[Scholar x Courtesan x Official]
Jiang Sui remembered their first meeting: outside Suzhou, lotus blossoms spread across the water, while cats and mynah birds crowded around the smiling, jade-faced young man.
She was short on money, and he took pity on her.
Stories always say that a gifted scholar belongs with a beautiful woman, and courtesans and scholars seem destined for bittersweet romances. Mother said the world was full of fleeting pleasures, so you should take things as they came. But Jiang Sui stubbornly insisted on banging her head against the wall, escaping the splendor of Ronghua Tower and finding a path different from her mother's.
Yet, looking back on more than twenty years of life, she realized that from the moment she escaped that magnificent tower, her life and her mother's had been overlapping.
Mu Heyu never lived to see the autumn of the following year.
Jiang Sui held A-Zhi's hand and watched the people come and go at the City God Temple. As she drifted along in her little rootless boat, she sometimes couldn't help looking back at the person she'd passed several times, yet could never forget at a glance.
Shen Ran was nothing like Mu Heyu. He was cold, imposing without anger, and never smiled.
But the word "alike" was terrifying enough to make your blood run cold.
There is no torrid love affair or endless riches here, only the story of a tenderhearted girl steering a tiny, unsteady boat through stormy waters and breaking through the confines of her own heart.
Reader's Guide:
1. Set in a fictionalized late Ming era, with plenty of melodramatic romance.
2. The romances are all tragic, but I personally consider the ending happy. There are no torturous scenes that make you wish you were dead, and the angst stays mild throughout. The only thing is, the heroine doesn't end up with anyone.
3. Mu and Shen are both male leads, and they appear quite late. Both are physically and emotionally untouched, each gets half the story, and one dies while the other lives.
Theme: One person can live well on their own
It's better to follow her than to follow the Duke's Mansion [covering face, laughing and crying] Although it is best to follow the mother, there is a huge difference between being the granddaughter of the Duke's Mansion and the daughter of a prostitute. Although she knows she is Heyu's child, others don't know how they will view this child then, thinking that what she shouted out of reason is the truth. Not only this lady, but Heyu also fell into disgrace, and Heyu's parents are actually quite pitiful.
It's really stupid. It's better to burn firewood in the backyard. Bai Chang is twenty years old and actually thinks that being a flower girl in the building is better than doing chores in the backyard.
I wasn't sold into Ronghua Building, so why can't I get out? Will she have to sell herself as a prostitute if the madam sees her? The heroine is already in her twenties and feels like she has no brains [covers her face and laughs while crying] Why is she still trying to be a flower girl, just because she is so depressed in the backyard? Did my aunt kiss her or not? She actually agreed to commit herself to the building [covering face, laughing and crying]
Mu Heyu is really unlucky. Although the heroine has her own last resort, Mu Heyu is really demoted because she offended the villain Xue Yi, and she had a promising future. The white-haired man gave the black-haired man a favor, and the heroine is like a disaster. From the perspective of Mu's parents, they really want to kill her, and they really don't have any good impressions of the heroine so far.
Mu Heyu is so good and you actually want him to die [covering face, laughing and crying]
I didn't originally want to follow the series, but the author's literary talent is so good that it makes me want to follow it. I have to read it dozens of times a day. Have you updated it? 💪 💪
I thought I had left a heir for the Mu family. After all, in those days, sons were more important than daughters.
For Mu Heyu's sake, he shouldn't have thrown himself into the river. At least he would have left a successor for his family.
Shen Xi's rescue was really timely. Wasn't it three hundred and one taels? Later, Xue Yi reported four hundred taels when Xiang Mie died. Did I misread the four hundred taels that Shen Xi kept saying when chatting with her brother later? I have read these chapters and the new chapters later. Mu and Yu were so honest and kind that they suffered this fate (and also the lustful eyes [covering face and laughing and crying])
I was so wrapped up that I could actually split it in half [covering my face and laughing and crying] If there are four or five more people who spend a lot of money, can we go out separately [covering my face and laughing and crying]