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I was flipping through books during the holiday, and I wanted to write something, but I also thought that I had written too much, so I would write less. Bodhisattvas fear the cause. Shen Ti is an enlightened person. He only does the right thing, and the only thing he fears is not being able to see his true heart. As for the results, it doesn't matter. The theory of life and death is insufficient. There is no need to calculate gains and losses. It has long been beyond the reach of ordinary people. What is Shen Ti. It is a question about life, and Yin Shi is the one who takes the test. He is a gentleman who is self-denial, prudent and independent, and keeps his mind and nature clear. Only by self-denial can you tolerate others. Only by restraining one's own desires can we be kind to others and give them freedom. Will Tan Hualang regret it? Thinking about it carefully, the only thing he could regret was falling in love with Yin Shi. Therefore, only by not regretting can one be strong in love. Zhao Forbidden City. Everything seems like the past life. What was in the past life is the reason why Yin Shi doesn't believe in feelings. People are not evil, but their desires are too strong and their nature is too wild. Then it's hard to be sincere. Without sincerity, there can be no love and responsibility. Not to my parents and brothers, not to my wife and daughter, not to those women in the past, and certainly not to Yin Shi. Therefore, he is very free, but those who are with him rarely have good results. Shen Ti said she didn't believe in true love in the world. Zhao Forbidden City, he wants to marry her. Without Shen Ti, Zhao Forbidden City would be a cycle of cause and effect that she could not escape from. Because she doesn't believe in true love, she doesn't care what kind of person Zhao is, as long as she doesn't destroy his family and gets along well with him. Because of the existence of people like Zhao, it is inevitable not to enter into marriage and not believe in true love. What can make people unfree is never the rules, but the human heart and desires, which belong to others and even more to oneself. All living beings are afraid of consequences. The character Yin Shi is really well written. Too good to be liked. Because she is so much like ourselves. Like every one of these living beings. When a person reaches a certain age, he has experienced so much. Seek benefits and avoid harm. Who can be their true self? Not pure. It's hard to see the true heart. This has always been the case. She wanted to see him, she really wanted to see him. I finally saw my heart. See yourself when you see others. See the heart and see the nature. Nothing to lose, nothing to lose. When you write in such a realistic and detailed way, I always couldn't figure out why Yin Shi could marry Shen Ti again, thinking it was a flaw in logic. Only this time did I notice that it was Father Shen's fatherly love that was as strong as a mountain. That's right, only if he takes on the bad reputation of being the evil person who pursues profits at the expense of justice, can Shen Tiyinshi not become a joke for others, but become a story of reconciliation. Back then, Na Feng did not avoid disaster and caused trouble to the whole family. If you marry Yin today, you will not be afraid of others' jokes. Father's love is like a mountain, it's true. Didn't you really think about writing that they couldn't be together? After all, the Shen family has a grandson. For a feudal patriarch, it is not that important that Shen Ti does not marry. A few years later, this century-old civil servant's mansion will have its new mistress. Now that she has become a good niece of the Shen family, she should no longer be a good daughter-in-law. In fact, I have loved, missed, regretted, and been able to let go. We have known each other for a lifetime and let go of each other. It's not bad either. Although romance novels are just about weaving dreams. But the writing is so realistic, and then it has this ending. It's like saying: Come on, open your eyes. Well, have a dream. This is a daydream. When people get older, they have so much missed and so many regrets. Being able to let go and let go is already a great kindness. Daydreaming is no longer an option. At last. Like Xiao Feng again. Follow father, husband, son, This life cannot get out of the Chuihua Gate. She continued walking. For the Marquis, for my sister, and for my son. More for myself. The bright moon refuses to shine and walks alone. Tsangyang Gyatso said: Don't focus on this season, Forget about this winter. And I want to say: Don't stick to this story; Hard to see people.
Zhao Forbidden City is immortal. Yin Shi could not live. If you can't think outside of romance. You can't possibly understand this book. You would think this is a wife-chasing crematorium, and you would regard Zhao Qincheng as the affectionate second actor. He is not the second male lead in romance. It is the despicability and inferiority of human nature. It is the ugliness and evil in reality. It's interests and desires. Appearance and essence. From the first moment Zhao appeared. Shoubei began to describe his essence under the surface. Appearance: Teach your daughter martial arts and ask her to recruit a son-in-law. Secretly unhappy with Feng Er. The heroine was in trouble with marriage and childbirth at the time, and was in a situation where Feng Er was pressing her step by step. So these appearances immediately showed that he would be a different person. Essence: He is a dark person. Jealous that Feng Er came from a wealthy family with both civil and military skills. Capture the king and ennoble the powerful officials of the new dynasty. And he, the old man who had saved Jiao, could only be a security captain with a high position but little power. Feng Er fulfilled his duty as a colleague. He would ask his sister to take care of Zhao Qing, who came to the country, in the capital's social circle, and would come to express condolences after Zhao's death, when the family was neglected. And Zhao has done nothing but be secretly jealous. This despicability engraved in his bones and blood runs through the entirety of his character line. The essence of this book is not a wife-chasing crematorium. However, Shoubi used the routine of chasing his wife in the crematorium to deceive the readers. It makes people congenitally put Zhao into the role of the affectionate second male lead, thinking that he will be the heroine's salvation and the male protagonist's crematorium, allowing readers to take the place of the heroine and beautify him. You have to marvel at the depth of her writing. To the point where the reader can delude himself for a man in the book. It's this life, it's also the past life. The pot of wine given to the men in the previous life was actually drank by Zhao Jincheng. This happy year seems like a previous life. So what was the result of the previous life? It was not getting married, not believing in true love, but only believing in benefits. What kind of freedom does Yin Shi, who has a previous life, want? It is the freedom of wealth and not being forced by life. It is profit. It is the freedom of men and women, not bound by rules. It's desire. If there is no Zhao Forbidden City. Then there is only a 17-year-old Miss Yin in the world who can grow flowers. With 31-year-old Zhao Jincheng. There is the real heroine. A woman who learned to ride a horse. A 31-year-old woman who lives in modern society and pursues her desires. … Feng Er said that Zhao "won't marry" and came to take responsibility despite his promise. As soon as Shen Ti inquired about it, she found out that Zhao "would not marry", so she went to make him responsible for Yin Shi, and also used Yin Shi's innocence to beg him to cherish Yin Shi. What exactly is "not marrying"? Among men and women, Zhao should be well-known for only playing but not marrying, and he is well-known for being irresponsible. Doesn't Yin Shi know what it is to be able to hook up with anyone just by looking at him? What is appropriate, because he sucks. Only then can she use him as a tool to relieve her desires, and then can she have the freedom not to care about him. As long as you don't care about his essence, you can enjoy him and enjoy the pleasure of a martial artist's waist. So what is the essence of Zhao behind the scenes that we can't care about. The meanness and inferiority in human nature. Before coming and going. Zhao Qing: "That woman is very elegant and was once the wife of a Jinshi scholar. How could she fall in love with her father?" Zhao: "She is a woman he did not dare to think of before. She should be matched by a child from a family with both cultural relics and cultural relics like Feng Er." In addition to the arousal caused by her beauty, what makes Yin Shi more desirable to him is her identity. She is a different woman than before. She is Shen Ti's ex-wife. … Zhao: "He failed to protect his wife at the age of nineteen, and Tanhualang, who was nineteen years old, did not protect his wife either." This was what he thought when he saw Shen Ti after Yin Shi agreed to associate with him, and his wife was beaten to death. Tanhualang, the proud son of heaven, was still unable to protect his wife. And his wife is going to have a relationship with him. This incident gave him a sense of accomplishment and self-salvation after shirk of responsibility. … Shen: "You can't play without marrying. Men have to be responsible." Zhao: "This is what Yin Shi wants." Xiang Bei: "Why are you talking to Shen Ti? He is famous for his sharp words." Zhao secretly smiled again. 1. Shen Ti spoke rudely to the people around the emperor. And Xiangbei thinks that Shen Ti's rudeness is normal, and he has enough arrogance. The last one left by the old emperor is also the youngest Tanhua Lang in this dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Ru, he died to prove the truth. In the hearts of the new emperor and the prince, he is the future prime minister. 2. It was precisely the existence of Shen Ti that allowed Yin Shi to give Zhao too much sense of self-satisfaction. Such a woman is willing to come to me even if I am irresponsible. So when Zhao Qing made trouble, when he thought he was about to lose his chance, he suddenly fell down from the clouds and whipped Zhao Qing hard and drove him out of the house. … After coming and going. That morning, he left immediately after meeting Shen Ti, thinking that Yin Shi was a man of means. So if Yin Shi was beaten to death, she could only be blamed for her lack of means. These have nothing to do with him. Zhao: You must respect Lady Yin. This is what he said to his strangely smiling entourage on the way. That is to say, in his heart, such a woman will not be respected by others. It's just that now Shimui Zhiwei doesn't want to be kicked out too early. Here, Yin Shi has gone from being unattainable to a woman he has slept with. Later, during the birthday gift-giving ceremony, his entourage took the attitude of a villain to the extreme. So this is why Shen Ti took out the middle coat and asked Zhao to cherish it and not treat it lightly. … After asking for marriage. Zhao: "He knows why Shen Ti refuses to let go. It turns out that she is asking for something but not getting it." What he said was that he wanted to be responsible, but in fact the reason why he wanted to marry Yin Shi was because Shen Ti asked for it and couldn't marry her. Once again his desire to conquer was aroused. Zhao: Shen Ti is a different person. He suddenly understood that Yin Shi didn't care about innocence, but he was also a person who could enjoy physical pleasure. Why would Shen Ti, who was once a husband and wife, rather prove herself than consummate the marriage? He became jealous and possessive again. It was these desires that made Yin Shi something he couldn't get again. The less I can get married, the more I want to marry. … At last. He left a piece of property to Yin Shi, which he prepared to use to cover Shen Ti during the Chinese New Year. What he left behind was not true love, but a desire that lasted until death. … Love desire want to get There is no trace of humanity in Zhao Forbidden City, only desire. Treat women as prey to be chased, objects to conquer, objects to possess, and symbols of victory. Zhao never loved Yin Shi, he loved himself. It starts from noticing the color to knowing the taste after eating the marrow. What Zhao loves is Shen Ti, which is a victory over this proud man of heaven. He wanted to marry her because Shen Ti had not married her. Because she was Shen Ti's wish, she became his own wish. If the world is full of heartless men like Zhao Jincheng, then there will naturally be women who don't believe in true love and only believe in profit. There are men who can ride horses like this, and there should be women who have learned how to ride horses. Because you want it, you get it. Desire and love share the commonality of interdependence. But desire only exists between wanting and getting. Once obtained, it will inevitably dissipate. Ugliness and evil in reality. There used to be other women who just gave some gold and silver. She didn't dare to tell her who her husband's family was, for fear of causing trouble and causing trouble. Zhao Qing, a servant who has become accustomed to coming to the house to cause trouble. For Zhao Jincheng, who claims not to marry for the sake of his daughter, hunting for women is the norm. And it seems that there are many families who have or have had husbands. And it would end badly if his daughter came to his door afterwards. This is not modern times, it is ancient times that are not tolerant to women. It is ancient times where the innocence of bad people is like killing people. Behind this man, how many lives have been ruined. Why was his wife beaten to death after being forced to take money? Naturally, it's because she has a husband who spends his money and time looking for women. And Zhao became that innocent person after severing relations with his mother. Why were his two common houses sold? Because he left Zhao Qing without mother's care since childhood, and he kept looking for women outside, which made Zhao Qing feel insecure. It was he who could kick his daughter out of the house just to find a woman. It was he who turned Zhao Qing into that bad guy. The sleeve uses the most profound strokes to outline this unkind, unkind, unfilial man. Extremely mocking. Zhao: A man hopes that the women around him will be well. His mother was to be disowned by him. His daughter was going to be kicked out of the house. His wife was going to be beaten to death. His general house is to be sold. And Yin Shi, who was his concubine, naturally deserved to die with a glass of poisonous wine. Oppression freedom Zhao Forbidden City. All the women who were with him were beaten to death, sold, and poisoned with wine, and they all had to pay a heavy price for their mistakes, even their lives. As a man, he can continue to be romantic and happy, he can follow the emperor's chickens and dogs to heaven, he can be a stable and reliable work partner in the eyes of his colleagues, and he can still get married at any time when someone proposes marriage. Isn't this the greatest injustice between men and women? The most unfree oppression. … Count the causes and follow the cause and effect. Zhao Forbidden City, everything for him came because of his rescue. Zhao Weizhang, everything about him perished because of his rescue. He died for his duty and for his wealth. Success and wealth only evaporate into thin air. The courtyard was deserted and no one expressed condolences. One of the most damned men is dead. His death also freed the heroine. A man who was most irresponsible to his family died. But he exchanged his death for three generations of marquisships in the Zhao family, leaving his daughter with a lifetime of wealth. Good karma and good deeds will be repaid. Look how well he died. It is not a pity to die, but it is a worthy death. Stupid naivety. Yin Shi: She is so naive that she actually thinks that freedom and security coexist in this era. In modern times where the rule of law is sound and society is relaxed, Zhao can be a rich and dashing good lover. But this is the feudal era of ethics, so Zhao Forbidden City is an evil ghost urging people to die. Yin Shi: She shouldn't forget that Zhao Qing is Zhao's daughter. And Zhao is a calm and ruthless person. If she once forgets Zhao's true nature, she may be impressed by his performance. If Zhao Jincheng does not die, but Yin Shi marries him. So congratulations to Yin Shi, all that is left for her is death. She will have a husband who likes to spend his money and energy looking for women. There will be a stepdaughter who is afraid that she will take away the family property and a son-in-law who covets her beauty. And they are all people who can kill people and have no bottom line. … It's not the story that's absurd, it's the reality. What is absurd is not the story, but the human heart. Why am I suddenly writing this long review again? Because the recent hot topics concerning men and women are exactly as described by Shou Xi, I can't help but admire your profound understanding of human nature, men and women, and desires. Zhao Forbidden City. A man who was born in poverty, has a despicable character, and has a very disgraceful past. A man in his 30s who suddenly rose to a high position by chance. Yin Shi. One is the most beautiful in the eyes of everyone. A woman in her 30s who doesn't believe in true love and pursues profit. A man and a woman entangled in lust, a desire disguised as love. He said she was his true love, he wanted to marry her, and he wanted her to have children. He bequeathed her a considerable fortune. But he wanted to kill her and ruin her life. Everything repeats itself in reality. Same. … Romance. Yin Shi's luck. She is the heroine of a romance book. She has the love of a romantic hero. A gentleman who is the most pure, the most kind, the most strong and the most gentle. As long as you do the right thing, Shen Jiyun will never change. So she can live another life. You can also have an ending that belongs to a romance novel. In reality, that person may not be so lucky.
After reading it, I feel like I have a lump in my throat. The heroine of this article is so poorly portrayed. The whole text does not show the growth of the heroine at all. Instead, it smells like a condescending modern old man. He loves to preach from a moral high point, and he possesses and controls Yin, a young and beautiful ancient girl. It is a bit disgusting to watch. Moreover, he has committed a series of unselfish behaviors since he resigned from the court. If he indulges in the mountains and rivers and starts a career after separation, it can reflect the pursuit of modern people, and it will be worthwhile to find a better person. But she just cowered in the village. The biggest thing she did was to magically find a sex partner according to modern ideas. She also had poor taste and chose a man who was not as good as her ex-husband except for the appearance that she liked. Besides what she thought was an equal sex partner relationship, people around her regarded her as Zhao's concubine and subsidiary. In ancient times, she was quite stupid and unself-loving. The most amazing thing is that the heroine, a person who has traveled to ancient times since she was a child, still has no awareness of ancient values... It is indeed consistent with the character design that has not grown up from the beginning to the end.
The heroine is actually a standard modern society refined and self-interested Phoenix girl. She enjoys the rights and benefits given by her two families and the male protagonist, but does not want to bear the responsibilities and obligations, so she always wants to take advantage of the male protagonist, haha. She also likes to use the standards of modern society to evaluate others, especially the male protagonist, which is quite funny. To put it bluntly, there are many men in modern society, and what good things are they? There are so many who are as sophisticated and self-interested as the heroine, and there are many irresponsible men who cheat in marriage. How many men can truly be considerate, caring and caring about their wives? Therefore, a male protagonist like this is rare even in modern times, not to mention ancient times. As a lady, she has no worries about food and drink, and can live a flat life. The heroine still feels that she is depressed without freedom, but she is not willing to dress like an ordinary person, which is free but hard work. She wants it and wants it at the same time... I can understand that she feels that the hero has a concubine, so they can't be together. After all, as a modern person, there must be a mental disorder, but what I can't understand is why she has such high requirements for the hero? In modern society, has she ever met any perfect man? At first glance, she looks like a young woman who has never been married and still has fantasies about men... The so-called "no rule" is the same in any era. A society without rules is a primitive society, where the weak eat the strong and the fittest survive. Freedom is always relative. There is no absolute freedom. In the same way, if you enjoy rights, you must pay obligations. It is a matter of more or less. So she gave me a very strong feeling of both wanting and wanting. The female protagonists in the author's other novels don't give me such a good feeling. Personally, I like Yuzhang, Wen Hui and Lin Jia very much. They are tough, kind, self-reliant and self-reliant, but they are never the Virgin, nor do they want both.
The story is well written, and every character has a beginning and an end. It is very fascinating. I stayed up late to read it, but the story between the heroine and Zhao really has no sexual tension. Although the author stated that Zhao has satisfied the heroine's appetite, the feeling presented to the reader is really boring. Other than that, it is quite good.
After seeing it, it was like eating a piece of shit. She made various plans to break away from the marriage and the back house (seemingly very far-sighted), and finally had freedom and a house outside. However, she immediately wanted to have sex because she fell in love with a man she had an inexplicable liking for. I don't know where the hundreds of wisdom from the previous pieces went? Why don't you use your brain that is usually capable of analysis and consideration at this time? (It seems that there is no need to consider the man's power and background or possible implication). The so-called pursuit of freedom means finding a man immediately based on feeling. Will you die without a man? Too narrow.
I finished the whole story a long time ago. I still remember the regretful feeling the author felt when he said there was no extra chapter in this article. What am I regretting? It's a pity that the author only wanted to leave a blank space at the beginning, not wanting to leave a space for them to be together and reunited with Meimei in the future, to fulfill the readers' dream, or to finally part ways and live well on their own? Recently, I came back to review it because I saw some reviews. At the beginning of the story, two people got married with their own purposes. It's just that the heroine always knew what she wanted, and she didn't want to put herself in a situation where she couldn't get what she wanted, so she retained her rationality. Although she was occasionally moved, she stuck to her heart. Women are soft. If you know the outcome from the beginning, then I don't think there is anything wrong with holding something back for self-preservation. If the Feng family hadn't gained momentum later, in a few years, the heroine might have slowly established a relationship with the hero, given birth to a child, and become a mistress. After all, if being a mistress is a job, the salary is pretty good. Mr. Xiao Shen was brought up to be upright and had his own set of principles in his heart, so marrying Feng in the first place must have been a sign of youthful rebellion in addition to his promise. Obviously, the principles that brought me up were the people around me. However, if something really happened, it was the people around me who advised me to give up my principles. Master Xiao Shen resisted, so on the wedding night, the heroine who was forced to get married was an outlet for her anger. After all, the heroine was more familiar with Feng and Feng at that time, so Master Xiao Shen could only target the heroine. It was only slowly that he discovered the goodness of the heroine, who didn't care about him and didn't take away her kidneys. So Mr. Xiao Shen had some resentments, but these resentments were mixed with his first love. Mr. Xiao Shen said that he had never experienced it and it was not written in the book, so he didn't know what to do. But the heroine is already his wife and "his". Master Xiao Shen felt that since it was his, it would slowly get better one day. At this time, I have to talk about Lord Shen and his wife. They are a perfect match. Lord Shen is thoughtful, but Mrs. Shen is innocent? I don't know if Master Shen is the only one with Mrs. Shen, but Mrs. Shen has only met Master Shen. Master Shen loves and cares for Mrs. Shen. The couple is definitely not respectful to each other. Their relationship is stable, harmonious and sweet. Therefore, Mr. Xiao Shen estimated that he would be like this too. Unfortunately, fate played a trick on people. The 17-year-old compromise was experienced again by the 19-year-old Mr. Xiao Shen. Sure enough, he was still a young man, and there was still a difference between taking care of his kidneys and taking care of his heart. He finally lost his heart, but his heart was gone. Regarding the heroine's self-certification of innocence, I didn't understand it at the time when I was watching it, but I accepted it (if someone criticized me for this, I accepted it). It doesn't mean that there are no other good ways to verify it, or that other methods cannot be used to verify it. In fact, the heroine is also angry. She can be rational and shaken, but she can also be very angry. She was forced to get married. She already knew before she got married that her new husband was marrying her for another woman. On their wedding night, she heard her husband say that she needed to draw a clear line and speak righteously. Is our heroine a very smart person? Even if it's just a job, we can't pursue it. The heroine has already done her job conscientiously, respecting each other as if she were a guest, respecting the old and loving the young, but Mr. Shen is so vicious and cruel when he talks little. So I can accept whatever the heroine wants to do at this time. Conventionally speaking, the heroine should sleep with the hero. Everyone hopes that the man she sleeps with is a good match, but this belongs to the reader, not the heroine. Can't the heroine be willful, cold and selfish? No love, a lot of money is fine. As long as she doesn't break the law and doesn't hurt herself, I can accept whatever she does. Silently speaking about Feng, she was unfortunate, but she was also relatively lucky at that time. No one else had other things to do, and she could still be a part of the family who respected each other as guests. In the end, I think everyone is right. I am a little bit frustrated with Mr. Shen's pair of CPs.
Because I just finished reading this book, I couldn't wait to open the comment area, but I didn't expect that the first long comment would be very laborious, so I wrote another long comment about Zhao Forbidden City. I actually don't quite understand why almost all the actions of the character Zhao Jincheng must be interpreted in the most malicious direction. Don't forget that Zhao Jincheng actually had the ability to "forcibly marry" Yin Shi. Even his good friend Xiang Bei directly suggested to him: You are powerful now, why don't you just marry by force? Zhao Jincheng's reaction was to tell him to "go away." Then he said: "Power can be used to make profits and gain, but it should not be used to wrong the person you like." Immediately afterwards, the author gave a very direct judgment from the perspective of the north: "I really liked it." So I think the author has actually written it very clearly. Zhao Forbidden City certainly has the bad qualities of a man. He will be sexual, possessive, jealous of Shen Ti, secretly proud of being Yin Shi's first real man, and will also have the mentality of "the less he can marry, the more he wants to marry". These are all true. But at the same time, he really liked Yin Shi, respected her choice of "not marrying", and refused to use his power to force her. The two have never been an either-or relationship. So what I find most pity about this long review is this: it keenly discovered the shadow on Zhao Forbidden City, and then further announced that the shadow is the "essence" of this character, and all the bright parts are disguises. But I don't think the text supports this conclusion. At least the "forced marriage" section is enough to show that we cannot simplify all Zhao's feelings for Yin Shi into a desire to conquer and possessiveness. The most puzzling thing in the whole long review is the inference about the death of Zhao's original wife. The host thinks: "Zhao's original wife was beaten to death because Zhao spent his money and time looking for women." But this paragraph is no longer an interpretation, but a supplement to the original text. The text is written very completely: Zhao got married at the age of fourteen, had a daughter at the age of fifteen, and entered the palace as a guard at the age of seventeen. As he became more and more promising, his parents, brother and sister-in-law became more and more jealous and chastised his wife. Zhao worked as an errand in the palace for a long time, and could only save up to go home once every two or three months for vacation. He always thought that since he made money, his wife would be more dignified at home, but he didn't know that she had been bullied and refused to tell him. The last time, my wife was beaten until her internal organs bled, but she still endured it silently. Zhao happened to come back from vacation and caught up to see her for the last time. After that, he went around to find out the truth, broke his elder brother's legs, cut off his younger brother's fingers, and left with his daughter in his arms, thus breaking away from his original family. The text never says: Zhao spent the money on women outside → his mother forced his wife to take the money → and the wife was beaten to death. Of course, Zhao can be criticized for being away from home for a long time and not discovering his wife's situation in time. But "working away from home for a long time" and "being away from home for a long time" are obviously completely different things. First fill in the blanks that have not been written in the text according to the most malicious possibility, and then use the plot that you have filled in to prove "Look, he was indeed such a villain when he was young." I think this is very close to a conspiracy theory-style reading. Zhao Qing's problem is similar. The text actually does not shy away from criticizing Zhao Qincheng's failure as a father. When Yin Shi saw Zhao Qing making trouble, he directly asked the four people: "Doesn't Commander Zhao usually teach his daughter?" The narration also clearly states: As a father, Zhao Jincheng really failed in his duty by leaving Zhao Qing in a state of unteachment for a long time. This criticism is certainly valid. But on the other hand, after the death of his wife, Zhao Jincheng did not renew his relationship for ten years, largely because he was afraid that his stepmother would mistreat his daughter. He has also been unwilling to have children for a long time, hoping to leave all his family property to Zhao Qing. Others advised him to take concubines and have sons, but he also refused. So I think Zhao is actually closer to: "I love you very much, but I don't know how to raise you." He gave his daughter property, martial arts, and shelter, but he was unable to give her adequate social upbringing and personality education. This is of course his failure. But this is still not the same thing as "because he has a bad nature, so he raised a bad daughter." Let's talk about legacy. I think this paragraph best reflects the problem of this long review - it only takes the half of the sentence that I want to read. Zhao Forbidden City will indeed compete with Shen Ti. He originally wanted to wait until the Chinese New Year to hand over the property he had purchased to Yin Shi, and said something similar: Shen Jiyun also wants to give her a kiss during the Chinese New Year. If I follow suit, it will just be an insult. So of course there is a bit of childish comparison among men in this property. There is nothing wrong with this observation. But the text goes on to read: Zhao felt that "I can't let my wife spend time with him", so he wanted to make arrangements for her retirement. He didn't simply give away jewelry, nor did he leave behind a sum of money that would be gone once it was spent. What he bought was land and real estate, assets that could continue to earn interest, and they were all registered directly in Yin Shi's name. Zhao suddenly died, and this matter was not even completed, and it was already a considerable fortune. What did Yin Shi think of after getting these things? Is: "Shen Ti said she doesn't believe in true love in the world." Then she thought about Zhao Forbidden City over and over again. The final narration reads: She traveled through more than ten years, and the happiest time in this world was the time she spent with Zhao Forbidden City. As a result, the final conclusion of the long review is: "What he left behind was not true love, but a desire that lasts until death." I think this is no longer a conclusion that can be derived from the text itself. Because the author clearly wrote two things at the same time: On one side is the comparison, possessiveness and male vanity between Zhao and Shen Ti; On the other hand, he was really seriously considering a future for Yin Shi without him. Comments saw the former and then took the initiative to delete the latter. Of course, this long review is not without value. On the contrary, I think it really encounters an issue worth discussing: Yin Shi tried to replicate the "non-marital intimate relationship" in modern society in ancient times, but in the end he almost lost his life because of it. I strongly agree with this. After Zhao Jincheng died, the emperor thought: Wei Zhang has always wanted to marry this woman, but he has never been able to marry her. His first reaction was actually: Then let her go down and accompany Wei Zhang. It was Xiang Bei who tried his best to stop him, saying that Zhao would never be willing. Zhao would rather wrong himself than wrong her. This gave Yin Shizheng a chance to survive. After Yin Shi survived, he was truly shaken for the first time. She realized: If she had married Zhao Qingcheng and became his legal wife, then after Zhao died, the emperor would not have buried her. She will become the dowager of Zhongyonghou Mansion. For the first time, she discovered that the "right choice" she had always believed in, put into this social structure, almost became the cause of her death. This is where I think the writing on the sleeve side is really harsh. Not: "Zhao Forbidden City is actually a hidden evil ghost, so women must not trust men." Instead: "Even if this man himself respects your choice, you are still living in a system that does not respect your choice at all." Of course Zhao Jincheng himself didn't want to kill her. Even the main text is enough for people to infer: If Zhao was still alive and knew that the emperor wanted Yin Shi to be buried, he would definitely object. However, the relationship between Zhao and the imperial power, as well as Yin Shi's status as his "nameless woman", objectively put her on the knife's edge. This is much more complicated than "Zhao is actually a bad guy from beginning to end." It's also much crueler. There is one last thing that I really find interesting. This long review says that if you "can't think outside of romance" you won't understand this book; at the end, it summarizes Shen Ti as: "The purest and most kind, the most hard and soft, only do the right thing, and you will never change." But I just feel that this actually fails to understand Shen Ti. The good thing about Shen Ti as a character has never been that he "never changes". Precisely because he keeps changing. In the beginning, Shen Ti would say to Yin Shi from the perspective of "husband": "You are my wife who was married by three matchmakers and six betrothals. Where are you going?" Later, when he proposed to marry Yin Shi again, he already said: "Now even my father can no longer control me. I'm just waiting for you to be willing." Then Yin Shi said: "I don't want to." He accepted. This is not "never changing". This is how he changed a lot, and finally became the Shen Jiyun. So if I were to summarize this long review, I would probably say this: The smartest thing about it is that it sees that Zhao Forbidden City is not a pure and flawless "affectionate male lead". The most distorted part of it is that because it discovered his "impurity", it concluded that his "affectionate" must not exist. But how can people be so clean? When Zhao Jincheng likes Yin Shi, he will have desire and possessiveness, he will be jealous of Shen Ti, he will be secretly happy because he is her first man, and he will want to marry her more and more because he cannot marry her. But at the same time, he could really like her. Respect her choice not to marry. Arrange a retirement property for her. Even when he had enough power, he refused to use this power to force her. These things can exist in one person at the same time. I even think that Xiubei deliberately wrote Zhao Forbidden City like this. If Zhao is a perfect and affectionate male lead, then if Yin Shi did not choose him in the end, it would easily become a forced arrangement by the author in order to support the male protagonist. But if Zhao was a hidden evil person from beginning to end, then it would be too easy for Yin Shi not to marry him. It just so happens that he is: "A good man, but still not the answer Yin Shi wants in life." This gave Yin Shi's final choice real weight.
I didn't like this book, it was really frustrating, especially the heroine's character. After writing so much in Yangsuazao, she ended up with a divorced man who has a son. The heroine is so rich, why not choose someone clean? A good horse won't turn around yet!
@66850365 You are too naive. Crisis and maneuvering to the north. It would be really naive to think that Xiang Bei, the great eunuch, would believe anything true. What is written on the side of the sleeve? Because Zhao had saved the emperor, and Xiangbei could only depend on the emperor for his existence. The people around the two emperors supported each other's interests. There is no room for too much sincerity here. The focus of the chapter name of 194 is that Xiang Bei guessed Yin Shi's identity. Which led to the follow-up. Emperor: "Where did he find such a woman?" Xiang Bei: "I don't know." Xiang Bei guessed Yin Shi's identity and kept laughing. He laughed at Zhao Jincheng for pretending to be a lover. You just don't have the power to offend her, so you can't marry her by force. This unstoppable smile exposed Yin Shi's existence in front of the emperor, but he concealed her identity. The eunuch who lived entirely on the emperor's trust also committed the crime of deceiving the emperor. It was against the etiquette and law for Yin Shi to be buried as a filial piety, but Shen Ti was regarded by the emperor as the orthodox etiquette support for the throne. It is impossible for the emperor to bury Shen Ti's ex-wife in Zhao's martyrdom, violate the righteousness of the emperor and his ministers, and destroy the laws he established through lawlessness. The matter of sacrifice and burial appeared to be a crisis for Yin Shi, but in fact it was a crisis for Xiang Bei. Yin Shi cannot die, and his identity cannot be exposed. So Xiangbei began his extreme operation. 1. Tell Yin Shi not to talk nonsense, I will save your life. (Prevention) 2. In front of the emperor, Zhao Qingcheng would definitely not want to wrong her and save her. (Processing) 3. Ran to comfort Shen Ti immediately. (Aftermath) Then let's see how Xiang Bei comforted Shen Ti. 1. He has already solved the issue of sacrifice and burial, so there is no need to add any extraneous details. He only talks about keeping filial piety. 2. "Everyone in Zhao Forbidden City is gone." Zhao's death is actually beneficial to you, and the emperor is indeed very sad. You have to be considerate. 3. "As long as you don't get married, no one will care about anything else." She wasn't getting married anyway, so there was nothing to lose. 4. "The emperor doesn't know who she is." I even helped you hide the fact that your ex-wife was acting as a concubine for others, so you have to recognize it and avoid making trouble. If you can't read this, you won't be able to understand how high the writing style on the sleeves is. A few sentences of detail and description. She wrote about the face of a powerful official under the shadow of power and the cunning truth of the human heart. In just a few sentences, life and death are described clearly, and cause and effect are explained. It can also make love brains cry out that Lao Zhao is true love, and it is such a pity to die. Follow-up. Yin Shi: "The emperor wants me to keep filial piety for Zhao Forbidden City." Shen Ti: "I know, Xiang Bei told me early in the morning." Yin Shi: "That's it." Xiang Bei knew who she was but couldn't mention a word about her. Xiang Bei said it was because Zhao Jincheng refused to wrong her and wanted to save her, but he went to Shen Ti early the next morning and said that in fact, as long as he didn't marry, no one else would care about anything else. She knew why she wasn't dead. Follow up. Yin Shi and Zhao Qing said, "If Chengjue has any major matters, you can go to Xiang Bei. Don't bother him with other small matters." What is the meaning behind this sentence. It is the emperor's will to let the descendants of Zhao inherit the title, so Xiangbei will definitely do it. But don't bother with other little things. It was Yin Shi who knew that with Zhao's death. The support of mutual interests between Zhao and Xiangbei is gone. When people leave, the tea becomes cold. It was Yin Shi who understood that Xiang Bei was not a person who told the truth. The evil of the Zhao family. The evil of human nature. Being unable to control one's own desires, acting without a bottom line, not following the rules and not caring about others is evil. Xiangbei persuaded Zhao to marry and have children in Forbidden City. Zhao said that his daughter was not like her mother and her grandmother was a bad breed, and he would also be a bad breed if he gave birth to a son, so he stopped marrying and having children. This is very interesting. No matter who is born to him, he will be a bad seed, so Zhao Forbidden City should be the biggest bad seed. In other words, except for his wife who was beaten to death, the Zhao family is all bad. Do you want to understand that it is because of blood? No, it is because of the bad environment, because the Zhao family is a bad land with only profit and no true feelings. Only bad seeds can grow or survive in it. What kind of person is suitable for the Zhao family. Evil people, real evil people. A wicked person like Zhao Qing's son-in-law, he even wanted to kill the Zhao family and seize the Zhao family's property. But he died because his rank was too low and he was not as cruel or evil as the Zhao family. This paragraph is really interesting. Yin Shi saw the thoughts of the adopted son-in-law at a glance, and asked Zhao Qing to manage his money and control him, and not let the adopted son-in-law dominate the family. It seems that Yin Shi is smart and capable, with a higher rank. But as long as she gets married, she will definitely die, because as long as a person still has bottom lines, rules, and kindness in his heart, he can't think of killing people, so the only one who must die is Yin Shi. Yin Shi: "She shouldn't forget that Zhao Qing is Zhao's daughter, and Zhao is a calm and ruthless person." After Zhao's two servants became hers, after Zhao Qing had been dating her for more than a year. She should have fully understood Zhao's past. The wives who were beaten to death, the women who had given gold and silver, and the married women who were sold. So after going to kill her husband, face that fact. She had to sigh that she should not forget Zhao's true nature. She had to be thankful that she was not dragged into the bad land of the Zhao family and completely killed. You are so naive. Would you trust a man who spends all his time and energy trying to hook up with women? Will trust a man who can come to you and hook up with you at a glance. Will you believe a man who once thought that Yin Shi was Shen Ti's extramarital affair, and also thought about coming to steal her at a staggered time? … This is ancient times, ancient times with strict etiquette and laws. The ancient times were not tolerant of women. Zhao: "It's bad for your reputation to be seen by others." Zhao: "Think clearly, you are still young and can still get married." Zhao: "You must respect Madam Yin from now on." Zhao knew that such interactions would ruin a woman's reputation, make her disrespected by others, and make her unable to remarry. In such an era, his interactions would completely destroy her future. But no matter how nice the words are, he still has to come to hook up with her or marry her. "Zhao would rather wrong himself than wrong her." How did Zhao Forbidden City wrong himself? In what way did Yin Shi feel wronged by Zhao Forbidden City? Just for his irresponsible behavior and his few ridiculous words. You can naively believe in such a man who would not regret his death.