Today's episodes revealed so much about the characters.
Episode 23 was pretty hilarious, especially with CSS in the palace. There is a lot more behind the story of Gu City than we were aware of, seems as though someone was jealous of the achievements of the Huo family and deliberately left them for dead. (I like how the show is taking this).
Episode 24 - I cried so much for so many different reasons - what a rollercoaster. I was happy when Zisheng showed up to save her from falling on the broken glass. This episode revealed one thing that makes CSS accept her suitors - they see the good in her.
Her mom totally disgraced and humiliated her today in front of everyone. No matter how much you were trying to get out of the engagement it could have been done without making CSS worthless publicly. I know her mom loves her, but her heart and expressions are definitely in the strangest of places. She had no regard for CSS's reputation or future by shaming her publicly like that.
The relationship between mother and daughter seems more antagonistic in the show than in the book, there are certain interactions in the early chapters of the book you can say are both their faults or even CSS's fault e.g. purposely wearing a plain green dress to the lantern festival as opposed to the beautiful red brocade her mom bought for her and Yang Yang.
The interactions in episode 24 are definitely the straw that broke the camel's back in their mother-daughter relationship, everyone was so shocked and uncomfortable to see a mother put her daughter down like that publicly, heck even the Empress looked so sad for CSS.
Funny enough if mom hadn't shamed CSS like that LBY wouldn't have gotten a chance to confess just how much he loves CSS and how he sees her as "pure and decisive, willing to love and hate, the only one worthy of walking along him in the journey of life". It's these words that made CSS take the risk and dive in. Her own mother never has one good thing to say about her, even as a joke or lie but yet these two men LY and LBY are able to see the good in her and appreciate her.
As the show goes on we are beginning to see a manifestation of what CSS said in the earlier episodes, she is good to those who are good to her and treats those who are bad to her accordingly.
There is a saying/song " If you can't be with the one you love... Love the one you're with. " They would have…
Lol per the book YS is actually the worst of the three they're not good together at all. He actually falls in love with her but CSS never reciprocates and she treats their engagement like a business deal of sorts.
There is a saying/song " If you can't be with the one you love... Love the one you're with. " They would have…
Yes of course LBY is a better match, but nothing in my comment indicated that LY was better than LBY for CSS. My point was that if they didn't break up and LBY never got a chance CSS and LY would've been just fine. Would not be a passionate burning romance to stand the test of time like she will have with LBY, but it will be pretty good between them, and that's my point.
There is a saying/song " If you can't be with the one you love... Love the one you're with. " They would have…
TBH they would have been just fine together. They were two souls that knew how to appreciate each other, embrace the other's faults and turn them into positives. Their break up scene helped me realize that, yes they may have struggled a bit as they grew but at the core of their relationship they understood each other so well and their relationship would have blossomed.
It was long winded IMO, I found it funny and endearing how much he worries about LBY but those scenes took up a great part of the latter half of the episode from the 27th minute till pretty much the end leading up to YSS. just felt like it was a bit of a filler to push the meeting of LBY and CSS & her dad to the next episode
yeah , from the mv of an ost i noticed part 1 is rather lighter than part 2 in terms of angsty . part 1 is nothing…
Same, I just keep thinking their brief moments give me so much joy and the break up scene with CSS and LY actually brought me to tears. I don't even want to imagine how heart wrenching part 2 will be.
For awhile I thought it was my hormones acting up lol E21 had me bawling my eyes out and E22 had me ROFLOL. The…
That scene made me cry, I never thought it would make me so sad. Honestly, it made me realize as much as I love LBY, LY and CSS would have worked, yes they would have had their differences and LY would have to work harder for CSS, but they would have worked. Two souls that understood each other so well and were able to embrace the other's faults and turn them into positives. LY always praised CSS for her auxiliary knowledge rather than mocking her for being illiterate, CSS always praised LY's soft heart and taught him how to be strong and stand for himself.
i don’t like YS as much as the next person but thankfully from what i’ve seen he will be a bit better in part…
When he gets better in Part 2 its pointless to me and too late. He gets better because he is finally accepting his love for CSS; maybe if he hadn't spent so much time demeaning her earlier she may have grown to feel something more than cordial respect for him. Heck! they could've been very close friends. But yeah I still won't like him LMAO
Y’all forgot about CSS’s brother divination?!! I hope it’s not as bad and it’s the 5 yr separation
Their love is going to be hard, it will feel like the world is against them, she is bullied by royal ladies, their lives are constantly in danger, but their love is worth it.
Novel readers can you please tell that is css will fall for lby before that 5 year leap and will she wait for…
Yes she falls, they separate for 5 years, she waits for him, when she is tired of waiting 5 years she gets engaged to the 3rd man and right after LBY shows up (LMAO great timing right), and he wins he back with the simplest expression of his love. In the novel the 3rd guy even asks her "did he promise you heaven and earth? Did he say he would never allow anyone hurt you or your family? Never allow anyone bully you?" and she's like no, he only said two words "感情" (Gan Qing) - which is hard to translate as it has a strong and deep meaning in Chinese literary culture but basically means "feel" "affection" i.e. what they have and what he feels for her is more than those 5 years and more than anything YS or any man could offer her.
Episode 23 was pretty hilarious, especially with CSS in the palace. There is a lot more behind the story of Gu City than we were aware of, seems as though someone was jealous of the achievements of the Huo family and deliberately left them for dead. (I like how the show is taking this).
Episode 24 - I cried so much for so many different reasons - what a rollercoaster. I was happy when Zisheng showed up to save her from falling on the broken glass. This episode revealed one thing that makes CSS accept her suitors - they see the good in her.
Her mom totally disgraced and humiliated her today in front of everyone. No matter how much you were trying to get out of the engagement it could have been done without making CSS worthless publicly. I know her mom loves her, but her heart and expressions are definitely in the strangest of places. She had no regard for CSS's reputation or future by shaming her publicly like that.
The relationship between mother and daughter seems more antagonistic in the show than in the book, there are certain interactions in the early chapters of the book you can say are both their faults or even CSS's fault e.g. purposely wearing a plain green dress to the lantern festival as opposed to the beautiful red brocade her mom bought for her and Yang Yang.
The interactions in episode 24 are definitely the straw that broke the camel's back in their mother-daughter relationship, everyone was so shocked and uncomfortable to see a mother put her daughter down like that publicly, heck even the Empress looked so sad for CSS.
Funny enough if mom hadn't shamed CSS like that LBY wouldn't have gotten a chance to confess just how much he loves CSS and how he sees her as "pure and decisive, willing to love and hate, the only one worthy of walking along him in the journey of life". It's these words that made CSS take the risk and dive in. Her own mother never has one good thing to say about her, even as a joke or lie but yet these two men LY and LBY are able to see the good in her and appreciate her.
As the show goes on we are beginning to see a manifestation of what CSS said in the earlier episodes, she is good to those who are good to her and treats those who are bad to her accordingly.