I like the story plot. I feel bad for Diego though.
Soo damn good!!!
I’m the author so naturally I think this is a great book. ...
This book is awesome I love it great job
I Love this story
I need to talk about the moss. The moss is the most emotional object in this entire novel and nobody is going to convince me otherwise. Wei Zhao 'always loved the moss and never allowed anyone to clean it away.' Why? Because it's soft? Because it's natural? Or because it's the one thing in his life that he gets to choose? The moss is where he falls. The moss is where Jiang Yihuan falls on top of him. The moss is where their bodies collide and something shifts permanently between them. I literally gasped when she landed on him. My heart stopped. Not because it's romantic—though it is—but because it's the first time Wei Zhao has been physically vulnerable in front of anyone without it being a battlefield. He's a general. He kills people for breakfast. And here he is, sprawled on moss, arm possibly broken, being used as a mattress by a girl who thinks about fabric, not fate. The emotional whiplash in these chapters is unreal. One moment you're reading about assassins and arrows and Wei Zhao's terrifying power, and the next moment he's whispering 'get up' breathlessly while a girl crawls on top of him asking about brocade. The author is playing with emotion like a master instrument. When Jiang Yihuan says 'Wei Zhao, come home early tonight. Let's have dinner together,' it's so casual and so devastating. She's inviting him into domesticity. A hostage inviting her captor to dinner. Who does that? And his response—walking away, refusing to engage—is so Wei Zhao. He can't handle tenderness. He deflects with anger. But then he gives her SIX BOLTS of the most expensive fabric in the empire because she asked nicely. That's not a captor. That's a man who's been starved for affection his whole life and doesn't know how to receive it. The dudou scene—when his hand accidentally touches her and the strap snaps—was the most emotionally charged moment in recent memory. It's not sexual. It's not even romantic in the traditional sense. It's two broken people colliding and neither knowing what to do with the collision. Jiang Yihuan flees in panic. Wei Zhao is left grinding his teeth, realizing what he just touched. The emotional honesty here is raw. These characters are not performing for the reader. They're performing for each other, and the performance is failing, and that's when the real emotion breaks through.
Great story, amazing and engaging characters with a super interesting plot. love the author, I've read several of her books and I'm hooked with all the stories.
this is hot....recommended
LOVE IT!!!!!!
love it!!!
Unique storyline! Love this
wow! once you start, you just can't stop. am loving every single chapter.