Wild Flowers is a novel that is contrary to the typical Romance stories. The majority of men in the novel are cold, emotionless, and cruel characters, no matter it be Xi Ze Er or Gong Zi Chu or Lei. Each who will stop at nothing for their objective, and personal feelings in their hearts will never be first place, as Lei had put it, “Complicated people do not have pure love.”
“Is this the curse that we can never break away from in this lifetime? Whoever is besides us, will fall to misfortune. Whatever place we have passed through will flow with immeasurable blood. In our lifetime we will never obtain what we want. Even if we are submerged in the sea will still not be able to drink a drop of water. Even if loved by countless people, will still die from loneliness. ”
War and love, poison and scheme, betrayal or salvation….towards love she has already given up all hope, inside the harem where do the knights gallop? Is this the curse that we can never break away from in this lifetime?
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Anyone read this b4? Where’s Sherry our Cang Yue fan?
Saw this at the bookstores today and found a few novels that caught our attention, this one was shorter and only $12, so wanted to buy it to test out. Summary makes it seen like it’ll be sad ending and a sad sad story. If it’s a very nicely written wuxia we’ll read it still.
And….is it harem? Cause this author seem to write wuxia more. I was looking for a wuxia with romance in it.
I think I read part of this once, but I stopped after a few chapter because the culture didn’t make sense. Something about a Pope, and a bunch of illegitimate children? The names were somewhat strange, and I think the main girl was described with golden hair? Was this the story where the main girl marries a couple of times but she always comes home because her brother destroyed and conquered that country?
……well, u got the hair right. I didn’t notice that her hair was gold. I think I’ll be posting another novel up later than. What you described doesn’t seem like something that I would like reading. Boo, that’s the only Cang Yue novel in the bookstore. Wanted to try her since Sherry seems to love her stories. She’s one of the most popular new generation female wuxia writers.
This one is very “nue.” At the beginning of the novel, Adaier is a widow at least once, and she has some sort of strange sickness. I believe it was mentioned that she was blind until she was ten or something, and that people think she’s cursed. I somewhat remember thinking that she was mentally unstable. Xize’r, her brother has a ambiguous relationship with her. I believe he tells her, “Marry him, and wait for me, I’ll take you home in a few years.” Their father doesn’t love any of his children, and is just using them. After that, I have no idea. If one of you reads it, tell me about it.
Helllooo guys! I haven’t been posting here for a really long time!
Cang Yue’s stories are generally a mix of wuxia, fantasy, romance, and horror. I think she really has a knack for endearing you to characters in the fewest words possible. I remember being moved to tears after reading anything written by her.
I’m actually a little conflicted about Cang Yue now. I used to be a HUGE fan of hers, and cried waterfalls over pretty much every character that died. Unfortunately, last month I copied and pasted a sentence I really liked and found this whole thread on a forum that pinpointed all her instances of plagiarism (both ideas and entire chunks of text, everything from the Egyptian Book of the Dead to manga to the stories of her fellow authors)! I already spotted some things she stole from the greats like Jin Yong, Gu Long, and especially Wen Rui’an, but this discovery made me lose a lot of respect for her. 🙁
Chancy, if you’re still interested in reading her works, I would recommend the 听雪楼 series (it’s really long though, and recently I discovered that a lot of it is lifted right from Wen Rui’an’s series that starts with 温柔一刀. An even longer series by Cang Yue is 镜, and the world-building is really good, but it was just too long for me to finish. A lot of people also really liked 七夜雪, but I didn’t like it as much as 听雪楼. That series took me an entire year to read because it was so long and tear-inducing, but I loved every moment of it. I was just heartbroken when I realized much of it wasn’t original, though. T_T
I get how u feel. Sure many of her fans are disappointed to find that out too. Like id be very disappointed if Tong Hua copied from other authors.
Still do want to try out her book still.
I think you’ll like her style. 听雪楼 only has fan-made radio drama chapters though, and I’m not much of a listener anyway, so I always read word for word. Other than the first two chapters, I think I cried in every chapter in the series. I simultaneously love and hate most of the characters, lol. Neither Tong Hua nor Tang Qi Gong Zi give me the same feeling. I guess it’s because her stories really fulfill my Jianghu dream. 🙂
Tong Hua is more politically in depth while Tang Qi is more comical. I think lots of complementary novels that use the label wuxia can sometimes be misleading. I don’t know if just the sites put them under wrong genre or they have a different kind of definition they use to define wuxia. I do like the idea of wuxias written by girls though because usually it will be centered around a heroine instead of a hero. A little more romance in it that makes it less dry. I’m posting up another novel. Not sure if u’ve read this one.
In Cang Yue’s stories, male and female leads share the spotlight. The 听雪楼 series focuses more on separate stories anyway. The protagonists’ fates are revealed in the first chapter (guy and girl kill each other), so it’s clearly not the focal point of the series. I really admire Xiao Yiqing (and fear him and hate him too) and don’t really like female lead Shu Jingrong, but I cried for pretty much all the other characters, usually their subordinates.
And nope, I haven’t read the other novel you posted. Too busy with school and work to check it out, but I wonder if it’s highly rated. Where do you find bookstores with such novels? I thought you live in the U.S.
Me too, I’m saving lots of books to read after graduation this Dec. We only have one Chinese bookstore in Las Vegas, I find them in there, but they don’t have alot of books, only a small batch. I’d consider myself lucky if I can find a few authors with names that I can recognize. They only have one Cang Yue novel. I’ve went to alot of local libraries, there’s one more next to me that I haven’t checked yet. They have about almost a hundred titles in each library, but haven’t found anything that really caught my attention, they seem to stock more Taiwanese books. Have you read some b4 by Taiwanese authors? Lots of the titles are very….i dunno, uncreative? Like Wicked King, Delicate Consort, …..
Oh you live in Las Vegas, cool. I live in the middle of nowhere. My university’s library does have all of Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng’s novels, as well as the classics, but nothing modern. I haven’t read any books by Taiwanese novelists because online versions are often in traditional and I can’t stand reading traditional. I can only read novels online but it gets tiring on the eyes, so I’m not half as addicted as you guys are. :p
A bit Kate but The description reminds me of the RL story of pope innocens smth (or how it is written, more famous for being one of the wicked popes and rumored to had made a deal with the devil, he lived around the 15th/16th century I think) and his illegitimate children, but it was quite common back then it was quite common for clerics and so on to have illegitimate children, the mothers of those were usually already married women.
his daughter lucathia (or similar, also famous for her beauty and Golden hair) who was for political reasons married of several times with unfortunate endings of her husbands since young. Therefore there were rumours of her killing them, being cursed or being in a incestous relationship with her brother Cesare or her father. She was also quiet smart
Cesare is famous for being a ruthless Person who did a lot of cruel things for power and was feared by many
If you are interested their family name is beginning with ‘B’ sounding like ‘bougires’ and are from Spain I think