It is said that the fifth son of the Yan Kingdom Xun is very overbearing. If anyone can cool him down, he/she will get anything from him. The delicate and tender bean curd queen Xiang Xiang is firm and tenacious. In the world of power and wealth, she is just like a rootless lemna minor. She is born in troubled times and is plundered by bandits. When she is running away, she is again captured by soldiers of the Yan Kingdom. When she is panic-stricken, Xun orders his men to take her into his curtain... More exciting plots, please read this book.
Recently finished reading the Vietnamese version of this book (Đông Phong Ác by Nhất Độ Quân Hoa) and quite liked it.
The male lead is of high-born status. As a man of power and military blood, he is rough, arrogant, self-indulgent and low on EQ, but it fits his image of a competent general on wild, agressive and fatal battlefields.
For the most part of my book-shelving and book-selecting process, I am often put off by such description of a male lead, because I prefer the trope of sharp-witted, manipulated and cruel-when-needed leads who usually plot for big things, not this type of a low EQ "machete". However, I had been recommended, with mixed reviews, that it should be a short fun read, so I picked it up and was thoroughly entertained.
His arrogance is just part of his lineage and upbringing, which, granted, gives him the ultimate superiority to his subordinates and "peasants".
I have no complaints regarding the female lead, because she acts logically for a village commoner forced in agonizing situations. I truly appreciate the authenticity of powerless individuals caught in the "tornadoes" of anarchy shifts.
Did not like Phế Hậu Tướng Quân by the same author so did not expect to laugh as much while reading Đông Phong Ác.
6/24/26 I'm not rating this considering I skipped big chunks. I'm actually impressed with myself for remembering this though once I just saw the first notes. She's someone kidnapped who is expected to be grateful about it - of course she's resistant, then great and ML doesn't appreciate her at all, she leaves him (a few times iirc) - and then he's all regrets ... he took another wife or concubine or something - that made me so mad - so much skipping - it was "just to protect them" or whatever but ofc he never told her - dog blood everywhere. At least he was very earnest in the end and she forgave him and it's HEA. But no I def wouldn't recommend this - at best like D-- ~*~*~*~ The Wicked Wind
1 FL is Gu XianXian. ML better not be Murong Li
9 🤦🏻♀️ talk about a pig teammate. She was going to be a concubine & now she’s just a tongfang cuz her dad. Which, I get, but fucking read the room
10 ok well at least she’s a concubine. But sigh.
18 goddamn. Poor girl had a daughter, sent letters every fucking month … and fuckhead not only didn’t know he never even read any of her letters. I hope she leaves him & he regrets it to death
21 AYFKM he abandoned her. (WHY AM I BEING HAUNTED BY SUCH TRASH ASS MEN IN THESE READS)
… I should’ve noted what c she had a sexy dream of her rescuer Han Xu
33 the author is trying to convince us MRL isn’t so bad. AYFKM? Asshole you deserve to be tormented knowing “your woman” likes someone else
34 baby Li XuanXuan ❤️
39 omfg guy married A TWELVE YEAR OLD?!
42 what the fucking fuck just happened. Why was Han Xu there?! I just … WTF
Skipped to 81
lol 82 she left him 🤷🏻♀️💯
83 o.O he’s finally trying to win her over? Pretending to be sick & injured…
86 officially married!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.