fellow cnovel readers, if you're looking for a somewhat underrated gǔ yán + shuǎng wén read, please allow me to recommend Zuì Qióng Zhī by Kuáng Shàng Jiā Kuáng:
it's so good! i LOVE the mains individually, and their romance is adorable (the ml has an actual personality and layers, unusually for this genre). the fl is maybe in my top 10 of all time? overall it's a very pleasant, very charming read with a dash of all the elements you'd see in a novel of this genre, all well-balanced.
this is the same author who wrote Yún Bìn Tiān Xiāng, another favorite of mine! a big part of why i love both is because the translation quality is EXCELLENT; on par with or better than that of A Small Restaurant in Chang'an.














