Episode 11. And we're back to the ML not being in love with the FL, just being suspicious and trying to set her up so he can find the spy master? Whiplash again!🤔 The Zhen trying to work out!🤣💪 Aw, the Zhen giving up on the physical stuff and finding her a flower instead. How sweet!🌺 So the FL knows that the ML suspects she is the saintess. Did she know he wasn't passed out and was listening to her? Cause all those lies she made up to the undercover courtesan would convince him she is a spy?🤨 I don't like the FL kowtowing to the evil Cui Mingyue. She should be able to figure out a way without that. I'm disappointed in this version of the FL.😕 I want the badass schemer who is here for justice! She was able to take all of her enemies down one after another with her meticulous planning! 🦸♀️ Wait, despite the ML overhearing the FL and the courtesan he now believes the FL is innocent? Does that make sense to anyone? 😕😂 And now the FL is playing matchmaker to the evil sister/cousin Pei? WTH?😲
It's like this with 90% of novel-to-drama adaptations. They use the novels as inspiration to tell an entirely…
Yes! I loved Lu Wen! And you got that so right, the ML loved every version of her. And the 'he just went off to grab greasy street food!' I had forgotten about that! Ok, time for a reread. 😍
Yes! I'm missing Ernui's judgmental looks! And thieving ways! And the way he always grabs the FL's skirt and tries…
Yes! Someone else who has read the novel and loves Ernui as much as I do! They need to take that leash off of him and make him front and center in the story! They kind of skipped over the whole 'how does Ernui know the FL, did he come back in time too' storyline. Time to bite some butts and steal some pouches!🤣
It's like this with 90% of novel-to-drama adaptations. They use the novels as inspiration to tell an entirely…
But I will admit in the original story I got a bit bored with the whole pirate arc. I loved the fact that she regained her memories but forgot her immediate past, that was fun.
Argh!!! Can we zap off Grand Princess and her spoilt daughter??? Opps then which other villains will emerge🤣🤣🤣
The great thing about the original story is there were a lot of villains. But the FL just mowed them down, one strategic move at a time! It was brilliant 🤩 Of course, there is one main villain behind everyone pulling the strings, but FL handles her too! Oh, what could have been....
Book Ernui would look down on drama Ernui because it was just that arrogant lmaoo. Novel JS might eliminate drama…
Yes! I'm missing Ernui's judgmental looks! And thieving ways! And the way he always grabs the FL's skirt and tries to drag her home with him! Or should we say General Xiaotian!🐶🐶 And your analysis of FL and ML are spot on! 🤣
I think the kowtowing to Cui Mingyue but it over the top. 🙄We know that the (as written) FL would never do…
Exactly! How disappointing of a change to a badass character the writers made. 😞 I'll bet she and her evil mother don't die in the wonderful way they died in the novel too. Darn. Both deaths were just so poetic!😍 And WTF is up with making them the main villains anyhow? 🦹♀️🦹♀️ Oh well. It's still a good show, just not The Brocaded Tale of the Girl Si
It's like this with 90% of novel-to-drama adaptations. They use the novels as inspiration to tell an entirely…
After having had this happen half a dozen times you think I would have learned by now! 😏 Maybe I'll switch to novels that have already been adapted and simply don't watch the adaption. That way no disappointment!
I don’t know the novel at all, but whenever I see such a scene (especially when it is overlong) in a drama,…
🤣 I'm with you! Maybe I'm watching too many of these but we need a little bit of action to spice things up! Kitchen scenes and secondary characters having a bitch session aren't doing it for me!👩🍳
Episode 10. I know, I know, I said I was going to stop comparing the drama to the novel, but with 828 chapters (and 8 side stories) why the heck did they have an episode devoted to the kitchen staff pitching hissy fits cause they don't like the FL? 🤣🤣🤣 Seriously, there is soooo much story to be told but that wasn't part of it. Nor should it have been. Can you say filler? 😉
The series has completely fucked up the novel. I can't believe what the screenwriter and the director were thinking…
Yes, I would have like to have seen the story from the novel brought to life. 😔It is so good! And much lighter and less weird than this is. What's up with the scorpion crawling all over the bad dude? And some psychedelic boner drug? WTH? 😂 But, I do love me some Zhang Wan Yi so I'm staying for him! 🥰 And, if you go into this thinking it's an entirely different story and has nothing to do with the novel maybe it helps? I keep trying to do that.🤔
The overbearing grandma is the most irritating character. The evil Marquis Chongxing should be her grandson. 🤣🤣🤣…
Yes, grandma is terrible! 😠 Believe it or not she is even more heinous in the novel! 😲The evil Marquis is her spirit grandson lol! They are both evil beings that really need karmic retribution!🦹♀️🦹♂️
In the novel he had nothing to do with her death or rebirth, so no sacrificing himself happened. The drama deviates…
It wasn't like that in the novel but the drama may have that story line. I don't know yet 🤔They've changed so much that I can't predict what will happen. Part of me hopes he has memories too. (They are memories of the future that happened in the past! Timey-wimey!⌛🤣)
One brother, Jiang Zhan, and one sister, Jiang Yi. The rest are cousins but they use the term sister/brother interchangeably!…
In their branch of the family the eldest is Jiang Yi, then Jiang Zhan is the middle child, and Jiang Si is the youngest. In the novel Jiang Zhan is called Second Brother cause he has an older male cousin. There are also younger male cousins too in the novel. That family is messed up with all the concubines and legitimate/illegitimate children!
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The Zhen trying to work out!🤣💪
Aw, the Zhen giving up on the physical stuff and finding her a flower instead. How sweet!🌺
So the FL knows that the ML suspects she is the saintess. Did she know he wasn't passed out and was listening to her? Cause all those lies she made up to the undercover courtesan would convince him she is a spy?🤨
I don't like the FL kowtowing to the evil Cui Mingyue. She should be able to figure out a way without that. I'm disappointed in this version of the FL.😕 I want the badass schemer who is here for justice! She was able to take all of her enemies down one after another with her meticulous planning! 🦸♀️
Wait, despite the ML overhearing the FL and the courtesan he now believes the FL is innocent? Does that make sense to anyone? 😕😂
And now the FL is playing matchmaker to the evil sister/cousin Pei? WTH?😲
They kind of skipped over the whole 'how does Ernui know the FL, did he come back in time too' storyline.
Time to bite some butts and steal some pouches!🤣
Of course, there is one main villain behind everyone pulling the strings, but FL handles her too!
Oh, what could have been....
And your analysis of FL and ML are spot on! 🤣
And WTF is up with making them the main villains anyhow? 🦹♀️🦹♀️
Oh well. It's still a good show, just not The Brocaded Tale of the Girl Si
But, I do love me some Zhang Wan Yi so I'm staying for him! 🥰
And, if you go into this thinking it's an entirely different story and has nothing to do with the novel maybe it helps? I keep trying to do that.🤔
In the novel Jiang Zhan is called Second Brother cause he has an older male cousin. There are also younger male cousins too in the novel. That family is messed up with all the concubines and legitimate/illegitimate children!