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Yes, all her evil doings get exposed. She also committed adultery as well. The miscarriaged baby belongs to her adulterer aka cousin who at one point abandoned her and married someone else. She got back at him by tricking the cousin into thinkingshe would eloped with him only to kill him off to silence him. So after all that was exposed, She’s force fed poison by the elder jiang lady’s maids. Due to JSR dirty shameful deeds, they had to kill her and tell society she died of illness. So JSR used jiang li as a scapegoat to cover up the unwanted baby. Oh yeah, she also secretly caused the demise of the first Mrs death. She tampered with her medication. So her death is too easy and simple and simply doesn't justified all her evil doings.

that's his features, he's supposed to be very vixen like alluring. Besides always wearing red, he has a very vixen charisma. he's seductive and likes everything pretty and detailed.

the king is still young and is growing. he's learning the ways of balancing court. due that, needs to plot and plan things so that no party gets too much power that it tips the scale and threaten his authority as king. Su Heng is a joker card where he's not supposed to have any sides, not even the king. He has a deep plot that included the king as well to get what he wants (in the novel). He see himself as an audience watching a show/play and don't emerge in anyone's business. He has a secret agenda himself. He slowly pay attention to Jiang Li out of curiosity to see what she will do. After a while, he falls for her.

back then, divorce doesn't make the husband look bad. if there is a legit reason, the divorce always is in favor of the men. divorcing your legal wife who is a beauty and a scholor is frown upon on esp for someone in politics make it very obvious his intent with climbing the society ladder to authority and power. in the novel, FL and her first husband married for love. FL actually have to lose herself in order to make this relationship work.

after having a little taste of success at winning the 1st scholar position, he caught the attention of the princess. the princess was the main person who plot and kills FL and her family off. The husband knows about it but also did nothing about it.

Not sure how the drama is going to end the characters, but in the novel, not too much of a pay back to the Jiang family for how they treat Jiang Li. Jiang Li is disconnected to the Jiang family b/c she doesn't see them as family. Jiang stayed in the family to help the real Jiang Li clear her name get back at the stepmother.

the maid is cute, not gorgeous...and base on her roles so far, she fits that of a supporting role. i do not see her as a main lead. WJY is a seasoned actress and pulls her weight. However, make up and styling for this drama makes her look unappealing at some angles.

wow, she's that young!!!

Wang Xing Yue play a very good Su Heng (Ji Heng of Duke Su Manor). In the novel, he only and always wear red. If anything, he wears red on the outside, whereas the drama only show him with a hint of red attire. Su Heng's character is unpredictable and he does things according to his mood and as he pleases. He doesn't care about what people think. He's cold, ruthless and cruel to everyone who knows his names, and due to that, other officials do not dare to cross him or have any ties with him. Here's hoping the drama will have Su Heng's character true to the core.

Wu Jin Yan plays an ok XFF. XFF is supposed to be an parallel beauty and talented scholar of her time. WJY just don't come off as XFF. Yang Chou Yue actually would play a good reborn XFF/Jiang Li b/c of her soft features. Jiang Li's featured is soft and described as a cute/innocence . Due to the censorship, the drama excluded the detail where XFF died and went into the body of Jiang Li. Jiang Li commited suicide when she heard her fiance broke off their engagement and is set to marry the her 3rd sister (daughter of the stepmother and her father). JL lost hope due to a broken heart and despair. XFF died in vain and full of resentment to revenge. Due to one's will to die and the other to live...the swap happened. The reborn Jiang Li is under the radar and she slowly plot her way to unveal everyone and bring them down.

The author's writing style do not put the couple together so early on in the story. The author builds up to the climax and have the characters develop a history first.

Jiang Li/Xue FF (in the novel, XFF reborns from death and took over Jiang Li's body) and Xu Heng is married and have a daughter. She successfully clear XFF's family and her own name and brought the people who wrong her and Jiang Li their demise.
Jiang Yu Ruo lost an eye (due to being prisoned and tortured by the princess) and is crazy.
The stepmother Ji Shu Ran dies by family execution by the Elder Jiang Lady. Ji Shu Ran's evil doing: kill Jiang Yu (the eldest daughter, died at 4 years old) and frame Jiang Li for her miscarriage and fall. Oh yeah and adultery. The miscarriage baby is not the Jiang husband.

in the novel, yes. married and have a daughter.

if they follow the novel, it's a good ending for the ML and FL.

yes there is a difference. in the novel, it's the princess who scheme and did everything (framing the FL for having an affair, strangled/killed her, frame/imprison the dad to be executed in the fall and killed the brother under the disguise of bandit robbery) . the husband knows about it but ignored it. he wanted fame and power through the princess. he's the type of guy who just wants to take short cuts vs working his way up the rank. he does not love the princess and is not like the drama where the princess emotionally abuses him.

he gets exposed for being an adulterer with the princess, framing his wife for being disloyal and killing her all for trying to seek fame and glory. he gets beheaded in public along with the princess. the princess gets the same sentence plus an extra one for having a secret tortured/jail chamber at her residence (which is illegal/against the law). the princess have her title stripped and turn into a commoner before her execution.

There’s the audio in mandarin on YouTube and novel but all in mandarin

There’s other novels of the same caliber??? Do share your reading list lol

i am reading the novel right now and OMG...it's pretty descriptive of their bedroom activities. it's realistic in a way but i was not expecting the details from the author! it's like soft porn (think 50 shades of grey)...all that will definitely be ax from the drama. ^___^

LOLOLOLOL...sorry to tell you, not in this drama. in the novel, the ML does most of the stabbing.

i'm actually surprised that pass censor...the dept usually don't allow the filming of 'violence, rape etc' like from the trailer. i get that they will have to cut out some parts to fit the drama limited episodes...but i hope they follow the main plot of the novel. the comeback revenge and the unravel of the lead ML and FL were such a good read!

I hope so too!!! At least not change too much of it!!!