omg as if the leads were'nt amazing enough, zheng yecheng has a support role!!! i've really missed him in historical…
Yes, it’s always nice to see him in costume showing off his superb martial arts skills. However, yet another support/SML role where he cannot get the girl may be more than I can bear…
On the plus side: Shen Zhen finally tells the Labrador to go fetch a stick and Lu Yan tells his mother about Shen…
This scene never happened in the novel. Novel Lu Yan did a much better job at hiding Shen Zhen from his mother and the rest of the world. He even used one of the famous courtesans in town as a cover whenever he visited her at his secondary residence. The idea that he would hide the daughter of a criminal in the main family residence like he does in the drama is quite absurd and unworthy of his shrewd and careful character.
I watched the first three episodes but I can make neither heads nor tails from it. The editing is simply terrible. The way the story keeps jumping between present, past and dreams is very confusing. Some more explanatory subtitles regarding characters/locations would have been helpful.
I can only give you the version of the novel, I don’t think it is ever clearly explained in the drama. So here…
Well, he holds a high position in court, but not really based on merit. When Li Di was about to take the examination Shen Ran’s father bribed one of the officials who was an old friend for the answers because he couldn’t bear to see his daughter married to an unsuccessful candidate. Li Di later used this bribery which could get them all executed to blackmail Shen Ran into staying with him. I just love how complex and interwoven the plot lines are in the novel…
I am enjoying the show overall but I think it really suffers from keeping the actual villains identity hidden…
I agree. In the novel things are revealed bit by bit which makes it much more interesting. I think putting all the focus on the main couple in the early episode and bringing them together too early took a lot of the suspense away so that they then had to come up with these annoying and artificial obstacles.
Does anyone know how the older sister ended up marrying such a trash husband? It baffles me, because of how capable…
I can only give you the version of the novel, I don’t think it is ever clearly explained in the drama. So here it goes: Li Di is from a poor family in the countryside and came to the capital for the imperial examination. He happened to be present (not really by accident, as we later find out) when Shen Ran fell into the water during a walk with all the noble ladies of the town. After that he kept camping in front of the Shen Mansion professing his undying love. Initially Shen Ran wasn’t really interested, but he was very persistent, not too bad looking, either. She eventually agreed to marry him because she thought that with someone who is so passionately in love with her she would have a good life. .in fact this whole marriage was a set-up from the start because the person behind it all was plotting to ruin the three daughters of the Shen household to stop Shen Wenqi from marrying his daughters to the son’s of other powerful households. This would have made him a very powerful minister. So for the eldest there was a student from a poor family, the second was suggested for a political marriage to some foreign Prince and the third, Shen Zhen, was supposed to be married to Xu Wei as one of his concubines.
Yeah, medicine in these dramas has its own rules. Cuts heal in no time. If you want blood, always slash across…
😂😂😂 sadly so true! China has a great traditional medicine system. It’s a pity so little of it gets conveyed accurately in dramas. Novels sometimes give very detailed descriptions but as soon as the scriptwriters see it it gets all cut. They seem to think we’re too dumb to understand.🙄 Decoctions of herbs actually are cooked for hours ( the general rule is to reduce the liquid by half ) and they are very bitter because if they are wound medicine they usually contain boswellia, myrrh or peony roots. I’ve had a fair share of these preparations and I feel their pain every time one of the characters has to drink this 😂
So one user actually took the time to rate every single episode with “1”. Kid, you have a problem. If you hated it that much, why didn’t you drop it after the first three episodes? That’s what the grownups do…
Hi, how's the drama coming along? Should I watch? Any kisses and HE?
There are some kisses, but it takes a while… It has a HE and a wedding. There are also some characters which you will really hate, but none of the baddies will get away…
Just finished ep 8 so got a long way to go but am enjoying it so far. Blood on the blossoms and puke on the shoulder.…
Yeah, medicine in these dramas has its own rules. Cuts heal in no time. If you want blood, always slash across the whole hand even though cutting just a finger would provide the same amount of blood. People with sword/arrow wounds can get up the next day and walk about. However, the tiniest scrapes or burns require medicine and if you get into the rain you must take a hot bath or you’ll die. I find it very confusing how these people can be so tough and yet so fragile.
On the plus side: Shen Zhen finally tells the Labrador to go fetch a stick and Lu Yan tells his mother about Shen…
That last point was much clearer in the novel. There are several princes who compete with the Crown Prince for succession to the throne and for that they need support in the court. Many ministers belong to different factions. For example Shen Wenqi is a supporter of the Crown Prince, whereas the Xu family supports the 6th Prince (Concubine Xu’s son). The family of the Eldest Princess is very powerful but they have always held a neutral position. If they could be won over by a marriage alliance it would benefit the whole clan. These girls were brought up to put the family first. Shen Zhen does the same in a way.
Because delusional scriptwriters think their ideas are better than those of the original novel. I’m only on…
I haven’t finished reading, but they’ve changed a LOT! Lu Yan does a lot more investigating in the novel, not just for Shen Wenqi’s case. Su Heng isn’t a brain dead Labrador, Xu Yiqing is an intriguing b*tch without any martial arts, Fu Man isn’t looking for any younger sister, but Lu Yan brought her and her brother back to the capital with him. The brother is a skilled physician who goes on to save the Crown Prince’s life (because the court physicians who were treating him were actually poisoning him) and so on and so on. I will probably write a summary in the “discussions” section once I am finished with both the drama and the novel. Sadly, scriptwriters seem to think that we viewers cannot cope with complex stories and multiple plot lines and therefore everything gets overly simplified.
https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:5009982652088357?from=old_pc_videoshow
I just love how complex and interwoven the plot lines are in the novel…
Li Di is from a poor family in the countryside and came to the capital for the imperial examination. He happened to be present (not really by accident, as we later find out) when Shen Ran fell into the water during a walk with all the noble ladies of the town. After that he kept camping in front of the Shen Mansion professing his undying love. Initially Shen Ran wasn’t really interested, but he was very persistent, not too bad looking, either. She eventually agreed to marry him because she thought that with someone who is so passionately in love with her she would have a good life.
.in fact this whole marriage was a set-up from the start because the person behind it all was plotting to ruin the three daughters of the Shen household to stop Shen Wenqi from marrying his daughters to the son’s of other powerful households. This would have made him a very powerful minister.
So for the eldest there was a student from a poor family, the second was suggested for a political marriage to some foreign Prince and the third, Shen Zhen, was supposed to be married to Xu Wei as one of his concubines.
China has a great traditional medicine system. It’s a pity so little of it gets conveyed accurately in dramas. Novels sometimes give very detailed descriptions but as soon as the scriptwriters see it it gets all cut. They seem to think we’re too dumb to understand.🙄
Decoctions of herbs actually are cooked for hours ( the general rule is to reduce the liquid by half ) and they are very bitter because if they are wound medicine they usually contain boswellia, myrrh or peony roots. I’ve had a fair share of these preparations and I feel their pain every time one of the characters has to drink this 😂
Kid, you have a problem. If you hated it that much, why didn’t you drop it after the first three episodes? That’s what the grownups do…
https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:5009666879455243?from=old_pc_videoshow
However, the tiniest scrapes or burns require medicine and if you get into the rain you must take a hot bath or you’ll die.
I find it very confusing how these people can be so tough and yet so fragile.
https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:5009609891708944?from=old_pc_videoshow
Lu Yan does a lot more investigating in the novel, not just for Shen Wenqi’s case. Su Heng isn’t a brain dead Labrador, Xu Yiqing is an intriguing b*tch without any martial arts, Fu Man isn’t looking for any younger sister, but Lu Yan brought her and her brother back to the capital with him. The brother is a skilled physician who goes on to save the Crown Prince’s life (because the court physicians who were treating him were actually poisoning him) and so on and so on.
I will probably write a summary in the “discussions” section once I am finished with both the drama and the novel.
Sadly, scriptwriters seem to think that we viewers cannot cope with complex stories and multiple plot lines and therefore everything gets overly simplified.