15 and 16 combined

This is a roller coaster ride, last episode I was high on emotions, feeling there is a chance between kui mulang and qi pa after their marriage and conversation.. Now we are back to square one...

Qi pa rejecting kui mulang and playing tricks on him.I don't know what the screen writer is thinking... Kui mulang and qi pa's relations could have been salvaged during last few episodes but that has been squandered.The way things are going, all the characters are going to be hurt and feel betrayed...

Emotional torture is the middle name of most costume chinese dramas.I genuinely want qi pa to fall in love with kui mulang but from the trailers and today's episode it seems writers have different direction in their mind.

My sympathy goes to kui mulang because, he is judged on his looks but the character of li xiong is equally pitiable.

Episode 14- when li xiong was escorting qi pa back from kui mulang's chamber after the wedding night, everyone was greeting qi pa as 'her highness' and bestowing blessing of happy marriage, li xiong looked so happy because he IS HER HUSBAND.

Episode 16- kui mulang can openly take qi pa on a date and everyone gushes over how much he loves the queen... On the other hand during the shopping spree in the episode, li xiong helped qi pa put in her hair pin as a doting husband and everyone looked at him as if he had stepped out of his place as a guard ( i believe there is a special significance of putting the hair pin in a woman's hair by a man in chinese tradition). He looked crestfallen when qi pa tried to give the same hair pin he had put in her hair to hu die.

Both kui mulang and li xiong are in a pitiable place due to 'his own' lies and inability to tell qi pa the truth.We are heading for a train wreck, even though trailers and spoilers for next episode show some sweet moments. Hope we dont crash and burn.

I really hope the writers have a plan to salvage this some how. Bracing myself for future heart ache.I don't know what the writers are thinking at this point... If I was the writer of this drama and I wanted qi pa to fall in love with li xiong first then I would have made that happen in the beginning of the drama and then separated them to make her fall in love with kui mulang... But the writers made qi pa marry kui mulang first and then have emotional tenderness towards li xiong which is creating a moral dilemma... Even though we know li xiong is a persona of kui mulang, and legal husband of qi pa but because qi pa is not aware of this fact.. Her relationship with li xiong is in grey area.

This triangle for two is similar to clark - lois- superman triangle.

In near future, qi pa has to know both are one person and accept both sides of him no matter whom she chooses now

PS: I wonder what was the significance of pearl inside qi pa getting illuminated when she was sucking poison from Li xiong's hand.. It didn't happen during her previous physical contact with him.


If you are interested in reading my reviews/ summary on all episodes together, open the link below.

https://mydramalist.com/discussions/lang-jun-bu-ru-yi/111037-episodes-review-musing-thought?pid=2704447&page=1#p2704447

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