The King's Pet

Name: The King's Pet
ISBN: 9787531723806

Qin Ying'erNorthern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe)2009

No rating yet

Chapters: 23
ISBN: 9787531723806

Report an error Find this book

Summary

The King's Pet is a long-form time-travel romance by the web novelist Qin Ying'er. Serialized from 2008 on platforms including Jinjiang Literature City and Quyue Novels, it received recognition in the second Hongxiu Chinese Romance Novel Contest and was published in print by Northern Literature and Art Press in June 2009 in two volumes. The story is set in Zhouyang, a fictional empire with a rigid hierarchy of bloodlines. A modern girl, Mo Zhuyao, awakens after a thousand years of being frozen and is classified by this unfamiliar world's system as a "pet," assigned to the noble Lord Liuhui as one of his possessions. Unwilling to be treated as an object of amusement, she carefully guards her self-awareness and dignity as a human while navigating among nobles, jailers, black-market figures, and courtiers. Feng Ji, the empire's true ruler, declares his ownership of her in an almost obsessive manner—"your body, your heart, even your life and death"—and this absolute control collides with her stubborn sense of self. Meanwhile, the struggle for the throne among Liuhui, Liunian, and other power holders, black-market conspiracies, and cross-empire wars drag her fate ever deeper. Told in first person and unfolding across volumes such as "Frozen," "Breaking the Ice," and "Fallen Dreams," the book uses the story of a woman objectified by power to show how she holds on to herself between coercion and emotion, portraying a time traveler's crisis of identity in another world.

Editor's review

这是早期中文网络言情里颇具代表性的一部「穿越+架空帝国」长篇：作者秦嬴儿在2008年连载时首次尝试第一人称写作，把女主的心理独白铺得很满，读者很容易被她那股「我是人，不是宠物」的倔劲拉进去。书里的架空设定做得认真——昼阳帝国按血统把人分成三六九等，「宠物」「殿下」「法典」自成一套逻辑，黄水晶耳环之类的小道具也被用来暗示控制与反抗的关系，不是随手撒的糖。男主枫祭是典型的霸道偏执型统治者，宣言式的台词如今读来颇有时代感，却也真实记录了那几年女频爽虐文的审美。感情线之外，王位争夺、黑市阴谋、跨帝国战争把故事撑得足够长，适合想一口气读完的读者。要提醒的是，书中涉及囚禁、强制占有等情节，属于早期网文的套路写法，今天的读者不妨带着类型史的视角去看，更能读出其中的时代趣味。

Who it's for

A good fit for

喜欢早期女频穿越言情、偏爱霸道君王设定的读者
对网络文学发展史、类型文演变感兴趣的读者
能接受第一人称心理独白与强情节冲突的读者
想找一部可以连着读很多天的长篇架空言情的人

Not a good fit for

反感囚禁、强制占有等设定的读者请慎入
偏好严格考据的历史小说读者可能觉得架空设定过轻

Reading tips

先读「楔子」与「冰封千年」两章，弄清昼阳帝国的等级规则再往下读，人物关系会清楚很多。
把枫祭与流辉、流年视为三条权力线分别梳理，能更快看懂王位博弈的走向。
书中有大量内心独白，读得快时不妨留意女主对「尊严」的反复自问，这是全书的主线。
若读的是上下两册实体版，建议一次性备齐，故事在册与册之间有明显的情绪断裂。

About the publisher

Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) China · Founded in 1961

Northern Literature and Art Publishing House focuses on contemporary and modern literary and artistic works, literary theory, and translations of foreign literature, while also covering categories such as history, popular science, Eastern philosophy, and world classics. Its collection includes 737 titles, with representative publications ranging from traditional Chinese classics such as Records of the Grand Historian, The Exploitation of the Works of Nature, and The Analects to foreign literary works including the complete classic plays of Shakespeare, Balzac's Old Goriot and Eugénie Grandet (in celebrated translations by Fu Lei), and The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Its author resources span classical figures such as Sima Qian, Song Yingxing, and Confucius, foreign writers such as Shakespeare and Balzac, and translators such as Zhu Shenghao and Fu Lei. The press combines the transmission of classics with an orientation toward general reading, developing a distinctive profile in both the editing of traditional texts and the translation of foreign literature. Public information is limited, so the above emphasizes the publishing profile reflected in the books held in the collection.

Prologue
Chapter 1 Frozen for a Thousand Years
Chapter 2 The Hall of Liuhui
Chapter 3 Identity
Chapter 4 An Outing
Chapter 5 The Banquet
Chapter 6 The Supreme King
Chapter 7 Punishment
Chapter 8 Imprisoned
Chapter 9 The Procession
Chapter 10 Gossip
Chapter 11 The Grand Feast
Chapter 12 The Zhouyang Codex
Chapter 13 Feng
Chapter 14 The Kept Woman
Chapter 15 The Performance
Chapter 16 Abuse
Chapter 17 Hekou Jie
Chapter 18 The Journey
Chapter 19 An Accident, Meeting Xiao Zimo
Chapter 20 A New Lord
Chapter 21 A Desperate Turn
Chapter 22 Illness

FAQ

《王的宠姬》的作者和出版信息是什么？

作者为秦嬴儿（原名王晓娇，红袖添香签约作家），实体书于2009年6月由北方文艺出版社出版，ISBN 9787531723806，分上下两册，网络版最早于2008年9月起在晋江文学城等平台连载。

这本书是穿越还是纯古代背景？

属于穿越设定：女主末竹瑶来自现代，在冰封千年后于架空帝国昼阳苏醒，因此书中既有古代宫廷的等级与礼仪，也有现代人视角的内心吐槽和价值观冲突。

故事是悲剧结局吗？

网上读者对结局评价分歧明显，有人惋惜女主与「王」未能圆满，也有人认为收束带有番外式的命运回溯。具体结局建议亲自读完，本书不属于传统意义上的大团圆套路。

适合第一次读网络言情的人吗？

可以作为类型入门，但需注意它是2008年前后的作品，节奏、台词和情节套路都带有那个时期的印记，与今天的女频写作风格差别不小。

Comments

Find this book

This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.