Name: Haitang Jinzhao
Author: Chen Xiaocheng

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95Chapters

Synopsis

The abandoned orphan girl Tang Li possesses a strange magic. The blood-stained begonia can predict life and death in three days, but she has to gouge out her heart and memory as a sacrifice. When she was forced to heal the cold-blooded powerful minister Xie Zhaolin, she discovered that he was actually a dying person in a premonition vision - every mouthful of crabapple dew he drank was eating away at her deep-hidden bloodline of the former pilgrim saint. A life-and-death bet with Begonia as the contract unfolds quietly: she is the container of the flower soul that has not appeared in a century, and he is the living poison that was sacrificed. A series of mysterious cases in which dry bones give rise to fragrance and blood sheds to death, reveals a shocking conspiracy to destroy the Twelve Flower Spirits. When the twins wake up, their old enemies become catastrophic, and forgetting and remembering become poisonous. This world cannot tolerate a clean begonia, so we will use the ember as an order to burn all the gods and Buddhas. The machinations of sweetness and abuse reveal the prophecy engraved on the flower spirit monument: "When the sun blooms and the sun shines, the bones shine brightly."

Reader comments

When the national jade seal was reduced to a braised duck neck frying pan, Zhu Yuanzhang was shouting fans in the live broadcast room to urge orders, and the six-hundred-year-old machinations of emperors, generals and prime ministers were marinated in a jar of pickled vegetables and turned into an absurd epic - "Begonia Edict" deconstructs history into a black humor on the tip of the tongue with the ultimate crazy imagination. The author uses the Ming Xiaoling migrant workers' team as an eye to pry open the gaps in the history books: the fuse of the Battle of Jingnan was Zhu Di's private stewed meat secretly hidden, Zheng He's treasure ship to the West was loaded with sauerkraut biochemical weapons, Xu Da's war horse turned against him because of his braised hooves... Every page bursts with the subversive energy of "food is justice". The novel turns cultural relics into cyber work tools: the golden skull carries goods live, the iron coupons of alchemy books are used as chopping blocks, and the descendants of the amber King Ning become shop inspectors. What's even better is that the "underworld takeaway negative review system" is used to satirize the modern workplace, allowing Zhu Yuanzhang's ghost to become a 996 reminder to order Party A. The descendants of Xu Da's pursuit of Hongwu braised food has become a cross-time and space consumer rights protection. This kind of writing method that crushes the seriousness of history into jokes and lets the jokes wrap up realistic metaphors can be called the carnival style writing of "historical punk". In a universe where "everything can be pickled", sauerkraut is a passport for power games, and stewed soup becomes a translator for the collision of civilizations. When readers marveled at Zhu Di's use of hot pot to instigate the Ora cavalry to rebel, they suddenly realized that this seemingly nonsensical food farce actually used the most playful blade to cut through the absurd nature of history - those grand and grand narratives may have always been soaked in the marinade of worldly desires.
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