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my reaction to literally everything:

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Two seconds later:

Did I mention people to be offed are literally everyone they caught on a particular mountain from which one assassin came so basically 99% innocent?

This is the ML?! The ML?!?!?!

Don't get me wrong, I love me a fictional psycho but that seems rather off brand for a cdrama!

ETA: Ah. I see.

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This description of the ML is making me go grabby hands aaaaaaaa.

Trauma and vendetta are very sexy of him.

Your sword, eh? Sword?

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Not what I expected in a cdrama in the year 2024.

Neither did this man's prospective father in law apparently:

That faceeeeee I am dying

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A man cold like the winter snow with the warm heart of the sun

This man is Majestic

Melody of Golden Age (2024) - Ding Yuxi as Shen Du

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should've been at the club:

Coronabeth

Judith and Marta (they wouldn't like it but I think it would do them some good)

Dulcinea

Naberius (tending bar)

Colum

should've been at the intramural rugby team practice:

Camilla

Gideon

should've been getting peer pressured into smoking under a bridge:

Issac and Jeannemary

should've been coaching a little league baseball team:

Magnus

should've been on reddit:

Silas

Palamedes (one or two specific niche hobby subreddits)

exactly where they should've been:

Ianthe

Abigail (if there hadn't been a murderer around and she got to study all the artifacts)

should've be at the trauma informed therapist's office:

Harrow

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Ok Heavenly Tyrant Spoilers under the break -

There's a lot of funny bits that come out of left field but this one specifically

QZ is so real for this.

Still hate him but damn it's hard to sometimes.

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IRON WIDOW BOOK 3 WILL HAVE MULTIPLE POVS??? INCLUDING TAIPING AND SHIMIN????? I'M NOT OK RN THIS IS NOT A WANT IT'S A NEED

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Qin Zheng: Why are you hairy, Woman?

Wu Zetian: Fuck off.

Qin Zheng: Don't you dare talk to me like that!

Wu Zetian: Well then, police this

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Shimin: I could fix her Yizhi and Zheng: And I could accept her as she is! You don't like the murder? Grow up. The atrocities are a part of her. And I've decided that they're funny.

@xiranjayzhao is this accurate

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Heavenly Tyrant is out today! It's a weird feeling after so many years of losing hair over it. It didn't feel like I was capable of finishing the book until I wrote the last word. The publication process was not a happy one. I'm not doing any events for it, not even a launch. I'm typing this while lying in bed and thinking about what a terrible year it's been. We joked about 2020 being the worst year ever, yet every year since has been progressively worse. And the coming years do not show any indication of being better.

But a big theme in Heavenly Tyrant is that wherever there is oppression, there WILL be resistance. I have had as much heartwarming support from peers, friends, and readers as I've faced heinous shenanigans this year. When a very, very famous author I met this summer asked me "Are you a controversial person?" after I told him about the stuff I was going through, I answered "To many who hold power? Yes. To regular people? I don't think so."

I want to thank all of you who gave me the faith to say something like that. Most people I know are on the right side of history. If you aren't - I don't want to know you.

Anyway, the book. Heavenly Tyrant is SO different from Iron Widow that I'm pretty nervous about whether people would like it. I want to ask you all to adjust your expectations going in. You're not going to get another breakneck-paced story about a Girlboss Going Smash. The smashing was the easy part. Rebuilding what she broke into something better is much, much harder. The story is a lot slower by necessity, and the problems she faces are way more complicated to deal with. I also ask that you read until the end before making a judgement because, well, developments you don't like might not be endgame! And there's a book 3 coming! (This was always supposed to be a trilogy; it's just that my publisher was only willing to buy 2 books from me at first. They changed their minds after seeing the preorder numbers for IW.)

Finally, I want to bring everyone's attention to the five songs the Bookish Songs Collective wrote specifically for Iron Widow! They're now available to stream whenever you get your music. It blows my mind that MY book would get such epic music?! I can't thank or praise them enough. Seriously, CHECK THE EP OUT.

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Current leader in the “most unhinged paragraph in Heavenly Tyrant” competition lolll. Girl, I’d sue.

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Wu Zetian licking the glass on Qin Zhengs sterile chamber to assert dominance catched me completely off guard

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He’s like “damn girl you’re so stupid that I need to reform school systems like right now”

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It's 1AM, I just finished Heavenly Tyrant, I'm gnawing on my fingers because oh my god that ending but actually oh my god that entire book

Spoilers below!

I literally almost died laughing here

It was everything I dreamed it would be and more I can't fucking wait for book 3

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