After come back to this world again in body of SXH ,For my pov I think Gu Qing Zhi should be happy and keep protecting…
I agree but in the drama its that way. Her stepsisters (Gu and Shen) and lots of princesses seem very unreliable. I find them hard to tell apart. One by one each one turns out to be a pawn for some shadowy inner palace woman -- the consorts Liang and Rong, the Dowager.
On episode 18 rn and I find myself getting increasingly annoyed at the FL! Why TF would she involve herself with…
The ML seems to have been looking for a woman just like the FL from the getgo. Then he just fell for her, and it looks like he liked her hot-cold combination of two souls. It is a bit weird but then I find the ML quite eccentric and love him for it.
I'm at Episode 2, but it's giving me Blossom vibes. Please don't spoil anything, but does it follow a similar…
to add; the fight of the FL to gain ultimate power over her fate and the eventual scheming of her ML to make her the sole ruler of the world was pretty exciting to me! WM, are the Princes blinding you?
Not very familiar with both leads previous work. I know very little about Meng Zi Yi as Heart Signal panelist…
I truly disagree, except that in the first 10 episodes I also felt ho-hum. The things which kept me going while I was paying very little attention: He YiQian was cute and the question of who exactly was dominant in the FL's character, the cold Gu woman or the warm Shen woman. But then suddenly I woke up. The Princes werent boring at all, the ML was absolutely funny as heck. Then, a few episodes later Zoey Meng crossed the threshold of just a pretty face and started acting!
Finally the plot wherein the ML set up the FL to be the Empress without him was wonderful. The politics and the convolutions were wonderful. Keep watching!
The writing was decent after all -- nothing spectacular but it gave the actors involved solid arcs and doable dialogue. The directing, of course was the support of the actors. The look of the show was classic, but in the end the show, although a tiny bit sentimental and stodgy, was a TOTAL THRIILL!
Ep35 Super spoiler. Me with mouth open. The revenge of women who keep their feelings hidden lifelong.
The Dowager! Nursing mistaken revenge for 20 years! Blind to truth, closed up in the palace. Poisoned her own grandson, Prince Qian's hidden(?) infant child, by mistake. Instigated most of these final rebellions of the princes as a mistaken punishment of the Emperor.The Emperor, on the battlefield 20 years ago, merely carried out Prince Qian's own orders to defend the city rather than to reinforce him in the battle.
Chills and thrills! Those who were 'confused' bored by these last episodes are fools.
However, I am not ok with the last speech of the deluded and dangerous Prince Chang Qing.
He failed to force XiHe to marry him and let him adopt (or possibly worse) his own brother's son, Jun Shu, the unborn son of Hua Yong, the rightful bloodline. He failed to stage a coup and overthrow his own father. He failed to carry out the wishes and plans of his murderous evil mother, mme.WRong. He failed, thank heavens, to kill his own blood brother, the essentially heroic Prince Lie.
So, having failed, he tries to claim that he hasnt failed? That he did it all for her? There must be a translation problem.
It is true that NOW AFTER HE HAS FAILED, she is in a more secure position here on out. But it is impossible to swallow that he planned to help her.
He is just confusedly trying to justify his whole fate, his whole life, to her.
You didn't miss anything. Drama indeed lack in explaining. Me myself only could do guessing game. Maybe she knew…
?So.. In this drama she still knows he isnt dead, I am sure of this according to drama rules. However he is not within reach and did his best to help guard her against all dangers before he left,
The doctor in the novel comes back to claim his title. In the drama he renounces it, onviously in order to accompany the Prince thru the Cure. And the Princess clearly knows this.
In the drama I wish we knew about the one or two ways she can communicate -- the doctor clearly recommends one to himself. She must have a way to swiftly contact her brother and Dad. What else?
I was not a fan of Zoey Meng before this but her performance post-marriage as a lover has changed the way I feel.
So many of you all are genius list-makers of great couples, and I cannot even pretend to have seen all the greats in costume cdrama over the past few years, but anyway here is my short list, taken mostly from the 'cunning female tag' plus:
Recent shows with strong FLs that are overall excellent and whose main couple makes my heart ring like a bell -- less to most perfect:
Prisoner of Beauty; equally good performances, woman behind the scenes -- Xiao Qiao (Song Zu Er/.Sun Fan Qing) + Wei Shao (Liu YuNing)
The First Jasmine; The ML's performance carried the FL, but she showed great improvement in a central section devoted entirely to her character -- Ye Li (BaiLu/Bai MengYan) + Mo XiuYao (Cheng Lei/Yang HuiXiang)
Blossoms of Power; the ML's performance (completely wonderful!) carried the FL until about halfway through when I suddenly became her fan, (the script was the most exceptional gender bender you will ever see) -- Gu QingZhi/Shen XiHe ( Zoey Meng/Meng ZiYi) + Xiao Hua Yong (He YiQian)
Pursuit of Jade; equally good performances -- Fan Chang Yu (Tian XiWei) + Xie Zheng(Zhang LingHe/Zhang JiaWei)
But still my favourite main lead performances despite the silly xianxia frame
Love in the Clouds; equally good performances -- Ming Xian/MingYi (Lu YuXiao) + Ji Bozai (Hou Ming Hao)
Now since credit diputes will be solved by the use of given names, not knowing how far this will reach I am trying to add real names if applicable along with stage names...
Another rule of drama, people do not suddenly change character. If so far our Princess has had a plan for everything and HuaYong had several backup options, It is impossible that she will humbly submit to what amounts to a forced marriage and marital rape by that rat-faced B******, Prince Xin.
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the fight of the FL to gain ultimate power over her fate and the eventual scheming of her ML to make her the sole ruler of the world was pretty exciting to me! WM, are the Princes blinding you?
But then suddenly I woke up. The Princes werent boring at all, the ML was absolutely funny as heck. Then, a few episodes later Zoey Meng crossed the threshold of just a pretty face and started acting!
Finally the plot wherein the ML set up the FL to be the Empress without him was wonderful. The politics and the convolutions were wonderful. Keep watching!
The writing was decent after all -- nothing spectacular but it gave the actors involved solid arcs and doable dialogue. The directing, of course was the support of the actors. The look of the show was classic, but in the end the show, although a tiny bit sentimental and stodgy, was a TOTAL THRIILL!
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So the original crime was this -- the Emperor-to-be killed everyone, every innocent person, who knew the truth of HUaYong's birth.
Whether it was his love for his brother or a sudden and passionate love for the child, somehow (how?) he claimed the child as his own offspring.
I have been reminded by ALG below that the Emperor stole his brother'schild in order to usurp the throne from said child.
Which makes the love between the two of them very complex.
His child by whom? where is his Princess? She was already passed, she never became Empress?
Super spoiler. Me with mouth open.
The revenge of women who keep their feelings hidden lifelong.
The Dowager! Nursing mistaken revenge for 20 years!
Blind to truth, closed up in the palace.
Poisoned her own grandson, Prince Qian's hidden(?) infant child, by mistake.
Instigated most of these final rebellions of the princes as a mistaken punishment of the Emperor.The Emperor, on the battlefield 20 years ago, merely carried out Prince Qian's own orders to defend the city rather than to reinforce him in the battle.
Wow!
Chills and thrills! Those who were 'confused' bored by these last episodes are fools.
However, I am not ok with the last speech of the deluded and dangerous Prince Chang Qing.
He failed to force XiHe to marry him and let him adopt (or possibly worse) his own brother's son, Jun Shu, the unborn son of Hua Yong, the rightful bloodline. He failed to stage a coup and overthrow his own father. He failed to carry out the wishes and plans of his murderous evil mother, mme.WRong. He failed, thank heavens, to kill his own blood brother, the essentially heroic Prince Lie.
So, having failed, he tries to claim that he hasnt failed? That he did it all for her? There must be a translation problem.
It is true that NOW AFTER HE HAS FAILED, she is in a more secure position here on out. But it is impossible to swallow that he planned to help her.
He is just confusedly trying to justify his whole fate, his whole life, to her.
In this drama she still knows he isnt dead, I am sure of this according to drama rules.
However he is not within reach and did his best to help guard her against all dangers before he left,
The doctor in the novel comes back to claim his title. In the drama he renounces it, onviously in order to accompany the Prince thru the Cure. And the Princess clearly knows this.
In the drama I wish we knew about the one or two ways she can communicate -- the doctor clearly recommends one to himself. She must have a way to swiftly contact her brother and Dad. What else?
So many of you all are genius list-makers of great couples, and I cannot even pretend to have seen all the greats in costume cdrama over the past few years,
but anyway here is my short list, taken mostly from the 'cunning female tag' plus:
Recent shows with strong FLs that are overall excellent and whose main couple makes my heart ring like a bell -- less to most perfect:
Prisoner of Beauty; equally good performances, woman behind the scenes
-- Xiao Qiao (Song Zu Er/.Sun Fan Qing) + Wei Shao (Liu YuNing)
The First Jasmine; The ML's performance carried the FL, but she showed great improvement in a central section devoted entirely to her character
-- Ye Li (BaiLu/Bai MengYan) + Mo XiuYao (Cheng Lei/Yang HuiXiang)
Blossoms of Power; the ML's performance (completely wonderful!) carried the FL until about halfway through when I suddenly became her fan, (the script was the most exceptional gender bender you will ever see)
-- Gu QingZhi/Shen XiHe ( Zoey Meng/Meng ZiYi) + Xiao Hua Yong (He YiQian)
Pursuit of Jade; equally good performances
-- Fan Chang Yu (Tian XiWei) + Xie Zheng(Zhang LingHe/Zhang JiaWei)
But
still my favourite main lead performances despite the silly xianxia frame
Love in the Clouds; equally good performances
-- Ming Xian/MingYi (Lu YuXiao) + Ji Bozai (Hou Ming Hao)
Now since credit diputes will be solved by the use of given names, not knowing how far this will reach I am trying to add real names if applicable along with stage names...
Another rule of drama, people do not suddenly change character. If so far our Princess has had a plan for everything and HuaYong had several backup options, It is impossible that she will humbly submit to what amounts to a forced marriage and marital rape by that rat-faced B******, Prince Xin.