Spoiler The Cry of the Phoenix Which Reached the Ninth Heaven

minhchau1997 · Jul 2, 2021

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I just got to around 69 volume 3 in the raws and I realized that I was pretty much fed up of how the story was progressing. The male lead was supposed to be a strong guy with this military prowess and because he has some sort of military process all readers should assume that he is strategic and smart, yet what we see him as is- this guy who's dumb, can't protect himself, can't protect others and doesn't see through simple schemes, not to mention he is extremely gullible? Not much improvement on significant other selection by the FL... Seriously...
My last straw was probably him ignoring Ben Lei's words about Mowan being endangered and him prancing off to meet Yu Funing... It was also the fact that when she was injured he still acknowledged that he was useless and he hasn't really done anything to make up for that, I feel like it's just going to be extremely repetitive during this entire story and I don't like novels that I like that and I didn't expect it to turn out this way because the writing isn't terrible but the plot itself? Gone to the dogs!
But as I've decided not to read further, i have a few questions!
(N.B I also have a few gripes with the female lead but they aren't as big as the ones that I have with the male lead; mainly the fact that she keeps shamelessly taking from Yan Nansheng while knowing this stuff is priceless, yet always makes comments in her mind about how he's being petty about simple things... when she does know that they have immeasurable value. It just makes no sense to me and I do find it's pretty advantageous of her to do that)
1) What's the deal with this 'evil concubine' which is translated in the raws to Baby Oriole? From one of the poorly translated titles of future chapters near to where I stopped it spoke about "she is his sister" so my automatic assumption, is that she could be Yan Nansheng's sister? And what happens to her.
2) What happens to Chu Moxin and Zhe'er? Does Chu Moxin ever fully face how terrible his brother is?
3) Will Chu Mobei ever repent for his actions and acknowledge that the female lead isn't a person he has to kill?
4) When and how does FL abandon all pretenses and facades with Ye Hongyi?
5) What's the turn out for Ting Yue and Yin Xue? I also wanted to know if Yin Xiong ever defects from Chu Mobei, because he did seem to feel remorse over exploiting his sibling relationship with Yin Xue and sincerely doubt his own decisions.
6) Does FL ever visit Shu/Chu and scold the King on how he treats his son (Chu Moxin)?

Thank you in advance for answering my questions. I really didn't think the story would end up the way it did because I was very pleased with how it started out, and I clearly remembered reading the story when it first started being translated and couldn't remember why I dropped it, and so i assumed that I dropped it because of something relating to the updates.
Not to mention I always try to make sure there's no harm tag or reverse harem tag and that they don't have too many chapters (aka 3k or smthn! I rarely read stories with over 2k chaps because they usually are terrible, sadly this one had 6 hundred and smthn and it disappointed...).
I guess I'm even more disappointed by the story due to me thinking the female lead and her story seemed a little bit like Li Weiyang's but I'm really sorry for ever thinking that because Li Weiyang/Weiyoung is written really well and both the FL and ML are competent... Unlike here where it's only the FL being competent to some extent.
All in all I'd rate the story a four out of 10.
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Sorry it's been a while since I read this, but I forgot a lot of details. It has been long time! I agree this story is flawed. I think the audiobook sounded nice, and it helped pass time. Since this is my first and only completed audiobook, I was pretty happy. Lol, I did take a break myself for months and managed to finish it.

Surprisedly I never finished Wei Yang. I heard the plot deviated a lot, and she ends up in another country as an empress. In addition, the author was caught for plagiarism for the story, and so I never went back to finish the story

I recall the evil concubine. But I don't even remember much about her... She had a whip and was pretty evil. TBH I think she's irrelevant, I mean

she probably died. Lol, because Ye Hong Yi and the evil sister was like cockroaches. I can't recall of her after the palace arc, and so I don't think it was super important..

Isn't Guy #2 bio? I totally forgot. If he was, he fell in love with the FL again. He even had a marriage ceremony with her

I feel like Yin Xiong did stop using his sister, but I don't recall the details.

I actually recall this, and I remembered she did yell at him. She made a plot where Chu Mo Xin died or something, and the father cried and regretted his actions. It was pretty sad listening to the audio

this was after the war started and she felt like she didn't need to be undercover anymore. He wanted to install her as his Empress, and she thought it was ironic that he loved her when she didn't love him anymore. She revealed that she reincarnated (?) and told him everything was a lie. And he got angry with revenge...

She ends up dying before her wedding with Ben Lei.(???) I don't remember who it was.

There was a eunuch that went to the palace with them. Remember he died by getting whipped by the evil concubine? He was trying to prevent the evil concubine from entering the FL's place. After Ye Hong Yi lost everything, someone helped him change his face to the eunuch, and he infiltrated next to the FL for revenge. He was around for a while, and I thought he would be soft-hearted since he "loved" the FL. But instead, Ting Yue accidentally found out and was murdered by him.

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