This ep., you see the sad GYX watching HZ and SH…I wonder why they introduced another new character this late,…
I haven't watched yet but its been a pattern recently. I don't love it. I prefer characters to be built up early on and no later than just past the mid-way point.
I also loved the book and the Chamberlain movie. I am quite tempted to watch it even though my bro checked out two episodes and panned it hard for some of the things you didn't like. He said Blackthorne is MIA.😅😂😂😂
Yeah they can be bought like servants or slaves but they have a higher status. Not all of them are bought though,…
Well if they make ancient men realistic no one would watch these dramas... As it is everyone rants about Minglan's husband already having a concubine and kids when he married her.
Yeah they can be bought like servants or slaves but they have a higher status. Not all of them are bought though,…
Me too. But in those days it was a symbol of a man's power and prestige and there was high child mortality rate so rich men had to secure their link to immortality by having lots of kids.
Yeah they can be bought like servants or slaves but they have a higher status. Not all of them are bought though,…
Well he never actually made an offer to the maid so we don't know if it would be for main wife. I personally think it would have been just another concubine and that's why it was relevant to her that were 8 other concubines but not to Hua Qin bc HQ knew that she would have to be offered legitimate wife. It was a smart decision on her part. She has no good role in HZ's business empire and she knew she didn't want to follow her mother's footsteps as a concubine and be potentially forced to give her sons away to make them legitimate. In fact she immediately steps into the role of official mother to two legitimate children.
Question: So concubines are like slaves? They also have a life contract with the family like other slaves? Its…
Yeah they can be bought like servants or slaves but they have a higher status. Not all of them are bought though, some of them freely marry into a household as a concubine. Many servants aspire to be a concubine bc its a bump up in status. Their children are considered illegitimate.
My favourite emperor was the one in The Long Ballad. I loved how he was written and his character overall. The…
The emperor in TLB was Li Shimin/Tang Taizong. The drama wrote him sympathetically but he did kill both his brothers (from the same mother) and their entire families (kids and all) and forced his father to abdicate for him. He went on to be one of the best Tang/Chinese emperors. That was the one dark extremely cruel spot in his history.
That's because when that happens, the partner is considered a Second lead, no longer a Lead.For instance, Best…
Go watch The Little Nyonya. Its a very famous story that ends just like that that was wildly popular when it was first made decades ago and the recent remake was also quite well received. The FL is a much more realistic version of HZ.
should FL have followed them to the Shen mansion or should she have taken her behind home. she was just told not…
You have to read between the lines of the emperor's conversation with HZ. He was blackmailing her with the Shens. HZ followed them to the Shen mansion to see for herself what was happening to the Shens. She went to the ML's workplace to break up with him bc she wanted to make sure the emperor saw and knew about it. So that he would free the young Shens.
If I were HZ, I would relocate my family from the capital. I know that the emperor can reach them wherever they…
Agree completely. She should just join the men in exile and kickstart the economy there . I suspected it’s foreshadowed when GYX taught the family survival skills in the north but it seems there’s not enough episodes left
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JOL2 is heavily rumored for May 15.