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My new novel, A Noble Family's Children Take the Imperial Exams, is now underway. The blurb is below.
Pre-release: Dream Guest. Please add it to your collection.
Blurb:
I transmigrated.
The good news: I was born into a prominent aristocratic family, and my father holds the lofty office of Chief Minister.
The bad news: In these turbulent times, our party was attacked by rioters on the way back to the capital. I fell off a cliff and was abandoned by my family.
The good news: A stranger passing by rescued me.
The bad news: The stranger is the rebel leader, my former fiance, who broke off our engagement.
The good news: My new fiance is devoted to me and willing to live or die for me.
The bad news: The two men are sworn enemies on opposite sides.
The even worse news: I have to get married.
The absolute worst news: The city is about to fall, and he's going to ascend the throne and exterminate my entire clan.
Me?
Him: What are you pretending for? Where did you hide our marriage contract?
They have seen each other at their worst, with nothing hidden. They hate each other, yet would give up their lives for one another, and neither has ever left.
A calmly unhinged, scheming, crazy woman of a heroine who's nothing but beautiful
A rugged, calculating, ruthless hero with no weakness except for the heroine
Reading guide:
Set in a fictional world. Please don't nitpick the history.
Written in third person.
A battlefield of competing suitors, imperfect leads, lighthearted melodrama and chaos, and lots and lots of sweetness.
Ongoing: A Noble Family's Children Take the Imperial Exams. Blurb:
In his past life, Ning Yucheng worked himself to the bone from kindergarten through his career. He achieved fame and success, but died alone in his office before he could enjoy any of it.
After transmigrating as a member of a prominent family in Jiangzhou Prefecture, with no worries about food or clothes, Ning Yucheng decides to enjoy life for a change.
Who could have guessed that the Ning family children would work even harder than people in his previous life?
They compete over calligraphy, memorization, and exams. If you pass the imperial exam as the third-ranked scholar, I'll aim for top honors.
Want to lie flat?
Then get ready to be kicked out, penniless and left to fend for yourself.
The Ning family never supports useless idlers!
Ning Yucheng: ?
Can't we compete in some other way?
The imperial exams are a path to advancement for ordinary people. Those who make it through become members of the elite, while countless people at the bottom suffer hardship. Why fight them for a place on that path?
The Great Qi dynasty is backward and poor. Simply entering government and becoming an honest official won't be enough to give ordinary people a good life.
Better to compete at the bottom than at the top!
Under Ning Yucheng's subtle influence, every Ning family member who passes the imperial exams resigns and returns to Jiangzhou Prefecture to pursue "unorthodox" work.
The eldest, Ning Yuhua: I'll focus on farming and increase crop yields, so the people have enough to eat.
The second, Ning Yumin: I'll focus on medicine, healing people and extending their lives.
The third daughter, Ning Yuying: I'll focus on engineering! Women can do it too. Women can build beautiful landscapes as well!
The men and women of the Ning family throw themselves into education, and even physics and chemistry...
In the end, they work the Great Qi dynasty so hard that it can barely stand, but the nation grows wealthy and its people prosper.
Someone asks Ning Yucheng, the power behind the Jiangzhou Ning family: What was the turning point that let the Ning family completely transform the poverty and backwardness of Great Qi?
Ning Yucheng: You probably won't believe this, but I didn't want to work hard, so I egged them on to do it instead.
I never imagined they'd achieve so much!
Reading guide:
Set in a fictional world. Please don't nitpick the history.
The imperial exam system is inspired by the Tang and Song dynasties, not the Ming or Qing.
The early story focuses on studying; the later story focuses on farming and infrastructure.
An ensemble cast. The women focus on their careers, with very little romance.
Pre-release: Dream Guest. Blurb:
[Reserved and taciturn young scholar VS a sweet, emotional young lady]
1. Cheng Danzhu never expected that, while she was peacefully napping in her family's courtyard, someone would press a long sword to her neck and demand, "Who are you, and why did you break into my courtyard?"
Cheng Danzhu struggled and looked around. Seeing the familiar wisteria, she protested through tearful eyes, "But this is where I've lived since I was little!"
Cheng Danzhu woke with a start. After that, however, the proud, aloof young man kept appearing in her dreams, and their lives became entangled.
He said his name was Ming Yuchuan.
Cheng Danzhu froze. She had heard that name before.
Ming Yuchuan, a chancellor who conspired with Prince Qin to rebel. In the ninth year of Wende, he was sentenced to death by a thousand cuts. The Ming Yuchuan Cheng Danzhu met was living in the spring of the eighth year of Wende, with only a year left before his execution.
Ming Yuchuan might be cold and proud, but he was a brilliant, truly upright gentleman. Cheng Danzhu refused to believe he would rebel and desperately searched for evidence that could help him escape his fate.
Nearly a century after the events, Cheng Danzhu exhausted herself and finally found the person who had framed him, before he was thrown into prison.
She looked at the evidence, torn and heartbroken.
He never appeared in her dreams again.
2. A sweet, spirited young girl barged into Ming Yuchuan's wisteria garden and told him it was her courtyard.
And he was about to be convicted of treason and rebellion, then sentenced to death.
She wasn't making it up. He had already died once, and the pain of being cut to pieces was still vivid in his mind.
She kept coming back. Though she had been spoiled all her life, she went to great lengths to find the person who had framed him.
He had found that person too.
He didn't see her again, and was willing to endure the execution once more.
A century later, with her there, it wouldn't hurt so much.
Reading guide:
Set in a fictional world. Please don't nitpick the history.
Happy ending.
The title comes from Li Yu's poem, "Lang Tao Sha Ling": "In dreams I know not that I am a guest; for a brief while, I indulge in pleasure."
Theme: With enough perseverance, even an iron pestle can be ground into a needle.
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In fact, the interaction between the male protagonist and the female protagonist is also very lively, but I always feel that Shen Jiu's portrayal is more vivid than him. Whether it is inferiority, cruelty, or admiration for the female protagonist, maybe the male and female protagonists are more suitable for marriage, with the same class and social recognition, but Shen Jiu. . . It's really difficult to understand. The male protagonist has many things except the female protagonist. Shen Jiu has nothing except the female protagonist. The author has written this article very well. The male protagonist and the second male protagonist are very vivid. Ordinarily, such a good article really shouldn't have only this ranking. What a pity.
Alas... It's great to have collected them all.
I feel like the relationship between the two of them hasn't been written much yet. It ended a bit hastily, but I still like this book. I'm waiting for the extra chapter [Panda Head]
Maybe the data in this book is not good and the author doesn't want to write it. In fact, I think this book is very interesting, but it's a pity that the exposure rate is too low.
So wonderful! Both male leads are great! But I feel like it was written in one go. There are many parts that would look better if I refined it a little more! Very fast pace! Found another huge treasure!
This is my first time commenting, I came across an interesting article, thank you to the author.
The ending of "Spreading Flowers" is so well written, I haven't read a book so completely in a long time. The male and female leads, Chang Shan and Hong Fu are all particularly good. Shen Jiu was very sad when he died. I hope he can be happy in parallel time and space. The male and female protagonists are also together, and they are very happy. Who knows, I am worried to death, for fear that they will not be together. It's a pity that there is no extra episode. It would be great if there was a side story about Shen Jiu. There are also daily routines of the male and female protagonists after marriage. Damn it, the writing is really good, why is it not popular? The only drawback is that it's a little short, and the male protagonist's attitude towards the female protagonist goes too far too quickly. But it's not a big problem. Happy???
Ah, I feel like the conflict has not been resolved, so I just ended it hastily.
Love this one! Is that why the data is so bad?
I hope to write more later and don't finish it so quickly.