i dont think ive seen any official figurines for this show however people tend to make them and sell them online…
I added some things, so you should read the update.
I have already complained to iQiyi and they have replied with so-called standard texts. Since then I know it's not that easy ;-)
Also, many people have already started making jewellery - it's not real, but it still looks very nice because the people who do it appreciate the drama.
i dont think ive seen any official figurines for this show however people tend to make them and sell them online…
You should have used the Chinese name of the drama. Then they might have known which drama you meant.
It is indeed the case that the production companies have merch produced in their name, i.e. they sell licences to certain companies - as in the example in the article. They don't sell it themselves, but the company that produced the merch sells it on behalf of the production company. Depending on the merch, it is also limited in number because only a certain number is produced.
In mainland China, there is of course a much larger selection, but not everyone can buy directly on Taobao as not all countries are shipped to.
I use a shopping agent. It's more expensive because the shipping costs are quite high, but it gives you access to the entire range. I've bought tonnes of merch from "Mysterious Lotus Casebook" on Taobao. However, the website is in Chinese and you have to be careful when choosing shops and links for the shopping agent as there are also fakes. It is therefore important to always go through the sites you are familiar with. You then give the link (to the goods you want to buy) to the shopping agent's website and they will take care of buying the goods during opening hours - Chinese time. The advantage of such shopping agents is that you can top up your credit via PayPal, for example, or pay by credit card.
The goods can be stored there free of charge for up to 6 months in Hangzhou (most of them have their warehouse there).
Once I was even lucky enough to order the goods in time before the livestream because they were sold out within minutes. As a result, I got something limited.
However, as I said, it is more expensive due to customs and VAT (if it goes through customs) compared to the Chinese price.
They are making the official merch and it is still in progress and there will also be a draw to win one of the stuffed figureines. So you pay for the draw and might get something out of it.
更新至34/40集，会员周二、四18:00更新2集，周一、三、五、六18:00更新1集 Updated to 34/40 episodes, members update 2 episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 18:00, 1 episode on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 18:00
maybe it's bcs netizens complain about age gap btw main leads ?
Aren't we already used to them behaving like a child who doesn't get their ice cream? And the age gap isn't that big of an issue now. It was mainly before the drama aired and during the first episodes until it was on fire.
can someone explain to me the relationship between Consort Li and the Emperor? isn't CL is last emperor concubine?
Yes, but it was very common back then to marry someone in order to earn supporters. So he wasn't the first. If I remember right, she is actually Gui Fei (Noble Consort) the second in line after the empress.
But like, can you blame him - he didnt want her, she offered herself to him. Also, she was the one that fell in…
I think he learnt at some point at court that you can't get anywhere by being honest like his father, so he took the easy way out with Wan Ning.
In today's episode, he gave Wan Ning the hair ornament and put it in her hair, which only her parents or husband are allowed to do at that time. So now we know how he sees her. Furthermore, the flower itself has a very interesting meaning. Chrysanthemums generally symbolise longevity, fidelity, joy and optimism. White chrysanthemums symbolise loyalty and honesty.
This is an absolute no-brainer, because it means that he wants to remain loyal and honest to her.
But like, can you blame him - he didnt want her, she offered herself to him. Also, she was the one that fell in…
Okay, let's shed some light on everything we already know about both characters: Wan Ning came to the court from Dai Guo as a pawn, as security that her brother King Cheng wouldn't dare to rebel. In episode 32, she herself said that she longed for a love like XFF and SYR had and wondered if she would have ever found such a love if she had stayed in Dai Guo. Therefore, she was even more curious about what kind of woman SYR had by his side, as this woman had to be at least as pure as he was.
After seeing him for the first time, she was so smitten with him that she even skilfully placed a handkerchief for him to bring back to her. In reality, all we know is that he returned the handkerchief to the princess. That she was surprised that a scholar of integrity like him would dare to exchange a word with her when no one else would. "Everyone avoided me or despised me in secret but he treated me politely."
In episode 12, a flashback was shown during the banquet as he leaves the main hall and is on his way to the carriage where his wife is standing. However, when he sees the princess's palanquin coming, he deliberately stops and immediately turns to her. This already shows an intention that she is important to him in some way, or at least close to him. After all, he could have ignored her - but he doesn't. He waits patiently until the bearers set down the palanquin, then bows. She gets out of the palanquin and asks him if he has been waiting for her. The intention is that they know each other better than they did at the time of the - let's call it - handkerchief incident. So who knows what was going on between the two of them at the time. In the flashback, she even has the opportunity to place her hand on his until he reacts at all. He then turns round to his wife without a word, as if to say, not here.
Afterwards, all we know is that he kills his wife and portrays it as being the princess's idea. However, we don't know what really happened in between, what their relationship looked like, whether they loved each other or whether it had been so toxic from the beginning and how the situation ultimately escalated. The director and the screenwriters therefore give us a lot of room for imagination here.
In fact, he allowed everything that happened to happen because he himself was greedy for more money and power - he even broke his promise to his father.
We also don't know whether the princess threw herself at him, and even if she had, he would have had a choice here too - greed makes everything a rather different.
SYR is a character who pities himself even though he has absolutely nothing to be pitied for - he has no backbone. At the time, he had it in his own hands to decide what was right or wrong and took the immoral path. He killed his wife in cold blood and absolved himself of blame because he was apparently forced to do so. Was he actually forced? We can't say for sure. What we do know is that the princess clearly stated that she didn't want him to kill XFF - again, room for interpretation. She just wanted to ruin XFF's reputation so that no one could object to him demoting XFF and marrying someone else. So killing her was probably more his own decision, even if he was indirectly coerced into it - which doesn't make it any better.
He decided to go down this rabbit hole because he was subconsciously greedy and ambitious - that can also make you blind. In Chinese, you could say that he has become the princess's dog. "他是一只狗。" He even admitted that he got greedy and wanted more.
To sum it all up:: The princess took advantage of him and he did what she indirectly wanted but didn't necessarily say. So in their minds, they are both equally cruel and evil. Both are therefore equally to blame.
No, it is not. Since you are using the word vindication sounds like i'm defending the drama, even though I am just stating facts., since I am posting the BTS. If you would have read thorugh the comments, you would have known, that the ppl were thinking that this scene was cutted, even though it wasn't ;-).
I have already complained to iQiyi and they have replied with so-called standard texts. Since then I know it's not that easy ;-)
Also, many people have already started making jewellery - it's not real, but it still looks very nice because the people who do it appreciate the drama.
It is indeed the case that the production companies have merch produced in their name, i.e. they sell licences to certain companies - as in the example in the article. They don't sell it themselves, but the company that produced the merch sells it on behalf of the production company. Depending on the merch, it is also limited in number because only a certain number is produced.
In mainland China, there is of course a much larger selection, but not everyone can buy directly on Taobao as not all countries are shipped to.
I use a shopping agent. It's more expensive because the shipping costs are quite high, but it gives you access to the entire range. I've bought tonnes of merch from "Mysterious Lotus Casebook" on Taobao. However, the website is in Chinese and you have to be careful when choosing shops and links for the shopping agent as there are also fakes. It is therefore important to always go through the sites you are familiar with.
You then give the link (to the goods you want to buy) to the shopping agent's website and they will take care of buying the goods during opening hours - Chinese time. The advantage of such shopping agents is that you can top up your credit via PayPal, for example, or pay by credit card.
The goods can be stored there free of charge for up to 6 months in Hangzhou (most of them have their warehouse there).
Once I was even lucky enough to order the goods in time before the livestream because they were sold out within minutes. As a result, I got something limited.
However, as I said, it is more expensive due to customs and VAT (if it goes through customs) compared to the Chinese price.
https://m.weibo.cn/u/3107663811
They are making the official merch and it is still in progress and there will also be a draw to win one of the stuffed figureines. So you pay for the draw and might get something out of it.
https://kisskh.at/photos/Bdg2EA_3
It got changed last week.
更新至34/40集，会员周二、四18:00更新2集，周一、三、五、六18:00更新1集
Updated to 34/40 episodes, members update 2 episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 18:00, 1 episode on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 18:00
And the age gap isn't that big of an issue now. It was mainly before the drama aired and during the first episodes until it was on fire.
so, they got us very bad...
But I like it that way, since it is in context of time, where such things used to be private. So they are playing with this.
In today's episode, he gave Wan Ning the hair ornament and put it in her hair, which only her parents or husband are allowed to do at that time. So now we know how he sees her. Furthermore, the flower itself has a very interesting meaning.
Chrysanthemums generally symbolise longevity, fidelity, joy and optimism. White chrysanthemums symbolise loyalty and honesty.
This is an absolute no-brainer, because it means that he wants to remain loyal and honest to her.
Wan Ning came to the court from Dai Guo as a pawn, as security that her brother King Cheng wouldn't dare to rebel.
In episode 32, she herself said that she longed for a love like XFF and SYR had and wondered if she would have ever found such a love if she had stayed in Dai Guo. Therefore, she was even more curious about what kind of woman SYR had by his side, as this woman had to be at least as pure as he was.
After seeing him for the first time, she was so smitten with him that she even skilfully placed a handkerchief for him to bring back to her.
In reality, all we know is that he returned the handkerchief to the princess. That she was surprised that a scholar of integrity like him would dare to exchange a word with her when no one else would. "Everyone avoided me or despised me in secret but he treated me politely."
In episode 12, a flashback was shown during the banquet as he leaves the main hall and is on his way to the carriage where his wife is standing. However, when he sees the princess's palanquin coming, he deliberately stops and immediately turns to her. This already shows an intention that she is important to him in some way, or at least close to him. After all, he could have ignored her - but he doesn't. He waits patiently until the bearers set down the palanquin, then bows. She gets out of the palanquin and asks him if he has been waiting for her. The intention is that they know each other better than they did at the time of the - let's call it - handkerchief incident. So who knows what was going on between the two of them at the time.
In the flashback, she even has the opportunity to place her hand on his until he reacts at all. He then turns round to his wife without a word, as if to say, not here.
Afterwards, all we know is that he kills his wife and portrays it as being the princess's idea. However, we don't know what really happened in between, what their relationship looked like, whether they loved each other or whether it had been so toxic from the beginning and how the situation ultimately escalated. The director and the screenwriters therefore give us a lot of room for imagination here.
In fact, he allowed everything that happened to happen because he himself was greedy for more money and power - he even broke his promise to his father.
We also don't know whether the princess threw herself at him, and even if she had, he would have had a choice here too - greed makes everything a rather different.
SYR is a character who pities himself even though he has absolutely nothing to be pitied for - he has no backbone. At the time, he had it in his own hands to decide what was right or wrong and took the immoral path. He killed his wife in cold blood and absolved himself of blame because he was apparently forced to do so. Was he actually forced? We can't say for sure. What we do know is that the princess clearly stated that she didn't want him to kill XFF - again, room for interpretation. She just wanted to ruin XFF's reputation so that no one could object to him demoting XFF and marrying someone else. So killing her was probably more his own decision, even if he was indirectly coerced into it - which doesn't make it any better.
He decided to go down this rabbit hole because he was subconsciously greedy and ambitious - that can also make you blind. In Chinese, you could say that he has become the princess's dog. "他是一只狗。"
He even admitted that he got greedy and wanted more.
To sum it all up::
The princess took advantage of him and he did what she indirectly wanted but didn't necessarily say. So in their minds, they are both equally cruel and evil. Both are therefore equally to blame.