My new fantasy novel, The Red Thread Became a Spirit (formerly A Thousand Knots of Love), is now updating. Please do me the honor of checking it out. The red thread in the Matchmaker's hands has gained a spirit! It bets against Heaven, runs rampant through the mortal world, and travels between the three realms to break up arranged couples! A Thousand Knots of Love
My new danmei novel is open for preorders: Lightly Pluck, Slowly Strum (entertainment industry), featuring personified traditional Chinese instruments and pairings across the entire cast.
I, Huo Zheng, lived through a whole lifetime and witnessed all sorts of bizarre, utterly shameless things:
The wife I thought I'd marry without a hitch became the vermilion mark in my heart.
My sworn younger sister, whom I thought had a crush on the prince, actually wanted to [beep] me.
My seemingly cold and heartless cousin's husband turned out to truly love the former fiance of my vermilion mark.
I thought my son was honest and dull, but in secret he teamed up with my vermilion mark's son to try to kill me. Still, I'm quite comforted. At least in every chapter, I'm eating in every possible style! Fried, stir-fried, deep-fried, boiled, sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy. There's nothing you can think of that I can't eat!
Reader's guide:
1. This story is set in a fictional world, but its structure is largely modeled on the Tang Dynasty. The spoken forms of address, clothing, customs, and official positions are mostly based on Tang Dynasty sources I've researched. Please point out any errors. However, some things, such as poetry, objects, and food, are borrowed from later dynasties. This is especially true of food, since the stir-frying most common in Chinese cuisine today only appeared after the Song Dynasty. Without borrowing from later periods, there wouldn't be much good to eat.
2. This story uses a large-scale reverse chronology. The flashbacks unfold in order, but occasionally the narrative jumps back to the present. To make things easier to follow, flashback sections are marked with "=====", while regular scene transitions are marked with ", ". Please keep an eye out!
3. I generally update daily, and each chapter is substantial. I'll let you know when I can't update.
Theme:
I have been very busy recently and have no time to read the updates. When I looked at it, the queen was in trouble... In her life, the queen's love for the Supreme began with a peony, with the romance and beauty of a girl. Unfortunately, there was indeed countless torture and pain behind the wishful love, and she eventually fell into despair. Ah Qing's choice to die can be regarded as a kind of closure and relief...
Han Jin took it easy. In the end, he realized his dream when he was a high-spirited young man and became a loyal minister. It is unclear who is right and who is wrong between him and the Supreme. If there is an afterlife, if the encounter is not so unpleasant and they do the right thing at the right time, can the two of them have another ending? (However, I still feel sorry for Han Jin's wife and daughter)
Let's talk about Xiao Huo's uncle After reading today's update, the author said that the uncle forced the emperor to establish a heir before his death, drawing on the story of Qin Hui, in order to deepen the image of the uncle as a patriarch who is overbearing for the sake of the family. I personally feel that after reading it, I really hate my uncle even more. Although I understand that he is doing it for the sake of his family, and as a patriarch there is nothing he can do about it, I personally don't like this kind of person who works so hard for family power. Even if others don't want to fight with him or persecute him, as long as he thinks it is right, he will decide it is right and he will be hostile and malicious towards others in order to protect his own interests. As long as he thinks it is right, he must let others do it. When the queen was serving him porridge in front of his father's hospital bed, Lingbo said, "The queen is pure and filial, and she is really a model for the harem." I personally think that Lingbo was sincerely praising the queen. Even if he didn't really mean it, it was just superficial, and at least he didn't mean to ridicule the queen. But my uncle only heard her say this and discovered her existence. After he established the crown prince, he began to force the emperor to establish his eldest son as a crown prince, and threatened him in disguise by saying that he could not rest in peace. This was not only offside, but I don't think that he could get the emperor to agree. On the contrary, it would make the emperor hate the Cui Lu family even more, and the empress and eldest son would be even less welcome, which would have the opposite effect. Uncle, he just wanted to fight hard before he died, but did he really consider other people? If he could successfully persuade the emperor to make his eldest son the heir apparent, and the queen would have someone to rely on, and the Cui and Lu families would have someone to rely on, it would be fine. But the situation is that he can't, and there is no chance anyway, then what's the point of doing this? Apart from making the emperor even more disgusted with the Cui Lu family and wanting to attack the power of these two families, and making the emperor even more unfavorable to see the queen and his eldest son, it had no more effect. Regardless of his status as the head of the family, his uncle was still the queen's father and the prince's grandfather. Did he consider their situation when he did this? At least I don't think he does, or even if he does, it can't compete with his concern for the family. I think the aunt's complaint in this chapter is correct, "The Cui family is extremely noble, and the Lu family is also a famous family. When choosing a son-in-law, it only needs that he does not treat Ah Qing badly, and there is no need to be noble." "Since Ah Qing married into the Tian family, Ah Qing has been wronged often, and all of us are worried about it every day!" If it were not for power, it would not be the grievance that the queen had. The Cui and Lu families aroused the emperor's dissatisfaction. Prosperous because of power, but also oppressed because of power, I want to say, why bother.
Although I picked jasmine with my concubine, I feel like a scumbag, TAT
After reading one sentence, your circle is really chaotic😂
Does the Supreme think it is worth sacrificing a disabled child to attack two aristocratic families?
I am a woman, I don't understand men, and I can't love only one person in my life. There is part of Pingting's shadow in my life, and part of Huo Zheng's persistence. From this article, I have a lot of reflections. I thought it was a food article, and I felt confused after reading it. I thought I would happily read an online article that tasted like fast food, escape reality for a few hours, and be mentally refreshed by the author's imagination like other online articles. Now I suddenly want to be a passable version of myself. What the author passed on to me is probably a new perspective. Huo Zheng's family, love, and friendship, our family, love, and friendship
Thank you for the limited exemption. The ending is regrettable, but it is also the best ending for Xiao Huo.
Oh my god, it's been a while since I finished this article. It's really well written. I like Xiao Huo.
Nausea. Personal thoughts.