When watching this after reading the novel/manhua, it's pretty interesting to see the changes compared to the…
- the Grand Princess : worse. She's already quite a villain in the original story but her part mainly stopped at having killed the female lead's mother. Here, her role was made quite more important, since they totally deleted the empress dowager's character - Cui Mingyue : hard to say. The main thing they changed about her is her love for the male lead, which is nonexistent in the novel (I'm not even sure she even talks or meets with him) and I'm not sure what I think about this. On one hand, making her in love with the male lead is such a cliche move. On the other hand, seeing her rejected by the male lead was so satisfying and this gave a new dimension to the character who was so one-dimensional in the novel (her only interest was to ruin the female lead's family, because she blamed them for her father's disinterest in their family) - Jiang Qian : morally speaking... improved, but I wouldn't say good. In the novel, she clearly hates the female lead and the reason why she agrees to help her husband have her cousin is not just to survive his abuse but mainly because she wants to see her suffer like she does. I'm honestly not sure about how I feel about this, because I'm very uncomfortable with the fact that she was forgiven for having helped her husband rape female lead in the previous life - the aunt : kinda improved. The drama ends up on her redemption, the novel clearly punishes her - the granny : also hard to say. Female lead and her family kinda maintain good relationship with her even though she often scolds her. So the drama kinda forgives but the novel makes it clear that she's a selfish old hag, mainly driven by greed and benefit who really doesn't care what happens to her grandchildren as long as her family has fame and wealth - Ji Chongyi : considerably worsened. In the novel, he's not really a bad person like he is here : just an idiot. He sincerely falls for Qiaoniang, which is why he initially rejects female lead that he never met. When he and Qiaoniang get married, their marriage eventually can't stand the trials of life and social gap, and he comes to regret having married Qiaoniang, especially when he develops an attraction for female lead when seeing her after his marriage - male lead's mother and brother : improved. In the novel, male lead never reconciles with him mother or the 8th prince, clearly considers them his enemies from the moment they threaten female lead and they both eventually meet their ends from the leads' hands after having done many other bad things. The novel makes it clear that the mother never loved her son and 8th prince is even more ruthless. Honestly, I think the novel makes much more sense on this part - crown prince : kinda improved. Though to be honest, his part was greatly reduced compared to the novel, where his lustful, selfish and stupid nature is the cause of many troubles at court - emperor : hard to say. On one hand, he's more affectionate towards male lead than in the novel. But he's also less intelligent, as his affection towards the grand princess allows her to commit many evils - Zhu Ziyu : kinda improved. Let's just say that his reason for marrying Cui Mingyue is not for helping his ex-wife and make up to her, but mainly for revenge against Mingyue for having used him and caused him to be chased away from his family (they haven't been annihilated like in the drama). Also, he's not the one who kills Cui Mingyue. I kinda prefer the drama as the redemption they gave him made more sense and how he killed Cui Mingyue was much more satisfying
When watching this after reading the novel/manhua, it's pretty interesting to see the changes compared to the original material. Honestly, I think they did a pretty good good job at compacting the whole thing while remaining fauthful to the spirit of the original work It's also interesting to see how some characters have morally "improved" or worsened compared to the novel and what it brings to the story. For example :
One thing that I don't understand, if Tawan is the daughter of Taychit and his first wife, why is she younger…
‘Cause Wee’s mom slept with him not long after her lover’s death and remained his mistress even when the wife had his daughter So in other words, she’s a whore
This drama has no morals. The worst part is they try to play off things that are clearly WRONG as if it's "morally…
Not to mention the second male lead’s mother who jumped on her lover’s best friend right after his death, even though he was married, just so she could find a fake father for her unborn son. Yet the show presents her like a good character and made it sound like male lead and his sister were wrong for hating these two. And she gave no apology to male lead and his sister
Am I the only one who feels like the actors playing male lead and male Villain should have been switched ? I’m sorry, but i feel no chemistry between Chen Xin Yu and Wu Jun Yu but more importantly, Wu Bo Wei has much more charisma, presence and natural in his acting than Wu Jun Yu. On the other hand, maybe it’s better because i seriously doubr anyone else could have been as good as Wu Bo Wei in this part (which wasn’t so easy to take), especially not Wu Jun Yu
Y’a know, after knowing the pain of being born from rape and forced marriage, you would expect Pei Congzhi to take his lessons from his father’s mistakes… but nope, he did the very same thing his father did. I also can’t help but observe that the story seems to treat only the mother as a villain but not the rapist father. Although for some reason, i have a huge guilty pleasure for this : the story stands against all of my principles (m such as my fervent hatred of rape culture) so i can’t understand why ; maybe it’s because of the leads’ awesome acting and chemistry or because despite everything, Pei Congzhi remains a fascinating character
I love Dai Dai but i cannot take this seriously when I see how much they basically plagiarized Marry My Husband ! I’m surprised there hasn’t been any lawsuit from Korea yet !
Wow… I was expecting this because of WYLR’s acting, but i’m not sure if i can go on… épisodes 7 & 8 got me really uncomfortable, i mean, the guy raped her TWICE, including from behind (I mean, I expected at worse dubious consent but the scene where he raped her from behind against the table with so many officiers next door made me nauseous…)
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- Cui Mingyue : hard to say. The main thing they changed about her is her love for the male lead, which is nonexistent in the novel (I'm not even sure she even talks or meets with him) and I'm not sure what I think about this. On one hand, making her in love with the male lead is such a cliche move. On the other hand, seeing her rejected by the male lead was so satisfying and this gave a new dimension to the character who was so one-dimensional in the novel (her only interest was to ruin the female lead's family, because she blamed them for her father's disinterest in their family)
- Jiang Qian : morally speaking... improved, but I wouldn't say good. In the novel, she clearly hates the female lead and the reason why she agrees to help her husband have her cousin is not just to survive his abuse but mainly because she wants to see her suffer like she does. I'm honestly not sure about how I feel about this, because I'm very uncomfortable with the fact that she was forgiven for having helped her husband rape female lead in the previous life
- the aunt : kinda improved. The drama ends up on her redemption, the novel clearly punishes her
- the granny : also hard to say. Female lead and her family kinda maintain good relationship with her even though she often scolds her. So the drama kinda forgives but the novel makes it clear that she's a selfish old hag, mainly driven by greed and benefit who really doesn't care what happens to her grandchildren as long as her family has fame and wealth
- Ji Chongyi : considerably worsened. In the novel, he's not really a bad person like he is here : just an idiot. He sincerely falls for Qiaoniang, which is why he initially rejects female lead that he never met. When he and Qiaoniang get married, their marriage eventually can't stand the trials of life and social gap, and he comes to regret having married Qiaoniang, especially when he develops an attraction for female lead when seeing her after his marriage
- male lead's mother and brother : improved. In the novel, male lead never reconciles with him mother or the 8th prince, clearly considers them his enemies from the moment they threaten female lead and they both eventually meet their ends from the leads' hands after having done many other bad things. The novel makes it clear that the mother never loved her son and 8th prince is even more ruthless. Honestly, I think the novel makes much more sense on this part
- crown prince : kinda improved. Though to be honest, his part was greatly reduced compared to the novel, where his lustful, selfish and stupid nature is the cause of many troubles at court
- emperor : hard to say. On one hand, he's more affectionate towards male lead than in the novel. But he's also less intelligent, as his affection towards the grand princess allows her to commit many evils
- Zhu Ziyu : kinda improved. Let's just say that his reason for marrying Cui Mingyue is not for helping his ex-wife and make up to her, but mainly for revenge against Mingyue for having used him and caused him to be chased away from his family (they haven't been annihilated like in the drama). Also, he's not the one who kills Cui Mingyue. I kinda prefer the drama as the redemption they gave him made more sense and how he killed Cui Mingyue was much more satisfying
It's also interesting to see how some characters have morally "improved" or worsened compared to the novel and what it brings to the story. For example :
So in other words, she’s a whore
On the other hand, maybe it’s better because i seriously doubr anyone else could have been as good as Wu Bo Wei in this part (which wasn’t so easy to take), especially not Wu Jun Yu
Shen Miao : Lu Yu Xiao
Xie Jing Jing : Li Yun Rui
Fu Xiuyi : Wang Zhuo Cheng
Pei Lang : Ci Sha
Mei Furen : Luo Qiu Yun
Although for some reason, i have a huge guilty pleasure for this : the story stands against all of my principles (m such as my fervent hatred of rape culture) so i can’t understand why ; maybe it’s because of the leads’ awesome acting and chemistry or because despite everything, Pei Congzhi remains a fascinating character
I’m surprised there hasn’t been any lawsuit from Korea yet !