He is indeed despicable but he is dumb and he bores me.
Yes, that's what happens to him in the novel because other than framing the FL he committed no crimes (and he might have cheated on the imperial exams, I don't exactly remember, I get mixed up on these novels sometimes 😂). And then he is just left bitching about his life all the time.
in the novel she actually was ill and weak and died not long after FL's wedding - once the FL was settled she just felt free to let go, there was no outside interference involved.
Can someone spoil and tell me what’s fan ya Ke fate at the end of the novel?
The ironic part is that the novel Fan Yake isn't anywhere as bad. Yu Jinxiu is the real villain. Ms. Fan is just Yu Jinxiu's tutor's daughter (and the tutor has nothing to do with the Fu family) that he falls in love with and decides to get out of his marriage by framing Tingyan (he also finds out that someone from the Fu family cheated on the imperial exams and uses that to blackmail the Fu family into not protecting Tingyan).
The novel is VERY different but rest assured karma will come for them.
To make a long story short, Madam Yu will die and her son and his wife will lose everything. But the drama and the novel really are two different stories, only the general outline and (some of) the main characters are the same.
Well, if I like the source material, it's pretty much a guarantee that
I am not going to like the adaptation. I looked at the ending (wtf is this OE mess) and now I am going to save a few hours of my life by not watching the rest. I think some of the actors playing the secondary characters did a good job and that's about it.