
Hairpins and Beauty
鬓花颜
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- Completed
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- 1.4M Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Palace & Household Intrigue
- Updated
- 5mo ago
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- Fanqie
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It's really good to read. I've never seen a story like this that starts with a maid, so I'm afraid I won't like it.) But I've always liked group portrait stories, so I gave it a try. I didn't expect it to be really, really good-looking! The author is very good at shaping characters, both male and female characters have their own characteristics. I really like the author's description of Mrs. Yun and Tang Xian's ambition to climb up as the leader of the family, the growth lines of these lovely girls like Ruizhu, Mengzhu, and Donggua, including the love line between Huanxin and her uncle, the growth of Luliu, etc. Of course, the most important and favorite ones are our heroine Meng Shu (now renamed Hua Yan, I really admire the author's arrangements for the name change) and the story between the second young lady. Please continue writing according to your own ideas [Sending my heart] However, I have a small personal suggestion, that is, although it is written from a third-person perspective, the author has also explained that he believes that some fashionable jokes can be added, but 👉🏻👈🏻I personally think it is better not to add it? After all, it is a little discordant for a novel like "Stealing a Feeling" to suddenly appear in this genre and this tone. I beg you to finish it. [Sending my heart] [Sending my heart] [Sending my heart] I am following a very new article again [Crying] It's really beautiful
I quite liked it at first. The main plot line is okay so far, and the writing is good. But after reading it, I felt that the characters were too thin. What is written is how the author wants them to appear, but it should not be just the surface, with nothing more to support it. The most worth reading of the full text so far is Mrs. Yun.
Highly recommend this book, it really feels like witnessing the youth and growth of a group of girls. The writing is beautiful and the words are appropriate. It won't be like some authors who write jokes about modern people for funny effect. The characters are well created. Everyone has their own "unfortunate" and unique soul background. Some are lively and some are calm. None of them are perfect. They occasionally make mistakes or even make big mistakes. Like the heroine, who is smart and transparent, sometimes she can be blind. It seems like I saw a group of girls trapped in pavilions and pavilions, facing a difficult fate, still talking and laughing with their companions. All the bitterness, unwillingness, and things that could not be solved in a lifetime were somewhat diluted by the time we spent together. I especially like the time the heroine spent as a little maid in Lin'an with the second lady (second female) and other maids before entering the palace. After entering the palace, this time is like a fragment covered with dust, living in everyone's memories and conversations, becoming less real, but I really want to go back to that moment.
The writing style of the extra chapter is a bit immature. How could Mrs. Yun and Marquis Lin'an, who took one step and watched ten steps, have such shallow thoughts, and the cause and effect are too shallow to be able to bear the step-by-step practice of more than 20 years. As for the emotional line between the heroine and the female partner, it is really good, but I always feel that something is missing. Maybe it is because this relationship lacks some real contradictory tension. It does not have to be a tearing apart to be exciting, but if there is more subtle collisions of positions and an additional layer of complexity of "I understand you but I can't agree with you", this line may be thicker. In addition, the male protagonist. I really like watching scenes with male and female protagonists opposite each other. Many comments say that the emperor is not sincere, but looking at his growth history, he has a low-status and unfavored mother in the palace, and other powerful brothers. If he wants to survive and go on, he can only hide his clumsiness as a young man and slowly figure it out. The word "forbearance" runs through the 20 years of his growth. How could he have reached this point if he had no scheming and no consideration. Therefore, I really like to see his sincerity hidden in his calculations. I like this character very much because of his sincerity in making concessions after weighing them, his partiality in his calculations, and his softness in leaving a ray of softness even though he clearly should have done the right thing. This person is not contradictory. If you think about it carefully, this person is actually relatively sincere. Summary: Open high and go low, almost meaningless
Great, great!! The author writes very well! Moreover, the personality characteristics of each character are also very distinct, and the description of the environment is very artistic and can reflect the mood of the characters. The logic is also very smooth now, and it seems that the author's outline is indeed complete and clear! It's definitely a story worth reading [Like] Some of the plot trends have a beginning and an end and are by no means aimless. The structure is compact and very attractive! At the same time, it also describes some of everyone's daily interactions, which is serious yet warm. I really like the characters of the second lady and the heroine, the author, please give me a boost!! [Love] I want to catch up to the end!
It's so beautiful. The heroine is very smart and has a high emotional intelligence. The writing is good and the plot is very logical. The maid is not bored in her daily life. I am looking forward to the development of the plot after the heroine and the second lady enter the palace. Highly recommended [Love]
It is a rare film that unfolds from the perspective of the humble people at the bottom, describing the lives of the low-class people in ancient times, their struggles in desperate situations, glimmers of despair, constant planning, little by little growth, relatives and enemies, family affection, friendship and kindness... Reading it feels like being in person and feeling the same way. It's the first time I've read Unfinished, and I've got the idea of commenting and updating it. Come on!
Wow, this book is really wonderful, every step is full of careful planning, but it is too short to read, and there is no golden-fingered girl, but she is wise and courageous. The Tang family are also very good. Although they have the intention of taking advantage of the heroine, they help the heroine in the end. The second lady is also very good. I hope they will be safe in the end.
The female protagonist is an aborigine with a humble background. Her mother died young, her father did not love her, her stepmother abused her, and her uncle disappeared. Later, she worked as a maid in the Tang Dynasty. She has wisdom and skills. She is good at observing and thinking in details, understanding people's hearts, and knows how to repay kindness. Overall, it's pretty good. I hope the author can keep it steady. Although the label of this book is Qun Xiangwen, and I understand that the ancients emphasized "to repay favors on the golden stage, support the jade dragon and die for the king" and practice "a drop of water should be repaid by a spring of spring", I still feel that the female supporting role is too much, which somewhat obscures the brilliance of the heroine. Everyone has their own preferences for radishes and vegetables. Personally, I really don't have the motivation to continue to update in the later period.
It's so beautiful. I like Tang Qingwan very much. A pure character has been throughout her life, from the innocence that outsiders thought she was when she was a child to the innocence she maintained in the face of power when she was in a high position, as well as her purity of feelings. In short, thank the author for giving Wan'er a good ending. Meng Shu's title is Jin, and she has really gone from the original "Jin" to the current Jin, but she suddenly discovered the author's little ingenuity. Mrs. Yun's name is also Jin, the two of them are really destined, not mother and daughter, but they are very similar to mother and daughter. In short, this book is very interesting, with a plain narrative style, but there is always a touch of sadness, which may come from the fate of the two heroines who have always been constrained, the oppression of people in ancient times, or the coldness of the emperor's eyes that power is greater than love, the helplessness of countless people sacrificed in the deep palace disputes, the popularity is too low, I hope the book will become popular