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straightforwardly) wrote2019-03-19 06:31 am
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211 | Thousand Autumns, chapters 1-39
I forgot to mention this yesterday, but I also read Thousand Autumns over the weekend! Yes, I read a lot, I know. In my defense, I am a quick reader, so it doesn’t take that long for me. Like The Husky & His White Cat Shizun, it quickly became another favorite. At least this one has 39 translated chapters full of plot and relationship development, so I’m not full-out scrabbling at the door for updates for this one like I am with The Husky & His White Cat Shizun. I’m still pretty eager to see how Shen Qiao and Yun Wanshi even fall in love with each other, but my desperation is at a manageable level.
That all being said, I actually wasn’t quite sure about this one for the first few chapters! I honestly nearly dropped it around chapter three or four when it looked like Shen Qiao was going to be tricked into thinking he was a part of Yun Wanshi’s sect / made to kill relatively innocent people because of his amnesia. But nope! He figured out on his own that they were lying to him and found a way to warn the victims to escape, and by the time he struck out on his own (either in the same chapter or the next one; I'm not sure which anymore), I was pretty comfortably settled in for the long haul. (Though it wasn’t until later—at some point after he and Yun Wanshi reunite and start traveling together—that this one settled into my favorites list.)
One thing that I like about Shen Qiao is that, while he’s endlessly kind, he’s not stupidly so—he’s a very intelligent person. And he feels very—human in his kindness. He’s a really good person, but not in a way that makes him feel like an inhuman holy saint. There’s this one part that I really liked where he tells Yun Wanshi that of course he feels darker urges—all humans do; it’s just that he chooses not to act on them.
I’m so intrigued by Shen Qiao and Yun Wanshi’s interactions—especially since I saw the translator mention to someone in the comments section on a recent chapter that Yun Wanshi isn’t in love with Shen Qiao yet. I really want to see how these two fall for one another. For now, though, I’m content with watching Yun Wanshi tease him and Shen Qiao’s “...” reactions.
Also, the Shen Qiao v. Duan Wenyang fight was so satisfying. Especially with how the spectators start to wonder if there was something else going on in the Shen Qiao v. Kunye fight, because clearly Shen Qiao didn’t lose because of a lack of skill!
This one is a little different from the other web novels that I’m following in that—though it still has enough fantasy elements for my taste—it’s set during a distinct historical time period. Funnily enough, I’ve been (slowly) reading John Keats’ China, A History lately, and I actually started reading Thousand Autumns the day after the chapter that ends with the Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Then yesterday, I started reading the next chapter of the Keats book, which ended up covering the Northern Zhou —> Sui —> Tang transition, and I went “...well, I now have an idea of where the political plot is going to go”. Haha.
That all being said, I actually wasn’t quite sure about this one for the first few chapters! I honestly nearly dropped it around chapter three or four when it looked like Shen Qiao was going to be tricked into thinking he was a part of Yun Wanshi’s sect / made to kill relatively innocent people because of his amnesia. But nope! He figured out on his own that they were lying to him and found a way to warn the victims to escape, and by the time he struck out on his own (either in the same chapter or the next one; I'm not sure which anymore), I was pretty comfortably settled in for the long haul. (Though it wasn’t until later—at some point after he and Yun Wanshi reunite and start traveling together—that this one settled into my favorites list.)
One thing that I like about Shen Qiao is that, while he’s endlessly kind, he’s not stupidly so—he’s a very intelligent person. And he feels very—human in his kindness. He’s a really good person, but not in a way that makes him feel like an inhuman holy saint. There’s this one part that I really liked where he tells Yun Wanshi that of course he feels darker urges—all humans do; it’s just that he chooses not to act on them.
I’m so intrigued by Shen Qiao and Yun Wanshi’s interactions—especially since I saw the translator mention to someone in the comments section on a recent chapter that Yun Wanshi isn’t in love with Shen Qiao yet. I really want to see how these two fall for one another. For now, though, I’m content with watching Yun Wanshi tease him and Shen Qiao’s “...” reactions.
Also, the Shen Qiao v. Duan Wenyang fight was so satisfying. Especially with how the spectators start to wonder if there was something else going on in the Shen Qiao v. Kunye fight, because clearly Shen Qiao didn’t lose because of a lack of skill!
This one is a little different from the other web novels that I’m following in that—though it still has enough fantasy elements for my taste—it’s set during a distinct historical time period. Funnily enough, I’ve been (slowly) reading John Keats’ China, A History lately, and I actually started reading Thousand Autumns the day after the chapter that ends with the Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Then yesterday, I started reading the next chapter of the Keats book, which ended up covering the Northern Zhou —> Sui —> Tang transition, and I went “...well, I now have an idea of where the political plot is going to go”. Haha.