didn't the ml transmigrated into the novel when he was a kid? then why was he already an adult in modern time.…
The ML was younger than 16 when he transmigrated into the novel in 2016.
The FL had been working for a few years after graduating from university when she transmigrated into the novel in 2025.
The drama doesn't show it (apparently they maybe didn't want to risk having a censorship issue - there is more speculation about this in the comments below), but presumably when the ML left the historical novel world the ML returned to his younger self in 2016 and then grew up again in the real world, before meeting the FL (when they were closer to the same age physically) in the real world when she returned to it in 2025.
What’s so funny about Wang Cuihua name? What does it mean? I’ve been searching if anyone explains this, but…
Zhang San is like the equivalent of "John Smith" (the go-to example of a very basic, ubiquitous, ordinary name) or "John Doe" (a placeholder name for any person).
Wang Cuihua is also a very basic / common / ordinary name that strings together some nice (in a basic sense) concepts (royalty, jade or emerald green, and flowers or spleandor), but also associated with country girls and an older generation (the FL's third great uncle gave her this rustic, old-fashioned name).
And there was a 90s song called "Northeasterners are all Living Lei Fengs" (东北人都是活雷锋) that got very popular in the early 2000s that had a line ("Cui Hua, serve pickled vegetables!") at the end that became a common funny line for someone to imply that a lady is a bit rustic in a light-hearted, familiar, teasing way. Now there is even a brand of pickled cabbage called "Cui Hua Pickled Cabbage" (翠花酸菜 - https://p7.itc.cn/images01/20230202/698b4ea3eaea41c7b2babf19ca966017.png) with a country girl image as a kind of mascot.
Xiahou Dan used that line ("Cuihua, serve the pickled cabbage!") when he was laughing at the name in Ep 29. In a way, it's almost like an early meme that's old enough for him to have known about it before he transmigrated into the historical story.
Yes, the ML (Zhang San) was a middle school kid in the real world at the time that he transmigrated into the story,…
She did not transmigrate from the real world that the ML and FL transmigrated from (where maglev trains and the city of Beijing exist, and where Beijing is the capital of the country they live in). She is the main character in the book that they both transmigrated into.
In that book (The Devil’s Beloved Consort), the FL lives in a fictional world that is based on our own modern world at the time that the book was written (so before there were maglev trains). In that fictional world, Beijing does not exist and City A is the capital of the country that the protagonist lives in. In that fictional world, the protagonist read a historical novel in which the character Xie Yong Er was a minor cannon-fodder character. Then she transmigrated into the historical novel and took over the character of Xie Yong Er. Because she knew the events of the historical novel, she was able to change events in such a way that Xie Yong Er became the main character of the story.
So the transmigrator who took over Xie Yong Er is different from the ML and FL. She is a fictional character who transmigrated into the historical story from another fictional world.
In the new version of the historical story that is being changed again by the ML and FL, Xie Yong Er’s role is different than it was in the two previous versions of the historical story. This time she is not a minor cannon fodder character, but she also isn’t the protagonist. It seems that this time she will end up being the SFL.
In the new version of the historical story, the FL found out that the transmigrator who took over Xie Yong Er's role was still a university student in her fictional version of the modern world when she transmigrated into the historical story.
so the ML (modern person) transmigrated to the novel when the emperor was a child?!
Yes, the ML (Zhang San) was a middle school kid in the real world at the time that he transmigrated into the story, and when he transmigrated into the story he took over the character of Xiahou Dan, who was just a prince at that time. He lived and grew up inside the story for 15+ years and became the Emperor before the FL (Wang Cui Hua) transmigrated from the real world into the story and took over the character of Yu Wan Yin.
He looked for another transmigrator inside the story for 15+ years in vain, which is why he reacted the way he did when the FL finally arrived and revealed herself. But he lied to her and told her that he had only transmigrated into the story a few hours before they met, instead of telling her the truth that he had transmigrated into the story 15+ years earlier.
We have known that Zhang San is a transmigrator since the first episode. Zhang San is the real name of the ML.…
No. The son did not plant the SOS flowers and did not interact with them. The scenes with the flowers were all flashbacks to a young version of the ML many years ago.
As I said, the same actor plays both characters. One character (the young version of the ML in the past) is a transmigrator. The other character (the ML’s biological son in the present) is not a transmigrator.
The Zhang San Diary scenes before the end credits are not depictions of the son, they are all depictions of the ML in the past when he was young.
Watched till ep 21Can someone tell me the reason why dan'er doesn't tell wanyin that he transmigrated 15 years…
We saw his thoughts on why he didn't tell her the truth at the beginning of episode 10.
First, he worried that telling her the truth would shatter the closeness and trust that had been built between them.
And second, although he didn't want to shatter that closeness and trust, he would rather have her doubt him than break her heart. And it seems that he assumes that revealing the truth and the depth of his suffering and everything he did in those 15 years after he transmigrated would break her heart, which seems like a fair assumption tbh.
It felt like either she figured out that although they are all transmigrators, she is not the same as Xiahou Dan and Yu Wan Yin and that she is a fictional character from a fictional "real world" while they are people from the *actual* real world (maybe she overheard them speaking about it?) OR she is going to die in the imminent chaos and it's going to be heartbreaking.
No; he was tortured by the empress dowager and that a-hole second prince.
Yes, everything you just said is correct.
But Cherrymotion only asked, "Could it be that prince duan had been suspecting that the emperor was different since they were younger?" She didn't ask if Prince Duan knew that Xiahou Dan was a transmigrator.
So the answer to the question that she asked was "Yes" (not "No"), and then a further explanation could be given.
No; he was tortured by the empress dowager and that a-hole second prince.
We found out in episode 24 that Xiahou Bo / Prince Duan *did* have a clue that Xiahou Dan was different since they were young.
When he and Zhang San / Xiahou Dan were both still young, he found out that Zhang San / Xiahou Dan was looking for someone else who was "the same kind".
Many years later he found out that Xiahou Dan, Yu Wan Yin, and Xie Yong Er were "the same kind" and he was tricked into believing that they each had the gift of foresight through their dreams. So he didn't find out that they were actually transmigrators from another world who had taken over characters within a historical novel.
Although he never found out that Xiahou Dan was a transmigrator from another world, he did have some idea that Xiahou Dan was different for a long, long time.
No; he was tortured by the empress dowager and that a-hole second prince.
Before I started watching I was spoiled about the fact that the ML lied to the FL about just transmigrating and that he had actually transmigrated much earlier, and I'm kind of glad because it made it easier to follow the plot from the beginning. So I get what you mean. ^^
No; he was tortured by the empress dowager and that a-hole second prince.
This has been answered in the drama. If you aren't caught up yet, it's a bit dangerous to ask questions in the comment section. If you don't want to be spoiled, it might be better to catch up first and then come back to the comment section.
So Zhang San is also a transmigrator, now I get it but seeing who they rarely interact and see each other I don't…
We have known that Zhang San is a transmigrator since the first episode.
Zhang San is the real name of the ML. That was his name in the real world before he transmigrated into the story and took over the role of Xiahou Dan, just like the FL’s name in the real world was Wang Cui Hua before she transmigrated into the story and took over the role of Yu Wan Yin.
Before he transmigrated into the story, he was just a middle school kid in the real world. When he transmigrated into the story, he took over the character that was just a prince at that time. He kept the prince title for years and he grew up trapped inside the story before later becoming the Emperor and eventually meeting the FL when she transmigrated into the story 15+ years after he transmigrated into it. He lied when he told the FL that he had only transmigrated into the story a few hours before they met. He was not a CEO nor an actor before he transmigrated into the story. He was only a middle school student. And then he grew up inside the story, constantly searching (in vain, until he met the FL) for another transmigrator like himself.
The actor who plays young Zhang San / Xiahou Dan in those Zhang San Diary flashback scenes is the same actor that plays Xiahou Dan’s biological son (Xiahou Po) in the present story, where he is the current crown prince. The current crown prince (Xiahou Po) is not a transmigrator.
Normally I don't care about second couples at all. So I'm surprised by how much I like Xie Yong Er and Physician Xiao together now (end of episode 22), especially since they're fictional characters from the novel that may have limited freedom to stray from the role that their characters were meant to play in the story. I hope they can have a happy ending!
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The FL had been working for a few years after graduating from university when she transmigrated into the novel in 2025.
The drama doesn't show it (apparently they maybe didn't want to risk having a censorship issue - there is more speculation about this in the comments below), but presumably when the ML left the historical novel world the ML returned to his younger self in 2016 and then grew up again in the real world, before meeting the FL (when they were closer to the same age physically) in the real world when she returned to it in 2025.
Wang Cuihua is also a very basic / common / ordinary name that strings together some nice (in a basic sense) concepts (royalty, jade or emerald green, and flowers or spleandor), but also associated with country girls and an older generation (the FL's third great uncle gave her this rustic, old-fashioned name).
And there was a 90s song called "Northeasterners are all Living Lei Fengs" (东北人都是活雷锋) that got very popular in the early 2000s that had a line ("Cui Hua, serve pickled vegetables!") at the end that became a common funny line for someone to imply that a lady is a bit rustic in a light-hearted, familiar, teasing way. Now there is even a brand of pickled cabbage called "Cui Hua Pickled Cabbage" (翠花酸菜 - https://p7.itc.cn/images01/20230202/698b4ea3eaea41c7b2babf19ca966017.png) with a country girl image as a kind of mascot.
Xiahou Dan used that line ("Cuihua, serve the pickled cabbage!") when he was laughing at the name in Ep 29. In a way, it's almost like an early meme that's old enough for him to have known about it before he transmigrated into the historical story.
In that book (The Devil’s Beloved Consort), the FL lives in a fictional world that is based on our own modern world at the time that the book was written (so before there were maglev trains). In that fictional world, Beijing does not exist and City A is the capital of the country that the protagonist lives in. In that fictional world, the protagonist read a historical novel in which the character Xie Yong Er was a minor cannon-fodder character. Then she transmigrated into the historical novel and took over the character of Xie Yong Er. Because she knew the events of the historical novel, she was able to change events in such a way that Xie Yong Er became the main character of the story.
So the transmigrator who took over Xie Yong Er is different from the ML and FL. She is a fictional character who transmigrated into the historical story from another fictional world.
In the new version of the historical story that is being changed again by the ML and FL, Xie Yong Er’s role is different than it was in the two previous versions of the historical story. This time she is not a minor cannon fodder character, but she also isn’t the protagonist. It seems that this time she will end up being the SFL.
In the new version of the historical story, the FL found out that the transmigrator who took over Xie Yong Er's role was still a university student in her fictional version of the modern world when she transmigrated into the historical story.
He looked for another transmigrator inside the story for 15+ years in vain, which is why he reacted the way he did when the FL finally arrived and revealed herself. But he lied to her and told her that he had only transmigrated into the story a few hours before they met, instead of telling her the truth that he had transmigrated into the story 15+ years earlier.
As I said, the same actor plays both characters. One character (the young version of the ML in the past) is a transmigrator. The other character (the ML’s biological son in the present) is not a transmigrator.
The Zhang San Diary scenes before the end credits are not depictions of the son, they are all depictions of the ML in the past when he was young.
First, he worried that telling her the truth would shatter the closeness and trust that had been built between them.
And second, although he didn't want to shatter that closeness and trust, he would rather have her doubt him than break her heart. And it seems that he assumes that revealing the truth and the depth of his suffering and everything he did in those 15 years after he transmigrated would break her heart, which seems like a fair assumption tbh.
It felt like either she figured out that although they are all transmigrators, she is not the same as Xiahou Dan and Yu Wan Yin and that she is a fictional character from a fictional "real world" while they are people from the *actual* real world (maybe she overheard them speaking about it?) OR she is going to die in the imminent chaos and it's going to be heartbreaking.
But Cherrymotion only asked, "Could it be that prince duan had been suspecting that the emperor was different since they were younger?" She didn't ask if Prince Duan knew that Xiahou Dan was a transmigrator.
So the answer to the question that she asked was "Yes" (not "No"), and then a further explanation could be given.
When he and Zhang San / Xiahou Dan were both still young, he found out that Zhang San / Xiahou Dan was looking for someone else who was "the same kind".
Many years later he found out that Xiahou Dan, Yu Wan Yin, and Xie Yong Er were "the same kind" and he was tricked into believing that they each had the gift of foresight through their dreams. So he didn't find out that they were actually transmigrators from another world who had taken over characters within a historical novel.
Although he never found out that Xiahou Dan was a transmigrator from another world, he did have some idea that Xiahou Dan was different for a long, long time.
Zhang San is the real name of the ML. That was his name in the real world before he transmigrated into the story and took over the role of Xiahou Dan, just like the FL’s name in the real world was Wang Cui Hua before she transmigrated into the story and took over the role of Yu Wan Yin.
Before he transmigrated into the story, he was just a middle school kid in the real world. When he transmigrated into the story, he took over the character that was just a prince at that time. He kept the prince title for years and he grew up trapped inside the story before later becoming the Emperor and eventually meeting the FL when she transmigrated into the story 15+ years after he transmigrated into it. He lied when he told the FL that he had only transmigrated into the story a few hours before they met. He was not a CEO nor an actor before he transmigrated into the story. He was only a middle school student. And then he grew up inside the story, constantly searching (in vain, until he met the FL) for another transmigrator like himself.
The actor who plays young Zhang San / Xiahou Dan in those Zhang San Diary flashback scenes is the same actor that plays Xiahou Dan’s biological son (Xiahou Po) in the present story, where he is the current crown prince. The current crown prince (Xiahou Po) is not a transmigrator.