This is a work I published in the April issue under the pseudonym Southern Cross. Although it ranked first among the short stories in the current issue in the voting, I really wanted to know readers' reactions and decided to put it online.
I hesitated for a moment in classifying it. It is really a pseudo-fantasy and a pseudo-romance, but I am afraid that most of the readers of fantasy are men, and I am afraid that men may not like this article, so I still put it in the romance category.
Because it is a short story, I don't have much to say in the introduction. I just ask readers to be patient until the end.
The story of the first-generation Queen Olvera has been compiled into countless poems and legends and spread throughout the Bamiyan continent. Especially the story about her first lover Rick has always been vigorously exaggerated by literati and writers who are full of romantic imagination. There are also such voices among them, is Olvera a cold and heartless woman?
"For a long time, people have believed that love and family can satisfy all the needs of women. Everything they do has to be interpreted within this scope. Otherwise, it is transgression and treason. Women have been labeled as weak. Their various brave behaviors, including those who bravely took up arms and went to the battlefield, It is nothing more than protecting children and avenging fathers, brothers or husbands. The heroines we sing in legends are all like this. Her Majesty, the great queen, makes us understand more clearly: as a woman, we should have more choices and the courage to make choices.
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Reader comments
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! (?˙▽˙?)
I accidentally saw this article many years ago, and I still like it very much. After reading the comments, twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye. I hope the author is well.
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! (?˙▽˙?)
I accidentally saw this article many years ago, and I still like it very much. After reading the comments, twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye. I hope the author is well.