A thousand years ago, she was only a camellia sprite, yet he was the controller of the Central Heavens, Zhong Tian King!
In the centennial Flower Festival, she confessed her love for him. Everyone laughed at her. She angrily said, “I want to be his Divine Empress.”
He smiled, “Then cultivate.” From then on, she focused on cultivating.
Five hundred years later, she asked again, “When can I be your Divine Empress?” He was silent for a moment, then smiled and said, “I’ll talk to you about it after you enter the Xian Registry.”
The women who wants to be his Divine Empress is more than millions. She finally understands the reason for his silence. She decides to turn back and choose that mortal fate, “to use your body to repay a kindness.” She abandoned cultivation, and reincarnates forever. She doesn’t ever want to be a Xian, she just wants to forget him!
Now, because of his thousand-year guilt, he reversed fate, bringing the reincarnated her to her previous life, focusing on helping her cultivate again. He desires to fix the debt of the past. When spring ends, these two meet again…
That day, the brilliant red, the unrestrained camellia will bewilder whose eyes?
I wanted to make you become a Xian, but in the end you made me a mortal.
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I can't wait to read this. Is it good? Compared to chong zi? It seems more comical and lighthearted.
It's a lot more lighthearted than Chong Zi, if only because there is no real pain/betrayal. I just realized I love angsty stories because I like main characters driven by guilt. Hong Ning is a lot stronger than Chong Zi. She isn't nearly as dependent on love. She can focus and love deeply, but she still has her personal integrity. She won't pursue someone who is impossible, especially if that person led her on. And she would sacrifice her life for honor and retribution.
My biggest complaint is that Bai Ling shows up too little, and that I didn't understand the purpose of Yang Zhen. Oh, and the name Jin Xiu(锦绣) is a bit girly. But it does show that this life is this life, and even if you throw away everything to be together with a person for the next life, it will only be that life. For lives after that, you will be strangers to one another.
I actually like their occasional philosophical moments in which Jin Xiu tries to convince Hong Ning to cultivate. "Only immortals have forever." "Humans reincarnate over and over. They die and are reborn. Isn't that just another kind of forever?" (paraphrased)
By the way, would you help me think of a better translation for 神后, because Godly Empress sounds so ostentatious.
I feel that this story doesn't focus on the relationship of the main couple but rather on the maturation of the main female lead through her personal decisions. She loves deeply, works hard for the main male lead to return her affections, recognizes that the supporting male lead had sacrificed so much for her, and in the end, chooses painful reincarnation cycles to repay the kindness of the supporting lead.
What I love most about this story is the female lead because she is a person of integrity and morals, especially her empathy for the supporting male lead because she sees and appreciates him loving her the way she loves the male lead. This rarely happens in romance novels because the female lead is usually too preoccupied with her relationship with the male lead to notice anything or anyone else.
Between the two books, I like Chong Zi more because the pace is faster, and it is way more angsty and dramatic mixed in with some cute and funny stuff. When Spring Ends was a bit boring for me. However, out of the characters of both books, I like the female lead in When Spring Ends the most.
[returns back to schoolwork^^]
I also liked that it was different from the other three lives styled stories. Instead of starting at the first life, When Spring Ends starts on the third. It follows with what Hong Ning says, "The past life is in the past, the future lives I won't remember, I only care about this life." Everything she does is for this life, if Jin Xiu never interfered with this life, she would never remember him.
The only reason we know about the past lives are because Hong Ning knows. Unlike other reincarnation stories where we know how the past lives go and how other characters are affected by her, we don't know here.
By boring parts do you mean the part in the beginning with the death of the official and the middle part with the peach demon and the part with Lu Jiu's cousin? I thought it was a little boring but I understood the reason behind it. I actually liked the peach demon brothers, especially when one of them pretended to be gay. Yang Zhen's reaction was funny. It's unfair that Jin Xiu can convince people so easily though.
And for once in XianXia, there isn't a good vs evil argument. ^_^ Although, it's not that XianXia-y.
I know abt this book. Listened to a bit of the radio drama I think by petboy. I did recommend skyblu this book but no time to read. I want an audiobook as I m lazy to read ancient book plus do not really like xiAn xia. Hey chancy, what is the latest book on cxt8 abt? Good?
When you first recommended it, and I read the summary, I didn't really want to read it. It sounds very typical 3 lives reincarnation. After I read lidge's comment on Hong Ning and the pretty trailer, I just had to read it. Got any more xianxia to recommend me?
The book begins with fighting the lake snake and then HN going to the temple with her sect brother and there's some story about some pearl or cracked bell (sorry, can't remember). I thought that whole thing was too long and unnecessary. Or maybe it was necessary, but I read too fast so didn't understand the point. I know the snake swallowed the pearl(?) and got big, but what's the point of the snake?
I have a (bad?) habit of judging books based on the first few chapters. When I don't like how a book begins, it wouldn't stop me from continuing to read it, but the book would have to be extremely good for me change my initial impression and like it. That didn't happen in this case because the writing style of the author didn't click with me.
The only part I liked was HN as a camellia in the yard of the supporting guy, and he blackmailed her to appear before him so he wouldn't renovate that section of the yard, lol. That part was cute and funny!
I felt that those part established the characters pretty well. It continues on the belief that HN refuses to believe in fate and its unfairness. There was actually a Xian in the bell. It's a xian who got punished for sleeping too much. He mentions Zhong Tian Wang to HN, though, and it instigates her curiousity.
I actually really liked Bai Ling even though he doesn't really show up. The part about how he uses his nei dan to form a bracelet was really sweet of him. Duan Fei was a nice guy. It's nice that you get two perspectives of him, once from HN and the other from Xiao Cha. I actually liked him when he met HN instead of the camellia. He was just so lonely. The males suffering from divine calamities were so depressing.
I have the same bad habit. It's the biggest reason why I dropped Zhu Xian. The dream sequence of the first chapter got me hooked, especially after that trailer. It made me seriously wonder what could he do that changed her so much.
Thanks for the explanation :)
I read way too fast when I should've slowed down since I was forming an opinion of what I was reading. Another bad habit, lol.
Ur talking about the Heavenly Emperor (main guy) right? I totally love reading stories where these kind of things happen. Like that line inside Chong Zi where Chong Zi doesn't want to forgive Luo Yin Fan, that totally made me want to read it.
Another reason why this story would interest me is because it's about a flower spirit. I read Dian Xian's Heavy Sweetness Ash-like Snow because of that too. This one seems that it will be more serious.