What do you think?
Rate this book
醉卧江山之凤凰阙（全三冊）
谢安澜，国安特工代号青狐，腥风血雨没要了她的命，休个假一觉睡到了解放前。一梦醒来成为了东陵国泉州陆家的四少夫人。
房子票子美男子转眼成空，眼前只有手无缚鸡之力，刚被她一脚踹下床的庶子相公一名。万事不管，公公一名，外表贤良笑面虎，婆婆一名，各种心思妯娌兄弟若干。
谢安澜万分郁悒：老娘真是哔了...人类*亲密的好朋友了！
本想拿捏着娇弱美少年相公作威作福，不想这货外表纯良内里却是要黑天黑地黑世人。
——“我眼中只有的和不的人，你是个聪明人。”
——“夫妻本是同林鸟，大难临头...我拉你一起死。”
——“我要权掌天下。”
——“那我...只好醉卧美人膝了。”
那就看看，到底是谁卧谁的膝吧？
房子票子美男子转眼成空，眼前只有手无缚鸡之力，刚被她一脚踹下床的庶子相公一名。万事不管，公公一名，外表贤良笑面虎，婆婆一名，各种心思妯娌兄弟若干。
谢安澜万分郁悒：老娘真是哔了...人类*亲密的好朋友了！
本想拿捏着娇弱美少年相公作威作福，不想这货外表纯良内里却是要黑天黑地黑世人。
——“我眼中只有的和不的人，你是个聪明人。”
——“夫妻本是同林鸟，大难临头...我拉你一起死。”
——“我要权掌天下。”
——“那我...只好醉卧美人膝了。”
那就看看，到底是谁卧谁的膝吧？
821 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2019
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
March 2, 2024
22 Dec 2023
CW: Less homophobia than you'd see in most straight Historical CNs, but boy that is a low, low bar to clear so Homophobia is a CW. Offscreen rape. General violence and fucked up thought processes.
1. I ship this ship so much you guys. SO MUCH.
2. I know this story by its original online webnovel name, which is Power Minister, Idle Wife (权臣闲妻). Or something like that. I read it via google translate and that means there are probably a bunch of things that got lost in translation. But whatever. MTL does not stop me from repeatedly diving into this world.
3. This is a story where the FL (Xie Anlan) is a transmigrated super-agent with a specialization in disguise and the ML (Lu Li) is a rebirthed power behind the scenes kinda guy. Or, as Xie Anlan puts it, a wild ghost meets a lonely ghost. Xie Anlan transmigrates into the body of Lu Li's wife with the same name after she drowns, and Lu Li wakes up in his old body from like ten years ago after it passes out (it's strongly implied that it did in fact, die) trying to save his (its?) wife from drowning.
4. What follows is two remarkably smart people (CN protagonists are almost always OP. This is a fact of life.) discovering that the other is not the same person they once were, and teaming up to get ahead in life and have a bunch of politics-related adventures. You know the drill. Succession crises, quest narratives, political scheming, lots of dance battles, and super-secret family revelations. The usual portfolio for your average Histrom CN.
5. I like a lot of things about this story. Xie Anlan and Lu Li are the kind of ship who join hands to make problems for everyone else and the way they work together and the tacit understanding they have is great. They are very straightforward and touchy-feely with each other and they are pretty much an old married couple by the first fourth of the book. It's great. I could take like two more novels about them stirring shit up while being in a relationship.
6. One of the things I liked best about this ship is the division of power.
Xie Anlan: In the face of absolute power, all calculations are bullshit.
Lu Li: That just means your strategies aren't comprehensive enough.
Lu Li is a Non-Action Guy. A man who, as repeatedly stated in the narrative, does not have the strength to truss a chicken. What he does specialize in is knowing far more than he's supposed to know and using that knowledge to anticipate and solve problems while being incredibly smug about it. Multiple characters, including his beloved wife, express their desire to punch him in the face and I don't blame them even a little. Xie Anlan, the idle wife, loudly aspires to being idle, but when push comes to shove she gleefully throws herself into doing marital arts battles and large scale social and economic changes.
Anyway! Division of labor in a ship is great. This is also why Feng Qing's other book with a division of labor (where the FL is the brains and the ML is the brawn) is my second-favourite novel of hers.
7. The side characters are also great! A lot of CNs, even when female-led, suffer from all non-lead female characters being kinda wimpy. This is not the case here, my favorite child darling baby Zhu Yan being the prime example. Shen Hanshuang also grew on me, and my Ning Shu needed far more screentime than what she got. She's a heroine of her own story, dammit. And the male side characters weren't slacking off either. My love for Liu Fuyun ended up being so fucking intense for something that grew slowly over time- I think it's partly because it's so endearing to see a character with a very strong moral code in a situation where he has so many temptations not to have one.
8. There are still a few elements that cut into my enjoyment here and there. There are the usual love brained treacherous minor villains. Lady whose name I am not even going to bother to remember, you are a disgrace to women everywhere. I am also still unsure about my feelings for Baili Xiu, but I kinda feel like the story would have been better without him? I mean yes, he's an actual threat in a story where the protags are way too OP, but he's also kindof annoying idk.
9. Goodreads tells me this story is 821 pages. This is a complete and absolute lie. It's probably 821 chapters in printed book form (the webnovel version I'm familiar with had 817) and it is FUCKING HUGE. The Chinese word count is more than 3 million words.
CW: Less homophobia than you'd see in most straight Historical CNs, but boy that is a low, low bar to clear so Homophobia is a CW. Offscreen rape. General violence and fucked up thought processes.
1. I ship this ship so much you guys. SO MUCH.
2. I know this story by its original online webnovel name, which is Power Minister, Idle Wife (权臣闲妻). Or something like that. I read it via google translate and that means there are probably a bunch of things that got lost in translation. But whatever. MTL does not stop me from repeatedly diving into this world.
3. This is a story where the FL (Xie Anlan) is a transmigrated super-agent with a specialization in disguise and the ML (Lu Li) is a rebirthed power behind the scenes kinda guy. Or, as Xie Anlan puts it, a wild ghost meets a lonely ghost. Xie Anlan transmigrates into the body of Lu Li's wife with the same name after she drowns, and Lu Li wakes up in his old body from like ten years ago after it passes out (it's strongly implied that it did in fact, die) trying to save his (its?) wife from drowning.
4. What follows is two remarkably smart people (CN protagonists are almost always OP. This is a fact of life.) discovering that the other is not the same person they once were, and teaming up to get ahead in life and have a bunch of politics-related adventures. You know the drill. Succession crises, quest narratives, political scheming, lots of dance battles, and super-secret family revelations. The usual portfolio for your average Histrom CN.
5. I like a lot of things about this story. Xie Anlan and Lu Li are the kind of ship who join hands to make problems for everyone else and the way they work together and the tacit understanding they have is great. They are very straightforward and touchy-feely with each other and they are pretty much an old married couple by the first fourth of the book. It's great. I could take like two more novels about them stirring shit up while being in a relationship.
6. One of the things I liked best about this ship is the division of power.
Xie Anlan: In the face of absolute power, all calculations are bullshit.
Lu Li: That just means your strategies aren't comprehensive enough.
Lu Li is a Non-Action Guy. A man who, as repeatedly stated in the narrative, does not have the strength to truss a chicken. What he does specialize in is knowing far more than he's supposed to know and using that knowledge to anticipate and solve problems while being incredibly smug about it. Multiple characters, including his beloved wife, express their desire to punch him in the face and I don't blame them even a little. Xie Anlan, the idle wife, loudly aspires to being idle, but when push comes to shove she gleefully throws herself into doing marital arts battles and large scale social and economic changes.
Anyway! Division of labor in a ship is great. This is also why Feng Qing's other book with a division of labor (where the FL is the brains and the ML is the brawn) is my second-favourite novel of hers.
7. The side characters are also great! A lot of CNs, even when female-led, suffer from all non-lead female characters being kinda wimpy. This is not the case here, my favorite child darling baby Zhu Yan being the prime example. Shen Hanshuang also grew on me, and my Ning Shu needed far more screentime than what she got. She's a heroine of her own story, dammit. And the male side characters weren't slacking off either. My love for Liu Fuyun ended up being so fucking intense for something that grew slowly over time- I think it's partly because it's so endearing to see a character with a very strong moral code in a situation where he has so many temptations not to have one.
8. There are still a few elements that cut into my enjoyment here and there. There are the usual love brained treacherous minor villains. Lady whose name I am not even going to bother to remember, you are a disgrace to women everywhere. I am also still unsure about my feelings for Baili Xiu, but I kinda feel like the story would have been better without him? I mean yes, he's an actual threat in a story where the protags are way too OP, but he's also kindof annoying idk.
9. Goodreads tells me this story is 821 pages. This is a complete and absolute lie. It's probably 821 chapters in printed book form (the webnovel version I'm familiar with had 817) and it is FUCKING HUGE. The Chinese word count is more than 3 million words.
Displaying 1 of 1 review