The Broken Mirror
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who love classical, graceful prose and delicate emotional writing
- Readers with nostalgic feelings for early classic online romance novels
- Readers who prefer emotional tragedies built on mistaken identity and cruel fate
- Literature enthusiasts curious about the style of historical romance writing from over a decade ago
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking strong plotting, fast pacing, and密集 conflict
- Readers who are highly sensitive to or uncomfortable with ethical dilemmas in character relationships
Reading tips
- Read with an immersive mindset; do not overthink the time-travel logic, and focus on the characters’ emotional shifts in extreme situations.
- Notice how the author uses poetic allusions and scenery description to build atmosphere and隐喻 characters’ inner states—a distinctive feature of the book’s language.
- After reading, compare it with popular historical romance works today and reflect on how readers’ aesthetics and online literary trends have changed over the past decade or so.
About the publisher
Popular Literature and Art Publishing House is a publisher positioned around popular reading, and publicly available information about it is limited. Its publishing focuses mainly on foreign literature and world classics. Among the more than seventy books in the collection are Chinese translations of classics such as Les Misérables, War and Peace, Gone with the Wind and Andersen's Fairy Tales, as well as inspirational and personal-growth titles, suggesting that the press balances the popularization of literary classics with reading development for young people. In terms of authors, foreign masters including Hugo, Tolstoy, Mitchell, Andersen and Dickens form the core of its translated works, while authors such as Xie Zhiqiang and Cui Haili enrich its domestic writing section. Overall, the press serves general readers with accessible editions, building a publishing profile centered on world literary classics and supplemented by growth and inspirational themes.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 楔子
- 第一章 飞鸾流仙镜
- 第二章 花月镜边情
- 第三章 日暮秋烟起
- 第四章 吹箫月夜闻
- 第五章 初见花间蕊
- 第六章 一世一双人
- 第七章 茫茫烟水上
- 第八章 夜吟霜花寒
- 第九章 红袖凭江楼
- 第十章 荼蘼暗香谢
- 第十一章 心有千千结
- 第十二章 相思了无益
- 第十三章 惆怅是清狂
- 第十四章 深情永难诉
- 第十五章 纯阴封魂术
- 第十六章 剪雨流霜岛
- 第十七章 花间暗断肠
- 第十八章 系我一生心
- 第十九章 负你千行泪
- 第二十章 一别似参商
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About the author
Yu Xiao Yanran is a Chinese web-fiction author whose work spans a fairly wide range of genres. Public information about her is limited: her real name, nationality, and dates of birth and death are not found in existing records. Eight of her works are held in the collection, including Twelve Washing Fragrance Orders, Scorched by Flames, My God's Billion-Point Pampering, Only for Yearning, Nine Kingdoms: A Sigh of Three Lives, Broken Mirror, The Spoiled Daughter, and Spring Colors About to Tease. They fall under such categories as wuxia fiction, modern romance, youth literature, time-travel and alternate-world fantasy. Judging from the titles and categories, her writing moves between ancient martial-arts worlds and otherworldly fantasy while also touching on urban romance and youthful growth. Her stories often center on emotional entanglements and the fates of her characters, giving her a recognizable presence among readers of genre fiction.
