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Sheriziya
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Okay, I've finished everything but the epilogues.....So LC just gets away with everything? With dirt on the Jiang family? and nothing comes of it? And what rebellion? All I saw was 3 sons fighting for daddy's attention, and one throwing a tantrum that lasted only a paragraph. 

Yep.... So the lesson is????? I haven't got a clue as to why the author did that?

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BernadetteOcampoPalmer

Oww 👌🏽👍I’m glad you finished it 😊

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Nope
 Sheriziya:

Yep.... So the lesson is????? I haven't got a clue as to why the author did that?

I guess you could argue that the overall theme is  'sins of the father' ?

I mean the previous Emperor didn't initially pick a Crown prince which led to factions in the government, and ultimately led to the death of the woman the new Emperor loved. Then now he was Emperor, the Emperor didn't choose an heir which led to factions and a rebellion.  After what the princess did, people were refusing to marry into the royal family because they believed they were all crazy, when really it was just crappy parenting, plus LC?

 Not to mention in the Jiang family,  Duke Zhu didn't officially pick an heir which led to infighting, the two younger brothers being instigated against JCY and each other, ultimately led to the downfall of the family and the death of many servants....

LC grew up to be worse than his father?

Idk...?

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FSpirit

What do you think about Mudan's personality in the novel? I'm on chapter 175

For me it's like a magnet for problems... I'll give it a chance for a few more chapters but I like more the independent and determined personality of the Mudan series .

The Mudan in the series also knows how to say no in a more direct way, while the Mudan in the novel can´t pretend with embellished words people can interpret her true intentions, with certain people this way of expressing  turns against her, something like throwing gasoline on a fire. . 

May be the fact that the Mudan in the series born, lived and suffered those 3 years of contempt in the same context and the one in the novel after the transmigration only experiences the context for 6 months. There is also the difference why one pretends to be dead for her father's preconceptions of marriage while the other come back to her family... 

In this respect, I find the Mudan in the series less stressful than the one in the novel...

In the series, I feel that Mudan grows peonies more as a necessity and a way to survive, while in the novel, with so many problems surrounding her, it feels more like a whim or a matter of pride. She could have grown her peonies far away from all chaos of the capital  lol  

Also sometimes I feel like there's a constant use of coincidence for a consequence as a narrative resource, which makes something feel predetermined and not as if it flowed genuinely.

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I think, overall, the book is more realistic. Given the time and place the events takes place, it makes more sense for the Mudan to realize that she (especially as a woman) would need to rely heavily on connections and money to gain enough footing to achieve independence.  I don't think this makes her less determined, just more believable. The Drama, while its great that she is extremely independent, the thing is its completely unrealistic for her to achieve all those things...in 3 months. I think that book Mudan understands that the best way to do things is the way that does the least amount of damage while also being the most effective; and if that means relying on someone else's reputation or connections, she'll do it. VS drama Mudan is very: I'm doing this my way and relying on reputations and connections is cheating. 

Neither is necessarily wrong, both book and drama have their merits.

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FSpirit
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Neither is necessarily wrong, both book and drama have their merits.

I not necessarily see any of them wrong. I just see them as completely different. It's just that I was take by surprise for how different they are and with the ambiguity that the word adaptation was used in this drama, but both are good in their own way. You are right when you say that "the book is more realistic. Given the time and place the events take place". A few chapters later I found why the Mudan in the novel seemed so ambitious in many aspects, it was because she had many regrets or unfulfilled desires from her past life. Her father and mother had died from an early age, She also died alone an early age with only a peony business.  And in this life she wanted to live all the things that hadn't have the opportunity to experience in her past life, finding a balance between her passion for the peony business and her desires. And this can be clearly seen when she persistently insists on delaying the wedding because she wanted her father to be present in this life for that moment without taking in consideration what JCY thought, felt or said. To be honest I felt a little bad for JCY at that moment of the discussion. 

The Mudan from drama, if even taking place in the Tang dynasty, feels more in some ways like a woman of our time or perhaps it´s created in the script in a lighter way for the contemporary audience.

I finished reading the whole novel.

I was surprised that LC had a pretty decent ending. I mean is, I thought it could end worse. 

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