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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.The first time they met, he was a downtrodden prince everybody bullied whilst she was a small palace maid responsible for washing the clothes of the people in the palace.
Twenty years of companionship; he is the only one capable of influencing her emotions. For him, she is willing to immerse her hands in the blood of others, to help him rule this world.
Even though she wasn’t the one he loved, and she wasn’t the one he married, she insisted on remaining by his side, aiming to become the one and only woman capable of standing by his side whilst he held court and the one and only woman in his harem – even if doing so would cause her to get insulted by the entire world.
However, that person whom she loved so much, that person for whom she committed all sorts of preposterous acts for – wanted her to die.
He said, “In this lifetime, I don’t wish to see you ever again!”
She returned to him as a spirit, yet he begged for another lifetime together.
“If we have another lifetime together, I want you to love me and respect me from a very young age, and help me clear all the obstacles standing in my way. You would be forced to watch me love one, and marry another – but both of them would not be you. You must love me so crazily and so deeply that everybody knows about it, and yet you would never be able to truly receive my entire love and affection. On innumerable occasions, you would be misunderstood by me, and hurt by me. The only few tears you shed in your entire lifetime would be for me, and ultimately you would have to die for me. Even after you die, you would not be allowed to rest in peace – instead, you would transform into a spirit and return to my side… Only if you do all these, would you be able to compensate me for what I have done in this lifetime.”
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12/20/18 | LanguidTranslations | epilogue |
12/20/18 | LanguidTranslations | c25 |
12/20/18 | LanguidTranslations | c24 |
12/19/18 | LanguidTranslations | c23 |
12/18/18 | LanguidTranslations | c22 |
12/17/18 | LanguidTranslations | c21 |
12/14/18 | LanguidTranslations | c20 |
08/26/18 | Radiant Translations | c19 part2 |
06/27/18 | Radiant Translations | c19 part1 |
02/24/18 | Radiant Translations | c18 |
02/17/18 | Radiant Translations | c17 |
02/12/18 | Radiant Translations | c16 |
02/04/18 | Radiant Translations | c15 |
01/26/18 | Radiant Translations | c14 |
01/11/18 | Radiant Translations | c13 |
this is one of the interesting novels i've actually read. I disagree with what everyone said about it though. this is not actually a romance per se but rather a unique second chance for the MC to observe and understand her relationships not only with the ML but other characters when she was still alive.
first of all, although she was aware that ML used her to gain power, she never realized that he was actually a very s*upid guy with the romantic leanings of a moron. somebody gave him soup. he didn't know who it was. but he assumed that it must be this visiting pretty girl from somewhere because only someone with her status would visit that place. he never even saw this girl but he immediately convinced himself that he was in love.
when he finally met the girl, he was captivated by her beauty and 'clean' life but as soon as she floated away, he forgot about her. when she died, he convinced himself it was tragic, that he was broken hearted and even blamed FL for not saving her in time. again, he's in despair, over a girl he never even spent one minute to talk to.
when he found out FL had something to do with her death, (she manipulated the other guy to fall in love with her), he cast her away and married another girl because she looked exactly like his dead diva. but it turned he never f*cked her because he didn't want to sully of the memory of the dead girl. puhlez.
then here's the kicker: it turned out his wife and the dead girl were the same person. she didn't really kill herself but rather hid in the boondocks to escape from marrying a man she didn't like. and she turned out to be as tart tongued as FL because she told s*upid Guy, dude, you didn't really expect people to look really alike, did you? are you really that s*upid? she followed this with an even funnier kicker: you married me because I look like your dead sweetheart. now, your true love is dead. i'll bet you'll be looking for someone who look like her so you could marry her, right? why not? since you're really good at it. hahahaha
FL also realized that the other official who's she's always in conflict with actually liked her. when she became ML's lover, he actually advised her to marry ML or ask for a title because what she's doing was not only unseemly but unworthy of her. he respects her because of her accomplishments even though she's a woman living in a man's world. she feels some regret because she realized this guy was actually superior in character than ML. and she always thought of him as a stiff when she was still alive, which turned out to be far from the truth.
knowing all these, when she finally came face to face with ML, she couldn't wait to say her goodbyes and leave. she tells him not to mourn her because she finds it excessive especially knowing that he sent her to her death. live your life as you're mean to, she adds, not really caring actually.
all she wants to do is leave him because the idea of her sticking to him for god knows how long, terrifies her. he's not only boring he's s*upid as a rock.
when he tells her he wants to follow her to death and spend another lifetime with her, she's like, over my dead body. she tells him, dude, the last twenty years have been a blast but no, I don't want to spend another karmaic lifetime with you. it's tempting but... no. then when he tells her he loves her and is about to kiss her, she vanishes, leaving him with no other reality than she's really dead.
that's the gist of the story. girl spends 20 years loving a guy. after she dies, she gets to be the silent observer of his life, in the process understanding that she spent years loving this idiot when there are other guys out there worthy of her love and devotion.
but then she gets to reject him and tell him to his face: i'd rather reincarnate with an octopus than spend another lifetime with you, dude. scram!
and you cry and angst over this novel? it's one of the funniest novels i've read, because it's actually a comedy posing as a tragedy. the dialogue between the consort and the ML near the end was priceless! the guy got no clue, dude. he's really super s*upid.
If I had one complaint, it's really that the flashbacks for Unrepentant are so long.. the emperor only finds out that she passed after 20 chapters.
and even then, he faints immediately after so you don't get to find out his proper reaction till the next chapter lol
Warning though, it ended up a little long...
[Gu Hong Jian shook her head and said, "I know that you hate me."
Lin Si Ze sighed, extending his hand to knock against her temple. "What nonsense are you saying."
In that moment when she descended like a Red Shura*, truthfully, Lin Si Ze's anger completely dissipated.
... What's more, he should not have been angry with her in the first place.
Gu Hong Jian felt like Lin Si Ze was plotting against her, and Lin Si Ze felt like he was trying his hardest to retain Gu Hong Jian.
Their thoughts did not match, hence even though Lin Si Ze had knocked her head, as if they had returned to being as intimate as back then, Gu Hong Jian still shook her head and said, "You will hate me."
Lin Si Ze said, "Exactly what nonsense are you spouting."
"You will hate me eventually." Gu Hong Jian stood up, looked at Lin Si Ze, "Not in the present, then in the future. I do not wish to see that day, so distancing myself from you would be better."]
*I actually don't know what a Red Shura is, but I think it's something along the lines of a a female hero dressed entirely in red.
It just felt so sad that she was so rooted in her thinking that she meant nothing to Lin Si Ze that she could only take him trying to keep her with him as him plotting against her to use her in the future. This happens a few more times, and there's a scene where he asks, "Gu Hong Jian, you were always saying that I'm plotting against you, but in reality, who is plotting against who."
[So it turns out that twenty years ago that winter, from when they met for the very first time, they had already missed each other.]
TBH that misunderstanding the very first time really screwed them all over. : (
["Hong Jian." Lin Si Ze suddenly said.
Gu Hong Jian was surprised, then said, "En?"
Of course, Lin Si Ze would not hear, he was only talking to himself. "Gu Hong Jian, are you here?"
"En." Gu Hong Jian nodded lightly.
Lin Si Ze said, " (You) should be here... You were the one who covered me with this cloak, right?"
"Yeah, I've said this so many times." Gu Hong Jian was a little resentful.
Lin Si Ze said, "If you are beside me, why won't you appear? Why did you only write a sentence like that for me... Hong Jian, do you hate me a lot?"
" (I) Hate you. I also want to appear, it's nice to scare you in the middle of the night with nothing to do, unfortunately I'm unable to..." Gu Hong Jian shrugged helplessly.
Lin Si Ze said, "But since you hate me, why did you still dr*pe this for me? Gu Hong Jian... ke (coughing sound)."
"I only draped it in passing, how could I know that I would suddenly be able to touch something then!" Gu Hong Jian said peevishly.
Lin Si Ze said, "This is very likely my last night in the capital."
"En?"
"Ke... I know I'm not fit to travel to Hu prefecture, going would likely have me handing over my life there. But you are there, so I must go." Lin Si Ze lowered his voice and said, "If you are still alive, I will bring you back here, you want to be an chancellor, then continue being your high and powerful Minister Gu, even Imperial Tutor Gu is fine. But if you're tired and only want to be a woman, then enter the palace and be my Empress, if you find even this troublesome, then... then I also won't be the Emperor, and accompany you to be normal civilians, is that okay?"
Gu Hong Jian said lightly, "Okay."
Lin Si Ze continued talking to himself, his voice very soft and also very gentle, "If you are really dead, then... I'll also accompany you. Is that okay?"
In that moment, Gu Hong Jian's guess became reality, Lin Si Ze, already had that kind of intention.
As if a flood had caused countless boulders to beat against Gu Hong Jian's heart, she lightly shook her head and said, "Not okay, not okay at all."
But Lin Si Ze could not hear, so he smiled by himself. "You must be nodding your head now."
Gu Hong Jian could only shake her head non-stop.
However this was the first time Lin Si Ze had showed an appearance of smiling these few days.]
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As a result, I actually really like the bad ending. To me, I sort of saw it as the female lead becoming "free" from her chains (him) and moving on with her (next) life (which I really really hope is happier because she deserves it).
The part I am looking forward the most is the part where he realises that he has nothing to remember her by anymore, because he had destroyed the only portrait he made of her.
Not only when he destroys her painting, right in front of her, but when she talks about having another lifetime and a second chance with him, her words are not because she wanted to be cruel or have revenge, but because she wanted him to let go
The first time I read this I was so moved that it really disappointed me that it was translated once a month so I tried reading the raws.
As you may have surmised, this is a story of a love so encompassing the MC basically lived her life for him. But at the end she died away from him but because of her love her spirit had gone to attach to the emperor. This is a story that explores what misunderstandings may lead to, that though you have been together for so long that you thought that you know each other inside-out it is better to have a clear understanding between the two of you..
For me, it was really hard to read the last few chapters, I can really feel the emotions of the characters. But it was a good read, something that can move you to tears and understand that everything has an end.