After watching TBOY and SSOFV, I guess I was looking for more martial arts but so far I’m finding the storyline to be a bit messy as well as the music being a bit loud which drowns out the actors. I find the FL voice to be annoying like she has a mouth full of marbles. I’m really watching this because of LHY. But only on episode 10 so let see how it goes.
We have now reached the finale. Are you ready to see how this all ends. Well, here we go.
Shen Miao tells Pei that she wants to go to the temple at Noon tomorrow so they can receive a blessing to start over again as a couple.
As they were sleeping Pei has a nightmare and Shen Mial soothes him back to sleep (which remember when he was blind, he said he had good hearing, well that goes in to affect now) only for her to leave the bed and meet Song outside after throwing a pebble at the window.
They devise the plan for meeting again at Noon. Shen Miao is starting to have doubts and Song again starts telling her does she want to see her family annihilated. So, she agrees to it.
Before they leave Pei tells her he knows they still have a lot of things left unsaid, but he hopes now they can have a new beginning. He is willing to give her the country as her dowry if that would make her happy just so long as they are together.
Going to the temple Pei keeps telling her she seems distracted. They reach the temple, and Shen Miao starts to confess that it is a trap. But Pei opens the doors to see Song standing there. He told him he knew he was there. Shen Miao tells him if he knew it was a trap why did he agree to go. To which he said if I didn't come would you ever believe me?
Song attacks but of course Pei has his "bendable sword" and no backup because he didn't take his guard with him due to Shen Miao's request. Song's assassins bring out the chains and take his arms and his legs and slam him to the ground back and front. Until Shen Miao cannot stand it anymore because Song is ready to kill him and threatens to end her life. Song agrees to let Pei go and takes Shen Miao away.
Shen Miao is at Song's residence, and she ask him if Pei is alright. He says his guard has him and he is fine. She asks where her brother is, and he says after you eat, he will be here. Enter her brother. She tells Song that as she told him before they are nothing, but friends and it will remain that way.
Fast forward A YEAR!!!!!
Pei has now left the court. He is no longer regent but a lord at the city Shen Miao and him lived when they were married. Shen Miao is with her family and son. She isn't happy because she hears the news that Pei has been given an edict that he will marry and have 2 concubines. She spills her drink and goes to her room and her maid ask her if she ok. Of course, she says she is. She tells her she is going to see her brother.
And guess what is there, you got it the freakin' BIRD!!! Her brother is playing with the bird and asking why it isn't speaking then it says, "Might be annihilated. Might be annihilated. Might be annihilated. Once it's done, we might lose control. The Song family might be annihilated." Shen Miao is stunned and ask the bird what he said, "Pei you will obtain neither the country nor Shen Maio. Official Pei what will we do with the Shen family when the Qin family falls? The Shen family might be annihilated." Shen Miao FINALLY realizes what Pei was talking about when he said "annihilated."
Pieces start falling into place and she ask her brother who kidnapped him, and he ask her what she is talking about. He said Song came and got him and said they would be away for a few days and then he would meet up with his dad and mom. She berates her brother for not telling her sooner and he said he thought Song had told her.
Shen Miao then starts thinking about all the things Song said: He told her that he probably wanted her to stay at his residence so that he could get rid of the Shen family, the temple meeting and killing him because she wanted her brother back, when he told her, her brother would be back after she finished eating, and finally she realized the only person who was close enough to get the necklace and make a duplicate that Xiao wore was...you guess it...Song!
Song did all this because THE BIRD had flown back and repeated the meeting that Pei and his guard had. Pei realized that they could lose control and the Song family would be annihilated. He did all of this agree to be his ally because of how he threaten the Song family. So, he started training the bird to change what he said about the Song family to the Shen family. Then started making Pei the bad guy.
At last Shen Miao and Song have it out. She told him that he was careful in his scheme always making Pei look like the bad guy and she fell for it every time. She asks Song if she ever knew him all these years. Song says that if Pei would not have been so cruel, he would have remained a businessman and not fought and schemed to be the Prime Minister. He still kept telling her did she really feel safe with Pei. He told her since she left the Song family and wrote the divorce letter he was working with Pei. He was his subordinate helping him to get the throne. Until he heard the conversation that Pei and his bodyguard had that is when he realized that Pei and the Empress would not allow the Song family to grow. He goes on to say more disparaging comments about Pei but he did say that he would not allow anyone to touch the Shen family. Only the Song family would be sacrificed, and he was not going to allow that. He was backed into a corner and planned everything.
Shen Miao understands all the discord and misunderstanding between them was sown by Song. She said she thought everything was done by Pei. But she never expected everything to be done by Song.
The one smart thing Shen Miao said: "she said I'm not smart at all. If I'm not stupid I wouldn't have been fooled by a bird until I'm confused by the truth." (Ya think!)
But Song did have a good comeback for her: "You are wrong. My schemes are not flawless. If you see clearly, you will notice the flaws. Whether it's' me or Pei, you never really trusted either one of us. When something goes wrong, you will side with the other person and doubt one of us. The selfish person is actually you." Are we not clapping for Song right now? Justified smackdown on her!
After that she thinks about Pei, and just cries because she realizes everything through the years that she did to him. At the temple, he didn't say anything because he knew the truth and it was a trap. He was willing to give up country, position of the court just for love.
Shen Miao tells her family everything about what Song has done. They are devastated and upset that they did not trust him.
Pei comes back to town because he is getting his new concubines. Song now has the position that he wanted which was Prime Minister. The Majesty ask him if he now happy to have this position while giving up the woman he like. He said as long as she is happy, he has no regrets.
Finally, after all of the "fake" trying to find a concubine, Shen Miao burst into the room only to find Pei alone. He said she is finally there. The next day they have their wedding. The Ninth Princess gives up her title and is set to marry Pei's bodyguard. The maid has decided that she wants both men because she can't choose.
So, that is it for this lame drama. The BIRD is the one that ran this drama by what it said. So sad. Again, my hopes for this drama were high seeing who the MLs were and the FL. But I think just take it with a grain of salt and watch it when you really have nothing else to do. To invest in 30 episodes is way too long.
Oh my goodness not the bird again!Shen Miao has got to be one of the most stupid FLs I have come across in c-drama…
When I saw him ask for that stupid bird. I literally threw my hands in the air and said WTF! Are you kidding me? Now he going to give the bird back to her, so it says that. And she isn't smart enough to realize it is coming from SONG!!!! Hello...what an idiot. I can't stand her. I wish they both would just leave her, and she just lives alone. Pei gets the son. What a waste.
And here we are at episode 27 and 28...two more to go. I'm so done you don't even know! But at this point...hey, I have to finish.
So, we left off that everyone was headed in their own carriages to the capital. Pei now can see and so his two bodyguards know and devise a plan to get Pei into the carriage with Shen Miao. What might that be? Why of course to lose the horse. Pei, Shen Miao and Song all are in the carriage to which Song is not liking. But Pei then has his men tell them the wrong way and go into a small town where the Ninth Princess is.
The Ninth Princess sees Shen Miao and says, "You are alive. It's been two years." Shen Miao and the Ninth Princess catch up with her telling Shen that she is to go to a border town to marry the prince for peace. Shen Miao ask doesn't she love Pei's closest bodyguard. Which she says she does but she doesn't know how to get him to admit he loves her. But the Ninth Princess has a plan to perform a play which ONLY Shen Miao can do because no other actors have the caliber to do the play.
Now, Shen Miao still believes that Pei is blind but (and we knew this had to happen) during the play she keeps staring at Pei until she trips and Pei "flies" across the room and catches her on the stage. She glares at him and ask how long he could see. A fight ensues on the stage and the Ninth Princess says take it backstage. Pei asks Shen Miao if he hadn't been with her first would she be with Song. She said yes. He asks her did she ever at any time love him. She said at one time but not now do to all of his lying and scheming. Pei was done and walked out.
They are now headed again to the capital because they got thrown out of the place they were staying because the two guards were fighting over the maid.
Pei calls Shen Miao out of her carriage and says he knows he lied about his eyesight recovering but that doesn't change the fact that she was missing for TWO YEARS with Song. He told her he is not holding her accountable, but he will not be separated from his son, and he no longer wants him calling him "grand uncle" when he is father. The agree to three months at his place.
They go to Pei's residence and Song is ticked. He doesn't want her to go but she tells Pei she needs a moment with Song. At this time, her father throws a stone at Shen Miao, and they go to Song's place and do a debrief. Of course, all blame is placed on Pei. Her brother has been kidnapped and they are saying Pei did it. Really? After he had men planted there to protect the family? She seriously is falling for Song's load of crap and forgetting what Pei told her. The dad and the aunt are saying Pei is the bad guy here and he isn't. She said that she gave Pei the necklace and he could have taken the money and he didn't to which they show "another" necklace the same as the one Xiao is wearing which was Pei's from Shen Miao.
As they are talking Song looks out and sees an assassin and gets in the way of her father and takes the arrow. (Roll eyes, complete set up by Song WE know). So, Shen Miao is running over trying to make sure he is alright. Her dad and aunt stay at Song's place and Pei is none the wiser. But Song's bodyguard comes back and has a token that only Pei's guards carry which was on the assassin who tried to kill her father. She now believes that Pei is out to kill her family. Her and Song are going to devise their own plan to get rid of Pei once and for all.
Shen Miao tells Song that she is going to stay at Pei's place to get answers as to where he is hiding her brother. She goes back and Xiao is sitting in the study. She pulls out the necklace that was Pei's and compares it to the one Song gave her and said it was a match except for the crack. Duh! And now she believes that Pei is trying to scheme against her family again.
The storyline in these 2 episodes revolved around Shen Miao's maid and the two guards that like her. Wasted space.
Pei and Song after two years finally went back to court and lo and behold the Majesty appeared. Did he do nothing in those two years while Pei and Song were gone? Well, Pei does make it happen that his bodyguard and the Ninth Princess will get together because he took his bodyguard before the Majesty and told him another way, they could satisfy the border town without sacrificing her. Pei's bodyguard went to see the Ninth Princess and I believe love will prevail here. But of course, Song was telling his people not to let Shen Miao know about the Ninth Princess problem because she would be upset. Now I guess he is somehow going to take the credit if he hears the two are together.
You know it is coming.... come on. You know where I'm going. You all feel it...THE BIRD!!!! Yes, that freaking bird is back. So, Song tells his bodyguard to bring the bird to him because he is bored. He told him he was injured so he should rest...please, that was set, the assassin knew where to aim so he was fine. Guess what he is telling the bird..."annihilate the Shen family." Ok, enough already! She is wholeheartedly already believed the bird the first time regarding her family and her life so we know if she hears this from the bird again...she will be a believer for sure. I just can't!
If she thinks about where she should be placing her anger and her rage, it should be towards Song, not Pei. Song is the villain here. When he is talking to the bird, he is saying I will have power. And the whole necklace, one has a crack (the original) and one doesn't. What opportunity would he have to do it? She was gone for TWO YEARS. He could have depleted all of the money they had by now. He could have killed her family by now. Honestly, she is the most frustrating woman.
Oh, and the family was finally leaving the border because they heard that Shen Miao was almost killed. Hello...she was supposed to be dead for TWO YEARS. The news your way is a little late.
I mean I love the two male leads...but the female lead is just so working my nerves until I can stand her pure stupidity. A bird...a bird...such a sad piece of writing. I can't say it enough that I had such high hopes for this drama. Down the tubes big time.
OMG!!! My head is spinning from episode 12. WTH, the husband...wow! And the aide is right behind him with the crazy. I want to know what the bestie that lives with them knows. She is selling off her restaurant and getting out of there. What is up?
Ok, here we go...episodes 25 and 26 only 4 more episodes left...thank the Lord.
We left off with Song taking Shen Miao, her son and the maid all to an "undisclosed location" but is anything really undisclosed? You guess it, it isn't. Pei is ticked off that Song took his "ex-wife" and son, so he goes to Song's restaurant and has all his military at the place saying he wants to see Song.
The new girl that Song hired is playing the zither for like the umpteenth time. Until Pei says he is waiting no longer. He tells his one guard that he knows the location (get this) based off how long it took her to play the zither and he then calculated how long it would take Song to get there. Say what? Ok Mr. Clairvoyant. How about you didn't see all the drama you would cause lying all the time. Ok, ok, I digressed.
Song is then told by the new girl that Pei waited a long time, but he is gone. Song figures out that Pei knows where Shen Miao and his son are. Meanwhile Pei and team are scouring the temple. Now, Pei remember, he is blind. How is it that he is roaming the temple looking for Shen Miao and her son with no one with him? Lo and behold Shen Miao sees him coming (cane taps helped) and she tries to leave only to fall and Xiao yell. Pei hears and tells her to stop. He says more words of "please don't go...blah, blah, blah."
Shen Miao takes her son back to her room and tells him to stay there while she goes to find the maid. She comes across Pei kneeling in front of the temple talking to the monk and saying he doesn't want anything anymore. He only wants Shen Miao to be happy because he is letting her go. Here we go again...he is letting her go? Yeah right!
One of the monks calls her name and she tells him to be quiet only to take off running with Pei in hot pursuit. Now, if she is trying to get away then why are you at the mountain? Why didn't you go and get Xiao, the maid and just take off? No, she takes the mountain trail. But Pei keeps calling her name and she tells him to just leave her alone. Then the moment...the lightning strikes the lone tree at the top of the mountain, and it comes crashing down on Pei.
Shen Miao runs over pulling the tree off of Pia. He tells her he knew she cared and passed out. She is crying profusely and who comes now...his guard. Ok, who would even think to go to the mountain and find these two? So, he hoists Pei on his back, and they go back to his room.
Now after being hit by the tree, he now is able to see images, blurry of course but he can see. Shen Miao is taking care of him. He finally after 25 episodes (2 years) he can at last tell her his side of the story. But do you think he really will...nope! He gives her the rundown on why he did things to protect her, his son and even her family only for her to come back at him and ask..."did you say you were going to annihilate my family?" Images of the bird came in my head when he said he was going to annihilate the Shen family. Oh, she is still believing that stupid bird! To which he says yes! Not letting him explain what he meant by that. Well, all the cards are off the table now. She heard that and rants at him and just keeps going on until she storms out.
Here comes Song with his antagonistic ways to get Shen Miao all riled up again about Pei's character. Pei shares with Shen Miao a picture of her family and the letters that her family sent because he had guards protecting them all this time. He tells her he will help her get them back only for her to say that her and Song have their own plan.
They all then head to the capital with Pei taking his own carriage. Song and Shen Miao together and Xiao and the maid in another. They finally make it to a place to rest with Pei really using his blindness to get Shen Miao to help him. This makes Song mad, and he is trying to find a way to bring Shen Miao closer to him.
Meanwhile the emperor is MIA. He is chilling somewhere we don't know because the Ninth princess went to see him. Only to find out that her hand has been asked in marriage by the prince where Shen Miao's family is at.
Basically, there was not much action. Shen Miao is really on my nerves because she is just so wishy washy. Her and the maid did have a discussion because she is trying to figure out which guard, she likes better because they both have certain characteristics that she likes. Which made Shen Miao ask her how Pei was the 2 years she was with him. She told her again that everything may not appears as she sees it. Pei is a good person and people during the years had tried to kill him. She asks him how he got blind, and she told him that it was during the wedding, and he didn't get treated fast enough so it is uncurable. Which makes her feel guilty and she wants the monk to heal him.
Meanwhile Pei does see the monk who knows that Pei can see. Pei is going to continue to be this way because he wants to win Shen Mial back. Sorry, but this is going to make her mad again because he is scheming which she hates.
Now we have to wrap this up in 4 episodes, so we do know that Pei has his sight, she tries to kill him again and looks for a new wife/concubine.
I cannot say again how disappointed I am in this drama that had such potential.
Next update coming tomorrow....and can only image.
Yes, looking at the preview for episode 13....I called it. I knew that the EK's ex-boyfriend was going to dish out some information to DB. I can't wait. This is going to be good..
Red balloon, red balloon...such craziness. Everyone is "dipping." Let the EK the puppet master keep pulling the strings for all because everything is going to hit the fan, sooner rather than later....
Let me be clear...Fan Zhi Xin can KISS!!!! The kisses throughout this entire drama will have every, I mean every, woman sighing. Episodes 12 and 16....whew! Especially episode 16 best interruption of an engagement ever. When Manning interrupted his engagement ceremony to tell him that he was hers and when she put the ring on him, that sealed the deal. He came after her and picked her up and kissed her and said, "How can you leave after that...I'm yours." I think I passed out. I watched that 4 times. Fan is the complete package of sinister, to protector, to lover, to child. His range of emotions, especially the episodes from 21 on really show it. You will just want to wrap your arms around him. His FL compliments him so well. They make a lovely couple.
At the beginning, he was a bully to her at first but when you see how loving he is moving forward...you forget all that.
The music at the beginning sets the tone and the action starts already in the first episode. With his Bond-like walk all that he needed to say, is "Shaken not stirred" and I would have been done. He just has the presence that captures your attention. Him and Vincenzo would make a good pair. Him with his ring and Vincenzo with his lighter. Now that would be something to behold.
The pacing, storyline and performances were on point.
I would love to see this couple together again, possibly My Lethal Man 2. Best drama by far this year.
I am now up to episode 24 and there are only 6 episodes left...thank the Lord! I mean the craziness in this drama is not stopping.
So, we left off with the bird...right? Well, they find Shen Miao and her son, and get this...she pretends to be mute! You heard me mute! She is now using Pei's hand to write messages on because she is saying she can't talk. (Roll eyes) Pei of course knows it's her. Pei and Xiao agree they will meet her the next day at his residence. Well, she finally comes and lo and behold the puppet show Xiao performs brings back...her memory!!!! She then looks at Pei and says, "Why can't you just let me go." Then she faints. Pei gets a doctor and tells him that he wants her to have something that will relieve her memories coming back because they were too painful. Well, you know Shen Miao's maid gets the medicine only for Shen Miao to wake up and throw it on the floor. She then threatens her and tells her, "I'm your master, who are you loyal too. " Of course, she says her. The two now devise a plan to get away from Pei. But not before she sends her maid to Song's place to get the letters he has been hiding about her family. She reads them and knows her family is doing well so she is going to leave with Xiao. She now feels that she cannot trust either Song or Pei. But of course, Song is now talking to assassins to get her out of the Pei residence. Shen Miao tells Xiao through a cookie (she put a note to cause a fire). Well, this fire was epic. Burn the whole place practically down.
There is one point where Shen Miao is in the courtyard and Pei comes out. And he does say that he wishes he would have never met her. It was just him regretting how things just went sideways. He is getting ready to go down the stairs and it really looks as if Shen Miao was going to push him until his guard intervene. She just smiled and walked away.
Pei is still thinking she doesn't have her memory because he asks her where she is taking Xiao. (Who by the way Xiao and the maid have gone down a rope and are waiting below for her). Here come the assassins to which Pei is fighting them off with his cane. Song comes and the assassins leap up and take Shen Miao. Then Song, Shen Miao and Xiao all leave. Pei is distraught.
Back at Songs place he tells Shen Miao to make herself presentable so she can see Xiao. Xiao now is the protector of his mother and won't let Song near her. Pei starts the search but can't find them.
Shen Miao...ok, you know I have to bring up the bird, right? I cannot believe she EVEN said this. My head wanted to explode. She told Song that the BIRD TOLD HER THE TRUTH ABOUT PEI! Say what? You believe a freakin' bird told you the truth about your life? I cannot!!! Then she asks Song if he sent her the bird for a reason...to which she got NO REPLY. Ya think?
But get this, Song is allowed to explain himself to her, but every time Pei did, she cut him off. He tells her that he never touched her that night of their wedding because he had promised her, he wouldn't. He knew ALL ALONG that Xiao was Pei's son. So, all of the unnecessary drama about "who was the daddy" was not warranted. Song created all of the drama! He now tells her that no matter what, he will always be HIS son and she will always be HIS wife. Ok, now who is being over the top obsessive.
Now, Shen Miao is planning on checking out with her, her son and the maid. Now, I gotta give it to the maid because she was trying to tell her that maybe she misunderstood Pei because she has been with him for 2 years and he is not the bad guy they are making him out to be. Well, she got the frosty look from Shen Miao and just shut up.
Moving on to the next remaining...thank goodness, 6 episodes we have the following: Pei goes to the temple and tells the monk that he only wants Shen Miao to be happy and he is just going to let her go. (Ok, that was a minute with that). Then I guess Shen Miao and Pei are leaving the temple at the same time via the mountain until lightning strikes the only lone tree on the mountain and falls on him. Shen Miao runs over, and he said he knew she still had feelings for him.
Song, Pei and Shen Miao all are together again in the capital and yes, he is still blind. But somewhere along the line he regains his sight and he and Shen Miao agree to a 3-month term of raising Xiao.
Ok, now here comes more of the crazy. The father dies (as I said before) with just a token that is laying on the murderer to which all fingers are pointing to...you guess it...Pei. Song then convinces Shen Miao that they need to KILL, yes KILL Pei because he will kill the rest of her family. Yep, she believes Song and they devise the scheme of telling him that they need to go to the temple and burn incense to get the marriage on track. Well, Song and his men chain up Pei and Song is ready to kill him when Shen Miao stops him.
How do we see happiness here? I got that answer for you. Pei has now said, "I'm done." Goes back to his residence and says he wants a concubine that will be willing to have his child, etc. Here comes Shen Miao vying to be one of those women. Now Pei is still saying I believe that he is married to her, but he is done and is getting someone else at this point. She of course wins the competition (they set it up because he still loves her and wants only her) When I saw her going to compete, I was thinking why? How many times did she say she want him to let her go yet here she is fighting to be with him? It is the most twisted relationship ever.
Then in the previews of the last episode Pei is laughing in his room as if he is with someone and Shen Miao is saying how she is his wife and she will not put up with that. Burst in only to see clothes littered on the floor and opens the curtains with him lying there alone.... she goes to leave, and he grabs her onto the bed and says, "Shen Miao, you are finally here."
I have no words for how I had such hope for this drama.... but they should not have stated that this is a fantastic love story. This is such a heart wrenching drama, again not the lighthearted drama I thought it would be....so sad with such great ML, FL, and SML
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Shen Miao tells Pei that she wants to go to the temple at Noon tomorrow so they can receive a blessing to start over again as a couple.
As they were sleeping Pei has a nightmare and Shen Mial soothes him back to sleep (which remember when he was blind, he said he had good hearing, well that goes in to affect now) only for her to leave the bed and meet Song outside after throwing a pebble at the window.
They devise the plan for meeting again at Noon. Shen Miao is starting to have doubts and Song again starts telling her does she want to see her family annihilated. So, she agrees to it.
Before they leave Pei tells her he knows they still have a lot of things left unsaid, but he hopes now they can have a new beginning. He is willing to give her the country as her dowry if that would make her happy just so long as they are together.
Going to the temple Pei keeps telling her she seems distracted. They reach the temple, and Shen Miao starts to confess that it is a trap. But Pei opens the doors to see Song standing there. He told him he knew he was there. Shen Miao tells him if he knew it was a trap why did he agree to go. To which he said if I didn't come would you ever believe me?
Song attacks but of course Pei has his "bendable sword" and no backup because he didn't take his guard with him due to Shen Miao's request. Song's assassins bring out the chains and take his arms and his legs and slam him to the ground back and front. Until Shen Miao cannot stand it anymore because Song is ready to kill him and threatens to end her life. Song agrees to let Pei go and takes Shen Miao away.
Shen Miao is at Song's residence, and she ask him if Pei is alright. He says his guard has him and he is fine. She asks where her brother is, and he says after you eat, he will be here. Enter her brother. She tells Song that as she told him before they are nothing, but friends and it will remain that way.
Fast forward A YEAR!!!!!
Pei has now left the court. He is no longer regent but a lord at the city Shen Miao and him lived when they were married. Shen Miao is with her family and son. She isn't happy because she hears the news that Pei has been given an edict that he will marry and have 2 concubines. She spills her drink and goes to her room and her maid ask her if she ok. Of course, she says she is. She tells her she is going to see her brother.
And guess what is there, you got it the freakin' BIRD!!! Her brother is playing with the bird and asking why it isn't speaking then it says, "Might be annihilated. Might be annihilated. Might be annihilated. Once it's done, we might lose control. The Song family might be annihilated." Shen Miao is stunned and ask the bird what he said, "Pei you will obtain neither the country nor Shen Maio. Official Pei what will we do with the Shen family when the Qin family falls? The Shen family might be annihilated." Shen Miao FINALLY realizes what Pei was talking about when he said "annihilated."
Pieces start falling into place and she ask her brother who kidnapped him, and he ask her what she is talking about. He said Song came and got him and said they would be away for a few days and then he would meet up with his dad and mom. She berates her brother for not telling her sooner and he said he thought Song had told her.
Shen Miao then starts thinking about all the things Song said: He told her that he probably wanted her to stay at his residence so that he could get rid of the Shen family, the temple meeting and killing him because she wanted her brother back, when he told her, her brother would be back after she finished eating, and finally she realized the only person who was close enough to get the necklace and make a duplicate that Xiao wore was...you guess it...Song!
Song did all this because THE BIRD had flown back and repeated the meeting that Pei and his guard had. Pei realized that they could lose control and the Song family would be annihilated. He did all of this agree to be his ally because of how he threaten the Song family. So, he started training the bird to change what he said about the Song family to the Shen family. Then started making Pei the bad
guy.
At last Shen Miao and Song have it out. She told him that he was careful in his scheme always making Pei look like the bad guy and she fell for it every time. She asks Song if she ever knew him all these years. Song says that if Pei would not have been so cruel, he would have remained a businessman and not fought and schemed to be the Prime Minister. He still kept telling her did she really feel safe with Pei. He told her since she left the Song family and wrote the divorce letter he was working with Pei. He was his subordinate helping him to get the throne. Until he heard the conversation that Pei and his bodyguard had that is when he realized that Pei and the Empress would not allow the Song family to grow. He goes on to say more disparaging comments about Pei but he did say that he would not allow anyone to touch the Shen family. Only the Song family would be sacrificed, and he was not going to allow that. He was backed into a corner and planned everything.
Shen Miao understands all the discord and misunderstanding between them was sown by Song. She said she thought everything was done by Pei. But she never expected everything to be done by Song.
The one smart thing Shen Miao said: "she said I'm not smart at all. If I'm not stupid I wouldn't have been fooled by a bird until I'm confused by the truth." (Ya think!)
But Song did have a good comeback for her: "You are wrong. My schemes are not flawless. If you see clearly, you will notice the flaws. Whether it's' me or Pei, you never really trusted either one of us. When something goes wrong, you will side with the other person and doubt one of us. The selfish person is actually you." Are we not clapping for Song right now? Justified smackdown on her!
After that she thinks about Pei, and just cries because she realizes everything through the years that she did to him. At the temple, he didn't say anything because he knew the truth and it was a trap. He was willing to give up country, position of the court just for love.
Shen Miao tells her family everything about what Song has done. They are devastated and upset that they did not trust him.
Pei comes back to town because he is getting his new concubines. Song now has the position that he wanted which was Prime Minister. The Majesty ask him if he now happy to have this position while giving up the woman he like. He said as long as she is happy, he has no regrets.
Finally, after all of the "fake" trying to find a concubine, Shen Miao burst into the room only to find Pei alone. He said she is finally there. The next day they have their wedding. The Ninth Princess gives up her title and is set to marry Pei's bodyguard. The maid has decided that she wants both men because she can't choose.
So, that is it for this lame drama. The BIRD is the one that ran this drama by what it said. So sad. Again, my hopes for this drama were high seeing who the MLs were and the FL. But I think just take it with a grain of salt and watch it when you really have nothing else to do. To invest in 30 episodes is way too long.
So, we left off that everyone was headed in their own carriages to the capital. Pei now can see and so his two bodyguards know and devise a plan to get Pei into the carriage with Shen Miao. What might that be? Why of course to lose the horse. Pei, Shen Miao and Song all are in the carriage to which Song is not liking. But Pei then has his men tell them the wrong way and go into a small town where the Ninth Princess is.
The Ninth Princess sees Shen Miao and says, "You are alive. It's been two years." Shen Miao and the Ninth Princess catch up with her telling Shen that she is to go to a border town to marry the prince for peace. Shen Miao ask doesn't she love Pei's closest bodyguard. Which she says she does but she doesn't know how to get him to admit he loves her. But the Ninth Princess has a plan to perform a play which ONLY Shen Miao can do because no other actors have the caliber to do the play.
Now, Shen Miao still believes that Pei is blind but (and we knew this had to happen) during the play she keeps staring at Pei until she trips and Pei "flies" across the room and catches her on the stage. She glares at him and ask how long he could see. A fight ensues on the stage and the Ninth Princess says take it backstage. Pei asks Shen Miao if he hadn't been with her first would she be with Song. She said yes. He asks her did she ever at any time love him. She said at one time but not now do to all of his lying and scheming. Pei was done and walked out.
They are now headed again to the capital because they got thrown out of the place they were staying because the two guards were fighting over the maid.
Pei calls Shen Miao out of her carriage and says he knows he lied about his eyesight recovering but that doesn't change the fact that she was missing for TWO YEARS with Song. He told her he is not holding her accountable, but he will not be separated from his son, and he no longer wants him calling him "grand uncle" when he is father. The agree to three months at his place.
They go to Pei's residence and Song is ticked. He doesn't want her to go but she tells Pei she needs a moment with Song. At this time, her father throws a stone at Shen Miao, and they go to Song's place and do a debrief. Of course, all blame is placed on Pei. Her brother has been kidnapped and they are saying Pei did it. Really? After he had men planted there to protect the family? She seriously is falling for Song's load of crap and forgetting what Pei told her. The dad and the aunt are saying Pei is the bad guy here and he isn't. She said that she gave Pei the necklace and he could have taken the money and he didn't to which they show "another" necklace the same as the one Xiao is wearing which was Pei's from Shen Miao.
As they are talking Song looks out and sees an assassin and gets in the way of her father and takes the arrow. (Roll eyes, complete set up by Song WE know). So, Shen Miao is running over trying to make sure he is alright. Her dad and aunt stay at Song's place and Pei is none the wiser. But Song's bodyguard comes back and has a token that only Pei's guards carry which was on the assassin who tried to kill her father. She now believes that Pei is out to kill her family. Her and Song are going to devise their own plan to get rid of Pei once and for all.
Shen Miao tells Song that she is going to stay at Pei's place to get answers as to where he is hiding her brother. She goes back and Xiao is sitting in the study. She pulls out the necklace that was Pei's and compares it to the one Song gave her and said it was a match except for the crack. Duh! And now she believes that Pei is trying to scheme against her family again.
The storyline in these 2 episodes revolved around Shen Miao's maid and the two guards that like her. Wasted space.
Pei and Song after two years finally went back to court and lo and behold the Majesty appeared. Did he do nothing in those two years while Pei and Song were gone? Well, Pei does make it happen that his bodyguard and the Ninth Princess will get together because he took his bodyguard before the Majesty and told him another way, they could satisfy the border town without sacrificing her. Pei's bodyguard went to see the Ninth Princess and I believe love will prevail here. But of course, Song was telling his people not to let Shen Miao know about the Ninth Princess problem because she would be upset. Now I guess he is somehow going to take the credit if he hears the two are together.
You know it is coming.... come on. You know where I'm going. You all feel it...THE BIRD!!!! Yes, that freaking bird is back. So, Song tells his bodyguard to bring the bird to him because he is bored. He told him he was injured so he should rest...please, that was set, the assassin knew where to aim so he was fine. Guess what he is telling the bird..."annihilate the Shen family." Ok, enough already! She is wholeheartedly already believed the bird the first time regarding her family and her life so we know if she hears this from the bird again...she will be a believer for sure. I just can't!
If she thinks about where she should be placing her anger and her rage, it should be towards Song, not Pei. Song is the villain here. When he is talking to the bird, he is saying I will have power. And the whole necklace, one has a crack (the original) and one doesn't. What opportunity would he have to do it? She was gone for TWO YEARS. He could have depleted all of the money they had by now. He could have killed her family by now. Honestly, she is the most frustrating woman.
Oh, and the family was finally leaving the border because they heard that Shen Miao was almost killed. Hello...she was supposed to be dead for TWO YEARS. The news your way is a little late.
I mean I love the two male leads...but the female lead is just so working my nerves until I can stand her pure stupidity. A bird...a bird...such a sad piece of writing. I can't say it enough that I had such high hopes for this drama. Down the tubes big time.
We left off with Song taking Shen Miao, her son and the maid all to an "undisclosed location" but is anything really undisclosed? You guess it, it isn't. Pei is ticked off that Song took his "ex-wife" and son, so he goes to Song's restaurant and has all his military at the place saying he wants to see Song.
The new girl that Song hired is playing the zither for like the umpteenth time. Until Pei says he is waiting no longer. He tells his one guard that he knows the location (get this) based off how long it took her to play the zither and he then calculated how long it would take Song to get there. Say what? Ok Mr. Clairvoyant. How about you didn't see all the drama you would cause lying all the time. Ok, ok, I digressed.
Song is then told by the new girl that Pei waited a long time, but he is gone. Song figures out that Pei knows where Shen Miao and his son are. Meanwhile Pei and team are scouring the temple. Now, Pei remember, he is blind. How is it that he is roaming the temple looking for Shen Miao and her son with no one with him? Lo and behold Shen Miao sees him coming (cane taps helped) and she tries to leave only to fall and Xiao yell. Pei hears and tells her to stop. He says more words of "please don't go...blah, blah, blah."
Shen Miao takes her son back to her room and tells him to stay there while she goes to find the maid. She comes across Pei kneeling in front of the temple talking to the monk and saying he doesn't want anything anymore. He only wants Shen Miao to be happy because he is letting her go. Here we go again...he is letting her go? Yeah right!
One of the monks calls her name and she tells him to be quiet only to take off running with Pei in hot pursuit. Now, if she is trying to get away then why are you at the mountain? Why didn't you go and get Xiao, the maid and just take off? No, she takes the mountain trail. But Pei keeps calling her name and she tells him to just leave her alone. Then the moment...the lightning strikes the lone tree at the top of the mountain, and it comes crashing down on Pei.
Shen Miao runs over pulling the tree off of Pia. He tells her he knew she cared and passed out. She is crying profusely and who comes now...his guard. Ok, who would even think to go to the mountain and find these two? So, he hoists Pei on his back, and they go back to his room.
Now after being hit by the tree, he now is able to see images, blurry of course but he can see. Shen Miao is taking care of him. He finally after 25 episodes (2 years) he can at last tell her his side of the story. But do you think he really will...nope! He gives her the rundown on why he did things to protect her, his son and even her family only for her to come back at him and ask..."did you say you were going to annihilate my family?" Images of the bird came in my head when he said he was going to annihilate the Shen family. Oh, she is still believing that stupid bird! To which he says yes! Not letting him explain what he meant by that. Well, all the cards are off the table now. She heard that and rants at him and just keeps going on until she storms out.
Here comes Song with his antagonistic ways to get Shen Miao all riled up again about Pei's character. Pei shares with Shen Miao a picture of her family and the letters that her family sent because he had guards protecting them all this time. He tells her he will help her get them back only for her to say that her and Song have their own plan.
They all then head to the capital with Pei taking his own carriage. Song and Shen Miao together and Xiao and the maid in another. They finally make it to a place to rest with Pei really using his blindness to get Shen Miao to help him. This makes Song mad, and he is trying to find a way to bring Shen Miao closer to him.
Meanwhile the emperor is MIA. He is chilling somewhere we don't know because the Ninth princess went to see him. Only to find out that her hand has been asked in marriage by the prince where Shen Miao's family is at.
Basically, there was not much action. Shen Miao is really on my nerves because she is just so wishy washy. Her and the maid did have a discussion because she is trying to figure out which guard, she likes better because they both have certain characteristics that she likes. Which made Shen Miao ask her how Pei was the 2 years she was with him. She told her again that everything may not appears as she sees it. Pei is a good person and people during the years had tried to kill him. She asks him how he got blind, and she told him that it was during the wedding, and he didn't get treated fast enough so it is uncurable. Which makes her feel guilty and she wants the monk to heal him.
Meanwhile Pei does see the monk who knows that Pei can see. Pei is going to continue to be this way because he wants to win Shen Mial back. Sorry, but this is going to make her mad again because he is scheming which she hates.
Now we have to wrap this up in 4 episodes, so we do know that Pei has his sight, she tries to kill him again and looks for a new wife/concubine.
I cannot say again how disappointed I am in this drama that had such potential.
Next update coming tomorrow....and can only image.
At the beginning, he was a bully to her at first but when you see how loving he is moving forward...you forget all that.
The music at the beginning sets the tone and the action starts already in the first episode. With his Bond-like walk all that he needed to say, is "Shaken not stirred" and I would have been done. He just has the presence that captures your attention. Him and Vincenzo would make a good pair. Him with his ring and Vincenzo with his lighter. Now that would be something to behold.
The pacing, storyline and performances were on point.
I would love to see this couple together again, possibly My Lethal Man 2. Best drama by far this year.
I am now up to episode 24 and there are only 6 episodes left...thank the Lord! I mean the craziness in this drama is not stopping.
So, we left off with the bird...right? Well, they find Shen Miao and her son, and get this...she pretends to be mute! You heard me mute! She is now using Pei's hand to write messages on because she is saying she can't talk. (Roll eyes) Pei of course knows it's her. Pei and Xiao agree they will meet her the next day at his residence. Well, she finally comes and lo and behold the puppet show Xiao performs brings back...her memory!!!! She then looks at Pei and says, "Why can't you just let me go." Then she faints. Pei gets a doctor and tells him that he wants her to have something that will relieve her memories coming back because they were too painful. Well, you know Shen Miao's maid gets the medicine only for Shen Miao to wake up and throw it on the floor. She then threatens her and tells her, "I'm your master, who are you loyal too. " Of course, she says her. The two now devise a plan to get away from Pei. But not before she sends her maid to Song's place to get the letters he has been hiding about her family. She reads them and knows her family is doing well so she is going to leave with Xiao. She now feels that she cannot trust either Song or Pei. But of course, Song is now talking to assassins to get her out of the Pei residence. Shen Miao tells Xiao through a cookie (she put a note to cause a fire). Well, this fire was epic. Burn the whole place practically down.
There is one point where Shen Miao is in the courtyard and Pei comes out. And he does say that he wishes he would have never met her. It was just him regretting how things just went sideways. He is getting ready to go down the stairs and it really looks as if Shen Miao was going to push him until his guard intervene. She just smiled and walked away.
Pei is still thinking she doesn't have her memory because he asks her where she is taking Xiao. (Who by the way Xiao and the maid have gone down a rope and are waiting below for her). Here come the assassins to which Pei is fighting them off with his cane. Song comes and the assassins leap up and take Shen Miao. Then Song, Shen Miao and Xiao all leave. Pei is distraught.
Back at Songs place he tells Shen Miao to make herself presentable so she can see Xiao. Xiao now is the protector of his mother and won't let Song near her. Pei starts the search but can't find them.
Shen Miao...ok, you know I have to bring up the bird, right? I cannot believe she EVEN said this. My head wanted to explode. She told Song that the BIRD TOLD HER THE TRUTH ABOUT PEI! Say what? You believe a freakin' bird told you the truth about your life? I cannot!!! Then she asks Song if he sent her the bird for a reason...to which she got NO REPLY. Ya think?
But get this, Song is allowed to explain himself to her, but every time Pei did, she cut him off. He tells her that he never touched her that night of their wedding because he had promised her, he wouldn't. He knew ALL ALONG that Xiao was Pei's son. So, all of the unnecessary drama about "who was the daddy" was not warranted. Song created all of the drama! He now tells her that no matter what, he will always be HIS son and she will always be HIS wife. Ok, now who is being over the top obsessive.
Now, Shen Miao is planning on checking out with her, her son and the maid. Now, I gotta give it to the maid because she was trying to tell her that maybe she misunderstood Pei because she has been with him for 2 years and he is not the bad guy they are making him out to be. Well, she got the frosty look from Shen Miao and just shut up.
Moving on to the next remaining...thank goodness, 6 episodes we have the following: Pei goes to the temple and tells the monk that he only wants Shen Miao to be happy and he is just going to let her go. (Ok, that was a minute with that). Then I guess Shen Miao and Pei are leaving the temple at the same time via the mountain until lightning strikes the only lone tree on the mountain and falls on him. Shen Miao runs over, and he said he knew she still had feelings for him.
Song, Pei and Shen Miao all are together again in the capital and yes, he is still blind. But somewhere along the line he regains his sight and he and Shen Miao agree to a 3-month term of raising Xiao.
Ok, now here comes more of the crazy. The father dies (as I said before) with just a token that is laying on the murderer to which all fingers are pointing to...you guess it...Pei. Song then convinces Shen Miao that they need to KILL, yes KILL Pei because he will kill the rest of her family. Yep, she believes Song and they devise the scheme of telling him that they need to go to the temple and burn incense to get the marriage on track. Well, Song and his men chain up Pei and Song is ready to kill him when Shen Miao stops him.
How do we see happiness here? I got that answer for you. Pei has now said, "I'm done." Goes back to his residence and says he wants a concubine that will be willing to have his child, etc. Here comes Shen Miao vying to be one of those women. Now Pei is still saying I believe that he is married to her, but he is done and is getting someone else at this point. She of course wins the competition (they set it up because he still loves her and wants only her) When I saw her going to compete, I was thinking why? How many times did she say she want him to let her go yet here she is fighting to be with him? It is the most twisted relationship ever.
Then in the previews of the last episode Pei is laughing in his room as if he is with someone and Shen Miao is saying how she is his wife and she will not put up with that. Burst in only to see clothes littered on the floor and opens the curtains with him lying there alone.... she goes to leave, and he grabs her onto the bed and says, "Shen Miao, you are finally here."
I have no words for how I had such hope for this drama.... but they should not have stated that this is a fantastic love story. This is such a heart wrenching drama, again not the lighthearted drama I thought it would be....so sad with such great ML, FL, and SML