
When the Swallows Return
燕子迴时
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- Completed
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- 798k Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Ancient-Style Life
- Updated
- 8mo ago
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- Fanqie
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No wonder the score is so high with so few words. The author's characters are vivid and vivid, and his line skills are solid. After reading 5 chapters, I thought it was really good. Zigui is smart and bold, treats others with courtesy, but can immediately fight back when faced with malicious intentions. This will be a great read for readers who don't know what to say in these quarrels and are so angry until midnight that they can think of how to reply. After reading more than 30 chapters, I feel uncomfortable again. There is a mother who can't express her love for her daughter and only cries, a brother who looks down on her and no one corrects her, and a father who is quarrelsome. In essence, the people closest to her don't care about the heroine's feelings. Love that cannot be felt is not considered love, but only the self-impression of those people. The whole family behaves like monsters when the heroine is not around, and they feel helpless when they can't hit the screen. I can only say that the heroine is really strong at heart, and the writing is good, but I felt heartbroken watching it.
The plot is stuck in my throat, but the author's writing is really good and I can't bear to give it a low score. The writing in the early stage is really great, the heroine's freedom and ease, the love of her grandparents, the mother's complicated mood, the prince's forbearing love, etc. Are all very well portrayed. But! ! ! When it comes to the latest chapter, the content covered in just a few chapters makes me extremely incompetent: my grandparents passed away one after another, and the heroine was forced to become the prince Liangdi in order to survive after killing her enemies. After observing filial piety for a year, she entered the prince's harem (the prince had already been married). It seems that the palace battle plot will begin next. . . . How can I put it, starting from the death of her grandfather, the heroine is like the protagonist who has been deprived of her luck. She inexplicably starts the plot of being a concubine for the greasy prince. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. ! ! (In addition, I still stayed up all night to catch up on the latest chapter, and this trend is even more frustrating) Lightning protection guide: It's not a double story, the transformation of male and female protagonists is abrupt, and the female protagonist currently needs to stay low and be small.
After reading Chapter 25, it is rare to see such a good article on Tomato. The pace is bright and not procrastinating, the characters are vivid and vivid, and the heroine is bright, healthy, courageous and a little wise. You must keep it up! Ever since the author wrote about the death of his grandparents, I basically couldn't watch it anymore. After leaving it idle on the bookshelf for a few months, I took a look at the later stages and wrote about the death of the male protagonist and his son succeeding to the throne and the heroine becoming the queen mother. The later stage is probably due to political differences, conflicts between mother and son, etc. The heroine did not become an empress, nor did she control the political power. In the end, it was the family's fault. It's too long and boring. There are too few excellent short stories written by Tomato. This article was very well written in the early stage. The heroine was very vividly portrayed, but in the later stage, both the emotional and political lines were very stiff. In terms of the character itself, it is very contradictory and seems very disconnected. The grandfather dies and takes revenge, and the plot progress is that he must marry into the East Palace; the prince is deeply in love, but the prince is stupid, just to be the queen in order to be legitimate, without a harem; the prince is weak, which does not prevent the two from having a lot of children; the bad guy is too weak, killing other people is a piece of cake, and once the heroine is in the hands of the male protagonist, he usually plays the house in less than two chapters. It's really a pity. If my grandfather didn't die in such a grievance, and if the heroine didn't enter the East Palace, would it be a different life? Even if her grandfather returns to the battlefield and dies for the country, the heroine will feel better if she experiences and grows up to become a general. However, judging from the whole book, the author is still better at writing about the back house. What a pity for such a beautiful woman.
The author's writing style is very good and the characters he describes are very vivid. I haven't seen such a classic work for a long time. It's a pity that it is still being updated.
Looks good! ! ! Quick update! ! ! ! ! ! Get all the inventory out! ! ! … Why do you insist on writing a plot about torturing the female protagonist… I don't understand. I abandoned the article.
I started reading electronic novels in 2006, and rarely read unfinished ones. It's too tiring to rush for updates. But this novel is so good. The heroine is so suitable to my liking, double business is online. This novel is the only novel in the past few years that I have nothing to complain about.
The writing is not new, and the part about the time when I just returned to Beijing on my own is quite exciting. Although the updates are not fast, I still keep up with it intermittently. Her grandparents died suddenly. After the heroine entered the East Palace, she couldn't understand the main line of the article. All the heroine's energy was involved in giving birth to children. Could it be an ancient proverb about raising a baby?
I like it very much, I just like this kind of plain and serious novel, not exaggerated.
The author's line drawing skills are excellent. He does not need to describe the appearance of the characters too much. The characters and characteristics are vivid and vivid on the page. The plot is compact and the sentences are concise and powerful. I like it very much. I don't like books where the characters have too many awkward dialogues and movements, which makes me very angry. I finished reading this article after saving it for a while. The more I read, the more interesting it becomes. Please update it soon.
I came across this final article by accident, which was an unexpected surprise. The heroine has a tenacious character, handles things with moderation, and never lets herself fall into passivity. There is no stereotyped villain in the book. The so-called "evil" is just a misalignment of position, environment and cognition. The author uses delicate writing to analyze the motivations of each character incisively and vividly, allowing readers to feel compassion in their understanding. This is the embodiment of the humanistic care of the work. The love between the male and female protagonists abandons the bloody competition between females and males, and returns to the true nature of "holding the hand of a son and growing old together with him". They spent their entire lives proving that the deepest love is mutual support over the years. However, when this love faced the test of life and death, the heroine made the decision to let her son "happy". Although this plot hurts people's hearts, it also tears apart the helplessness and struggle of human nature under extreme difficulties. It is not a blasphemy against maternal love, but a tragic attempt by individuals to grasp straws in the torrent of fate in a specific era. The author's brilliance lies in not letting the story stop at the love between a man and a woman. She stretched the camera lens, from the grand narrative of the feelings of family and country, to the familial bonds of daily necessities, to the detailed description of the growth of the next generation, constructing a complete and rich picture of life. Watching the characters in the book grow from youth to maturity, and then watching their children continue their life trajectories, readers seem to have followed this family through a long and profound journey through time.