Ink of Sorrow, Blossoms of Love
墨殇合欢颜
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 395k Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Palace & Household Intrigue
- Updated
- 3y ago
- English
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High-Quality Angst! An Original Plot, a Smart Hero, and Beautifully Written Short Stories
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.
Looking for Tragedies, but Not the Idiotic Kind. Keep the Characters’ Values Straight
I don't want angst for the sake of angst. I like stories with sound values that are relatively realistic. Historical or modern settings are both fine, something like He Is in Yunnan and One and Only. My eyes are already swollen from crying...
The Most Regrettable Books on Tomato Novel
Please Recommend High-Quality Angsty Male-Oriented Novels! (I'm Not a Fan of Harem Stories)
Childhood Sweethearts Can't Beat the Newcomer. Tragedy! Tragedy!
Completed Short Palace Drama with an Ancient-Style Setting and Lots of Angst
Historical Romance With No Rebirth, Transmigration, or Palace Intrigue
The heroine is very capable and has a highly prestigious identity. She's not reborn or transmigrated, and it's not a palace-intrigue story.
Marriage First, Love Later, With a Young Lady Female Lead and a CEO Male Lead
No entertainment industry setting, no secret identities. Very sweet, no angst, and no kids right from the start. The male lead’s family dotes on the female lead.
Any Short, Depressing Stories or Bad-Endings?
Any Novels With a Clever Female Lead Who Neither Transmigrates nor Is Reborn?
I Want Short, Complete Stories That Tear Your Heart to Shreds
Be Literature
A lingering regret
Any School Stories Like Everlasting Midsummer, With Cool Guys and Badass Girls?
I'd like books similar to The Eternal Summer.
Any Stories Where a BE Is the Best Possible Ending for Everyone?
No Matter How Angsty the Story Gets, I Still Haven't Shed a Tear. Bring on the Angst!
I need a tearjerker that can really hit me in the feels!
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I love this book so much! Why doesn't Tomato recommend it? This is the first tragic ending I've ever read. I usually refuse to read stories with tragic endings because I can't accept them, but the content is so captivating. I skimmed through it, and I loved the interactions between the male and female leads who lived and died together in the end. I'm going to read it slowly from the beginning.
This story was heartbreaking. The ending, where they were buried together and became husband and wife in the afterlife, made me cry so much. I followed the whole thing and couldn't calm down for a long time. It was the first time I'd ever cried, the first time I'd ever cried while reading a romance novel!
The author's writing is excellent; this is a very enjoyable novel. I usually skim through books, reading very quickly. But the author's writing is so delicate that I couldn't help but read every single word. Plus, the female lead's personality is so likable. The rating shouldn't be this low. It's so sweet it's almost sickeningly sweet, and so heartbreaking it can make you cry your eyes out!
I really love this kind of heart-wrenching story. It seems to capture the joys and sorrows of life, and make me taste the hardships of living. But every story longs for a happy ending. If one of them faked their death, and the other faked their own death to commit suicide for love, and then, under the prince's arrangement, they finally lived together in seclusion, how wonderful that would be! 😢😢😢
Supporting the author. My eyes hurt from crying. I loved the sweetness of the extra chapters.
So beautiful! Highly recommend! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Well written, I'll give it a thumbs up!
Under the oppression of power, Chu Mosheng and Mu Qingyan revealed their feelings and bravely faced the unknown future.
So beautiful! So beautiful! So beautiful! He drank poison for her, and she ripped out her heart and died for her.
It was really good. I cried so much at the ending. The epilogue tried to make up for it, but it was still heartbreaking... It's so hard for two people who want to be together. They tried so hard, but they still both died. Oh my god.