
The Waning Glow
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- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 240k Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Slice-of-Life Farming
- Updated
- 2y ago
- Source
- Fanqie
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Looking for High-Quality Historical Romance!
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Historical Romance Like Cherishing the Flowers, Modern-Era Stories Like Xia Xiaolan! I'm Out of Books!
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Pure Historical Romance
No transmigration, no being reborn, no System.
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#Exceptional Writing: High-Quality Novels You’ll Read from Start to Finish!!
Books with writing like Mantou's.
Truly Stunning Historical Romance
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Any Low-Key Novels Focused on Everyday Life?
No System, and not too much face-slapping.
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This novel is very well written! The content is amazing! Manxu's behavior and behavior are worth learning from! I also want to become a gentle, strong and wise person like Manxu! I feel sorry for Manxu's life experience and experience, but I am also amazed by her! One of my favorite moments in this novel is that after the male and female protagonists confessed to each other, Manxu said that she couldn't love her, so she felt resentful. Many novels describe the heroine as too perfect, with nothing wrong at all. But this novel is written very realistically and shows the imperfections of the heroine. We are all living people, with joys, sorrows, resentments and obsessions, and of course the heroine will also have them. This description is very good, and it makes me empathize with Manxu very much!
I like the narrative style of this novel very much. It is compact but not tense. Every character is very vivid, especially the transformation of the heroine's character. From the star-studded princess to the strategizing merchant, the heroine's work style is particularly well described. I really like this novel. From the writing to the plot, it is worth following up! (Also, I don't like Chong Lin as the male protagonist. I hope a new male protagonist will appear later)
It's strange that the rating of this book is so low. In fact, there are no big problems with the writing and plot, and the flow of the book is calm and comfortable to read. But I can probably understand that most people may have some opinions on the male protagonist. I understand what the author said at the beginning that neither of them are perfect people, but the heroine is more perfect. After reading the whole article, it seems that there are no big ups and downs, which is very comfortable. Maybe because the author's narrative is relatively simple and lively, and interlocking, without any unnecessary words. However, I am very confused about how the male protagonist falls in love with the female protagonist. If this aspect is strengthened, the sense of violation may not be so serious. The female protagonist's love for the male protagonist is very clear. In fact, most people like someone like this, and they won't give up so easily if they are attracted. This is true for the heroine. Miss Song Er is a control group. Of course she got happiness, but it's a pity that Huo Qilang, I quite like Shen Shi, hahaha.
I have seen many friends think that there is too little interaction between the male and female protagonists, and there are too many stories about Chongjing and Song Huailang, so I would like to explain it here. This is a story about marriage first, love later, and the content is more focused on unraveling the past knots of the male and female protagonists, such as Chonglin being forced to marry a wife when he was a hostage, the death of Manxu's relatives, and the huge gap after she got married when she realized that the earth did not revolve around her, etc. The two of them met the right person at the wrong time, just like buttoning the wrong buttons on clothes. If one button is wrong, the whole row will be wrong. They need to unbutton them all and button them again after matching them. Of course, Chonglin should also be grateful that Manxu is still there and willing to give him another chance. As for Song Huailang and Chongjing, I will write more about them because they are like Manxu in parallel time and space. If Manxu had listened to the Queen Mother's advice when she had no hesitation in marrying Chonglin, it would have been Song Huailang. If Manxu had stayed in Yongan Palace and not reconciled, but had waited until Chonglin came back, that would have been Chongjing. The story did not satisfy everyone, and there were some shortcomings, which I regret a little bit. I will work harder to write the next story. Please recommend "Noble Man", thank you all [smile]
The writing of this novel is indeed very good, very delicate and amazing. Each character has a vivid and flesh-and-blood personality. I saw many people commenting that they felt aggrieved, but this is obviously not a good novel. Each character has his own helplessness. This is very realistic. At the same time, I also hope that each character will have a good ending. Good luck to the author!
The writing is very good, but suddenly looking back, that person is there, in a dimly lit place! But not many people in this world will stand still and wait for you, so cherish the people in front of you! If Chonglin hadn't done this, your kids would have gone to middle school [laughing][laughing][laughing]
I came across this novel by chance and was amazed by the writing in the first two chapters, so I continued reading it. Sure enough, I found that the plot is also very interesting! The writing is very delicate, the characters are three-dimensional, and the settings of each character are very vivid. The heroine's style and approach to people and things are very well written! Looking forward to the development of the emotional drama between the male and female protagonists, the author will give you a big boost!
We fell in love with each other at first sight, but we were lonely and wasted for several years, but luckily we lived up to the wait. The setting is in line with the ancient saying. I just feel that the heroine is too gentle and too tolerant to the hero. After five years of indifference, she forgave him before the hero became more abusive. The heroine is so good! Thank you to the author, and I will continue to read the author's other works.
I will pay attention to the author's updates every day. I like the plot and character settings of this book very much. After reading the first few chapters, I couldn't put it down. There is a small problem: the male and female protagonists should be HE in the end, because I feel that although there are many unresolved problems, the female protagonist should still be interested in the male protagonist. I hope that the male and female protagonists in the parallel world will be happy
Really beautiful