季桃初

Notable works: Warm Fragrance and Ruan Yu Double Prelude The Empress Dowager's Growth Chronicle

7 written works

About the author

Ji Taochu is an online romance novelist about whom limited public information is available; details such as nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background have not been clearly recorded. Six of her works can currently be identified, with representative titles including Records of the Empress Dowager's Growth, Double Prelude, Warm Fragrance and Ruan Yu, A Laugh for Chen, Life Is Like a Play, and I Have a Date with a Spirit Medium. She mainly serializes her writing on online platforms such as Jinjiang Literature City. Her subjects are chiefly ancient court life and modern romance, and she also touches on the time-travel alternate-history genre. Her stories tend to center on palace life and urban relationships, unfolding character dynamics and emotional entanglements against alternate historical settings, and have attracted a certain readership among romance fans.

Written (7)

Life Is Like a Play cover

Life Is Like a Play 季桃初 Jiangsu Kuwei Culture Development Co., Ltd. · 2025 Song Qingqing, an ordinary girl who dies chasing a chicken, stumbles after death into Tian E, a proud and sharp-tongued "chicken spirit," and is force…

Warm Fragrance and Ruan Yu cover

Warm Fragrance and Ruan Yu 季桃初 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 In a world too chaotic to stand alone, she could only live as a fragile dodder flower, clinging to others—until she met her end among withered grass i…

Double Prelude cover

Double Prelude 季桃初 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 In the Zhengan era, the Southern Liang dynasty teetered on the brink of collapse. Astride a warhorse, clad in gleaming silver armor, he took her hand …

The Empress Dowager's Growth Chronicle cover

The Empress Dowager's Growth Chronicle 季桃初 · 2022 Years ago, pretty and radiant, she made a secret wish beneath the peach blossoms: I will marry a good man, and together we will grow old with white ha…

Laughingstock Qingchen cover

Laughingstock Qingchen 季桃初 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022 Ye Keyi, an adorable but hopelessly untalented "lost cause" in the entertainment industry, keeps charging ahead trying to salvage her "bumpy" life—wit…

The Empress Dowager's Growth Chronicle cover

The Empress Dowager's Growth Chronicle 季桃初 · 2022 Years ago, pretty and radiant, she secretly made a wish beneath the peach blossoms: I want to marry a good man, and together we shall grow old, holdin…

Warm Fragrance, Ruan Yu cover

Warm Fragrance, Ruan Yu 季桃初 Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House · 2018 Note: The title you provided, "Warm Fragrance, Soft Jade," is an alias under which this work circulated online; its simplified-character print edition…

Publishers

Jiangsu Kuwei Culture Development Co., Ltd.Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House