My friend's upcoming novel, Dreaming of Lian Lian, is recommended here. The author is Today I'll Go to Rome.
[The whole novel is being carefully revised. I take no responsibility for pirated copies.
If you can't handle a BE, please skip the Jiang Li storyline and the past-life storyline.]
--Blurb--
Jiang Peixi died of depression in Jianxing in her previous life.
In an aristocratic clan society obsessed with family background, she had the most exalted status, yet married beneath her to an orphan of humble origins.
Having seen so many noble young men, she looked down on her dull, taciturn husband.
In this marriage between people of vastly different status, the aloof and proud Jiang Peixi treated everything about her husband's family with indifference.
Until one night, after getting drunk and insisting on returning to her parents' home, her husband took her back to Jiangling in the middle of the night.
Through the piercing wind and snow, he carried her for a long way, then took a boat for three days, bringing her home in the stillness of night.
Beneath the cold, clear moonlight on the snow, she saw his gentleness and generosity.
But later, the Zhou and Jiang families became enemies. As they repeatedly fought for power, the couple grew increasingly distant until they finally turned against each other.
Jiang Peixi was reborn on the day she was returning to her husband's home from her parents'. Looking at the snow falling harder and the wind blowing stronger outside, she knew exactly what to think:
Her marriage to her husband had begun for the sake of mutual interest, and would end for the same reason. There was no point in keeping it alive.
A marriage where the wife marries down and the husband marries up is torment for both of them.
But when she saw her husband stumble over the ruins, stubbornly making his way toward her, she couldn't help softening her heart, just as she had in her previous life.
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Zhou Shuo was a man with few desires and no expectations. He disliked intense emotions and even felt a subtle aversion to passionate love.
Having been hurt by a mother driven mad by love, he understood one thing: compared with hysterical passion, indifferent pretense could at least preserve a shred of dignity in the end.
From then on, he accepted hardship and misfortune with equanimity. He never wished for anything, never expected anything good, and so never knew what it meant to feel wronged.
But when he looked at the wife who had married beneath herself to be with him, he couldn't help feeling that she had been wronged.
The only blemish on the life of the noble and dignified Lady Jiang was marrying down.
He was a speck of dust in her splendid life.
He'd thought he understood everything, and was happy to let Lady Jiang divorce him and marry someone else. But after experiencing loss and reunion, he suddenly understood his mother's despair and madness.
Love means...
Following one another, in life and in death.
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Years later, a young member of the Zhou family fell in love with a man from a humble family.
Zhou Shuo disapproved.
Jiang Peixi asked him why.
Holding a cluster of purple hydrangeas gathered together in full bloom, he walked slowly beneath the lush canopy of flowers. "Marrying down means being treated unfairly."
Warnings:
1. This is a completely fictional setting. Imperial power has declined, and aristocratic clans reign supreme. The entire book is based on invented details and has no connection to any historical dynasty.
2. The story opens with the heroine reborn, with flashbacks interspersed throughout. The plot serves the romance, and the leads save each other.
3. The heroine is stubborn, soft-hearted, proud, and quick-tempered. The hero is a good-natured man who grows more insecure the deeper he falls in love. He is neither obsessive nor unstable. The heroine has had a first love, while the hero has no romantic experience.
4. Neither lead is perfect. Please don't casually ask me to change the plot or the characterization, including the narrative style.
5. The author's note after Chapter One has detailed warnings.
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Blurb written on August 13, 2022, and archived.
Dreaming of Lian Lian by Today I'll Go to Rome
Ruan Ying's stepmother came into her life when she was eight.
The stepmother was jealous and treated her harshly, constantly keeping her in check.
Ruan Ying thought she'd just have to be good and keep her head down under her stepmother's watchful eye until the day her childhood sweetheart came to marry her.
Surely life would only get better.
Who could have guessed that her stepmother would send her to the prime minister's bed?
They had a clandestine affair without a matchmaker, and she had been unfaithful.
Her father, whom she'd thought would show her at least a little kindness, turned around and sent her to the prime minister's residence in a sedan chair.
Everyone knew the current prime minister was amiable and reasonable in public.
Ruan Ying sat in the sedan chair full of hope, wanting to explain everything to Xie Jingchen and ask him to write her a letter of divorce so she could find her childhood sweetheart.
But she never imagined that the impeccably dressed prime minister would become a beast in private, keeping her trapped in his bed night after night.
When it was over, he even sneered at her for using her looks to curry favor.
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Ever since attending the Lin'an prefect's banquet a month ago, Xie Jingchen had been unable to sleep well.
Night after night, he dreamed of Yingying, the prefect's youngest daughter, swaying her hips and speaking to him in a sweet voice. "Prime Minister, please have some wine."
It was driving him mad.
Then one day, he woke from another dream, gasping for breath, and found the delicate flower right before him, shattered into pieces.
Theme: A lasting relationship takes effort and commitment from both people.
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Great author, I remember that there was still a hole that I had not filled before, which was who was the person who set fire to my cousin and wanted to burn Peixi to death?
Finally finished reading. I cried to death during the first and second volumes. The latter part was indeed a bit too rushed and finished in a hurry. Personally, I feel that Mrs. Pei's life is unnecessary. It seems so confusing. It is used to shape the crazy character of the second male lead in this life. I also feel that it is unnecessary. Maybe I don't like to have so many lives in the rebirth novel. My favorite part in this life is the part where Mrs. Pei and Duke Zhou spent the New Year in Kyoto. I don't know if the author wants to write about the three lives of the male and female protagonists. A missed life, a tragic life and a perfect life.
Write a review. It's the best thing I haven't said goodbye to the novel properly. Now I'll make a comment [Spread flowers]. I really like Pei Xi. I think Pei Xi is very real and a real flesh-and-blood girl 😍 Peixi has a soft heart 🥺. At the beginning of her life, she chooses to "cherish" rather than "revenge". Jianxing left Xiexuan Langfang and pushed away the maid Aqing who deceived her. But, because I had an unforgettable love, even if I hated him, I still braved the wind and snow to give that "idiot" who had been kneeling all night a silk umbrella and a way to live, and then left him forever... 🥺 Peixi is very lively 😚 because she wants to give an explanation for her past feelings. So I "recklessly" went to the windy and sandy Gobi Desert - Ning'an. But it is precisely because of this "recklessness" that Peixi has never been an emotional evader. She has struggled, flinched, and hesitated, but in the end she bravely kept moving forward [Like] [Like]. It was this sincerity that allowed Pei Xi to get to know the bright, free and easy Anasha, and get important help from Anasha. Peixi devalued herself, saying that she was mean, indifferent, and extreme... But the indifferent Peixi saved Xu Pan'er, who everyone thought had ulterior motives, and gave the isolated girl a way to survive without being harmed by the clan's persecution. The mean Pei Xi ignored her own safety so many times to save A Yin, whom she had known since childhood and whose uncle had embezzled her family property. After knowing that she had been firmly chosen, the extreme Pei Xi gave up her future and went to seek a way out for Shen Yi... How could anyone take relationships so seriously? 😭 😭 Peixi said that she couldn't bear to part with gold, silver and soft goods, and she couldn't bear to be a county prince. She was a complete commoner 🥺. However, it was precisely because he knew the importance of money and status that Pei Xi saved the victims of the plague in Donghe who did not belong to his fiefdom. "Kindness may be of no use to aristocratic families, but when it is supported by money, it can protect a place. At this time, kindness is so precious." There is also the family relationship between Peixi and her sister Qionghua, which is thicker than water. No matter how many rifts they have had, in the end, in each other's hearts, you are the one who comes first. (Reminds me of my little sister) This is a real person 🧋 🧋 People are real because of their contradictions. The vows made in youth make people look forward to them because they are illusory. Kindness by nature makes people long in love, and time teaches people to hide their love deeply...[Orange Heart][Orange Heart] Pei Xi is multi-faceted, with a complex and true self. She is lively but also withdrawn; she can be warm and cool; she has both an emotional and kind side and a selfish and cowardly side. These contradictions make her true and beautiful. Just like a rose, it is fragrant but has thorns. 🤗🤗 I love the fragrance of her fragrant grass, and even more the rebellion and strength represented by her "thorns". Finally, thank you Yanyan 🌈 🌈, thank you Yanyan for letting me meet such a beautiful Peixi, such a beautiful story [bixin][bixin][purple sugar]k[bixin], and thank you for following the series together, we are sisters who discuss each other! I'm really happy 😆😆 ps. Come on Yanyan, everyone is happy every day 🐰🐰[purple sugar]kswl[purple sugar]kswl
It would be great if there was a side story where the male protagonist is reborn>? O?
There is even a side story! I'm so happy. I couldn't believe it when I saw there was an update for "Low Marry"! So jealous, haha
I have read it over and over again, with new discoveries and feelings every time. This is really my top romance book [Spreading Flowers]. The text does not describe the characters in any vernacular, but uses the words and deeds of the characters in the plot to let readers understand the characters' personalities and ways of doing things. I think this is truly advanced writing. What's even more rare is that the character's concepts and mentality are not static. The character's "movement line" is promoted step by step as the plot develops, and it is very natural and smooth. In the process of character changes, the character's background remains unchanged, such as Pei Xi's kindness and Xiao Zhou's kindness. Pei Xi was born into a noble family, and in a powerful family, her "humanity" almost had a hint of divinity. She is willing to possess and embrace those whose lives are at stake, whether it is Zhou Shuo, the victims of the disaster, or the dead assistant beside her. Her love is a "universal love." For Peixi, who was born noble, the concept of "equality" she wants to uphold goes against her natural advantages. Those with vested interests are willing to violate the system that benefits them just to speak out for those who are unfairly affected by the system. It's almost a Promethean sense of salvation. This kind of kindness is too precious for Zhou Shuo, the most discriminated illegitimate son in this system, so it is almost inevitable that he will fall in love with Pei Xi. But at the same time, the author does not deny that Peixi's kindness is a luxury in this worldview and needs to be protected and maintained. Pei Xi did good deeds with the connivance and support of her powerful mother. This description makes her more real, rather than a "goddess" on paper. She is not omnipotent, and she also has her own incompetence; and Zhou Shuo's sense of inferiority and unworthiness brought about by his status as an illegitimate child happened to give Pei Xi the freedom she lacked the most. Pei Xi has lived under the control of her mother since she was a child. Her sister and cousin all want to plan her life. This kind of control in the name of love is something Peixi resists. If she follows through to the end, she will die together (just like in the cousin line). And what about Zhou Shuo? He does not think that his love is something worthy of her liking, and even thinks that his heart will become a stain on her. So he was cautious, fearing that Peixi would be wronged, let alone blackmail her with his love. And this kind of gentle cherishing is exactly what Peixi needs. Therefore, the love between the male and female protagonists is quite logical. Peixi gains freedom and tolerance from Xiao Zhou, and Zhou Shuo gains kind love from Peixi. What they need is also in line with their own character background, everything is so suitable. In the process of falling in love, they also changed. Peixi is willing to put aside the prejudice brought about by her upbringing environment and accept Xiao Zhou's identity as an illegitimate child. This is also a big step in promoting her own growth. She regained her original aspirations as a child and strengthened her beliefs. Deciding to love Zhou Shuo means deciding to go against the family's ideas. And in the process of falling in love with Zhou Shuo, she also learned to be tolerant, making her love less sharp and no longer stabbing Zhou Shuo. This may be the tolerance she learned from Zhou Shuo; while Zhou Shuo, his love was cautious at first, for fear of being discovered by Peixi. This also made Peixi mistakenly think that he had no intention of her, which made her very angry. Peixi's pride and Zhou Shuo's silence once made their relationship stagnant and almost fell apart. Fortunately, Zhou Shuo's identity was revealed later, and the separation between life and death allowed the two to understand their own feelings. Later, after being accepted by Peixi, he gradually learned to express his little emotions and act coquettishly to Peixi, believing that she would not dislike him for being naive and imperfect. This is the acceptance and respect for one's own identity that he learned from Peixi; I think a good relationship should make both parties better and make both parties happier. And this is the feeling between them. I have seen some people say that the timeline is confusing, but in fact, the author uses highly suggestive words to represent each time point in each interspersion. At least it is very clear to me when I read it. The comparison between the past and present life can make people see Peixi's changes more clearly. The comparison between childhood and adulthood can highlight Peixi's growth. If there were no interludes, it would be very confusing. I think Yanyan must have put a lot of effort into conceiving the plot and thinking over it over and over before she could present it with such a strong logic. Thank you Yanyan for bringing us such good words, I love you 💪
It turns out that I used to drink green tea when I was a kid.
What did I expect!! Hahahahaha! Extra! Today I went to Weibo to watch the replies to Kai's new post! Happy happy!
This is my third time this year. When will it be updated? I really need you.