What happened to LJL to reduce such a great man to crying alone in a dark room? He knows how to fight, he understands…
For how many times must I repeat: LJL is in peripeteia, a sudden change of character when discovers the truth about his origins leading him to depression. If you discover your parents aren't your parents, how will you feel?
It is such a fun reading the comments. From the comments, I think I can tell who is a male (ofc, they'll oppose the FL coming to save the ML). The smart males would be like LJL, adaptable to every situation and awaiting for the FL to rescue them when in trouble. What's wrong with that?
Isn’t his father a servant and already dead ? Unless his mom remarry and stepdad ?
Yes, we've seen him in a flashback story referred to RSB by an older steward (Zheng) sent in ep 5 to the province where LJL grew up and where his Lu father was a servant of the governor while LJL was a page boy particularly favoured by the grandfather of that noble family who was in charge of his grandson's education but favoured LJL bc smarter. After that grandfather died, his grandson, who was always envious of LJL framed and accidentaly killed Lu father. In LJL's later story he told to RSB in bed he mentioned he was bullied as a child for not having a mother and that his uncles took his inheritance from him just to return it to him once he passed the imperial exam becoming a big shot. Therefore, that Lu may not have been his biological father, bc the characters' relationship chart mentions his mother (who in the previews is in the Duke Xue's mannor), but there's a question mark above her relationship with the duke. Maybe she had the duke's illegitimate child (it looks like she was a maid) and fearing for the child's life if the main wife discovers, she entrusted LJL to Lu who raised him as his own. After the circumstances changed in the duke's mannor she may have revealed the truth and the duke wants this son back. We'll see tomorrow what exactly happened. But such a scenario is very likely, bc we've seen in RSB's dream and in the previews LJL disheveled, depressed and nervous, ie. not being himself. In classical (Greek) dramas, an unbeatable hero shows symptoms of depression/sudden change in character only when the plot twist deploys sc. "peripeteia" and a sudden revelation of the truth about his origins (as in Sophocles's Oedipus Rex). We've seen the writer is a pro of dramatic techniques, pushing them to the extremes, mixing genres, boldly using reverse and reversal narrative, capsizing pov on male-female relationship, on power, roles, rules, hierarchy... everything is challengeable, put on a test, so I would not wonder at all that her intention was to use a classical device for a tragedy to turn it into a happy ending with FL rescuing ML from that predicament. We'll see how it will work out.
I've just seen the previews, she'll turn both her father's and his father's house upside down! It looks I've sensed correctly, the two fathers are in collusion in that tea fraud. Fantastic, such fathers are a perfect material to undergo the first rule learnt by a Rong girl: "obey neither monarcs nor elders, just follow the righteous path according to the morals and conscience". And if the Duke-father or people from his house wronged her man... she'll turn into a Fury 🔥to save him.
The English title is "Glory", translation of Chinese "Rong". The title in Mandarin is "Jade…
I see, you were probably misled by genres and tags listed here on MDL. I've noticed they are often unreliable as well as the synopsis. The reverse narrative technique used in Glory indicated early it's focus will be on (family, power) intrigue, investigation and the game of wits, with serial plot twists typical for these genres, asking from the audience to be fully engaged in catching the hints and playing the guess game. Watching the "effect" first and finding the "cause" much later is energy consuming, it's understandable why you've felt tired and perceived that the family problems "lasted too long". That arc was a rollercoaster: it boosted our adrenaline to raise our alertness but humans can't go on adrenaline for too long. Counting only on viewers' ability to control emotions on their own is risky. If initially the story offered some comic reliefs in a bizzarre setting in this queendom of tea & reverse harem show and interesting documentary inserts on Chinese tea culture, around ep 23 even the reliefs started to run out, pushing the audiences' limits in sc. "delayed gratification". So, although I've expected exactly this kind of a drama (and am very satisfied how it was narrated), I can understand certain things you've said.
Share your thoughts with me! I'm totally enjoying this drama and am still impatient awaiting the next eps. And…
I've never offended anybody on MDL and certainly would never offend a person with reference to his/her nationality. I have no idea who you are, never exchanged a word with you. Oh, I see you've just opened your profile. Why are you targeting me specifically?
Did someone count the number of slaps in this drama? It looked as they've replaced blood-spitting trope with slaps, lol. (I am rewatching today's eps already, Butler Cheng is so good at slapping 😂😂😂)
She is indeed affectionate in putting a lifesaving pill in the mouth of her lover after stabbing or drowning him...…
The Wang guy from ep 1 wasn't her lover at all. She knew very well he was a spy planted to her side by her granny.
She doesn't mistreat the ML, she just doesn't think the best thing for him would be to take "the most difficult job in the world" as she described the role of her husband. As a manager, she thinks his potentials are better used if he continues to uphold justice. But she obviously cares about him and feels he is now in some sort of danger, that's the real reason why she went to the capital (and the reason why we've heard butler voicing his inner thoughts, a device which wasn't used before and looked a bit off).
Leaving him alone in bed was definitely heartless, I've also said that. But that's how she is, it's in her character to act heartless, as she knows no better. But whenever a person she protects or cares of is in danger she'll turn the world upside down to save that person. Chill, the drama has 6 more eps, lets' try to be patient.
Genuinely curious on why the fl didn't give the ml even a tiny bit of reassurance in ep29? She instead did the…
I think it's in her character. As a business manager she was too well trained to act aloof, to keep her calm and to hide her true plans and intentions. Scheming and hiding the intentions are in ML's character as well, he deals with criminals, corrupted officials etc. So there are "no reasons", they can't suddenly change or invert their characters or habits and that's why their relationship looks like they are playing mind games all the time.
She is indeed affectionate in putting a lifesaving pill in the mouth of her lover after stabbing or drowning him...…
Yes. But he is very special to her. I don't think she would make love just like that with just like anybody. If you think better about it, she may already be pregnant. She is just too well trained to act aloof, to keep her calm and to hide her true plans and intentions.
She is indeed affectionate in putting a lifesaving pill in the mouth of her lover after stabbing or drowning him...…
Since the 1st eps, when I saw how granny easily went along with the girls instead of punishing them severely. Being so in sync with those little criminals made her immediately the main responsible... 😏
I’m going to be honest—I’m obsessed with this drama and how the story unfolds. But I’d say they kind of…
The English title is "Glory", translation of Chinese "Rong". The title in Mandarin is "Jade Tea Bone", so ofc the drama is about the Rong family and their tea business. LJL's background was unknown to him (first bc of amnesia, later bc he himself didn't know), this is the last plot twist. The Rongs in the capital - being absent from the story till now as well - are highly probably related to this twist
May not be popular opinion. But I kind of like Yunshu’s character. She is much more affectionate personality…
She is indeed affectionate in putting a lifesaving pill in the mouth of her lover after stabbing or drowning him... 😁 Come on, that's an oxymoron: no Rong girl can be affectionate... if she is - that means they are feigning (eg. towards the granny) or putting on an act or show (eg. Yunxi kissing An in front of the granny). They all give deliciously heartless attitude. ❤️
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In LJL's later story he told to RSB in bed he mentioned he was bullied as a child for not having a mother and that his uncles took his inheritance from him just to return it to him once he passed the imperial exam becoming a big shot.
Therefore, that Lu may not have been his biological father, bc the characters' relationship chart mentions his mother (who in the previews is in the Duke Xue's mannor), but there's a question mark above her relationship with the duke. Maybe she had the duke's illegitimate child (it looks like she was a maid) and fearing for the child's life if the main wife discovers, she entrusted LJL to Lu who raised him as his own. After the circumstances changed in the duke's mannor she may have revealed the truth and the duke wants this son back. We'll see tomorrow what exactly happened. But such a scenario is very likely, bc we've seen in RSB's dream and in the previews LJL disheveled, depressed and nervous, ie. not being himself. In classical (Greek) dramas, an unbeatable hero shows symptoms of depression/sudden change in character only when the plot twist deploys sc. "peripeteia" and a sudden revelation of the truth about his origins (as in Sophocles's Oedipus Rex). We've seen the writer is a pro of dramatic techniques, pushing them to the extremes, mixing genres, boldly using reverse and reversal narrative, capsizing pov on male-female relationship, on power, roles, rules, hierarchy... everything is challengeable, put on a test, so I would not wonder at all that her intention was to use a classical device for a tragedy to turn it into a happy ending with FL rescuing ML from that predicament. We'll see how it will work out.
And if the Duke-father or people from his house wronged her man... she'll turn into a Fury 🔥to save him.
The reverse narrative technique used in Glory indicated early it's focus will be on (family, power) intrigue, investigation and the game of wits, with serial plot twists typical for these genres, asking from the audience to be fully engaged in catching the hints and playing the guess game. Watching the "effect" first and finding the "cause" much later is energy consuming, it's understandable why you've felt tired and perceived that the family problems "lasted too long". That arc was a rollercoaster: it boosted our adrenaline to raise our alertness but humans can't go on adrenaline for too long. Counting only on viewers' ability to control emotions on their own is risky. If initially the story offered some comic reliefs in a bizzarre setting in this queendom of tea & reverse harem show and interesting documentary inserts on Chinese tea culture, around ep 23 even the reliefs started to run out, pushing the audiences' limits in sc. "delayed gratification".
So, although I've expected exactly this kind of a drama (and am very satisfied how it was narrated), I can understand certain things you've said.
I have no idea who you are, never exchanged a word with you. Oh, I see you've just opened your profile.
Why are you targeting me specifically?
It looked as they've replaced blood-spitting trope with slaps, lol. (I am rewatching today's eps already, Butler Cheng is so good at slapping 😂😂😂)
She doesn't mistreat the ML, she just doesn't think the best thing for him would be to take "the most difficult job in the world" as she described the role of her husband. As a manager, she thinks his potentials are better used if he continues to uphold justice. But she obviously cares about him and feels he is now in some sort of danger, that's the real reason why she went to the capital (and the reason why we've heard butler voicing his inner thoughts, a device which wasn't used before and looked a bit off).
Leaving him alone in bed was definitely heartless, I've also said that. But that's how she is, it's in her character to act heartless, as she knows no better. But whenever a person she protects or cares of is in danger she'll turn the world upside down to save that person. Chill, the drama has 6 more eps, lets' try to be patient.
Scheming and hiding the intentions are in ML's character as well, he deals with criminals, corrupted officials etc. So there are "no reasons", they can't suddenly change or invert their characters or habits and that's why their relationship looks like they are playing mind games all the time.
But he is very special to her. I don't think she would make love just like that with just like anybody. If you think better about it, she may already be pregnant. She is just too well trained to act aloof, to keep her calm and to hide her true plans and intentions.
Nooo... such a good story and ending so soon...😱
LJL's background was unknown to him (first bc of amnesia, later bc he himself didn't know), this is the last plot twist. The Rongs in the capital - being absent from the story till now as well - are highly probably related to this twist
Come on, that's an oxymoron: no Rong girl can be affectionate... if she is - that means they are feigning (eg. towards the granny) or putting on an act or show (eg. Yunxi kissing An in front of the granny). They all give deliciously heartless attitude. ❤️