For everyone posting that DZY should feel bad for deceiving HY is only seeing them as a couple in the series. The novel is not about their romance. It is DZY’s quest to bring justice to her family, the 80k slaughtered army and the injustice/corruption of of the officials in the Jing dynasty…ultimately ousting the king/overthrowing the Han family ruling. The king’s actions and cruelty made him unfit to rule and undeserving of the title.
The king is the the person who orchestrated everything that set the precedent events in the novel. He purposely set up the princess Anning to witness what the dowager queen did only to 80k army. The king has plans to disperse the army and weaken the Di family influence in the South, but the queen dowager jumped ahead and start the plot to kill them all instead. The king found out about this and let the dowager queen carried out the plan since it was too late to stop it. He set everything up and made the queen the scapegoat if this ever comes to light. When DZY found out the real culprit, she was even more determined to carry out what she planned. DZY saw the cruelty of the king when he ordered for her family to die despite the fact her father killed himself (his action is to tell the king that he died so the di family with young kids will not be a threat to the royal family/spare the di family). The king and DZY Father were best friends/grew up together. The father saw through the king’s plot at the time but chose to sacrifice himself.
In the beginning, HY wanted to protect and atone for his family’s crimes. Once he realized that she wanted more than proving her family and army’s in coven e, he had to let her go completely for he could no longer protect her. His bottom line is to not disrupt and involve Jing in a state of chaos. The path DZY wanted to go down will put Jing in an internal war that will affect the country’s/citizens livelihood. He had to choose more than just his family if he sides with DZY. Their relationship will always be a death match due to their status and birth right. If DZY wins the throne, HY as a crown prince have to die to cut off the Han ruling. If HY/Han family wins, she cannot live. It’s a death match for one or the other. Both of them knows it once DZY leaves the Jing court and proclaim herself as the king of the south region. Just when she was about to carry in the plan, Jing was ambushed by two other countries, with Bei-Qin attacking and took 5 cities. This put the 2 families issues to the side so they could fight off the family. This is the theme for part 2 of the book. Part one ends with Anning died in battle protecting Ching Nan city from falling. She couldn’t do anything for her people (the dead soldiers) when she was young, but determined to fight to the end to protect Ching Nan city. She’s buried in the same area where the 80k soldiers perished.
HY steps up this game in Part 2 and show more of his intelligence and strategic actions. One of the reason why the king is set on keeping him as his heir. The king knows he is the only heir to defend the royal line and go up against DZY’s wit and intelligence… Before that, the king kept HY as his crown Prince bc he wants to give him what his father didn’t give him (appointment if the crown Prince title, prestige) and bc he is his legit son from his queen. He wants to keep the inheritance from father to son (of the wife, not concubine) for the throne.
So this novel revolves around DZY. Whether or not they could be together was not the main theme in the novel.
The novel is about DZY’s quest and goal to set the wrong to right…
The novel is well written and worth the read. However, as usual, if you read the novel and watch the drama——you will be super disappointed.
Empress dowager is too weak and frail for such sinister action.
She’s part of the plot for the di family massacre in the novel. The first emperor left a decree that allow anyone from the di family the right to claim/challenge/inherit the throne. So dowager wants to secure the throne and wipe out the di family for political and personal (she hates the di matriarch di shengten).
The empress dowager is a hidden villian. A jealous sinister woman
There’s a reason why she set up a Buddhist room - to makeup for her sins. She plays a pivotal role in the demise of the Di family. Aliso the reason why princess anning resents/distant from her
That although Xiao Hongye did not directly kill her family, he literally was the one who set up the bombs. Also,…
To be correct, it’s the original general that pitched the Gu and xian family against each other and ended up killing both. Zhou zichen was only a helper that didn’t get his reward and decided to wreak havoc in between. It doesn’t make sense the general would support the ML as governor after all that was set up
everytime i think, 'he can't do anything worse than this.' and he did. the manipulations, lies, schemes, abuse,…
It seems like the theme…and also any drama from this era do not have a happy ending…too close to wars/politics. I love the costumes/fashion from this era.
Female lead here is equally dumb & responsible to get her child killed. She couldn't even tell him that it was…
She doesn’t know until it was too late. You can’t blame her, the weight of her family’s revenge on her and the last she wants is having a child with said enemy. Her frustration and his obsession both killed their child. The ML realized fault when she tried to kilo herself and tried to do good by her. If this was a regular series, this drama would be super promising!
The actors did a great job in this series. I would love to see them in another drama. The ending had too many loose ends…to the point nothing makes sense…what a way to messed up what the earlier episodes built up to. I would like to enjoy the semi happy ending but it’s so off/impossible.
I wouldn't want to see HE. Coz the guy is a jerk!! She was tortured & her family was destroyed by him!
Now I get why it’s call circle of love (more like revenge)…the Chinese title translates to 3 locked loves (cycle) - the plot seem like she will feign amnesia (after the suicide scene) to seek revenge on him by killing him on their wedding day. FL will most likely find out ML is not the culprit for her family’s doom etc….there you go: one dead the other regret. I hope I m wrong…I do like a happy ending.
Trailer looks horrible, too more abuse from ML😱 not something expect to see in 2023 drama 😅😅
You ll have to read the novel till the end of the moon. The ML IS 10000000x more psycho (drama version made him somewhat normal/good guy). In this drama, the ML has his demised family as the catalyst for his behavior.
I wouldn't want to see HE. Coz the guy is a jerk!! She was tortured & her family was destroyed by him!
Well according to him, her family destroyed/ruined his family. It’s their conflict and the theme for this mini series. It doesn’t seem like it will end well. One of them will die, the other one will regret type of scenario.
This is similar to maid’s revenge in some ways but with better actors, acting and storyline. Even so, some scenes are cringy lol but at the same time you want to watch more. I don’t get the short episodes …all the production and time spent on this…
She is 5 physically.I am not sure but she might be born like susu. From a egg not the womb. God knows. Strange…
I read it in Chinese and it was easy to look up the words and meanings when I got stuck. The English translation was only up to ch.75 - the city tower scene and the post math of what happen.
Whoaa i just saw the rating dropped to 8.8?, don't do that guys... although TTEOTM didn't have the ending as expected…
I rate it as is base on how much sense the drama makes. TTJ could die but the way everything wrapped up was so rushed. A lot of characters just get didn’t get closure. Overall, this drama felt like dragging in pace and storyline just doesn’t cut it for me. That’s my reason for the rating score. I do love the chemistry the FL and ML has.
The king is the the person who orchestrated everything that set the precedent events in the novel. He purposely set up the princess Anning to witness what the dowager queen did only to 80k army. The king has plans to disperse the army and weaken the Di family influence in the South, but the queen dowager jumped ahead and start the plot to kill them all instead. The king found out about this and let the dowager queen carried out the plan since it was too late to stop it. He set everything up and made the queen the scapegoat if this ever comes to light. When DZY found out the real culprit, she was even more determined to carry out what she planned. DZY saw the cruelty of the king when he ordered for her family to die despite the fact her father killed himself (his action is to tell the king that he died so the di family with young kids will not be a threat to the royal family/spare the di family). The king and DZY Father were best friends/grew up together. The father saw through the king’s plot at the time but chose to sacrifice himself.
In the beginning, HY wanted to protect
and atone for his family’s crimes. Once he realized that she wanted more than proving her family and army’s in coven e, he had to let her go completely for he could no longer protect her. His
bottom line is to not disrupt and involve
Jing in a state of chaos. The path DZY
wanted to go down will put Jing in an
internal war that will affect the
country’s/citizens livelihood. He had to
choose more than
just his family if he sides with DZY.
Their relationship will always be a death match due to their status and birth right.
If DZY wins the throne, HY as a crown prince have to die to cut off the Han ruling. If HY/Han family wins, she cannot live. It’s a death match for one or the other. Both of them knows it once DZY leaves the Jing court and proclaim herself as the king of the south region. Just when she was about to carry in the plan, Jing was ambushed by two other countries, with Bei-Qin attacking and took 5 cities. This put the 2 families issues to the side so they could fight off the family. This is the theme for part 2 of the book. Part one ends with Anning died in battle protecting Ching Nan city from falling. She couldn’t do anything for her people (the dead soldiers) when she was young, but determined to fight to the end to protect Ching Nan city. She’s buried in the same area where the 80k soldiers perished.
HY steps up this game in Part 2 and show more of his intelligence and strategic actions. One of the reason why the king is set on keeping him as his heir. The king knows he is the only heir to defend the royal line and go up against DZY’s wit and intelligence…
Before that, the king kept HY as his crown Prince bc he wants to give him what his father didn’t give him (appointment if the crown Prince title, prestige) and bc he is his legit son from his queen. He wants to keep the inheritance from father to son (of the wife, not concubine) for the throne.
So this novel revolves around DZY. Whether or not they could be together was not the main theme in the novel.
The novel is about DZY’s quest and goal to set the wrong to right…
The novel is well written and worth the read. However, as usual, if you read the novel and watch the drama——you will be super disappointed.