Feel free to let this one build up before reading!
Inspiration: If life could slow down, might there come a day when we can sit together, watch the clouds drift by, chat about family matters, and talk about life's twists and turns? (P.S. Paragraph comments are open. Here's a bedtime read for you. Sweet dreams.)
Because of the platform and the unusual chapter format, each chapter will be published as two installments to preserve the integrity of the story.
A character-driven story about the everyday affairs of official families in Rongzhou, the capital of Kyoto, and a tale of love and scandal revolving around the four great clans: Jiang, Xu, Yu, and Shi. Told primarily from the perspective of Jiang Qingyun, the fourth daughter of the Jiang family, it explores the secret lives and marital entanglements of the children of official families. In plain terms: wife-murder, husband-murder, suicide by hanging, lovers, separation, repudiation, severing all ties, love between men, love between women, and all sorts of tangled affairs. Gradually, it also reveals the family entanglements and romantic debts of a previous life. The story has joy and sorrow, with some things determined by fate and others by human choice.
1. Some poems, lyrics, songs, and plays in the story will have their sources noted, while others are original works by the author. Please don't investigate them. 2. The story is set in a fictional dynasty, with things borrowed from the Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties. Please don't investigate.
Please pay close attention to this!
Content warnings: 1. This is an old-fashioned, ensemble-cast story with a chaotic mix of pairings, but the main plot is a heterosexual romance in which both leads are inexperienced. (Everyone defines this differently. Here, it means that the man and woman have never kissed or had sex.) 2. There are same-sex romances in the side plots, which are woven into chapters outside the extras. 3. There are many characters and relationships, and some heartbreaking moments. This is not a wish-fulfillment story. 4. If that's not for you, please move along.
Theme: Reject feudalism and build a career. I make my own fate and seek my own fortune.
Although I have just started reading one chapter, I still don't know where the story is going. Just from the choice of words and sentences, and the vivid characters, I can see that the author has carefully thought about it. I hope the author can spare no effort to show us a beautiful bedtime story that is carefully described.
After reading the first chapter, I felt that the writing style is very similar to that in the textbook. You have to read it very carefully. If you read it too fast, you will not be able to connect the context. The plot may develop a bit slowly and become boring. Come on.
Help... Is this a copy of Red Mansions?
Come on, madam, we are getting fatter~
I'm fattening up, come on, madam
It actually stopped here ah ah ah
Luwu ran closer - come in
Why did he suddenly turn to political tactics after just kowtow [covering his face and laughing and crying] [covering his face and laughing and crying] Helping people is so brain-burning, does it mean that the officials want to take back the power of the Queen Mother and kill someone with a borrowed knife? But the Xie family married the niece of the Queen Mother. If the Xie family is finished, won't the Queen Mother be implicated? Moreover, the Xie family is still a relative of the Queen. Wait, does this mean that the officials also have conflicts with the Queen?
Yeah, it feels like a medium-length novel, come on 🌈
I like it so much, it makes my little girl smile in the arena