WZ: "I almost thought I was going to die... under the peonies."
Lol! For those who don't understand the expression (I've come across it when reading Chinese novels, so I was able to pick up on it), here's an explanation (with the help of ChatGPT, of course):
The phrase “死在牡丹花下，做鬼也风流” (sǐ zài mǔdān huā xià, zuò guǐ yě fēngliú) literally means: “To die under the peony flower—one would still be a romantic ghost.”
👉 Meaning: It’s a figurative way of saying that if one were to die for the sake of beauty, pleasure, or sensual enjoyment, it would be worth it. It often carries a playful or hedonistic undertone, suggesting that pursuing love, sex, or beauty—even to the point of ruin—is not regrettable.
⚖️ Connotation:
>Romantic, flirtatious, indulgent.
>Sometimes used humorously or ironically about men who willingly fall for beautiful women, even if it brings trouble.
>Comparable to the English idea of “a sweet death” or “better to die for love/pleasure than to live without it.”
Can I say that I find TXW's small dimples at the corner of her mouth (when smiling) to be very appealing? I first noticed that in Lovely Us (one of my favorite c-dramas ever), and here it's even more prominent.
I'm beginning to have mixed feelings about Linmon.On one hand, they produce quality dramas every year, and I wish…
Someone try telling them that they might be losing potential subscribers to catching this drama on other websites. One thing these platforms fear is losing potential subscribers.
US watchers - I also contacted Disney+ Help Services just now and got a useless "I'm unable to tell you exactly…
I'm beginning to have mixed feelings about Linmon.
On one hand, they produce quality dramas every year, and I wish Xu Kai to do more dramas with them.
On the other hand, they are pretty crap with their international distribution. No matter the quality of the drama, without decent distribution, how are people going to watch it when the excitement is at its peak, and they got nothing to show for?
A BIG FCK YOU TO TENCENT BTW THE HEAT INDEX IS MOVING SLOWLY HELLO THIS IS LITERALLY SABOTAGE!
Tencent needs a big hit drama desperately at this time, and they still supress the heat index for this drama. I am seeing very good reports on other charts for this drama, and it's really criminal for Tencent to do this despite all that.
I replied to someone else's post on this point. I will paste the reply below, but before that, I would like to…
Posted about this in reply to another poster:
That brother of hers is a vile creature, no doubt about. We know it, ML knows it. However the person involved does not see it, and it happens. We often sugarcoat questionable actions of our loved ones. And especially in FL's case, where this brother often put his life on line to save hers, and even taking up her identity to help her family, I think she would need more than "he betrayed my beloved, whom I met literally last week, and his army during this war time to help our own army's chances.. oh it's despecible"
It is despecible, but her brother's argument (he says he is doing it for their own army's good, and she is making it difficult by getting her feelings for ML involved), although she feels it's not right, she would have to agree he helped her army and cannot in her good conscience break ties with him for it.
This drama is falling off a cliff after the first 10 episodes. I’m on episode 20 right now and Im wondering…
I replied to someone else's post on this point. I will paste the reply below, but before that, I would like to say, I feel like you are only thinking in ML's pov. My reply (you can also find this reply by scrolling down a bit) is from FL's pov.
Well, A Ying saw Young Master Cui as her brother at that point. So yeah, she would be sad he died, let's establish this point first. Second point, A Ying and Shiqi are very much into each other. Even though they haven't been vocal about it, it is kind of an established fact. Imagine liking someone romantically, the other person also likes you and you know it, then that person just watched as your brother fall into a possible death and did nothing to help. Would you not be angry at them? If that person is nothing to you, maybe you would not be angry. But it's because Shiqi means something to her, that's why she is angry and disappointed. Same goes to her being angry at Shiqi for thinking so low of her to assume she played a part in setting up Shiqi's army to die at enemy's hand. She would not have been angry if she did not like him. She was angry and disappointed because the person she liked would think of her like that.
My reply to the post ends there.
I also want to add that the ML even confined her after all this. So, I think the FL has enough reasons to stay mad at the ML.
As for being sneaky and deceiving, remember, they are not on the same side. Both will have to consider their respective armies before their feelings. But in all of that, ML still came out with his own benefits.
This guy saved your ass and your master. You master killed his men by backstabbing. He saves your ass again and…
I replied to someone else's post on this point. I will paste the reply below, but before that, I would like to say, I feel like you are only thinking in ML's pov. My reply (you can also find this reply by scrolling down a bit) is from FL's pov.
Well, A Ying saw Young Master Cui as her brother at that point. So yeah, she would be sad he died, let's establish this point first. Second point, A Ying and Shiqi are very much into each other. Even though they haven't been vocal about it, it is kind of an established fact. Imagine liking someone romantically, the other person also likes you and you know it, then that person just watched as your brother fall into a possible death and did nothing to help. Would you not be angry at them? If that person is nothing to you, maybe you would not be angry. But it's because Shiqi means something to her, that's why she is angry and disappointed. Same goes to her being angry at Shiqi for thinking so low of her to assume she played a part in setting up Shiqi's army to die at enemy's hand. She would not have been angry if she did not like him. She was angry and disappointed because the person she liked would think of her like that.
My reply to the post ends there.
I also want to add that the ML even confined her after all this. So, I think the FL has enough reasons to stay mad at the ML.
As for being sneaky and deceiving, remember, they are not on the same side. Both will have to consider their respective armies before their feelings. But in all of that, ML still came out with his own benefits.
WZ: "I almost thought I was going to die... under the peonies."
Lol!
For those who don't understand the expression (I've come across it when reading Chinese novels, so I was able to pick up on it), here's an explanation (with the help of ChatGPT, of course):
The phrase “死在牡丹花下，做鬼也风流” (sǐ zài mǔdān huā xià, zuò guǐ yě fēngliú) literally means:
“To die under the peony flower—one would still be a romantic ghost.”
👉 Meaning:
It’s a figurative way of saying that if one were to die for the sake of beauty, pleasure, or sensual enjoyment, it would be worth it. It often carries a playful or hedonistic undertone, suggesting that pursuing love, sex, or beauty—even to the point of ruin—is not regrettable.
⚖️ Connotation:
>Romantic, flirtatious, indulgent.
>Sometimes used humorously or ironically about men who willingly fall for beautiful women, even if it brings trouble.
>Comparable to the English idea of “a sweet death” or “better to die for love/pleasure than to live without it.”
I first noticed that in Lovely Us (one of my favorite c-dramas ever), and here it's even more prominent.
One thing these platforms fear is losing potential subscribers.
On one hand, they produce quality dramas every year, and I wish Xu Kai to do more dramas with them.
On the other hand, they are pretty crap with their international distribution.
No matter the quality of the drama, without decent distribution, how are people going to watch it when the excitement is at its peak, and they got nothing to show for?
https://kisskh.at/list/1GNdz5Z4
Looking at it, they weren't kidding when they claimed Moonlit Reunion was the fastest to reach 24,000 this year.
Different dramas/novels have different iterations though.
Only the ones that kill people are innocent, be it demon, spirit, or even human.
I'll be on moon(lit) if it manages to cross 30k.
We know the platforms can manipulate the heat indexes as they want, hence my speculation.
I am seeing very good reports on other charts for this drama, and it's really criminal for Tencent to do this despite all that.
That brother of hers is a vile creature, no doubt about. We know it, ML knows it.
However the person involved does not see it, and it happens. We often sugarcoat questionable actions of our loved ones. And especially in FL's case, where this brother often put his life on line to save hers, and even taking up her identity to help her family, I think she would need more than "he betrayed my beloved, whom I met literally last week, and his army during this war time to help our own army's chances.. oh it's despecible"
It is despecible, but her brother's argument (he says he is doing it for their own army's good, and she is making it difficult by getting her feelings for ML involved), although she feels it's not right, she would have to agree he helped her army and cannot in her good conscience break ties with him for it.
Well, A Ying saw Young Master Cui as her brother at that point. So yeah, she would be sad he died, let's establish this point first.
Second point, A Ying and Shiqi are very much into each other. Even though they haven't been vocal about it, it is kind of an established fact. Imagine liking someone romantically, the other person also likes you and you know it, then that person just watched as your brother fall into a possible death and did nothing to help. Would you not be angry at them?
If that person is nothing to you, maybe you would not be angry. But it's because Shiqi means something to her, that's why she is angry and disappointed. Same goes to her being angry at Shiqi for thinking so low of her to assume she played a part in setting up Shiqi's army to die at enemy's hand. She would not have been angry if she did not like him. She was angry and disappointed because the person she liked would think of her like that.
My reply to the post ends there.
I also want to add that the ML even confined her after all this. So, I think the FL has enough reasons to stay mad at the ML.
As for being sneaky and deceiving, remember, they are not on the same side. Both will have to consider their respective armies before their feelings. But in all of that, ML still came out with his own benefits.
Well, A Ying saw Young Master Cui as her brother at that point. So yeah, she would be sad he died, let's establish this point first.
Second point, A Ying and Shiqi are very much into each other. Even though they haven't been vocal about it, it is kind of an established fact. Imagine liking someone romantically, the other person also likes you and you know it, then that person just watched as your brother fall into a possible death and did nothing to help. Would you not be angry at them?
If that person is nothing to you, maybe you would not be angry. But it's because Shiqi means something to her, that's why she is angry and disappointed. Same goes to her being angry at Shiqi for thinking so low of her to assume she played a part in setting up Shiqi's army to die at enemy's hand. She would not have been angry if she did not like him. She was angry and disappointed because the person she liked would think of her like that.
My reply to the post ends there.
I also want to add that the ML even confined her after all this. So, I think the FL has enough reasons to stay mad at the ML.
As for being sneaky and deceiving, remember, they are not on the same side. Both will have to consider their respective armies before their feelings. But in all of that, ML still came out with his own benefits.