ayume

he is the father of villainess..JK lol

My bad, I sometimes being a Karen when watching C costume drama. lol.

Please air in February!

I wish tencent dropped it without promotion, like dropping a sudden bomb.

The Last Immortal wrapped filming and aired in the very same year.

will it see the light?

sorry OOT, why did they change TDHR though? I think SongZuer's problem was not that severe unlike YBY's.

Finally, I can finish this drama. I think this drama is overhyped. It's better if it was made for less than 40 eps. What's good of this drama : OST, purplish scenic, the setting, and the acting. I don't like that they are stingy for costumes, as well as The Blossoming Love.

even though I wanna them to be together, I still think that Nagao doesn't deserve Rika.

I think as years go by, C idol drama type really took another level. Even when the actors slept, they still had makeup, adornments and fully dressed up. Or were they too lazy to change actor's wardrobe? Japan taiga drama, Korean sageuk, Thai boran still maintain logic when it comes to make up and dressing up. But, not all C costume dramas suck at make up and dressing up logic. I still find drama with actors in pajamas and no-make-up make up.

When General Awa (the nephew) appeared, I thought they surely took a comedic path............

At least they didn't use 'Blossom' word.............it was overused in 2024...LOL

Is he a new talent in Yuzheng company? ........anyway he will be overworked by any company he worked for.

any trailer or wrapped trailer?

That's why Chai An and Kang Ning could talk about marriage easily -back and forth. They were on same level. Meanwhile, in Scent of Time -another Song drama, Wang Xingyue as Zhong Xi Wu couldn't marry Hua Qian easily, a daughter of rich n prominent merchant, because he was born noble. His mother was a royal princess married to a rich merchant. His family business was controlling the certain commerce (actually not far from craft n trading) but he sorta needed a royal decree to take a wife. Xi Wu could easily marry Hua Qian but she probably only ended up as a concubine. He needed a royal decree to make her the official wife. At a certain point in the drama, he threatened his mother that he prefer to become a monk/living celibate life than failed to marry HQ. I think marriage within a rigid caste system was a custom throughout many dynasties. We met again this custom in Ming dynasty and later dynasties. A New Life Begins is a costume drama incorporating modern ideas.

it's still a long way to see the drma get aired.......#sigh

they can make it into 2 seasons...

"The drama does a fantastic job of portraying the complexities of its characters and the era they live in". I think the drama maker made the drama stick to the Song culture and values, not pushing modern values into costume drama. I.E, A New Life Begins, starred by BJT and TXW. It is a costume drama yet it's contained with modern issues and aspirations. "the harsh realities of the Song dynasty" they make it lighter in the drama. The rigid caste system(royal, noble, scholar, merchant/farmer pariah), the strict standard for women to be obedient wife, fragile and elegant looking like Guan Yin, etc. One of the reasons Kang Ning -from not so rich background- could easily marry the rich Chai An was, they come from similar merchant caste. Meanwhile her brother in law Fan was scolded hard by his father for accidentally wanted to take a scholar born caste woman.

The eldest married a sickly man with tuberculosis. Their marriage only lasted for one year as the husband died due to TB. I think her former husband is not that bad? He gave her a curtain of pearls that could be used as 'cost of living', just in case she became a widow. The pearl business must be booming in Song Dynasty that I can see pearls in every drama with Song background.

OMG..that must be Phuwin, the boy that was raised by Panali as a tool to take revenge on Ploy.