Cang Wu Bin Bai
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But that's just the surface. Fu Shen and Yan Xiaohan have a history of secrets, love, and betrayal between them. Being forced into a marriage by the Emperor (marriage between men of the noble class is condoned, in part to accept same sex relationships, and in part to control progeny inheritance complications) forces them not only to repair their relationship, but to combine their efforts to protect their nation, as there's a great conspiracy against the Emperor boiling up, carefully hidden,
I love a good slow burn romance, and I love strong characters. I enjoy historical detail, too. All of them combine in this book, which really worked for me. I kept being surprised. The usual tropes got messed with. I kept teasing myself with it, wanting the book to last a while and wanting to finish it all right away.
Caveats -- this is a translation, but a good one. Dialogue attribution is very different in translated Chinese fiction from what most English language readers find normal, and that takes a bit of adjustment. Pronouns tended to get a bit tangled here and there. Other than that, I thought the prose flowed nicely, occasionally quite beautifully.… (mehr)