ML doesn't have concubines at this time. For that scene, I actually took it as he already knew what happened to…
I like that they’ve established that even though ML isnt a scholar he’s smart. He had to be to fight against the pirates but there’s a big difference between street smarts and then book smarts/being cunning.
Every conversation in a historical drama has two or more layers, add in how many idioms and plays on words there are it’s even more interesting to see how characters navigate when we aren’t getting dialogue plot movement 😂. I also think it’s really interesting how even though he is investigating ZJT, he’s letting the people in her life/underlings admit themselves what’s going on.
It seems some people are using modern day feminist ideologies to judge this drama and thereby somehow blaming…
Yes! Every time I watch another costume drama I end up learning so much about Chinese history because I'll go look stuff up like "when did they stop having concubines?" (1949 when the CCP came into power and then formalized in the 1950 marriage law)
and while indentured servants like history don't exist, obvs lots of people still have maids and there's a lot of research about what that looks like now. It just feels further away because the shows are set 300+ years in the past.
To everyone who hate the ML, I’ve noticed a lot among you here, hating on him, I don’t know if you hate the…
In episode one her mom says I was hoping after you come of age (15) you would get to stay with us two years but by then he'd be over twenty so they're at minimum only three years apart.
She can't be 14 because she also mentions that at the age of ten her grandfather told her about the painting which is why she recognizes is in episode 2 and it's been at least six plus years since her family died so either they were lying that she's younger than she is or the show messed up when they were doing the first few eps so hopefully someone who knows more can chime in. Unless of course the person in charge of all the maids was just grabbing anyone 14 AND older
Based on the pictures and trailer, FL will be with ZJT when she dies so I’m super curious how that will play out. And that he marries her without telling her parents so still a long way to go before all is revealed and they end up on the same page 👀👀👀
The ones in the Lin family are Zhou Xingtang (ML’s main wife) and Xu Lanxiang (the maid/FL), the one tied at…
Thank you! For the Lin family I meant at 2:30, is that one of ML’s sisters or cousins? Just trying to keep track of people though I know we haven’t met most of the Lins yet 😂
Just started this, who are the last few women who talk? (The one in the Lin family home, the woman tied up, and the woman in red at the end)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGz-kGq45i4
Everything was good, but the ending could be better. 1. Is it really necessary to kill General Mo? The director…
Like grandma empress said, if they fought her then there might not be a chance to get all her gold etc bc madame yu would do her best to make it disappear
ohhhso sad what you want to watchBlossoms of Power???if not for those last 6 episodes. it would have been so......ahh,…
I watched Blossoms of Power, I liked it!
More that in this show and Blossom (and others) the women who are bad either die at the end or lose their touch with reality. For example here, she's telling YJX she's arranged a marriage, but the person she's talking about is FTY!
what happened I just watched blossom.. and watching this what happened actually
oh! spoilers, Hot Uncle Jiang is the same actor for General Mo! And the Emperor/Grand Secretary Yu are the same actor. There's actually a TON of overlap between the casts.
Also the number of love interest (parents choices 😂😂😂） sooo curious why DCQ ends up being so against the Lins!
Every conversation in a historical drama has two or more layers, add in how many idioms and plays on words there are it’s even more interesting to see how characters navigate when we aren’t getting dialogue plot movement 😂. I also think it’s really interesting how even though he is investigating ZJT, he’s letting the people in her life/underlings admit themselves what’s going on.
Was the birthday party supposed to be her coming of age one??
and while indentured servants like history don't exist, obvs lots of people still have maids and there's a lot of research about what that looks like now. It just feels further away because the shows are set 300+ years in the past.
Slavery didn't even end until 1910! https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2023/07/chinas-long-road-to-abolishing-slavery/
She can't be 14 because she also mentions that at the age of ten her grandfather told her about the painting which is why she recognizes is in episode 2 and it's been at least six plus years since her family died so either they were lying that she's younger than she is or the show messed up when they were doing the first few eps so hopefully someone who knows more can chime in. Unless of course the person in charge of all the maids was just grabbing anyone 14 AND older
More that in this show and Blossom (and others) the women who are bad either die at the end or lose their touch with reality. For example here, she's telling YJX she's arranged a marriage, but the person she's talking about is FTY!