Absolutely in love with the drama, been on a Shin Hye Sun roll the past few days after I finished watching 30 but 17 and started on My Golden Life. I’ve been repeating 가슴만 알죠 the past three days and it’s playing right now as well ???? I do think Shin Hye Sun really outshined Lee Jong Suk as well (echoing similar sentiments below), and gosh I cried so many times over 3 hours what the heck ???? really liked his outburst as well, where he begged his father to let him breathe, and asked if he was telling him to live or to die.. it really brought home the point of how much writing literature meant to him. Also the scene where her siblings were telling her not to accept the job the Govt was offering her (other services incl.) and argued with her mother really broke my heart too, because her mother was basically telling her to sell her body as well (unintentionally or not) and she looked so tired and subdued :( I really loved the scene where Woo Jin told her to rest peacefully beside him, alluding to suicide too - it was so poignant and goosebump-inducing I just ???????? This is getting long HAHA all in all it was a lovely drama and I’m suffering from withdrawals ugh ????
From the very beginning I felt like things progressed too quickly for the characters' actions to be justified. Lots of things were questionable, especially in the first few episodes. Feelings (platonic) between Bai Zhi, Zi Yan and Wei Yang seemed to have developed a little too quickly? Since she was young, the real Wei Yang was sent away to live and when Xin Er replaced her and returned to the Prime Minister's Manor, everyone seemed to look down on her. How come Bai Zhi and Zi Yan weren't of the same mindset?
Felt like the manners of the servants and even the nobility were kind of inconsistent? Didn't seem very strict unless it was for show.
And in the palace when Tuoba Han (Dong Ping Wang) was accusing Wei Yang (IIRC), he threw out baseless accusation after baseless accusation and the Emperor still said it sounded logical. What?
Even when Wei Yang was the 'culprit' again and again for murders and crimes, the Emperor just stupidly remained suspicious of her and then set stupid and unreasonable deadlines for her to sieve out the real culprit or else she would be branded guilty.
The only saving grace of the show is probably the chemistry between Wei Yang and Tuoba Jun (still happy that they're together for real, I hope they last a long long time!). Cried like a baby, especially during the last episode. Also still wondering whose child that boy is, what happened to Tuoba Yu and Li Chang Ru's son?
In the end the jade disc passed down from Wei Zifu (a whole drama about her: The Virtuous Queen of Han that I watched only because I found Wang Luo Dan so pretty in that show, don']t remember much else) didn't serve much purpose and was left as a loose end - or maybe not because it clued the villains in on Xin Er being alive..? Though they didn't pursue it any further lmao wasn't there the whole "owner of this jade disc will be the Empress" prophecy?
As with the folding fan that Wei Yang went to retrieve after flinging it out of the second floor balcony. So many people were passing by below I'm amazed it didn't hit someone on the head on its way down. Would have been nice to see Tuoba Jun tease Wei Yang after finding out she kept it.
Handkerchief clues aside, also still wondering how Wei Yang knew that Bai Zhi handed her the key to the jewellery box to tell her that Chang Ru was her murderer because Wei Yang knew nothing about them drugging Bai Zhi. Plus whatever significance did the hair accessory that Chang Ru dropped as well serve? I don't remember it being mentioned much.
Read the comments of the last episode on Youtube (majority of it's in Mandarin) but quite a few said they felt sad for Tuoba Yu. I'm not sad for him at all, felt like his character wasn't flushed out and he definitely changed after the first time when his childhood trauma acted up but how he fell in love with Wei Yang is still ??? to me. Chang Le and Chang Ru's deaths were really too good for them too.
Overall, plot holes plot holes plot holes. Chemistry is the best though. Ending broke my heart.
Still of the opinion that Nirvana in Fire is the pinnacle of all C-Dramas to ever exist.
General and I was horrid. Novel and manhua are way superior to the drama. Skipped about 45 episodes to the ending and I don't even care. Waiting on the movie for Eternal Love.
This is getting long HAHA all in all it was a lovely drama and I’m suffering from withdrawals ugh ????
Felt like the manners of the servants and even the nobility were kind of inconsistent? Didn't seem very strict unless it was for show.
And in the palace when Tuoba Han (Dong Ping Wang) was accusing Wei Yang (IIRC), he threw out baseless accusation after baseless accusation and the Emperor still said it sounded logical. What?
Even when Wei Yang was the 'culprit' again and again for murders and crimes, the Emperor just stupidly remained suspicious of her and then set stupid and unreasonable deadlines for her to sieve out the real culprit or else she would be branded guilty.
The only saving grace of the show is probably the chemistry between Wei Yang and Tuoba Jun (still happy that they're together for real, I hope they last a long long time!). Cried like a baby, especially during the last episode. Also still wondering whose child that boy is, what happened to Tuoba Yu and Li Chang Ru's son?
In the end the jade disc passed down from Wei Zifu (a whole drama about her: The Virtuous Queen of Han that I watched only because I found Wang Luo Dan so pretty in that show, don']t remember much else) didn't serve much purpose and was left as a loose end - or maybe not because it clued the villains in on Xin Er being alive..? Though they didn't pursue it any further lmao wasn't there the whole "owner of this jade disc will be the Empress" prophecy?
As with the folding fan that Wei Yang went to retrieve after flinging it out of the second floor balcony. So many people were passing by below I'm amazed it didn't hit someone on the head on its way down. Would have been nice to see Tuoba Jun tease Wei Yang after finding out she kept it.
Handkerchief clues aside, also still wondering how Wei Yang knew that Bai Zhi handed her the key to the jewellery box to tell her that Chang Ru was her murderer because Wei Yang knew nothing about them drugging Bai Zhi. Plus whatever significance did the hair accessory that Chang Ru dropped as well serve? I don't remember it being mentioned much.
Read the comments of the last episode on Youtube (majority of it's in Mandarin) but quite a few said they felt sad for Tuoba Yu. I'm not sad for him at all, felt like his character wasn't flushed out and he definitely changed after the first time when his childhood trauma acted up but how he fell in love with Wei Yang is still ??? to me. Chang Le and Chang Ru's deaths were really too good for them too.
Overall, plot holes plot holes plot holes. Chemistry is the best though. Ending broke my heart.
Still of the opinion that Nirvana in Fire is the pinnacle of all C-Dramas to ever exist.
General and I was horrid. Novel and manhua are way superior to the drama. Skipped about 45 episodes to the ending and I don't even care. Waiting on the movie for Eternal Love.