
Beauty and the Realm
江山美色
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- Completed
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- 4.3M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Jin-Sui-Tang Dynasties
- Updated
- 16y ago
- Source
- Qidian
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[Comment] What a good book. Unfortunately, the title is easily misunderstood.
The author is famous for not giving names. Don't be fooled by the title of the book. In fact, the word beauty can be understood as beautiful scenery rather than female sex. It's a rare masterpiece among historical time travel novels. You won't know who the big boss is until the end.
After reading more than 200 chapters, I really can't stand it anymore. The writing style is excellent, but it was uncomfortable to read. I didn't know where the discomfort was at first, but suddenly I saw it through. Why is the protagonist like a chicken with no temper? After seeing so many people assassinating the protagonist, he is like a holy mother and doesn't lose his temper. Is it undignified? You have such a high status, but if you don't have the means and temper, who will obey you? Convince others with virtue? The son of the Secretary of the Ministry of War and the Yuwen family put their knives on your neck. If you die without any effort, you don't want to fight back, just let nature take its course. You are still fighting for world supremacy. You really don't have the halo of the protagonist. He died in the first episode, what? They are all passive. After the incident happened, oh, that's it. The protagonist described in hindsight is very smart. It's okay once or twice. It's just like imposing a halo every time. I subscribed to so many chapters of Shina. After reading it, I couldn't spit it out.
This book is really good, I think it can be ranked in the top 3 of history books.
The best novel I have ever read
It's really ugly. I don't know why there are so many good-looking comments in the comment section.
Weird thinking, telling a woman the secret of time travel. Something is wrong!
I suddenly thought of this book in the middle of the night and wanted to say something. The first time I got involved was in 2009, when this book became very popular. At that time, I was still a young man who had not seen much of the world. I was so obsessed that I didn't even think about food and drinks. The first thing I did when I got home every day was to catch up on updates. The second book I became obsessed with was "The Immortal Rebellion" by Er Gen. I even had the experience of staying up all night reading the novel. Now, more than ten years have passed, and I have discovered many good books, such as Mystery. Many books may be of better quality than this one, but I never have the excitement I felt back then. I miss my youth that will never come back. Thank you, Mr. Mo, and thank you General Xiao Buyi, the right-winged general on horseback. As we get older, whose youth will these popular books become?
There are really many places where there is no common sense of history at all. Like when the protagonist eats sweet potatoes and sees the emperor, everyone shouts long live, long live, long live. They are all things that did not exist in the Sui Dynasty
I was speechless. I felt good at first, but later I found out that the protagonist suffered a major disaster in three days, a small disaster in five days, and a death disaster in ten days. Going out to buy some things offended the Yuwen family, and they were always harassed. A heroine was sent to Yang Guang because she was targeted by Yuwen! ! ! If you poison the protagonist, you still have to be grateful. The routine is too old and too silly.
The further it goes, the more wrong it becomes. It feels like the author can no longer write without being divorced from history. Every time, the history that has already deviated is re-staged in a new skin, and the details are not polished at all. Many places simply cannot withstand scrutiny. The focus of the book on leading troops to fight is even more messy. I have read through "The Book of Sui". The author said that he spent a year researching information and preparing for it, and that's it? I'm afraid what you're looking for isn't some fiction, anecdotes, and wild history TV series, right? My suggestion is, don't read this book as a historical novel, just read it as a martial arts novel. That's not how historical novels are written. Since this book is very old, I am too lazy to talk about it. I recommend a book. I am not an idiot but a loyal person. Let's see how others write fictional history.