NOVPUBThis was originally posted in the author’s notes for Chapter 351, but it failed to publish due to some unforeseen issue, so I’ve decided to just paste the previous notes here.
How should I put this? Due to some reasons, I can’t understand the concept of ’sowing wild oats’ and the ’emperor’s harem’...
Someone told me it’s a man’s possessiveness, okay, I can understand that, but understanding is one thing...
Not many of the beauties from the Three Kingdoms era met with happy endings: Da Qiao because of Sun Ce’s premature death; Zhen Mi due to the Zhen family’s wealth; Diao Chan through the artifice of her beauty; Cai Zhaoji because of her reputation as a husband-killer; Mi Zhen because Liu Bei was too weak. I have already done my best to grant them the happiness they deserve.
If Sun Ce had met Da Qiao at the age of eighteen, she would have at least seven years of happiness. For a woman to encounter a man who is like a hero, who loves her, and to have a child with him, that is happiness. To be able to raise the child with the person she loves, grow old with him, and be buried together, I believe that is happiness.
Cai Zhaoji, with Li You’s help, did not end up in the hands of the Huns; she could reminisce about the object of her girlish admiration and engage in activities she loved, free from any constraints—that is a young girl’s happiness.
Zhen Mi no longer needed to vie for her family’s interests, marrying one person after another, and could laugh or scold freely before her mirror...
Mi Zhen didn’t have to sacrifice her life for the Mi family’s generations-old dream of being an aristocratic family...
No need to speak of Little Qiao; she should be the legal wife, married to the man of Jiangnan women’s dreams, who is also a hero, and skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting; she had two sons and a daughter. Although she did not grow old with Zhou Yu, her life was sufficiently happy.
As for the things I haven’t explicitly written about, please don’t speculate. Cai Wenji belonged to Cao Cao? Does that mean a girl can’t think about someone else?
I can tell you something: sometimes girls tend to reminisce about the past, even if they can’t even remember what the person in their memory did, but they will inadvertently think about it, though it’s just a thought.
It’s said that half of the aristocratic family women in Eastern Wu dreamt of Zhou Yu; the famous saying ’Zhou Yu pays attention to the beauty’ is recorded in history. After Sun Ce conquered a quarter of the world in three years, the remaining half set their sights on Sun Ce. Does that mean all these women in history married Zhou Yu and Sun Ce? (To be continued. If you like this work, you’re welcome to vote for it on Qi Dian (qidian.com) with recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
