SandGirl_Nicky

They share a universe. In the LOTFG novel, the author referenced to Shen Miao from the Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage. From the writing, it’s indicated that Shen Miao had lived a long time ago. Similarly, the Double is set in the same universe, but in a different point in time.

XJ’s father had multiple times addressed the Prime Minister’s excessive reach in the country’s affairs, of corruption, bribing, installing his cronies everywhere etc. all of those things are true of course, and XJ’s dad said it out loud multiple times in front of the whole court.

The Prime Minister’s daughter learnt how to be vindictive from her father, so you can imagine how much the PM hated being called out. He believed himself untouchable, so he devised a plan to get rid of XJ’s family prestige and backbone.

Yes, it’s both the writing but also the acting. The Double SML actor was much better at portraying a complex character

Given that she had destroyed another woman, who dared like CZ, she’s definitely got an evil side to her. Unfortunately they hadn’t shown this in the drama.

The SML can’t act well. Initially it wasn’t as obvious, but the more the plot progresses, the more his poor acting skills betray him on the screen

She’s had her birthday in the novel, so that would make her 17. And he is 22 I think , if not 23. He was older than the original He Yan by 1-2 years as well

He was playing the king. That’s not what happened at all

In the novel, he actually gets the message pretty quickly. If he does pester her, it’s only to create problems for Xiao Jue.

In the drama, they needlessly dragged this out

None whatsoever 😢

I do agree, it’s only his eyes that match the description. We’ll see how they end up casting…

Eyes dripping with honey.

I can finally see an actual depiction of that every time Xiao Jue looks at He Yan.

Chang Lei is a contender for the best infatuated ML portrayal 😎

It would be very funny if Cheng Lei gets cast as XJX in Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage 🤭🤭

He’s got the peach flower eyes 🤣

It’s not misogyny 🫠

The emperor never finds out that He Yan is the Feihong General, he doesn’t yet know what she can do in battle, beyond assisting Xiao Jue in a few battles. It’s not good to look for evidence of a slight where there’s none. It’s not to say that there weren’t misogynistic officials, but at that point in time her brilliance wasn’t yet displayed without it being shadowed by XJ’s accomplishments.

I had a pretty similar confession.

My husband, back then my boyfriend, gave me a big bouquet of red roses on our 6 month-anniversary for the first time. I kind of casually asked him if he knew what the roses meant, and he answered me “I do know. Do you?” That’s how we ended up saying “I love you” to each other for the first time ❤️

Well said

He didn’t like her romantically. He saw a lot of himself in her as HRF, that’s why he helped her. She however did like him even back then

She was a struggling student, and he was the best, having been taught by transcendent masters from a very young age (and we are talking 3-4 yo, perhaps even less) to mid-teenagehood. How does it hurt her backstory? That’s nonsense. It shows that she was willing to learn and did so unrelentingly.

It wasn’t wrong at all. The emperor has a soft spot for star-crossed lovers, so XJ used that angle fully knowing that he was more likely to be successful.

Historically Uyghur people even had blonde hair and grey/blue/green eyes

I love it so far! The drama has got a nice undertone, half-obscure half-radiant. It’s great