I love Janice Wu with all my heart, and I was beyond excited to see her star as modern day lovers with the dude from the Oriental Odyssey.
UNFORTUNATELY, while the result wasn’t bad, their characters in Coup de Foudre were just dreadfully boring Yan Mo is a dull, dull man, Qiao Yi has the personality of a wet rag, and their vanilla romance was flat lined from the get-go.
A note: I took a long break from translating because I’ve been working on other things and because it seemed like there wasn’t much interest anyway. I appreciate all the comments I’ve received though. Thank you guys! As there seems to be some interest, I am going to continue to chug along and see if I can finish. 🙂 As always, would love to hear your thoughts on the story!
~~ Chapter 22 ~~
The moon this evening was especially round and bright, illuminating the garden’s small stone bridge and decorative rocks. Phoenix, Run Yu and I sipped wine around a table–a harmonious scene, I thought.
“Have some fun?!” Phoenix repeated my question with disbelief. I felt a chill down the back of my neck. “I came to look for you!”
I wasn’t sure what came over the mortals in the room; they all stared at Phoenix unblinkingly. The fat man from the next booth swallowed hard and said, “Truly, he is the creme de la creme! A god among men!
Chapter 16
Lao Hu once said, “Beautiful people usually aren’t too bright, because all the nutrients go to their looks” I realized today that the same could be said of Phoenix.
The High Priestess is a busy person with barely any time to spare; to bother her for some measly herb is folly itself and would surely anger her. And once angered, she would of course refuse you the herb. This has nothing to do with enmity between the two realms.
PROLOGUE
The cold moon illuminated the deepest of night, the night of first frost.
The twenty-four priestesses of the fragrances knelt in the iridescent glass temple within the Palace of A Hundred Flowers, breathing softly. Outside, the shadows cast by branches dancing in the night breeze carved the moonlight into pieces of broken jade.
From the Eye of the Snail 