Longing for the Forest
慕林
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 3.8M Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Business & Farming
- Updated
- 5y ago
- English
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Having read so many classical Chinese texts over the years, this one shows the least powerful clan among them, practically nonexistent. Considering Old Madam Xie's actions (disrespectful to her sisters-in-law, unkind to her children and grandchildren, the deaths of her two grandfathers and her own grandfather, and the sale of the clan's property before fleeing), she would have been expelled from…
Xie Pu, Xie Xianzhe
I've read several of Liu Da's books before, and when I occasionally saw a new story, I couldn't resist reading it all in one go. This story is so captivating! I've seen comments saying that the female lead's father, Xie Pu, is also quite a scoundrel. From Wen Shi's perspective, he certainly is, but from Xie Pu's point of view, there's some truth to it.
I couldn't stand it anymore when the male lead started playing the victim to try and marry the female lead. He never asked if the girl wanted to marry him or if she liked him. He just started his greasy, aggressive flirting, calling her "Second Sister Xie" and making her call him "Second Brother Xiao." How many times have they even met? Are they even close?
In his past life, Xie Pu was cuckolded, framed, exiled, and stripped of all his wealth. It's hard to call him a smart man. He married Cao Shi with the intention of leveraging the Cao family's influence, but he refused to truly align himself with them. As a result, despite contributing a great deal of money to the Cao family, he remained only a prefect, and was ultimately framed by them.
Seeing Xie Pu knowingly gives Cao Shi a huge sum of money despite her affair, seeing Old Madam Xie selfishly causing trouble, seeing Madam Wen freezing herself while letting her son get sick, and making sure Old Madam Xie sleeps comfortably on the lower bunk, seeing the Earl of Pingnan arrogant despite being disliked by the Empress, seeing the eldest patriarch and his second wife, Song Shi…
You're writing a female protagonist story, so everything should revolve around her. You keep making her a minor character; each chapter should have at least 50% of her screen time to give her a proper "heroic" aura. Think of a TV series where the main character only appears for ten minutes and is barely there for the other thirty. Would anyone watch that kind of show?
The Wen couple are hindering their descendants' future.
I originally intended to post this in the chapter comments, but it was too long, so I'll just post it as a separate comment 😁. While reading the latest chapter, I suddenly realized something, something that had just crossed my mind. Wen's husband, Lord Xie, was responsible for two households; Wen and her children belonged to the second household, strictly speaking, they had no relation to the…
It's so verbose, so verbose, so verbose! I can't stand it!
So why is this nephew's wife serving her aunt every day? Why is she only going through the motions in front of her proper mother-in-law? Just because her mother-in-law is well-educated and polite gives her the right to bully her? Isn't the Wen family a bully who preys on the weak? How can the rest of the clan tolerate this? In modern society, those adopted children who never respect their adoptive parents should have severed ties long ago, okay?
The foot-binding cloth is so long, and the same idea is repeated a hundred times over—I'm truly exasperated.