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Wait a second, you’re telling me that it’s been two years and a half…
AND WE STILL DON’T HAVE SUBS?!

Did you find it with eng subs ?

Heard this was cancelled ! 😭😭😭😭

Wait, so there’s not even a defined kingdom or an official royal family ?
The three branches of the Zichuan family kinda govern through the Zichuan land and have internal fights ?
Jeez, no wonder i’m at loss, this is even messier than what I read in my Chinese history classes

Okay, i’m on the first episode and this looks great but i’m a bit lost on some things :
- what position hold that old man Yang Ming Hua in the kingdom ?
-What about the Zichuan family ? I mean, I find it weird that they’re not the royal family in a country that is named as them.
- And what is their relationship with Yang Ming Hua ? Why is Yang Ming Hua so hostile towards Zichuan Xiu ?
-Si Yi Lin lives with Zichuan’s uncle from what I understood. But as whom ? A servant, a handyman ?
- What about Di Lin ? Since him and Zichuan Xiu are actually sworn brothers, why does he pretend to be on the old man Yang Minghua’s side ?

Nope

From what I’ve seen on Weibo, it seems that solitwo is right… This isn’t based on QSCK’s novel
Which brings me to wonder :
1) since this wasn’t based on QSCK’s novel, how come it was saying everywhere that it was ? Why were the rumors about Liu Yu Ning and Li Yi Tong linked to this novel if it was something else ?
2) does that mean that Rebirth of an Ill-Fated Consort is still in the works or that this project is dropped ?

I’m kinda confused here…

i agreed
I guess this is also why her revenges often include rape and big violence on her enemies
what she’s been through kinda « broke » something in her, awoke some madness in her
I remember when reading the novel that I couldn’t help but kinda disapprove the fact that she would so often use rape, even if it were on people who used it themselves first ; but at the same time, I felt like even if I disliked it, I couldn’t really blame the character because what she had been through… urgh, it was just no surprise that she had kinda lost some sense
(I just disliked the fact that the character would be willing to use other rapists for her revenge and let them be after she used them, which was akin to tolerate them ; but like I said, what happened to her kinda broke something so it kinda makes sense that she wouldn’t bother with them)

From what I’ve read until now, Shen Miao has the most satisfying revenges (what’s fun is that she often uses her opponents’s schemes to backfire on them)
And Jiang Ruan definitely had the most physically painful death (her limbs were cut off, so was her tongue and she had to see her foster son get raped before dying)

Does anyone know how many episodes there will be ?

Indeed, female lead is physically characterized by her amazing beauty : in her previous lifetime, it kinda burdened her, as it attracted jealousies but also unfair prejudices, for example being a brainless beauty (as her stepfamily made sure she would only be taught the kind of talents that only a courtesan would have, not a noble lady, but that she would make mistakes in public, leading people to think she was a good-for-nothing) or on the contrary, a femme fatale that brought disaster (after she was wrongly accused of having poisoned the emperor)
I also don’t see Li Yi Tong as Jiang Ruan but I do think Guan Xiao Tong would be great : her looks and acting in The Curse of Turandot are definitely on par on how I would imagine Jiang Ruan

If they were to make a remake, I think I’d like a reunion between Imada Mio and Meguro Ren (and possibly Takaishi Akari as Japanese Sumin)

Yeah…. They used to do good romance in the 2000s and after 2010, I don’t know what happened, it’s like Japanese screenwriters had lost the ability to write good romance (they usually try to make it mature or realistic and as a result, it turns boring ; and when they try to make it fluffy or cute, it’s cheesy and tasteless)
The only Japanese romance that they did and that I liked affecte for the last 13 years was the movie My Happy Marriage

Heard they might do a Japanese remake
K-drama was great but from episode 11 onwards it went downhill and the writers kinda started mishandling the revenge and the romance
If they ever do a Japanese remake, hope they can correct this and convey these amazing scenes !

I think that rather not having many projects, it’s more like they didn’t choose such good projects.
For example, Another Me is not the most popular type (and itself wasn’t great) and all of her other dramas are rom-coms where she always plays the same kind of character : the cute tomboy
She’s experiencing the same bad phenomenon that happened to Xing Fei : she gained fame after a part in a rom-com school drama where she played a badass, tomboyish student and after that, she only played this kind of part, even though she could do so much more ! (She was stunning In Lost Track of Time, where she played a reborn girl from ancient times with vengeance in her heart ; proof that her managers have been wasting her talent and youth by giving her the same kind of part over and over when she had so much more potential !) Now, she’s going on her 30th birthday and basically wasted her chances to do good use of her youth and do GOOD idol dramas
I just hope Shen Yue ain’t gonna make the same mistake : I dream of seeing her as a vengeful/smart female lead in an ancient drama (like Rebirth of the Empress of Military Lineage or Rebirth of An Ill-Fated Consort) but she would need to take some other kinds of parts QUICK !

Zhang Ling He, Huang Zitao, Luo Yunxi, Chen Fei Yu, Song Wei Long, Liu Hao Ran, Cheng Lei, Fan Cheng Cheng, Zhao Yi Qin, Qin Jun Jie, Aarif Rahman, Dai Gao Zheng, Zhai Zi Lu, Xu Wei Zhou

I agree
That drama kinda traumatized because the last 6 episodes were so damn frustrating on so many levels (XRN’s mom who never realized how dumb she was and what a traitor she had with SZ by her side ; SZ and YM’s mom who weren’t punished ; YM who pretended to be cold towards XRN because of his bro’s death even though it wasn’t her fault and he still loved ; the fact that XRN lost EVERYTHING yet was somehow blamed by everyone, drowned in guilt, even though she was the one who lost the most and had done nothing wrong and that it was actually the Ye family who had ruined her, and not the opposite ; and the worse, that f*** ending which concludes nothing)
What annoyed me is that this ending is not even faithful to the novel : I just don’t get why they didn’t stick to the novel’s ending where SZ and YM’s mom get punished, YM’s mom even repents, and female lead gets justice for her mom (and YM and XRN are implied to end up together)
The novel had also frustrated me because I felt like there were plenty of missed opportunities and I still ended up disliking Ye Miao but it’s still better than the drama

This had such a big potential…

Can't they just reshoot the drama with a new female lead like they did with Golden Hairpin and Love Never Fails ?
For example, I'd love to see him reunite with Sun Yi in this kind of storyline !

I did not read the novel either
But I’ve read in a comment that she and Min Hwan are gonna have an affair, that her schemes are gonna get busted and that she’s gonna get slapped and kneel down in front of YJH’s grandpa