A plot-driven novel full of twists. I update according to the rankings when I'm on one, and every other day when I'm not. My writing is impeccable, and my patience is boundless. I won't abandon this novel or leave it unfinished. I love the characters I write even more than you do.
The world is but an inn for all things, and all are grieved by the dust of a thousand ages., Li Bai
Blurb:
Everyone in the cultivation world knows that the newly inducted junior martial uncle of the Wanxiang Sect is adored by the entire sect, and is a match made in heaven for Yan Nanzhou, the famous cultivation prodigy of the Wanxiang Sect.
But Ji Changning doesn't see it that way. The reason is simple: she's in love with Yan Nanzhou.
She found Yan Nanzhou among a heap of corpses. They cultivated together, day and night, and their bond grew sincere and passionate, but it was all one-sided.
She watched the junior martial uncle join the sect.
She watched Yan Nanzhou fall in love.
She watched Yan Nanzhou bleed himself dry at Sānfu Cliff for the junior martial uncle.
So when she and the junior martial uncle both fell into the Demon-Sealing Abyss, and Yan Nanzhou chose the junior martial uncle without hesitation, Ji Changning wasn't surprised.
As ten thousand demons devoured her, Ji Changning's life-bound sword spirit cried out, "Changning, stop loving Yan Nanzhou!"
Ji Changning only smiled, remembering the light in the young man's eyes when they first met.
One glance was all it took to become her obsession and her nightmare. Her mistake was mistaking gratitude for love.
After turning ten, Yan Nanzhou grew up amid hatred and flight. His family was destroyed, he was treated like an animal, and he was humiliated and deceived.
The first kindness he ever received came from Ji Changning. He thought it was gratitude.
The second came from Meng Wan. He thought it was love.
But it wasn't until after Ji Changning died that Yan Nanzhou realized that his feelings for her had been laid bare, time and again, in every unguarded moment.
Ji Changning was not destined to die. After surviving the Demon-Sealing Abyss, she planned to live under an assumed name, but perhaps the heavens took pity on her, because her years of wishful thinking came true.
On their wedding day, Yan Nanzhou swore to give her the divine bone that would bring the Yan family both sin and fortune.
At that moment, a joyful voice suddenly rang out in Ji Changning's mind: "Congratulations, Host, your mission is complete."
Looking at Yan Nanzhou, Ji Changning suddenly remembered: there was never all that much love or hate. From the very beginning, it had all been a scheme she devised to get home.
No matter how many tricks I played, every kindness I showed you was heartfelt.
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A certain villain whose identity cannot be revealed: I made up all the plot above.
Gentle on the surface, dark-hearted and pretentious, beautiful, strong, tragic hero × heroine who is ruthless to others and even more ruthless to herself, and wants nothing but to go home
Reader's guide:
1. One-on-one romance, happy ending. The characters aren't perfect, and all have flaws.
2. The leads are adults. Both are each other's first, but neither is sexually pure. Both have emotional histories with other people, including but not limited to: the hero nearly married another woman, the heroine has an almost-lover who's always held a special place in her heart, and she risks her life for another man. Lots of messy love triangles, but we all have a bright future ahead of us.
3. No women fighting over men. Every character has a purpose beyond being a prop in the leads' romance. Insulting female characters is not allowed.
4. I'm neither an extreme heroine stan nor an obsessive hero stan. The sweetness is natural, and the angst isn't forced: it all follows inevitably from the plot.
5. Omitted.
6. This story is full of melodrama and affectation. It's about a group of people fighting back, not a power fantasy about a dominant heroine. If you've read the content warnings and still want to continue, I'll assume you're okay with them. Reasonable warnings are fine, but I won't accept people warning others about things that never happened, based on their own imagination. This includes claims like the hero and the second heroine got married, the hero and the second heroine got a happy ending, the heroine got dumped and came crawling back, or that a straight romance contains a BL pairing.
7. The author isn't stupid. I won't stand there silently taking abuse and let you use me as a punching bag. If you insult me, I'll insult you back. If you speak politely, I'll do the same.
★, ★
Historical romance and political intrigue. Please add The Gift of Graceful Brows to your reading list.
Don't value sons and despise daughters. The world should bestow graceful brows upon women., Qiu Jin
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Looking back on her life, Wen Daiqing went from a farm girl to a courtesan, then to a businesswoman, and finally to the ruler of a nation. Her journey was full of stumbling and hardship, like walking on thin ice. She endured scorn and abuse, and was drowned out by the attacks of scholars and writers. But she was unafraid, resolutely setting out on the grand and turbulent course of her life, believing that posterity would judge her merits and faults.
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Many people loved her.
Countless tales and anecdotes were written about Wen Daiqing. Rumors claimed that she'd accepted a young lord's jade token of affection, met the newly appointed top scholar's mother, taken the mighty General Xuanwei as her lover, and even won over her sharp-tongued, cold-faced guard. In the end, she supposedly bore a child with the new emperor.
Little did anyone know that these were no mere rumors.
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Many people loved her, and many people hated her.
She tried to establish women's guilds to teach women how to earn a living.
She enacted regulations for brothels to protect the rights of courtesans.
She selected the worthy based on talent, regardless of their background, status, or gender.
The hidebound scholars of the realm condemned her as a disgrace to morality, an enemy of heaven's order, a schemer, a sinner for the ages, and a woman of boundless debauchery!
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In truth, on that early winter night, Wen Daiqing understood that rather than begging others to love her, she should love herself. She would not be a caged bird in a man's hand. She would be a phoenix, able to spread her wings and fly!
Her life was neither long nor short. To trace it back to the beginning, it started with one string of cash: not enough to buy a jar of wine from a rich man, but enough to buy a poor man's life...
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An unkillable heroine with a sharp tongue, a maxed-out arguing skill, and the shrewd, calculating mindset of a "villain" versus the hero
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Theme: Though poor, remain steadfast and never abandon your lofty aspirations.
The ancient proverb "Giving Moth Eyebrows" is looking for collection You can read the column for the copywriting, thank you!
I've said it in the comments section, I've said it in the column, I've said it countless times, what I write may not be what you like, you can read what you think is good, there's no need to stare at my stupid article, you spend money to subscribe just to brush off the negatives, give me one star, it's really unnecessary, don't waste your money, you say I'm misogynistic, you say I'm the mother of a baby boy, you say I'm a boy, tell me to go fuck myself, I've explained it countless times It's useless, and I don't want to explain it. After all, everyone has subconsciously decided that I am like this, and there is no point in explaining more. I just hope that everyone can understand each other. I will not force you to read such a rubbish article, and you don't have to feel uncomfortable with your eyes. I am just a little reluctant to let the novel I worked hard to conceive receive countless malicious comments. There are thousands of books, and there is always something you like. Thank you everyone.
The employment environment is so bad this year. I still haven't found a job. I'm starting to recover. There are 80,000 words left. Let's finish it first. I'll start updating slowly. I will finish it this year!!!!
To be honest, the first 100 chapters are so amazingly written that I have read so many novels and am writing a review for the first time. The extreme love-hate relationship in the previous chapter is really good, but!!!! I have to say but! Is this ending really he? Author, don't you feel sad? This is not he at all. This ending is unacceptable. It is not as good as double death. Even double death is worthy of the ups and downs of Yan Nanzhou in these two hundred chapters! It turned out to be a drama within a drama in Chinese. I was really suffocated when I watched the finale. It was so suffocating. This kind of ending is not he at all. Ji Changning went through so many unforgettable emotional entanglements and then returned to modern times and was able to have a boyfriend, and it was only for a short period of time. This is a logic that I don't understand. How can I fall in love with such an amazing person when I was young and fall in love with him in just a few months? I don't understand!!! Yan Nanzhou has suffered so much. It's already part of the script. Why can't he be given a slightly better ending in the end? Isn't Yan Nanzhou also his biological child? Can you bear it?
Congratulations on the completion! After watching the end, I wondered if Chang Ning's resistance was actually planned. My heart skipped a beat, and then I saw that Zuo's words were true. Madam, are you really... I don't know if this is a be or a he...
Madam, are you missing?
It's so bitter. I was still yelling at the male protagonist earlier, how can you come back to me? To the back: Okay, it's really too painful 😭
"The steps stopped, Xie Wuxu walked forward into the dark night sky, his lips raised with a nonchalant smile, and his voice spread with the sound of the wind, "No more over there. ""Catch a big bug for the author~ Then
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Watching it again after such a long time, it's really like a sigh... Suddenly I thought that my wife should write a good ending... A side story, a side story, please write a side story soon [Chigua]