Summary of SFHY's life story in 3 sentences:SFHY: We're going to kill another tribe coz we need to survive and…
I actually put off Tribes and Empires b/c of him.. Ofc the root of the problem was the prophecy and censorship of the Muyun but SFHY was also part of the problem. His mother told him that outsiders were bad luck but he insisted on helping the seer b/c he wanted him as his servant. He just wanted to save him so the guy can be his servant.. hypocrisy. So he is like a person with power but when a higher power strikes him, he's the victim. Even after that, he didn't learn. He is still full of himself and thinks that he is a King. He is still full of pride, arrogance and stubbornness. I really hope he becomes more and more humble but guess it'll take a while, after more and more losses that will just fuel his thirst for revenge more. Really dislike the fact that he blamed the other 2 characters, Muyun Sheng and Han Jiang, it's not like they don't got problems of their own and it's not like they don't want peace as well. Muyun Sheng never wanted to be a person of power, he has always been shunned but after learning how his birth status affected SFHY, it makes him feel even worst. It wasn't his fault, he can't pick his parents. Han Jiang was shunned from the Muru family and you hate him b/c he's a Muru and has Muru blood despite the fact that his family wants to kill him .. like ok.. hate everyone in the family even the innocents ok. And it's not like Muru family can control the whole army or know much of what's going on. There's such thing as corruption in the army but we don't know about that.
... Also so far.. two girls were all like "you are mines" to SFHY.. like wth.. I'm rather iffy about how merchant girl fell for SFHY and threatens her father with her own life to marry this guy she met for like 1 week? because he saved her life. Well I understand that hero saves beauty concept but like beauty threatens her own father with her own life is like overboard for me.
is it always so strict and intense in chinese schools like in this drama? I mean for example if the class hasn´t…
High school is a very intense period of time for Chinese students. Their life status depends on the Gao Kao (National Higher Education Entrance Examination). For this exam, every year there are students that commits suicide due to the intense studying and competition. If they failed to achieve the score they want, there are some that will commit suicide after they get their results. In China, you make it or break it depends on your score for the Gao Kao, society and your parents begins prepping you for this exam since early on, even in elementary for some students. In America for example, not everything is based on your SAT or ACT scores, colleges and universities also look at your grades in high school, your after school activities and if you did community service or what not but in China, they base it solely on the Gao Kao. I'm not 100% sure if it is like that in every school in China but as a Chinese person and an Asian Studies major, I have heard of the intensity of this exam even though I have never taken it. Teachers were complaining in the drama because they know how important the Gao Kao is, for the students and for the school. The scores of the Gao Kao also determines the high school's standing and if more students will come to their school. If you read up news about the Gao Kao, there are some schools that gives students IV drips while they study or even oxygen masks.
Gdi I teared up in Lu Yang and Lin Jing Xiao's wedding. It really made me think of how really weddings should be.. this pure and loving? Also teared up when Jiang Chen finally confessed how he felt for Xiao Xi. How in his childhood, his father passed away, his mother left for work and only took his brother so he felt that people by his side will always leave him, thus, he is cold and indifferent to everyone around him. But Xiao Xi was different, she was always by his side so he took her for granted and thought she'll always be by his side. Because she was always by his side, he gradually started noticing her and started wondering what she is doing. He thought she'll come look for him like always but she didn't (well she did but she thought he left already). When he came back to look for her, she was with Bo Song so he thought maybe she is better off with someone else and would realize that he (Jiang Chen) isn't as great as she thought. He tried to convince himself, she has so many faults, there might be better people out there but then he realized that he wants to hear her talk, he wants to eat with her and he wants to be by her side and that it has to be her. He also said that he doesn't know why she likes him.
I'm on episode 34 and wanted to thank you so much for the recap. Was sort of lost with all the political going-ons.
I'm currently watching episode 34 now. The above was a clip I found while waiting for episodes to come out xD. In ep 33, the drama kinda hinted that the other country might be the one behind on the replica dagger thing. Ep 33, there's a murder claim with Official Fang's maid, Hong Yi? Forgot her name. The murder's wife offered to take the blame if anything, wife said that if someone has to go to prison, she will go for him because he's the head of the household and the household will collapse if he goes to jail. But right now, they are blaming it on Hong Yi, saying that she suicide out of anger or something. In previous episodes, Hong Yi didn't want to sing/play a song at the brothel she was working at. The head of the brothel slapped her on the cheeks and later on Hong Yi decides to jump off the building but was saved by Yu Jin and Official Fang. Head of brothel testified that Hong Yi has a bad temper and was going to suicide for getting slapped on the cheeks. The wife of the murder says that she slapped Hong Yi on the cheek because Hong Yi was trying to steal her bracelet, after the slap, Hong Yi ran off and she didn't know Hong Yi killed herself until the corpse was dug up from her well. Edit: Oh the maid's name is Hong Qiang
Can I copy your post to the list of episode summaries thread?
Yes you may but I don't think I recap everything, there are certain things I left out.. I forgot what episodes is the replica ep... idk if I included that or not >o<;; and my Chinese isn't that good so not 100% sure if everything is correct. Please put a disclaimer when you post. Thanks :)
I think this is gender bender because before returning to the capital, everyone but her close family members and some of her trusted soldiers know that she's a woman but everybody else thinks she's a men. She asked the Emperor to pardon her for not letting him know that she's female. In her military family, she was raised like a male anyways, her mentally ill grandfather keeps thinking that she's male. She likes pampering beauties and has a weak spot for weak, innocent, beautiful women. Despite being female, some of the females in the drama swoons over her and said if General was actually male, so many females in the capital will be chasing after her. Her own cousin also didn't know the General is female and waited for General's return. Yu Jin (her husband) gets hit on by males sometimes.
Ok so from ep 32 onward, I saw a small clip where the General kinda got demoted. Her power of controlling the army was striped and the Emperor told her to focus on getting pregnant and being Yu Jin's wife. The Emperor demoted her with the reason of having her focus on getting pregnant and giving birth is because the court officials are complaining about her. Instead of like punishing her like the court officials wished, he kinda gave her time off and took away her military power. Court officials doesn't like her because 1. she's a woman with power 2. she killed some of their relatives due to their misconduct which resulted in them violating the military code (example: Empress's nephew) 3. some officials which Yu Jin squeezed money from during the flood case has a grudge against her 4. one of the court officials found her dagger (a replica someone made) at this old crime scene (I didn't really understand it that well but I think someone betrayed the government and this resulted in the death of an official so they think Ye Zhao killed the official). So with all this, the officials pressured Emperor. So General got demoted but later on Emperor found out that the Qi or Qing Wang (not sure) might have plans of rebelling. Qi/Qing Wang is the Emperor's brother. So Yu Jin offered to go check but the Emperor doesn't want to send Yu Jin but Yu Jin said Ye Zhao is coming so the Emperor let Ye Zhao and Yu Jin both go to look for clues on whether Qing Wang is preparing an army to rebel or not. Another war and General has to fight in the war again but this time Yu Jin doesn't want his wife to be the only one fighting so he also want to take part in the fight/war. I saw this small summary clip on youtube btw. The Video also said that Yu Jin just wanted to have children with Ye Zhao and doesn't want any more concubines and kind of dismissed his 3 current concubines, he just want children with Ye Zhao alone and to have her to be his only wife.
Ep 17 (just some key points?) fyi my Chinese isn't that great. Basically Hu Li suspect Ye Zhao (general)'s cousin for adding some type of drug into the plants (or the plants together creates an ill effect, don't remember that clearly) she gave to Yu Jin (general's husband) but the couple does not seems to realize that. Hu Li had to keep low about it because the general really treasures her cousin and both her husband and herself believe the cousin to be pure and innocent. Hu Li instead told Yu Jin that it would be better to have the plant outside and to not to eat any desserts the cousin made because Yu Jin is recovering from his illness. Hu Li in this episode also tries to predict the cousin's motive, he reasoned that she might hate Yu Jin because he took away Ye Zhao from her so she is plotting against Yu Jin. When Ye Zhao, Cousin and Yu Jin went out, Yu Jin fell into the water because the cousin shot a concealed needle to his knee. His knee becomes numbed and he fell from the bridge into the water. The Cousin jumped into the water to try to save Yu Jin but they both can't swim. Under the water, the cousin chopped Yu Jin's neck. The general ended up saving both of them but this event happened in front of a large crowd. General later on noticed the bruise on Yu Jin's neck and finds it strange so she also asked him where else did he get hurt and found out that the injury on his knee was caused by a concealed needle. The cousin cries about how she lost her maiden's innocence because she was caught together with Yu Jin in front of a large crowd (imo I think this means that the crowd might think there's something going on with her and Yu Jin).
Ep 18 Ye Zhao and Yu Jin pretends to have a fight over having the cousin become a concubine but it did not fool the cousin. The cousin became rather sad and angry because she knows that despite the spat, even if it was pretend, Ye Zhao will still stay with Yu Jin. The cousin plotted this so that Ye Zhao will separate/divorce Yu Jin. The Cousin wanted Ye Zhao to wake up and see that her husband isn't suited for her. End of this ep, the cousin wanted Ye Zhao to "wake up" so she decides to hang herself.
Ep 19 Ye Zhao managed to get there in time, pass air mouth to mouth to the cousin. Yu Jin's personal servant saw this and reported to Yu Jin, Yu Jin became very jealous and say he'll commit suicide as well. Basically this episode, Ye Zhao is squished in the middle between her fragile attention seeking cousin and her jealous attention seeking husband. Yu Jin wants Ye Zhao to send the cousin back to home. But Ye Zhao is still considering about it. We find out from Hu Li that her cousin is her only cousin, she doesn't have any other cousins. Her family consists of her cousin, her widowed sister in in law with her two sons, her not sane grandfather and her uncle. Hu Li spoke about how some things are easy for one person to obtain but hard for another person, comparing Yu Jin's 10+ cousins and living relatives to Ye Zhao's. Yu Jin from this conversation still wants the cousin to be gone but decides that he'll take whatever decision Ye Zhao makes. We get another scene of where Ye Zhao is lonely due to the lack of family members, where she has a dilemma but doesn't really have anyone by her side to support her. Her mentally ill grandfather keeps telling her to seek advice from her parents. It is rather heartbreaking to see that the people her grandfather suggested her to seek advice from is no longer alive but yet she has to pretend that they are alive in front of her grandfather.
Ep 20-21 After seeking getting advice from her father through a mirage/day dream type of thing where the father said something along the lines of even in war we have to make sacrifices. Ye Zhao decides to send her cousin back home. She explained to her cousin that she fell love at first sight with Yu Jin, she doesn't want to give Yu Jin up and that she owes him alot because when they were little, she caused him to fall into water resulting in his mother locking him up. In some sense, General feels that she owes her cousin because she made her cousin wait for her return despite the fact that she knows that her and her cousin can never be together due to her gender so she feels guilty about that and wants to do the best she can for her cousin. We get more details about the political structure in this drama. General beheaded the Empress's nephew due to the nephew violating the military code of picking on lower ranked soldiers and killing a civilian soldier. Empress complains to the Emperor and asked the Emperor to pardon her nephew but Emperor deny the request since military code was set up by the previous Emperor and the nephew killed someone. Empress vows to remember General's name for revenge. Current favorite consort is the Imperial Consort and not the Empress. Empress is jealous of the Imperial Consort and tries to make things difficult for her. In a spat between the Empress and the Imperial Consort, the Empress injured the Emperor. This action allowed some ministers try to remove the Empress and to replace her with someone else.
Ep 22-24 From ep 22 to 23 the General and Yu Jin doesn't appear much. Some of the officials tries to persuade the Emperor to not replace the Empress but Emperor never really liked the Empress. Some drama in the harem, the Empress Dowager is not really his mother and his real mother dies and his real parentage was revealed after his real mother + Empress Dowager passed away. Before his real mother died, the General had the Emperor and his real mother meet up but the real mother did not reveal who she is because the Empress Dowager asked her not to. Current Empress Dowager is his second mother, so Emperor has a real mom, a mom (Empress Dowager), and a second mom (his father's imperial consort). In ep 24 some of the officials bought up an issue of getting the nobles to all take an exam. If they don't pass the exam, they will lose their job, only nobles between 15 to 25 (I think) have to take this exam. Ye Zhao persuades her husband to study to take this exam and that she believes him. Yu Jin asked her why should he even take this exam, her reply is to prove himself, that he is smart and intelligent and he is a not a wastrel.
I was really turned off when Xiao Tan used Tan Er's body to sleep with the 8th Prince and her "this…
But she still time traveled o: Xiao Tan is a modern sales agent, she uses modern slang/vocab, asked people to make her modern objects (toothbrush, slippers).
I was really turned off when Xiao Tan used Tan Er's body to sleep with the 8th Prince and her "this body isn't mines anyways". Despite the fact that Xiao Tan is in her 20s and is a great real estate agent, her sense of logic is a little off. I felt really bad for Tan Er, her body isn't hers, her family doesn't like her, the love of her life married her sister (who bullies her), her husband isn't in love with her but with the other soul that's residing in her body, and her childhood servant is not totally 100% on her side. I''m still watching this drama because female lead and male lead has great chemistry, their scenes together are cute, also I'm curious on how this soul switching will turn out and if female lead ever goes back to the modern period. In some sense, I'm hoping for that Startling Step by Step feels where the female lead experiences a great romance and then goes back to the modern world, that sense of, I found love but now I'm empty again. What I'm hoping is that Tan Er also falls for the 8th Prince and 8th Prince likes both of the souls residing in the body.
Ofc the root of the problem was the prophecy and censorship of the Muyun but SFHY was also part of the problem.
His mother told him that outsiders were bad luck but he insisted on helping the seer b/c he wanted him as his servant. He just wanted to save him so the guy can be his servant.. hypocrisy. So he is like a person with power but when a higher power strikes him, he's the victim.
Even after that, he didn't learn. He is still full of himself and thinks that he is a King. He is still full of pride, arrogance and stubbornness. I really hope he becomes more and more humble but guess it'll take a while, after more and more losses that will just fuel his thirst for revenge more. Really dislike the fact that he blamed the other 2 characters, Muyun Sheng and Han Jiang, it's not like they don't got problems of their own and it's not like they don't want peace as well.
Muyun Sheng never wanted to be a person of power, he has always been shunned but after learning how his birth status affected SFHY, it makes him feel even worst. It wasn't his fault, he can't pick his parents.
Han Jiang was shunned from the Muru family and you hate him b/c he's a Muru and has Muru blood despite the fact that his family wants to kill him .. like ok.. hate everyone in the family even the innocents ok. And it's not like Muru family can control the whole army or know much of what's going on. There's such thing as corruption in the army but we don't know about that.
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Also so far.. two girls were all like "you are mines" to SFHY.. like wth..
I'm rather iffy about how merchant girl fell for SFHY and threatens her father with her own life to marry this guy she met for like 1 week? because he saved her life. Well I understand that hero saves beauty concept but like beauty threatens her own father with her own life is like overboard for me.
I'm not 100% sure if it is like that in every school in China but as a Chinese person and an Asian Studies major, I have heard of the intensity of this exam even though I have never taken it.
Teachers were complaining in the drama because they know how important the Gao Kao is, for the students and for the school. The scores of the Gao Kao also determines the high school's standing and if more students will come to their school. If you read up news about the Gao Kao, there are some schools that gives students IV drips while they study or even oxygen masks.
Also teared up when Jiang Chen finally confessed how he felt for Xiao Xi. How in his childhood, his father passed away, his mother left for work and only took his brother so he felt that people by his side will always leave him, thus, he is cold and indifferent to everyone around him. But Xiao Xi was different, she was always by his side so he took her for granted and thought she'll always be by his side. Because she was always by his side, he gradually started noticing her and started wondering what she is doing. He thought she'll come look for him like always but she didn't (well she did but she thought he left already). When he came back to look for her, she was with Bo Song so he thought maybe she is better off with someone else and would realize that he (Jiang Chen) isn't as great as she thought. He tried to convince himself, she has so many faults, there might be better people out there but then he realized that he wants to hear her talk, he wants to eat with her and he wants to be by her side and that it has to be her. He also said that he doesn't know why she likes him.
Edit: Oh the maid's name is Hong Qiang
Her own cousin also didn't know the General is female and waited for General's return.
Yu Jin (her husband) gets hit on by males sometimes.
So General got demoted but later on Emperor found out that the Qi or Qing Wang (not sure) might have plans of rebelling. Qi/Qing Wang is the Emperor's brother. So Yu Jin offered to go check but the Emperor doesn't want to send Yu Jin but Yu Jin said Ye Zhao is coming so the Emperor let Ye Zhao and Yu Jin both go to look for clues on whether Qing Wang is preparing an army to rebel or not.
Another war and General has to fight in the war again but this time Yu Jin doesn't want his wife to be the only one fighting so he also want to take part in the fight/war.
I saw this small summary clip on youtube btw. The Video also said that Yu Jin just wanted to have children with Ye Zhao and doesn't want any more concubines and kind of dismissed his 3 current concubines, he just want children with Ye Zhao alone and to have her to be his only wife.
Basically Hu Li suspect Ye Zhao (general)'s cousin for adding some type of drug into the plants (or the plants together creates an ill effect, don't remember that clearly) she gave to Yu Jin (general's husband) but the couple does not seems to realize that. Hu Li had to keep low about it because the general really treasures her cousin and both her husband and herself believe the cousin to be pure and innocent. Hu Li instead told Yu Jin that it would be better to have the plant outside and to not to eat any desserts the cousin made because Yu Jin is recovering from his illness. Hu Li in this episode also tries to predict the cousin's motive, he reasoned that she might hate Yu Jin because he took away Ye Zhao from her so she is plotting against Yu Jin.
When Ye Zhao, Cousin and Yu Jin went out, Yu Jin fell into the water because the cousin shot a concealed needle to his knee. His knee becomes numbed and he fell from the bridge into the water. The Cousin jumped into the water to try to save Yu Jin but they both can't swim. Under the water, the cousin chopped Yu Jin's neck. The general ended up saving both of them but this event happened in front of a large crowd. General later on noticed the bruise on Yu Jin's neck and finds it strange so she also asked him where else did he get hurt and found out that the injury on his knee was caused by a concealed needle. The cousin cries about how she lost her maiden's innocence because she was caught together with Yu Jin in front of a large crowd (imo I think this means that the crowd might think there's something going on with her and Yu Jin).
Ep 18
Ye Zhao and Yu Jin pretends to have a fight over having the cousin become a concubine but it did not fool the cousin. The cousin became rather sad and angry because she knows that despite the spat, even if it was pretend, Ye Zhao will still stay with Yu Jin. The cousin plotted this so that Ye Zhao will separate/divorce Yu Jin. The Cousin wanted Ye Zhao to wake up and see that her husband isn't suited for her. End of this ep, the cousin wanted Ye Zhao to "wake up" so she decides to hang herself.
Ep 19
Ye Zhao managed to get there in time, pass air mouth to mouth to the cousin. Yu Jin's personal servant saw this and reported to Yu Jin, Yu Jin became very jealous and say he'll commit suicide as well. Basically this episode, Ye Zhao is squished in the middle between her fragile attention seeking cousin and her jealous attention seeking husband. Yu Jin wants Ye Zhao to send the cousin back to home. But Ye Zhao is still considering about it. We find out from Hu Li that her cousin is her only cousin, she doesn't have any other cousins. Her family consists of her cousin, her widowed sister in in law with her two sons, her not sane grandfather and her uncle. Hu Li spoke about how some things are easy for one person to obtain but hard for another person, comparing Yu Jin's 10+ cousins and living relatives to Ye Zhao's. Yu Jin from this conversation still wants the cousin to be gone but decides that he'll take whatever decision Ye Zhao makes. We get another scene of where Ye Zhao is lonely due to the lack of family members, where she has a dilemma but doesn't really have anyone by her side to support her. Her mentally ill grandfather keeps telling her to seek advice from her parents. It is rather heartbreaking to see that the people her grandfather suggested her to seek advice from is no longer alive but yet she has to pretend that they are alive in front of her grandfather.
Ep 20-21
After seeking getting advice from her father through a mirage/day dream type of thing where the father said something along the lines of even in war we have to make sacrifices. Ye Zhao decides to send her cousin back home. She explained to her cousin that she fell love at first sight with Yu Jin, she doesn't want to give Yu Jin up and that she owes him alot because when they were little, she caused him to fall into water resulting in his mother locking him up. In some sense, General feels that she owes her cousin because she made her cousin wait for her return despite the fact that she knows that her and her cousin can never be together due to her gender so she feels guilty about that and wants to do the best she can for her cousin. We get more details about the political structure in this drama. General beheaded the Empress's nephew due to the nephew violating the military code of picking on lower ranked soldiers and killing a civilian soldier. Empress complains to the Emperor and asked the Emperor to pardon her nephew but Emperor deny the request since military code was set up by the previous Emperor and the nephew killed someone. Empress vows to remember General's name for revenge. Current favorite consort is the Imperial Consort and not the Empress. Empress is jealous of the Imperial Consort and tries to make things difficult for her. In a spat between the Empress and the Imperial Consort, the Empress injured the Emperor. This action allowed some ministers try to remove the Empress and to replace her with someone else.
Ep 22-24
From ep 22 to 23 the General and Yu Jin doesn't appear much. Some of the officials tries to persuade the Emperor to not replace the Empress but Emperor never really liked the Empress. Some drama in the harem, the Empress Dowager is not really his mother and his real mother dies and his real parentage was revealed after his real mother + Empress Dowager passed away. Before his real mother died, the General had the Emperor and his real mother meet up but the real mother did not reveal who she is because the Empress Dowager asked her not to. Current Empress Dowager is his second mother, so Emperor has a real mom, a mom (Empress Dowager), and a second mom (his father's imperial consort). In ep 24 some of the officials bought up an issue of getting the nobles to all take an exam. If they don't pass the exam, they will lose their job, only nobles between 15 to 25 (I think) have to take this exam. Ye Zhao persuades her husband to study to take this exam and that she believes him. Yu Jin asked her why should he even take this exam, her reply is to prove himself, that he is smart and intelligent and he is a not a wastrel.
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