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Got the full story and I can finally close this book. Y'all don't even get it. I literally feel like Ruyi watching the Emperor glaze Yan Wan. It's literally how my ex got with his new girl (who literally flirted and tried to get with him when we were still together). Now he is posting her on his socials. I remembered this. Thanks to Drama Recap on YT for the translations:

But then again, we know how Yan Wan ended up. So I guess the lesson is "what starts on the wrong foot, ends badly."

As for my own feelings. I remembered this scene and I cannot get it out of my head:

So I'll live for you, Ruyi. You couldn't get out of it. I can. I'll live well. It only gets brighter from here.

#cdrama #legend of ruyi #ruyi's royal love in the palace #wei yanwan #I'm literally Ruyi #Had to see my childhood love become an asshole with an inferiority complex #Had to put up with so much shit #Good thing I didn't marry him

guzhuangheaven

Legend of Zhen Huan + nail guards

Girl go back to watching magnificent century

I will! Episode 11 has been on my drafts for a while! I just got super busy at work and now with my (ex)fiancé of ten years dumping me for another girl, well, I've been kinda avoiding everything. But I'm locking in soon.

#magnificent century #mc recap

daisy-mooon

Do you guys ever think about how if Yanwan was a high-class Manchu man she would be exactly like Hongli. She abuses her childhood love and tries to rape him yet always expects him to crawl back to her and is shocked when he doesn't, she is paranoid and blames people for things that are objectively out of their control, she can never be satisfied and is always aiming for more in her relationships to the detriment of everyone around her, she is responsible for multiple deaths of concubines and children and literally cannot accept the responsibility for it even after laughing about it. When Hongli is forced to acknowledge that Yanwan is literally him if he was a low-class Han Chinese girl, he has her poisoned everyday for ten years and driven to insanity whilst ignoring the impact it has on her children, then goes back to Ruyi and is shocked when she doesn't crawl back to him after he abused and raped her.

guzhuangheaven

legend of the magnate: su zixuan

guzhuangheaven

Legend of Zhen Huan + nail guards

renewedmotionforjudgment

This year has been the longest stretch of me not re-watching Zhen Huan or Ruyi, but I’m back to it now. And yup, this scene still destroys me every single time.

(The subtitles don’t do the lines justice Tbh. 花开花落自有时）

(But also, Ruyi is truly a “marriage falls apart” drama where you never want them to re-start. I know cnetz didn’t like how Ruyi wasn’t as scheming as the novel, but I always felt thematically and in terms of plot coherence, it made so much sense for her as a character. The best harem dramas are never about the victor, but how to maintain a sense of morality in a corrupt place.)

moltensoultraveler

Ruyi often doesn't bother to debate and defend herself because as far as she's concerned, the moment when Qianlong turned into this impersonal arbiter of harem affairs, she's already lost. It doesn't matter which side this new Qianlong lands on, she's already grieving the loss of her childhood best friend and confidant who treated her as an equal life partner instead of the weird consort-subject dynamic that harem women are expected to fulfil.

I think for a while she really tried. She's seen Qianlong disappointed by Langhua, Gao Xiyue and to a lesser extent Consort Chun so she empathises that he is in a tough spot where he can't really trust anyone, so she tries to make things easier by earnestly proving to him that she was the loyal partner she had always been. What I think really hurt her is how little Qianlong regarded what they once had. Before everything came crashing down, Qianlong rarely looked back wistfully at what they once had and blamed himself for being arrogant enough to think his love and trust can endure the harem shitshow, rather he absorbed "we used to be childhood best friends" into his calculus of 'who should I believe' every time a conflict arises. Soon Qianlong began to say "Consort Xian and I have known each other for a long time" as dispassionately as him saying that he appreciates Langhua or Consort Chun for birthing children for him. I think at that point Ruyi just lost the willpower because she knew that the old Qianlong was gone and there was no use fighting for it anymore.

daisy-mooon

An Lingrong moodboard

I was dumped by my partner of ten years and I literally feel like this.

#cdrama #ruyis royal love in the palace #legend of ruyi #vent post

renewedmotionforjudgment

Not me using my Legend of Ruyi tag to bitch about the latest Zhou Xun discourse.

Like it’s fine to complain about whether the drama faithfully adapted the book. But the criticism basically came down to “I wanted to watch a revenge harem drama and instead I got a sad divorce story and therefore it’s not a good drama because it’s not a revenge drama” is nonsensical.

Dramas should be allowed to challenge genre conventions! They should be allowed to play with tropes (bend them, reverse them, examine them). Cnetz bemoans the lack of quality TV and complains about the abundance of trope-y idol dramas, but yet when something does challenge convention it is “well, I don’t want to watch a 大女主 drama that is sad.”

#truth #factual #you are absolutely correct #cdrama #legend of ruyi