Alma

Does it have a love triangle?

Shin Hye did not disappoint me.

It would have never even crossed my mind that someone would like a character to that extent. :) that they would have such prejudice over it so they wouldn't see the facts. There are a lot of examples of her extreme selfishness that are too obvious to even mention.
After all, this is just a typical love drama with perfectly perfect leads, who are always justified if they hurt or ignore others because they are the main leads no matter what they do, we can have our little happy ending.

She says a lot of lies and she also is not just fighting back, she schemes to get to what she wants, and even when others want to help her she is just using them for achieving her goals. She went to that house for the drama and seeking revenge.
If she could tell her husband to care for the Qiao perhaps she would have regretted what she had done and become a better person or even confess, she did not even like him at first. Even if someone kills someone dear to us we don't want to kill them and we are usually against the death sentence. As a normal person, I can think of this, but she as a good person could not.
Trying to solve her sister's death was initially for her own sake, I hope you agree with this because it's no hidden mystery. She never even showed any emotion towards her and she never really liked her. She never had quite pure kindness for anyone and she was kind when it didn't go against her plans and when she had the time.
She is just a very strange character, in the least, if not bad. I can not like her when they want to portray her as a good being compared to others. They all thought about themselves and how to reach what they want and she was no exception. Yes, she was not evil but not the kind-hearted person they wanted to convey. Honestly, I'm pretty sure if you see a person like her in real life and you are not in her total favorites circle you wouldn't consider her that good.

Remorse as sad and regretful feelings that we get when we think about others (especially our relatives) in the past. You never regret not helping someone even if they did something bad to you? Have you never experienced that? I'm sure you did. I, myself, always think about how others' lives are and what is the source of their actions and if I would do the same if I were in their shoes. And don't forget that she is supposed to be a caring, supportive and kind person. She can forgive her maid but not her sister? Her sister did a bad thing but did not deserve that life and ShiYi just never thinks of her, she can do a lot of other fantastic things, but couldn't help her. I'm just not buying it. She does not have to think about her at all. I'm just saying she is not even close a normal person and they should quit insisting on her goodness and Let her be a person seeking for revenge for her own satisfaction. That is completely understandable.

So, she is basically good to anyone that is good with her. I don't think that is the definition of a good and kind-hearted person.

Yes, we are watching the same drama, but we have different opinions. I did not say she can not do these things. But our past does not justify our actions today. Just that she is not a good and kind person. As she uses others when it is in her favor. She made her sister marry that man by showing that picture to him and we never saw that if she is thinking about her or having remorse or if she wanted to go and see how she is doing not at least for a year or two. She manipulates others. This is not the definition of a good person. A kind-hearted person just moves on. They are usually used by others not using others. I don't feel she is used by others by any means. Except for the total sexist content of historic cultures of that time. They don't usually seek revenge in reality. I am just having problems considering her a kind and good person as they want badly to depict her that way.

Dear @Lesleynn, she is considered as a good person, as the tag suggests. It is not just my assumptions.

Yes, I also hope she gets better. I am waiting for the subs.

There is a tag ' Kind-hearted Female lead' here.

Come on, she is considered as a very good person in their own style in this drama. They want to show that. They never show her grinding teeth - in a symbolic way -, getting angry, having ulterior motives towards anyone just out of blue. Having sincere and saint like feelings toward the maids ... but still she does her schemes. Who is like that, honestly? I think the character in Ming Lan was more close to a normal person. I could connect more with her.

I think that character is not shown as a normal person the way it should have been. The way they portray them is not realistic at all. Because they are very very good (unrealistically good) sometimes so they get good things because of that and other times they are just mere evil and would do things that I, as a normal person, would not dare to do but they are just always justified. Lead characters in Asian dramas are usually like that. It's a trend, unfortunately.

Well, I wouldn't, I think I try to help them first, or at least think about them and would try to help them. You see my parents were really bad parents and they just ruined my life, I left and I have not seen them for many years now. But from the moment I left, I kept thinking about them. I'm saving money for them. (which so many would not). I have really bad fights with my sister and I don't even want to see her sometimes. I consider myself a normal person. But yes as I said we do that. But we are not saints. We are people with selfish desires. Not like these characters that are shown like they are the best person on earth with no dark sides, it's very unrealistic.

As a dramatic story yes, but still if my sister does something awful to me I won't make her miserable to get on with my plans and seek my own happiness. Would you? In real life, you are just cruel and selfish which most of us are. All I want to say is that, ok she can do it, we can understand, but she is not a good person as they always want to justify these things in dramas. She only cares about herself and she remembers she has a sister when she wants to.

If someone does something bad to you, you do bad things to them? She is not nice, I think , she only cares about her own business and people that she wants to. She is a normal person.

Right.

What I detest is that they want to show the main wife as a good person which she is not in my opinion.

Oh girl, I wrote a comment before reading yours. I agree completely.

I really feel bad for all the concubines :(- they never asked for such a life. Shi Yi acts as she cares for her sister but she put her in that position herself. If she is smart enough she could have helped her not to get married to that guy in the first place. Her character gives me this hypocrite vibe. She is good whenever she wants. I also think Qu is much better than Ling Yi. Ling Yi is such a typical man.

Thank you.