
A Heart Like Iron
此心如铁
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 470k Words
- Genre
- Danmei (BL)
- Era
- Modern Era
- Updated
- 4mo ago
- Source
- JJWXC
Synopsis
In booklists 8
Personal Snack Archive
My blacklist is still too short. I keep saving things and then forget what the drama was about, so I'm making a record here.
Great Reads!
I'm not a devoted gong- or shou-fan. When choosing a story, I roughly prioritize setting and background over characterization, which is about on par with the writing. I'm not very into showbiz stories, groveling-to-win-back-an-ex plots, bad endings, or melodrama. I prefer sweet stories.
All for Handsome, Tragic Top Characters and Dashing Bottoms
I prefer beautiful, tragic gongs and handsome, powerful shous. I don't like obsessive love for the shou, and I'm very demanding about plot and writing. This list is mainly for my own use. You can't please everyone, so pick what suits you.
Beautiful, Strong, Handsome, and Muscular
Slowly working my way through these
Handsome Tops and Gorgeous Bottoms
A fan of beautiful gong and handsome shou, meow. Some shou are idealized, others are ordinary, and there may be some really messed-up content. Gong stans and gong moms, stay away ^_^
Strong Bottoms / Muscular Bottoms
My type is muscular bottoms. When I'm desperate for something to read, I'll lower my standards for handsome bottoms, but my dealbreaker is a bottom with no muscle at all. The top should preferably be beautiful and sickly. No top-fans who baby the top. Recommendations welcome.
Handsome, Strong Bottoms, Martial Artists, and More
I like bottoms who are strong, muscular bottoms, tough-guy bottoms, martial-artist bottoms, overpowered-hero bottoms. I haven't finished all of these, so I can only speak for what I've read. Not suitable for kk readers.
Urban Fiction 4
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Actually, I don't know what I said, but I still want to say something. My first impression of Ji Lan - Wow, what a cold-hearted young man! The relative smashed the kiln and inserted it into the kiln, but the two followers actually killed him on the spot! Then I thought about it, of course he didn't have to be a perfect and noble person! He is Sagudazilan, why should he take other people seriously. He can be cold and cool. Well, later on, there was Wanshanxue in his eyes, and of course there was only Wanshanxue. It was because Lian Lian cared about the whole thing that he became slightly concerned about the thing. As for Sister Liang, Lan has always been very concerned and even jealous of Sister Liang🥲(I blame Da Ke for being careless and unable to explain it in detail. Fortunately, the second half of the volume said it, woo woo woo, although it may not have any effect.) Lan will directly go to Lan who wants her to leave, Lan who worries about gain and loss, Lan who is easily offended by Da Ke and cry... Even the eldest young master is like this emotionally, love is so fair to everyone! Liang and Shi Tian, I actually thought there was something right at the beginning, because Shi Tian also called Liang, not sister-in-law, etc. Later, when he said that he had someone in his heart, I was the first to guess Sister Liang. I didn't expect that Liang really liked him, and I didn't expect that he would betray... I thought Dashi and his words of "let her go" could change anything, but nothing... Dashi said that he owed Mengqiu a husband, and he also owed Liang a husband. However, Xiao Bailong's death was directly caused by Shi Tian's betrayal, and Liang was not married by Dakei himself. But if we calculate it this way, going all the way back, should we blame Liang for not telling Shi Tian clearly, blame the people in the circle for driving Dakei away, blame Sanhuangzi brother for causing trouble, and furthermore, blame Lian's mother for choosing Liang as his wife to reunite, blame natural and man-made disasters for causing Sanhuangzi brother to take him away from home... This turned into a mess. Alas, it's really hard, so hard. Fate always plays tricks on people. At the end of the first volume, everyone dispersed on the mountain. In fact, I wanted to see what happened to the group of people who came down the mountain. Although the author said that Liang had no part in the scene, and I didn't really want to see Liang (after all, she pointed at the big cabinet and scolded the two chairs even though she was angry, but it was still very hurtful), but I just wanted to know what happened to that group of people in the aftermath. Did they go back to farm? Going to seek refuge with Qiu Zili? Or continue to be his scholar and write his pen? Especially Yu Minqian and Ji Zhengqing, hahahahaha, even if they are a little selfish, I always feel that they are having an affair. When the bandits mentioned Qiu Zili on the train in the next volume, I thought they would appear later, but of course they didn't. It felt like being a bandit in Xianglu Mountain was so far away that it was a lifetime ago! On Tuesday in the next volume, when I saw him in the coffin with his broken gold glasses at the end, I suddenly thought of his first meeting with Lian, his pair of pink and phoenix eyes. Under the broken gold-rimmed glasses, the eyes are always closed. You probably can't tell the shape of the eyes... Hey, even though I say I'm arrogant, I really didn't want him to die. I regret it. When he scolded Lian, I also mocked him as a Tuesday chair. Damn it... Why is he gone... The end of the chapter made me in a daze for a long time. I felt like he was holding a gun in Laurie, riding a horse on the racetrack, and holding a blanket on a rickshaw. He was clearly still in front of me. Gu Yuan, at first I thought he would be a positive character, because Lian helped him, and he also helped Mingzhu a lot before going back. I didn't expect that he would become like this after he came back... When he came out from prison and confessed, I had a thought in my mind, ah, it's really him. In fact, I didn't expect it, but I wasn't very shocked either, because it felt like it was exactly what he would do. Maybe it started from the paranoia that I passed by him under the street lamp... But, well, I still think of his silence when Lan talked about his mother, and those few anti-inflammatory drugs, which may be true or false, but in the beginning he was just the dirty kid who stole buns and took a bath in the bathroom... I remember his last words before his death, Is this what Chinese fathers are like? It suddenly occurred to me that maybe his father had never really taught him well. That father was training the successor of the family. He only needed to wash away his mother's shadow and learn the proper demeanor. Of course, he would not know that a normal father is actually like this. Hey, there are pitiful and hateful children... Fourth sister, I feel a little sighing when I see a girl getting married, starting a family and having children. The sentence I remember most clearly is that there was no egg roll on her head. The bright girl before turned into a tired mother. At that time, she married a young master of the Yin family who she didn't like or dislike. Fortunately, he probably didn't treat her badly. Fortunately, Xiao Sui'er was a very cute child. Things were different and people were impressed by the changes. Even the eldest lady would have moments of being a tired and haggard mother after marriage. Ya Dahan, a concierge who writes little but is silent and reliable, knows how to eat the second sweet potato bought by Lian, and talks about his hometown in short Chinese. Finally, he is seen in the pile of corpses, with a broken body and a missing leg. There were also the guard captain Gao Cen, and Chen Yuankai who had been sent in the snow... I was still in a daze when I saw their bodies with angry eyes and downward protective bodies. I didn't really cry, but I felt really uncomfortable. In fact, I had already had a premonition that the devastation of the war, the harvesting was like a meat grinder, and human lives were like grass. However, it is still sad to see those lives that were alive just a second ago really being swept away by the torrent of the times. So many beautiful things were destroyed, but fortunately, Lan and Lian were still together in the end... The sunset, the Songhua River, the sledge, the two people's joys, sorrows, and sorrows were all mixed together, and I couldn't tell them apart. One last shout out! Dashi and Jilan... Will never be separated -
Little husband, big wife, so happy, so happy
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... The ending made me burst into tears! Fortunately, they are still together in the end T^T😢😢😢Can we watch Yu Minqian and Ji Zhengqing in the extra episode? I think there is something wrong with them (opposing fingers)
Please write about the careerist's wife 🙏🙏🙏
1. Let's draw a conclusion first. I would give six out of five stars, which means 120% satisfactory👍 It's not flattery, but a kind of heartfelt and even willful praise and preference. The plot is compact, the writing is beautiful and fluent, and it is not too literary to be obscure and difficult to understand. It can be regarded as an excellent online article that is both popular and literary. This sense of balance is really rare in current online article creation. It is not a common small but beautiful love story between two people. There is no meaningless sour plot (oh, Xiaolan's one-sided sourness does not count). Instead, it has a majestic sense of an era epic - to be more precise, it is Chu Lian's solo heroic epic. Xiaolan, as Lian Lian's most loyal follower and most capable deputy (suddenly discovered that the names of these two couples are also blooming...), Is the indispensable catalyst for Lian Lian's heroic epic. Nitrogen will not feel that the author is biased because of this (the author can only accept it a little bit). In fact, the family pattern of Lianzhu Wailan and Lanzhuna is very natural and logical. After all, Xiaolan is a spoiled wife, and Lianlian is an almost perfect man, so perfect that I, as a reader, can't help but want to get into the screen and pinch myself. I once made such an assertion that if Lianlian and I lived in the same time and space, of course I would follow him without hesitation. 2. The perfect Lianlian, and the man who gritted his teeth for him However, is the handsome, brave, kind, wise and all-good shopkeeper Chu Lian really a perfect person? I think this issue needs to be broken down. In or out of the book, it seems that anyone who has dealt with Chu Lian can't help but fall under his suit pants - this is not a joke, it can only be said to be human nature in the true sense. After all, Chu Lian is indeed a character with real charisma, and this charisma even transcends the limitations of class and time and space to a certain extent. He is brave, decisive, responsible, loyal to his friends, persistent in his ideals, and compassionate towards the weak. All these qualities add up to make him so perfect that he is almost distorted. He spreads all the beauty of humanity - how can anyone feel pain because of him? The answer is only his partner. I believe that during the days when he lived with Dashi, Chu Luo would gnash his teeth sometimes. This is not to say that Chu Lian is not good, but that "perfection" may not be an advantage in an intimate relationship. For a person who is good to everyone, his closest partner will feel extra pressure. From this perspective, this emotional pattern is not uncommon in real life: behind a centrally air-conditioned man, there is often a tortured wife. Shui Dumpling did not avoid this reality, but wrote it very delicately and believably. 3. Imperfect but real Xiaolan We have to admit that compared with his stalwart husband, Chu Luoshi's light is not outstanding. I must confess that for a long time, I was not interested in Ji Lan, a character who appeared in almost every chapter, because in my past reading taste, I thought that the protagonist should not have such serious moral flaws (I don't know if anyone still remembers that at the beginning of the chapter, he killed two followers who had bravely protected him - this plot has bothered me for a long time). In fact, to this day, I don't think Jilan's charm lies in the brilliance of truth, goodness and beauty in the character's personality. He is not a lovable protagonist in the traditional sense, but I do agree that this is a writing method that is worth in-depth thinking and learning: showing a real character-his weakness, selfishness, and even cruelty-in the current creation of online articles, more sophisticated techniques and skills are needed, as well as a lot of courage. After all, a considerable number of readers tend to see the story of the Celestial Dragons, and they like to see the protagonist's operation of using money and power to crush everything. Using external resources to enchant a character is actually a very tricky approach, but Da Shui Dumpling did not do this. She did not write Jilan as a morally perfect person, nor did she use golden fingers to cover up his shadow. Jilan's growth line is struggling, not smooth, and even occasionally uncomfortable, but because of this, his character creation does not become cliché. 4. The icing on the cake is the supporting cast portraits The supporting characters are equally rich and exciting. The interaction between the supporting characters and the two protagonists does not overwhelm the protagonists, but instead increases the interaction between the characters and the times. The brothers and sisters who work together in Xianglu Mountain in the first volume, and the various enemies and comrades in the second volume, the innocence and darkness of human nature are truly displayed at the same time. It is this complex tension that makes this heart's artistic level not limited to an ordinary online literary work. The one who impressed me the most was Tuesday, who should be one of the more popular among the supporting characters. This feeling of wandering between the straight man and the closet is really interesting. Big dumplings really know how to write👍Tuesday's portrayal is very wonderful. He is not a tool, he has his own desires, contradictions and bottom lines. He once had tit-for-tat confrontations with Lian, but he was also involuntarily attracted to his charm. He had his heart broken by him, but he still helped him time and time again when he needed him. Other supporting characters also have their own highlights, whether they are loyal or betrayal, confrontation or attraction, use or true love, they all make the characters three-dimensional. The dumplings do not turn them into Lian Lan's background, but give them unique motivations and arcs. It is the real existence of these supporting characters that prevents Lian's heroic epic from becoming a one-man show, and makes this work appear bustling and flesh-and-blood. 5. About the extra Although some uu expressed that they were abused by the extra chapter, from a personal point of view, I have many preferences for this extra chapter. Many people come and go in their lives, and he accompanied them through the last moments of their lives. I like this ending method very much. It is restrained and affectionate. It does not force a happy ending or sensationalism, but as time passes silently, it will always give us the answer. Finally, overall, this is a novel that I would give six stars. It's not perfect - no work is - but its advantages far outweigh its disadvantages. I am still very grateful to Teacher Shui Dumpling for bringing such an excellent work, which shows me the respect an author has for himself and his readers. Sincerely, looking forward to more.
Don't rely on stacking up characters, tell everyone a good story seriously, one hook after another, a good article that you can't stop at all.
Uh-huh, uh-huh, the withdrawal reaction is so strong😭I miss the daily update at 11 o'clock😭It seems I've fallen out of love😭When will the extra episode be released?
I've finished watching it, it's so beautiful [please please], the two are so cute, Gege is so sinister, and the shopkeeper's can't bear it, hahahahaha, they are an unexpectedly suitable little couple, both of them have lived a good life, Gege can't live without the shopkeeper at all 🙏
I haven't seen such a beautiful article in a long time! Thank you very much
The writing style of the boss is so good. TT is so touching.