A review by crispinsday
黄金台 Golden Stage by 苍梧宾白 (Cang Wu Bin Bai)

4.0

This book jumped the shark a little for me, plot wise, from the chapter 40s onwards, but I didn't care that much because the relationship between the protagonists is so enjoyable, their bicker-flirting and constant trolling of each other is both hilarious and incredibly well-written and romantic. The author has great descriptive skill, and the book (which isn't a comedy, can't emphasise that enough, it gets dark) is often laugh out loud funny too. But the main thing for me was the characters, who are both highly competent, both utterly ruthless, and both very very in love with each other. The novel also presents such a convincing political justification for male/male marriage that I was left wondering if that was a real thing in Chinese history.