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Kia_Queen

Guys what are the ages of Fengfei,  Duke Su, Jiang li and her step sister in the drama I know they changed it from the book. I might have missed it but I'm guessing jiang li was 18 and fengfei should be 21? I'm not sure.

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Blue Orchid Blossom

I believe fang fei’s age in the drama is same as the novel. She’s 19 and was married to Shen Yurong when she was 16. 

The real jiang li is probably 16. I’m not sure. 

Looking at Duke Su’s flashback scenes as a kid a decade ago, he shouldn’t be older than 21 in the drama. He’s 24 in the book tho

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Percabeth

In drama, I don't know which episode but I'm sure that some character said real jiang li age is 18. Our Fl must be older than her by few years like 19-21. Our Ml must be early 20's. In book storyline is different.

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Doris Luka

In drama real Jiang Li was 18 when she died. It was said in ep. 24 during trial in court.

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yoyo_mozzarella

In episode 27 we find out that the stepmom is in her 30's which really doesn't make sense given that her daughter is like 18... I think the ages are more like vibes than real numbers

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Percabeth

Stepmom's daughter (Ruoyao) maybe 15-16, given that in the beginning of drama they had 'coming of age ' ceremony. Only real jiang li age was revealed i.e., 18 when she was died.

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luvpeony
 Percabeth:

In drama, I don't know which episode but I'm sure that some character said real jiang li age is 18. Our Fl must be older than her by few years like 19-21. Our Ml must be early 20's. In book storyline is different.

drama makes the characters older than their novel age.  Jiang Li is 16 and Ji Heng is 24.  XFF should be around 21-22 when she died.  

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QAS VIP

Stepsister Ruoyao should be 15.  Mother married Jiang when she was 15.  Mother is 30, and Elder Sister Consort Li might be 31. Emperor was a year or two older than Xiao Heng, so he should be 22, if Xiao Heng is 20. He likes older women.

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ma_huahuahuahua

How old was little Duke Su/Xiao Heng when he hit the Dengwei Drum 10 years ago (to report Lord Cheng's conspiracy in killing his father)? I think he's like 10 or 12 at most. So now, 10 years later he must be around 20-22 years-old.

The emperor is a little older than him, shown when they're kids standing next to each other, the emperor's about a hand taller, I'm guessing 3 years older so he must be around 23-25 years-old now.

Though I'm still amazed that boys (or men, oops ?) this age could plot such a complex political and military strategy! While my 23 y.o. ass is still on my bed comfortably LOL. But if we're thinking from a historical POV, it's rather normal, I guess, for people to achieve things much sooner, right? For example Mehmet II when winning the battle in Constantinople, he was but 21.

So Xiao Heng, definitely you're not xiao didi (小弟弟/little brother)!!!

But emperor? Seriously, I can't treat this character as THAT YOUNG - you know - appearance wise. The first time I watched him, I thought he must be like 30-something. Especially when I saw him with Consort Li (isn't she the stepmother's younger sister though? So it's like Jiang Li's AUNT! And logically her aunt is also Xiao Heng's aunt... And Xiao Heng is the emperor's friend)...

What does that emperor do with an auntie?!! ? Well, perhaps an arranged marriage with an older woman, why not?

(Cont'd next time)


Thanks for reading everybody!

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ma_huahuahuahua

Princess Wanning is a "meimei (妹妹)/younger sister" to the emperor. If the emperor's 23-25, Wanning must be in the early 20s. Imagine in the early twenty but embezzling and killing so many people ? - But really, guys, again to me it seems like Wanning is in the early 30s instead (appearance wise, or that's how the drama visually portrait her character).

Seriously, wondering about everyone's age was not that confusing UNTIL I watched the scenes where little Xiao Heng and little emperor standing next to each other. I mean, " Zhao Ye shouldn't you at least be 10 years older than Xiao Heng?!!"

But I'm not complaining tho ? The drama's wrapped pretty well, I just want to write what's been on my mind for the past few weeks.

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ma_huahuahuahua

Real Jiang Li was 18 when she died. Tong'er must be about her age too. Jiang Ruoyao (the third Jiang young lady) had the coming-of-age ceremony shortly after Jiang Li back to their family. If I'm not mistaken, in ancient China girls became adult at the age of 15, I think that's how old Ruoyao is.

But what about Jiang Yu'e (the fourth Jiang young lady)? Did she get to celebrate her own coming-of-age when she MARRIED Zhou Yanbang that quick? LOL ? (Or was she even "an adult" by that era's standard tho? ? Now it gets creepier real quick).

Jiang gongzi (young lord) is a little older than Jiang Li because she called him "biao ge / older cousin brother". As for the Liu lady, I don't know. Neither with Ye gongzi.

I'm also at lost here regarding Xue Fangfei and Shen Yurong's age. Their exact ages were not stated anywhere. At first I even thought that they were in the early 30s too or at least late 20s - appearance wise ?

But I think we're allowed to speculate about the two of them. BlueOrchidBlossom above stated that Xue Fangfei's 19 in the novel. But I always like to portray them as much older (29-31 years old)... And so it also means that Xiao Heng likes much older woman ?

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TaliaToo

I don't think Xue Fang Fei is as old as 29-31.  

Her husband was poor and wanted to be a scholar. Let's say she married at 15 and he was 17 (give or take). It probably took him a couple of years to study. Then he passed with great merit and was promoted. Let's say it took it a few times because those exams were difficult. Five years should give enough time for XFF to suppress her amazing intellect and be just a wife, being obedient and bullied. So she was probably 21-22 when she was offed by SYR.

The Duke's age is harder to guess. During Jiang Li's beating of the Deng Wen drum, one of the bystanders said the last time the drum was beaten was over ten years ago (by the Duke), so it's been over a decade.  So, let's say, he was ten or eleven, so that makes him the same age as XFF/JiangLi.  If he were older when he beat the drum (because boys tend to look younger), he would be around 24 or 25. This actually made more sense to me because the Emperor and his doing the handshake thingy scene looked like they were around 15 (the way they talked). Eight years had passed since that handshake, so that would make him 23 or 24!

The Crazy Princess is older than the Emperor.

Stepmom was in her 30s. She probably didn't marry Bai at 15 exactly because he had a Principal Wife (Jiang Li's mother). She probably spent a few years pretending to be her friend while poisoning her. So, let's put her around 33-34.

Which makes Consort Li around 31-32 because she was the Mei Mei, right? The actress looked a lot older, though!

All conjecture, of course, haha.

We forget that people didn't live that long, then. Most died in their 30s and 40s, so they were adults at a very young age. Girls run households with full control of the finances and dozens of servants by 13 or 14! A war general could be just 21 (ala Ling Bu Yi)! Alexander the Great, while conquering the then world, was 33 when he died, after all. It's amazing how much the Ancients accomplished without any machinery, Internet or sleep, apparently, heh.

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skyfleurette

There is something weird with the novel though.
at the beginning it says she’s been at the nunnery for 5 years then it jumped to 6 and 8 and then kinda settled on 7.
and supposedly she was 6 when Ji shuran lost the baby.
so she would either be as young as 11 and as old as 14 at the most. 

when she gets back to the capital, the description always mention that she looks like a 14/15 old teenager.  

as for him, in the beginning the only mention we have is his beauty  

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TaliaToo
 skyfleurette:

There is something weird with the novel though.
at the beginning it says she’s been at the nunnery for 5 years then it jumped to 6 and 8 and then kinda settled on 7.
and supposedly she was 6 when Ji shuran lost the baby.
so she would either be as young as 11 and as old as 14 at the most. 

when she gets back to the capital, the description always mention that she looks like a 14/15 old teenager.  

as for him, in the beginning the only mention we have is his beauty  

This is the novel age, right? XFF's soul transmigrated into JL when the latter committed suicide, right?

In the drama, I think they made JL a bit older so that the older XFF (no transmigration) could look that age. If XFF were 21 or 22, it would be hard to sell her return as a 16 year old. But an 18 year-old? Yes, that could be done. Also, in the drama there's Rao Yan's Coming of Age banquet, which meant drama JL had to be a couple of years older.

Back to reality--these kids have long memories! I can't remember that much when I was six years old! But these five and six-year old ancients, they remember promises and warnings and bad blood, LOL.

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skyfleurette

In the novel. Yes 

when she gets back, it is a few weeks before the coming of age ceremony and you’re right, her sister is 15. Which makes the ages in the novel troublesome because jiang li is supposed to be a few years older than her half sister. But they say she’s also 15. They also make jiang li one year younger than the servant’s daughter  the one that drowned (killed by Ji Shiran

the author haa a hard time with numbers, clearly.  the way the ceremony is disrupted is very different in the novel. She buys some jewelry that cost 300 silver taels but in the next chapter every time it is mentioned it’s 400. I don’t know if they lie on purpose to hide that she got her pendant back or if she truly has an issue

Every time they mention the incident and her being sent to the nunnery, the years she went there change. Right now it is settled on 8.

I think the drama writer  realized 1 there was a real issue with the ages and 2 15 is way too young for our standards. So they’re all a bit older.  She’s18 in the show and that’s better than having relationship between a 15 yo and a 24 yo (duke su‘s age in the novel).

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