Notes of a Reborn Aristocrat

1. About Yang Qi as a person Yang Qi is very controversial. Let me talk about my understanding of her below. First of all, Yang Qi is a time-traveling woman, and she has traveled back to an era when ideology and various conditions were more backward. As a time-traveling woman, Yang Qi should have a hard time liking this world and feel a lot of alienation. She is almost in a lonely environment where she has different ideas from everyone around her. Moreover, because of Yang Qi's strong character, firm outlook on life, and self-consciousness of future generations, it is impossible for Yang Qi to be assimilated into the world of Qin in terms of thoughts and emotions. The above is the premise. Combined with this premise, many of Yang Qi's behaviors will be easier to understand. (1) Yang Qi basically has no love for the Qin Dynasty, so she said that pursuing "the peace of the country and the people" is more about the peace and prosperity of the country and the people in the abstract sense of China. Yang Qi's feelings are more pinned on the abstract China and people that connect her past and future generations, rather than her love for the current people of the Qin Dynasty. (2) Yang Qi is indeed emotionally selfish for many reasons: in her previous life, an orphan had to work hard alone. She was deprived of everything and came to a world she didn't agree with when she had some achievements. She lived on thin ice since she was a child, so Yang Qi was very passive emotionally. Although she longed for warmth, she was not someone who could give her true love first. The suppression of her reason also made her emotional needs not that much. In the "Self" chapter of "The Concubine", Yang Qi said to Xu Fengjia that she thinks love is: If you want me to be good to you, you have to be good to me first, etc. This sentence shows the order of Yang Qi's emotional giving: she is a person who pays great attention to self-preservation and will not give first. Only when the other party gives first, will she be gradually moved and accepted. Including other people with emotional connections around her, the order of her emotional giving is also the same. Therefore, the most important thing for Yang Qi is the small family. Although she is doing dangerous things like reform, she does not hesitate to let others sacrifice and use her, but if it really threatens the small family of herself, Xu and her children, Yang Qi has no bottom line. (3) What Yang Qi loves most is the small family, which is of course understandable. Not only at the level of family ties; in the world of Da Qin, almost only in this small family, Yang Qi is flesh and blood and can express his true self. Yang Qi started to reveal herself because Xu's love gave her the courage. Xu had true love for her, so Yang Qicai dared to instill many of his "rebellious and unethical" views into him, subtly affecting him and later affecting his children. Xu's support for her self-realization is not only status-based, but also emotional. The author commented that "marriage changes destiny". If Yang Qi married Xu who did not have true love for her, even if she could live a "peach blossom land" life without intrigues after seeing the first lady, Yang Qi would still not dare to expose her true self to the world of Daqin, let alone develop a career in Guangzhou and the court according to her true ideas. Yang Qi is very realistic. Only those who love her and are willing to understand her can she dare to take this risk. For people outside the small family in the Da Qin world, if Yang Qi uses her thoughts to influence them, it is likely to cause damage to her own interests. Yang Qi's personality will not take this risk. Even if it is a rebellious or advanced behavior that is closer to the ideas of her descendants, as long as it is harmful to Yang Qi's interests, Yang Qi is not willing to take the risk to support and promote it. Therefore, Yang Qi's deepest emotional connection with Da Qin can only be with her small family. (4) In the survival stage, Yang Qi can try to maintain her original intention and be relatively kind. This is mainly because her state at this time is to block and respond to other people's attacks. But after having the life ideal of making a difference in politics, Yang Qi had to start to take the initiative and play power, and her moral bottom line must have declined (corresponding to what she did later). (5) But compared to Huiniang, Yang Qi is limited by her status and situation and cannot act as high-profile as her (compared to ordinary women). Yang Qi is more like a politician hiding behind the scenes. As a politician, she pursues political ideals but cannot be magnanimous. She has insights that are ahead of the times but is difficult to be understood and respected by others. Although she has lofty ambitions, she does not have noble sentiments and a spirit of sacrifice (I think her motivation comes from her feelings for abstract China and from wanting to change the Qin world more closely to the state she was familiar with in her previous life). She is not satisfied with the feudal system and hierarchy but is a relative beneficiary of it, so she sometimes appears to be hypocritical and cold, hypocritical and double-standard, arrogant and selfish. (6) Regarding the black point about Yang Qi plotting against Luo Chun for Kaihai and then tricking Xiaoquan: Xiaoquan still had a certain choice in whether to kill Luo Chun or not. The plan proposed by Yang Qi is definitely risky for Xiao Quan. She will not give up the plan because of the certain risks to Xiao Quan, but she is not forcing Xiao Quan to take this risk. In this matter, the respective driving forces of Xiaoquan's wishes and Yang Qi's calculations are probably half-way apart. 2. Mistress and Hanqin The pairing of Xiao San and Han Qin has not been commented on much, but I always liked Han Qin when I watched "Daughter", so I wrote about it. Similar to Yang Qi and Huiniang, Hanqin's love needs are not that deep. "Legendary Daughter" also exposed many times the differences between him and his mistress, including their quarrel over "conscience": the mistress is more cruel, Hanqin is more cruel; the mistress can be stable as long as Hanqin is competitive, restrained, and goal-oriented. But they also have different likes and dislikes. Xiaoquan and Huiniang are two people who convince each other. As the author said, the relationship between Xiaosan and Hanqin is bridged by a kind of emotion mixed with many things. The process was not as intense as Huiniang's, but correspondingly, Xiaosan and Hanqin failed to influence each other's personalities like Xiaoquan. In fact, the relationship between the two of them is not quite like love, it is mixed with family affection, warmth, etc., So from the spiritual world, these two people are not as perfect as Xiaoquan's couple. It can be said that Huiniang or Xiaoquan are willing to give up something for each other, because they are really influenced by each other mentally, and their hearts and actions are in harmony; but Hanqin's willingness to give up for mistress is more based on the attachment and maintenance of the warmth of the small family. Compared with Hanqin, Huiniang, and Xiaoquan, Xiaosan's personality is not that strong, and Hanqin is good at bridging conflicts, so Xiaosan is not so serious about the spiritual differences between the two, and only aims at the stability and warmth of the small family. After all, the mistress had a lot of conflicts with her natal family when she got married, and Hanqin had an embarrassing life experience and supported the family alone. The two of them were relatively lonely from the time they fell in love to the time of marriage. Compared with love, this kind of warm relationship seems to be what the two want more, or in other words, having this is enough. It is precisely because of Xiaosan's kindness, boldness and intelligence that Hanqin likes her; but Hanqin also paid a career price for Xiaosan. If it weren't for the mistress in Luantaihui's plan, Hanqin might have benefited more and be closer to his career ideal. Later, when I watched "The Orphan", I felt that the most prosperous ones after "The Rich Family" were the Quan family and the Xu family, while the Gui family was still inferior as allies. This cannot be said to have nothing to do with Xiao San's personality and choices. And because Xiao San and Xiao Qi value their small family the most, their moral bottom line dropped relatively quickly in the second half of "The Rich Family" hahhh 3. Xiaoquan and Huiniang I think compared to the male and female protagonists of the first trilogy, Xiao Quan should have fewer black spots. Except for some pretentiousness and evasion when he is deeply involved in political quagmire and conspiracy environment, there are almost no black spots. Even though this is Xiaoquan's weakness and dark side, compared to other female and male protagonists, Xiaoquan's dark side does not harm others. Everyone criticizes him more because they have expectations for him based on Huiniang's needs, but these expectations are not what Xiao Quan, as a self, should or must bear. Or maybe it's because Xiaoquan's personality charm is not as attractive to readers as other so-and-so hhhh "The Rich" can take the route of emulating women and let the two of them treat each other like guests, and even let Huiniang use her small power to achieve her own goals without paying much attention. This is not an unhappy path for Huiniang, who does not have such a deep need for love, and may even lead to greater career success. But what you get by taking this path will not be true love that is sincere, equal, and soul-attracting. At most, you can only get the admiration and infatuation of men who are not as strong as her. And the men who can match Huiniang's ability level, such as Mr. Jiao Ge, Mr. Yang Ge, and the emperor in the novel, how do they treat their relatives and loved ones? Huiniang and people like them can become easier partners than Xiaoquan at first, but can they really get true love? It is difficult to find a husband who fully meets Huiniang's needs. Huiniang changed from a selfish person who was very afraid of death to a person who was willing to live and die with her lover. Love brought her a lot in the end, but the price was that she sacrificed part of her own interests, career and even her body (of course she was unintentional at first, but willing in the end). The benefit that Xiaoquan brings to Huiniang is not only true love. Xiaoquan's Wei and Jin style and pursuit of true self-interest brought some troubles to Huiniang's career at the beginning. But if Xiaoquan was not such a person, it would be difficult for him to truly tolerate Huiniang's true and strong self. Can you imagine Huiniang living happily and smoothly with a man who requires women to follow all kinds of etiquette? Whether Huiniang pursues the ideal of becoming the owner of a bank account, pursuing the support of the Jiao family, or even pursuing the ideal of governing the world, these ideals are different from the expectations of women in secular ethics at first, and later exceed the expectations and requirements of men in secular ethics. If her partner is not a small power who does not care about secular ethics, Huiniang may have a harder time gaining respect at the ideal level. "Those who steal the hook will kill those who steal the country as princes": Although they all pursue politics in the end, Huiniang gives people a more magnanimous feeling than Yang Qi when she plays with power. In terms of pure cruelty, Huiniang may be a little more cruel than Yang Qi. But because of Huiniang's identity, status, and experience, what she did was more reasonable to the people of Qin than Yang Qi. Because Huiniang had always received such family education, inherited such family expectations, organizational expectations, and even expectations from the superior emperor, when Huiniang used her talents, she did not have too many contradictions between herself and the outside world. She has always been relatively unified, and it is easier for people to feel that although she is ruthless and shameless, she is determined and has the style of a general. Huiniang's actions in politics and power may make people feel a little more likable than Yang Qi. 4. Finally, it can be said that the male and female protagonists in the tetralogy all chose less suitable partners, and they all had to pay the corresponding price. Xiaoxiang writes very realistically. When I first watched the second half of "The Rich Family", I also found the characters difficult to accept, but later I felt that what Xiaoxiang wrote was the things and choices that people with that kind of personality in that situation would make. Although the characters in the tetralogy are not likeable, if you put aside the judgment of good and bad and look at them personally, they still have their own charm. And the author's writing style in the exciting parts really feels like a classic!

I don't understand why some comments, obviously written by modern people, are condemning the heroine for being attracted to other men, or the hero for not being a virgin before marriage, and for "clearing mines" at every turn, with old thoughts as if they were just dug out of the grave. But people like Xiao Qi, San Niu, and Zhong Bai who are unwilling to deal with human lives at will (even if these human lives are much lower than them in social status) and retain a compassionate heart are scolded as "hypocritical, hypocritical, and disgusting"? When it comes to matters between men and women, some people have more rigid ideas than those of the Qing Dynasty. They would like to throw those who do not conform to the pig cage into a pig cage. They claim to be a pair for life, as if they are very modern and chaste, but they scorn the truly modern concepts of "all people are created equal" and "no one can arbitrarily deprive others of their lives." Too terrible

In his previous life, Yang Qi was an orphan and lived alone in society for more than 20 years. He had achieved little success and was very thoughtful. Huiniang had a grandfather who was the smartest and most capable person in the Qin Dynasty and had been her tutor for more than 10 years. He was also talented and intelligent himself. Comparing the two, they each have their own merits. Yang Qi's broad vision lies in the overall historical situation, which is of little use in a peaceful era, and it is still a semi-empty theory. In fact, her experience of working alone in her previous life is more valuable. In the 10 years before coming to Daqin, she was just seeking survival space in the inner house, which was far behind Huiniang. Yang Qi couldn't touch the housekeeper or the account books at her parents' house, so she was asked by Master Yang to read some letters. Master Yang didn't teach her anything. Hui Niang is completely different in her natal family. Being an heiress is not an easy job. What she learned was how to preserve the blood and wealth of the Jiao family after her grandfather passed away, how to make connections with her grandfather's connections outside the home, and how to make sure the shareholders were convinced by the counting house and let the major shopkeepers do their jobs. When they met for the first time, they both got married and had children. At this time, Yang Qi was living a relatively happy life, and began to pursue how to avoid the humiliation of the Chinese nation in modern history. I understand this idea very well. I will avoid that era when reading novels. It is too sad. In order to develop science and technology and enlighten the people's wisdom, Yang Qi has already begun to do so. The first time she approached Hui Niang was for Watt to invent the steam engine. Faced with Hui Niang's question: What are you doing with this if you don't lack money? Perhaps because he has followed the rules for too long, or because of the liberal and liberal atmosphere in Guangzhou, Yang Qi made an impassioned speech about "I have a dream" at an inappropriate time. Many readers silently sweated and thought it was too abrupt. Is it necessary to meet for the first time? Some people say that Yang Qi is off the line, while others say that the author did not write well. If these two possibilities are excluded, it means that Yang Qi and Hui Niang cherish each other. They are both smart and capable women in Da Qin. They both knew each other well before meeting. Yang Qi really hopes that a female of her kind will do something with her, that is, to drag Hui Niang into trouble. Because in Yang Qi's opinion, Hui Niang is capable. The old aristocrat of the Quan family, Mr. Jiao, has been the chief minister of the Guogong Mansion for decades, and has also competed with the emperor face to face. What a good alliance, it must be developed! Hui Niang didn't know about future generations, and she didn't understand Yang Qi's ideals, but Yang Qi was polite and considerate, and took the initiative to meet her younger sister-in-law, who was older than her. She called her sister-in-law sincerely, and her career in Guangzhou also proved her ability. She still liked her, because if she was the only noble lady in the country, staying at home would be stressful, and it would be great to have an outstanding ally to share the burden. Unfortunately, their development later was not smooth, and family interests were involved. Hui Niang did not hesitate to use Yang Qi's ideal as a weight (taking the steam engine manual to ask Yang Qi to follow the path of Feng Jin). From then on, Yang Qi disliked Hui Niang. (She did not know that Hui Niang was held hostage by Luantai Hui.) Yang Qi felt that Hui Niang was extremely rich and had outstanding means, but she was so short-sighted. I sincerely wanted you to be my ally, but you used this to tease me! ! No one saw Yang Qi's frustration at that time! Otherwise, how would it be possible for Yang Qi's city to say the words "I pity you so much"? It is the result of frustration and anger. The development alliance failed and was sold! ! Hui Niang was even more furious when she heard those pitiful words. She, Jiao Qinghui, was talented and beautiful. She had been praised since she was a child, and she was the most eye-catching sight in the aristocratic social circle. The Luantai Club was so close to her neck that she couldn't care less about the illusory ideals Yang Qi mentioned. It was not a conversation at all. Later, Hui Niang's evaluation of Yang Qi was also ruthless, forcing Yang Liu Niang to come out to fight in the palace, not avenging Yang Wu Niang, and letting the enemy go free. Anyone who has seen a concubine knows how to avenge the fifth lady. Yang Qi did something worthy of sisterly love, and the second lady and the sixth lady were also present when she administered the medicine. Yang Liuniang took the third prince out to fight in the palace. The author did not explain the reason, and I don't know either. But I didn't say it was Yang Qi who did it! ! Later, when several other major families controlled the throne, it was Yang Qi who tried his best to save the Sixth Lady and the Third Prince. Readers, please do not dislike Yang Qi just because of the perspective of the protagonist in this book. Because the author did not originally want to create a flawless character. Everyone has difficulties of one kind or another, and they weigh and do things that go against their original wishes. But the characters created by the author all have bottom lines and principles, right? Yang Qi will not kill his relatives in front of him just for the outcome a hundred years later! ! If the author really writes like this, he is writing about Buddhism...

Once again, I finished watching it again. I really like Jiao Qinghui and Quan Zhongbai. Their characters are really too three-dimensional. In fact, it's not just them. Although I dislike Yang Qi very much, the three of them are really too dazzling and three-dimensional. Basically, everyone loves them to death. None of them are perfect. Basically, they have many charms and obvious shortcomings. I really love Jiao Qinghui and Quan Zhongbai to death, and I really annoy Yang Qi to death. In my nearly ten years of reading novels, if I want to say who I love more than them, it is only Jeanne and Cesare. But to say that I hate anyone more than Yang Qi, there is no one. In fact, I have read many novels that I particularly like, both good and bad. Of course they are not the only ones, but they are so full, so full that I can't help but believe that these people really exist in the parallel world. To this day, I still regard Jenny as my idol in parallel time and space, much more than I like my idol in reality. Of course, there are many more disgusting people than Yang Qi who appear in the novel, but when I look back, I can't remember any of them. The reason is that they are too superficial after all. Yang Qi, in terms of viciousness, is actually on par with Huiniang. Why do I hate her so much but like Huiniang so much? Maybe it's her attitude, I really love Huiniang's magnanimity. Yang Qi, it's a bit unpleasant to do evil things but to hide in hypocrisy and find the loudest and brightest excuse for yourself. Not to mention that she still carries the sense of superiority of a time-traveling woman. When I watched it back then, I deeply hated her for pushing her lifesaver, Quan Zhongbai, to go out and die. Now, watching it, I can actually see it more clearly than before: after all, she did not deliberately plot to force Quan Zhongbai, but she was just unwilling to give up what she wanted to do for Quan Zhongbai's life. But I feel extremely resentful that when she didn't know whether Quan Zhongbai was alive or dead, not only did she not show any emotion or apology that her savior might have been killed, but she shamelessly compared her general husband's expedition to having a doctor go deep into the enemy camp to carry out an assassination. Is this the same nature? These three famous sayings of Yang Qi made me remember her for several years: "You are so pitiful" and "You will never understand." But I have to admit that making people remember it so deeply, whether it is love or hate, proves the success of character creation. As the author said, she just wanted to write these characters completely and did not ask everyone to love them. Speaking of which, among the three women, Yang Qi's love is the most ideal. Her male protagonist is almost the closest to the traditional romance male protagonist in Xiang Da novels, but maybe because of this, he has completely become the background of his female protagonist. His appearance in the general trend of the world has only two functions: 1. To have the ability to improve Yang Qi's social status and give her the capital to do what she wants to do; 2. To love Yang Qi, respect Yang Qi, and do her duty as a romance male protagonist. As for him, he has become a vague shadow. Apart from Yang Qi, which reader cares about him? No personality at all. At least Gui Hanqin has been understood and remembered by readers, Xu Fengjia? Just one impression: Yang Qi's noble husband is, alas, perfect and flat. He is willing to lose himself for Yang Qi, and "Yang Qi says" everything. Don't blame yourself for being such a great first male lead but having no role in the final scene where everyone gathers. Speaking of which, as a fan of Yang Qi, I hate her deeply. I found that most of my comments are related to Yang Qi, hahaha.

Definitely not a Mary Suven in the traditional sense (although the identity setting of the male and female protagonists is really full of aura)! ! ! The reason why human beings are three-dimensional is that they are extremely complex. I read it from the first book of this series. The second book is not my cup of tea, but Gui Hanqin has lost many of the facial makeup problems that Xu Jiafeng has (but I really like the emotional development of the first book, so what if it's bloody, it's so delicious, hahahahaha). Both the male and female protagonists in this book have more advantages and disadvantages, making people love and hate them at the same time. But it is precisely because of this that it is even more memorable, and this game of emotion and avenue is also very touching~

I especially want to see the extra story about Feng Jin and the Emperor!

Every time I see Xiaoxiang say, I take out the long review from time to time to review and read it. I also want to say that Haomen really reread it three or four times. Every once in a while, I miss Quan Zhongbai and Hui Niang, so I take it out and read it again. Every time I read it, I have new insights: From the creation of more three-dimensional and rich characters (at first I had a general impression of Qiniang as a virtuous concubine in the book, but I can now calmly understand it when I rewatch it), to the confusion and pursuit of love between the two protagonists from the present generation, to the latest discussion with friends and the discovery that Huiniang was raised as a man and did not experience the domestication of women by society during her upbringing, so she never fell into the "female situation" when encountering problems. I have gained some insights from the perspective of the second sex. I am really grateful to Xiaoxiang for creating these characters and stories. In my heart, Quan Er and Hui Niang seem to have really existed in another two-dimensional world. In particular, Quan Zhongbai is really my ideal top type among two-dimensional men. I will think about it again from time to time in the future. I am grateful for meeting Xiaoxiang and grateful for meeting a wealthy family for this article!

Everyone says that Hong Kong University is not good at emotional dramas, and I feel that the emotional dramas in this novel and Zhiba are not well portrayed. However, I really like the emotional dramas in these two novels, but the emotional dramas in ordinary romance novels are quite average. Hahaha, I guess it's fate. Once it suits my taste, everything is good. I bid farewell to Qinghui and Quan Zhongbai for the time being. Anyway, this is definitely not the last time I will review it. I will definitely come back. It's a pity that there is no role for Jia Niang. What will the little girl look like? I really want to know.

Hey, Xiangda is ahead of the times. Heroines have become very popular in recent years. Unfortunately, the writing is not subjective enough. Reading this book, it is hard to imagine that it was written more than ten years ago when house fighting first started. The layout is really big. Although there are imperfections, the flaws cannot be concealed. If it was serialized recently, maybe the comment style would be different, right? (Although the environment for strong women is average now), it's difficult to find people to discuss it. The comments were all made many years ago, but I really feel that it is still a great article after reading it more than ten years later! Will continue to read other articles!

After reading the whole book, it's really good. As an early work of the author, it is true that in the Daqin tetralogy, from a concubine to a wealthy family, the author's writing style is getting better and better, the quality of the novel is gradually improving, and the character description is getting more and more in-depth. Although there are some slight omissions in the structure of some stories, the descriptions of some fragments of family and love are very moving and penetrating, and even give you goosebumps when you read it.