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Yeah, she was only around 19 years old back then and her company had copyright to that drama script so needed her to film it ASAP since it was about to expire. But she was still in school back then and could only film during her breaks so she was flying back and forth for the filming + school, and she couldn't lose weight no matter how hard she tried since she was so stressed out. Till this day, people pull up pictures from that drama whenever they try to make fun of her.

LLD is of the Hui ethnicity, so she has some features like her eye colors that are a bit atypical compared to Han Chinese people.

One thing this drama did for sure is to get rid of the brainwashing for years that she doesn't fit period dramas. Because of "Dreaming Back to the Qing Dynasty" where she was cyberbullied for years due to her weight + make-up/outfits not fitting her, people had tried to say she shouldn't ever do period dramas again. But then she did well in "The Starry Love" (xianxia) even though the fits are not the best either and now there is this drama which really highlighted her beauty + the hair/clothes were made to fit her too. After this drama, she is likely to get more period drama offers which can attract more fans (though her dramas set to air after this are pretty much all non-idol TV dramas). But it did be nice if she gets a good idol period drama script since that is the easiest way to attract fans.

And yes, ARP and LLD looks great together here. They are gaining a lot of shippers on the C-side too.

Haha, I guess we can also excuse it to them being in a rush to do the autopsy so can't actually do a whole make-over and make her look more like a man. 😅

They tried. 😭 Just got to suspend our belief that they can't all see her chest.

Yeah, she is a child actress and has been acting since she was 10 so already 15 years into her career.

Her name is still tied to the Qin family, so she is still associated with them. It just happens that she also has backing from the Grand Princess/Yue family now. She can't cut ties with them as long as the Qin family still exists and she uses the name Qin Wan.

Qin Wan is so funny with her dabbing her non-existent tears away. 😂

Yeah, it is obvious this corruption is rooted in how the current system is ran too. 😢😢😢 Qing makes a good point that the case from 15 years was able to be covered up only because the higher ups wanted it to be covered. Shen Yi seemed to be the only one interested in noting the discrepancy back then. 😔

Yeah, and in addition, the other two lost hope with all the corruption running rampant with the officials. Qin Wan on the other hand is trying to uphold her father's beliefs about going through trials (to honor him). If she doesn't have that belief/teaching, it did be easy for her to use these methods too.

Loved that they addressed that sometimes, these types of revenge are the only ones that can be done due to lack of power and money. Qin Wan has encountered so many corrupted officials but she tried so hard to abide by her father's teaching because without just laws and good officials to implement them, there will never be true peace. 😢 Episode 19 is a sad episode, it makes you recognize the powerless of those who were abused first and not being able to fight back in a judicial way due to systemic corruption.

Says a lot that the women perpetrators we had so far all killed for revenge (aka they were wronged first) while the male perpetrators killed for their own selfish reasons.

Part of the 4th case. 😢

"If a man can hit you once, he will do it countless times. He will only be more and more comfortable about it and reckless about it". 😢😢😢

Hopefully this will help: https://mydramalist.com/discussions/752181-chao-xue-lu/143262-qin-family-tree-will-update-based-on-episode-released

They are hiding info, but it will be mentioned as the episodes goes on about who these characters are related to. Concubine is Qin An's current favorite concubine.

Douyin account released a clip of the characters in the upcoming palace arcs: https://v.douyin.com/0QHlH0ctrdg/

The drama follows most of it pretty well, but some things have been changed such as Qin Wan's origin which then cause some other things to be changed due to that. The novel also goes more in depth, so it is a good supplemental read. But the novel is also really wordy, and I know people have dropped the novel because it was too long, so it really depends on you. I will say that the novel does give more context on certain things in the drama that viewers might not get on their first watch.

In the novel, her full name is Bai Ying. In the drama, they call her Ying Qi. Bai Ying's arc is basically Yue Ning's arc now with accompanying Qin Wan/protecting her.

Haha, I think someone tried to make the summary fuller because the original summary was even shorter at around 2 lines.

I really like the changes they did with Yue Ning's character. Her character in the novel is not that relevant. They basically gave her Bai Ying's storyline (Bai Ying in the novel is the sister of Bai Feng who was sent by Yan Chi to protect Qin Wan for pretty much throughout her journey).

I am happy that Qin Wan's meeting with Yue Ning didn't really have to do with Yan Chi and their friendship is a separate thing from her relationship with Yan Chi. I think a pitfall of these idol period romance dramas sometimes are that the FLs tend to gain a lot through MLs' resources to the point that they almost have nothing that is actually "theirs". And these resources are very dependent on the MLs' feelings for the FLs. The more they love you, the more they will give. But if they don't love you, then everything can be taken away.

The latter half would be pretty much palace related (around episode 23 to pretty much the end). They are just starting to set the scene and introducing characters that will be heavily involved later such as Li Muyun, the Crown Prince, Qin Chen, etc. There will be even more characters once it actually gets to the palace portion so it is a good thing they are doing it this way since viewers will be overload with information later on.