[Complete] The full novel is finished. Please add my upcoming novel, "Fireflies Shining on the River," to your reading list!
[Wolfish heroine, reclaiming the realm and seizing the throne; a light ensemble cast and a touch of political intrigue]
#Power is an offering to honor the realm and pay tribute to the departed#
*Please note: The heroine is not a real princess. She has memories of a past life. At heart, this is about a child of revenge judging the guilty and honoring her ideals. If you have questions, or the foreshadowing feels too drawn out, you can jump straight to Chapters 114 and 115.*
*Blurb:
In the first year after the dynasty fell, Shui Yizhou, the "former dynasty's princess," concealed her identity and survived in hiding under the enemy's rule, content to live as a lowly palace maid.
In the second year after the dynasty fell, Shui Yizhou arrived at the exiled court with the female strategists and swordswomen she had carefully handpicked, along with a young general betrayed by his own traitorous father. The group was battered by hardship, yet brimming with enthusiasm as they joined the court, imagining they would all work tirelessly to reclaim their homeland.
Instead, the court was negotiating peace.
"A Shui, can we still take back the old capital?"
"Yes. We just need to change the emperor."
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From palace maid, to princess, to an all-powerful minister, and finally a rebel.
Shui Yizhou was only staying true to her original purpose.
The child who narrowly escaped death beside the surging river all those years ago had switched places with another and lived under a false identity for thirteen years. Her heart had long since hardened like iron. To strike down the throne and honor the departed, she would hide anything and deceive anyone.
She could feel her toes hanging over a sheer cliff, even as countless lifelines tugged at her, trying to pull her back. The people she loved and those who loved her were using every bit of their strength to drag her thin but stubborn body toward the bright, level road. If one day she stood beneath the sun, with everyone waiting to share in an age of peace, how could she face them all and admit that she herself had escaped from a darkness without bottom, and that the light she used to illuminate others was half stolen, half made from disguise and deception?
Little did she know that all that light had been born for her.
"What if someone came to you through deception, and had felt guilty about it from the very beginning?"
"The title of princess means nothing to me compared with the name Shui Yizhou."
*Ensemble romance, female leads at the center, enjoy whichever pairings you like (just kidding):
"A woman of letters and arms, an ambitious, wolfish heroine × a handsome, tragic young general"
"A growing, innocent strategist × a fatherly, irreverent court official"
"A sunny, outspoken swordswoman × a lofty, world-weary deity"
[Reader's Guide:]
1. This is a fictional setting, not a work of historical research. Names and places have no connection to the real world.
2. A capable heroine skilled in both civil and military arts, with an ensemble cast. There is romance, but it appears later. The main characters are all natives of this world. The only transmigrator in the whole novel died thirteen years before the story starts.
3. There is plenty of long-running foreshadowing, with many identity reveals and character transformations.
4. Volume details:
Locations: Xianjing → Xindu → Languan → Qingyang... (There are many changes of setting. The story mainly follows Zhou, Cheng, and Lin.)
Volume 1 [Winds Rise in Xianjing]: Building a base and gathering all available forces
Volume 2 [West of Chang Mountain]: A first taste of the world, punishing evil and rooting out traitors (*the emotional heart of the characters' journeys*)
Volume 3 [Heaven and Humanity Take Separate Roads]: Making a name across the land, each facing their own trials
Volume 4 [Shadows on the Peak, Clouds in Their Wake]: Risking everything and honoring the departed
5. The heroine ascends the throne at the end and abolishes hereditary succession. She will not have children.
6. Thanks to my dear friend, "Dunbu" on Lao Fute, for pouring her heart and soul into making my cover!!!! May she stay forever young, have a wonderfully thick head of hair, find a partner soon, and publish ten papers in Science!
Upcoming novel: "Fireflies Shining on the River." Please add it to your reading list!
[Sweet yet melancholy girl wreaks havoc in the cultivation world // passionate coming-of-age ensemble]
[Comeback, team battles, progression, the fate of the realm, nine nations vying for supremacy]
"You were born in the countryside. Not even your ancestors going back eight generations had any talent for cultivation, and you still want to learn the Way? Do you think you're worthy?"
"As a maid, you spend your days serving the true darlings of heaven. Once a maid, always a maid. Understand?"
Oh.
Jiang Ying accepted it.
Nothing belonged to her. At least the injured crane she'd found in the snow belonged to her.
The crane's feathers warmed her cracked hands, and she had watched it dance amid the ice and snow.
But one day, they tortured her crane to death right in front of her.
Jiang Ying knelt on the ground, drenched in a rain of blood.
Suddenly, she didn't want to accept it anymore!!
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Geniuses gathered at Jishan Academy, whose motto was learning through combat.
He Lan Yin watched the selection battles for the new students and unexpectedly witnessed quite a spectacle
A group of aristocratic young men and women cornered one person, calling her a "maid" and subjecting her to endless ridicule.
With nowhere left to retreat, Jiang Ying shattered the scroll she carried. She raised her brush in her palm and flicked her wrist. Scraps of paper, infused with her fury, poured out like razor-sharp blades, drawing a chorus of screams.
"You call me a maid? Do you think you're worthy?" Her eyes were weary, her anger boundless. The scraps of paper joined into a flying waterfall and slashed toward those hateful faces. "Do you understand who's useless now?"
The teachers at Jishan Academy: "?! Wasn't she attacking her own teammates?"
He Lan Yin's violently vibrating soul-bound sword: "She's so cute! Her brush is pink!!"
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The Tianqing Continent, where nine nations clash, is a hunting ground for power and desire.
"Using paintings to create talismans is a rare path. Using emotions to guide them is unprecedented."
"What a pity... In these turbulent times, even the finest arts are as fragile as pawns on a board, let alone such a young pawn. The Qimen Kingdom is rising, while the Silvermoon Kingdom is weakening. This young girl is hiding away in Silvermoon's academy, and she'll only end up as a soul beneath Qimen's blade."
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Jiang Ying sat atop Jishan's Peak of Annihilation, painting. Those souls bound to her in the closest of bonds came alive on the page.
She resolved to cultivate diligently before Silvermoon fell.
The world seemed destined to crumble, but she wanted every stroke in her paintings to shine as brightly as ever, and everyone to remain forever young.
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#Day and night blur across the world, but I am my own light#
#The story of a small-town exam ace striving in the cultivation world#
Theme: In troubled times, stay true to yourself, bravely forge ahead, strive to improve, and defend your home
Pull Wang Changzhong down and prevent him from alienating our good sisters.
Oh my god, I never thought that Ah Shui was the child of Mrs. Chuyue. How did she exchange or match up with the real Fenghui? Will we tell it in the next chapter? So looking forward to it. Ah Zhi will not be in trouble now. Although his pupils are dilated, can you just open the golden finger to save him? However, although General Xiaowen's rebellion was predicted to be inevitable, it was well written. "They put their hope in him and asked him to crush a puddle of mud into a mud Buddha." This sentence is very well written. However, will Chen Sili and Lan Cheng renew their relationship? Wang Jingjing is too old, and secretly he doesn't want Lan Cheng to find an old man [finger pointing]
Wow, this chapter is so fast-paced. I was a little surprised by Chen Sili's line, because at the beginning of the plot and the author's description, I thought he was a good person, but later it turned out that he was not a good person, and now he has become a good person again, which seemed to be a bit foreshadowed.
It feels like the Black Dragon Army has degenerated into an anarchist terrorist organization. Yang Ziping's theory is correct, but the backwardness of productive forces cannot create new production relations and classes, and it is difficult to create a new ruling class. The people below him have only scratched the surface, and with the blessing of hatred, they have gone down the wrong path.
Is the king jealous of the heroine's father?
Woo woo woo, why do I still cry in the extra episode?
It's a pity that Chen Sili died before dawn despite being burdened with so much. He and Lan Cheng's regrets can never be made up for.
A rare and good article. I haven't seen it in many years. Ah Zhi died so suddenly. I almost thought he was the male protagonist.
Oh my God, it's such a pity that Chen Sili died like this.
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