PeachBlossomGoddess

Fortunately it didn't last that long even though it felt like an eternity! 😅😆

between LSY and LJX is driving me batty. I can't watch this I hate this guy even more when he is pretending to be the good guy!

This role reversal:

Try this - if you scroll far down there is Fire TV instructions:
https://www.cnappen.com/app/tencent-video/

Do you have a smart TV or AppleTv or Roku or Hulu or Firestick or anything like that where you can download the WeTV app from the App Store? If you do you can login to your account and watch it on your tv directly without airplay.

Yes but its kind of tame for her to dump him so mildly but I guess he almost died... it was just stupid of the writers.

Yes indeed!😅😂

No worries. I was so mad I was ready to flip tables when I saw that go down. Totally ruined the characters and the drama. I am even mad at her for not being mad enough at MRJH. I would be so livid I would kick his ass.

Yes but he cannot at any official capacity wear blue. I think this is modelled on Song dynasty. Yellow is exclusively the emperor's color and blue is the empress's color. The princes and princesses can wear light blue. I think I was told that on a museum tour once so I hope I remember it correctly.

Yes but his low EQ is actually to LSY's advantage bc its more convincing if Master Sun genuinely believes LSY has turned. As Yang Ling pointed out it is quite a desperate play on LSY's part bc Wang Yuan and LJX are too canny to fall for it. The only thing I think is to his advantage is the enemy is not that united. LJX is also trying to use this opportunity to throw Wang Yuan under the bus and win WYN. He may be trying to bite off more than he can chew.

Lots of people like me in HK and Singapore during the time. The expat community gets transferred between Tokyo, HK and Singapore for work all the time so we all know each other well. I was living alone in my parent's huge house at the time so I had ample space.😅

Lol... I can't even watch until I get off work but its ok, it lost momentum for me already anyway.

Yes esp for LSY and LJX. They are in the court dress.

I believe that Yang Ling was impatient and acted recklessly before they were ready and thus endangered all of them including Master Sun. He did not heed LSY's advice and was outplayed by Wang Yuan and LJX. Anyone who tries to save him at this point can get all of them killed. LSY and his team decided since they couldn't rein Yang Ling in, they would use his recklessness to their advantage. Thus LSY is pretending to have defected to Wang Yuan's camp and has to prove his loyalty. This is not how LSY would have preferred to play it but since the damage was already done, he is going to try to turn it to his advantage to entrap and indict Wang Yuan and LJX and clear his old shifu's name. It is better to get Master Sun to safety outside the capital hence his public break from him and Master Sun's retirement. I don't think he is in on the plan, the fewer know about it the better. Yang Ling got himself into this pickle he is in and LSY is going to try to save him if he can. But on the other hand, he has the entire Luo family's safety and his own at stake as well so there is only so much he can do for him. That is my understanding of the current state of play but I could be wrong on some stuff. Its not that easy to follow.

LSY is in green bc he is only a lowly grade 6 or 7 court official. LJX is in purple because he is a Marquis, grade 3 ranked or above so pretty much the highest. Blue is for minor nobility - WYN is a county princess.

I think the CP is dead. That arc is over. Now the only thing left if you don't care about the Xiyan arc is saving Mei Lin. Which is also done. I mean the cure has been made, its just whether she can survive the cure which is painful. So you can even consider that mostly done - she either lives or dies. Not sure its worth slogging through another 8 episodes of drivel to find out.

My guess is the Xiyan general may stage a coup or manipulate the king into a war. He seems opposed to YQ's plan to establish trade between the two countries and bring about lasting peace. I guess without wars, generals lose power or become obsolete? Sigh! Do we need more of these kinds of plots???

Sounds kind of bizarre but those were very traumatic events for the Japanese. Some of my friends who were expats in Tokyo fled to stay with me until they knew it was safe to return after Fukushima.

They shortchanged ML. She should have been there at the final fight and she should have been the one to stab him dead and save the old emperor.

Thanks for your thoughtful comments. I am not a huge fan of these feminist themed dramas either because I think that as you point out, they can be very misguided in terms of what that really means. And tbh, none of these stories are that realistic. Outside of a few of the earlier dynasties, feudal China left very little room for women to do anything near what these stories portray.

But in this case, A'Mai did want to fight wars. She didn't do it to prove any point, she was a terrific battle strategist and warrior. That is the whole point of the story. And why she declined to exert her influence from the emperor's bedchamber at the end. Not to mention, had she joined the harem from the beginning with the idea she could some day dictate the direction of the country from the bedchamber, she may never have seen the emperor even once in her entire lifetime, no matter how beautiful she is. That is not a realistic path to success for ancient women either, especially when it depends so much on their appearance and luck. This only worked for a handful of women over thousands of years of history and there are more than enough dramas about them! Besides, I don't think a woman doing what she wants to do, even if it is aping men by definition makes her not a strong woman. Nowadays, there is a broad definition of strong woman that encompasses both traditional and non-traditional roles.