An imperial edict bestowed upon the young lady of the Shang Dynasty the marriage of an imperial concubine. It would be a great favor to have the daughter of an imperial concubine become the official wife of the Emperor; however, the entire Shang clan and even the entire capital felt sympathy for this unheard-of young lady.There was no other reason. It was said that Duanren Emperor was fierce and merciless, that he could stop children from crying at night, and that was even worse. He had a strange fetish, which was to suck the blood of young girls and scare to death a few of Duanren Wangfei's candidates.This wasn't the worst part of it, the most important part was that King Duanren had been in bed for three months, his life and death was uncertain, and he desperately needed a bride.This person was Shen Qi.She felt that she must be the most tragic woman in the world. There was no free lunch in this world, so she had to pay a price for her whole life.
An epic, heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughter's journey to their destiny. Lotus Feet. He would give his daughter the dainty feet of a courtesan. This would enhance her beauty and her price, making her future shine like a new coin. He smiled to himself, pouring fresh tea. And it would stop her from running away... When the young concubine of an old farmer in rural China gives birth to a daughter called Li-Xia, or "Beautiful One," the child seems destined to become a concubine herself. Li refuses to submit to her fate, outwitting her father's orders to bind her feet and escaping the silk farm with an English sea captain. Li takes her first steps toward fulfilling her mother's dreams of becoming a scholar—but her final triumph must be left to her daughter, Su Sing, "Little Star," in a journey that will take her from remote mountain refuges to the perils of Hong Kong on the eve of World War II.
The USA Today–bestselling author of The Dragon and the Pearl “combines wit, seduction, skill, and intelligence in a tantalizing take on ‘My Fair Lady’” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Yan Ling tries hard to be servile—it’s what’s expected of a girl of her class. Being intelligent and strong-minded, she finds it a constant battle. Proud Fei Long is unimpressed by her spirit—until he realizes she’s the answer to his problems. He has to deliver the emperor a “princess.” In two months can he train a tea girl to pass as a noblewoman? Yet it’s hard to teach good etiquette when all Fei Long wants to do is break it, by taking this tea girl for his own . . . “Lin has a gift for bringing the wondrous and colorful world of ancient China to readers. The history and culture of the era are beautifully bound together with a classic romance theme. Those yearning for new worlds and age-old adventures will savor Lin’s novel.” —Romantic Times
, the modern girl, had her necklace stolen by two Man in Black s after a nightmare.In the Amethyst Nation where Six Realms were crystallized, Princess Ling Ruo encountered the Amethyst prince Zi Ye Yu. After being attacked by the Amethyst with a bow and arrow, she had fainted, regained consciousness, and was then taken advantage of by words, causing her to feel disgust towards him. After that, on the way out of the Amethyst Palace, Ling Ruo met the Priestess Summoning Wings, who was in the midst of a sacrificial ceremony.The Goddess indicated to Ling Ruo that she was a descendant from the legends of the Six Realms, and that they needed to find the six Priests who protected the Six Realms in order to return to their original world. Therefore, Ling Ruo and, along with Zi Ye Yu and Qi Yi, began their journey together.On the other hand, Qi Yi was skilled in magic, and she had taught Ling Ruo the simple art of defense. The two of them had different talents, making Ling Ruo feel extremely inferior, and realizing her own incompetence, she went to the south of the Xuan Ming Realm to cultivate, at the same time, bringing Qi Yi, who had been injured by a bat, along to recuperate. Zi Ye Yu, who had thought that Qi Yi and Ling Ruo had escaped together with his wife, led his army and gave chase, and cracks appeared in the master-subordinate relationship between Qi Yi and Zi Ye Yu.Ling Ruo's concubine was forced to become He Lian's concubine, the strong and arrogant He Lian who was the overlord of the Yun Barbarian Realm. Because of her status as a Heavenly Girl, she was respected by He Lian, but she also received jealousy from the other concubines.After escaping from He Lian Qin's hands, Ling Ruo had set up her own Heavenly Girl Army, attempting to unify the entire Six Realms. The Heavenly Girl Army had reclaimed all the nations in the Yun Barbarian Realm that were not convinced by He Lian's rule, but in the end, they still lost to Zi Ye Yu.However, she remembered from her previous life that she was the favorite concubine of the of the Six Realms God Realm. She had died in battle in the era of myths against the God Realm God of Heaven, the one with the highest Six Realms, Extreme Gods. And the Night Emperor who received divine punishment after his defeat was, in this life, none other than Zi Ye Yu.Ling Ruo, who had recovered her memories from his previous life, reunited with the heavily injured Zi Ye Yu, bringing him to his current life to recuperate from his injuries. The two of them decided to return to the Six Realms after recovering from their injuries. They wanted to save the last Holy Priest imprisoned by the extreme gods and rebuild the destroyed Night Heaven Palace."
Description: Bei Yunyi was originally a smart and agile girl, but at the age of thirteen, he accidentally fell off the cliff and became a retard.The cruel and ruthless Prince Jin named her as Lady Yun.Everyone thought that she was just a plaything of the Jin Emperor and would not live for more than half a year. However, one month later, the Jin Emperor changed from his usual personality and actually spoilt her, a foolish child, into the heavens.She became the most envied woman in all of Beijing.It all ended in October, when she was about to have a baby.It turned out that all of this was just an elaborate scheme designed by Prince Jin to use her child's placenta to treat his beloved's infertility.Back then, only two years had passed, back to the day of her marriage, was she still that naive, gullible, ignorant girl that she had allowed herself to be played with?
Ch. 1. The tale of the early career of Rescriptor Bao -- ch. 2. Judge Bao selling rice in Chenzhou -- ch. 3. The tale of the humane ancestor recognizing his mother -- ch. 4. Dragon-design Bao sentences the white weretiger -- ch. 5. Rescriptor Bao decides the case of the weird black pot -- ch. 6. The tale of the case of dragon-design Bao sentencing the emperor's brothers-in-law Cao -- ch. 7. The tale of Zhang Wengui. Part one. The Tale of Zhang Wengui. Part two -- ch. 8. The story of how Shi Guanshou's wife Liu Dusai on the night of the fifteenth, on superior prime, watched the lanterns. Part one. The story of the judgment of dragon-design Bao in the case of Prince Zhao and Sun Wenyi. Part two.
Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking saké and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperor's principal consort. Among these noblewomen was an imperial concubine named Nakanoin Nakako, who in 1609 became embroiled in a sex scandal involving both courtiers and young women in the emperor's service. As punishment, Nakako was banished to an island in the Pacific Ocean, but she never reached her destination. Instead, she was shipwrecked and spent fourteen years in a remote village on the Izu Peninsula before she was finally allowed to return to Kyoto. In 1641, Nakako began a new adventure: she entered a convent and became a Buddhist nun. Recounting the remarkable story of this resilient woman and her war-torn world, G. G. Rowley investigates aristocratic family archives, village storehouses, and the records of imperial convents. She follows the banished concubine as she endures rural exile, receives an unexpected reprieve, and rediscovers herself as the abbess of a nunnery. While unraveling Nakako's unusual tale, Rowley also reveals the little-known lives of samurai women who sacrificed themselves on the fringes of the great battles that brought an end to more than a century of civil war. Written with keen insight and genuine affection, An Imperial Concubine's Tale tells the true story of a woman's extraordinary life in seventeenth-century Japan.
