
The Road Ahead Is Hard
荨路难
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 132k Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Palace & Household Intrigue
- Updated
- 8mo ago
- Source
- Fanqie
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The writing is very good, and there are some puzzling points everywhere, but they are all explained later. The feeling of pull between men and women is sour and depressing. The love of the male protagonist is always reflected in other people's mouths, and he turns a blind eye to the hurt suffered by the female protagonist. He has a feeling of thinking about heaven and hell (you can sacrifice the female protagonist's child for the sake of power - it is not the male protagonist who does it himself, but he implicitly and even coerces the female partner to kill, and he can also sacrifice his love for the female protagonist). It can be solved better, but it takes a long time. An's life was sacrificed, and it was even said that there would be another one at the end. It felt like the sky had fallen for the heroine at that moment; the heroine's love could be felt from the psychological description, and the heroine's heart was broken piece by piece. Until Chang An's death, it was broken into pieces, and she remained awake. Even if she later learned that the hero helped her to avenge her, it seemed that the heroine was even more like a part of the play between the hero and the female partner. At last! ! ! I have thousands of words to complain about the male protagonist, but I don't know what to say. I can only say that the male protagonist is very incompetent. But I really like the heroine and the author's writing. (Can I ask for an if line? The male and female protagonists love each other but do not stay together. The female protagonist and the male protagonist are together, as if they have not received the follow-up development of the concubine decree. I feel that the relationship between the male and female protagonists will be sublimated. As written in the article, the male protagonist just wants to fulfill their childhood wish. And the female protagonist will not be so painful, or write an article from this perspective again)
Childhood sweethearts, the daughter of an aristocratic family and the young emperor, are finally trapped in the chessboard of palace intrigues. The joy that was once a childhood sweetheart has slowly turned into an involuntary regret under the influence of imperial power and fate. The author uses delicate brushstrokes to portray the heart-wrenching feeling from innocent expectations to the final shattered dream. Every emotional turn makes people feel heartbroken. It is a story of sadomasochism that can empathize with people to the core. The full text is compact in length but full of emotional concentration. There is no unnecessary water, each chapter is advancing the emotion, and every detail is foreshadowing the fate. The restraint of this short story makes the sad feeling more concentrated. After reading it, the innocent expectation hidden in the heart will echo again and again, with full stamina. Now that I see it, I can't help but comment, it's really beautiful.
A work that "opens the book with a smile and closes it with a cry". It writes about the inability to control oneself in troubled times, and also writes about the regret and sincerity in love. If you prefer delicate emotional depictions, in-depth strategic games, and can accept the narrative rhythm of "torture first and then sweetness", this book will surely move you. It tells us: some love, even if separated by life and death, will arrive in another way; some regrets, even after thousands of years, will still make us heartbroken in the words. I hope that we can all avoid "difficulties on the road" in our lives, hold on to love, and finally achieve the perfection we want.
I felt so depressed after watching it. I could only watch the heroine reach a tragic ending. He was his childhood sweetheart but could not make her his queen. The heroine thought that she was his pawn until her death. In fact, the heroine was everything to the hero. He hoped that she would become his queen all his life. I can't help it anymore, I really cry to death, the heroine is so miserable.
It's very interesting. The author's writing style is very delicate. It's not a cookie-cutter harem novel. The heroine is strong, kind and has her own thoughts and persistence. When the male protagonist was in power, he worried too much and hurt the female protagonist, but after the heroine died, he had a ghost marriage and was finally buried. Everyone in the article is not black and white. Shen Yunhe killed Chang'an and made things difficult for the heroine at every turn, but at the end he used himself to block the sword that was stabbing the heroine. After reading this article in a short time, I felt a lot in my heart. Thank you to the author for presenting us with such an article. I hope that the author will be smooth and magnanimous in the future. I also hope that all girls will shine uniquely in their own way and come out with their own wonderfulness. (This is not good, I hope you can bear with me [sending my heartfelt condolences])
The writing style is very delicate, the heroine hugs the baby, the little maid does the same, the hero... Well, he is also a human being, but he is not really a human being [I almost cry] I thought the ending was be, but it turned out to be he. It made me cry [cry]
The author does not use hysterical cries to exaggerate the tragedy, but slowly wears away the light in the eyes of young girls through repeated involuntary choices, allowing readers to follow the protagonist from innocent expectations to cold reality. The most touching thing is never the pain of not being able to love, but the helplessness of having to push each other away with your own hands even though you still love each other. The male protagonist is not heartless, he sits in the supreme position, and every decision affects the turmoil of the court. He wants to protect her, but he can only push her away with the most indifferent attitude; it is not that she doesn't love her, she just sees clearly that the emperor cannot help himself, and that there is no win-win situation on the chessboard, so she can only put away all her joy and become a quiet imperial concubine in the deep palace, guarding the last bit of dignity with silence. This kind of "love but can't" pull is more poignant than straightforward sadomasochism. The tragedy is never because of not loving, but because of loving too much, but being deprived of the qualification to love by fate. The author used the purest childhood sweetheart to write the most realistic fateful tragedy, which made me see clearly the insignificance of love in the face of fate, and also the heaviest love hidden in those involuntary choices. This is the shorter book I have read recently, but it uses a shorter length to leave the longest staying power. Crying very loudly.
The plot does not deliberately create bloody conflicts. But everything is "difficult to calm down". The male protagonist loses his lover for power. The heroine chose to leave for the sake of dignity. The supporting characters can't help themselves in their respective positions. This "light pain that slowly penetrates the body" is more exciting than straightforward sadomasochism.
The author writes very well! The whole book feels very sad. It feels like the previous life of Mao Mao'er and Xiao Weiyu was a tragedy. The two people obviously loved each other very much, but they devoted their lives to realizing their childhood dreams. Mao Mao'er copied all the books in the Xie family collection, and Yu also lost his true love. Later, Yu spent five hundred years to meet each other, which was very good. I hope they will be happy forever in the parallel world! [Sending Hearts]
The plot is compact, the heroine is very sober and has her own strategy. In the first life, everyone is in the chess game. The hero and heroine seem to be the chess players, but have long been reduced to pawns, so they cannot break the game. In another life, it can be regarded as a regret. As the author said in the article, the love brain means that you dare to love and hate without any regrets. The heroine has her own great love and pursuit in her heart in both lives.