Novel: "The Decay in the Textbook", by Yu Huan
【Book Review】
Gathering a variety of elements I love: female emperor, growing female protagonist, crossing male protagonist, and the degree of completion is high, a few spoilers on the author's copywriting are very important.
Su Hui, a young political historian of the 23rd century, learned about the female emperor of history at the age of 15: Xia Wenzong Zhou Jiahe, and made studying her his life's work.
When he grew up, he participated in the experiment of the time-space machine, came to Changye for 17 years, came to the side of Zhou Jiahe, the princess of Ningkang, who was only 9 years old, and accompanied her and observed her as a eunuch. Little did he know, however, that history had changed quietly long before he crossed, and that he had not reached his destination.
The heroine Zhou Jiahe found a "Book of Heaven" at an early age, and it took her two or three years to understand it, which said that she would ascend the throne as an imperial consort at the age of 13 and be deposed and killed at the age of 25.
As the last years of the long career happened one after another as mentioned in the book, she was puzzled by this. Compared with the mother who supported her father to ascend the throne, the eldest sister who grew up in the war, she was raised in the way of a "princess", who has the ability to be an emperor?
But even so, Zhou Jiahe was fully prepared psychologically and intervened in the dispute in advance in the last year of The Long Industry. Unfortunately, his most trusted internal servant Yun Qiao "died" in the chaos and did not watch himself ascend the throne.
Duanhe three years, Duan and five years, Zhou Jiahe successively met people similar to Yun Qiao, even if they were suspicious, without exception they were all brought to her. Under the pressure of the "death period", she collected all the talents mentioned in the book, learned to ride and shoot, designed to briefly pull the center of power to the northern border Xuanfu, removed the bead curtain, and gradually got rid of the control of courtiers and mothers.
Duanhe five years later, Su Hui, who had walked in parallel time and space, finally revealed his identity to Zhou Jiahe and Pan, and let Zhou Jiahe and his mother and eldest sister untie the knot. He told Su Hui that the world was undergoing tremendous changes outside the Central Plains, and not to limit his vision to the struggle for power and profit in the court. I really like the scene in this volume when the two people are separated, where two people in time and space meet, and there is still a long way to go alone after relying on it.
End and eight years, all kinds of contradictions erupt, the story climaxes. In countless time and space, Zhou Jiahe was not such a Zhou Jiahe, and Su Hui was not even a historian. The collision between Tianshu and Su Hui made the two of them play a he who was unique in one.
Compared to other female Diwen I have seen, the heroine of this book is really difficult. Weak foundation, multiple contradictions, the time left for her to grow is too short and too short. The Xia Dynasty was positioned as a "Qin Sui" style transitional dynasty in the era of Su Hui, and ushered in a prosperous era after the death of three generations.
For Zhou Jiahe, with nearly ten years of diligence, the Book of Heaven made her full preparations, and Su Hui, like Kyaukgyao Mingyue, kept her from losing her way. Or maybe she already had the blood and fire of her parents flowing in her blood, and after being refined, she became more and more radiant.
From resisting that position to desperately fighting for power for his life, Zhou Jiahe once did not know what he was emperor for, and finally believed that only he had the ability to bring a better future.
For Su Hui, from silent and only observing, to doing everything possible to return to the end and the era, determined to change history. I declare that the out-of-control love of the orderkeeper will always be the drama of my love!
Another very interesting point of this book is the small group portrait of the protagonist, and the only two supporting characters in the copy are Zhou Jiahe's sister and mother. I've never seen a web story like this that puts the mother-daughter trio at the center of power.
Mother-daughter love, sisterhood, and a desire for power come together, and women's identities determine that only they can understand each other. Zhou Jiayin understood that if her sister lost the throne, she would never have the opportunity to wear armor again, and if she abdicated, she only believed that her sister would adhere to her policy. And Du Yinchao's setting I will not spoil, I think she can be the protagonist.
Zhou Jiayin Du Zhen, the Zhao brothers, and the man who wandered in time and space, the supporting characters are also impressively portrayed.
This story really conforms to my aesthetic in all aspects, the writing is powerful, the style is correct, the plot is stable and interesting, giving people a feeling of watching a historical drama.
The author did not give the heroine a big gold finger, follow the real human nature, and depict the complex court, the closest and estranged empress dowager, the dearest and most beloved sisters, etc., real and profound, good-looking, and strongly pushed.
