Idk how they will rewrite the novel to fit in China's censorship guide, but based on the 1/4 that I've read so…
The will 100% destroy the source material to fit China's censorship. If you enjoyed the novel, lower your expectation for the drama. I learned my lesson with Hidden Charm (Are You The One). The pretty much rewrote everything.
I finished reading the novel today, and I loved it, I think they were perfect as Ming Yi and Ji Bo Zai and now…
I'm up to ch. 100. JBS is a morally grey character. But so is Ming Yi. They have both lied, deceived, and betrayed each other. By the way you're talking, It seem like only JBZ paid a price for his moral failing, while Ming Yi took zero responsibilities and paid no price for hers. Now I don't want to keep reading. I hate these kind of story.
I've ready up to ch. 100. It's an interesting story with many morally grey characters, including the ML and FL. I will keep my expectations very low for this adaptation because they rarely do justice to these kinds of source materials. Everything will be diluted.
Seems like we're past the cold LMT bullshit and groveling CXZ. I might watch again to see how much they'll rush…
My problem isn't with the creative liberties taken by the drama; it's with how they fundamentally changed the lead characters in a way that betrayed their essence and diluted their love story. For instance, Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy successfully captured the essence of Tolkien's work in a new medium while delivering a different but compelling experience. In contrast, this drama offered a different experience that was less compelling due to the significant changes made to the characters and their arcs. So, I'm don't dislike the adaptation because it's different. I dislike it because it's bad.
Honestly her traveling to him or in the case of the drama her taking care of him would have made so much sense.…
Viewers typically embrace well-written shows, even when they present reality without sugar-coating. The reason behind many bad adaptations, is that the people behind these adaptations are often mediocre and constrained by the studio's restrictions and censorship. They’re definitely going to rush the ending—classic CDrama style! Lol
In the novel, LMT journeyed thousands of miles to "return" the rare medicine CXZ had sent her through Zhao after hearing about his injuries. But in truth, it was an excuse to see him and offer her support. Despite their time apart, her feelings for him remained strong, and she couldn’t hold back her tears when she saw him limping.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ FROM THE NOVEL: How she reacted after learning of CXZ's injuries
"Mian Tang listened silently, clutching her skirt tightly. She couldn’t imagine that the proud man had now become... a cripple!
Aren’t you a divine physician? Didn’t you give me the medicine that can heal bones and tendons? Why don’t you go help him instead of wasting time here with me!" After listening to Zhao Quan's words, Mian Tang was silent for a moment, then suddenly questioned him angrily.
Zhao Quan, feeling wronged by Mian Tang’s outburst, had no choice but to tell the truth: "The medicine made from eagle bone flowers that can reconnect bones and tendons... comes from a snow mountain beyond our borders, and it only blooms once every hundred years, and even then, the blooming period is very short. It’s not something you can buy just because you have money. This medicine... sigh, I’ll just tell you! Actually... actually, it was Cui Jiu who gave it to me, and he asked me to prepare it for you. He happened to obtain it by chance, and there was only this small amount. He gave it all to me to bring to you. I advised him to keep some for himself, but he refused, insisting that I bring it to you quickly before it lost its effectiveness..."
Mian Tang pressed her lips tightly together. She hadn't expected that the ointment, which had worked so quickly, had been given to her by Cui Xingzhou through Zhao Quan. Even more, she hadn't expected that despite knowing his leg was crippled, he still gave all the medicine to her.
"Is he really going to be crippled? Are you lying to me again?" Mian Tang asked coldly. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ FROM THE NOVEL: LMT sees CXZ for the first time after their long breakup after traveling thousands of mile to return the medicine.
However, once she arrived in Youzhou, the question of how to meet Cui Xingzhou became a problem.
Unexpectedly, she encountered Prince Huaiyang, who was bidding farewell to the court envoy, much sooner than she had anticipated.
In the bustling marketplace, Mian Tang heard the crowd's cheers and shouts, and she followed the flow of people.
The man she hadn’t seen for so long was sitting in a carriage, dressed in a jade crown and wide robes, appearing relaxed. However, his skin seemed darker and his frame thinner compared to how she remembered him. His gaze was sharp as a sword, and both his brows and mouth were tightly set, giving him a severe and stern look.
When they reached the city gate, Prince Huaiyang disembarked from the carriage to see off the envoy. She noticed he was leaning on an ivory-handled cane as he slowly descended from the carriage. His tall frame no longer strode forward with the same graceful confidence as before but rather moved with a noticeable limp.
Even though Mian Tang had imagined countless times what he would look like leaning on a cane with a limp, seeing it with her own eyes still made her chest tighten, and she couldn’t help but shed tears.
She quickly wrapped her face in her headscarf, stifling the sob that was about to escape.
She had promised herself to forget him completely, but now that she saw him, she realized that her feelings had merely been buried deep within her heart. Seeing him again brought them all rushing back to the surface.
She had originally planned just to deliver the medicine to the prince's guards and be done with it. But now, she found herself wanting to see him personally... Yet at the same time, she didn’t want to speak to him. If only she could meet him in a dream, that would be the most fitting.
-------------------------------------------------- Drama version: In the novel she traveled thousands of miles to take care of him and even cried after seeing him limping!? BORING!!!! make LMT cold and indifferent and make him grovel like a dog. Now that's badass.
After she left her home to set up her own independent home to avoid marrying Prince Sui. But the household she set up looked like the house she shared with CXZ.
FROM THE NOVEL: After putting everything in place, Miantang breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at the small yard she had set up with satisfaction and asked Bi Cao to move in the newly bought cane chair to sit under the grape trellis with green leaves and feed the fish.
However, the heartless words of Bi Cao greatly reduced Miantang’s good mood, “Lady, don’t you think this yard is so similar to the North Street of Lingquan Town!”
Miantang almost choked on the tea she had just drunk. When she was trying to refute what was similar, she suddenly became silent.
Not really… There used to be grape trellises in the courtyard of North Street. In summer, Miantang likes to set a table under the grape trellis to eat. She once told Cui Xingzhou that it would be great if there were a small fish pond here.
There is also a long shelf specially made by the carpenter. There is also a set in the North Street Mansion, which can be used to dry clothes and cups, as well as sausages and bacon made by Servant Li
Miantang finished looking at the yard, got up, and went into the room.
The furniture in this room has been laid out. The arrangement of the bed and table is almost the same as that in Lingquan Town.
Miantang seldom feels depressed, but at this moment, she feels like hitting the wall. If the servant girl didn’t mention it, she didn’t realize that human inertia was so terrible.
Now she is independent and living alone. However, influenced by her memories, she has made her courtyard look like North Street.
On that day, Liu Miantang did not sleep very well.
The next morning, she asked Bi Cao and her workers to help her rearrange the beds and cabinets in the room.
Poor Bi Cao was so tired that she moved for a long time that her waist could not be still because of her words yesterday.
Miantang wanted to knock down the grape trellis, but she liked to eat and fish under the grape shelf so much that she could bear the similarity. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drama: Awww she misses him dearly too. Nah, that's too sweet and obvious. MAKE HER COLD AS ICE WHILE HE GROVELS!
For reals. The chase is so burdensome and tiring. For someone who cares so much about equality, you'd think she'd…
Everything is so much better. lol Also, the novel showed how much LMT longed for CXZ in such a cool way. After she left her home to set up her own independent home to avoid marrying Prince Sui. But the household she set up looked like the house she shared with CXZ.
FROM THE NOVEL: After putting everything in place, Miantang breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at the small yard she had set up with satisfaction and asked Bi Cao to move in the newly bought cane chair to sit under the grape trellis with green leaves and feed the fish.
However, the heartless words of Bi Cao greatly reduced Miantang’s good mood, “Lady, don’t you think this yard is so similar to the North Street of Lingquan Town!”
Miantang almost choked on the tea she had just drunk. When she was trying to refute what was similar, she suddenly became silent.
Not really… There used to be grape trellises in the courtyard of North Street. In summer, Miantang likes to set a table under the grape trellis to eat. She once told Cui Xingzhou that it would be great if there were a small fish pond here.
There is also a long shelf specially made by the carpenter. There is also a set in the North Street Mansion, which can be used to dry clothes and cups, as well as sausages and bacon made by Servant Li
Miantang finished looking at the yard, got up, and went into the room.
The furniture in this room has been laid out. The arrangement of the bed and table is almost the same as that in Lingquan Town.
Miantang seldom feels depressed, but at this moment, she feels like hitting the wall. If the servant girl didn’t mention it, she didn’t realize that human inertia was so terrible.
Now she is independent and living alone. However, influenced by her memories, she has made her courtyard look like North Street.
On that day, Liu Miantang did not sleep very well.
The next morning, she asked Bi Cao and her workers to help her to rearrange the beds and cabinets in the room.
Poor Bi Cao was so tired that she moved for a long time that her waist could not be still because of her words yesterday.
Miantang wanted to knock down the grape trellis, but she liked to eat and fish under the grape shelf so much that she could bear the similarity.
For reals. The chase is so burdensome and tiring. For someone who cares so much about equality, you'd think she'd…
In the novel, Prince Sui tries to marry LMT. So here's how CXZ responded.
Excerpt from the novel: "Miantang was stunned for a moment and suddenly thought that he had said that if she found another man, she wouldn’t blame him for bringing thousands of troops to settle the accounts. This madness…… He took it seriously…
More than twenty people sent by Prince Sui died thoroughly. Liu Pei is shocked and angry!
What’s more, the State of Xi and the surrounding villages and counties are now surrounded by thousands of troops. Even outside his residence, there is a group of soldiers in iron armor. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For reals. The chase is so burdensome and tiring. For someone who cares so much about equality, you'd think she'd…
Did you make it to the part where CXZ won LMT back? It's so fundamentally different and better than what the drama portrays. They're still able to show how much CXZ misses LMT without turning him into a groveling simp.
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FROM THE NOVEL: How she reacted after learning of CXZ's injuries
"Mian Tang listened silently, clutching her skirt tightly. She couldn’t imagine that the proud man had now become... a cripple!
Aren’t you a divine physician? Didn’t you give me the medicine that can heal bones and tendons? Why don’t you go help him instead of wasting time here with me!" After listening to Zhao Quan's words, Mian Tang was silent for a moment, then suddenly questioned him angrily.
Zhao Quan, feeling wronged by Mian Tang’s outburst, had no choice but to tell the truth: "The medicine made from eagle bone flowers that can reconnect bones and tendons... comes from a snow mountain beyond our borders, and it only blooms once every hundred years, and even then, the blooming period is very short. It’s not something you can buy just because you have money. This medicine... sigh, I’ll just tell you! Actually... actually, it was Cui Jiu who gave it to me, and he asked me to prepare it for you. He happened to obtain it by chance, and there was only this small amount. He gave it all to me to bring to you. I advised him to keep some for himself, but he refused, insisting that I bring it to you quickly before it lost its effectiveness..."
Mian Tang pressed her lips tightly together. She hadn't expected that the ointment, which had worked so quickly, had been given to her by Cui Xingzhou through Zhao Quan. Even more, she hadn't expected that despite knowing his leg was crippled, he still gave all the medicine to her.
"Is he really going to be crippled? Are you lying to me again?" Mian Tang asked coldly.
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FROM THE NOVEL: LMT sees CXZ for the first time after their long breakup after traveling thousands of mile to return the medicine.
However, once she arrived in Youzhou, the question of how to meet Cui Xingzhou became a problem.
Unexpectedly, she encountered Prince Huaiyang, who was bidding farewell to the court envoy, much sooner than she had anticipated.
In the bustling marketplace, Mian Tang heard the crowd's cheers and shouts, and she followed the flow of people.
The man she hadn’t seen for so long was sitting in a carriage, dressed in a jade crown and wide robes, appearing relaxed. However, his skin seemed darker and his frame thinner compared to how she remembered him. His gaze was sharp as a sword, and both his brows and mouth were tightly set, giving him a severe and stern look.
When they reached the city gate, Prince Huaiyang disembarked from the carriage to see off the envoy. She noticed he was leaning on an ivory-handled cane as he slowly descended from the carriage. His tall frame no longer strode forward with the same graceful confidence as before but rather moved with a noticeable limp.
Even though Mian Tang had imagined countless times what he would look like leaning on a cane with a limp, seeing it with her own eyes still made her chest tighten, and she couldn’t help but shed tears.
She quickly wrapped her face in her headscarf, stifling the sob that was about to escape.
She had promised herself to forget him completely, but now that she saw him, she realized that her feelings had merely been buried deep within her heart. Seeing him again brought them all rushing back to the surface.
She had originally planned just to deliver the medicine to the prince's guards and be done with it. But now, she found herself wanting to see him personally... Yet at the same time, she didn’t want to speak to him. If only she could meet him in a dream, that would be the most fitting.
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Drama version: In the novel she traveled thousands of miles to take care of him and even cried after seeing him limping!? BORING!!!! make LMT cold and indifferent and make him grovel like a dog. Now that's badass.
FROM THE NOVEL:
After putting everything in place, Miantang breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at the small yard she had set up with satisfaction and asked Bi Cao to move in the newly bought cane chair to sit under the grape trellis with green leaves and feed the fish.
However, the heartless words of Bi Cao greatly reduced Miantang’s good mood, “Lady, don’t you think this yard is so similar to the North Street of Lingquan Town!”
Miantang almost choked on the tea she had just drunk. When she was trying to refute what was similar, she suddenly became silent.
Not really… There used to be grape trellises in the courtyard of North Street. In summer, Miantang likes to set a table under the grape trellis to eat. She once told Cui Xingzhou that it would be great if there were a small fish pond here.
There is also a long shelf specially made by the carpenter. There is also a set in the North Street Mansion, which can be used to dry clothes and cups, as well as sausages and bacon made by Servant Li
Miantang finished looking at the yard, got up, and went into the room.
The furniture in this room has been laid out. The arrangement of the bed and table is almost the same as that in Lingquan Town.
Miantang seldom feels depressed, but at this moment, she feels like hitting the wall. If the servant girl didn’t mention it, she didn’t realize that human inertia was so terrible.
Now she is independent and living alone. However, influenced by her memories, she has made her courtyard look like North Street.
On that day, Liu Miantang did not sleep very well.
The next morning, she asked Bi Cao and her workers to help her rearrange the beds and cabinets in the room.
Poor Bi Cao was so tired that she moved for a long time that her waist could not be still because of her words yesterday.
Miantang wanted to knock down the grape trellis, but she liked to eat and fish under the grape shelf so much that she could bear the similarity.
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Drama: Awww she misses him dearly too. Nah, that's too sweet and obvious. MAKE HER COLD AS ICE WHILE HE GROVELS!
Also, the novel showed how much LMT longed for CXZ in such a cool way. After she left her home to set up her own independent home to avoid marrying Prince Sui. But the household she set up looked like the house she shared with CXZ.
FROM THE NOVEL:
After putting everything in place, Miantang breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at the small yard she had set up with satisfaction and asked Bi Cao to move in the newly bought cane chair to sit under the grape trellis with green leaves and feed the fish.
However, the heartless words of Bi Cao greatly reduced Miantang’s good mood, “Lady, don’t you think this yard is so similar to the North Street of Lingquan Town!”
Miantang almost choked on the tea she had just drunk. When she was trying to refute what was similar, she suddenly became silent.
Not really… There used to be grape trellises in the courtyard of North Street. In summer, Miantang likes to set a table under the grape trellis to eat. She once told Cui Xingzhou that it would be great if there were a small fish pond here.
There is also a long shelf specially made by the carpenter. There is also a set in the North Street Mansion, which can be used to dry clothes and cups, as well as sausages and bacon made by Servant Li
Miantang finished looking at the yard, got up, and went into the room.
The furniture in this room has been laid out. The arrangement of the bed and table is almost the same as that in Lingquan Town.
Miantang seldom feels depressed, but at this moment, she feels like hitting the wall. If the servant girl didn’t mention it, she didn’t realize that human inertia was so terrible.
Now she is independent and living alone. However, influenced by her memories, she has made her courtyard look like North Street.
On that day, Liu Miantang did not sleep very well.
The next morning, she asked Bi Cao and her workers to help her to rearrange the beds and cabinets in the room.
Poor Bi Cao was so tired that she moved for a long time that her waist could not be still because of her words yesterday.
Miantang wanted to knock down the grape trellis, but she liked to eat and fish under the grape shelf so much that she could bear the similarity.
Excerpt from the novel:
"Miantang was stunned for a moment and suddenly thought that he had said that if she found another man, she wouldn’t blame him for bringing thousands of troops to settle the accounts. This madness…… He took it seriously…
More than twenty people sent by Prince Sui died thoroughly. Liu Pei is shocked and angry!
What’s more, the State of Xi and the surrounding villages and counties are now surrounded by thousands of troops. Even outside his residence, there is a group of soldiers in iron armor.
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