"I nearly died from illness in the capital" - Xu LanxiangSo that is the main reason why she does not want…
also the grandpa! reminding jinqi about being close to the emperor can be the road to your end. makes me wonder how tied the lin were back then and the choices they had to do to 'survive' and not end like lanxiang's family
according to my preferance, it is already above the double, but maybe slightly below blossom (for now)
what sold it for you in this one? i also prefer it to blossom, but i find the double more balanced. but there's another one i think is even better: kill me love me! for example, the stranded arc, similar to 'yan and yuna' arc, but in kill me love me it was actually lived and shown instead of 1 short scene sitting on the shore in spring of the blade they keep repeating...a long time jump like that. spring of the blade did take a few shortcuts in the storytelling it's missing some substance but aside from that its very enjoyable intense drama.
the episodes go so fast in this show scenes jump for high key moments to high key moments in a soapy very melodramatic way !! finally this episode had a few slow scenes! when qinyan asks 'what would yuna do after?' she is finally seeing more than the revenge, and her character development is coming along!! finally relaxing, smiling and getting excited for something...
I am rewatching the double - when snake face Shen Yurong had them request a marriage decree for Jiang Li - it…
EXACTLY!!! not even a prior hint!! or a visit before the wedding day?!!
after the wedding he literally said that he didn't care if she wanted as long as she was his wife.... it feels sooooo out of character!!probably his only flaw?? but he sure knows how to ask consent and be progressive when it comes to his sisters?!! i really don't know how she'll move past this!
That would be a major giving about her not being who she pretends to be. How the family of a servant like the…
even if she accepted that he was so young, i think the trauma is really about being bound by that 'family' and the status rules. going back to that family she tries soooo hard to stay away from and accept that it wasn't meant to be.
Ep. 28: I know it's a contrived trope to keep non-communication between a couple stretched to the limit, but FL…
i agree!! she is clearly PTSD but until he knows her real identity he will never explain anything... the real elephant in the room is that not once did he ask to see if she agreed. Was it because being from a wealthy family he never learnt to ask consent of wife?! no because he was more than capable to help his duke marry his sister with the willing sister. the whole point was about consent!! I find that its a core issue in the plot and it's a bit out of character. was he so jealous he didn't care what she wanted as long as she was his wife? yes, he said that.
him being petty and silly is not enough! so proud of lanxiang for being so strong! i really don't know how she can move past while healing from her trauma like that tho
trying really hard no to hate jinqi... even if he is being silly.... or that he was out of the city and didn't want to miss the timing to ask her, or that the elders would refuse.... he burnt all the complicity and respect they had by doing exactly the opposite of everything lanxiang worked so hard to avoid😭😭😭
I just caught up on the episodes and WOW lanxiang POV during the wedding day was PERFECTION!! FL keeps surprising me in this show! production and editing they really know how to make the moment feel heavy or awkward in the right way. i love it!
Here’s a tip for everyone: watch this before you watch TRTS, if you’re watching for the leads. This is more…
it surprises me when a pairing happens again like that!! i wasn't gonna watch either but the good reviews of TRTS were compelling and i loved it!! i wil give this a go too, i'm rooting for this actress now! Din Yu dramas are often nice, but plotwise not always strong! i think TRTS is one of his best character depiction!
if you have watched historical dramas ie:-The Prisoner of Beauty- Blossom- Love like the Galaxy and more the same…
i found that it looks more like story of the pearl girl ( especially early setting) where FL lives a tragedy and ML is a bad boy but good heart boss persona.. and they both learn from each other and grow...
what did not help our FL is the weak initial vengeance trope... episode 1 starts the story at a random time. why…
she has her reasons of course but the production made the the viewer jump in the story too suddenly. maybe it's a personal preference, but music and tears are not enough for me to be fully compelled by a revenge plan in 10 minutes... that affected my appreciation of her performance in the early episodes. when we push the plot so much we loose the character depiction, without the character depiction the audience relates less to the characters
If you are already not fan of their acting i don't think you will like it here. FL switches weirdly between acting…
that's it!! her cunning expressions sometimes make it hard to understand the character depiction! like does she really have everything figured out ? sometimes she throws herself in the fire and i really can't tell if it was on purpose and i think she is just reckless! 😅 i find both actors talented too , and i agree editing and production also have a role to play in the romance! i also found the ML hard to read in his sincerity for the FL. the clearest moment was when she was speaking to the farmers and he watched her sincerly in admiration haha.
I am not really happy with Zhao Ye’s acting so far. I get that her character is serious, driven by revenge...but…
what did not help our FL is the weak initial vengeance trope... episode 1 starts the story at a random time. why now? what does she know? why does she hate everyone so bad but has no clue what happened? it would have been nice to see maybe her planning her first move, slowly revealing her vengeance rage instead of dumping it in the first 10 minutes out of the blue on the viewer! it felt disconnected from the actress. but eventually she grows in her role, by now she is great, but i'm still not sure on her character: is she reckless? will the story always magically put her ahead of everyone and we dont know how?
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in the early episodes they mostly planned separately as well but ended up being aligned. Now it's like a reset for their complicity.
spring of the blade did take a few shortcuts in the storytelling it's missing some substance but aside from that its very enjoyable intense drama.
when qinyan asks 'what would yuna do after?' she is finally seeing more than the revenge, and her character development is coming along!! finally relaxing, smiling and getting excited for something...
after the wedding he literally said that he didn't care if she wanted as long as she was his wife.... it feels sooooo out of character!!probably his only flaw??
but he sure knows how to ask consent and be progressive when it comes to his sisters?!! i really don't know how she'll move past this!
the real elephant in the room is that not once did he ask to see if she agreed. Was it because being from a wealthy family he never learnt to ask consent of wife?! no because he was more than capable to help his duke marry his sister with the willing sister. the whole point was about consent!!
I find that its a core issue in the plot and it's a bit out of character.
was he so jealous he didn't care what she wanted as long as she was his wife? yes, he said that.
him being petty and silly is not enough! so proud of lanxiang for being so strong!
i really don't know how she can move past while healing from her trauma like that tho
he burnt all the complicity and respect they had by doing exactly the opposite of everything lanxiang worked so hard to avoid😭😭😭
lanxiang POV during the wedding day was PERFECTION!!
FL keeps surprising me in this show!
production and editing they really know how to make the moment feel heavy or awkward in the right way. i love it!
Din Yu dramas are often nice, but plotwise not always strong! i think TRTS is one of his best character depiction!
i find both actors talented too , and i agree editing and production also have a role to play in the romance!
i also found the ML hard to read in his sincerity for the FL. the clearest moment was when she was speaking to the farmers and he watched her sincerly in admiration haha.
it would have been nice to see maybe her planning her first move, slowly revealing her vengeance rage instead of dumping it in the first 10 minutes out of the blue on the viewer! it felt disconnected from the actress.
but eventually she grows in her role, by now she is great, but i'm still not sure on her character: is she reckless? will the story always magically put her ahead of everyone and we dont know how?
also i can say the same thing for ML!!