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baeoh22

Imagine being a blood clad cavalry member

Your leader, The Marquis of Wu’an has just demanded 100 of you march immediately to a nowhere village

He also demands you find a woman there

You cannot find her and he is distraught, clinging to a ribbon

He gives the ribbon to his falcon to look for her

You find her almost dead on the side of a cliff

Your leader, on the verge of tears, wraps her up and refuses to let anyone else touch her

He then orders you to give the people who attacked her the same treatment attackers gave to his father when they killed him

While trying to save her life you hear him crying, pleading, begging, clutching this woman to his chest

AND THEN

You hear him admit that he’s her husband?!?!

AND YOU CANT TELL ANYONE

#q

making-friendos

A series

making-friendos

An addition:

Small dogs are good dogs too!

dogpuppy

squirrelly-13

they got married btw

visit-me-here-in-wonderland

oh you’re not kidding

#stop this is cute actually #q

only-cat-memes

gordangobbleballs

Baby need smoko

tinsnip

You don’t know what life was like out there

#q

pippin-pippout

Why is this baby emperor so much more competent than almost any other emperor I have seen in recent years in cdrama land 😂😂😂

#a splendid match

emmajanereading

Here in my lil corner of Tumblr it seems that "A Splendid Match" isn't working for most of the Cdrama-watching folk whose accounts I follow. And that's cool. I don't expect to have perfectly aligned opinions with anyone, really.

But for me, the quiet pace, the slowness, is just what I needed. I'm enjoying the way Ye Xian seems to dominate the narrative over Chen Yanyuan because that's how those characters have figured in Gu Jinzhao's life across the time we've been seeing thus far (I'm up to Episode 23). Ye Xian has been far more present on her radar (for want of a better word), taking up her awareness and time, while Chen Yanyuan has been on the edges, standing just to the side.

It's been just delightful watching the way the two of them, Jinzhao and Yanyuan, have slowly become more conscious of each other, of how they have each grown in significance for the other. And to me, we've also seen Ye Xian become less prominent in Jinzhao's thoughts. Not unimportant; I think she values him as a friend, as much as that can be socially speaking. But Yanyuan has moved from the edge where his social status placed him, out of her sphere, so to speak, and into the centre, society be damned.

So yeah, I'm enjoying it.

Episodes 22 and 23 were particularly delicious cos I'm also getting a kick out of seeing how Yanyuan balances so precariously between what he knows to be right and his fealty to his mentor, Fu Hailian.* Plus watching how he has deftly manoeuvred around all the plans and schemes of others, both politically and personally. Most excellent.

*Wu Gang in another scheming, manipulative, devious, potentially an enemy of the ML, mentor role. Gods... when will we get Joy of Life 3?

#yes!!#i also love how it focuses a lot more on family drama rather than politics #i come to realise i don't enjoy politics all that much #which begs the question why historical cdramas are my genre of choice #but this entire drama was so so lovely to me

morningflares

Don't move. Let me hold you a bit longer.

reghalia

not the baby emperor praising gu jinzhao for getting chen yanyun and ye xian to fight over her. Gets one free day out of the palace and chooses violence against his closest allies 😂