I can't get over the facial muscles workout Consort Ruo adds to her acting every time the camera is in close-ups. It's so out of line with every other character as to be farcical.
The big reveal really intensifies in e 36. Little bro emperor has become a nightmore although I don't get why giving commoner more opportunities over wealthy nobels is so wrong. I guess with the numbers that perished it makes it a slaughter all around. The other thing that really bothers me is that the Consort relays it all to the young, reborn Princess making it obvisous that he was there as a powerful official right next to the Emperor and didn't seem to do anything to stop him at the time. Now he's leaving it up to sister Princess to decide if she should stop her brother before the massacre. All the side characters get to either hear of tell their version of what happened to them during this horrendous reign lasting for decades. Now here we are. What next?
What an episode (34). I was left kind of out of it after all those revelations in the cave about the projectory of how the Princess' death occurred and the many machinations that lead to her demise. She now seems to want to change history and take actions against her brother. Lo and behold the Consort finds out she's pregnant even after falling off a cliff. In other dramas women stumbled over a door sill or off a step and the camera closed in on a spot of blood in their nether regions.
Besides having a weird sense of humor Xiang Liu is also quite wise telling her to trust her mother's judgment about the devil everyong says is her father.
I guess we could stop after ep 9 as this looks like the happy ending we've been waiting for. It seems Cang Xuan is happy to receive the herbal encyclopedia and might give her a break for a while. The only one not happy is the guy in the clamshell who is drowning his sorrow. The bad couple were punished, although his brother got off lightly. So what's in the future?
Are Xiao Yao and Cang Xuan cousins? CX address XY's mom aunt? Doesn't that make them cousins? So how come he has…
Whether they are first or second cousins is irrelevant to me. She obviously has always thought of him as her 'brother' and calls him that. His behaviour is obsessive and sickening, even grandpa thinks so.
Just read a question about which of her admirers had more chemistry with Xiaoyao. So my answers are of course it's Xiang Liu because he is Xiang Liu a fascinating character brought out by a very good actor, but the relationship is too sadomasochistic for my taste. Fenglong isn't even in the running here. Cang Xuan has over time developed into a thoroughly unlikable character who is controlling and sickly obsesses with a woman who calls him 'brother' and thinks of him in that way (grandpa doesn't like it either). Now then, Tushan Jin is so devoted to her to become something of a 'wet rag' at time, but he is damaged physically and mentally by his scheming 'wife' and brother so when he shows courage and some backbone it's impressive. I believe in Xiaoyao's intelligence and compassion and their love for each other.
Episode 8 (47) where Princess is pulling out all the stops to get to the bottom of who set up Jing and punish them. Loving the begonia flower banquet and all the verbal fights. As usual, Cuan Xuan is making an a$$ out of himself with his jealous tantrums. Why can't she see how immature and cadish he behaves.
I was wondering when the slow-acting, non-detectable poison in Consort Ruo's soup would raise its ugly head. Now his Majesty has temporary blindness. What's next? She's an evil plotter with a smiley face.
Just started this and it's weirdly funny. FL has a hormonal problem.Watching ML hooking up with the General is hilarious. They couldn't look any more different from each other. Their endless stroll into the banquet hall passing hundreds of armed men and having countless door shut after they pass has to my memory never been surpassed in a Cdrama. Kudos.
I'm on ep 44 and taking it slow to savour it, but it's also excrutiating to watch Tushan Jing's torture. Just how much longer do we have to wait before he finds out he was manipulated and gets mad enough to do something. I'm also getting so sick of XCX's constant whining, I think grandpa has been watching and is feeling much like I am.
Cang Xuan is one sick puppy. He's obsessed with someone who thinks of him as her brother. Xiao Yao is not adverse to pulling all her guys' heartstrings. Whenever Xiang Liu shows up I get the creeps. He's such a sadomasochist. Tushan Jing is the saddest of all, condemned for doing a dirty deed he didn't even do and now has a cuckoo son put in his nest by his wife and brother.
Between Consort Rou (who is out to poison His Majesty) and SRQ's plotting is hard to say who's more evil. It's probably deserved he got his nuts cut off, but what about her?
She now seems to want to change history and take actions against her brother. Lo and behold the Consort finds out she's pregnant even after falling off a cliff. In other dramas women stumbled over a door sill or off a step and the camera closed in on a spot of blood in their nether regions.
The bad couple were punished, although his brother got off lightly. So what's in the future?
Fenglong isn't even in the running here. Cang Xuan has over time developed into a thoroughly unlikable character who is controlling and sickly obsesses with a woman who calls him 'brother' and thinks of him in that way (grandpa doesn't like it either). Now then, Tushan Jin is so devoted to her to become something of a 'wet rag' at time, but he is damaged physically and mentally by his scheming 'wife' and brother so when he shows courage and some backbone it's impressive. I believe in Xiaoyao's intelligence and compassion and their love for each other.