Huo Qingtong Reborn

Huo Qingtong, in her emerald-feathered cloak and golden robe, is a remarkable woman of the Hui with both wisdom and courage. Even someone as exceptional as her cannot escape heartbreak. During the Battle of the Blackwater River, she was beset on all sides. Chen Jialuo, the man she loved, had fallen for her younger sister. She also had to face her father and brothers favoring her sister, doubting her, and her own subordinates refusing to obey her. All she could do was suffer in silence, bearing every grievance. Still, she did her best to hold things together and devise her strategies. After she decisively defeated the Qing troops, everyone else was celebrating, but she finally coughed up blood and collapsed ill. Everyone knows what happened next: Princess Fragrance died for Chen Jialuo. The later book, The Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain, also mentions that Chen Jialuo and Huo Qingtong eventually ended up together, living in seclusion in the desert. I really don't like that ending. I'd rather Huo Qingtong's story had ended with the Battle of the Blackwater River. I dislike Chen Jialuo, and not only because he transferred his affections to someone else. He came up with so many excuses. Just because Li Yuanzhi had disguised herself as a man, he used that as his reason for loving Princess Fragrance instead, blaming it all on a