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my first time doing a complete reread of this!

My family didn’t own restaurants. Our money came from frozen foods, and there was no Michelin star equivalent for frozen foods.

I knew that, but it didn’t stop me from wanting one.

are we dumb or dumb?

back to this - a marvellous read, just needed to wait for my friend to catch up

She was enjoying talk of lace and embroidery! She did not know whether to growl in disgust or wail in despair. She was growing soft. Never before in her life had she looked at a woman’s dress except to think where it might be hiding a weapon, never to notice the color and cut, or think how it would look on her.

okay girl...

as i read this, im really realizing how ass christopher nolan’s casting for the odyssey is 😭😭 (fyi, NOT talking about lupita nyong’o as helen - basically everyone else)

little things are better than finishing all my exams and coming home to see a copy of this delivered 😍😍

while i found jin guangyao somewhat sympathizable before, he's just straight-up reprehensible now.

i wish that wei wuxian could've returned to his original body somehow 🥲🥲 especially when i see illustrations of him in his yiling patriach era because wow...

“It’s not harassment when I do it. It’s only harassment when it comes from someone greasy, like Wen Chao.”

flirting vs harassment meme, mdzs-style

i never processed how insane it is that lan xichen recognized nie mingjue’s torso with one look 😭😭 these men gay as fuck

they are criminally toxic but, i have always shipped xue yang and xiao xingchen 😔🖐️

so nice to read a fantasy novel that's actually anti-monarchist

should have passed the end of volume one of the official translation now. its rating would be 3 stars. more interested in the story's potential than what it is now. the female lead is the neatest character right now just because she seems complex. romance exists, but, nothing that moves me. also, more the main character trying to assassinate the female lead than any political intrigue promised.

sometimes, it gets interesting and then, i enter a period of boredom again and so on and on...

”You kill them.”

Zhen Wenjun was stunned, and only after taking the dagger did she realize what Wei Tingxu wanted her to do.

A pregnant woman, a child. She wanted her to kill this pair of mother and child.

oh! the female lead is sending so much mixed signals that idk what to think.

still hasn't made me feel anything other than boredom (and an occasional chuckle for the humour) 😶😶

did not expect this to be set in a relatively queernormative society

if i have to read another baihe with “barbaric tribesmen,” im genuinely going to do something violent 😐😐 going really well otherwise, hopefully this gets addressed properly later on

using this as a placeholder for the completed ftl to see if i want to get the official translation

what do you mean my favourite character got married and it was off-the-page…

the prologues for these books are so fucking boring (especially because what prologue is so long... 8% of the entire book just for a prologue...)

is it wrong that i expected the gong to be more of a red flag? even a black flag, like some reviews were saying.

Then she struck a stone wall, bounced off, and sat down in the street so hard that she bounced again on the hot paving blocks. The stone wall was Gawyn…

what. ignoring the sheer stupidity of that, the “romance” between these two has to be the worst one in the series.

was supposed to finish this today 😵😵 let me see if i can binge it all...

Lin Wanyue looked at this thoroughly dead Hun, then she snorted coldly in her heart: don’t become a Hun in your next life.

okay bru… get this fuck with no critical thinking skills whatsoever off my screen please. really considering dnf-ing this.

apparently the next three books in this series are supposed to be a horribly boring and bad slog so, i don't know if i should buy them or not BUT i have the rest of the books in the series so... might as well get em all and they're pretty cheap compared to other books, but, also an infamous slog...

the simplistic way in which the mc views war is annoying - not expecting a huge social commentary but, realizing that peace is nice only now after her whole village getting wiped out and fighting on the frontlines for many years is frustratingly not complex at all. ig this stems from her being very ooga booga about the huns and killing then all (which is its own problem) but, her thought process is uninteresting.

i'm defo having fun but, it's also quite basic... that i don't know if i care enough for around 180 chapters of this