PeachBlossomGoddess

This is one of those dramas are where opinions are quite divided - on Douban people either really love it or they hate it so most of the initial ratings are coming out at 1 or 5 and there are lots of both.

Come home darling!
https://dramapanda.com/2021/11/was-zhang-zhehan-quietly-back-on-social-media.html

I am reserving judgement until I see if she has good chemistry with the emperor.

Well I have been jumping around so idk sequence but it is really sad and dark. Nobody is happy or has free will. Haishi doesn't really understand Fang Jianming's selfless love for her she just grows to resent him for pushing her at the emperor but she can't free herself from him either. And it is like a really tortured triangle but in the novel it seems Fan Jianming is the one that is in the middle. Like the emperor loves him too and he is the one forcing both Haishi and the emperor down paths they don't choose.

This is a vastly better translator than google that my company uses for professional stuff. It makes you pay after a few thousand words but you can clear your cache and trick it a few times.
https://www.deepl.com/en/translator

I usually read the Chinese version. Looks like there is only a partial translation:
https://blizzardahmsworld.wordpress.com/the-nine-continents-madam-fuzhu/

http://www.loying.org/book/furen/

Intrigued by all the recent posts, I started to skim through the novel and OMG this is an incredibly sad story I had to stop bc I started to tear up at work. Not to rain on anyone who thinks the ending will change, this is just a warning to be prepared for the worse.

There was a flashback scene that showed them all as kids. Dixu with the crown prince and his other brothers and kid Fang Jianming.

Baoning has zero judgment. You would think she would know better than to go with him. She was a smart character that lost brain cells during marriage.

Could that not be the emperor's brother who was crown prince but later got killed?

Not sure... I was just shocked bc she never gets to see Zhuo Ying's face....

She is phenomenal, I notice her since Love & Destiny. Why are you not watching this?

I think the mermaid power power only helps her breath under water.

I don’t know but the setup is very dark poor shifu’s life expectancy is not high considering many people including the emperor himself wants to kill the emperor. The only way out is to make the emperor wish to live either for Haishi or for
Tilan. In the novel shifu sacrifices Haishi but since he is a eunuch it also allows her to have a full life. In the drama there is hope emperor ends up loving Tilan instead.

Then how did she go blind? Also in a teaser.

I agree but he lashes out at his friend and resents him for intervening and bonding their lives like that. And it forces poor Haishi to guard over the emperor so that her beloved shifu doesn’t get killed instead. Hopefully it turns around if Tilan can change the emperor bc if not this is just another very dark and tragic Chinese melodrama.

Did she give her eyes to her old going blind desperate spinster aunt???

Omg Zhe Liu…

The emperor has a death wish. He never wished to rule and he cannot even kill himself without killing his best friend at the same time. I thought the saddest scene so far is the flashback to when the three of them were on a boat and Fang Jianming was actually smiling from ear to ear and they were all happy and carefree.