whoissilmoy

this drama got Chen Xiao an award at the 2025 Weibo Night for among the five Best Breakthrough Artists of the Year

Douban 7.2

How do you know so well what Chinese people think and feel about this?

I was thinking from a narrative point of view, in cdramas, things don't happen for no reason.

Maybe he was born 4 years old.

She's lively and happy around her Master.

Rumor today that her next drama is costume, "Qia Feng Yu Lian Tian” with Ding Yuxi.

She already took a 6month break from filming since last August

The ML literally cannot fight. He always backs away.

Women make up the majority of the drama-viewing audience in China — around 70% of total viewership in recent year. That's why you see female centric dramas and women empowerment dramas.

WXY was 23 yrs old at time of filming and in this role, he plays a mature character who is around 28 or 29 yrs old.

There must be a reason for a prince to die. It usually has to do with power.

it's really her first big main role and she gave a amazing performance

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Maybe that's why Zhu Zhanji is portrayed as kind heart in the drama, and his father Zhu Di was a benevolent emperor caring for the people.

"He (Zhu Gaochi) prioritized providing his eldest son (Zhu Zhanji) with a comprehensive education based on Confucian principles." - wikipedia

This drama really follows history quite closely esp. the characters traits and personality and their interests and hobbies.

Two of the Ming dynasty emperors in Royal Feast were shown to be compassionate and caring for the people

No one morns the death of Prince of Heng, he is a prince after all.

I think this is insightful, "Li Peiyi just wants to get close to the male protagonist's family and want to see if there are any clues." However, my observation is that the ML has fallen for the FL early on. He is even protective of her toward his father. It's too obvious to me he likes her very much. He even got drunk with her, probably out of guilt too. But FL is only focused on finding truth for now.

The FL takes big risks. She's even willing to poison herself.

imo, there is more than a dash of romance, from the beginning, there were clues I picked up he likes her, with each episode, they seem to get closer, like how he ends up sleeping on her bed drunk, and she looks lovingly at him; he brings her pink cakes, he drew on her hands, he looks at her with loving eyes; and they start to banter with each other, and he brought her medicine, he cares deeply about her, seems to protect her; but the cases are always the major attraction, not romance.