The Charms of a Consort, Volume One: Plum Blossoms Fall on Chu Yi

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Recommended: The Beauty of the Consort, Part One: Plum Blossoms Falling on Chu Attire (complete);

Recommended: The Beauty of the Consort, Part Two: Spring Runs Deep at Tongque Terrace (complete);

Recommended: The Beauty of the Consort, Part Three: The Emperor's Son in His Majesty (currently updating);

Now nice and plump, ready to be devoured: Hearing You Are Unwell (over one million characters updated);

You can find them all in author Monanzi's collection...

[Blurb 1]:

A Crown Princess has three treasures: gentleness, charm, and beauty.

The Crown Prince has three flaws: a fierce temper, jealousy, and pettiness.

In this life, he pursues his wife, and everyone calls him a doting husband gone mad.

But his wife is so alluring that countless admirers swarm around her.

Watch the Crown Prince take on one male god after another, win his place, and finally reach the bridal chamber.

He really used up every bit of his intelligence for the rest of his life.

[Blurb 2]

An old nun in a dilapidated convent halfway up Mount Tangyu in Daxing read Feiyan's fortune and said, "She is destined to be empress, worthy of an emperor."

A week after Feiyan was born, a wandering Taoist arrived at the door and recited a verse based on her birth characters: "She will be mother to the realm, but cursed with romantic entanglements."

Born into the Chancellor's household, she lost her mother soon after birth. Though she was the legitimate daughter, her father's concubine took her mother's place, and Feiyan was treated worse than the concubine's children.

Her fate took strange turns, and her destiny changed again and again. She married three times and divorced three times.

Each time she married, her husband was soon gone: dead or injured, or vanished under mysterious circumstances.

Had the wandering Taoist and the old nun in the mountains truly seen through the secrets of heaven?

[Character Highlights from Part One, Plum Blossoms Falling on Chu Attire]:

[Second Male Lead Gao Miao]:

A capable fighter with well-rounded strengths, skilled at divination and prediction, a classic low-fantasy martial artist.

In war, deception is the way. Li, Dui, Xun; metal, wood, water, and fire.

Find the dragon, divide the gold, and study the mountain's winding ridges. Each layer of ridges is another pass.

He knows the traditional ways of divination inside and out. An exceptionally versatile talent, both literary and martial.

A little Zhuge Liang-like, good at just about everything.

An ethereal, otherworldly aura of the Dao.

[Male Lead, the Crown Prince]:

Named Huang Yan, he pursues his wife across lifetimes.

In his previous life, he rose from a young scholar to a powerful figure in officialdom, transforming from a man of some principles into a schemer.

After causing so much trouble, he has to pursue his wife in his next life, and the road is far from easy.

His rivals are formidable, and the Crown Prince is exhausted fighting to win back his former wife.

The heroine is at times within reach, then suddenly far away again.

He cannot easily atone for the sins of his previous life.

His former wife died tragically because of his negligence.

He is consumed with guilt and heartache.

He is willing to endure any hardship and let her have her way.

All he wants is for her to change her mind and give their love another chance.

(The previous-life story appears in the prequel to The Beauty of the Consort series, His Robe Is Worn, Yet I Wait for You Again.)

[Female Lead, Man Feiyan]:

The legitimate daughter of Chancellor Man.

She has a meek nature. Put her in a crowd and the people around her will use psychological manipulation to put her down.

She is always being manipulated and attacked.

Is she the perfect embodiment of "the highest good is like water, which benefits all things and contends with none"?

So sweet she could melt the heavens! A traditionally gentle woman.

Like Fu Wenpei from Romance in the Rain, surrounded by people who are all commanders~

Her fate is not simply "a life of hardship and wandering," but "a life not her own."

She cannot control her own destiny. People of every sort keep appearing around her to decide her path and push her fate in one direction or another.

The powerful people around her are all stronger than she is, so she suppresses herself.

The story twists and turns, and you never know where this great ship is headed~

Introverted, prone to tears, and soft as a boneless creature.

Soft and clingy, sharing tender, poignant, and tangled interactions with the male lead~

Compared with the male leads, she is not very proactive.

[Reading Guide]:

1. A fortune-telling master read a girl's birth chart and gave her the eight-character verse, "She will be mother to the realm, but cursed with romantic entanglements." Every word later came true.

2. This story is told more like a biography of the female lead. It is not just a romance; love is only one part of her life.

3. It focuses on the heroine's turbulent background and ill-starred fate. She meets many men over the course of her life, each with some connection to her. The emphasis is on the extraordinary twists of her life, not on a one-to-one romance. Romance makes up 40 percent of the story. Nor is this a strong-female-lead story: the heroine is gentle and cannot control her own fate.

4. Crown Prince Huang Yan and the heroine, Man Feiyan, are both reborn. All the other male characters belong to this life and are not reborn.

5. The story takes place in the fictional state of Bai Bi. The capital is modeled in part on ancient Chang'an, with 108 wards, eastern and western markets, a bell and drum tower, Daming Palace, and the imperial and royal cities.

6. Prices are close to those in the Song-era Water Margin: a kitchen knife costs nine coins, and a pound of pork costs fifteen, roughly equivalent to nine and fifteen yuan. Readers can make their own mental conversions~ If you spot any historical research errors, please leave a comment. Corrections are welcome, and the author will be grateful~ After all, the author isn't all-knowing~

7. The overall outline of this book is now complete. The author's current work is checking for omissions, making additions and revisions, and polishing the text. The broad direction of the plot will not change significantly, and major structural revisions are unlikely. The goal now is simply to make it more rounded and complete.

8. The author admits every story has minor flaws. I can only promise to correct any problems I discover as promptly as possible. Readers are very welcome to offer suggestions in the comments. I hope to hear your thoughts so we can discuss them together.

[Note]:

The first installment in the historical heroine series The Beauty of the Consort is Part One: Plum Blossoms Falling on Chu Attire.

It is complete at 200,000 characters.

You can find it in my collection. Special thanks to the longtime readers who waited so patiently and supported me.

I never gave up on this book. I kept revising it, and I couldn't sleep well until it felt complete.

I opened several documents every day to read and revise them over and over.

I never once gave up, and I'm especially grateful to all of you for your support and for sticking with it.

--------[Recommended Stories]--------

[Recommendation 1]:

A farming, business, strong female lead, and gourmet story about all-round excellence: The First-Rank Fragrance Appraiser

The heroine, Lin Yuechan, was born in the mountains of Sichuan and is a farm girl who makes delicious, authentic Sichuan cuisine.

After becoming Granny Sun's apprentice, she falls head over heels into the world of flowers, plants, and furs.

As it happens, the male lead, Xue Tan Jun, is a famous and wealthy fragrance merchant in Chengdu Prefecture, with close ties to the government.

The two form an unbreakable bond over flowers and plants, and a twist of fate eventually makes them husband and wife.

But one is a poor farm girl and the other a handsome young master from a wealthy family. In the end, they cannot truly unite their hearts.

Lin Yuechan never imagined that the marriage other people envied would not even last a year before she divorced the young master...

From then on, she sets out on a life of success, while Li, a fellow Sichuan native, stays by her side, protecting, cherishing, and supporting her.

Her ex-husband, Young Master Xue, who wasn't there for her at her lowest but wants her now that she's thriving, is left in an awkward position. After all, his former wife left in such a hurry that their marriage document may not even have been formally annulled at the Chengdu Prefecture court.

In Young Master Xue's eyes, his former wife Lin Yuechan is putting horns on him every day. Damn it! How can he possibly put up with this?...

[Theme]:

The heroine is strong, optimistic, brave, and confident. She works hard, always presses forward, and never backs down from a challenge.

She is a living example of positive energy, an unshakable banner forged through hardship.

With perseverance and virtue, she builds a career of her own.

This is a classic story of an ancient female entrepreneur starting from nothing, building a fortune, and helping her fellow villagers, the farmers, prosper.

[Encouragement]:

Independent innovation, self-reliance, and invention.

Build advanced and civilized organizations, and establish exemplary enterprises for society.

[Recommendation 2]

The prequel to The Beauty of the Consort series, His Robe Is Worn, Yet I Wait for You Again:

The male lead is Chai Zhexi, and the female lead is Ye Zhijun.

It tells the story of the Crown Prince, Huang Yan, the male lead of The Beauty of the Consort series,

and his childhood sweetheart, Man Feiyan, in their previous life: from falling in love and marrying to his rise to success,

and the mysterious death of the female lead~

Their past-life entanglement leads to the later story of The Beauty of the Consort,

where the Crown Prince and Feiyan are reborn and continue their love in the next life~~

I'm working hard to build up a backlog. Readers, please feel free to add it to your collection.

[Recommendation 3]:

A sweeping palace war and an epic romance, Hearing You Are Unwell:

This is a story of love and conflict between royal cousins, set against a grand backdrop.

The heroine, Chen A'ruan, is the daughter of Right Chancellor Chen and the granddaughter of Duke Dingguo. She was born into the prestigious Duke Dingguo's household.

She falls in love with her cousin Li Hongjun, who rules as emperor from the palace.

But while the late emperor was on the throne, the powerful Prince Huai'an dominated the court and controlled the Shuofang army.

To safeguard his dynasty, the late emperor betrothed his sixth son Li Hongjun's childhood sweetheart and beloved cousin, Chen A'ruan, to Zheng Xianfeng, the second son of Prince Huai'an.

Chen A'ruan was only thirteen when she married. As soon as the ceremony was over, Second Young Master Zheng set off for war.

She stayed with the Zheng family for less than three days before running home. The marriage was practically over before it began.

Later, as power and love became intertwined, Second Young Master Zheng and the emperor launched a fierce contest for their respective honor and love.

In this unavoidable clash between dragons and tigers, A'ruan's innocent, lively heart was tugged in every direction until it gradually lost its vitality.

Power struggles shook the realm. One man wanted to rebel and become emperor, while the other was desperate to expand his territory and secure his rule.

And so, amid irreconcilable conflicts, a war that would last eight years and engulf half the country slowly gathered strength before finally erupting...

Love and law, reason and righteousness, love and wrong,

like the wordless stele at Qianling, are matters for future generations to judge as they please.

[Note]:

The first six installments have a combined total of over one million characters.

A lavish feast, now nice and plump, ready to be devoured...

The seventh installment, With All the Strength of the Eastern Lord, is coming soon.

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Theme: The Crown Prince Yuanling is virtuous and distinguished, and holds the highest place at court!