I'm having a bit of writer's block as I wrap things up, so updates will be irregular.
Upcoming novel: My Fiancee Became Emperor Behind My Back. Blurb at the end.
Blurb for this novel:
Qin Yufeng's maternal grandfather is a prince of a different surname, her older brother is a great general, and her father is about to become the chief grand secretary. As the only legitimate daughter in the family, she has long been prepared to enter the palace, throw her weight around, and make the most of every day.
But her family is far too concerned with staying alive. Before she enters the palace, they pray to the gods and Buddhas, and cover the space beneath her bed with books of women's conduct, hoping she will become virtuous and decorous overnight.
Before stepping into the sedan chair sent to receive the consorts, Madam Qin says through tears, "Your mother doesn't want to become a disgrace to the Qin family. Once you're in the palace, please think of your family before you do anything."
To keep from getting her family's nerves in an uproar again, Qin Yufeng solemnly promises, "I'll do my best to get along with my sisters in the palace."
Before Qin Yufeng enters the palace, the emperor prepares himself to put up with her for now and settle accounts with her later.
Who would have thought she wouldn't act domineering at all, and would instead try to get along with everyone in the harem?
It's just that her methods... are hard to approve of.
When deciding her title, he politely asks whether she has any preferences.
She says, "None of those quite fit. Why not call me Hua? It suits someone as domineering as me."
He: "..."
Consort Jing fakes a five-month pregnancy to frame someone, and everyone in the harem keeps their distance.
The moment Qin Yufeng sees her, she rushes over and hugs her. "Little sister, you're so thin! Your belly's flatter than it was last month. Have you been taking some miraculous medicine?"
Consort Jing: "..."
Lady Qiu is frail as a willow in the wind, timid and helpless, and seems to be constantly getting framed.
Now Qin Yufeng drags her around the palace every day, making a grand spectacle of their escapades. Whenever anyone asks, she cheerfully explains, "Little Sister Qiu is timid, so I'm helping her get some practice and build her confidence."
Lady Qiu: "..."
The emperor is convinced that if things continue this way, the entire harem will go astray. So, taking advantage of an opportunity, he confines Qin Yufeng to her palace.
The head eunuch says, "Your Majesty, you've confined Consort Hua for three months already."
He asks, "Has she admitted her mistake?"
The head eunuch says, "Consort Hua invited the Empress Dowager to her palace to play cards. Her Majesty lost all night without sleeping, then issued an edict lifting the confinement, only to claim she was ill and refuse to see anyone herself!"
He: "..."
Qin Yufeng is a transmigrator, and she knows one thing for certain: People who practice terrifyingly aggressive socializing can get everything they want without arousing suspicion.
P.S. The emperor will favor other consorts too. In the early part of the story, he mainly serves as a plot device, but in the middle and later parts, he will dote exclusively on the female lead.
Upcoming novel:
The eldest young master of the Xie family is a man of great talent, wise and eloquent, yet past the age of twenty, he still holds no official position.
When people ask him about it, he says he hopes to spend his life enjoying poetry and romance, living as freely as a cloud or a wild crane.
In truth, he believes the imperial clan is weak and the feudal lords vicious, and he has no desire to get involved.
"But my parents don't want me to marry out of the family. They insist the man has to have a household registration in the capital, property, and a civil service job... I mean, he needs some official post."
The woman he loves clasps his hand, her eyes misty with tears.
Before he can decide what to do, she leaves him a betrothal token, says she'll fight her family to the end, and disappears without a trace.
Xie You doesn't want her to fall out with her family for his sake. In the end, he agrees to take up an official post and boards a carriage bound for the capital.
On his first day at court,
he is astonished to discover that the young emperor seated high on the dragon throne has a face exactly like his fiancee's.
When Xiao Yun first transmigrates into the body of a prince who disguises herself as a man, she is absolutely ecstatic.
When she discovers that she is the doomed crown prince of the previous dynasty in a novel, she quickly gathers her valuables and bolts. But outside the city, she finds ruined walls and fires that have yet to die out.
She wants to save the world, but she has neither money nor manpower.
Clutching the script for The Nation's Tragic Romance: Tears of a Beauty in Turbulent Times, Xiao Yun plans to secretly join the protagonists' group. Whether she meets heroes or villains, she'll trick every talented person she encounters into working for her.
Her plan works spectacularly well.
She even manages to recruit the eldest young master of the Xie family, a man the male lead in the book couldn't win over.
As for the scene that unfolds when her deception is exposed...
She can handle it!!!
"Your Majesty granted me the rank of one of the Three Dukes, but you won't wear a phoenix coronet for me even for one day?"
"I don't think this compensation is enough."
Xiao Yun leans against the doorframe and watches Xie You lift the strings of beads hanging from her crown.
His gaze is clearly as gentle as water. So why is he so frightening?
P.S. 1. Xie You is the love interest; the others are all brothers. A handsome, devious nobleman × a clever female emperor who lets loose without restraint.
2. Court intrigue in turbulent times. I wanted to write a novel with lots of handsome men, and most of the time it's goofy and lighthearted.
Theme: Have the courage to break unspoken rules.
The queen turned into a cat and became a master of sterilization. I will really die laughing.
When I first watched it, I liked the heroine's strength and fearlessness, as well as the lightness of the writing style. Even though the author said that the hero was just a tool, I still expected the heroine to find a perfect love. Gradually, towards the end, I gradually felt a sense of unhappiness. It didn't have the same cool feeling as before, but I still hoped that the extra chapter would make up for this discomfort. After reading the extra, I felt a little unhappy, but I think this is probably because the heroine in the main text has achieved the usual achievements of heroines in heroine stories, and also met the expectations of our readers. She has a family who loves her and friends who tolerate each other. But this is actually the result of the heroine's compromise with the times, society, and interpersonal relationships.
Most of the articles end here when the male and female protagonists sit firmly in the throne and share the friendship with each other. Everyone is willing to enjoy a bright future, and it is natural that love will be stronger than gold.
However, this article also extends to after middle age, and it is indeed written in a more "realistic" way. The relationship between the emperor and his wife needs to be carefully managed. When she was young, the heroine needed to manage the emperor's love, maintain alliances with the harem and family to protect herself. In her prime, she had to scheming in the court to maintain the emperor's trust. It was not until her daughter took over that she had some freedom to do whatever she wanted. Isn't this our ordinary life in reality? When I was young, I was pampered by my family. Once I entered the society, I had to think about work and social interactions, interpersonal relationships during holidays, maintain a stable and happy family, and how to train men. I made countless compromises for the sake of the family. I didn't feel relaxed again until my children had successful careers.
The heroine of the extra chapter has returned to an inclusive and peaceful era. She has a family member who will love her unconditionally - her third uncle. On the basis of material security and personal safety, she can be mentally self-sufficient. The heroine really wants to do whatever she wants, so she is as free as the wind and does not need to conform to the expectations of anyone else (readers).
After thinking about it again, it might be a bit disconnected that makes people feel uncomfortable. The author sets Yu Feng as a person who yearns for freedom very much, but under the premise that her own freedom is endangered in the feudal society, she does not think about gaining freedom by gaining power, but restricts herself, carefully balances the relationship with the emperor, and obtains the freedom within the scope allowed by others. Although there are a series of reasons such as not wanting to harm people's livelihood, the heroine and uncle always give people a feeling of being secretive about power. The author tries hard to find rationality for them to give up power, but it still reads quite reluctantly.
I thought there was a lot more to come, at least a third, but it ended in just two chapters. The writing at the front is so dazzling that it seems like a mess. All in all, it has a good ending.
My comments in Chapter 22 coincide with my wife's comments. A truly strong person can make the best of any situation. Depressed people who seek death at every turn still lack a strong enough heart. Transforming the environment is the best, using the environment is the second best, adapting to the environment is the third, and submitting to the environment or even giving up on yourself is the last.
???? I shouldn't have missed more than a dozen chapters, why did several years suddenly pass by, why did I suddenly become a queen, why did I suddenly have a cub?
Why does it feel like it's suddenly accelerating and coming to an end?
Lou Qianning's cat is the queen? ? ?
I thought I could keep up with the author's brain circuit, but I was caught off guard and was traumatized...
Your side story. . . . It's better not to write it, I'm just saying
Most of the story of the harem has been described, and the copywriting has been successfully recycled. If the wife lacks confidence in her description of the previous affairs, ending this way is also a good choice. Yufeng is not an ambitious person like Emperor Wu, she is just a person who does her best to promote the progress of the times. It can be said that she and Tang Jue got what they wanted.
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The queen turned into a cat and became a master of sterilization. I will really die laughing.
When I first watched it, I liked the heroine's strength and fearlessness, as well as the lightness of the writing style. Even though the author said that the hero was just a tool, I still expected the heroine to find a perfect love. Gradually, towards the end, I gradually felt a sense of unhappiness. It didn't have the same cool feeling as before, but I still hoped that the extra chapter would make up for this discomfort. After reading the extra, I felt a little unhappy, but I think this is probably because the heroine in the main text has achieved the usual achievements of heroines in heroine stories, and also met the expectations of our readers. She has a family who loves her and friends who tolerate each other. But this is actually the result of the heroine's compromise with the times, society, and interpersonal relationships. Most of the articles end here when the male and female protagonists sit firmly in the throne and share the friendship with each other. Everyone is willing to enjoy a bright future, and it is natural that love will be stronger than gold. However, this article also extends to after middle age, and it is indeed written in a more "realistic" way. The relationship between the emperor and his wife needs to be carefully managed. When she was young, the heroine needed to manage the emperor's love, maintain alliances with the harem and family to protect herself. In her prime, she had to scheming in the court to maintain the emperor's trust. It was not until her daughter took over that she had some freedom to do whatever she wanted. Isn't this our ordinary life in reality? When I was young, I was pampered by my family. Once I entered the society, I had to think about work and social interactions, interpersonal relationships during holidays, maintain a stable and happy family, and how to train men. I made countless compromises for the sake of the family. I didn't feel relaxed again until my children had successful careers. The heroine of the extra chapter has returned to an inclusive and peaceful era. She has a family member who will love her unconditionally - her third uncle. On the basis of material security and personal safety, she can be mentally self-sufficient. The heroine really wants to do whatever she wants, so she is as free as the wind and does not need to conform to the expectations of anyone else (readers).
After thinking about it again, it might be a bit disconnected that makes people feel uncomfortable. The author sets Yu Feng as a person who yearns for freedom very much, but under the premise that her own freedom is endangered in the feudal society, she does not think about gaining freedom by gaining power, but restricts herself, carefully balances the relationship with the emperor, and obtains the freedom within the scope allowed by others. Although there are a series of reasons such as not wanting to harm people's livelihood, the heroine and uncle always give people a feeling of being secretive about power. The author tries hard to find rationality for them to give up power, but it still reads quite reluctantly.
I thought there was a lot more to come, at least a third, but it ended in just two chapters. The writing at the front is so dazzling that it seems like a mess. All in all, it has a good ending.
My comments in Chapter 22 coincide with my wife's comments. A truly strong person can make the best of any situation. Depressed people who seek death at every turn still lack a strong enough heart. Transforming the environment is the best, using the environment is the second best, adapting to the environment is the third, and submitting to the environment or even giving up on yourself is the last.
???? I shouldn't have missed more than a dozen chapters, why did several years suddenly pass by, why did I suddenly become a queen, why did I suddenly have a cub?
Why does it feel like it's suddenly accelerating and coming to an end?
Lou Qianning's cat is the queen? ? ? I thought I could keep up with the author's brain circuit, but I was caught off guard and was traumatized...
Your side story. . . . It's better not to write it, I'm just saying
Most of the story of the harem has been described, and the copywriting has been successfully recycled. If the wife lacks confidence in her description of the previous affairs, ending this way is also a good choice. Yufeng is not an ambitious person like Emperor Wu, she is just a person who does her best to promote the progress of the times. It can be said that she and Tang Jue got what they wanted.