Becoming a Prince in the Late Northern Song
在北宋末年当皇子
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- Historical
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- Song-Yuan-Ming Dynasties
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No soldiers, no money, just endless nonsense. If a prince like that isn't dead, do they really think those corrupt officials are just sitting around doing nothing?
Once you see someone entering the city alone, you can stop watching. The protagonist clearly didn't value the lives of his family and subordinates. Entrusting his life to someone who harbored malice towards him, it would be illogical for him not to die. Everyone, let's disperse.
I'm leaving Bianjing in a month; who knows how much filler the author will produce then? 😒
Now, something feels off. I could understand the protagonist's earlier solo adventures; after all, he started as the thirteenth prince of the late Northern Song Dynasty, with no power, no army, and few resources. Faced with the impending Jin army's southward advance, he was forced to take risks or be sent abroad.
The remonstrance case initially brought him fame as a virtuous man, but offended a treacherous minister; his complaint against his personal eunuch for disdaining coarse tea bricks brought to light the suffering of ordinary people; he cleverly and bravely escaped an assassination attempt by a treacherous minister; after escaping his predicament, he met his true love, Xing Niangzi, who helped him…
I finished reading it all in one go. The author's writing style is good; they can write well about characters and scenes, reminding me of... The old novel "The Rise of a Poor Scholar." However, that book is getting increasingly padded. It's fine for the author to want to enrich the plot, but I suggest updating more... Otherwise readers will feel it's just filler.
It's infuriating! They might as well just kill off the main character. It's disgusting.
After reading the first twenty chapters, the protagonist is always humble and subservient to everyone. He seems to have no idea what the situation was like in the Song Dynasty. He's supposed to be a prince, so why does he act like a commoner?
It's been 300 chapters, and the protagonist still doesn't seem to have truly established himself in the Song Dynasty. He has indeed done a lot, but he hasn't accomplished much of it...
They could have had the Jin army capture the emperor and seize the throne themselves, but they wrote it this way. I wonder what happens next, and if it's still worth reading.