
Flowers of the Rear Courtyard
后庭花
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- Completed
- Length
- 601k Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Palace & Household Intrigue
- Updated
- 3y ago
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- Fanqie
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I want angst.
Angst! More Angst! The Kind That’ll Make You Cry Your Eyes Out!
Extra angsty.
Angst Novels! Torture the Male Lead! Make It Hurt!!! Female Lead Tormenting the Male Lead?!
Angst stories???????
Seeking High-Quality Historical Romance, No Transmigration, Rebirth, or System
I like food, palace intrigue, the imperial examinations, political schemes, and crime-solving. On Tomato, I’ve read The Strongest Female Grand Secretary Rises Against the Odds; for palace intrigue, Zhaohua Weiyang, Palace Willows, and Deep Palace Strategy: The Tale of Qingzhi; for food, Chang’an Snack Shop (I can’t remember if it was on Tomato).
The Male Lead Approaches the Female Lead With an Agenda and Ruins Her Life
Angst from Beginning to End
Preferably with the female lead tormenting the male lead.
Angst at First, But Not Too Much, Then the Heroine's Ex Chases Her in Vain
But both the male and female leads have to be intelligent! I really can't get into any books anymore.
Angst, Angst, and More Angst, But with a Happy Ending, Please!
Does Tomato Novel Have Any First-Person Stories?
First-person perspective.
Reunited After Years Apart, with a Painful Opening
Reunions after years apart are always so angsty at the beginning.
Heartbroken, So Angsty. The Male Lead's Devotion Is Just So Painful to Read
Stories That Leave You Emotionally Shattered
Hand Over the Cruel Male Leads!
A different kind of novel! The male lead is brutal, the type who's always flying off the handle.
Angst! Short and Heartbreaking, the Kind That Makes the Tears Pour!!!
Short and heartbreaking, the kind that absolutely wrecks you. I cry easily, so give me a few books that'll make me sob my eyes out!!!
A Fallen Kingdom's Princess and an Enemy General or the New Emperor
Ship them, ship them! The heroine isn't promiscuous or fake, and the hero is a jerk at first before chasing his wife in the end (whether he suffers a little or a lot is fine). Oh, right, I'm a sucker for good looks. You know what I mean.
Angsty Novels, Torture Them Mercilessly
Hey everyone, do you know any books where the female lead loves the male lead at first, then realizes he doesn't love her, and he ends up regretting it? Nothing too clichéd 🌚🌚
Looking for Tragic Ancient-Era Romance!!! The Kind That Makes You Cry at Night!!!
Tragic Stories You Can Finish in Ten Minutes
Books That Break Your Heart and Leave You in Tears
Novels so heartbreaking that you don't have the courage to read them a second time.
Qianshan Chake Writes So Well, I Can't Enjoy Any Other Historical Fiction
A few years ago, I read Shen Jiaojiao and Xie Jingxing's story. I just finished "The Grand Princess Bride" and got completely hooked. I don't feel like reading any other historical novels now. I'm also looking for historical novels with detailed palace intrigue and a deeply cunning heroine who takes revenge, like Shen Miao and Jiang Li.
Looking for an Ancient-Style Story with a Forceful, Possessive Romance!!!!!
Torture the Male Lead, Torture Him Mercilessly
I want the male lead to suffer, physically and emotionally, from head to toe and inside out.
Angst, Angst, Angst
Looking for angsty romance novels like Bone-Deep Love. Don't ask why, I'm just an idiot, aba aba 🌝🌝
Please Recommend Angsty Historical Romance, the Kind That Takes a Whole Roll of Tissues
Please recommend historical romance angst stories, the kind that would take a whole roll of paper to soak up the tears, perfect for reading late at night. Hmm? 😎
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Hey guys, the author is here. Thank you to the sisters who came to review the book. I'll say it a lot, I'll tell it a lot, I'll tell you the important things three times. In fact, the prototype of the original story was King Li Shimin of Qin and his Concubine Yang (Concubine Yang was a princess of the Sui Dynasty and the youngest daughter of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty). However, because readers wanted the male protagonist to die in pain, the ending was changed. As an author, I still have to be fair to the character I created. In fact, the male protagonist is not that bad or that scumbag; because it is the female protagonist's perspective, many things behind the scenes are not shown. For example, in the first volume, everyone thought the male protagonist was a scumbag, domestic violence, and scheming, but when you read the fourth volume, you found that it was not easy for the male protagonist to be the prince. He had to do that. He could only hide the heroine by his side in this way. He became more forbearing and more determined. (So you guys, please read it to the end, the rest is very exciting.) In fact, the heroine's life is quite good. She was happy every time she fell in love with the hero. Although it was short-lived, the sense of security, trust and preference the hero gave her have always nourished her, and she will always maintain some simple kindness, sense of justice and childishness. In this book, I actually want to show richer things. In addition to love, other human emotions are equally precious. For example, the concubine Jia'an's family and the country, Gu Zhiqiu's love for Lily (she likes Jia'an), the concubine Yuan En's search for her sister to fulfill her promise to her brother, and the understanding of sisters by Liu Rumei and Liu Mufeng in the second volume ("I envy you, but I "I'm not jealous of you, you are my relative, I hope you are well"), how Yu Niang let go of the suffering inflicted on her by her abuser; how Princess Ning He Aoxue atones for her father's sins, and how General Lin and his wife choose between honor and their daughter. My personal favorite is the third volume, especially the character of Prince Ning. He rarely appears and always appears as a shameless and incompetent character. But in the extra story, we can see that he is really a very filial son and a person who lacks love. He is like many people around us. He is not the most promising child in the family. He is ignored by his parents and looked down upon by his brothers and sisters, but he is the softest child in the family. (The only chapter that made me cry was what Queen Duanhui said in it, which was what my mother once said to me.) The fourth volume is full of madness, and according to the timeline, it follows the first volume. Yue He wants to protect the heroine, Aunt Zhong wants to make the male protagonist feel better, Pei Yong does it for his brother, Wu Nanxing does it for his own way, Chunhua does it for a promise, Xianglan does it for her own beliefs, Wei Chenfei does it for the national justice, although the male protagonist is poisoned, injured, sick and addicted to drugs, he always remembers that he is the emperor, and he is not an unprincipled king. He is in love... Love is important, but not everything, so these little characters have their own stories. The fifth volume is a very relaxing volume, written six years later from the perspective of the little emperor. Those who are still left after the fourth volume (there are not many left), what kind of life they are living, and what time has left for them. Volume 5 has a lot of foreshadowing, which is in my next story. For example: Princess Gaoyang and Fang Yiai, Princess Gaoyang and Monk Bianji; Li Zhi and Queen Wang, Concubine Xiao Shu, etc. (Because everyone asked the male protagonist to die quickly, the male protagonist died early. It was impossible to tell that it was Li Shimin and Li Zhi and his son; according to the original plan, the new story of the next generation in the fifth volume was buried) Having said all this, I am still very happy that everyone has read this book. Thank you for choosing me firmly among the vast sea of books. There are many stories in the book about "I like you, but you don't know it, and I don't intend to tell you, and I don't feel sorry for it." For example, Gu Zhiqiu versus the concubine of Jia'an, Eunuch Zhang versus Empress Duanhui, Xianglan versus Imperial Physician Kong, and King Ning versus Prince Ning Concubine; there are also hidden lines: Yue He to Pei Yong, Concubine Wei Chen to the male protagonist, Sun Changqing to the female protagonist, Prince Rui to the concubine of Jia'an (this line is buried super deep and very affectionate, but our treasure, the concubine of Jia'an, blindly married the male protagonist!! It's hard to calm down) Everyone has their own obsessions, but it is these unique obsessions that make them who they are and make us who we are. I hope you all like it, okay~~~[love][love][love]
My tears, they were so cruel, they hurt, I stayed up all night chasing them, my husband asked me why I was crying secretly in the middle of the night, was the mistress dead? [Crying] [crying]
I quite like it. The plot is a bit like "East Palace", but "East Palace" is super sad. The ending of this book is not bad, there is no palace fight, and there is no intrigue. I like it very much. The one who is very difficult to deal with is Jia'an's concubine. Such a good person, the ending is so tragic [crying]
It gives people a sense of destiny like the East Palace. The love between the male and female protagonists cannot last long in the context of hatred between the country and the family. The male protagonist's miserable childhood was brightened by the arrival of the female protagonist, but the female protagonist went deep into the grave of love because of the male protagonist's involvement. I often wonder if the male protagonist doesn't love the female protagonist that much and only sees her as a salvation. Maybe individuals under the wheel of history also have a fate that they cannot control.
It's completely another version of Donggong, where Li Chengyin regained his memory first and killed everyone just to keep her alone. When watching it, the face that was substituted was completely that of Chen Xingxu [crying][crying][crying][crying]
The writing is very good. There is no palace fighting, every woman in it has her own characteristics. It's cruel. My opinion: The male protagonist is more hateful than Li Chengyin
The male protagonist lives in such pain, and he drags the female protagonist into the sea of misery. The female protagonist's greatest sorrow is meeting the male protagonist, so all the pain is caused by the male protagonist. The female protagonist is the antidote to the male protagonist.
It's very beautiful. I think it's comparable to the East Palace. It's so sad, especially the part where the male protagonist dies. I can't help but cry. The sweetest part is the second volume. An He and Li Nanfeng met for the first time. Nanfeng knows what I mean. I dream about Xizhou. I love it so much. I hope the author will write more sad stories like this.
The male protagonist is stubborn The heroine is also stubborn But double death is indeed the best ending. Maybe because the sense of first-person substitution is too strong, I couldn't accept what the heroine said in the scene when Princess Qin died in Xiling. The male protagonist dumped her whenever he went crazy. But slowly watching the subsequent episodes and looking at the whole process from the perspective of others, this is a period where the male protagonist approaches the female protagonist with the intention of taking advantage of her. It is doomed to death. I have read similar novels before, and I always thought that the heroine has lost her memory and cannot remember it for the rest of her life. It would be great to just have children and grow old together with the hero. But this book made me see the heroine from a first-person perspective for the first time. I found that this is unfair. Why should the heroine have to do this? Forgetting everything and having children for the enemy is a blasphemy to the heroine and her family. After forgetting, she will indeed live a good life, but this is not a cruelty to the heroine in the past. Her parents died, the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed. She originally sacrificed her life for the country but was forced to commit herself to the enemy. It is really sad and cruel.
The characters in the whole book are still very distinct, but there are too many misunderstandings between the male and female protagonists, and there are too many regrets in the book (I feel like there is no good marriage). It feels like there is a fly in the ointment. I really want to see a scene where the male and female protagonists reconcile with each other. I feel so moved. I felt that the whole book was too sadistic, and it seemed like sadistic for the sake of being sadistic, but the overall feel of the book is still very good. This book not only expresses the love between men and women, but also the feelings of family and country, family affection, loyalty, etc. All in all, the book is very good.