Wei-Jin Foodie
魏晋干饭人
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 3.1M Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Transmigration Romance
- Updated
- 2y ago
- English
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- The Foodie of the Wei and Jin DynastiesEnglish name
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Harvest
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A Hard-Core Worker in the Five Dynasties
The Little Landlord of the Farm
After Ascending from the Modern World
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Reborn: Jade Destiny
A Match Made in Heaven
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The Ming Dynasty's Unconventional Path
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A Binge-Worthy List of Smart, Stunning Female Leads
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The Miscellaneous Book Corner
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A Trans Reader’s Journey Through Qidian
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[Ten Years of Female-Oriented Reads] Stories I Love! Plot Comes First!
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The environment for female independent heroines is really difficult
1. In the past two days, I was surfing on other apps and saw a complaint about the random naming of the heroines of some novels, which led to the author's preference for boys over girls in his characters, as well as various complaints. I unexpectedly saw someone mentioning the plot of this book, saying in a "sharing weird" tone that the heroine, who is already an empress, kneels down to her…
The female lead's decision to make either the Zhao family or the Fu family the Cheng clan is something I personally cannot understand. If the royal family's surname is Fu, then the child who inherits the throne must also have the surname Fu, otherwise the emperor and the royal family would have different surnames.
Zhao Hanzhang and Professor Fu finally met! Hooray! The clothing wasn't based on historical records; it was just drawn randomly, so please ignore it. ←_← Please like and comment!
The biggest joke in the female-oriented fiction genre: an empress getting married and having to pay respects to her in-laws. I'd admire you if you even bothered to add a warning about potential plot holes in the description.
After a thousand chapters, she's still just a Grand General, while the Prince of Langya is still holed up in Jiangnan. The Grand General's journey from betrothal to marriage has been filled with seven or eight chapters of filler, and several more chapters are supposed to elaborate on the profound impact of wedding reforms.
Some thoughts on Zhao and Fu's marriage
First of all, I want to clarify that I haven't read the part about marriage yet. I found it really difficult to follow the story when I got to chapter 600+ about the war, so I stopped reading it. Today, I was fortunate enough to see some opinions in the book club, especially the author's statement, and I just had to say something.
Tomb raiding
When Zhao Hanzhang's dowry procession left the city gate, it was spotted by a group of people. They were a gang of itinerant tomb raiders, considered among the best in the industry. When the band of thieves heard that the contents of the long convoy were meant to be buried alive with someone, countless eyes gleamed with a greenish light.
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The Empress's Marriage: Don't Be Too Misogynistic! And please, author, avoid romance novels featuring doting wives and power struggles! I advise you to rewrite your female-centric stories quickly; adding this kind of male-loving plot is just asking for trouble.
They're a master of deception – using sensationalist themes and copywriting to scam victims, then resorting to sarcastic and malicious attacks to label and accuse those they defrauded. What's the difference between this and reading a romance novel where the female lead suddenly flies to Thailand, undergoes gender reassignment surgery, and claims to have gender dysphoria and is a man?