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Mei Gongqing
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5 Volumes (Complete)
208 Chapters + 38 Extras (Outtakes)
208 Chapters + 38 Extras (Outtakes)
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.After burning herself to death, Chen Rong finds herself waking up in her 14-years old self in the past.
Set in the Eastern Jin era when bureaucrats and their lofty yet equally hypocritical and oppressive ideas once ruled the empire, Chen Rong is made to use her past life’s experience to survive and hopefully find happiness this time around.
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One entry per lineThe Bewitching Courtier
เสน่ห์รักขุนนางหญิง
媚公卿
เสน่ห์รักขุนนางหญิง
媚公卿
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CR was quite frustrating to watch and after some chapters, it became quite clear, that by the ancient times she really was acting like a vulgar woman. (The author introduced her as a character with a seductive appearance but proper young girl. It quickly fell apart, tho). She was so wishy-washy, not likable at all. I really wished she would have just ended up a nun without any male lead by her side. Don't even get me started on the love interests, they're all terrible. Just because a mysterious pretty boy makes her heart race doesn't mean she has to let him play with her like an idiot. You'd really think the MC would learn, but nah, no real character development with this one.
The male lead is one of the worst I have come across, so bad, he made me want to stop reading. As the end was nearing, I thought the angst was gone and it's going to be a fairytale for them. Well, I thought wrong! Not going to say it here, but the Male Lead does something so despicable, that I'd never want to see his face again if I was the FL. Whatever good he'd done in the past, had been reduced to dust. At least the male leads in other novels protected their FL from physical harm, unlike a certain someone who expected it but chose to do nothing about it. I couldn't understand how the h*ll the FL forgives him after that. If that were me, he would never see my shadow, ever again. Sorry for the rant btw, I'm just so frustrated.
Chen Rong lived an unfortunate life chasing after a man who never loved her. Betrayed in the end, she sets her house aflame and burns herself to death... only to awake as her younger self. As war looms on the horizon, this jaded woman decides to live a better life on her own terms. MAIN CHARACTERS:
Chen Rong is pretty unique as Chinese heroines go. She isn't reborn with any over-powered abilities, godly knowledge, amazing debate/social skills, or gifted strategies. She's just an average girl who has a temper, is fiercely determined, cries when she can't help it, and is well aware of her own flaws and limitations. Even her memories of her past-life are realistic -- they're blurry, she only remembers bits and pieces, many things can't be predicted or prevented, and not everything goes the same as before. Because she lived an entire other life, she is well aware of her own personality (and her own negative character traits). This is a character who is fully aware that she's no longer a clean and pure flower. Her social status is poor (low-ranked daughter of a concubine) and she's often misjudged for her looks (curvy and too sexy to look like the usual "pure girl" characters favored in most Chinese LNs). Everything is difficult for her and it often feels like the world is conspiring against her... this story's realism makes it so I can't even predict if it'll have a truly happy ending. OTHER CHARACTERS:
All of the prospective male leads are interesting and their characters develop in their own way. The interactions with them constantly make your opions change and you can't decide who to root for as the story goes on. I was surprised that I ended up liking several characters that I didn't care for in the beginning. (UPDATE)
Something I find very interesting about the female and male leads is that none of them are perfect. All of them have real character flaws that become apparent as the story goes on. They all make promises but can't follow through, are prone to moments of weakness and temptation, make assumptions about each other... It's realistic (and I appreciate it) but tragic. There are moments that make your heart flutter and pound, but nothing goes smoothly. This isn't some perfect romance. There aren't many side characters, but the ones that are there are fleshed-out well enough. RECOMMENDATION:
The best part of this story is the writing and pacing. It really is an entertaining read, and I highly recommend it. The story is unpredictable without having unnecessary plot twists, and I really ended up loving all of the characters. However, it's not complete and the chapters are released very slowly, so you might want to wait so your heart isn't broken when you become invested in it and realize you've run out of chapters.
having skimmed through the raws, the story fails to keep this pace and tension after the war. Having been emancipated, she’s relatively carefree and while the male lead is very clear by now, and their interactions are basically:
ML: Be my concubine.
MC: No
*falls into bed together*
*repeat above*
Until one of them caves in (no prizes for guessing who). And the author manages to drag this for almost 100 chapters.
I was kind of dismayed over the personalities of the other female characters and how they ended up. But I guess throughout the story, women are worth so little just one tiny mistake can ruin them for life.
Also Chen Rong and Ran Min were just too similar since they both wanted love/to be loved unconditionally but weren't able to match up their feelings or truly understand each other in either life. Instead she went with the guy who could make her happy.
Dropped around 60 chapters in.
Chen Rong burns herself to death because of her loveless marriage to Ran Min, a stone-faced general or king, and is sent back to the war-torn past of her youth. Using all the guile, presence and knowledge she can dredge from the ruins of her first life, she tries to survive and thrive in the extraordinarily suffocating flesh market of ancient Chinese aristocratic courts.
Combined with a twisted love polygon, a reactive (and pre-reactive) MC, the sense of powerlessness and the distasteful mores and world of the day, it didn't feel good continue reading this.