I know the princess did heinous shit that can't be forgiven, but Xue Fangfei's plan to expose her was intensely…
The author appeared to have planned retribution of her antagonists’ crimes accordingly:
1) StepMonster sent her rivals into madness and forced imprisonment (first concubine and Jiang Li), so she ended up mad and in her own prison.
2) SYR wanted to climb high in status and be known for his sense of fairness and incorruptibility. Thus he fell from a high place to his death as the most corrupt of them all.
3) So, earlier Wanning stated her crime to all: she wanted to kill innocence and take what she corrupted away from the one who loved him (SYR from XXY). Thus, her ending is to have a corrupted innocence (fake baby) taken away from the one who loved it (herself).
I can address similar retributions to the other baddies, especially that heinous magistrate but their punishments seemed pretty obvious, retribution-wise.
EP 12Omg... The tension. The princess must be a psychopath because how is she able to get away with behaving like…
Right? And later, you will even kind of like Wanning. You'll see what I mean. As for SYR, he became even more delusional, thinking of ways to get back his "love." He forgot that, to keep his status, he killed off his wife and then held a funeral faking his grief, telling everyone she'd ran off with another man and somehow died. What a loser!
We are saying the same things. All the rebirth dramas and revenge books are basically like what you are saying. There is no reincarnation the way it is done in xianxia. Sigh.
I think, in this case, the OP meant the transmigration of this one soul into a dead character's body, which was what happened in the book. It really is a hard and fast rule because I see this same thing trope in DouYin rebirth drama revenge dramas every day (which I'm addicted to).
Who is competition for Xue, though, honestly? And I suppose she knows it, haha. She's by far the smartest, most…
I think the Cdrama writers/production crew is, at the moment, struggling with the new 40-episodes rule. It was implemented in 2022 but they tried to get around it back doing two seasons back-to-back, which, of course, caught the attention of the powers-that-be and then the latter adjusted to a 12-month (?) in-between rule. Which is not possible to sustain any great momentum, as we could see from what's happening with Lost You Forever. LYF isn't exploding like last year because
1) spoilers. People know how it ends. 2) spoilers. People who wanted a different ending for their "CP" aren't tuning in to watch the whole drama, just clips. 3) People forgot the first season. 4) Disappointment in how the second half is rushed.
Also, Till The End of The Moon was totally butchered because of the sudden no two consecutive season rule. There are several others which suffered this fate. So there is a learning curve that is ongoing here. The Double was as close to them getting it done right, UNTIL THOSE FREAKING TEN MINUTES AT THE END, lolol. But I blame that on the Director's ego. He wanted a war frame, with a pretty pic of the ML with pendant in mouth. He got an epic one, but destroyed his perfect ending.
OK, I have a long answer for the sudden emergence of strong female-centric dramas but I won't bore you :D. The main reason is the Internet. Women found freedom to create when the Internet was given to the people; they started writing stories THEY want to read. Today, there are two new terms that divide Chinese novels--stories written from the male gaze (Western version is hero's journey POV) and stories written from the FEMALE gaze (an explosion came into being on websites in those days). I love their term of "male gaze" and "female gaze," don't you? Much more poetic than our male and female POV (point of view) term. Anyway, since the romance genre is mainly a female-centric business and idol dramas are for women (mostly), of course adaptations turn to the great books written from the female gaze. So goodbye Bruce Lee-type revenge-killing fest, hello to the current wonderful dramas like LLTG and The Double!
Anyway, I'll end here for now before your eyes start glazing over. Thank you for this chit-chat. I love it. Not many people enjoy more than a glossover. <3
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1) StepMonster sent her rivals into madness and forced imprisonment (first concubine and Jiang Li), so she ended up mad and in her own prison.
2) SYR wanted to climb high in status and be known for his sense of fairness and incorruptibility. Thus he fell from a high place to his death as the most corrupt of them all.
3) So, earlier Wanning stated her crime to all: she wanted to kill innocence and take what she corrupted away from the one who loved him (SYR from XXY). Thus, her ending is to have a corrupted innocence (fake baby) taken away from the one who loved it (herself).
I can address similar retributions to the other baddies, especially that heinous magistrate but their punishments seemed pretty obvious, retribution-wise.
As for SYR, he became even more delusional, thinking of ways to get back his "love." He forgot that, to keep his status, he killed off his wife and then held a funeral faking his grief, telling everyone she'd ran off with another man and somehow died. What a loser!
1) spoilers. People know how it ends.
2) spoilers. People who wanted a different ending for their "CP" aren't tuning in to watch the whole drama, just clips.
3) People forgot the first season.
4) Disappointment in how the second half is rushed.
Also, Till The End of The Moon was totally butchered because of the sudden no two consecutive season rule. There are several others which suffered this fate. So there is a learning curve that is ongoing here. The Double was as close to them getting it done right, UNTIL THOSE FREAKING TEN MINUTES AT THE END, lolol. But I blame that on the Director's ego. He wanted a war frame, with a pretty pic of the ML with pendant in mouth. He got an epic one, but destroyed his perfect ending.
OK, I have a long answer for the sudden emergence of strong female-centric dramas but I won't bore you :D. The main reason is the Internet. Women found freedom to create when the Internet was given to the people; they started writing stories THEY want to read. Today, there are two new terms that divide Chinese novels--stories written from the male gaze (Western version is hero's journey POV) and stories written from the FEMALE gaze (an explosion came into being on websites in those days). I love their term of "male gaze" and "female gaze," don't you? Much more poetic than our male and female POV (point of view) term. Anyway, since the romance genre is mainly a female-centric business and idol dramas are for women (mostly), of course adaptations turn to the great books written from the female gaze. So goodbye Bruce Lee-type revenge-killing fest, hello to the current wonderful dramas like LLTG and The Double!
Anyway, I'll end here for now before your eyes start glazing over. Thank you for this chit-chat. I love it. Not many people enjoy more than a glossover. <3