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The Blessed Bride. (2022) 24 episodes 10 minutes each. Some pretty funny moments. Amy Sun is very good and her maid, too. To understand the twist at the end pay attention to what she says in the carriage before that.

Ep. 1 Xia Qiquang says that 12 years before Mo Qingchuan was 15. He saw her. He looks about 8 years old then, so maybe about 7 years difference.
Yes Qiguang often has a deer in the headlights when looking at her. But Qingchuan has guarded feelings for him.

He lived frugally before. It didn't seem help.

The glances, guarded thoughts and small gestures make a good substitute for an overt romance. The meat is the revenge against those who betrayed the Mo Army.

I wonder if after 5 years in prison, Zhou Zheng will meet his true lov,e Cao Yuyan or just protect her from afar?

After ep. 12. I wonder if Feng Shiyi from Chu will be killed to avenge someone's parents?

There are glances and private thoughts with the FL and ML that do almost as well as an overt romance. Ep. 5, he asks Mo Wang about where she is from, trying to confirm his suspicion that she really is Mo Qingchuan. The looks they exchange, his doe in the headlights eyes when he looks at her is replicated in her eyes when he says in ep. 8 that he can fight alongside Master. She knowing that he really knows that she is Mo Qingchuan and turns away to hide her emotions.

After ep. 11. Toe to toe against the Dowager?

Cake and eat it, too. He was bloodied, but not fatally so. Head still on his shoulders and no stab wounds visible to the heart or abdomen. The Emperor and court officials needed to be fooled. He could have arranged for his 'body' to have been whisked away to recover.

Ep. 8. Among the three and including Physician Fang, there is love, care, pain and feigned distance. Fang leaves without saying good bye but Mo Qingchuan notices. Who does Mo Qinchuan feel betrayed her that she dares not reveal? And what was the distant look that Kui had washing her mouth? Guarded secrets that really aren't. The relationships between our gang is an unexpected jewel.

At the end of ep. 1 and beginning of ep. 2, when Jin Nang is playing the pipa during her deflowering auction, Menglin is attracted to her choice of song as well as her bold playing style. He says, "Interesting. Not "Autumn Moon Over the Han Palace" nor "Flute and Drum at Sunset", but "Chu Han" instead." "Chu Han" is an earlier version of "Ambush at Ten Sides." "Ambush from Ten Sides" is a Chinese classical pipa music and its subject is the decisive battle in 202 B.C. at Gaixia (southeast of today's Linbi County, Anhui Province) between the two armies of Chu and Han. This piece gives an overall view of the battle, while "The King Doffs His Armor" focused on Xiang Yu and his defeat. Ambush from Ten Sides provides a vivid depiction, in the form of musical narrative, of the fierce and stirring scenes of the battle and the desolate and solemn scenes of the defeated Xiang Yu, and ends with the triumph of the victor. A wide variety of performance techniques of pipa are brought into full play in this piece that produce a majestic and passionate narrative which is sharp in artistic image, exalting in melody, and ultimately thrilling. (from wiki) "Ambush From Ten Sides" is considered a difficult piece and is usually played by virtuosos. "Chu Han" might be the same. So an unspoken point is that Jin Nang must be very skilled at playing the pipa. Menglin is revealed to be a very discerning person who notices and understands the choice. Unschooled in real life, but no idiot. He finished with. "She really played with a heroic spirit! What kind of hero deserves such beauty.?" If Jin Nang is a virtuoso at playing the pipa, then it is ironic that in ep. 27/18 when Liu Wan forced Jin Nang to play in the inner courtyard, that none of the ladies assembled were able to discern her talent. Reinforcing Menglin's comment that they won't understand.

I have this drama on standby on my computer screen almost every day. I watch the prison scene where she gets Menglin to marry her most often. And then the final scenes where Menglin is waiting for her. Then the scene in ep. 32 in the prison where Luo Shu says that she will accompany him to return to Taiyuan and she says that once she sets her heart on him, she will be with him until the end of her life. And he says, "I'm not worth you doing this." She replies, "Worth or not. That's for me to decide."

Han Muzhi wouldn't have gone up to the stage because Liu Wan had earlier shown him his request for Luo Shu's manumission. She used it to trap him into a lose lose situation. Muzhi could have her freed but would have to keep the engagement with Liu Wan or break the engagement but have the manumission request declined, because of her Father's influence. Ep. 17 at 35:59. She asks He Xiang, her maid, to bring that "thing." We do not see what it was but it was the request. And to tell the truth, as much as he loves her, and as much as viewers like him over Menglin, he didn't have the stones to choose love over career. Hence at the end he was promoted, but Liu Wan remained in seclusion.
Too bad not many people are talking here nowadays. Thank you and take care.

Understand. But in all of the scenes with them as kids, Luo Shu was never shown as doing something to raise his ire. No need for him to punish her nor seek to break her spirit. Unless very early on he could see the diamond in the rough that became Chief Luo of the Linfen Yamen. I suspect that Wuniang was sent to Mingke House because Luo Shu would be forced to accompany her. Mingke House did train her to be a courtesan, with a wide range of refined abilities, including artistic talents, social graces and intellectual engagements. But the drama does not hint at that but emphasizes breaking her spirit. There might be reasons that Qin Yi had in the novel Jin Nang that the drama left out. One thing is that once they are together, if she discovers that he had a hand in killing her parents, he might have preemptively sought to nip her spirit in the bud.

I'm still watching as the episodes come out. The other current dramas are ff. But tastes are subjective.

You are right. Spoke before I watched the teaser for the next episode.

I knew as soon as I saw him in the hospital, that he was going to be dead. Sigh.

Ep. 5 and 6 were very good and moving episodes. The back and forth kept me on the seat of my pants. Great characters and great emotions.

I wonder if the sister-in-law will end up with her sister's husband. Little off hand comments made me wonder. Ep. 1 42:45 Mi Joo says, "It's not my business what you get up to. but there are boundaries to respect. Things between us aren't settled yet." And in ep. 3, the Shaman answers Gyeon U's question, "How is our compatibility?, with, "A match made i heaven." but it wasn't with him. She tells Mu Jin, " Be good to her. If you lose her, you'll never find another woman in your life." Of course the shaman could be referring to Mu Jin's wife. But Hui Ju was there for him when he needed it. Gyen U is more positive about his relationship than Hui Ju is.

I feel you. Those least able to afford losing their jobs and least able to resist the injustice. This episode let the Mother and her co-workers to shine. This drama just gets better.