I'm reading the novel for the third time bcos I really like it and it's actually really good. Once you pass the…
If you watch a lot of historical cdrama, you would know that back then, people didn't get married out of love. They were forced to by their parents.
Shen Zaiye is the most powerful person on court, even the emperor listens to him. Those officials would marry their daughters for cooperation. Shen Zaiye knows very well their intentions and accepts them all. But he does NOT love any of them as I explained on a comment above.
On the outside, he is known as a lustful man. He even made arrangements of his bed mates in a month 😅 Until Jiang Taohua appears, this bed rules change drastically...
This drama has too many drastic changes. They made a concubine who got eliminated first as the SFL. Also there are 2 more concubines appear in the drama, while the most important female character disappeared... But from what I know, there is a rule that banned harem. So I don't think Shen Zaiye will marry those women... Also, Shen Zaiye and Jiang Taohua will have wedding ceremony, unlike in the novel. This should mean he marries her as his first wife.
Your question: does he have any physical relationship with his concubines?
SPOILERS!!!!
He never touches them. He has a bestie who is trained in martial arts. This martial arts need yin energy. To gain it, he needs to consummate with women. So this bestie is the one who has sex with them. Shen Zaiye only has sex with Jiang Taohua. How did those women not know? It is another explanation 😅
Most Popular Novel to TV Adaptation at Yuewen Global IP Awards
At 2025 TV Drama Quality Ceremony, they won: -Best IP Adaptation Drama -Best Innovative Producer (Zhang Yingying) -Most Influential Star (Meng Ziyi and Li Yunrui) -Best Performance Style Star (Zhang Meng) -Best Emerging Star (Yan An)
Moreover, the douban score now hit 7.8 with almost 230k voters!
So happy for Blossom team 😭❤ Also grateful for the cp fans for being so respectful to e/o that we can peacefully support both of them every now and then 🤗
I like the main couple more, Xiao Huayong is charming 😅😅😅
Imo Shen Zaiye (桃花折江山) is better. He is a love fool and can't outsmart Jiang Taohua. Perhaps bcos he is a tsundere (I hate tsundere btw), so it makes him more humane. The way he runs around to smack his love rivals is hilarious.
But among all ML that MZY has so far (based on novel), Song Mo (Blossom) is the best, while the crown prince (Royal Rumors) is the cutest. But Song Mo's position might be in danger bcos of Yan Shang (尚公主) 😅
A noble lady who was married to the fifth prince committed suicide, but her soul accidentally took over the body of the daughter of a general guarding the northwest border. FL's body is extremely weak, so she is trying to find the way to make herself healthier. She was sent by her father to enter the capital and choose a prince to be her husband. She chose the crown prince, who has incurable disease and will die young. She plans to make her son the future emperor.
She didn't expect the crown prince is actually a cruel, manipulative, scheming and coldblooded man. He is poisoned when he was a kid, but he could practice martial arts. He pretends to be a weak man who will cough after two steps, and faint in the slightest wind.
FL is coldhearted. She doesn't believe in love. She believes in mutual benefits. So the ML spends hundreds of efforts to win her heart. Even after they get married, she isn't fully love him yet.
The main couple overpower and outsmart everyone, even the villains. However the ML is coldblooded, he doesn't mind using innocent people for his plans. He only cares about FL, although at first he kept lying to her and manipulated her to prevent his lies being discovered by her, bcos he wanted to gain her sympathy and win her heart.
Is it confirmed, he yu is very handsome so he will definitely gonna look good with meng ziyi
Lol I was shocked when I first read your reply. I was like... "Did I read the wrong name? Or did I have a hallucination?" 😅 well it's okay. It was just a misunderstanding. Peace 🤗
There is also 桃花映江山 aka Peach Blossoms Reflecting the World 😅I hope her next project, 尚公主 will…
The novel has 853 chapters 😅😅😅 Keep up the spirit!
Tbh there is no need to make Xiao Changqing the third wheel bcos we have his brother, Xiao Changying who is in love with Shen Xihe.
FL has coldly rejected him few times, but he still cares about her and protects her from afar. Also, Xiao Huayong is really evil. He threatens EVERY man who harbors feelings for Shen Xihe and will kill them if they don't stop 😒
On chapter 1-2 you will understand Xiao Changqing's love and struggles towards his wife. I can make a list of how much I love this character 😭
Xiao Changqing is extremely smart, as smart as the main couple. After his wife's death, he deeply hates the emperor and willing to lend the couple a hand to overthrow the emperor. Xiao Huayong (ML) sees him as a pawn, while Shen Xihe (FL) sees his quality is worthy to cooperate. Besides his deceased wife, Xiao Changqing only loves his brother, Xiao Changying.
Though later he is suspicious that Shen Xihe carries his wife's soul, after she manipulated the proof and refutes him, he gives up right away. Reason is: his wife and Shen Xihe are completely different.
MZY and XZX are like siblings, I'm excited she could reunite with 2 of her costars 😆
Is it confirmed, he yu is very handsome so he will definitely gonna look good with meng ziyi
Well I did NOT open the topic about Deng Wei. You and D aka Diyu were talking about him. So I just casually replied with the melon I saw some times ago about him. 🙏
There is also 桃花映江山 aka Peach Blossoms Reflecting the World 😅I hope her next project, 尚公主 will…
I assume Xu Zhengxi will be Xiao Changqing. In the novel, after his wife died, Xiao Changqing changed into a living corpse. He then plans to get revenge on the emperor. He is a good guy to the end. Besides the ML and FL, he is the 3rd smartest and also my most fave male character 🤭
So happy for this reunion! Meng Ziyi surely likes to reunite with her costars 🤗 Love love love this pairing! When they acted in TLoH as a couple, I was hoping they would reunite and now it came true!!!
However I must say I HATE Xiao Huayong (ML). I have read the novel and I can make a list of why I hate him 😒 After Bai Zihua (JoF), perhaps Xiao Huayong is the only other ML that idc if he dies or lives... I don't even hate the major 4 villains. I love all other male characters. The author keeps saying Xiao Huayong is cute, but I can't find anything cute about him.
Meanwhile, I assume Xu Zhengxi would be Xiao Changqing? Oh my most fav male character! Fan Shuaiqi would be Bu Shulin? I saw her pictures and she will be perfect as Shulin!
Hi i wanna know if i have to watch other version of this series (if there is) before watching this. Thank you
If you want to know the whole story, you better watch the drama of Legend of the Condor Heroes first bcos this movie focuses on the war between Mongolia and Song. You will get confused with the characters backgrounds and the plot. However if you solely want to watch it for Xiao Zhan, perhaps, then you can watch it without seeing the drama first.
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Shen Zaiye is the most powerful person on court, even the emperor listens to him. Those officials would marry their daughters for cooperation. Shen Zaiye knows very well their intentions and accepts them all. But he does NOT love any of them as I explained on a comment above.
On the outside, he is known as a lustful man. He even made arrangements of his bed mates in a month 😅 Until Jiang Taohua appears, this bed rules change drastically...
This drama has too many drastic changes. They made a concubine who got eliminated first as the SFL. Also there are 2 more concubines appear in the drama, while the most important female character disappeared... But from what I know, there is a rule that banned harem. So I don't think Shen Zaiye will marry those women... Also, Shen Zaiye and Jiang Taohua will have wedding ceremony, unlike in the novel. This should mean he marries her as his first wife.
Your question: does he have any physical relationship with his concubines?
SPOILERS!!!!
He never touches them. He has a bestie who is trained in martial arts. This martial arts need yin energy. To gain it, he needs to consummate with women. So this bestie is the one who has sex with them. Shen Zaiye only has sex with Jiang Taohua. How did those women not know? It is another explanation 😅
Wang Ziqi and OG Li Jiaqi are back!
I can't wait to see my girl Meng Ziyi and my boy Xin Yunlai!
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Most Popular Novel to TV Adaptation at Yuewen Global IP Awards
At 2025 TV Drama Quality Ceremony, they won:
-Best IP Adaptation Drama
-Best Innovative Producer (Zhang Yingying)
-Most Influential Star (Meng Ziyi and Li Yunrui)
-Best Performance Style Star (Zhang Meng)
-Best Emerging Star (Yan An)
Moreover, the douban score now hit 7.8 with almost 230k voters!
So happy for Blossom team 😭❤
Also grateful for the cp fans for being so respectful to e/o that we can peacefully support both of them every now and then 🤗
But among all ML that MZY has so far (based on novel), Song Mo (Blossom) is the best, while the crown prince (Royal Rumors) is the cutest. But Song Mo's position might be in danger bcos of Yan Shang (尚公主) 😅
She didn't expect the crown prince is actually a cruel, manipulative, scheming and coldblooded man. He is poisoned when he was a kid, but he could practice martial arts. He pretends to be a weak man who will cough after two steps, and faint in the slightest wind.
FL is coldhearted. She doesn't believe in love. She believes in mutual benefits. So the ML spends hundreds of efforts to win her heart. Even after they get married, she isn't fully love him yet.
The main couple overpower and outsmart everyone, even the villains. However the ML is coldblooded, he doesn't mind using innocent people for his plans. He only cares about FL, although at first he kept lying to her and manipulated her to prevent his lies being discovered by her, bcos he wanted to gain her sympathy and win her heart.
Tbh there is no need to make Xiao Changqing the third wheel bcos we have his brother, Xiao Changying who is in love with Shen Xihe.
FL has coldly rejected him few times, but he still cares about her and protects her from afar. Also, Xiao Huayong is really evil. He threatens EVERY man who harbors feelings for Shen Xihe and will kill them if they don't stop 😒
On chapter 1-2 you will understand Xiao Changqing's love and struggles towards his wife. I can make a list of how much I love this character 😭
Xiao Changqing is extremely smart, as smart as the main couple. After his wife's death, he deeply hates the emperor and willing to lend the couple a hand to overthrow the emperor. Xiao Huayong (ML) sees him as a pawn, while Shen Xihe (FL) sees his quality is worthy to cooperate. Besides his deceased wife, Xiao Changqing only loves his brother, Xiao Changying.
Though later he is suspicious that Shen Xihe carries his wife's soul, after she manipulated the proof and refutes him, he gives up right away. Reason is: his wife and Shen Xihe are completely different.
MZY and XZX are like siblings, I'm excited she could reunite with 2 of her costars 😆
However I must say I HATE Xiao Huayong (ML). I have read the novel and I can make a list of why I hate him 😒 After Bai Zihua (JoF), perhaps Xiao Huayong is the only other ML that idc if he dies or lives...
I don't even hate the major 4 villains. I love all other male characters. The author keeps saying Xiao Huayong is cute, but I can't find anything cute about him.
Meanwhile, I assume Xu Zhengxi would be Xiao Changqing? Oh my most fav male character!
Fan Shuaiqi would be Bu Shulin? I saw her pictures and she will be perfect as Shulin!
I hope her next project, 尚公主 will have a better English title.
And another reunion on March 19 for Drama Quality Festival Dragon TV!