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A review by r1vana
Rebirth of a Star General by 千山茶客
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
"She is the scene in my eyes, the person in my heart."
When I first heard of the drama:
Legend of the Female General<
I was really excited. But even better, when I heard that there is a novel. I need that ASAP. Here I am binge reading this for over a week.
This novel is like a warm blanket in a rainy day. Chinese novel are always beautifully written and this one was not a miss.
Not only there are many captivating plots, but I loved every single characters, whether their are good or bad. Let’s start with the leads.
Our FMC, He Yue. She is an extremely strong warrior and brave. She was forced to become a steppingstone for her family and became a replacement for her male cousin. He’s been using his name and create an identity as a general. She was forced to wear a mask the whole time. So no one can ever know her real face. Why? To not only bring shame to the family because she was a woman but also to put her cousin back to it. All the talents, praises that she had created, all were taken from her.
After through all that, she was pretty much sold to get married. And then she was fed poison to make her blind. And then her husband mistress made her drown while pregnant.
The present plot? She was reincarnated or transmigrated into another girl body who is the daughter of a war general. Who has the same name as her previous “body” (so she does and in the same timeline is reincarnated into a new one).
While using that new body, she will go into military all over again, and seek revenge on her family who betrayed her. That was her main goal, but she decided to follow her old path by disguising as man to become a soldier which she almost die many times without even touching a hair of the enemy.
She will get into few dramas that the old frail “He Yan” was getting into. And that body is weak but with a lot of practise, she became stronger after hard training. Where she will meet many people from her past life. Including MMC, Xiao Jue.
He isn’t present as much as I expected. Which is understandable because the main goal for the story was He Yan to disguise as a man and go to the military. Xiao Jue doesn’t suspect her to be a man until much later in the story. Pretty much like Mulan.
He doesn’t have a lot of personality but, he has been a huge impact and a great inspiration for He Yan for both of her lives(previous and now). There is another character that stood out so much; Lin Shuanghe. The man that he is. The best wingman ever. He is pretty much saying things that all readers were thinking; whether it is pushing Xiao Jue to “claim” He Yue as his person.
The ending was HEA, but I am thankful to see other characters life as a young age. Yan He’s love story was so sad to read. The author pulled my heartstrings out…
Overall, I read this for a drama, and it made me have a higher expectations for the show. Hopefully it didn’t ruin the whole genre and also ruin theses three iconic and memorable characters…
When I first heard of the drama:
Legend of the Female General<
I was really excited. But even better, when I heard that there is a novel. I need that ASAP. Here I am binge reading this for over a week.
This novel is like a warm blanket in a rainy day. Chinese novel are always beautifully written and this one was not a miss.
Not only there are many captivating plots, but I loved every single characters, whether their are good or bad. Let’s start with the leads.
Our FMC, He Yue. She is an extremely strong warrior and brave. She was forced to become a steppingstone for her family and became a replacement for her male cousin. He’s been using his name and create an identity as a general. She was forced to wear a mask the whole time. So no one can ever know her real face. Why? To not only bring shame to the family because she was a woman but also to put her cousin back to it. All the talents, praises that she had created, all were taken from her.
After through all that, she was pretty much sold to get married. And then she was fed poison to make her blind. And then her husband mistress made her drown while pregnant.
The present plot? She was reincarnated or transmigrated into another girl body who is the daughter of a war general. Who has the same name as her previous “body” (so she does and in the same timeline is reincarnated into a new one).
While using that new body, she will go into military all over again, and seek revenge on her family who betrayed her. That was her main goal, but she decided to follow her old path by disguising as man to become a soldier which she almost die many times without even touching a hair of the enemy.
She will get into few dramas that the old frail “He Yan” was getting into. And that body is weak but with a lot of practise, she became stronger after hard training. Where she will meet many people from her past life. Including MMC, Xiao Jue.
He isn’t present as much as I expected. Which is understandable because the main goal for the story was He Yan to disguise as a man and go to the military. Xiao Jue doesn’t suspect her to be a man until much later in the story. Pretty much like Mulan.
He doesn’t have a lot of personality but, he has been a huge impact and a great inspiration for He Yan for both of her lives(previous and now). There is another character that stood out so much; Lin Shuanghe. The man that he is. The best wingman ever. He is pretty much saying things that all readers were thinking; whether it is pushing Xiao Jue to “claim” He Yue as his person.
The ending was HEA, but I am thankful to see other characters life as a young age.
Overall, I read this for a drama, and it made me have a higher expectations for the show. Hopefully it didn’t ruin the whole genre and also ruin theses three iconic and memorable characters…
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Blood, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail