
The Empress Dowager's Retirement Life
太后的退休生活
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 1.1M Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Palace & Household Intrigue
- Updated
- 1y ago
- Source
- Fanqie
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Household-Intrigue Stories with Proper Manners and Etiquette, Like Real Life in Ancient Times
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Looking for a Female Lead Who’s Unfazed by Everything! Preferably Smart, Mindful of Her Own Business, and Highly Rated
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Show us what you’ve got!
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Completed Stories That Make You Want to Keep Reading
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Someone, please explain this to me!!
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Completed, Highly Rated Books
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✨The heroine is the Queen Mother, the previous palace fighting champion🏆 ✨The late emperor is dead, but he still enters the heroine's dream at night. I feel that the male protagonist is the late emperor. Although most of the stories are about the emperor's harem, I will still slowly tell the story about the male and female protagonists. ✨They are both very rational and have been weighing the pros and cons, but in each other's hearts each other is special ✨The late emperor is really a bit sickly! The heroine also knew it and thought it was very reasonable. ✨The heroine is very powerful, but she has a little bit of bad taste like the late emperor. She likes to watch dramas, and she despises this year's palace fights every day for being too childish.
The writing is pretty good and interesting. The author does not describe too much about the heroine's power. He only writes from the side, inadvertently recalling the past and mentioning one or two tricks of the heroine. After reading more than 50 chapters, I feel that the heroine is aloof, watching the acting below, and occasionally adding fuel to the flames to achieve her own goals. It gives me the feeling that she is in control.
It's so exciting. The scenes between the heroine and Emperor Jing He are very interesting. The heroine and the late emperor met the right person at the wrong time. He was attracted to the heroine without knowing it. He taught her the emperor's mental skills and taught her to pick up the "sharp blade" to protect herself without knowing it. He only thought that he was just trying to stir up trouble. The heroine had a clear goal from the beginning, and did not lose herself in the late emperor's "sugar-coated bullets". Instead, from these "sugar-coated bullets", she absorbed the qualifications for growth, armed herself step by step, strengthened herself, and was sometimes cautious about the late emperor's kindness, but full of defensiveness and caution. She liked and loved the late emperor, but she knew very clearly that she could not indulge in it, otherwise she would be doomed. So she took advantage of this love and tested the other party's bottom line step by step. Later, she was gradually captured by his personality charm. In the repeated confrontations between the two parties, she gradually became a person like Cheng Xiandi. From the beginning of doubts, wariness, and incomprehension, she finally entered his inner world step by step. It was also after the late emperor died that he gradually understood his own thoughts by observing every move of the heroine. He is a man who plays with everything in the world, but he never thought that the chess piece (the heroine) that he played with at his fingertips was actually the person closest to his true side, so he taught her the art of the emperor's mind to see if she would develop ambitions (to ascend the throne and become emperor), and to see if everything she did would be as he expected. Then this chess piece was unexpected and always didn't follow the path he planned. Then he fell in love with her unknowingly, but he fell in love without knowing it. It was only when he died that he suddenly realized that I loved her. Everything seems a little late, but it seems not too late. The arc of the late emperor who pursues beauty and commits crimes is more profound and three-dimensional than that of the heroine. The more I look at this character, the more I can't put it down. When I was reading the article, I was looking forward to the author's description of how such a person would fall in love with the heroine. There seem to be three thousand beauties in the harem, and he likes them all. In fact, in his opinion, it is like having cats and dogs for fun. No one can catch his eye, and the original heroine is no exception to him. He seems to be passionate, but in fact he is ruthless. He wants to destroy the country, so he becomes a tyrant. But from his every move, it is not difficult to see that if he is willing, such a resourceful and almost demonic man is fully capable of being a wise king, but he just doesn't want to. He just wants to make everything annihilate, he wants to destroy this country, he is a sober and rational madman with a super high IQ. If it weren't for the heroine, Jing Chao would definitely be dead in his hands.
Wow wow wow wow, it's really well written. This one is completely different from the previous ones. Although the male protagonist died early, he would still come to the heroine's dream to fight with the heroine. During the reign of the late emperor, although Emperor Tianhe was a madman, he did not harm the people and helped the heroine from beginning to end. Although he only used the heroine as a pawn at the beginning, he gradually became interested and left the heroine with a lot of backup. At the same time, this book is more oriented toward development. The heroine, as the champion of the last palace fight, personally supported her niece, allowing her to grow up step by step and finally became the empress dowager, and supported her niece's son to become the emperor. From then on, half of Jing Chao retained the blood of the Su family.
The heroine is really awesome. She has mastered the harem perfectly. Everyone around the emperor belongs to the heroine, the emperor's teacher also belongs to the heroine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs belongs to the heroine, the Department of Punishment belongs to the heroine, and the imperial hospital also belongs to the heroine. The emperor is even poisoned and relies on the imperial doctor to stay alive. Everything is under the control of the heroine. She is so awesome.
I like it so much! Although there is no cp, the powerful confrontation between the late emperor and his mother, the empress dowager, is so cute!
I can't get enough of it. It's been a long time since I've seen a story about two empress dowagers fighting each other, and the main character is the empress dowager!
Since finding the barrier-free access to comment in this comment area, I have reviewed several novels that I have heard before, as long as I can remember the names, and I almost forgot about this one. The reason why I forget. At that time, I felt that this novel had two poisonous points. One is that the heroine has court scenes later on. Logically speaking, the heroine should be behind the scenes. The second is that in the extra chapter, the heroine and the emperor were together. Now I think it's okay. After all, no novel is perfect, and its flaws are not covered up. It is much better than a large number of AI novels that have appeared recently, so I decided to give it five stars.
It's a good-looking plot with no big flaws throughout. The heroine has been strategizing and has basically never lost her character. She is always one foot higher in both moral and magic. Her IQ has always occupied the high ground. It is very interesting. If this book is finished, can there be a prequel between the new emperor and the heroine?
Demining: There is an error in the copywriting. This is with CP. Please be careful if you want to read without CP!