Apparently she’s smart in the novel but they downplayed her in the drama 😞
it's just as the first reply mentioned, unfortunately she's a victim of the screenwriter not knowing how to write a well-rounded character and doing her a disservice in the interest of giving the ML more moments 😔
After all those years together, I wonder if Xiao Xun ever loved her at all
ngl WRC's acting makes me feel like there is a teeny tiny sliver of affection... (esp since we got two separate scenes of him shedding a tear over chu zhao) maybe he loved her but he loves power more
Why’d she attack him after the reincarnation I get it she’s feeling overwhelmed but She knows he isn’t trust…
i mean she saw him literal minutes after 1) her father's head got sliced off and 2) he personally strangled her to death ahgwjg i don't think she had time to be calm
nope the og novel isn't really that heavily focused on romance
i...can't remember that well now but iirc after chu ling's death it's his second-in-command who steps up bc XYL still has to go back to the palace. at the end of the novel, he and chu zhao leave and wander around pretty much (they don't want anything to do with the capital / imperial family)
zhaojiu polaroids!!