I'm going to go into some plot details about the female main character below and what I feel is fair and not fair…
Applying critical thinking skills here...
So, she was immature on *how* she rejected Rong Yu. I've seen comments that her rejecting Rong Yu when he's so hot, or whatever is so wrong, but that's shallow. She stated her reasons why she didn't want to marry *anyone* she wanted to stay with her family and become a general like her father, loyal to the crown.
That's a fair want. Not everyone wants to have "a man" (nor is straight, BTW.... She's allowed to say no.
But how she rejected Rong Yu and her back and forth was unfair to him. She should have been straight with him, sat him down, communicated clearly she had no romantic interest in anyone. But I have to admit when I was 16, I also was not that great at rejecting people. I didn't know how to do it. I had no model. Think about someone who had a crush on you, but you didn't have a crush on them? Did you have the same ability to gently reject them without help of other people?
So this line is shaky.
However, poisoning him, is over the line. 100% wrong. And she should have been appropriately punished for that. The story got back at her by disabling her hand. The death of her family shouldn't be tied to it.
Her beating the Song Boys up in the alley, 100% justified. They were picking on her and her friends who could not defend themselves. They have more power, and in basic Confucius, they should have some sort of check on them. She's allowed to check people above her who are doing wrong, and by the basic old Chinese laws, they were doing wrong. Some people were here, saying she deserved for her family to DIE because she beat up the Song Boys, but she didn't know who they were at the time. And objectively, the Song Boys were wrong.
I don't get the whole, she should have done nothing in that case and she deserved her family being killed because she's a woman that beat up boys. So what? So if a woman beats up boys picking on weaker people than her, her family deserves to be killed? What? That makes no sense to me. What kind of pro-women statements are that?
Yes, this might have led to their father being angry at her, specifically, but I don't think it's enough to want to kill her family--rather the He family already had a lot of political power, which was demonstrated in the Snow man scene. This is why he wanted to take them down. He wanted more power.
As for the Uncle. I hated him when I saw him. He's a control freak from the first. I don't know if it's intentional on the writing, but he didn't come off that protective of Rong Yu. Instead, he's controlling. So his justification for the whole, "But, but she poisoned my nephew" feels hollow in the story. I'm not sure if something was cut... but his whole writing feels like a power grab away from Rong Yu.
The evidence are these events around the uncle: - When Rong Yu wanted to marry her, he was against it from the beginning. - When Rong Yu was humiliated, he insisted on stepping in. - When Rong Yu said he'd settle it, the Uncle wanted revenge *already* on this. - When Rong Yu wouldn't eat the pancake the Uncle wanted him to eat, he got upset at him and yelled at him, rather than asking calmly what it looked like. - When Rong Yu was intellectually disabled, the Uncle saw how close Rong Yu felt towards Jiuling, and instead of simply asking her which pancake he ate, even if he *hated* her, he immaturely forced Rong Yu to eat things he didn't want to eat and locked her out. - When Rong Yu *got better* when he had contact with Jiuling, and there was evidence of this fact, and Rong Yu's attendants said as much, the Uncle *ignored* them, instead of trying to figure out what he was doing wrong, almost as if he didn't want Rong Yu to recover. - There weren't that many doctors that visited Rong Yu via the Uncle, nor did he try that hard to find a cure.
To me, story-wise this points to the fact that the Uncle didn't care about Rong Yu at all, has a short temper, and likes being the head of the Astrology department again. I totally disbelieve he wanted to have revenge on Jiuling, because there were a ton of better ways to do that prior. What he wanted was a power grab above all else. The Uncle knows her foolish actions soon after led her hand to being disabled in order to protect Rong Yu. So I don't buy his excuse. She also guided Rong Yu home, and generally has been helping him out. He's way too cold toward Rong Yu prior to justify that reasoning.
Also, I really hate the reasoning, but the actor is so hot, so she's a terrible person for not accepting him. C'mon, look at the characters and their actions.
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So, she was immature on *how* she rejected Rong Yu. I've seen comments that her rejecting Rong Yu when he's so hot, or whatever is so wrong, but that's shallow. She stated her reasons why she didn't want to marry *anyone* she wanted to stay with her family and become a general like her father, loyal to the crown.
That's a fair want. Not everyone wants to have "a man" (nor is straight, BTW.... She's allowed to say no.
But how she rejected Rong Yu and her back and forth was unfair to him. She should have been straight with him, sat him down, communicated clearly she had no romantic interest in anyone. But I have to admit when I was 16, I also was not that great at rejecting people. I didn't know how to do it. I had no model. Think about someone who had a crush on you, but you didn't have a crush on them? Did you have the same ability to gently reject them without help of other people?
So this line is shaky.
However, poisoning him, is over the line. 100% wrong. And she should have been appropriately punished for that. The story got back at her by disabling her hand. The death of her family shouldn't be tied to it.
Her beating the Song Boys up in the alley, 100% justified. They were picking on her and her friends who could not defend themselves. They have more power, and in basic Confucius, they should have some sort of check on them. She's allowed to check people above her who are doing wrong, and by the basic old Chinese laws, they were doing wrong. Some people were here, saying she deserved for her family to DIE because she beat up the Song Boys, but she didn't know who they were at the time. And objectively, the Song Boys were wrong.
I don't get the whole, she should have done nothing in that case and she deserved her family being killed because she's a woman that beat up boys. So what? So if a woman beats up boys picking on weaker people than her, her family deserves to be killed? What? That makes no sense to me. What kind of pro-women statements are that?
Yes, this might have led to their father being angry at her, specifically, but I don't think it's enough to want to kill her family--rather the He family already had a lot of political power, which was demonstrated in the Snow man scene. This is why he wanted to take them down. He wanted more power.
As for the Uncle. I hated him when I saw him. He's a control freak from the first. I don't know if it's intentional on the writing, but he didn't come off that protective of Rong Yu. Instead, he's controlling. So his justification for the whole, "But, but she poisoned my nephew" feels hollow in the story. I'm not sure if something was cut... but his whole writing feels like a power grab away from Rong Yu.
The evidence are these events around the uncle:
- When Rong Yu wanted to marry her, he was against it from the beginning.
- When Rong Yu was humiliated, he insisted on stepping in.
- When Rong Yu said he'd settle it, the Uncle wanted revenge *already* on this.
- When Rong Yu wouldn't eat the pancake the Uncle wanted him to eat, he got upset at him and yelled at him, rather than asking calmly what it looked like.
- When Rong Yu was intellectually disabled, the Uncle saw how close Rong Yu felt towards Jiuling, and instead of simply asking her which pancake he ate, even if he *hated* her, he immaturely forced Rong Yu to eat things he didn't want to eat and locked her out.
- When Rong Yu *got better* when he had contact with Jiuling, and there was evidence of this fact, and Rong Yu's attendants said as much, the Uncle *ignored* them, instead of trying to figure out what he was doing wrong, almost as if he didn't want Rong Yu to recover.
- There weren't that many doctors that visited Rong Yu via the Uncle, nor did he try that hard to find a cure.
To me, story-wise this points to the fact that the Uncle didn't care about Rong Yu at all, has a short temper, and likes being the head of the Astrology department again. I totally disbelieve he wanted to have revenge on Jiuling, because there were a ton of better ways to do that prior. What he wanted was a power grab above all else. The Uncle knows her foolish actions soon after led her hand to being disabled in order to protect Rong Yu. So I don't buy his excuse. She also guided Rong Yu home, and generally has been helping him out. He's way too cold toward Rong Yu prior to justify that reasoning.
Also, I really hate the reasoning, but the actor is so hot, so she's a terrible person for not accepting him. C'mon, look at the characters and their actions.
But, This girl can’t kiss 😩
That means we may get this eventually ? And that Xu Kai Cheng may have a comeback ? 😭😭😭😭