Chinese Novel Recommendation

Great Tang Idyll

Author(s)
Pastoral Idyll
Tian Yuan Ru Meng
田园如梦
田園如夢

Genre
Adventure Comedy Historical Romance Slice of Life Supernatural

Description
The Great Tang countryside with the warm sunlight, the golden wheat, and white herons in flight.

Zhang Xiaobao: “I didn’t think my ability could change any great events. My thinking was simple—to change my family’s living conditions. But oftentimes, things don’t happen according to how you think it will. As I was working to improve my family’s living conditions, a lot of things happened. How do you say, hmm… Simply put, it was the butterfly effect? No, no, no, this metaphor is a bit too flashy. Crudely put, I am the rat turd dropped inside the pot.”

Wang Juan: “Ever since I came to this era together with an International Criminal Swindler, I declare that this world no longer has any swindlers.”

Translator’s Synopsis: A con-man and policewoman that are legends of their respective professions suddenly die and are reincarnated into the Tang dynasty of ancient China as little more than kids. Accepting their second chance and forced restart, they choose to use the modern knowledge and specific talents that they have from their previous lives in order to live comfortably in this new life. Read about their adventures and their accomplishments as they shape the past that is now their future into their own!