Pearls of Chinese Opera

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Su Zhenzhu's fate in ancient times was tragic. She gave up a fortune and cut ties with her parents just to marry the impoverished scholar Wang Qingling. But her husband loved someone else and divorced her, and in despair, she drowned herself in a river.

A Zhenzhu from the future transmigrates into her body. A lover of opera who was born in a laboratory, she works hard to change the original owner's fate. She rolls up her sleeves and writes plays to make money, only to discover that those bastards are already dead! She works hard to repair her relationships with her in-laws and husband, only to find that some people are just ungrateful!

So Zhenzhu decides to live for herself. If someone doesn't love me, they can get lost. If someone hurts me, I'll curse them to death in my lyrics. I'll get back the fortune I once threw away for "true love," and even an opera-obsessed bookworm can find happiness of her own in ancient times...

[Please bookmark the upcoming novel "The True Heiress Is Beguilingly Beautiful"]

Mingxiu of the Hehuan Sect has diligently cultivated for years, but lacks the one thing she needs: a bewitching bone. Her path to the Great Dao remains incomplete when she dies, and she transmigrates into the real daughter in a book whose identity was switched at birth.

The fake daughter, Su Yu, is beautiful and poised, doted on by everyone. The real daughter, Su Mingxiu, is timid and weak, and nobody likes her. Su Mingxiu thinks her father and brothers will stand up for her, but the whole family chooses to bury the truth. Heartbroken, she throws herself into a lake.

After transmigrating, Mingxiu is delighted to discover that this wronged real heiress was born with a bewitching bone.

Fighting over household power is no match for cultivating immortality. So what if Su Yu is reborn? So what if she constantly tries to steal the limelight and everyone's affection? Mingxiu calmly opens "Eight Practical Methods of Bewitchment" and begins practicing flexibility and breathing techniques.

At the first stage of the Bewitchment Arts, "Purple Qi Comes from the East," Zhu Yunpu, the legitimate son of the Prince's household, falls in love with Mingxiu at first sight, while the scheming Su Yu is driven mad with jealousy.

At the second stage, "The Loom and Its Harmonious Rhythm," Father Su has the concubine who switched the babies beaten to death. He ignores Su Yu's tears and enters Mingxiu in the family register.

At the third stage, "Three Variations on Plum Blossoms," Mingxiu rejects countless suitors, but accepts a single hairpin flower from Wei Xunting, the top-ranked candidate in the palace examination, who has finally worked up the courage to offer it. Su Yu gets involved with Zhu Yunchu, the illegitimate son of the Prince's household.

At the fourth stage, "Heaven and Earth in Harmony," Mingxiu marries quietly and follows Magistrate Wei to his new post in Qingzhou. Su Yu smugly marries into the Prince's household.

When Mingxiu perfects the Bewitchment Arts, her family benefits too. Wei Xunting rises rapidly through the ranks, becoming the youngest chancellor of the Great Jin Dynasty, and loves only Mingxiu for the rest of his life. Zhu Yunchu, meanwhile, achieves nothing, lives separately from his family, and takes countless concubines.

At Father Su's sixtieth birthday banquet, the entire family gathers around the loving, harmonious couple, the Chancellor and his wife. Only Su Yu is unconvinced. "Why? What makes her deserve it?"

Mingxiu smiles, a hundred beauties in one: "A pheasant could never become a phoenix..."

Theme: Finding freedom, courage, respect, and love in a transmigration story.