She can’t even paint a bird, but she can make a flower basket out of syrup? The drama writers really didn’t…
the drama is so inconsistent lol
embroidery is a sketch that is more realistic/artsy. Only the super educated could do these sketches. so embroidery matches brush paintings. it makes sense that HY's horse looks like a kindergarten sketch haha.
Didn’t she also fake her handwriting in the same scene? I feel like she purposefully was bad at it so he wouldn’t…
novel: XJ doesn't wear his emotions on his face/expressive...which is why HY is not confident or even have the slightest idea that XJ likes her.
XJ likes HY but doesn't fight or force it. He originally thought HY likes CZ and if that's the case, he will not force it. Their presence bothers him but he doesn't show it. His wingman, Lin XuangHe (drama combo with Cheng LiSu) is the one who kept pushing him to make a move or risk losing out on her. Once he realized he's the moon HY was referring to, he was more proactive...went straight to requesting for marriage lol.
that's so adorable! Since the scene regarding the 2nd lead complaining about the generals marrying causing a power…
political marriages usually break the balance and causes shift/changes in the court. besides merits, political marriages is the next advantage to help secure/protect/strengthen a political post/title. novel: XJ marrying any daughter from the court departments (e.g. censor, treasury, military etc) will strengthen XJ's influence and power at court. XJ have the Xiao Army as a power play, his title as the Commander/General.
Chancellor Xu is worried XJ's marriage alliance will harm/weaken his power in court. Chancellor Xu supports the Crown Prince (poor character, villain, lack of virtue, only given the title b/c he's the king's first born with the queen). Chancellor Xu is Team Crown Prince. Chancellor Xu hand picked Chu Zhao as his successor/daughter's fiance, making Chu Zhao Team Crown Prince. CX is also the main reason the current king was able to inherit the thone, so he's already pretty powerful in that case.
So when XJ wants to marry HY, he was all for it b/c HY come from a family with no political background or power. At the royal feast, the king elevated HY's title to Marquis (the first female Marquis in the dynasty history). Even so, HY's role doesn't have too much influence or power in court yet. This happens before HY was exposed as a woman.
If those noble ladies, who could only do sewing or cooking or arranging flowers (because they were taught that…
the ladies shown in that audience are all noble/wealthy women. at most, they are required to learn to sew as an art form to display their talents and poetry/education level. it's not some contribution to help her family or her husband's family. they have maids to sew and do all that. they don't ever go into the kitchen or even know how to cook. at most, they may supervise the maids and servants on how it's done but never do it themselves or step in the kitchen.
that's the reality of society at the time for elite women. even in war times, they are kept inside safe quarters. it's the poor/lower class women who is out there slaving away to cook/feed/nurse the sick, old. and injured during wartime.
‘’我喜欢月亮。月亮不知道。‘’"I like the moon. The moon doesn't know."Very poetic.…
XJ to HY post royal court feast/celebration and HY's female identity exposure
XJ to the king and court about HY XJ announced HY is his fiancee. Other single ladies at court who are salty about this was like crying foul: how? why? when???...i don't believe it!!!
XJ: “她的确不是我的未婚妻。” (她) “是我眼中景，心中事，意中人。”
She is not (just) my fiancee... (she) is the vision/view in my eye, matters of my heart, my one true love/sweetheart.
XJ...very romantic and poetic!!!
XJ: do you like the moon?“ “喜欢月亮吗？” HY: ....yes (mandarin xihuan 'like') “……喜欢。” XY: now...the moon now belongs to you. “现在，月亮是你的了。”
100% agree, all the actors have done a great job with the action scenes, love ZY and CL in this show!
actors definitely not the issue. if anything, it's the screenwriter and how they adapt the novel to drama w/ the resources they have. even so, the drama is enjoyable up to this point so far.
Is it true that she was pregnant before she died ??? Who was the father of her child ??
you may have mistaken the Double plot for HY. First life: HY was not pregnant at the time of her death. her husband barely spends time w/ her. their union is more of a convenience of advantage for both family. even though the husband doesn't care for her, he doesn't mistreat her. but due to that, servants started to treat her less kind or gave her any importance/respect or think of her as the legit lady of the manor. HY is pretty much invisible to them.
husband only request for her hand in marriage b/c he overhead that HY is the real general. he was able to foster a deal with the He family in exchange the He family will help with his career advances. so when HY died, the He family married off HY's younger sister to keep both families 'connected'. husband is aware of what the He family wanted to do but his thought process was 'i didn't want to kill her. the order didn't came from me. i have nothing to do with her death. if you want to go after someone, go after the He family'. that's his denial to avoid any link/responsibility/contribution to HY's murder. he's just a bystander in all this.
Second life: HY reborn into another girl (with the exact same name) who is about 2-3 years younger than HY/XJ. When she married XJ, she's still a virgin with the memories of being married experience from her first life, which is why she doesn't think she is pure enough to be with XJ. XJ and HY married and they have a daughter. they returned to JiYang (7 years from their last visit) with a 3-4 year old Xiao Yao (sounds like carefree, HY name the daughter).
wow, they totally excluded Liu BuWang's contribution, fight scene and death from the drama. he did a lot more to help turn the tide of the war in favor of Ji Yang.
novel: HY died of force drowning in her first life. she was drugged and killed off by her husband's concubine. The order to kill her was from her Uncle/He RuiFei. At the time, she's already blind, but she's still very active and strong as a blind person. The husband know of it but didn't do anything to prevent it from happening. The He family was hoping to use her blindness to confine and strip her of any willingness to explore outside the manor, make her dependent.
So when HY fell into the water and base on the memory of how she died, she pretty much freaked out and sink deeper. XJ came to her rescue and give her air. that's pretty much their first kiss.
I feel that war scenes are more rushed than normal scenes. The main thing revolves around war, right? But they…
there are couple of war story arc in the novel...all marks the journey, determination, peserverance of HY's will to reclaim what was hers.
since this is limited/cap off at 36 episodes, it's not enough time to be thorough of all the plots and characters from the novel. it would be more complete if this drama was filmed with 2 seasons.
Lately, historical dramas, with some exceptions, present narratives and characters with 21st-century discourse,…
yeah, i see the themes encouraged by modern or costume/historical dramas. women and men should be depicted of the era/time it took place. a lot of these 'feminist' speech, actions, independence, mentions are very rare and limited in history throughout the dynasty. history becomes entertainment and it's a joke in the end b/c it fails to deliver/teach and show how far the genders have come.
HY was not given the life of a feminist or independence. she was thrown into it by the men who who want to sacrifice her for the greater good of their own greed. in the rundo story arc (which seemed to be excluded in the drama), she encouraged the kidnapped/hostage women (who were sexually assaulted by their captors) to live for themselves and value their lives...not to challenge the norms at the time. the women who were saved were ready to die to be a source of 'food' for the city who is starving. they were convinced by the city general to sacrifice themselves to feed the starving city/army.
embroidery is a sketch that is more realistic/artsy. Only the super educated could do these sketches. so embroidery matches brush paintings. it makes sense that HY's horse looks like a kindergarten sketch haha.
XJ doesn't wear his emotions on his face/expressive...which is why HY is not confident or even have the slightest idea that XJ likes her.
XJ likes HY but doesn't fight or force it. He originally thought HY likes CZ and if that's the case, he will not force it. Their presence bothers him but he doesn't show it. His wingman, Lin XuangHe (drama combo with Cheng LiSu) is the one who kept pushing him to make a move or risk losing out on her. Once he realized he's the moon HY was referring to, he was more proactive...went straight to requesting for marriage lol.
besides merits, political marriages is the next advantage to help secure/protect/strengthen a political post/title.
novel:
XJ marrying any daughter from the court departments (e.g. censor, treasury, military etc) will strengthen XJ's influence and power at court. XJ have the Xiao Army as a power play, his title as the Commander/General.
Chancellor Xu is worried XJ's marriage alliance will harm/weaken his power in court. Chancellor Xu supports the Crown Prince (poor character, villain, lack of virtue, only given the title b/c he's the king's first born with the queen). Chancellor Xu is Team Crown Prince. Chancellor Xu hand picked Chu Zhao as his successor/daughter's fiance, making Chu Zhao Team Crown Prince. CX is also the main reason the current king was able to inherit the thone, so he's already pretty powerful in that case.
So when XJ wants to marry HY, he was all for it b/c HY come from a family with no political background or power. At the royal feast, the king elevated HY's title to Marquis (the first female Marquis in the dynasty history). Even so, HY's role doesn't have too much influence or power in court yet. This happens before HY was exposed as a woman.
XJ to the king and court about HY
This should be coming up soon in the drama...and I hope it will be deliver just like the novel!
Celebration feast with king and court officials (usually bring families to these events)/HY identity exposure:
XJ announced HY is his fiancee.
Other single ladies at court who are salty was like: how? why? when???...i don't believe it!!!
XJ:
“她的确不是我的未婚妻。”
(她) “是我眼中景，心中事，意中人。”
She is not (just) my fiancee...
(she) is the vision/view in my eye, matters of my heart, my one true love/sweetheart.
- this left everyone gasp with their mouths open b/c they were surprised XJ, with his cold demeanor would say this out and loud.
post feast in the carriage leaving for HY's residence:
XJ: do you like the moon?“
“喜欢月亮吗？”
HY: ....yes (mandarin xihuan 'like')
“……喜欢。”
XY: now...the moon now belongs to you.
“现在，月亮是你的了。”
XJ have a pretty romantic side :)
that's the reality of society at the time for elite women. even in war times, they are kept inside safe quarters. it's the poor/lower class women who is out there slaving away to cook/feed/nurse the sick, old. and injured during wartime.
XJ to the king and court about HY
XJ announced HY is his fiancee.
Other single ladies at court who are salty about this was like crying foul: how? why? when???...i don't believe it!!!
XJ:
“她的确不是我的未婚妻。”
(她) “是我眼中景，心中事，意中人。”
She is not (just) my fiancee...
(she) is the vision/view in my eye, matters of my heart, my one true love/sweetheart.
XJ...very romantic and poetic!!!
XJ: do you like the moon?“
“喜欢月亮吗？”
HY: ....yes (mandarin xihuan 'like')
“……喜欢。”
XY: now...the moon now belongs to you.
“现在，月亮是你的了。”
*****SWOON*****
husband only request for her hand in marriage b/c he overhead that HY is the real general. he was able to foster a deal with the He family in exchange the He family will help with his career advances. so when HY died, the He family married off HY's younger sister to keep both families 'connected'.
husband is aware of what the He family wanted to do but his thought process was 'i didn't want to kill her. the order didn't came from me. i have nothing to do with her death. if you want to go after someone, go after the He family'. that's his denial to avoid any link/responsibility/contribution to HY's murder. he's just a bystander in all this.
Second life: HY reborn into another girl (with the exact same name) who is about 2-3 years younger than HY/XJ. When she married XJ, she's still a virgin with the memories of being married experience from her first life, which is why she doesn't think she is pure enough to be with XJ.
XJ and HY married and they have a daughter. they returned to JiYang (7 years from their last visit) with a 3-4 year old Xiao Yao (sounds like carefree, HY name the daughter).
she was not pregnant at the time of her death. she and her husband had more of a respectful union. her husband favor the concubine more.
novel:
HY died of force drowning in her first life. she was drugged and killed off by her husband's concubine. The order to kill her was from her Uncle/He RuiFei. At the time, she's already blind, but she's still very active and strong as a blind person. The husband know of it but didn't do anything to prevent it from happening. The He family was hoping to use her blindness to confine and strip her of any willingness to explore outside the manor, make her dependent.
So when HY fell into the water and base on the memory of how she died, she pretty much freaked out and sink deeper. XJ came to her rescue and give her air. that's pretty much their first kiss.
since this is limited/cap off at 36 episodes, it's not enough time to be thorough of all the plots and characters from the novel. it would be more complete if this drama was filmed with 2 seasons.
HY was not given the life of a feminist or independence. she was thrown into it by the men who who want to sacrifice her for the greater good of their own greed. in the rundo story arc (which seemed to be excluded in the drama), she encouraged the kidnapped/hostage women (who were sexually assaulted by their captors) to live for themselves and value their lives...not to challenge the norms at the time. the women who were saved were ready to die to be a source of 'food' for the city who is starving. they were convinced by the city general to sacrifice themselves to feed the starving city/army.