Sonata: Fleeing to Avoid an Arranged Marriage

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Lady Mi Qing ran away from home to escape an arranged marriage. She is then confronted with the following wretched situation:

Card stopped. Money stolen. All she had left was ¥308.50.

In this strange city, her sole hopeful light was a small advertis**ent on a lamppost——

Elaborately Decorated, 100 Square Meters, 2 Room Apartment, Monthly Rent Only ¥299! If interested, quickly contact Mr. Xiao at 138XXXXXXXX!

Mi Qing immediately rushed over to the address listed.

Xiao Gu looked at the woman standing in front of him, brows slightly furrowed. When did he post an apartment rental advertis**ent?

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逃婚奏鸣曲
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  1. light romance | chill read
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CaisAngelsPearl
New CaisAngelsPearl
March 18, 2024
Status: Completed
Nice easy read!

Just like another commenter I also can't help but wonder how and when he fell in love with her cuz suddenly he was chasing her, hard! Anyways missing logic aside it was enjoyable.
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earlgreyt
earlgreyt rated it
July 14, 2020
Status: c29
Maybe I'll finish reading this another time.

Definitely enjoyed the rich/spoiled/princess!MC~

But a couple of things started getting on my nerves, it's very common for romance novels of this type but...

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  • MC loses first kiss in a drinking game + accidental indecent exposure to ML
    • This is trope gets a bit annoying because it's like the MC HAS to be pure/virg*nal/never-had-other-kiss-except with ML
    • This would have been "ok" if MC chose to kiss the ML, but nope, it was not her choice, she was not interested in him at all and wanted to take the drink punishment, but he forced it, and just going to roll my eyes because OF COURSE she has to end up with the random who took her first kiss
    • of course also indecent exposure right after that so OF COURSE, we're in medieval europe, whoever sees the MC's body must be the ML and they will end up together or else the world will explode
  • Colleague of MC casually shows 2nd ML (who is MC's crush) the drinking game photo of her kissing the ML in order to warn the guy off, within 5 min of meeting him, before it's even confirmed that he's interested in the MC
    • Who actually does this? seriously?
    • It felt super invasive and super heavy-handed for a simple colleague to meddle in the love life of MC to this ridiculous extent - literally they've known each other for a month
  • MC has some past history where she hero-worships some 2nd ML and they grew up together
    • 90% sure that it's going to be a mistaken identity thing and the ML will end up being the guy who rescued her in the past (rolls eyes, clearly MC MUST end up with hero who rescued the princess)
    • 2nd ML (who is the target of her affections) offered his place to her. Author had her refuse going to stay with him due to super s*upid reasons like "it's too far from work" (2nd ML OFFERED TO DRIVE/PICK UP), MC basically rejected staying with her crush right after thinking her landlord is a pe*vert? TOTALLY UNREALISTIC (she's literally known landlord for 1 month, and rejects her friend of X+ years for no reason)
    • 2nd ML hints to MC a ton of things, including that he likes her back, but for some reason the MC still thinks her feelings are not reciprocated
    • Author could have basically made the 2nd ML more one-sided in his pursuit, made the MC's relationship more like childhood friends than crush and this would have all made a lot more sense, but as is, not believable at all
    • I'm sure 2nd ML will do some things that will make him an unattractive partner soon

I'm just smh because I think it's worthwhile to write about a romance where both partners LIKE or ARE INTERESTED in each other (or at least MUTUALLY OPEN to the fact) instead of the MC being like, HAS A DIFFERENT CRUSH but CIRCUMSTANCES/OUTSIDE FORCES/MANIPULATION force them to be together.

In fact, I would think the MC and ML eventual relationship would be STRONGER if the MC had prior relationship experience with someone else (like her crush) and realized they weren't a good fit (AND NOT for contrived reasons like ML got physical with her first).

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Nothing's super wrong with the above, but kind of tired of all these weird little things building up. It just started feeling that the relationship was really manipulated (all the friends/colleagues/and contrived "excuses"/events set up by the author intentionally to trap the MC), instead of falling together naturally because the MC liked the other person.

I have liked Chestnut's work a lot in the past but...

Meh.

Not feeling it with this couple. <<less
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jiang ying yue
jiang ying yue
August 14, 2019
Status: Completed
hello, its the new translator here! Mocchino translations. I'm sorry for not updating translations, but I will be updating it soon! Anyways I decided to pick up this novel by one of my favorite Chinese authors, Ban Zi Li or chestnut. I read it before hand the MTL and it was so fluffy...

if you like stories without white lotus b*tches or any scheming green tea sister, this is your cup of tea ladies... and maybe gentlemen.

edit: ok someone has picked it up ;^^ I was under pressure and... more>> was stressed for a few months so I didn't get to update, but it's ok, it's still super sweet and I recommend this! <<less
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RannSy
RannSy rated it
July 23, 2017
Status: Completed
Another cute and fluffy novel from our awesome author. The story is a bit different though since the MC this time originally grew up spoiled and now running away from home, it was nice to see how she learns to adapt to her new environment without grandiose lifestyle or easy work. The side story was also cute! I did hope that it had a separate story from this but oh well, at least the author did show how Gu Xin finally had a girlfriend!
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tedy2004
tedy2004 rated it
September 26, 2020
Status: c29
the characters have no life, really, because of author forcing you to eat forced relationships, love between ML and MC that suddenly appears with no reason at all. The MC has a child's mentality, the end.

Bye bye, I don't recommend this at all.
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Sonialu
Sonialu rated it
February 20, 2021
Status: --
You'd have to be hard pressed to read this IQ deprived crap.

The FL by the author's hand has become a completely delusional adult-child who thinks she's some sort of a pampered princess living in her own fairy tale, and that everything more or less must go her own way - unbearably irritating.

And the ML is simply there just to be a foil for the FL with no characterization whatsoever - like wth, where is your f*cking dignity and pride even when the FL is putting a green hat on you... more>> =_= This ML literally had his wits and smarts all gone down the drain for having fallen in love and even tolerating this kind of FL which is simply an insult to the words 'Romance' and 'Love'.

At this point, not even the plot line can save any good graces - there's tons of plot holes and numerous occasions where the setting or scene did not even make an ounce of sense. It's literally so cliche where to the point that you can actually predict what might happen next *eye rolls*

All in all, I don't usually write much negative reviews, but this novel is a downright 'spicy chicken' and there's simply nothing interesting to the whole premise of the story - everything is crap from the characters to the plot line itself. This novel is not at all worth investing your time in - I'm afraid you might even explode out of frustration =w= <<less
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Nelle
Nelle rated it
April 29, 2021
Status: c3
I agree with the other low reviews. For every sentence I read, I feel like my IQ drops by 5.

The author had a goal to really show MC as a spoiled girl who'll find haven in ML's house. Author accomplished that; she's so spoiled that I want to go there to scold her for hours. She's so s*upid - REALLY s*upid and she's annoying.

I've read from another review that she will have an ambiguous relationship with another person. That's it I'm gonna drop this novel.
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AnotherBoredPerson
AnotherBoredPerson rated it
May 20, 2020
Status: Completed
MTLed in one go. Considered easy to MTL.

Pretty good! Sweet! Heartwarming! Full of fluff!

There are dog food everywhere after they are dating lol.

... more>> You can read chapter 12-14 at Instadoses (that recently translating this novel)

So, basically, this is about a little princess that fleed to avoid arranged marriage. Then she met misfortune after misfortune since she came to the A city.

Story goes, she rented an apartment. Poor her. She had difficult time to adjust with commoner life lol. But the little princess still tried hard in order to live! And make money!

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Summarize :

A little princess with her devoted butler (cough cough) I mean, her devoted knight

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ML :

When they're still not close with each other, their bicker is the best. ML really know how to irk others :)

But when he already head over heels to her, he is really devoted. No kidding. His patience must be appreciated.

If the one that took care of our little princess is me, my hands would itchy to slam her head. Fortunately, Xiao Gu is the one that rented his apartment for her (even though it's a prank, but he's still willing to take her in)

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FL :

How I say, she's used to be spoiled young miss from wealthy family. So she's rather childish. Some times, I'm really irked by her little princess behavior lol.

Later, she'll be matured a bit about values of money and she's willing to work to get money.

But, she'll always being pampered by ML. Well, she's always being his beloved little princess

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I really love how ML treats FL when they're dating. He is patient! Sweet!

Some drama near the end. About FL's family. But being solved neatly by ML. <<less
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Saphie
Saphie rated it
September 14, 2020
Status: Completed
Like all of Chestnut's novel, it is sweet, humorous... but also makes you throw your logic away.

I don't know how ML fell in love with MC and how MC fell in love with ML. Possible suitor of MC just appeared and suddenly it was implied that ML likes MC. It was so abrupt.

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MC was pregnant. You know ML's justification?? 'I can't help myself.' What in the world do I can't help myself even means??

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3 (wrong star)
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orientalfairy
orientalfairy rated it
October 15, 2020
Status: c70
Very good. Sometimes, chestnut novels are interesting only at the start only to become very stagnant. But this kept me interested till the end and so much fluffff im gonna die, lol! The MC and ML dynamic is also good, the MC is spoiled but not annoying and still levelheaded :)) Overall a very good read!! My 2nd fave from Chestnut novels, after Marriage Concerto.
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just.shuwen
just.shuwen rated it
July 16, 2020
Status: Completed
One sentence: Husky Tiantian stole the whole show.

The dog was definitely the showstopper for this hilarious and cute story. Though, the ML and Fl's fluffy interactions and dog food was a close second, but the dog was just too awesome. Loved it.

I desperately wanted to adopt a husky after finishing the story.
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ladyfoxeyes
ladyfoxeyes rated it
April 30, 2020
Status: c11
This started out as a pretty good story. I was forced to stop at only chp. 11. Chapters 12-14 are blocked behind a private blog that require you to register for the host site and then get a password and login for the translator its self. Its sad this was not hosted by anyone else. A good number of missing pages made trying to skip to chp. 15 a trial as by that point you missed out on alot. I know translators are trying to protect their work but this... more>> is bad of them. I will make the request for the pw but lets see how long it takes them to respond. <<less
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Yujian
Yujian rated it
December 3, 2021
Status: Completed
Love love love the story. Another heartwarming novel from Chestnut. Wanna say thank you to all persevering translators for completing the translations. God bless you all.

I saw / read (😁) this family (Xiao Gu, Mi Qing and Zhao2) in the novel of "I Seem Unsuited for Dating" also by Chestnut ofc. They made a cameo in the Kerry Intl subdivision. As Crystal said they have their own story and I got interested so I searched it here.

Thanks goodness I didn't hesitate to read this because I love it. The fluffiness... more>> is just off the roof for me. I love the cuteness and adorableness of MiQing. They said she is a spoiled brat but I saw in the novel that she could adjust to what her current status is. And the ML Xiao Gu ohhh, I like him. I just like ML just like how Chestnut described XG. Lol. The plot is slowly building up and the most I like here is the chapters are most belong to the couple interactions. Unlike ISUFD I am just a little bothered with the time of the friends in QQ.

I really enjoy reading this novel. For me 5 👍up. <<less
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Njtrisha
Njtrisha rated it
May 18, 2021
Status: Completed
Another heartwarming-fluffy novel from chestnut! Honestly the FL was really immature but what can we expect from a rich family's pampered daughter but she's really funny and her silly talks were really enjoyable.. The ML was sassy I liked his character the most in this novel and side characters were great too
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RoseCh
RoseCh rated it
March 23, 2021
Status: --
Ah unlike y'all I only read Gu Xin's part lol because initially I really only intended to read this for Gu Xin and Chen Shishi. And I didn't expect them to be as side characters only😢. I thought they'll be the lead.

Anyways, I did try reading this but the first chapter already told me that I'm gonna lose brain cells in the long run so... I mean, you ran away from home, already expected your cards to be disabled, you still went to a very luxurious hotel? Even went... more>> shopping? That doesn't seem like someone who's very determined to run away.

3 stars for Gu Xin and Chen Shishi. I want more of them! <<less
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tharrinne
tharrinne rated it
February 18, 2021
Status: Completed
The story is good I like it because no too much drama and dragging the plot all along with MC's misunderstandings, I'm glad it wasn't like that but what I don't really like is FL she is super passive and clueless, plus her cringey addiction to pink and stuff like cutie bunnies.. I don't condemn those people who love such certaim colors however hers are excessive and childish. Her treatment towards ML is which I don't like, she clearly insulted him that he doesn't look like a highschool graduate and... more>> her crush excel a lot in many different things. How in the world she could come up with that thinking he is even more successful in his life he has a store who sells well has two houses.. has a car does educational background still important. If the ML didn't reveal his background probably she will just undermine him..2nd I don't know how did just ML tolerate her inconsiderate behavior... clearly she is an unhealthy partner, she do what she wants to do and doesn't ask her partners opinion.. then this ML just shut up so not to offend this bratty princess 🙄 I think being pampered, or spoiled is different from showing unconditional affection. Tolerating someone's unjust bahavior is worst. I wish the author could have shown her progress from bratty to a responsable mature woman..

She only did just work as a waitress her endurance of that work is great however it did not show much character development. And she is passive since she is a pampered brat.. all she do is recieved from the ML and this illution of treating her as a princess so immature.. it's alright to be childish at times however excessive childish behavior is also not good. There are almost to none good qualities this FL has.. unlike Tang Zhi in the other chestnut novel.. the only thing you can learn from this story is that too much pampering is toxic.

The parents also are toxic... does he needed to used his maternal family to get the girl it shows that if you don't have a good background you cannot get the girl.. which is so s*upid he is already successful on his own. But since he cannot be treated fairly since he is only a hotpot shop owner he was looked down.. what s*upid parents those are.. if only they can look if that person is capable of raising their pampered child and can tolerate her tantrums.. other than ML no one will tolerate their bratty daughter 🙄🙄 <<less
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chande
chande rated it
September 10, 2020
Status: Completed
Ahh...I can't have enough of the sweetness in this novel. Although the ending is very satisfying, I still wish that this story will never end. There is almost no drama in this novel but I just think that everything happens so fast.

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I don't know how or when ML starts to fall in love with MC and I also have no idea when MC moves on from her first love (Zhou Yiran). I know that ML is supposed to be MC's first love but MC already invested her feeling so much in the past few years towards ZY so it doesn't make sense that she can get over him so quicky. She even doesn't say anything to ZY after giving him some hopes and then suddenly has a relationship with ML.

And then a few months later, suddenly MC is pregnant and they have a shotgun wedding. I almost couldn't keep up with their fast progress. In spite of that, I still love MC and ML character.

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kamuisama
kamuisama rated it
July 9, 2020
Status: c68
This was a very fun read. Just like other chest nut novels, I actually cheer more about the secondary characters. XD Gu Xin finally had his ending here and I laughed hard when he used Emperor Mo Zhen just like how President Yu used the great emperor before.
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Oceanaas
Oceanaas rated it
May 30, 2020
Status: c51
So far this is my favourite Chestnut novel! I really like the main couple and the side characters aren't boring,
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Not to mention we get to see Gu Xin from marriage concerto!

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it really kept me interested and I couldn't wait to keep on reading to the point I cancelled plans and stayed at home hehe
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Kalmaegi
Kalmaegi rated it
February 3, 2017
Status: c3
The story only have teaser chapters at the moment so I hope it gets picked up. The female lead is a rich yoiung lady who has no lifeskills to speak of (she can't cook) and paired with her terrible luck, the random ad was a godsend. Unfortunately, she's afraid of dogs so even sneaking up to get a midnight snack is an uphill battle. The secondhand embarrassment makes you want to dig a hole and bury yourself. Entertaining. Hope to see more of it someday.
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Karina De Gracia
Karina De Gracia rated it
December 30, 2020
Status: Completed
Not bad, not bad...

I have to say it has some unrealistic points in the story... well, it could be the case but when they are some many coincidences, 😅that's the problem.

More than unrealistic they just don't give me the feeling of being rest assured that they really like each other...I just feel their love rush, the author should have develop more they feeling.

But overall it was a really good, fluffy and fresh story. Different from what I have read before.
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