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[Blurb]
Yuzhou is a remote little city, surrounded by beautiful mountains and clear waters, where the people are simple and kind. After her master passed away, Song Zhou bought a small house and planned to open a clinic and settle down there.
At first, she didn't think much of the things that kept mysteriously disappearing from her bedroom. She assumed a thief had broken in and figured she just needed to be more careful.
But why would a thief steal only women's things? Song Zhou was growing worried.
Then one day, she began to smell a faint trace of blood...
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The Crown Prince Ji Jingci is as handsome and refined as a jade carving, and was once the dream man of countless young noblewomen in the capital. But after a string of accidents left him unable to walk, the darling of heaven fell from the clouds in an instant. As political intrigue swirled, he decided to retreat for the time being and move out of the Eastern Palace, only to discover that the Western Garden concealed even more secrets...
On the first day, a horn comb appeared in his bedroom.
The Crown Prince: "Hah. Women."
On the second day, a bunch of wildflowers appeared.
The Crown Prince: "She's getting bold, isn't she?"
On the third day, the fourth day...
When handkerchiefs, undergarments, and even menstrual pads kept mysteriously appearing on his bed, the Crown Prince could take it no longer and had the entire residence searched.
The undercover agent: "..." This is so unfair.
Blurb for "The First Wife Died in the Tenth Year of Yongle":
At eighteen, Chen Wan married Yang Jing, a poor scholar from the neighboring village. She sold her dowry to pay for his studies and exams, and he did her proud, placing first in all three imperial examinations and rising steadily to success.
Everyone envied Chen Wan for having the foresight to marry such a good husband, and she thought so too, until her husband said he wanted to take her sweet, frail young cousin as a secondary wife, then shamelessly promised he would still treat Chen Wan well for the rest of her life.
Her mother-in-law urged her to let the cousin move in, saying she would still treat Chen Wan like her own daughter. Her elder brother warned that if she divorced, her two children might end up calling someone else mother. Her best friend told her not to make room for the cheating couple to live happily ever after...
After hearing them all out, Chen Wan shut herself in her room for three days and nights, consumed by grief and frustration.
When she finally opened the door, she threw away the locks of hair they had cut together at their wedding.
Let someone else be the stepmother. Whoever wants the job can have it.
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The notorious young wastrel of Yong'an Ward heard that a new restaurant had opened on Changle Street. The food was plentiful and delicious, and the proprietress was beautiful, bold, and full of charm. So he worked up the nerve to go see for himself.
It turned out the rumors were true!
He planned to flirt with her just for the fun of it, but instead got a sound beating.
Furious, he sat down hard on the ground and shouted threats: "Do you know who I am?"
The proprietress, head down over her abacus, didn't even look up. "...No."
The young wastrel roared indignantly: "Then who gave you the nerve to hit me, young master?"
The chief minister, who had sat in the corner every day since the restaurant opened, as steadfast as a rock, replied: "...I did."
The young wastrel: "...Then I deserved it!"
Theme: Love helps people grow and gives them strength
I started reading romance novels in Jinjiang in junior high school. Now I am 25 years old. Although I still read them occasionally, I feel more and more that Jinjiang and even the entire Chinese online novel world are becoming more and more fast-food style, and I like to set up plots of torture for the sake of torture, just like those popular idol dramas... . Maybe I used to like to read cheating stories, where the hero and heroine with divine help revenge, abuse and kill each other, and it took more than a million words to read and write because of various misunderstandings... But now I want to see characters who behave relatively normally (such as being emotionally stable, not being mean, and speaking well when they have something to say), and The male and female protagonists of this novel may seem to have relatively bland personalities at the beginning. The male protagonist is not the arrogant Long Batian, nor does he have particularly powerful martial arts/intelligence. Although he had a bad experience in his early years, he is not overly indifferent. Instead, he is more understanding of the world because of the environment in which he grew up (this is consistent with common sense, right). The female protagonist is An orphan girl who is independent and tenacious, the relationship between the two people develops very comfortably. I personally think that the three most exciting parts of the heroine's character development are: first, Ah He is not indecisive when dealing with the judge; second, he does not completely believe in the role of his long-awaited biological mother and remains rational; third, he sacrifices his life to light the beacon tower. This heroine is different from the popular time-travel/rebirth/escape heroines. She has a very 'classical' integrity. Although she does not have extraordinary wisdom, she understands the benevolence of doctors and cares about the suffering of the people. She cannot say a lot of big principles, but she can use actions to prove the justice and principles in her heart. I also want to talk about the two unconventional female characters in this novel, Ah He and Xiao Mingyue. Maybe many people like me, when they first saw Ah He, thought that this was a common and typical start-up plot to recruit a loyal servant in Internet literature. Later, when they saw Ah He's love for Meng Ting, they would only think that it was most likely a girl's unrequited crush. I didn't expect that she would perform a farmer and a snake, and even be vicious enough to be indifferent even if the heroine entered an epidemic area. Although she did not appear for a long time, she was a real atypical evil girl. The evil women we usually see usually make all kinds of troubles in public, but in reality, it would be too dramatic. A small citizen like Ah He, who fights for fame and hatred, will make the plot more realistic and set a turning point for the growth of the heroine. As for Xiao Mingyue, to be honest, I didn't expect that the author would write the first extra chapter to Xiao Mingyue after reading the entire story. In fact, before the finale, Xiao Mingyue's character image was relatively thin. She was obsessed with the male protagonist and was raised by her parents. She did not have and was not allowed to have great wisdom. She was detestable when she exposed the conspiracy between the heroine and the queen, and she looked pitiful after being bullied by the second prince. But when it was revealed in the finale that she had disguised herself as the heroine and jumped off the tower on her behalf, I suddenly felt that this woman had risen to a new level - I thought she had gone crazy according to the previous plot, but in the end she was selfless for the one she loved and used her last sanity to plan a thrilling rescue. After seeing the extra story about how Xiao Ming met the male protagonist at the beginning of the month, I can better understand her difficulty. Everyone cannot choose their own origin. Her later madness was not entirely caused by love, but because she realized that she was just a political tool of her parents. The love of her family, which she was so proud of, was actually full of conspiracy and calculation. If Xiao Mingyue's plot is that she is mad and has no interest in worldly affairs, then she is just an ordinary vicious female supporting character who "makes fun of the heroine for the sake of a mere man." But in the end, she took the heroine's place and jumped off the tower. I have to admire her paranoia and crazy love, and the momentum of her life to scream against the feudal marriage system of aristocratic families to gain power. (The adjective "paranoid love" appears several times in the book, describing the first queen, the eldest princess and Xiao Mingyue) Okay, I'll stop writing here first. I just want to say that the author should work hard, this book is really beautiful~
Mingyue is so embarrassing. Although she has been pampered and pampered by others, she has never used her power to do anything bad.
After the chase, Ming Yue is really embarrassing... I don't know how they changed in the end.
Well, how should I put it, I always feel that this book is missing something. Maybe the author wanted to write it more plainly, but the plot of the story was arranged to be particularly ups and downs. I wanted to write about the ups and downs, but I didn't give much time to buffer. After reading the whole article, I even skipped many chapters at the end. It was too rushed. Moreover, I always feel that the heroine can be made more plump. Xiao Mingyue gives a deeper impression and is more plump than the heroine. Even Queen Zhang is more outstanding than the heroine. It's not that the heroine is not good, it just feels like she lacks some of the characteristics of the character. Every time the male protagonist calls the female protagonist by her full name, I get upset. That is to say, we are an old married couple, why can't we call her more intimately? It's true that every time he calls the heroine "Song Zhou", even after giving birth to the child, he calls her by her full name. I really "pop", and the sense of substitution disappears. (I have some thoughts of my own, but if I don't express them, I always feel that something is wrong. Don't criticize me, don't criticize me, don't criticize me)
King Qi didn't like Mingyue, so he probably couldn't bear the help of the eldest princess. King Qi probably felt that he had to endure the humiliation and bear the heavy burden of marrying a disgusting woman. As a result, the woman sought death and their alliance was ruined.
Good guys meet. Didn't the heroine dream before that she and the hero were siblings? At that time, I thought it was true, and sure enough... But strictly speaking, it doesn't count. The female protagonist is the child of the current queen and her master, and the male protagonist is the emperor's child. After all, there is no blood relationship. It is probably similar to the children of both parties in a reorganized family.
I would like to recommend my own column to collect the ancient poem "Caiwei" in advance. The following is the copy: Xiwei, as the most noble girl in the capital, has a beautiful smile and is bright and public. Her mother was the eldest princess who held great power, and the Queen Mother would also call her "Emperor Sister" affectionately when she saw her; her father was the eldest son of a family of ministers, and the Emperor would respectfully call her "Taifu" when he met her. In the years since she returned to the Princess's Mansion, she has been walking sideways in the capital. If there was any dissatisfaction, there was absolutely nothing wrong with it. If I had to mention one thing, it was that Li Gen, the king of Linjiang who pulled her out of hell, didn't love her, but it didn't matter. She asked her parents and elders to marry them personally. Perhaps it was her retribution for always showing off her strength in everything. From the day she got married, her good luck seemed to have come to an end. On the big day, she was exposed in public as a fake. After the wedding, she was imprisoned in the house by Li Gen. When the news subsided, she was killed by a glass of poisoned wine. When I was young, I always thought that getting married would be the final ending of the story, but I never expected that after marriage, they would respect each other like "ice", and they seemed to be inseparable. When I woke up with my breasts wet with tears, I found that I was back when I was thirteen years old, sitting in a carriage and anxiously driving to the capital. At that time, Li Genzheng, an elegant and affectionate young man, gently comforted you: "Don't worry, cousin, you have been separated for many years. When you return to the eldest princess's mansion, my aunt and I will make it up to you and make you happy for the rest of your life." Xi Wei lowered her head and said nothing, her fingers clumsily tightening his sleeves. Li Gen wanted to walk away calmly, but stopped when he saw the shocking bruises on her white jade neck. The young emperor Li Ying sneered at the fake cousin he found from the eldest princess's family. He had a good skin but no brains, and he actually liked that hypocrite who was not as good as him in everything. But the more he disdains, the more he pays attention, and the more he pays attention, the more... One day he happened to find someone's unprocessed picture album. The third step to escape misfortune: continue to save money, pretend to be conciliatory about (an egg), and wait for an opportunity to draw a clear line between (a hen and an egg). Li Ying: "..." He picked up the pen and added something at the end. The fourth step to escape misfortune: practice calligraphy well, find a backer, and marry the little emperor.
I feel that based on the male protagonist's feelings for the female protagonist, there must be a secret guard by the female protagonist's side.
... I feel that if you want to be abused, you must abuse it, and you have to make it clear, so I poured a bucket of cold water on it in an instant.
It's so disgusting to me that this emperor doesn't know whether he's good or bad, but he still wants bad things.