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She knows the future but she only know up until she dies (ML win everything, Langya fell. Liu yan had no choice but to her, which she understands,and then suicide). She doesn’t know what become of DQ and ML. She thought she could change her sister s fate by preventing her from getting married to ML. She didn’t think that she will end up taking her place…and thus start the challenges she must face navigating. Her goal was to change the Qiao family fate.

Theirs is not a love story…since they started as enemies. He went from hate to lust to possession to love. All the encounters the drabs depicted of the couple is actually their intimate moments in the book. lol…it gets pretty rough and steamy.

All that canal building is not in the story plot at all. WS won everything, started a new dynasty and proclaim himself king and SQ his queen. There’s a funny side story of WS soul got trapped in the pet cat and tThe WS1 from the parallel universe (that SQ first life) took over his body. It was actually funny to read.

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she's not just a commoner, she's a guard/servant. If ML could have her come in as a fake concubine, she could change her ID later on to whatever fits. well, you know drama, they will make it possible haha.

in the novel:

BZ and DQ has a baby boy. BZ came through and defended the city and earn his keep with the Qiao family. BZ only do what he has to do for the sake of his lil family. He doesn't care for fame, power or title. He is content w/ DQ and their small family able to have a stable place to call home.

parallel story (Xiao Qiao's first life/dream):
DQ married to the Wei family, but didn't get WS to fall in love w/ her. DQ pretty much lived a miserable lonely life at the Wei Manor. After After WS conquered majority of the counties and claim himself as ruler of the North. He destroyed and conquered the Qiao family's county and kill all of them. While out on these expeditions, DQ was sick and was killed off by Su E'Huang. Su E'Huang is already WS's consort/concubine. She won't get the queen title until DQ dies. WS has no plans to have DQ be queen or name a queen during that time. Su E'Huang do not want to wait and killed off DQ, buried her outside of the Wei masoleum. WS was not happy bc he was not informed of the buriel. He did intend to be buried with his legal wife, even though it's DQ. But it was already done by the time he got back and left it as is.

BZ visited DQ's grave and wept for DQ. He's the only one that ever visited her grave (since all her family are dead, XQ included, XQ was killed by Liu Yan when LiangYa fell to WS. XQ and Liu Yan are married and the rulers of LiangYa at that point).

BZ eventually led his own army/troop and fought off WS. Through the chaos a random arrow shot and killed WS (on his 9th year as ruler/king). Arrow pierced through WS' throat.

the drama is faaaaaaar from the book. the drama does include tidbits from the book but change a lot of the plot and endings for the characters. if you would like to know what happen to the characters, you could let me know here :)

it's weird that the drama made wei liang died...bc in the novel, he was severly injured where he barely miss death's door. it's bc of the qiao family's fault, FL have ci served under his tutelege to make up for what the qiao family put him through...to make things right as well. Ci is young and inexperience when it comes to fighting on the field...but the drama made it seem like he's naturally a soldier.

if you like the adaption of this drama, you need to read the book! the book is more steamy and plot is more clean/straight forward. everyone except the villians have a happy ending. there's also a funny sub story in the end...where WS got stuck in the cat (the one he gifted FL and later became the grandma's cat).

i like that this drama has a lightness of comedy to it. the costumes are beautiful and detailed.
so far, i am enjoying the drama in all aspects!

Yunyi is only concubine in name. She is a shadow guard under ML's fraction. Her actions are weird and not your normal concubine b/c she is not. Having Yunyi come in as a concubine served two purposes: protect FL at all times (without attracting attention) and to add women to the manor. The queen dowager wanted to set up a second wife (or their own people/spy) for the ML.

i can't find it...and the it's a loooooong drama/episodes! i was trying to read it...but it's so complicated with how everyone's involved/related.

So back in the days, the guys family lives together under one manor. If there’s more than one son and each of them is married, they are refer to ‘branches’ 房 (house/room)And by their birth order. All the kids are numbered by birth order regardless which son they are born to. The daughters are excluded bc they are married out of the family. Back then, girls get marry around the age of 14-16. They hardly stay home past that age. Once married out, they are not considers as part of the family as they are married into their husbands family.

Omg…now watching the red chamber…that one is even more complicated with the relations lol.

Gege is more like a form of respect for a guy older than you. It’s confusing bc it’s the same reference as gege (brother). For Hidden Love, their age difference is 5 years and ML being the peer of FL’s brother, it’s respectful to address him as ge (jiashu ge). FL also call her brother’s other friend as Chen fei ge. It’s like Korean culture, where you address older guys as oppa and older girls as unni.

I noticed in some drama in much more older time period, the family members addressed the kids by name and added with a ge’er or jie’er (like to differentiate gender) for the kids.

He didn’t adopted Ci. He just see him as the heir bc he is the only Qiao male. If it’s adopted, they have to note it in the lineage book etc. and if adoption, he can’t call his real father father anymore. Throughout the novel and drama, ci always called him big uncle (da Boi).

Yes. Their dad is the second Qiao Son…not the older one who is governor.

Yeah Asian culture have a name for each relation…it’s complicated but by their title, you differentiate a clear lineage by the man or woman side. I find this interesting and more spot on than western culture with the cousin, first second or twice remove for all parties.

For tang, they see each other as siblings with the same bloodline/family name so a lot of times they drop the tang and just address as big/small sister/brother. In western culture, it’s all cousins regardless of sides.

It is …see my previous response. The translations confusing if they don’t get the family terminology right.

Liu tyu ning is a great actor! I enjoyed all his dramas.

Wow, going off script from the novel! This is not their ending in the book!