Name: The Spring Sparrow of the Capital
Author: River Mist Riding the Wind

Synopsis

Spoiled little vixen x aloof, chaste gentleman

Jiang Lian and Lu Hengqing attend the same academy and can't stand each other.

Jiang Lian hates how Lu Hengqing plays the righteous gentleman at the academy, enforcing the rules and constantly writing her name down for breaking them. He's a goody-goody who obeys his teachers and parents in everything, so she goes out of her way to bully him.

Lu Hengqing, meanwhile, knows she's from a humble background and has none of the grace expected of a refined young lady. To someone like him, born into an illustrious family, the difference between them is like heaven and earth. So he ignores her and brushes aside each of her little tricks.

After all, they could never be on the same path.

But one day, a mix-up in a marriage match leaves them with no choice but to wed.

After the wedding, Lu Hengqing naturally plans to divorce her. He could never spend his life with someone like Jiang Lian.

Especially when she spends her days frequenting opera houses and gambling dens, showing not the slightest restraint.

Especially when he learns she has a spring malady, the kind courtesans get, that makes her irresistible to men. That makes him even more determined to divorce her at once.

Most of all, when he sees what she's like during a fit, coquettishly begging him for a hug over and over, utterly wanton...

He must, must divorce her...

Jiang Lian knows exactly what Lu Hengqing is thinking.

So she can't be bothered with him either. He looks down on her, and sooner or later he'll get around to divorcing her. She'll just spend her days eating, playing, and having fun, then make a clean break with that goody-goody.

But one day, two days... Who knows how many days have passed?

She gradually starts to feel that something is off.

Her symptoms have eased considerably. She doesn't even need medicine to suppress them, and she feels much more refreshed.

And her lips keep feeling swollen and numb.

Also, why haven't they gotten divorced yet?

Content warnings:

1. The author isn't very well-read. This is an alternate-history setting with lots of original worldbuilding, so please don't read if that bothers you.

2. The heroine isn't truly kind and virtuous.

3. Both leads are virgins.

Theme: Sincere love in return for sincere love

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I was so suffocated watching it. I didn't like the heroine's character, and I wanted to see how the two of them would develop. This heroine's character is simply terrible. She doesn't communicate properly with everyone, she outputs herself like a barrage, and she lives in a miserable state. She is simply a model of stress and psychological trauma. Can't this heroine have some growth? After watching her for so long, she is still so unstable at the core. Can't she write that she establishes a normal interpersonal connection with someone? She can't keep hanging out like this. To be honest, when writing such an unlikable character with psychological trauma, you can't let the character keep talking about his suffering, or talk about it too early. She kept saying that, and it reminded me of Ding Xie in the great era. He was also a person who kept saying that he was very miserable, and then caused a lot of trouble to the people around him and was very self-centered. The appeal of unlikable characters lies in their sense of contrast. Beauty, strength and misery, putting misery at the end is the normal order of the narrative. At any rate, it's better to create the charm of the character first and then create the character. You didn't create the charm of the heroine well at all. Until now, apart from her beauty and her miserable and unstable core, this heroine has been empty. There are many plots that could obviously allow the heroine to be less talkative and have more psychological descriptions and detailed descriptions of fleshed-out characters, but there is none, just talkative talk. It gave me the feeling that the heroine was narcissistic, self-centered and stupid, and that she didn't show any self-reliance and self-esteem she should have. He was so angry that he couldn't argue!
2 likes2y ago
So annoying! When will they be able to do something special!
2 likes2y ago
Until now, the male protagonist has not said that he loves the female protagonist, and I am convinced.
1 like2y ago
Alas, it would be nice if the author's writing style could be better.
1 like2y ago
This is a torture novel, right? The heroine is being tortured all the time, and there are good things about one man and two men.
1 like2y ago
Don't finish it so quickly. Write more extras.
1 like2y ago
Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, king
1 like2y ago
Still using your hands? It's not okay to pass it on to the male protagonist (
1 like2y ago
Wuwuwuwu, when can we see the male protagonist completely degraded?
1 like2y ago
Wuwuwuwu, when can we see the male protagonist completely degraded?
1 like2y ago

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