PeachBlossomGoddess

I don’t remember anymore but that one the court politics weren’t that well written.

It’s an original script so no one knows the ending.

Ah yes I was educated in Bahasa Malaysia so I have held on to that and when I used to go to Indonesia for projects I could pick up your colloquialisms as well but it’s been so long now I have forgotten them all.

Meanwhile I was thinking - go for it!!! 😂😂😂
Just kidding - I knew they wouldn't do it and I think it is much better that they didn't. It captures a lot better the sense that he was longing for it!

Nah that old rascal Yang Xiaoliu mentioned that it was a joke. I actually think he was talking about the ML not the FL.

All language is immersion. I learned from when I was a little girl but since I didn't go to Chinese school, it was just one class so my speaking was tentative and reading, writing and comprehension was slow. I never got that good at it until I had to use it all day for work. I am on here and not on Chinese sites bc I already use Mandarin pretty much 3/4ths of the day at work. It is my English that is getting rusty/losing spelling and grammar.

Welp is not a good picture in the last episode either. Isn't the tree in the last episode the mourning tree where his first two wives hung tokens for their dead lovers?

Yeah my Youku account is free for everything but I haven't used it in a long time bc the Netflix interface is better.

Well if you watch or read often enough you will soon be at 1.5 or 2.0x speed!!!

Youku is the worst - sells everything to Netflix which most of us have already.

Are you talking about the emperor burning the divorce letter? Idk about the English subs but the emperor made no mention that Jiayu is a princess bc she is not. She does not get to inherit her mother's title. Titles are conferred on their father's rank and title - other than being part of the nobility her father has no title to bestow on her. The emperor won't let them divorce bc he doesn't trust Li Mao to support Wuyi's reforms. Jiayu is there with Wuyi to check and balance the two men against each other. With Jiayu at Wuyi's side, Li Mao as regent can not act against Wuyi without making her collateral damage.

Lol - I almost choked on my wine out at that scene! I usually am checking emails or markets while watching. But its fine, I can just rely on dialogue.

Oh for sure Wednesday will be express then. iQiyi needs the money. But SuperVIPs don't pay as usual.

Yes. The position comes with the command of the army. Older bro is disabled and can’t inherit.

Except women are not in the line of succession and don’t inherit kingdoms. Besides she saw her biological parents killed in front of her eyes and she remembers the appearance of their killer. Whom I am quite sure is the fake Cui Ju n - his beard covers up the mole she remembered .

Wuyi is not Prince Jing’an, his “father “ Xiao Ju is. He is the heir to the title. See the timeline post above in Discussions for a detailed explanation.

I am not at all defending her just pointing out she was once a loyal friend.

In a later scene where he tries to strangle her the GT makes clear he told her Li Mao was his son. And it’s obvious he had to otherwise why would she just accept her biological brother was an imposter just like that with zero details or explanation from a GT that only met them when they got to the capital 10
years ago?You give too much agency to the GT’s muscle who only appeared on screen once and not even with the GT - these are not roles that push back on orders. Whether and how he helped her is purely speculation on your part and not shown. Only two things happened -Jiayu’s drink was drugged and someone gave the horse a handful of tainted rice. All within what she could have done herself. I don’t find her plot arc that out of character - it was always she and Li Mao against the world. He’d have done the same for her and to save her from the Eagle King he gave up his girl.

The problem is there are no really good equivalent English titles. I personally prefer to just stick with the Chinese titles. But if I had to translate them I would rather use King for Wang instead of Prince even though both are technically correct.

Wuyi's wife He Yuanji is officially Shìzǐ Fēi/ 世子妃 or Hereditary Princess, his main wife. Jiayu is the wife of his heart but her officially her title is Cèfēi/侧妃 which is Consort or Side Consort. She does rank above Ruifeng who is only a concubine.