CoffeeisLife

Excellent summation!

Stalker action would be my guess, he’s likely got people following her around. I’d like to know the answer to that for sure as well.

I’m pretty sure all the a-list actors and actresses do. Crazy comes with the territory.

Half and half, she has potential. She can still grow up to be an adult, so she has the potential to transform into someone admirable during the course of the show. Whether she does or not is up in the air. The usual trope directions would suggest she will be redeemed as a person, it’s usually the pure and naive ones at the start that become the most evil in these shows.

She isn’t angry out of nothing either, or anything so banal as mere jealousy. It clearly comes from resentment at what Ye Li’s mom and side of the family did to endanger the father’s side of the family. Even if it was the right thing, she’s just too much of a child to see through it right now and needs to go through a crucible to grow up.

In short, if it’s not to late, she has obvious appeal too, just immature.

But there are still nods in that direction, like when she performed a three finger salute to stress the truth of her statement. Pretty sure that wasn’t a thing back then. Maybe I’m reading too much into it.

I’m fairly sure it’s both, some are lies, some are PTSD and hallucinations, denial, etc…

I’m fairly sure he knows, and thought it was her ghost. Part of that whole thing was the tablet of his wife’s name, and the haunting music.

Fairly sure it’s Jasmine, hence the English name of the show.

Whatever your imagining it’s far far worse…

100% noticed this too, right from the start. I agree, it’s a refreshing new take on the trope that was long overdue.

I wonder that too, since she’s clearly on a vengeance spree. She acts a bit dotty, makes up stories, and sees people, but how much of it is just a cover to appear harmless in order to be overlooked or dismissed as a player and threat. Clearly, whatever the answer, she’s suffered quite a bit.

Both leads are emotionally scarred, but they’re both stronger than they let anyone else see. I think that part alone is what has me on the edge of my seat for the next episode.

I didn’t even get four, for some reason Viki only released three episodes.

There’s been a few clues that indicate that might not entirely be the case, and that he may have and still is biding his time. Such as the messenger jumping the wall. If he’s just playing that role of hopelessness for now it would make sense for him to hide it from the FL.

The empress dowager is likely responsible for his brother’s death, and his shame the last few years as well, and she’s the one that granted the marriage. I’d be suspicious of the woman as well, given all that.

I thought it was just me, lol. I did eventually get over it, after watching enough of her shows. It was also somewhat ironic that her roles in end of the moon were sort of upside down. True evil as a goddess, disgusting as a human, but as a devil she wasn’t all that bad….

The rebirth genre is larger than that. Kunning Palace and Scent of Time was about redemption and growth, not vengeance. Princess Royal wasn’t about vengeance either, but growth, second chances, and the couple coming back together.

I’ll grant a lot of them are vengeance stories, and this one is, but it isn’t just that. It’d be far less good if it was.

Good so far after episode three. Though I’m wondering a bit about the pacing.

It has the acting quality, popular actors, direction, and cinematography of a high end show, but it has the pace of a web-short-drama. With twenty four episodes, I suspect it’s going to cover as much ground as a sixty episode show from five years ago. I hope that isn’t a coming trend.

Not a complaint, just wondering, though I prefer a richer story unfolding it still has its charms.

It’s also worth nothing Bencheng is likely to walk away from it all, sacrificing his brother. Which opens up the possibility of the ML completing that task of getting justice for his family. He’s in jail, but I seriously doubt he’ll be left in there for the remainder of the show. So we can’t be sure LZ will finish it all off, not yet, not with six episodes left. Perhaps she’s just doing her part, but that’s pure speculation, I know nothing for sure.

I have a slightly different take, the writing is very realistic on what people can accomplish. In the teen episodes Li Zhen would’ve failed without the ML coming in and helping several times. She coudln’t have done it alone or without his aid at several key points.

Yet, when she needs to help the ML out he’s suddenly worthless, and it’s only her accomplishing things? I disagree. he gave a good accounting of himself in the fight, until the people with swords showed up. Surrendering was the only option left to him since this isn’t a ridiculous Wu Xia where the male lead can take on an army by himself.

Lastly, the supposed superwoman would’ve failed horribly and been framed and outmaneuvered if not for the other inkmakers coming in and supporting the Li family.

This story is deep. It’s about family, sowing seeds, reciprocity, and that no one, not even a male lead, can do it alone. I for one am enjoying the story very much. The leads have accomplished what they have because of their approach to life, helping others, keeping to their word, and not being greedy. They’ve built a true win-win community of support, and that’s the only reason she succeeded in recent episodes.

The FL isn’t the heroine of everything, merely a catalyst and someone that other’s admire and want to help out of reciprocity. Anyway, that’s my take on it.