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No Love, No Crown, the Winner, Poison!
Ok, my mind has to get around this drama because I am SCREAMING! Not in a good way mind you. WTH did I just watch. And mind you it was 35, yes 35 episodes of my time, which I freely gave because I felt there would be a glimmer of hope at the end. But the joke was on me! No glimmer. Just darkness.
First can we just stop, stop doing this to Allen Ren (Xian Huan/Bai Chi Fan) ok? The man has freaking died in almost every one of his dramas of late. What gives? Enough. We get it. We honestly do that the man is not, I repeat is not going to do ANY LOVE SCENES. But that does not mean the man has to be killed off every drama! For the love. Cut him some slack. Maybe don’t use love in his dramas and he possibly could survive, just sayin.
Then Peng Xiao Ran (Ling Cang Cang) did the writers despise her or what. What was her deal? Oh wait, she WAS the LOVE interest, or was she? We couldn’t tell because of her ATTITUDE of crying, endless drinking/drunken stupor, walking away, not listening and raging anger that she was on my last nerve and that was all of 5 or so episodes. Yep, most ditch this after 4 episodes because of all of that.
What really got me about Ling Cang Cang is her always believing the wrong person. Case in point, when her OWN, yes, I said own, father tried to KILL her with poison mind you poison was big in this drama she could not believe her father would do it. Even with proof presented to her she STILL didn’t believe Xiao Huan, who was her husband mind you at this point. I personally draw the line when someone would be trying to kill me. My own father at that. I’m taking door 1 and going with the man who tried to safe me, oh, I don’t know numerous times. What do you think?
Then we did sprinkle in OTHER romances that fizzled out and they died too.
- Xiao Ying (sister to Xiao Huan and Xiao Qian Qing) was the Poison Ivy of the era. She wanted to see Xiao Huan die because he didn't safe her when there was a fire in the palace. She had every poison known to man. And yes, she was out to get Xiao Huan. But it was Empress Dowager Liu (mama) who did set the fire. But needless to say, Xiao Ying died by poison by her mother, see she killed her anyway. Empress Dowager Liu died by poison by Du Ting Xin.
- Li Hong Qing (right hand to Xiao Huan) was in love with Xiao Ying but he was hit with an arrow and was MIA. Tried to find him but didn’t and Xiao Ying died before he could see her.
- Zhong Lin love interest to Xiao Qian Qing but both of them were poisoned too.
See where I went with that, everyone in this drama was poisoned. How they made it beyond 20 episodes because everyone was poisoned, I have no idea.
The only person who was just allowed to have free rein and just basically said, “I’m going to have a blast” was Du Ting Xin. The Imperial Preceptor. This chick was just off the rails. I mean, the WHOLE basis for these last episodes revolved around her wanting to be the emperor. Why? Because she found out that she was royalty and was part of the bloodline of Xiao. But wait, she read the stars, right? Why didn’t she read that she was royalty? Go confront Xiao Huan and move on. Nope, she just went buck wild and had a good time while everyone else in the drama were the side chicks.
As we drew closer to the end, everyone knew that death was imminent, but as I said in the beginning, we all had hope against hope that Xiao Huan would survive. But alas, that went out the window because Xiao Huan did it again. You got it. Gave Ling Cang Cang the ONLY pill that would save him to live. Sigh.
Now, get ready to really have your mind blown. Ling Cang Cang finds Xiao Huan because she makes Lin Hong Qing take her to him. She confronts him and tells him to stop running from her. Low and behold we cut to the next morning with only Ling Cang Cang in the bed. You got it. We are SUPPOSED to surmise (since we saw the sunrise of a new day) they slept together so we can explain why she is pregnant.
Fast forward five years and you see their son is Ning and he holds Ling Cang Cang because, you got it, she is going to die. Why? Because Du Ting Xin tortured her and she was slowly dying. (see how well the sacrifice of the pill that Xiao Huan gave her worked). So, you thought we were done with the grim reaper, nope. We have to have someone else die too, who do you think? Bet you didn't see it coming because we only knew when she spit up blood and that was.... Zhong Lin, her bestie. She died right after Ling Cang Cang did.
So, it was pretty much a bloodbath all around at the end. Oh, you want to know what happened to Du Ting Xin. She was allowed to live in the palace until her death. But here's my thing. No one could have just killed her at any given point. I mean so many opportunities and she lives. Go figure.
This drama did have potential, but the writers just didn't know where or how to go with it. So. sad. Exhausted. Annoyed. Because the best they did was to poison everyone which clearly was the winner!
First can we just stop, stop doing this to Allen Ren (Xian Huan/Bai Chi Fan) ok? The man has freaking died in almost every one of his dramas of late. What gives? Enough. We get it. We honestly do that the man is not, I repeat is not going to do ANY LOVE SCENES. But that does not mean the man has to be killed off every drama! For the love. Cut him some slack. Maybe don’t use love in his dramas and he possibly could survive, just sayin.
Then Peng Xiao Ran (Ling Cang Cang) did the writers despise her or what. What was her deal? Oh wait, she WAS the LOVE interest, or was she? We couldn’t tell because of her ATTITUDE of crying, endless drinking/drunken stupor, walking away, not listening and raging anger that she was on my last nerve and that was all of 5 or so episodes. Yep, most ditch this after 4 episodes because of all of that.
What really got me about Ling Cang Cang is her always believing the wrong person. Case in point, when her OWN, yes, I said own, father tried to KILL her with poison mind you poison was big in this drama she could not believe her father would do it. Even with proof presented to her she STILL didn’t believe Xiao Huan, who was her husband mind you at this point. I personally draw the line when someone would be trying to kill me. My own father at that. I’m taking door 1 and going with the man who tried to safe me, oh, I don’t know numerous times. What do you think?
Then we did sprinkle in OTHER romances that fizzled out and they died too.
- Xiao Ying (sister to Xiao Huan and Xiao Qian Qing) was the Poison Ivy of the era. She wanted to see Xiao Huan die because he didn't safe her when there was a fire in the palace. She had every poison known to man. And yes, she was out to get Xiao Huan. But it was Empress Dowager Liu (mama) who did set the fire. But needless to say, Xiao Ying died by poison by her mother, see she killed her anyway. Empress Dowager Liu died by poison by Du Ting Xin.
- Li Hong Qing (right hand to Xiao Huan) was in love with Xiao Ying but he was hit with an arrow and was MIA. Tried to find him but didn’t and Xiao Ying died before he could see her.
- Zhong Lin love interest to Xiao Qian Qing but both of them were poisoned too.
See where I went with that, everyone in this drama was poisoned. How they made it beyond 20 episodes because everyone was poisoned, I have no idea.
The only person who was just allowed to have free rein and just basically said, “I’m going to have a blast” was Du Ting Xin. The Imperial Preceptor. This chick was just off the rails. I mean, the WHOLE basis for these last episodes revolved around her wanting to be the emperor. Why? Because she found out that she was royalty and was part of the bloodline of Xiao. But wait, she read the stars, right? Why didn’t she read that she was royalty? Go confront Xiao Huan and move on. Nope, she just went buck wild and had a good time while everyone else in the drama were the side chicks.
As we drew closer to the end, everyone knew that death was imminent, but as I said in the beginning, we all had hope against hope that Xiao Huan would survive. But alas, that went out the window because Xiao Huan did it again. You got it. Gave Ling Cang Cang the ONLY pill that would save him to live. Sigh.
Now, get ready to really have your mind blown. Ling Cang Cang finds Xiao Huan because she makes Lin Hong Qing take her to him. She confronts him and tells him to stop running from her. Low and behold we cut to the next morning with only Ling Cang Cang in the bed. You got it. We are SUPPOSED to surmise (since we saw the sunrise of a new day) they slept together so we can explain why she is pregnant.
Fast forward five years and you see their son is Ning and he holds Ling Cang Cang because, you got it, she is going to die. Why? Because Du Ting Xin tortured her and she was slowly dying. (see how well the sacrifice of the pill that Xiao Huan gave her worked). So, you thought we were done with the grim reaper, nope. We have to have someone else die too, who do you think? Bet you didn't see it coming because we only knew when she spit up blood and that was.... Zhong Lin, her bestie. She died right after Ling Cang Cang did.
So, it was pretty much a bloodbath all around at the end. Oh, you want to know what happened to Du Ting Xin. She was allowed to live in the palace until her death. But here's my thing. No one could have just killed her at any given point. I mean so many opportunities and she lives. Go figure.
This drama did have potential, but the writers just didn't know where or how to go with it. So. sad. Exhausted. Annoyed. Because the best they did was to poison everyone which clearly was the winner!
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