My Cousin, Ten Thousand Blessings

YousiHongxiu Tianxiang2023

Rating 4.8
Word count
2.2M words

Tags

Girls' Fiction Historical Romance RomanceFamily IntriguePalace IntrigueCourt IntrigueHidden IdentityPatient VengeanceSelf-DiscoveryWeb Novel

Summary

Yu Youyao has a nightmare in which she sees herself married into the household of the Marquis Who Secures the Realm, reduced to a medicinal catalyst for her younger sister Yu Jianjia—her heart's blood drawn for three years before her heart is cut out and she dies. Waking with a start, she clings to her cousin Zhou Linghuai, who has come from Youzhou, and begs for his protection. Zhou Linghuai is in truth Yin Huaixi, heir of the Prince of You, whose entire household was executed; under an assumed name he hides in the Yu estate, enduring his broken body while biding his time for revenge. The two move from using each other to genuine feeling, supporting one another through the Yu household's internal intrigues and the court's power struggles, until Yin Huaixi ascends the throne and fulfills his promise to shield her for a lifetime.

Editor's review

A classic rebirth-style warning-dream opening, with household intrigue and court power struggles interwoven at a tight pace; the romance is a clean, exclusive one-on-one, and the setup of a crippled, hidden-away male lead and a clever, protective heroine is appealing. Suited to readers who enjoy sweet romance with face-slapping revenge; the weaknesses are excessive length, formulaic household-intrigue episodes, and slower plotting in the mid-to-late court sections, so readers seeking concision or hardcore power politics will need patience.

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Reading tips

  1. Read chapters 1 to 3 first to confirm the nightmare setup and character relationships before committing to a long work
  2. Pay attention to how clues about Zhou Linghuai's identity are laid; many foreshadowings of the household and court threads connect to them
  3. The work is long; read in stages from Volume One to the end to avoid fatigue

About the publisher

Hongxiu Tianxiang

Hongxiu Tianxiang publishes paper editions of women-oriented online literature. Its 2,043 titles in the catalog show a focus on female fiction, ancient romance, youth literature, and period novels, extending into popular web-fiction themes such as rebirth, time travel, and quick-transmigration. Representative books include Cousin Wanfu, The Mermaid She Kept Is a God, 1998: Warm and Sweet, The Reborn All-Purpose Farm Girl, and A Guide to the Supporting Actress's Counterattack in Quick Transmigration, spanning ancient romance and modern everyday storytelling. Authors such as Yousi, Rose Qing, Li Xiaozhuang, Guo Pafei, Qingxing Yingcao, and Tiancha Daren form a relatively stable creative team. The press's characteristic approach is to turn popular serialized online works into physical books, preserving the emotional tension and brisk pace of genre fiction for readers who enjoy female growth, romance, and counterattack narratives. Because public information is limited, details such as founding background and scale are not covered here.

FAQ

Is the heroine reborn? No, she only has a nightmare that foretells the future, and changes her choices after waking.
Are the male and female leads blood relatives? No. Zhou Linghuai is an assumed name; he is actually Yin Huaixi, heir of the Prince of You, and has no blood tie to Yu Youyao.
Is the romance exclusive one-on-one? Yes. The male and female leads are chaste in body and heart, and their ending is devoted and loving.

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About the author

Yousi Author

Yousi is a Chinese-language online novel author about whom limited public information is available. The library holds five of her works, including Cousin Wanfu, The Billionaire Powerholder: Dot on His Wife to the Sky, Wealthy Family Rebirth: The Demon Daughter Returns, Bad Luck Meets the CEO: Wife So Weak, Weak, Weak!, and Indulgent Love: The Sweet Wife Sneaks Into His Arms. Judging from the titles and their common categories, her writing centers on women's fiction, spanning both ancient and modern romance. The titles often use affectionate forms of address, identity reversals, and intense emotional conflict—such as “cousin,” “CEO,” “demon daughter,” and “doting on his wife”—suggesting a style that leans toward light, sweet romance or high-tension romantic drama, with popular web-fiction elements such as rebirth, wealthy families, and CEOs. Since details of her birth and death, nationality, and other personal information are not publicly available, her real-life background cannot be confirmed. Based on the works at hand, her readership appears to be mainly women who enjoy ancient or modern romance stories, and her overall output is best characterized as genre-driven, entertaining online romance fiction.