Flowers of the Rear Courtyard
后庭花
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 601k Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Palace & Household Intrigue
- Updated
- 3y ago
- English
- Request a translation
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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).
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Hand Over the Cruel Male Leads!
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My darlings, the author is here. Thank you to all the sisters who came to the book review. It's a tragic story, a tragic story, a tragic story—I'm saying it three times because it's important! The original story was based on Prince Li Shimin of Qin and Consort Yang (Consort Yang was a princess of the Sui Dynasty and the youngest daughter of Emperor Yang of Sui).
My tears were flowing so much, it was so heartbreaking! I stayed up all night watching it, and my husband asked me why I was secretly crying in the middle of the night. Was the mistress dead? 😢😢
I quite like it. The plot is a bit like "Goodbye My Princess," but "Goodbye My Princess" is incredibly tragic. This book has a better ending; there's no palace intrigue or backstabbing, which I really like. What I find most heartbreaking is the story of Consort Jia'an—such a good person, and her ending was so tragic 😢
It evokes a sense of destiny reminiscent of the classic Chinese fantasy novel, *The Eastern Palace*. The love between the male and female leads, set against the backdrop of national and personal vendettas, is ultimately doomed to fail. The male lead's tragic childhood is brightened by the female lead's arrival, while the female lead is drawn into a life of unrequited love because of his…
It's basically another version of Goodbye My Princess, except Li Chengyin regains his memories first, kills everyone, and only keeps her. While watching, I totally pictured Chen Xingxu's face! 😢😢😢😢
The writing is excellent. There's no palace intrigue, and every woman in the story has her own distinct personality. It's angsty. My personal opinion: the male lead is even more hateful than Li Chengyin.
The male lead lives a life of such suffering, yet he drags the female lead down the same path of misery. The female lead's greatest tragedy is meeting him; therefore, all her pain is inflicted by him, and she is his cure.
It's incredibly good, comparable to "East Palace" in my opinion. So heart-wrenching, especially the part where the male lead dies; I couldn't hold back my tears. The sweetest part is definitely the second volume, with Anhe and Li Nanfeng's first meeting, "Nanfeng understands my heart, blowing my dreams to the Western Continent." I love it so much! I hope the author will write more heart-wrenching stories like this.
The male protagonist is stubborn The female lead is also stubborn However, the double death was indeed the best ending. Perhaps because the first-person perspective was too immersive, I couldn't accept what the female lead said when the Princess Qin died in Xiling. The male lead's various crazy outbursts and abandonment of people made me furious.
The characters are vividly portrayed, but there are too many misunderstandings between the male and female leads, and too many regrets throughout the book (it feels like there's no happy ending). It feels a bit lacking, and I really wanted to see them reconcile. The whole book is too tragic, almost like it's being tragic for the sake of tragedy.