They aged her by all that extra pale makeup and orangey eyeshadow
I think it's because this is a thing the director has about it being a Chinese opera. All the characters are like Chinese opera masks, with the and reds and oranges. Of course, they couldn't make them that bright, so instead, you get the pale mask-like makeup. However, the Bad Guys are acting so exaggeratedly, just like the Bad Guy Chinese opera makeup would be.
The weird closeups are also mask-like and the characters' conversation are soliloquy-sounding, like a Chinese play.
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Yes, I love how they push each other to say what they want from the other. When she was drunk, she accused him, "XH, you're not a man! You drink so much and still won't get drunk. Have you never spoken the truth?" (She wanted him to say he was as drunk over her as she was over him--the OST also sings about drunken love at that moment!) He looked at her and said, "And what about you? Having drank that much wine, you still won't tell the truth." (He was more serious, wanting the truth about her identity)
I tell you, I can write an essay on all their little tete-a-tete conversations!
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There's another one too. At the banquet when she was trying to hide from people looking to ruin her reputation, she BACKED into him, and then their conversation contained the words backing, retreating and road. He censured her, "Don't you know an arrow does not retreat?" She had backed into him and I'm taking this as a reference to her being his arrow too. She kind of mocked back, "Isn't that your way (lu = road)?" meaning (for me), Weren't I going the same direction/way as yours? He then questioned, "Is MY road/way that easy?" It's a rather complicated conversation, a lot of pull and push, but I think they were feeling each other out and she was also telling/mocking him that she knew what he was up to. I didn't put this with my post because I can't explain the whole thing well enough, LOL.
Repeating and adding to previous post about flirting wordplay between Duke Su and Jiang Li throughout the episodes:
Repeating and adding to previous post about flirting wordplay between Duke Su and Jiang Li throughout the episodes:
Four instances of them flirting about being a couple: 1) at the bridge, playing the parts and him asking her whether the flower is "steadied." And she said, "Steadied." 2) After she was almost raped, he gave her a whistle and told her "I do not want, before the game has ended, for my Qi (chess piece/wife) to be taken." 3) When she counters his earlier story with a story of her own, about the substitute bride (indirectly telling him of her plan for SYR), he countered back with changing the ending about becoming lovebirds. She said, "Wait and see." 4) In an earlier conversation: She said to him, "I've done the math. I can't repay you." He replied, "Then don't pay me back (meaning, what is mine is yours)." She responded, "Then you'll lose (meaning, I'm going to keep using what is yours)." He said, "I can afford the loss (meaning, what is mine is yours)." She smiled back. This is the second time he is telling her that they are a couple, that he intends to marry her." She understood and smiled EACH time.
Adding: 5) When the Emperor had the conversation with Duke Su about pawns and, specifically, his pawn, JL, Su acknowledged that she was no longer a pawn. At the end of the convo, the emperor gave his tacit approval of the relationship: "Ni de QiZe, ni baohu hao" meaning, Take care of your WIFE. To which, Duke Su smiled softly, as if he had plans....
Umm no. I think Jiang Li has her own long game sheās playing. The trap is set.
I know. I saw that too. But the Duke, the Emperor and JL knew the Crazy Princess would have a trump card. They just didnāt know what. You will see that the Emperor and Duke Su will have a fake quarrel to let the Princess think thereās a fallout, so that she would accept the Dukeās allegiance (when he offers his army to save JL). And then JL would be āthreatenedā by SYR to marry her, who said that the Emperor had agreed. It is all a master plan in the it Art of War. I believe the Princess will be going down at the end of the episode or the next one.
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Her, "Kwei!" command!
The weird closeups are also mask-like and the characters' conversation are soliloquy-sounding, like a Chinese play.
He looked at her and said, "And what about you? Having drank that much wine, you still won't tell the truth." (He was more serious, wanting the truth about her identity)
I tell you, I can write an essay on all their little tete-a-tete conversations!
He censured her, "Don't you know an arrow does not retreat?"
She had backed into him and I'm taking this as a reference to her being his arrow too. She kind of mocked back, "Isn't that your way (lu = road)?" meaning (for me), Weren't I going the same direction/way as yours?
He then questioned, "Is MY road/way that easy?"
It's a rather complicated conversation, a lot of pull and push, but I think they were feeling each other out and she was also telling/mocking him that she knew what he was up to. I didn't put this with my post because I can't explain the whole thing well enough, LOL.
Four instances of them flirting about being a couple:
1) at the bridge, playing the parts and him asking her whether the flower is "steadied." And she said, "Steadied."
2) After she was almost raped, he gave her a whistle and told her "I do not want, before the game has ended, for my Qi (chess piece/wife) to be taken."
3) When she counters his earlier story with a story of her own, about the substitute bride (indirectly telling him of her plan for SYR), he countered back with changing the ending about becoming lovebirds. She said, "Wait and see."
4) In an earlier conversation:
She said to him, "I've done the math. I can't repay you."
He replied, "Then don't pay me back (meaning, what is mine is yours)."
She responded, "Then you'll lose (meaning, I'm going to keep using what is yours)."
He said, "I can afford the loss (meaning, what is mine is yours)."
She smiled back.
This is the second time he is telling her that they are a couple, that he intends to marry her." She understood and smiled EACH time.
Adding:
5) When the Emperor had the conversation with Duke Su about pawns and, specifically, his pawn, JL, Su acknowledged that she was no longer a pawn. At the end of the convo, the emperor gave his tacit approval of the relationship: "Ni de QiZe, ni baohu hao" meaning, Take care of your WIFE. To which, Duke Su smiled softly, as if he had plans....