Siheyuan: The Siege of Beiping
四合院：从北平围城开始
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- Ongoing
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- 3.4M Words
- Genre
- Urban
- Subgenre
- Urban Life
- Updated
- 2d ago
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The protagonist is treated too harshly. He, who has performed meritorious service, is treated as an inspector of the same rank as a group of people who haven't.
I thought that after "Eat Drink Man Woman" and "Golden Toad Ancestor," there wouldn't be any good books about courtyard houses anymore, but I didn't expect this one to be so original and take a different approach... If it maintains this quality, it will be another masterpiece...
Let's change the name to "The Passionate Era, Starting with the Siege of Beiping".
The author changed the name and it made things flow better. Now, compared to other fanfics about courtyard houses, it seems to be drifting further and further away from the theme. There aren't many other problems, but it feels like the author has severely suppressed and weakened the protagonist; his intelligence seems insufficient.
The courtyard house is just a prelude; the protagonist spends 90% of his time and time outside the courtyard house, with the other characters only occasionally appearing in front of him. Then it's just the protagonist constantly catching various small karaomis, which leads to "The Glorious Era." I didn't want to read any further after that.
The protagonist's age before transmigrating is unknown, but the author portrays him as a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy.
The writing is good, and the plot is reasonable. It's just that the protagonist is a bit cowardly at times (why not send Yi Guixi before entering the city, or he falls into the courtyard house trope and becomes an unkillable cockroach), and at other times he's a bit reckless (he gets captured so many times, it's not like it's a fantasy where he has to break through to the brink of death).
The dawn's light is always so dark. Those who don't experience it are like ants; just as light emerges, darkness hides. A very good courtyard novel.
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I just finished watching "Foundation", let me say a few words. When I first started reading, I thought it was a time-travel novel set in a traditional courtyard house, nothing more than everyday family squabbles, arguments, and stories about how many wives a man marries and how much money he makes.