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Destined for Predictability
I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by this drama. It really wasn't that bad. I mean lately some of the ones I have watching have been pretty lame.
The pairing of the ML and FL was nice. I liked the “push and pull” between them especially when she is finally back to being his consort.
The story unfolds with the FL (Hai Lu aka Shen Jiang Li) returning back home after five years of being at the ancestral tomb for reflection.
She has her reason for returning to which ML (Xu Hai Qiao aka Lu Jing Ming) takes Shen Jiang Li’s side after she explains to the entire family part of her reason for returning while exposing Wang Dan Ling. Her attitude towards Lu Jing Ming is hostile at best. She felt between him and her they never did have a chance to be a couple. When they did have what little bit of time together, they were a very loving and dedicated couple. But when he returned from the battlefield, and didn’t intervene to help her and let his mother throw her into the ancestral tomb; she felt he never did seek the truth and defend her.
Lu Jing Ming told her when he came home from the battlefield in Xizhou, his mother had evidence, but she refused to argue. She didn’t want to hear anymore she wanted to concentrate to the situation of her return...the Lei Pill.
Going back a day and half, Shen Jiang Li met up with Lu Jing Ming and proposed a deal with him. She informed him that she would help him be the next Prefect if he helped her get the Lei Pill. This pill she needed was for their son due to his heart condition. I did like the fact that they did not drag out that her son was his.
She felt by curing Lu Jing Ming’s father that he would reward her with the pill. Not. Shen Jiang Li felt certain that during her five years away and staying at the Wind Pavillion where she learned medicine, she could cure Lu Jing Ming's father. This was the place where she gave birth to her son Yan Yan. Shen Jiang Li ends up relying on Lu Jing Ming to get the pill which he does by making a newly refined crossbow. His father is pleased and gives the pill to him as a reward. Their son is cured.
Lu Jing Ming and Shen Jiang Li faced many situations throughout this drama with individuals endlessly trying to bring them both down.
The main culprits:
Wang Dan Ling, the daughter of General Wang, the prime suspect in everything that happened to Shen Jiang Li. She literally detested her. The issue was that she never really wanted to marry Lu Jing Xu the eldest brother of Lu Jing Ming. She was in love with him. The sad part was that even her husband knew that she loved him which made him not care for her. He in turn looked for love in the arms of Shen Jiang Li’s sister Shen Qi Lan.
Shen Qi Lan, the daughter of Shen Zhengshan and Zou Jiaoye, Shen’s concubine. She was in love with Lu Jing Xu. When it was decided who she was to marry, she went to Shen Jiang Li to help her marry Lu Jing Xu. Wang Dan Ling finds out about the two and pushes for her to marry Lu Jing Ming as a concubine.
This plan was stopped by Shen Jiang Li when she exposed their love token, which was a pendant that he gave her sister. The Prefect decides after Lu Jing Xu admits to giving her the pendant that they will marry. Wang Dan Ling was infuriated. Just as Shen Jiang Li predicted Wang Dan Ling made Shen Qi Lin's life miserable. Once she found out that Shen Qi Lan was pregnant, she gave her medicine that everyone believed made her lose the baby, but in fact she was never pregnant. Shen Qi Lan set up Wang Dan Ling. The truth of the matter, Shen Jiang Li found out that Lu Jing Xu had incense burning every night that caused Wang Dan Ling never to get pregnant because he didn’t want her to have a child. How about that!
Shen Jiang Li also finds out that Zou Jiaoye, Shen Qi Lan's mother killed her mother. She was ordered to be executed. Shen Qi Lan snaps. Her final attempt to get her sister is when she poisons Princess Chu Ya and blames Shen Jiang Li. Doesn't happen. She is exposed for being the one that poisoned the Princess and was placed in jail. Lu Jing Xu lets her out so she can take her revenge on Shen Jiang Li and prove to be of assistance to him one last time. She goes to the Rain Chamber and attempts to burn down the residence with both Shen Jiang Li and Lu Jing Ming in it. She then stabbed herself with her hairpin and dies on the spot.
Lu Jing Xu, the eldest son of the Prefect, killed all of Lu Jing Ming's men in the battle at Xizhou. Lu Jing Ming finds out with the help of Princess Chu Ya all that his brother has done. His father makes him a commoner and places him under house arrest where he sees Shen Qi Lan almost all the time.
Speaking of Princess Chu Ya, she was someone that you could not dislike. She understood the love between Lu Jing Ming and Shen Jiang Li. But a situation occurred regarding Lu Jing Xu having one of his servants put horse feed into the prescription that she had given to those exposed to the plague. In order to save and protect her, Lu Jing Ming agreed not only to marry the princess but to divorce Shen Jiang Li. This was all a plot to expose his brother and what he had done not only with keeping money but killing his men in the army.
In the end, Lu Jing Ming is stabbed by Lu Jing Xu. Shen Jiang Li comes to save him. The Princess tells Shen Jiang Li everything about her and Lu Jing Ming's plan. After recovering, Lu Jing Ming apologizes to Shen Jiang Li for everything. He does become the Prefect. Shen Jiang Li wanted to open a women's school in Dongzhou so that more women could learn medicine, read books, broaden their horizons, and have more to do with their lives instead of being trapped in the inner chambers. She leaves Lu Jing Ming to go back to the Wind Pavillion to help with the plague for six months. We see Lu Jing Ming standing as the snow falls and Shen Jiang Li comes up behind him and wraps a coat around him. They hug. The end.
It so sad because Shen Qi Lan wanted to escape her family by marriage but instead, she was dragged deeper into the mud because of it. Wang Dan Ling, she was born noble. She should've been carefree, but she was trapped by her own obsessions.
Again, the drama is not that hard to watch and overall predictable.
The pairing of the ML and FL was nice. I liked the “push and pull” between them especially when she is finally back to being his consort.
The story unfolds with the FL (Hai Lu aka Shen Jiang Li) returning back home after five years of being at the ancestral tomb for reflection.
She has her reason for returning to which ML (Xu Hai Qiao aka Lu Jing Ming) takes Shen Jiang Li’s side after she explains to the entire family part of her reason for returning while exposing Wang Dan Ling. Her attitude towards Lu Jing Ming is hostile at best. She felt between him and her they never did have a chance to be a couple. When they did have what little bit of time together, they were a very loving and dedicated couple. But when he returned from the battlefield, and didn’t intervene to help her and let his mother throw her into the ancestral tomb; she felt he never did seek the truth and defend her.
Lu Jing Ming told her when he came home from the battlefield in Xizhou, his mother had evidence, but she refused to argue. She didn’t want to hear anymore she wanted to concentrate to the situation of her return...the Lei Pill.
Going back a day and half, Shen Jiang Li met up with Lu Jing Ming and proposed a deal with him. She informed him that she would help him be the next Prefect if he helped her get the Lei Pill. This pill she needed was for their son due to his heart condition. I did like the fact that they did not drag out that her son was his.
She felt by curing Lu Jing Ming’s father that he would reward her with the pill. Not. Shen Jiang Li felt certain that during her five years away and staying at the Wind Pavillion where she learned medicine, she could cure Lu Jing Ming's father. This was the place where she gave birth to her son Yan Yan. Shen Jiang Li ends up relying on Lu Jing Ming to get the pill which he does by making a newly refined crossbow. His father is pleased and gives the pill to him as a reward. Their son is cured.
Lu Jing Ming and Shen Jiang Li faced many situations throughout this drama with individuals endlessly trying to bring them both down.
The main culprits:
Wang Dan Ling, the daughter of General Wang, the prime suspect in everything that happened to Shen Jiang Li. She literally detested her. The issue was that she never really wanted to marry Lu Jing Xu the eldest brother of Lu Jing Ming. She was in love with him. The sad part was that even her husband knew that she loved him which made him not care for her. He in turn looked for love in the arms of Shen Jiang Li’s sister Shen Qi Lan.
Shen Qi Lan, the daughter of Shen Zhengshan and Zou Jiaoye, Shen’s concubine. She was in love with Lu Jing Xu. When it was decided who she was to marry, she went to Shen Jiang Li to help her marry Lu Jing Xu. Wang Dan Ling finds out about the two and pushes for her to marry Lu Jing Ming as a concubine.
This plan was stopped by Shen Jiang Li when she exposed their love token, which was a pendant that he gave her sister. The Prefect decides after Lu Jing Xu admits to giving her the pendant that they will marry. Wang Dan Ling was infuriated. Just as Shen Jiang Li predicted Wang Dan Ling made Shen Qi Lin's life miserable. Once she found out that Shen Qi Lan was pregnant, she gave her medicine that everyone believed made her lose the baby, but in fact she was never pregnant. Shen Qi Lan set up Wang Dan Ling. The truth of the matter, Shen Jiang Li found out that Lu Jing Xu had incense burning every night that caused Wang Dan Ling never to get pregnant because he didn’t want her to have a child. How about that!
Shen Jiang Li also finds out that Zou Jiaoye, Shen Qi Lan's mother killed her mother. She was ordered to be executed. Shen Qi Lan snaps. Her final attempt to get her sister is when she poisons Princess Chu Ya and blames Shen Jiang Li. Doesn't happen. She is exposed for being the one that poisoned the Princess and was placed in jail. Lu Jing Xu lets her out so she can take her revenge on Shen Jiang Li and prove to be of assistance to him one last time. She goes to the Rain Chamber and attempts to burn down the residence with both Shen Jiang Li and Lu Jing Ming in it. She then stabbed herself with her hairpin and dies on the spot.
Lu Jing Xu, the eldest son of the Prefect, killed all of Lu Jing Ming's men in the battle at Xizhou. Lu Jing Ming finds out with the help of Princess Chu Ya all that his brother has done. His father makes him a commoner and places him under house arrest where he sees Shen Qi Lan almost all the time.
Speaking of Princess Chu Ya, she was someone that you could not dislike. She understood the love between Lu Jing Ming and Shen Jiang Li. But a situation occurred regarding Lu Jing Xu having one of his servants put horse feed into the prescription that she had given to those exposed to the plague. In order to save and protect her, Lu Jing Ming agreed not only to marry the princess but to divorce Shen Jiang Li. This was all a plot to expose his brother and what he had done not only with keeping money but killing his men in the army.
In the end, Lu Jing Ming is stabbed by Lu Jing Xu. Shen Jiang Li comes to save him. The Princess tells Shen Jiang Li everything about her and Lu Jing Ming's plan. After recovering, Lu Jing Ming apologizes to Shen Jiang Li for everything. He does become the Prefect. Shen Jiang Li wanted to open a women's school in Dongzhou so that more women could learn medicine, read books, broaden their horizons, and have more to do with their lives instead of being trapped in the inner chambers. She leaves Lu Jing Ming to go back to the Wind Pavillion to help with the plague for six months. We see Lu Jing Ming standing as the snow falls and Shen Jiang Li comes up behind him and wraps a coat around him. They hug. The end.
It so sad because Shen Qi Lan wanted to escape her family by marriage but instead, she was dragged deeper into the mud because of it. Wang Dan Ling, she was born noble. She should've been carefree, but she was trapped by her own obsessions.
Again, the drama is not that hard to watch and overall predictable.
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