Dianxia Qingcheng

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As an alluring beauty, the Ninth Prince Qi Changyi inherited his mother’s looks, but was unfortunately a bit s*upid. Not only did he live in fear, even within palace walls, but he also merely lived as a substitute in his beloved’s eyes. Then, while being used and tormented, his delicate, pure heart finally burned to ashes.

Pei Zheng was the Prime Minister of the Imperial Court, a man of great status; he gained it all through the most ruthless methods. He was known for his cruel nature, but gradually, he became close to the unfavored ninth prince.

“Your Highness, just now, at court, who were you looking at? Huh?” Pei Zheng squeezed the small man’s delicate little chin.

Qi Changyi’s eyes were misty with tears of pain, “I, I wasn’t.”

“Stop trying to seduce others.” Pei Zheng’s voice was frigid. “Otherwise, I’ll make sure that General Zhao, for whom you pine, dies on the battlefield!”

He thought he had a firm grip on this little fool, but he could’ve never imagined that one day, this little fool would leave his side carrying a broken heart.

“Brother Pei, I’m leaving now, you should be happy.”

With scarlet eyes and a heart burning with obsession, he searched everywhere, but found no trace of him.

“I won’t, without you, I’ll never be happy again. Your Highness, where should I go, how can I bring you home?”

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His Highness's Allure (Manhua)
殿下倾城
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hardpeanut
New hardpeanut rated it
March 5, 2024
Status: c180
I continued reading this even when I'm already sick of reading it just to see mayyybe things will change but nope.

You won't understand (unless you read this) at how annoyed I am at how mindbogglingly two dimensional these main characters are. It frustrates me to hell that I have to read their stories when I find the side characters to have more depth in them. MC is a fainting princess with emotional memory lifespan of a gnat (granted, it's a medical issue). ML is, what I can think of as... more>> Jaafar from Aladdin, without the power trip but certainly with the same inability for character development.

Expanding that, ML is shit. He's a ruthless selfish as*hole who 'lost the one live he's ever had' (MC), had some heartache, and when he found him again kinda sworn to himself he would treat the MC better. Yet. YET. He never changed his gaslighting manipulation. He's a tiger with unchanging stripes that I want to skin alive and see if he'll grow them back WHICH HE PROBABLY WILL. I feel like his occasional physical sacrifice is WORTHLESS when he gets back to his penchant to manipulating MC (WHO HAS A MENTAL DISABILITY, MIND YOU) into loving him.

I hate the author. MC has memory and thought development issues, so you know what the author did? Make him forget things. Horrible horrible things happened to MC, oh why not make him trivialize his issues? It's fine, he's disabled anyway. Once or twice is fine but more???? F*ck you author.

TL;DR - Whatever ML suffered for the MC got cancelled out when he gaslights the MC I hate him to the core. I hate the MC too, he has the annoying world is tinted pink syndrome. What if it's not pink? WELL IT WILL BE PINK BECAUSE I FORGET IT'S NOT. 'There's a reason for that' I KNOW THERE IS BUT IF AN ANIMAL CAN LEARN TO BE WARY OF PEOPLE AFTER GETTING ABUSED, I DON'T SEE WHY CAN'T A PERSON.

Yes, I am very, very emotionally engaged into professing my utter dislike for this story. <<less
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panpandesal
panpandesal rated it
July 31, 2022
Status: --
Dropped.

The ML is just too much. MC is too much of a pushover and no one actively tries to help him except for his childhood friend ... more>>
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which eventually got spoiled by the ML

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. Even the doctor, though I know he has good intentions.

I felt like MC existed JUST to be pitied on and I dislike those kinds of characters the most. I know he is mentally weak but still the amount of bullsh*t he had to go through to set up the wife-chasing/face-slapping was just too much.

I sometimes I really wish his life would've been better if he really got married to [Redacted/Spoiler]. But ML just happened to destroy every single chance of happiness for MC. <<less
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Ireadbl
Ireadbl rated it
July 28, 2022
Status: Completed
EDIT: I hate this story but if you're going to promote websites for the manhua don't go to Mangafox go to sleepytranslations. Com or mangadex. Org. Thanks for translating the novel Merchie.

I read the MTL of this the author does a good job explaining why a lot of MCs are so dumb.
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MC hit his head as a child and then becomes mentally impaired. All to save ML which he finds out later and feels guilty about it, along with all the horrible torture he inflicts on MC. So there you have it, all the low IQ MC were dropped on the head as a child.

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Everything everyone in this story does is questionable. The ML likes MC but hurts him then later knows to treat him nice? MC loyal servant suddenly goes oh I just want him to be happy?
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MC develops amnesia which later ML can exploit and treat him nice since MC can't avoid him.

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The emperor on how he shows his love to MC idk why he isn't mad at ML if he likes MC so much. The loyal servant becomes ML's butler, wow nice cushy job there! The imperial doctor also acts like he's doing things in benefit of MC, but do they ask the person in question? NO
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They really drag out the amnesia and the ghost doctor aka MC's aunt takes a really long time to develop and GIVE the MC the cure, even though she got a lot of hints about the sus relationship.

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TLDR Amnesia plot, another horribly done chasing wife to crematorium where I didn't feel satisfied with how ML was forgiven, everyone has low IQ, MPreg which is used as another leverage point for ML to be forgiven which just disgusts me.

A lot of things in this story felt unnecessary. I feel tricked from the manhua summary into reading this.

EDIT: I'm adding a star for the translator's efforts. One more star cuz of reviewers promoting mangafox
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takame
takame rated it
January 11, 2023
Status: Completed
Alert!!! THIS IS A MASOCHISTIC NOVEL. ML is a yandere. Avoid if you are not into suffering MCs. #Wife chasing crematorium at half of story.

My jaws are in pain, clenched from annoyance as I read how the MC was abused chapter by chapter by just anyone and everyone. I do revel on those small amounts of sugar in-between the angst. But it's funny how the ML kept saving the MC from abuse but also makes the MC suffer himself. I can't blame the cast anymore at this point. What the hell is the author thinking???? The story is quite bumpy as it has a lot of time jumps and makes the reader fill up the blank lines. Author employs excessive bleeding, (fake) death and gong cruelty in order to... more>> reinforce the drama w/c IMO made the reasoning behind all the more weaker.

Like look. I love dog blood novels. It's frustrating but entertaining at the same time. But I find this novel barely readable because MC's suffering are shallow and unreasonable. (Especially the 2nd arc!) So the drama ain't really cutting it for me. I just wish the bad blood between the MC and MLs family had a foreshadowing earlier so to make more sense and make the drama less s*upid. To be fair, the third arc/half of the novel ML realized his sh*t and started the wife-chasing made it tolerable.

I will rate 3* because the latter part got better plus the author is considerate enough to follow-up and conclude sub-plot lines and the minor couples. I was still able to finish it till the end after all. If you shut off your brain it's a passable dog blood read. <<less
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Hualian2023
Hualian2023 rated it
May 20, 2023
Status: Completed
I finished this novel and I really liked it when seeing it as a whole. If you have a good tolerance to angst stories with happy endings, then I totally recommend this one.

I mention it because this novel is not for the lighthearted in the beginning arcs. The toxic phase of their relationship was hard to read at times, but even through the toxic phase, one could see hints that the ML was developing feelings for the MC so that does make you have some hope and expectations for their... more>> relationship to become sweet at some point. The novel felt easy to binge read in this sense, wanting to get to the cute parts.

And I'm glad that I persisted because I wasn't disappointed, I loved that the author dedicated a lot of chapters on the redemption arcs of the story (like more than half of the novel).

It often happens on these kind of stories that the redemption feels forced or rushed or not sincere enough coming from the ML but this novel did take their time on making the ML learn his lessons and try his best to get closer and work for the love of the MC, so it felt satisfying. In fact all the stars I am giving is because of the redemption arcs, which basically saved the story (also the translation deserves stars too, it's so good).

The thing I loved the most is that I wanted to see the ML sincerely repent and throughly value the MC's love and happiness and I did get to see that, more than I expected.

Also I loved having character development going on not only for the ML but also the MC. I have seen some reviewers criticizing him saying he is childish and weak etc, but the novel clearly explained that he has slow mental capabilities since he was young and gave the reasons why too, so why think badly about him? He was doing his best, he suffered a lot and by the end I was very proud and happy for the MC, because he grew so much throughout the novel. Aside that, the other side couples were woven nicely into the story too and they had entertaining moments. P.S. There is a manhua adaptation about this novel too with some changes on the story to make it more suitable to audiences and the art is gorgeous. You can check it out translated in bilibili comics or manhuahot. Com

Also, I'm surprised there are reviews here that are from people who didn't complete the novel, so their rating can't reflect accurately what the novel is about. If the reviewers had finished it, their rating for sure would be higher.

And some reviews here have misleading information too, mentioning things that didn't even happen. For example:

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someone saying that the MC's childhood friend was the only one helping the MC? When actually, this childhood friend always placed his job and reputation before the MC.

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Or saying that the MC's only chance of happiness was with this childhood friend, when clearly the MC had a very happy ending with the ML*

(Spoiler) *also another one said the Mpreg was used as leverage to forgive the ML, which also didn't happen. The ML never used the pregnancy for any gain, the first time he didn't even know the MC was pregnant and even the MC's overprotective aunt was planning to abort the child without any of them knowing, she only changed her mind because she saw the love between the MC and the ML. And the second time, they were already a couple and had a wish about it* <<less
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sakuraluvsmanga
sakuraluvsmanga rated it
January 4, 2023
Status: c28
I honestly really enjoyed this story I hope to know more! Some of the scenecs can be potentioally *triggering* so warning there are no official *** scenes between the two main charcters. Im really happy the 9th prince has finally noticed and knows what his feelings mean. So im excited to see what will happen with they fall in love? Will he be used again? Will he gat rejected and move to his childhood friend? I wonder what will happen next. There are many sites you can read this story... more>> on I suggest mangafox for the latest update! <<less
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sleepy_chelsy
sleepy_chelsy rated it
July 27, 2022
Status: c111
A novel with your typical possessive gong and crybaby shou. It has a decent plot with decent villain characters but doesn't really introduce you to something new. Nothing groundbreaking. Nothing we have never seen in any other novel before.

It's just your average historical novel with cute elements I guess (?)
Not bad but I wouldn't consider this a favorite.
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moon17lover
moon17lover rated it
February 2, 2023
Status: --
Wow I have never seen such a spinless airhead shou whose only fuctional reaction to any situation is to cry and no matter how much the good for nothing selfish abusive ML treats him like the dirt on his shoes he still " obeys" him, the plot is soo s*upid I could puke, at least have the decency of making the misunderstandings tolerable, not as if all the characters are drunk, next I really hoped for a change of ml, I dont mind a scummy ML but this one is... more>> too much of an idiot <<less
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jozial
jozial rated it
November 12, 2023
Status: c176
All these reviews are correct, but I gave it 4 stars because the first third of the novel was great. It was clever, had political intrigue, and I will admit that I like Pei Zheng (ML). He's possessive, selfish and abusive towards MC and cold and distant with everyone else, very few (if any) redeeming qualities (he's fine af in the manhua though)

The MC suffered brain damage as a child so he is "slow" now. This doesn't mean that he has to be as dumb and passive as he... more>> is, but I still give him a pass for it because Pei Zheng is the character that kept me interested anyway.

The story goes downhill after Shen Huan shows up (though it was awesome to finally get a female character that wasn't a horrible monster). The character herself is fine, it's just the plot takes a nose dive and gets super repetitive. <<less
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FAQ
FAQ rated it
July 6, 2023
Status: --
if you are thinking of reading this novel, I recommend reading the Manhua first

But for me personally the story is going to make you cry out of anger for the MC; ML never considered his feeling whatsoever and always think of the worst from him, it’s just so sad and frustrating seeing the MC keep getting hurt by the same exact person that he love. ML keep using him for his own gain and deliberately putting him in situations that always cause him harm, never explain anything to him and... more>> just keep showing him affection then go on to hurting him. And when the MC actually gets hurt he just come back and then MC would just forgive him. <<less
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