Melancholic Princess

Melancholic Princess
(古鏡奇譚第一章：傾國怨伶)
Cover of the original traditional Chinese version volume 1 published by Da Ran Culture, featuring Li Ying.
Date 1989
Series The Seven Mirrors' Stories
Publisher Da Ran Culture (1991, 4 volumes)
Kung-long Int. (2001, 5 volumes)[1][2]
Rye Field Publishing (2012, box set)
Creative team
Writers You Su-lan
Artists You Su-lan

Melancholic Princess (original Chinese title: 傾國怨伶, lit. “Melancholic Beauty in the Han-ling Palace Hall”) is a Taiwanese comic written and illustrated by Taiwanese comic artist You Su-lan, serialized in Weekend Comics from 1989 and published by Da Ran Culture in 1991. It is the 1st installment of The Seven Mirrors' Stories (Chinese: 古鏡奇譚) series, it has a sequel The King of Blaze which is the 2nd installment.

Plot summary


Main characters

Shang-hsüan

God of Creation and Universe, the leader of the seven gods.

Hua-chʻêng

Goddess of Water, the love of Shang-hsüan. She is the only female among the seven gods.

Li Ying

Hua-chʻêng's first reincarnation in the Tʻang dynasty, princess of Kuang-yü, fictional daughter of Emperor Kao-tsung and Empress Wu Tsê-tʻien, fell in love with Hao-yüeh. She has supernatural abilities such as make flowers or other objects fly in the air, also she herself can fly, walk on water, go through walls etc.

Wei Yung-chʻien

Hua-chʻêng's second reincarnation (Li Ying's reincarnation) in the present day, a 16-year-old Overseas Chinese girl lives in New York City, fell in love with Shang-hsüan.

Hao-yüeh

God of Thunder, reincarnated in the Tʻang dynasty as an imperial general and princess Li Ying's bodyguard, the two fell in love with each other.

Sidequel

Cover of Dream of the Tʻang Dynasty Palace, published by Da Ran Culture, featuring Hao-yüeh and Li Ying.

A sidequel of Melancholic Princess titled Dream of the Tʻang Dynasty Palace (Chinese: 唐宮夢) which written and illustrated by the same comic artist and published by Da Ran Culture in 1994, printed in colour. This is a short side story that tells the lonely princess Li Ying felt bored in the palace, so she sneaked out of the palace and encountered the shih-kan-tang. The latter thought she is a demoness and ready to kill her. Fortunately the general Hao-yüeh saved her just in time.

References

  1. ↑ "Copyright about Comic: 傾國怨伶" (in Chinese). Kung-long International. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "傾國怨伶1". Books.com.tw (in Chinese). Kung-long International. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
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