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I re-watched ep.1 and 2 and ep.36 to check on the red dress worn playing the pipa for the de-flowering auction and the reddress worn in the prison scene. The two red dresses look similar but are different. The prison bridal dress has a wider neck collar the cape has smaller flower embroidery and the the white beads are smaller and spaced wider apart and the dress is all red. The red dress in the de-flowering auction also had a gold liner and she wore the neck ring with the white jewelry.

She get him back when 'throatgrabber' tries to do it later on. It is really her show and the ML is used as a foil to work against, work around and ultimately work with. It is worth finishing.

So the Mother sent the note in the candle. Most likely. Like Mother, like Daughter.

Not bad. Money wasn't spent on the script nor acting nor the sets, but it has a charm. Am on ep. 3 and enjoying it. Zhu Xudan has more to do here than in her last drama.

The Princess and the Doctor. It starts that she comes to marry the State Governor, (the ML's Brother) While going shopping, she catches a glimpse of him as he had been watching her from afar. But she can't be sure that it is him. He is a renowned doctor but is also a secret leader of the outlawed Ji people. They do meet as he comes to cure her evil brother who has been blinded by the FL. In the past he was her bodyguard and they fell in love, (implied he fell first but we don't see it) but a commoner and also a Ji person could not wed a princess, He is later exposed and her brother tortures him to make him give up the Bixi, a spirit rumored to give enormous power. She gives him the death feigning serum and it is implied that they both escaped the capital and lead ordinary lives. The Governor had just earlier allowed the engagement to be annulled.

She has a chance to be with her lover in the past.

It's a happy ending with a twist. After the Guo Zijie dies saving everyone from the blast, Zhou Na/Xuanxuan wakes up in the present day in a hospital bed. She is given the Yan City Dairies and it is implied that she relapses. Probably dies and returns to about when she first woke up in the past. But the bed and room is different. The Zijie tells her that he will tell his Father that they can get married next month. So this past is with out the Zhou Qin interference. She now loves him from she wakes up. By her dying in the present implies that she will stay in the past. My take on the ending.

Were Queen Woo played as a male by Clint Eastwood like The Man With No Name, the stoic emotionless face might not be criticized. I am happy with her portrayal and the ending speech reminds me of Henry V's Saint Crispin's Day Speech at Agincourt.

If you are interested in the lyrics for the three OSTs as well as links to abbreviated OST videos with scenes from the drama, look above at
Link to Full OST - Under the Moonlight
by Peony22

Sorry, I confused Qi Family name with Qin Family name talking about the poisoned cakes.
You have made some really good points. Didn't realize that red wedding dress was the same as at Mengke House. I think that you are right about the symmetry between the successful bid in ep. 1 and the wedding scene in ep. 36. But I like to think that Menglin really had no interest in bedding anyone at that time. There might not have been enough time to convince him to help her escape and he may not have matured enough to really help her. Just ineffectually be caught with her. Those Mengke thugs were pretty close behind. Han Muzhi was her best bet. And we had to have his story. But you had a distrustful Luo Shu partnered with a sheltered Menglin. Had that story been the main focus from the beginning, would the story have been more interesting? We would have had to clearly see the potential in Menglin and what Luo Shu might see in him. I would have liked to see him accompany her to see the world. Not as a rich person but as a common person. And with the servant as a freed man. Take care.

Ep.1 "You scum!" The 4th glass was unexpected and funny.

Secret Life of My Secretary for me. Took a while to connect that she was the FL in My Perfect Stranger, Then the way she spoke made the penny drop.

Catch the Ghost was, enjoyable. When the Phone Rings, too.

2. Although they start off on the wrong foot. Menglin is attracted to Jan Ning/Luo Shu from episode 1 by her choice of ballad and playing style of the pipa after hearing her play. Not because of her beauty nor that she was the top courtesan at Mingke House. And not intending to win her virginity. She starts reconsidering him in small increments from ep. 3 after Luo Shu gives away all of the things Menglin had bought and forced her to carry and he didn't get angry. When he gives his snacks to the starving crying boy, they switched to her looking at him. From then it is a battle between his bluster and being foolishly rich versus his good heart and his willing to stand up for her. The tipping moment between Han vs Menglin is in ep. 17 when she plays the pipa in the Yamen inner courtyard. It becomes open in ep. 29 when she bandages his hand and later he says that if she is not willing to marry him, he will wait a lifetime for her if he must.
3. Not a breakup but one tries to push the other away rather than facing death together. Twice once in ep. 32 and the other ep. 36. Both in prison.
4. Yes, but only one other couple has a HE.

Sorry am getting on it after this. Thank you. Marcus listing of the top ten cdramas had Under the Moonlight holding at number 9 for three weeks (after it had finished, too) until he went on vacation two weeks ago.

Good points. First let me say that I'm sorry that the lyrics transcribing has stalled. But should inspire me to finish it up. Mrs Guo was the neighbor. I don't understand the Mandarin. Lucky you who does. I always thought Qin Yi meant that he hadn't killed her when she rushed outside. I suspect that her parents were already dead by the time the fire started. In that flashback, the parents didn't cry out while the house was burning. Unless her nightmare earlier showing the parents burning was real. I think that her joy with her last meal with her parents and then sneaking out for a midnight snack might be the genesis of her fear that all good thing are only temporary.
Another point about the poisoned pastry was that 1. it was her favorite and Qin Yi would know that, not anyone in the Qin household. and 2. his reach extended into the Qin household. No place was safe and it could and did put everyone in the household at risk. Thank you and take care. Still look at favorite Menglin and LuoShu scenes. Almost every dat recently.

In the past she was the dog and he the tail. There is smarts and girlishness in her. Some of the smarts showed in her expression when she marched in with the plan for him to be the model and during the photo shoot. But that is the kind of endearing character Jin Ki Joo plays. Lots of good will accrued being the loyal, capable and long suffering lap dog in The Secret Life of My Secretary.

In the scene after that as he approached the wall with the newspaper clippings, his eyes looked downward but the next shot as he looked at the clipping about the gold, his gaze was level. Had he earlier looked at the photo of the teachers?

I liked her Mother's actions too.

So he found out first, and then there was a scene of quiet contemplative. But she earlier felt the quickening beat from his eyes. I like that it's coming together.