The only useless team member in Feng's family.The script writer!! I usually hate the enemy so much, but this one…
The scriptwriters are doing a very good job of retaining all key traits and issues of various characters plus certain events from the novel (including the annoyingness of Xiyang), while changing everything else such as improving all other characters and relationships... while likely sacrificing one character. Novel-Xiyang might make you want to throw something through the window when she started believing the Jinxiu Emperor's story about Fu Yixiao and Ning Fei. Then when Novel-Xiyang betrays XJS a second time, this second time involves her brother and Fu Yixiao as well and she could have gotten them all killed including herself.
The scriptwriters did a very good job for the character of Feng Suige. I told my guzheng teacher this is Chen Zheyuan's best drama (she is a Chen Zheyuan fan and I'm not) where he is doing very well in it, and this drama will be timeless.
I don't disagree with you on his enunciation. But the lines he was given to deliver was boring at least half the time, which I struggled to pay attention to. There are many more issues pertaining to production and post-production (of which I summarised the main gist), and I find it odd that he's being lambasted for everything that went wrong with this drama. I don't care for fan wars, which I think are ridiculous. So many awesome collaboration ideas cannot be produced today, sometimes due to such fan wars.
If the Directors and Screenwriters for Fated Hearts had been responsible for Fushanhai, the results would have been much better. I read the novel for Fated Hearts, and I am impressed with how they carefully maintained key elements, key events, and key traits of various characters yet changed 75% of the novel for the drama (the novel was mediocre and a mess at certain parts) and managed to make almost every character plus relationships between all characters better (including characters invented for the drama). Layered with themes, characters are all complex yet understandable, plot pacing is great and despite minor flaws, definitely a timeless drama for which the FL and ML will be recommended muchly in future.
Fushanhai is not easy to adapt, and the directors and screenwriters were clearly not up to the mark. The two brothers were one-dimensional, and I struggled to find chemistry between Tang Rou and Xiao Qiushui.
I want to ask is there anywhere in the novel FSG was kept in cage nd got beaten?
Being caged and beaten is not in the novel. Murong Yao, Murong Zhong, the Storm Alliance and Feng Suige getting stabbed like this do not exist. There are major changes from the novel, at least 75%.
So true~ He's the most righteous out of all the fathers we've seen in the drama. Today's episodes really went…
If Feng Suige wants to save Xiyang from the craziness of two half-brothers clashing, he will need enough backup to enter Jinxiu Kingdom and leave (even if it is done stealthily).
We have seen that Xia Jingshi's methods of success involve cutting off any escape paths and completely swallowing the enemy for elimination. He'll be doing the same thing to Xia Jingyan, and that day is not far away given the antidote halves he has been hoarding. Xiyang isn't astute enough and should she divorce Xia Jingshi without a backup plan, her death will be justified to him because ever since she insulted Yixiao until he snapped and slapped her, I have a feeling he feels obliged to defend the honour of the only woman he loves and rectify the insult.
Get a seatbelt and a ton of water. The screenwriters are going to up the pacing as the drama progresses.
They are doing a very good job. I read the novel and can compare the differences. This drama is actually giving me more mental work than "Mobius", and that was definitely a good drama this year for sleuthing.
Expect main characters and side characters to resemble onions of different sizes. This will be a very complex onion stew. Enjoy watching!
Ngl one of my best scenes so far has been when the crazyass jinxiu emperor knocked some sense into the princess.…
He treated her as someone with accountability which is rich, coming from someone like him. He's probably the first person who treated her like an adult responsible for her decisions.
Its the cut, maybe they really dont want the romance to be the focus. Everything about the drama is great, the…
This drama will age well. 10 years from now, it will be one of the first few historical cdramas coming to mind, if one is asked to suggest a strong FL.
So true~ He's the most righteous out of all the fathers we've seen in the drama. Today's episodes really went…
We have 12 episodes left, and the scriptwriters are going at breakneck speed to wrap up loose ends, still tightly maintaining control. And it looks like the fires will ignite in Jinxiu as well, for the next two episodes.
His world came crashing down on him, the moment he stared carefully at the four females in black who had come…
The Emperor has just realised that the woman he kept trying to defeat kept him alive. He lost his son, in trying to shape him in the only ways he believed were best for creating an Emperor.
Those two emotional blows were likely what made him decide to let Murong Zhong go. Did the Emperor have someone record down what Murong Zhong confessed about Murong Yao?
His world came crashing down on him, the moment he stared carefully at the four females in black who had come…
Physician Ling Feng being asked to save him, by the wife he indirectly killed truly burns. Feng Pingcheng grew up in poverty and a refugee camp, and it is understandable that he came to believe in the need to fight and seize power. Whatever regret he feels now, he still wants Suige to take the throne and he believes a general amnesty will suffice.
Many messes happen because of decisions made when we don't have the pieces. This happens everyday. This drama nicely encapsulates all the messy grey shades of humans and decisions.
If there's one parent I feel the most for at this point, it is Murong Yao's father. The actors as fathers in this…
His world came crashing down on him, the moment he stared carefully at the four females in black who had come with his son and killed two innocent men, who refused to heed his orders except for one look from his son. Superb acting.
At least Murong Yao finally got the disciplining he deserved. That said, you can see how conflicted Murong Yao felt. Zuo Ye deserves a big role in another drama.
If there's one parent I feel the most for at this point, it is Murong Yao's father. The actors as fathers in this drama are giving superb portrayals that elicit specific emotions, whether it is PM Zhuang, Feng Pingcheng, or Murong Zhong. Also, kudos to Zuo Ye interacting with the actor who plays his father.
Novel readers plz tell me how the princess will have an ending? Wil there be a character development for her or…
At the end of the novel, Xiyang dies after betraying Xia Jingshi once and then betraying him + Yixiao + her brother as a second time, then comes to her senses for Xia Jingshi honouring a promise to never abandon her and hence takes a mortal wound for him. The screenwriters have kept certain traits and events from the novel, but altered the timeline and/or the cause of the incident. The ending for drama-Xiyang might be different. However, she is about to do something monumentally stupid that might get her killed, which aligns with her novel motivations of driven to desperation from Xia Jingshi's constant rejection plus irrational jealousy of Yixiao... which is what got her killed.
I haven’t read the novel, but after all the little excerpts, I feel like they’ve kept almost only the characters’…
The writers have definitely maintained certain elements and fundamental traits of the main characters who are in the novel. If they retain an event, they alter the cause and/or timeline of the event. The motivations and issues of novel-Xiyang are still maintained, only changing certain events.
And while the drama is quite different from the novel, it is clear to me that the writers have preserved certain elements and traits and events from the novel, even if there is at least 70% difference of plot at this point. Otherwise novel readers would object. I am not objecting on almost everything because of how vastly improved many details have been when used for this drama, plus what has been retained about Fu Yixiao and Feng Suige and other characters as constant balancing efforts. For example, what is in episode 2 (what Feng Suige does to enemy general Fu Yixiao) is also in the novel, only different in certain details.
Xia Jing Shi has a grand plan. Staying for a long time in Su Sha will ruin it, I guess. That's why he gladly accepts…
Sorry about the delay. My notifications got weird ie delayed or zero when this site gave me issues 2 days back. This is where I believe drama-XJS results in a very divided audience due to two main issues:
1) Adaption from novel 2) Emoting limitations of an actor who visually fits the part but is not adequate at micro-expressing.
Xia Jingshi is supposed to at least be in charge of the military power, which is also from the novel. This also matches the drama.
I had wondered how XJS would find a way to escape and return to Jinxiu, but the scriptwriters made it such that XIyang is still going to Jinxiu (as per the novel) but in a different manner and for a different reason in the drama. Drama-XJS isn't completely heartless and cruel and always strategic, which a lot of viewers on this page overlook due to understandably lambasting him over the choices he made about sacrificing citizens and shooting Yixiao. In a flashback of an earlier episode, XJS told Yixiao to leave during battle when he appeared injured but she refused to leave and let him die. When XJS gave Xiyang the option to leave, I believe he had decided he would find a way.
I don't believe the directors and writers are trying to give XJS a redemption arc. I believe they will present everyone on respective platters, because they have already shown that they handle certain tropes like amnesia well. The writers have definitely maintained certain elements and traits of the main characters who are in the novel. If they retain an event, they alter the cause and/or timeline of the event.
Drama-Xiyang has finally caught up to novel-Xiyang, in what is about to be the most stupid decision likely getting her justifiably killed by XJS. The woman is a sheltered naive princess used to getting what she wants without rejection. She wants XJS to love her because she is is not in love with him but her idea of what she wants him to be for her. He constantly refuses her obsession in words and actions. Her desperation for his love and irrational jealousy of Yixiao is her undoing, both in the drama and novel. When she dresses up like Yixiao (same hairstyle and dress) and vilifies Yixiao, XJS finally snaps and strikes her (this part is not in the novel). This drives her to decide to align with Xia Jingyan.
Also, I don't think Xia Jingyan will fall in love with Xiyang in the drama, even if she aligns herself with him. In the novel, that character is cruel and capricious and only wants to deny his brother XJS any good fortune, and he tricks her while nearly killing her by getting Yixiao to accidentally stab her through the chest. If Xiyang marries him, she is likely to suffer. If the screenwriters fundamentally change this character, I'm going to be very surprised because how are they going to justify this loathsome chap who gets maids beaten to death on a whim?
Ruyan the dancer is going to play a vital part in the drama later, when Yixiao needs to find Feng Suige, if I am not wrong. The Storm Alliance will likely also be shown in the drama, because Feng Suige cannot make a strategic attempt to save Xiyang without backup of some sort.
Murong Yao may play a part in whether Feng Suige takes the throne and/or how the rebellion by XJS in Jinxiu Kingdom turns out. I have not figured out the rationale for the death camp warriors which XJS allowed Murong Yao to use. Did XJS agree to take part in a plan to also get rid of Feng Suige, whom XJS sees as a threat to Jinxiu? We therefore need to have things wrapped up in Susha plus Jinxiu, so two parallel plots are needed.
I don't think Murong Yao is badly-written or incoherent, because he comes across as a mixture of petty, childish and partially understandable but not justified in his stance towards Feng Suige. Murong Yao is a loose cannon, where his only loyalty is to his father. People are very varied.
The writers (to me) have tried to give characters different shades of grey. And while the drama is quite different from the novel, it is clear to me that the writers have preserved certain elements and traits and events from the novel, even if there is at least 70% difference of plot at this point. Otherwise novel readers would object. I am not objecting because of how vastly improved many details have been when used for this drama, plus what has been retained about Fu Yixiao and Feng Suige and other characters as constant balancing efforts.
ETA: The Empress Dowager of Jinxiu is two-faced in the novel. I believe she will be the same here, only she wants to preserve her position as Empress Dowager in the drama. It will therefore make sense for this character to pit both half-brothers against each other. As to whether XJS will seek to find out the truth behind the deaths of his mother and father ie the late Emperor, that is only in the novel for now but not yet known if it will be a motivation for drama-Xia Jingshi.
As to how it is possible for Feng Suige and Xia Jingshi to come to a truce, if both of them take the thrones of their own kingdoms? It will require Ning Fei who will be at the Storm Alliance to tell Yixiao certain things about Xia Jingshi so that she can talk to him and persuade him into a truce between both kingdoms with terms he can agree to. And if Xia Jingshi loves her as much as indicated in the novel and if this factor matches the drama, then he will agree. But first, XJS will definitely have to fight Feng Suige and survive, when Feng Suige goes to save Xiyang. .
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The scriptwriters did a very good job for the character of Feng Suige. I told my guzheng teacher this is Chen Zheyuan's best drama (she is a Chen Zheyuan fan and I'm not) where he is doing very well in it, and this drama will be timeless.
I don't disagree with you on his enunciation. But the lines he was given to deliver was boring at least half the time, which I struggled to pay attention to. There are many more issues pertaining to production and post-production (of which I summarised the main gist), and I find it odd that he's being lambasted for everything that went wrong with this drama. I don't care for fan wars, which I think are ridiculous. So many awesome collaboration ideas cannot be produced today, sometimes due to such fan wars.
If the Directors and Screenwriters for Fated Hearts had been responsible for Fushanhai, the results would have been much better. I read the novel for Fated Hearts, and I am impressed with how they carefully maintained key elements, key events, and key traits of various characters yet changed 75% of the novel for the drama (the novel was mediocre and a mess at certain parts) and managed to make almost every character plus relationships between all characters better (including characters invented for the drama). Layered with themes, characters are all complex yet understandable, plot pacing is great and despite minor flaws, definitely a timeless drama for which the FL and ML will be recommended muchly in future.
Fushanhai is not easy to adapt, and the directors and screenwriters were clearly not up to the mark. The two brothers were one-dimensional, and I struggled to find chemistry between Tang Rou and Xiao Qiushui.
You can read the changes for yourself: https://kisskh.at/discussions/768987-wan-xin-ji/145636-novel-versus-drama-differences?pid=3405970&page=1#p3405970
We have seen that Xia Jingshi's methods of success involve cutting off any escape paths and completely swallowing the enemy for elimination. He'll be doing the same thing to Xia Jingyan, and that day is not far away given the antidote halves he has been hoarding. Xiyang isn't astute enough and should she divorce Xia Jingshi without a backup plan, her death will be justified to him because ever since she insulted Yixiao until he snapped and slapped her, I have a feeling he feels obliged to defend the honour of the only woman he loves and rectify the insult.
Expect main characters and side characters to resemble onions of different sizes. This will be a very complex onion stew. Enjoy watching!
Those two emotional blows were likely what made him decide to let Murong Zhong go. Did the Emperor have someone record down what Murong Zhong confessed about Murong Yao?
Many messes happen because of decisions made when we don't have the pieces. This happens everyday. This drama nicely encapsulates all the messy grey shades of humans and decisions.
At least Murong Yao finally got the disciplining he deserved. That said, you can see how conflicted Murong Yao felt. Zuo Ye deserves a big role in another drama.
This comment summarising details about drama-Xiyang versus novel-Xiyang might help you: https://kisskh.at/768987-wan-xin-ji#comment-23761606
And while the drama is quite different from the novel, it is clear to me that the writers have preserved certain elements and traits and events from the novel, even if there is at least 70% difference of plot at this point. Otherwise novel readers would object. I am not objecting on almost everything because of how vastly improved many details have been when used for this drama, plus what has been retained about Fu Yixiao and Feng Suige and other characters as constant balancing efforts. For example, what is in episode 2 (what Feng Suige does to enemy general Fu Yixiao) is also in the novel, only different in certain details.
1) Adaption from novel
2) Emoting limitations of an actor who visually fits the part but is not adequate at micro-expressing.
Xia Jingshi is supposed to at least be in charge of the military power, which is also from the novel. This also matches the drama.
I had wondered how XJS would find a way to escape and return to Jinxiu, but the scriptwriters made it such that XIyang is still going to Jinxiu (as per the novel) but in a different manner and for a different reason in the drama. Drama-XJS isn't completely heartless and cruel and always strategic, which a lot of viewers on this page overlook due to understandably lambasting him over the choices he made about sacrificing citizens and shooting Yixiao. In a flashback of an earlier episode, XJS told Yixiao to leave during battle when he appeared injured but she refused to leave and let him die. When XJS gave Xiyang the option to leave, I believe he had decided he would find a way.
I don't believe the directors and writers are trying to give XJS a redemption arc. I believe they will present everyone on respective platters, because they have already shown that they handle certain tropes like amnesia well. The writers have definitely maintained certain elements and traits of the main characters who are in the novel. If they retain an event, they alter the cause and/or timeline of the event.
Drama-Xiyang has finally caught up to novel-Xiyang, in what is about to be the most stupid decision likely getting her justifiably killed by XJS. The woman is a sheltered naive princess used to getting what she wants without rejection. She wants XJS to love her because she is is not in love with him but her idea of what she wants him to be for her. He constantly refuses her obsession in words and actions. Her desperation for his love and irrational jealousy of Yixiao is her undoing, both in the drama and novel. When she dresses up like Yixiao (same hairstyle and dress) and vilifies Yixiao, XJS finally snaps and strikes her (this part is not in the novel). This drives her to decide to align with Xia Jingyan.
Also, I don't think Xia Jingyan will fall in love with Xiyang in the drama, even if she aligns herself with him. In the novel, that character is cruel and capricious and only wants to deny his brother XJS any good fortune, and he tricks her while nearly killing her by getting Yixiao to accidentally stab her through the chest. If Xiyang marries him, she is likely to suffer. If the screenwriters fundamentally change this character, I'm going to be very surprised because how are they going to justify this loathsome chap who gets maids beaten to death on a whim?
Ruyan the dancer is going to play a vital part in the drama later, when Yixiao needs to find Feng Suige, if I am not wrong. The Storm Alliance will likely also be shown in the drama, because Feng Suige cannot make a strategic attempt to save Xiyang without backup of some sort.
Murong Yao may play a part in whether Feng Suige takes the throne and/or how the rebellion by XJS in Jinxiu Kingdom turns out. I have not figured out the rationale for the death camp warriors which XJS allowed Murong Yao to use. Did XJS agree to take part in a plan to also get rid of Feng Suige, whom XJS sees as a threat to Jinxiu? We therefore need to have things wrapped up in Susha plus Jinxiu, so two parallel plots are needed.
I don't think Murong Yao is badly-written or incoherent, because he comes across as a mixture of petty, childish and partially understandable but not justified in his stance towards Feng Suige. Murong Yao is a loose cannon, where his only loyalty is to his father. People are very varied.
The writers (to me) have tried to give characters different shades of grey.
And while the drama is quite different from the novel, it is clear to me that the writers have preserved certain elements and traits and events from the novel, even if there is at least 70% difference of plot at this point. Otherwise novel readers would object. I am not objecting because of how vastly improved many details have been when used for this drama, plus what has been retained about Fu Yixiao and Feng Suige and other characters as constant balancing efforts.
ETA: The Empress Dowager of Jinxiu is two-faced in the novel. I believe she will be the same here, only she wants to preserve her position as Empress Dowager in the drama. It will therefore make sense for this character to pit both half-brothers against each other. As to whether XJS will seek to find out the truth behind the deaths of his mother and father ie the late Emperor, that is only in the novel for now but not yet known if it will be a motivation for drama-Xia Jingshi.
As to how it is possible for Feng Suige and Xia Jingshi to come to a truce, if both of them take the thrones of their own kingdoms? It will require Ning Fei who will be at the Storm Alliance to tell Yixiao certain things about Xia Jingshi so that she can talk to him and persuade him into a truce between both kingdoms with terms he can agree to. And if Xia Jingshi loves her as much as indicated in the novel and if this factor matches the drama, then he will agree. But first, XJS will definitely have to fight Feng Suige and survive, when Feng Suige goes to save Xiyang.
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