Picked Up Unruly Phoenix Xiaoyao

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  1. Ruyi

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    Name: Unruly Phoenix Xiaoyao*《刁蛮小药凰》*I'm not sure if the MC is actually a phoenix, btw.
    Raw Link: http://www.xiang5.com/bookinfo/17190.html
    Author: 梅小果
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    Complete (384 chapters)
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    Alternate reality, sweet story, court intrigue, strong female lead, military general
    NU Link (if avaliable): N/A
    Why It Should Get Picked Up: Another interesting premise for the transmigration trope. Here we have a female military officer transported into the past with a understanding-animals cheat ability. Moreover, she's a girl disguised as a man, currently ruling as the de-facto emperor of her country. The curious thing is--when she first goes back to the past, she faints and has a (future?) vision of her mother poisoning her to death in favor of her younger brother inheriting the throne.

    some plot spoilers up to ch 13 below:
    NOTE: i made a mistake in initial translation, it's dushi, a title related to the military, not "teacher du" lol

    Luckily, she can understand animals and picks up on rumors and plots around the imperial palace just by listening to them gossip. Apparently her mother's a manipulative control-freak that's been steadily stringing Xiaoyao along (the original Xiaoyao wasn't smart enough to pick this up) and isolating her in the court. All of Xiaoyao's servants actually work for her mother, and when the story starts her mother's faction is about to kill off a decent guy named Teacher Du (other name: Lou Zigui). She ends up rescuing him because the animals say he's been framed, and offers to join forces to defeat her mother (the empress dowager) and her family.

    MC has a simple but straightforward personality--not naive, but pragmatic and somewhat innocent. For example, after she rescues Teacher Du, their first conversation goes like this:
    TD: Why did you save me?
    NXY: Weren't you framed?
    TD: Aren't you afraid I'll take revenge for the crown prince? [who was killed by NXY's mother's people to benefit NXY]
    NXY: I'm not afraid. We can work hard together. [mostly because she saw the vision of her mother killing her and so wants to kill her first]
    NXY: I believe that you're a good person, so I'll help you. Don't think too much right now and rest. I'll watch out for you.

    As an extra note, it's somewhat unclear, but the MC's original world seemed to be dying/dead dystopia before she came to this one, so she has a lot of experience with blood/war/death. Civilization must have collapsed because she's only heard of things like restaurants in stories about the past but never been to one of her own.

    Description (if you can find one):
    The military officer of a dying world named Ning Xiaoyao has a secret: she can understand the language of animals.

    Fat cat Black Tubby says: "Teacher Du is a good person, miaow!"
    Sparrow Ash Grandfather says: "Teacher Du is a good person, chirp!"
    Little rat Oil Jar also says: "Teacher Du is a good person, squeak!"
    Weasel Great Immortal follows with: "You and Teacher Du were a couple made for each other~"

    All the little sprouts told Ning Xiaoyao about Teacher Du, Teacher Du, Teacher Du!

    Thus, Ning Xiaoyao believed that this Lou Zigui, also called Teacher Du, had to be a good guy. Not only that, but he was born to be her match...
    ---

    Disclaimer: Again, only read the first dozen or so chapters, but it was interesting enough to stick.
     
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    Sounds good, but don't you think 'why it should get picked up' is just to detailed? Too the point it's spoilerish. Well, this does look interesting. I hope it gets picked up.
     
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    LOL is it? This is all within the first 13 chapters, so I wanted to give potential parties a short and thorough summary. I'll add a spoiler tag, then~
     
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    SoulZer0 Heaven Refining

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    13 chapters and many things are already happening? I see, it's quite a fast-paced novel. That's good, in my opinion.

    And I'm sorry for troubling you.
     
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    No trouble, I'm new at this recommending novels thing. Shorter synopsis are easier to read, anyways. Thanks for the help!
     
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    I didn't help you out with anything though, all I did was complaining...
     
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    Nah, you gave advice on synopsis length, right? It's a helpful pointer. ^-^
     
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    I see, I'm glad you are looking it that way.
     
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    SoulZer0 Heaven Refining

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    By the way, can you give more information like, what is the genre and tags?

    Who's the original publisher?

    Author's name?
     
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    Seems interesting~
    A female Dr.Dolittle in an ancient china like political setting~
    But I'm curious if she won't be actually killed when they discover that she is a woman like in another story..
     
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    ;-; stopppp ittttttt
    :cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
    I'm already reading the other one despite my work being due....
     
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    Original publisher is the raws site, I believe.

    All other items added to edited post.
     
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    From what I've read:

    It's in the empress dowager (her mother) and her people's best interests to hide her gender. If she's revealed as a girl disguised as a man, then not only her, but their whole family will probably get killed. As a matter of fact, she uses this as a bargaining chip in the first 13 chapters by threatening to take off her clothes in front of some soldiers to force one of her mother's cohorts to do as she wants.

    The only reason her mother still keeps her around is because the political situation was unstable when the previous emperor died and she (the empress dowager) wanted the throne. So she disguised her daughter as a son (not sure of details on how/when) to claim it. Meanwhile, she's still raising her son (the MC's little brother), who's currently too young to safely ascend the throne.
     
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    SNOW GO TO WORK ORZ
     
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    But... but it's so interesting...... :cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
     
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    It's completed, it won't go anywhere or grow 500 chapters while you're gone. Now be off with you
    *shoves @SnowTime out of thread*
     
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    There are too many good novels and too little translators. I wish I was rich to pay them what they deserve so they can carefreely translate T.T
     
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    Where did it go? I can't find the translations on novelupdates.
     
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