I think I made the list before but I can't find it. So I made a new one since I just finished reading Beidou/the Plough
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The Slow Burn romance is really slow but I love every single little bits of relationship development in every ship so far. Also the payoff is so good! I also love the banter in every one of her books. Very satisfying to read!
Tsundere shou! ( Not always but I think Shen Qiao, Tang Fan, Cui Buqu are these types and also Ling Shu to a certain degree) Though they're under the same category, they're portrayed as very different in personalities and I can't get enough of them. Their respective gong are also very unique and cunning in their own way when it comes to making the shou admit their feelings!
Cross dressings! Hilarity ensues!
Solving mysteries! be it crime investigation, treasure hunting, political machinations, unmasking evil cult or even ruining evil cultivators plan to rule the world etc.
Strong women side characters. Also if they're among the very beautiful then they usually are either evil and end up dead or they find a way out of their predicament on their own.
Spoiler alert: the betrayal! We need at least one scene of either true betrayal (looking at you, Yan Wushi!) or it was just an act (Peerless, the Plough) or qi deviation (Shen Shang)
The last few chapters at least one or both of the main characters fight to the brink of death and yeah their love for each other is reaffirmed because of this but...that's not the true ending though! Go read that in the extras!
I've read 5 series of hers so far and I like them all very much.
Thousand Autumns
14th year of Chenghua
Peerless
Estranged
The Plough
Have Bu Tian Gang on my shelf already. Might start on that next, or All under heaven.
estranged (English)
/əˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒd/
Having become a stranger, of one who was formerly close.
panopticon (English)
/pænˈɑp.tɪ.kɑn/
1. A type of prison where all the cells are visible from the center, particularly if it is not possible for those in a cell to know if they are being watched.
2. A place in which people are subject to constant surveillance at totalitarian command.
My latest digital creation 😊 I saw this background on Pinterest and immediately thought of Estranged. So I drew Axl and combined the drawing and the rose. What do you think, guys? 🤗
I was told a year ago one of the people who raised me - the one who didn't hate me as much or didn't hate gay people as much or both or neither - the one who taught me to drive and swim - the one who was illiterate and used my homework to learn - the one who killed the rooster - the one who was a cat burglar - the one whose father died a day before they were supposed to meet - the one who grew up post-WWII London - the one who people liked - the one who told jokes - the one who never protected me or my brother - the one who I would have seen if it hadn't meant seeing their spouse - just died.
I had a year. I could have seen them.
But the last time I ever drove near the place I used to live, I was violently sobbing. I was just a kid, and I wanted to die.
The only thing I had left to say was that I used to respect them. That's not something someone dying needs to hear, and it's not something you can take back.
They said worse. Things you can't take back.
But right now someone I used to love and respect is dead, and I'm allowed to mourn the person they used to be.