PeachBlossomGoddess

Exactly! Smh.🫣😝

Feifei is NOT a good name for a girl. Its only cute when she's a toddler. After that, she will NOT thank them for it.

Ok I hate to break it to these lovebirds but:

Not only unnecessary, he also made it so obvious I saw it coming miles away. Like at least shock me!!!😱

I am so mad I am gonna take a short break to cool down before continuing.

I was hoping someone would yank off Yulou's mask or it would have slipped while Liu Yan had her in his arms. That would be comic gold. But nope... they had to do the king of cliches kill off the chubby dude right before his marriage... It was so expected I didn't even cry omg. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I was hoping the ending arc at least would be at a higher level of plotting. But nope...

Wei Liang was so so so predictable and teed up they could have and should have surprised us by reversing it.
And the plot is just too convenient - why would a coward like Qiao Yue ally with Liu Yan just after he got is ass kicked by Wei Shao? I know he is a stupid character but that is just too stupid. Not to mention he has effectively surrendered Yanzhou to Liu Yan. Unbelievable.
Just like Daqiao and Bi Zhi knowing Qiao Yue wants Boya, they go rushing off to visit him?
Everyone got dumb.

Ep 34: I am so irritated (MAJOR SPOILER):

Not to mention he openly had so much doubts about him.

I am also just there and I am scared too. It feels like they are fattening him up to be slaughtered.

Grandpa Qiao's biggest mistake was not to demote him.

I agree the plot in this kind of setting could have been better written whether or not it followed the novel.

I did skim the first few chapters of the TPOB but I thought it was just a so-so cliche rebirth plot and not particularly well written. The Douban book reviews were also kind of like meh about it so I didn't continue.

I don’t know why or how this practice originated but it goes back as early as Qin dynasty. It is only practiced by the nobility and the educated and not the common people.

As long as that means a bad end, I am with you.

He was Jin Yong's most boring hero. He didn't deserve Huang Rong.

During that time, a husband can use a wife's given name. A wife however must use his courtesy name or 夫君 (fūjūn) or my lord. It is common for couples in their social class to use 夫君 (fūjūn)/my lord and 夫人 (fūrén)/my lady to address each other. There are variations on this form of address by dynasty. They may also use nicknames in private/family settings.

Bi Zhi is a commoner. Unlike a noble like Wei Shao, he doesn't have a courtesy name. He is just Bi Zhi. Common couples can just use given names for each other.

I am not someone to gush over romance but I did find them convincing as a couple. I think they both conveyed well that they are not ordinary people. They can't just love each other unconditionally even though they may really want to. They have a duty to their people that can get in the way. I think SZE's best moment was her shattered expression when it struck Manman in conversation with Daqiao that unlike Daqiao, she didn't put WS's life first even though she loved WS as much as Daqiao loves Bizhi. Bc both as the WS's wife and as the Qiao clan's ambassador to Wei she has a duty to both the people of Wei and Qiao that has to come ahead of her personal feelings. And WS is equally conflicted between his consequential and deeply personal losses in the past and his feelings for Manman.