QAS

He was very busy listing the last five things he accomplished a week ago. 🤣🤣🤣

That was shortsighted of the Emperors, thinking the eunuchs were non-threatening due to impotence.

The drama, Jin Zhi, has no castlist except for screenwriter Cao Xiao Tian. I suspected it might be one of his writing projects, and checked his MDL credits. It might be in the development stage.

MDL synopsis: Chen Que Er, mistaken for the Changying Princess Zhao Jin Zhi, enters Rongguo Mansion and secretly builds a powerful identity in Tokyo. She joins forces with Xianning Prince Sun Ru Yang, and together they establish the Xianyi Society, set trends with Chinese fashion, and run the Wan Guo Hui restaurant, all while navigating the city's political and social circles.

As they rise in power, they become entangled in court disputes. Ultimately, they expose the truth, rescuing slaves from the ruthless Wang Ji Xun, and emerge stronger from the crises they face together.

Did anyone catch the reference in episode 23 to Faithful? Screenwriter Cao Xiao Tian wrote the screenplays for The Glory and Faithful. Zhuang Hanyan mentioned the story of The Faithful, written by Li Bo Jian, about Meng Wan who avenged her close friend Lin Ru Lan, to the young noble ladies having afternoon tea.

The novelist of The Glory is Qian Shan Cha Ke, and the novelist of Faithful is Li Bo Jian. I wonder why Cao wrote this line into the script. I don't see a connection, except for the screenwriter and Tencent Video.

I think they spent too much time in the House of Zhuang, kicking Mother too long, Yushan behaving like a entitled princess, and Shi Yang whispering all the time.

ROFL I hope he doesn't pull a Pearl Girl ending.

So far, we haven't seen too many upstanding males, except for Scholar who loved Mrs Deng, Yuwen Changan and Fu Yunxi's assistants, perhaps. Fu Yunxi has his idiosyncrasies, even though he is the protagonist.

Now, she is planning to emancipate Noble Consort. Why didn't Yuwen turn over the secret documents to Yunxi before he was leaving town, and save us three episodes? It doesn't make sense to leave the evidence in the Dept of Supervision, since he wasn't coming back.

Every new subplot is being introduced with a dysfunctional family led by a deranged master of the house and a subjugated female family member. With seven more episodes to go, are we going to see more dysfunctional families?

Another contest joins the Delulu Contest. Duke Qi is as deranged as Zuang Shi Yang.

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Some dramas have utilized patterns and many colors on the costumes that can detract from the character's performance and/or the scene. The use of one color with contrasting overcoat doesn't distract the viewer.

The screenwriter is thirty-one, with many screenwriting credits. He may finetune his writing skills as time goes by.

Did Zhuang stab Ruan so many times?

The women's wardrobes are very flattering. They seem simple but elegant. The broaches on the collars are nice.

She went from Zhuang mad house to Fu mad house. 😆😆😆

Mrs Fu needs to send the Aunty to the countryside. Is the woman, Mrs Fu's sister, or a poor relation who took advantage of the Madam, and managed the house for years?

I agree. The writers are injecting modern day opinions in the writing. I am not saying that costume drama writers have to be scholars of history, but they should write within the scope of the timeline.

I am guessing that Yanhan's goal is to emancipate the women from their subservient roles.

I have seen her before in a costume drama. She looks like a good Empress.