books!
The Heroine Is Beautiful, and the Male Lead Takes Her by Force. He’s Incredibly Powerful
Looking for a Tragic High-Society Romance!!! The Hero and Heroine Don't End Up Together!
Something like You're Both the Long Night and the Light. The male lead comes from a powerful family, and the heroine is quite capable, but there's still a huge class gap between them. In the end, he marries a woman from a family of equal standing, and the heroine comes to terms with it and moves abroad... Any similar stories?
Historical Romance With a Powerful Hero Who Takes the Heroine by Force 🤤
I’m a die-hard fan of both leads being each other’s only ones. Please recommend something!!! With a happy ending, little ones!
The Stunning Female Lead Lives in Seclusion in the Mountains, Where the Male Lead Meets Her and Falls in Love at First Sight
Looking for an Ancient-Style Story with a Forceful, Possessive Romance!!!!!
A Forced Marriage, With the Male Lead Falling for the Female Lead at First Sight
He Loves Her, Obsessively and Madly
He can't live without her. He's madly, hopelessly in love with her.
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The bad ending of this book is absolutely awful! That scoundrel emperor ruined the female lead's life, and I personally feel he deserved to die. But the second male lead is so good; he loves the female lead forever, even after she's been violated by that scoundrel, he still dotes on her. Even I, a guy, cried while reading it; maybe I'm just too easily moved to tears.
After reading it, I have to say that it's the first time I've seen a female lead who, after being forced into marriage, never even slightly likes the male lead. It's very novel, and this is what normal literature should be like, not the kind where the female lead falls in love with the male lead after being forced into marriage. The writing is very good.
This is one of the few novels where the female lead is clear-headed, unlike other mindless stories where even after countless heartbreaks, the heroine manages to win back her love. Ming Li is truly kind, clear-headed, and strong, and our Gu Mu is radiant and basking in the sunlight, silently loving our A Li with unwavering devotion!
The author writes this novel very well, the plot is good, but the male lead's extreme love is a bit too obsessive and crazy. He's willing to do anything to get the female lead, tormenting and abusing her, leaving her completely broken. This kind of forced love is too insane.
This book is truly excellent. It avoids the typical melodramatic plot where the male lead torments the female lead relentlessly, yet the female lead remains devoted to him like a first love. The female lead is very intelligent, and the male lead's obsessive love for her is vividly portrayed. The ending is, frankly, heartbreaking.
It's so good! Even though I skipped some chapters, it's still so good! I'm crying so much! Gu Mu and the female lead will probably meet again in their next life, right? As for the male lead? Forget it, he doesn't deserve him.
The story isn't long, but it's really heavy to read. Gu Mu's love is all-encompassing and great, while Zuo Yi's love is profound yet selfish. He may love the female lead very much, but his love is terrifying; perhaps he also wants to pursue the light in his heart! The author's writing is good. 😊
The female lead's character is well-developed; she's kind and resilient, unlike some other female leads in dramas who have messy romances. She's really good; she's consistently steadfast, comparable to He Yan (a popular Chinese actress known for her strong and resilient character). Haha!
It's truly heartbreaking, and incredibly amazing. I think it's even better written than Xi Hua Zhi. It's just that the updates are too slow; I'm getting so impatient waiting! The female lead is clear-headed, while the male lead is obsessed to the point of demonic possession. 🤭🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
So sad and heartbreaking. Everyone in this story is someone I can't let go of. I both hope Zuo Yi gets what he wants and hope he lets go; I both love and hate him. Gu Mu is the male supporting character I feel most sorry for; the author is too cruel. As for Ming Li, sigh, it's so painful and hopeless!