Chen Lu

I am confused, I though Yu Zheng is the producer from "Perfect Match".

It is in the BTS part, but you have to pay for it ;-)

Spoiler ;-)

Yes

Happy Birthday! Enjoy binge watching the drama :-)

Thx, I was very very confused and was like - wtf, why don't I see it. Thx

Really?
Then you have absolutely not understood the emperor's intentions. The fact is that he is looking for evidence of Lord Cheng and Wanning's rebellion. That means if Shen Yu Rong had offered himself as a pawn, he would have looked past it.

If the other officials would have submitted complaints against the Jiang family, the emperor would certainly have done something about it. However, you must not forget one important point, and that is that the family was also held in high esteem at the time, since he had Noble Consort Li sitting next to him, he would not have actively intervened. He also realised that the Jiang family would take action against someone like her, because based on the evidence, they would certainly have handled it so as not to lose face. In the book, it even goes so far that Jiang Shu Ran is forced by family members to take poison and dies as a result. This is where the drama deviates from the original book - the original book is much more consistent.
The drama is sympathetic towards her character.

My impression is that you are trying with all your might to belittle the emperor so that you can build your argument.

Hence my question here:
Was XFF really punished?
No, she was not. On the contrary, she had the opportunity to speak before the emperor and expose the crimes that were committed.
Even in this day and age, if you help someone to escape, they are punished, even if the convicted person is possibly innocent. So it makes no difference to me, as it is still a criminal offence until proven innocent.
Xue Huai Yuan's innocence was proven and everyone was allowed to go. Therefore, your statement is not consistent enough in that regard as the emperor allowed new evidence and even wanted a minor magistrate's case to be heard before him. He knew it was about corruption, so he had a vested interest in punishing the people who committed the real injustice, even if the Dàlǐ Sì had been in charge of it and not him.

The princess has privileges, but only as long as she does not oppose the emperor, and the emperor already knew at the time that she was actively collaborating with her brother.
Furthermore, Wanning was so smitten with Shen Yu Rong that she would have done anything for him. She saved him so often that she would probably have overlooked this faux pas. Because she wanted him, come what may!
It would also have given her an opening to meet Xue Fangfei and get to know her rival. It would have been even easier for her to get close to her. She would have had a reason to summon Xue Fangfei to the palace and do whatever she wanted to do with her.
We should also take a look at the role of women in ancient China so that it becomes clearer why the story is very fictionalised. Xue Fangfei was married to an official and there were clear rules for women in ancient and imperial China. They were excluded from participating in various areas of social life, as it was stipulated that they should primarily stay at home. The woman was responsible for the household and the man for everything outside the home - at that time, the rule was 男耕女織 (Nán gēng nǚ zhī), which meant that men were responsible for hard labour (in this context, farming is mentioned) and women for domestic arts (in this case, weaving, embroidery).

So back to Xue Fangfei, she is not one of the women mentioned, but a strong woman who knew what she wanted and went completely against the nature of the conventions of the time. Which means that the drama is fictional and therefore Shen Yu Rong would have had the opportunity to act differently.
Shen Yu Rong had so many opportunities to make up for his mistakes, but he had absolutely no interest in doing so. Otherwise, he would have actively gone to the emperor and presented the evidence of Lord Cheng and Wanning's treason. But he didn't. Therefore, the character is definitely not just the victim. He clearly weighed every situation, how he acts and what he does and never realised his mistakes. Shen Yu Rong is not just black and white, but much more grey than you would like to see.

There is a special episode. But I can't see in on Youku, what is very strange. I only see the episodes until episode 40.

She did indiretcly when they were in the gold mines, since she was called XFF. He heard it and positioned himself as if he didn't hear it. Ofc XFF knew, he heard it. So let's say, she never needed to tell him. And in addition to that she called her brother Didi in episode 33 so yes, he knows, since he aks "Xue Zhao is still alive?" He definitely knows ;-)

And no, so far she never said, that she was burried alive, but I am sure, he assumes that something very bad must have happened to her, in order to finish in Zhennv House for women.

I am sure, there are many on Weibo scolding him. Since that usually happens, when someone plays the character this good.

And yes ofc, Kudos to the actor!

Her abusing SYR is the same in the book, and there they are beheaded because of what they both did. That would make more sense. Because SYR denies everything and doesn't want to admit what he's done. So an ending like that wouldn't make sense to me.

The romance between XH and JL is slow burn.

Both was common practice also he really dots on her, so I guess, it wasn't only for the support, but also because he might have been in love.

You should search for peacekeeping marriage, because she was basically one of them.

In order to fully understand the plot, you might need to watch it all. And it is a good watch. indeed ;-)

Weibo is the official source. And Youku has only dropped the airing schedule until tomorrow. Therefore MDL can be wrong.

We can not be sure about that, since we don't know, when they will drop the other episodes.

Yep!

Try on Baidu. We only need to find out the Chinese name of it.

But compared to other dramas, this is the best you can see out there. It usually looks so bad in C dramas when they play any kind of instrument - even in modern dramas. It gives me the creeps 😂.

The only drama I've seen so far that was very good was "Symphony's Romance" because Zhang Xincheng actually plays the piano very well and never misses a situation to play it when there's a piano around - you can find quite a lot of BTS on different dramas for that.
But generally in C dramas, it's like going through hell! I often get the impression that they don't even dare to touch the strings, and how are you supposed to play an instrument if you don't?
That's why I can overlook the synchronisation part - they're not musicians but actors.
Even if I sometimes wish that actors would at least try to learn the instrument they are going to play in the drama, because that's not just a way of paying respect to the maker of the instrument, but also to the instrument itself and of course to the song that will be performed.
Ofc music has its rite.

And ofc if Zhao Lusi would have played it, it would have been on a totally different level...