i find it weird villians in dramas get an easy end/punishment. is this a China requirement on how dramas depict vilians???
novel for ji shuran: ji shuran was in love her with cousin Liu Wen Cha (in the drama, he is a painter and then become the diviner). LWC gave is words t JSR that he will marry her but in the end, he married another girl his family planned for him. the other girl comes from a family with money. Due to his actions, JSR became vengeful. Since JSR cannot marry the man she loves, she will marry the powerful man in the court. She plotted to slowly poison Ye Zhenzhen to death and arranged to get Jiang YuanBai’s attention at a court event. she schemed to make it seem like she and JYB have a lot in common and interest. To JYB, he fell in love with her immediately. After YZZ died, she was married to JYB. JYB was the one who requested for marriage and the elder Jiang Lady allowed it since JYB picked his second wife out of love.
After she was married to JYB, LWC came back into her life. LWC’s family lost money and became poor. JSR met and had a one night stand with LWC one last time and then killed him afterwards, her way of saying 'i win'. JSR became pregnant afterwards and scheme to get rid of the pregnancy by using JL as a scapegoat. JSR also killed Jiang Yue out of annoyance and made it look like an accident.
JSR was exposed of her evil doings and lies and got poison/death by the Jiang family. However, they tell everyone JSR died of illness. Jiang family did not clear JL of harming her step-mother or killing her unborn brother. Jiang family chose pride over truth. This is why the fake JL could never be fond of the Jiang family b/c no matter what the situation, they never have JL’s best interest. Jiang family only offer or try to make it up in offering her money and treasures.
JRS is a murderer and killed 4 lives…she gets an easy death by drinking poison but still keep her status as the lady of the Jiang Manor with a clean reputation.
In the drama, they gave her character such a pitiful state due to her family’s pressure and then a ‘I gone mad’ result. how is that justice???
I've really enjoyed all the villains we've seen so far. In any story, the antagonists drive the plot just as much…
joe chen played a very very good ji shuran...just like the novel version. in the novel all the villians meet their ends...but the drama is always soft on the villians and gives them a redemption story...not sure if it's per china preference/censorship.
I was thinking about that too, like damn, he married his (former) step mom? That would be a spicy side story ngl
well, average age for marriage back then is 14-16. the girls marry older guys and it's normal to marry 20 year old....assuming the previous king is a lot older when consort li was brought to the palace. example from history: emperor wu zetian (she was a lady status and married the elder king at the age of 16 and he was around 50s at the time. after the older pass, she married the successor as his consort, later elevated to queen/consort.
Shuran kept repeating that she was forced to do it. I wonder if Consort Li forced her to commit all her heinous…
novel: shuran is the youngest of the 3 daughters in the ji family. the second daughter is excluded in the drama. consort li is supposed to be around the same age as the king, if younger. weird the drama change the consort's origin.
I wonder why the princess is soo obsessed with shu yu rong like whats soo good about this guy? Like he is just…
the drama is making him such a disgusting creature. novel: handsome, gentleman (per traits of the time) from the surface, it's love at first sight for the princess; which is why she's obsessed with him. it's also the idea that she can't have him b/c he is someone else's husband. he knows how to control the princess and work around her without ever having to plead or beg. the drama gave the princess such s & m traits...it doesn't make sense at all.
I wonder why the princess is soo obsessed with shu yu rong like whats soo good about this guy? Like he is just…
the drama is making him such a disgusting creature. novel: handsome, gentleman (per traits of the time) from the surface, it's love at first sight for the princess; which is why she's obsessed with him. it's also the idea that she can't have him b/c he is someone else's husband. he knows how to control the princess and work around her without ever having to plead or beg. the drama gave the princess such s & m traits...it doesn't make sense at all.
Doesnt ru yao get a character development in ep 27 cause thats what i heard?
what a waste of screen time for evil characters like that. the drama is giving too much screen time to stupid characters vs the main characters' story arcs.
You feel sad for a coward who put himself first and killed his wife who he promised to protect forever?! I hope…
he could divorced her, send her back to her hometown. but he don't want to b/c it will hurt his reputation for divorcing his perfect wife that didn't have any fault.
Life start young back then. People marry young back then and it was normal for the husbands to be 10-30 years older. The kings will get young girls every year to add to his harem even at 60 years of age. Well, there’s some cases where the dad days the daughter’ friend.
Where's the eldest Jiang family daughter? Is she married off?
The eldest daughter is by a concubine. She died at 4. The concubine was a maid of the first wife. The elderly Jiang lady (grandma) made the decision to have the maid become a concubine. Concubine fake delusion/crazy after the daughter died.
You can see her put her fist through the dirt in the first episode. I assume she climbed out and walked to the…
If you read the novel, the drama falls shorty on the origin of the details for all the characters. Due to censorship, drama can’t do supernatural theme. It’s not possessing, more like taking over a body with no soul. JL wanted to died bc of a broken heart and despair of being forgotten/abandoned by her family. XFF wanted to live and revenge her self and her family; her desire to live was strong. Bc of that, she got a second chance by living in JL. XXF and SH are about the same age. The novel put SH at 24. JL is 16 at the time of her death.
novel for ji shuran:
ji shuran was in love her with cousin Liu Wen Cha (in the drama, he is a painter and then become the diviner). LWC gave is words t JSR that he will marry her but in the end, he married another girl his family planned for him. the other girl comes from a family with money. Due to his actions, JSR became vengeful. Since JSR cannot marry the man she loves, she will marry the powerful man in the court. She plotted to slowly poison Ye Zhenzhen to death and arranged to get Jiang YuanBai’s attention at a court event. she schemed to make it seem like she and JYB have a lot in common and interest. To JYB, he fell in love with her immediately. After YZZ died, she was married to JYB. JYB was the one who requested for marriage and the elder Jiang Lady allowed it since JYB picked his second wife out of love.
After she was married to JYB, LWC came back into her life. LWC’s family lost money and became poor. JSR met and had a one night stand with LWC one last time and then killed him afterwards, her way of saying 'i win'. JSR became pregnant afterwards and scheme to get rid of the pregnancy by using JL as a scapegoat. JSR also killed Jiang Yue out of annoyance and made it look like an accident.
JSR was exposed of her evil doings and lies and got poison/death by the Jiang family. However, they tell everyone JSR died of illness. Jiang family did not clear JL of harming her step-mother or killing her unborn brother. Jiang family chose pride over truth. This is why the fake JL could never be fond of the Jiang family b/c no matter what the situation, they never have JL’s best interest. Jiang family only offer or try to make it up in offering her money and treasures.
JRS is a murderer and killed 4 lives…she gets an easy death by drinking poison but still keep her status as the lady of the Jiang Manor with a clean reputation.
In the drama, they gave her character such a pitiful state due to her family’s pressure and then a ‘I gone mad’ result. how is that justice???