
Locking the Southern Branch
锁南枝
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 450k Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Palace & Household Intrigue
- Updated
- 2y ago
- Source
- Fanqie
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A Classic Historical Romance Recommendation for a Well-Read Woman
I found a book that doesn’t follow the usual formula. It’s full of knowledge, has a clear historical timeline, and offers deep insight into human nature. Definitely worth taking the time to read.
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Stories about an empress.
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The male and female leads should be smart, not foolish and naive.
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Any historical romance is fine.
The Female Lead Is Cool and Rational, Not Love-Brained, but the Male Lead Loves Her Deeply
Looking for Historical Romance With a Powerful Female Lead and Political Intrigue. No Transmigration or Being Reborn
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There Are No Good Novels About Women Disguised as Men!!!!
Come argue if you disagree!
Historical Fantasy, with a Cold, Powerful Female Lead Right from the Start, Not One Who Has to Grow into It
The female lead should be powerful from the moment she appears. Her personality should be either cold or bloodthirsty, basically an incredibly badass wish-fulfillment protagonist. The male lead should not be overly calculating.
Looking for Ancient Romance Novels with a Cunning Female Lead Who Reads People's Minds
Preferably a transmigration story. There are so few of these, and I can’t find any.
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Lately I've been reading female-oriented stories with no couples but some romantic tension, and I haven't found any good romances 😢. I'd like a heroine with ambition and aspirations, and a capable hero with good judgment. Any genre is fine. Please help me out~🤗
Any Historical Stories with a Strong Female Lead?
A book with an especially capable and clever female lead who’s great at getting things done, and where the leads don’t just inexplicably fall in love.
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Good Historical Romance Novels on Tomato Novel
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This book is really worth reading. Love is the love under the family. At the beginning, it is the mutual testing between the monarch and the minister, and it is the game between the monarch and the minister for their own interests. Until something happens, the life-saving trump card, being good at calculation is just to live a better life and find a way out for the country and the people. In the end, because of gender, each character in this book has their own distinctive character. Shen Ningzhao × Gu Chiyan is a game between the monarch and the minister, and ability has nothing to do with gender. There are so many things worth seeing. It's really beautiful. I can't express it in precise words. Machiavellian + strong woman (in my understanding, this strong woman is a sober, independent, courageous and resourceful woman)
At around one o'clock in the morning, I was covered with quilt and wanted to continue watching Nanqiao and Chi Yan, happily ever after, stunning the world, Mianmian and Qin Keye opening their hearts to each other, the princess and Yuanli being in harmony, but the story ended abruptly here, and I was still unfinished, and my interest was waning... But there was not even an extra chapter. The author, you are so cruel [crying][crying ][Crying] The heroine is really a qualified empress, decisive in killing, with the way of an emperor's checks and balances, a lot of tenderness around the bones, and the character has never collapsed. The hero understands that the heroine understands the heroine's sanity and is both civil and military. The male and female protagonists are really a match made in heaven. The other supporting characters also have vivid personalities and their own characteristics, which makes people reluctant to part with them. So it's a pity not to be able to see everyone's final ending. It makes people feel empty, as if there is a piece missing that cannot be filled...
The author's writing skills are profound and comforting, and no amount of words would be redundant. The whole book is like flowing clouds, each word touches the heart, and each sentence is touching. Tears, heartache, and smiles often coexist while reading.
Good works deserve to be seen. As soon as I read the beginning, I found it easy to get involved. The writing is good but not artificial, and the plot is organized.
Very good, Taiyi, in the court, there is no back-house fight, but the heroine's mother and the aunt Qingge and Yunshuang who took care of the heroine all died for the heroine, and the doctor Yang and the hero's father were both stabbed. I hope there will be a side story of Mianmian and Mr. Qin, and a side story of Yuan Li and the princess.
Like it very much. I have read a lot of ancient texts, and this one is the best! It's really a lie. I really feel very, very, very good! ! ! ! The writing is also super nice, the author has a really good idea and layout, and the writing is really good! Words cannot express how good this novel is! ! It's not about racking your brains to write some intrigues that make people bored. Every time I write about a character, there is a freshness to that character, and I don't mean to hate for the sake of hating. It's just that there are very few emotional scenes between the male protagonist and the female protagonist in the first third, which made my teeth itch to read! ! Then the emotions of each character are explained very well. What? Only 6.7 Points? ? ? ? It's really beautiful. How could someone give it such a low score? ! ! Don't be fooled by scores. It's really good to watch. The intense tension between the male and female protagonists is really good to watch. Moreover, every character in the book is very vivid, with their own difficulties and hardships, and then they have their own paths. The ups and downs of each story are clearly explained, and the foreshadowing is well laid out. The emotional scenes of the supporting characters are also super nice. The author's writing is very good and you won't abandon the chapter while reading. The bad guys are not unreasonably bad, and the good guys are not unreasonably good, they are really good. I don't want to spoil it, but it's really good to watch. Don't believe the rating of 6. If I were the author and wrote it so well and had such a low rating, I would be really pissed off...
It's really beautifully written. The plot is progressive and the tension between the male and female protagonists is really satisfying.
It gets better and better as we go to the end, but it's a bit unfinished at the end. I hope the author can write some extras [Send my heart][Send my heart][Send my heart]
The female protagonist closes her eyes and enters. They are two equally matched characters. It is a very brilliant article about a woman disguised as a man. The pace is lively and the most shocking plots are narrated in the plainest sentences, giving it a feeling of watching a documentary. Micro-group portraits, each character has a vivid and flesh-and-blood image, the plot is exciting and ups and downs, and the step-by-step rise of female power is very meaningful. The author really wrote about the feelings of family and country vividly. It is always a pity for the loyal ministers and soldiers who died because of the corrupt rulers. If it had no cp, it would be a shame. But the male protagonist is okay. All in all, it is worth watching. (Ps: I really love the heroine's imperial spirit and strategizing. I also like the high-spirited Qin, the gentlemanly Lu and the enthusiastic and public female general. I like the Taifu, the Queen Mother, my uncle, Xing'an and my aunts... I can't stop liking them all)
It's beautiful. I can only say that it was well worth staying up all night. The characters are well-drawn and many of the descriptions seem to have been injected with vitality. Looking at those descriptions, I felt as if I was in that scene, watching one character after another die for their beliefs. The scenes were extremely moving. It's worth watching. Highly recommended.