Li Chun: What I've See Her In
Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace - Wei Yanwan - Palace maid → Palace maid of Consort Chun → Palace Maid of the Royal Garden → Palace Maid of Consort Jia →Palace Maid of the Yangxin Palace→ Second Class Female Attendant Wei (衛答應) → First Class Female Attendant Wei (衛常在) → Noble Lady Ling (炩貴人) → Concubine Ling (炩嬪) → Consort Ling (炩妃) → Second Class Female Attendant Wei → Concubine Ling → Consort Ling → Noble Consort Ling (炩貴妃) → Imperial Noble Consort Ling (炩皇貴妃) → Imperial Noble Consort Lingyi (炩懿皇貴妃, posthumous)
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watching wei yanwan bang her head on the floor for every person she harmed is cathartic
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Does anybody ever wonder about what would’ve happened if Ruyi hadn’t died so soon after her innocence was proven? I mean in the show it looks like some time passed, not sure how much, but it would have been immensely satisfying to see her enjoying herself at least. All I’m saying is that I would have loved loved loved it if we had gotten to spend more time with Ruyi in the last two episodes instead of focusing on the emperor/emperor and her. Like, so we know he was trying to win her back? Ok! Let me see her absolutely give zero fucks and decline EVERY offer, luxury, favor, EVERYTHING he would offer because deep down there’s nothing he can give that she wants/needs anymore. Let me see HIM fail, let me see him suffer! Let me see those concubines that sided with Wei Yanwan scramble trying to regain favor! I wanted it so badly!! 😩
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After finishing the Let the Years Sculpture Our Love series, I'd like to give Pines and Cedars a try now, but I've never seen Ruyi and am struggling to get context from just Wikipedia. Are there characters in that show that map to HZGG with diff names? Judging by your story mirror, mirror, maybe but the names and personalities are very different?
Here's what you need to know about Legend of Ruyi in order to read Pines and Cedars:
The empress in HZGG is called Ruyi in Legend of Ruyi. In this drama, Ruyi's strongest ally is Hailan = Yu Fei = Yongqi's mother. When Yongqi was born, Hailan's rank was too low to be allowed to raise a prince, so Ruyi raised Yongqi. Basically their relationship is the opposite of the relationship in HZGG. Here's a parallel comparison.
In Legend of Ruyi, Ruyi has a servant named Rong Pei who can be summed up as strict but kind. The name is just a total coincidence /s. Everyone in Legend of Ruyi calls her Rong Gugu, because Rong Momo is too on the nose probably.
The antagonist in Legend of Ruyi is Wei Yanwan = Ling Fei. Wei Yanwan is a nasty piece of work, but the one detail of her evil deeds you need to know is just that she planted a concubine in Yongqi's household who eventually sowed discord between Ruyi and Yongqi, indirectly led to Yongqi's death, which partially caused the final breakdown in the relationship between Ruyi and Qianlong. The concubine did Wei Yanwan's bidding because she believed Ruyi was responsible for her mother's death. (i.e. this entire subplot is to troll HZGG fans)
Han Xiang is called Han Xiangjian. Like Han Xiang, Xiangjian was given as a gift to Qianlong, and she has a lover who unlike Mengdan actually died. When she came into the palace, Xiangjian tried to kill Qianlong then herself, until Ruyi convinced her to live for the sake of her people. The Empress Dowager also forced Ruyi to give Han Xiangjian medicine to make her infertile so despite their friendship, Xiangjian's arrival starts to escalate the unravelling of Ruyi's relationship with Qianlong.
Qianlong in Legend of Ruyi is an asshole. But strangely, a lot of like the Qianlong in HZGG. Philandering, quick to anger, egotistical...Legend of Ruyi's Qianlong also a healthy dose of paranoia attached. He also would totally sleep with a woman and conveniently forget about her. Pretty sure he wouldn't have the decency to acknowledge his child 18 years later though, so HZGG's Qianlong wins on that.
I think when you start reading, just keep in mind that Ruyi is a good person, who raised Yongqi only to watch him die in an act of revenge from Ling Fei against her, and Ruyi has also suffered a lot of neglect and emotional cruelty from Qianlong. She was also dying, so she entirely expected to die, not wake up reincarnated/isekaied into a different version of her life. The fic will explain the Legend of Ruyi plot points relevant to the story when they come up.
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“Rise above the storm and you will find sunshine.”
Ruyi being the center of all things—whether of love and adoration or of jealousy and envy.
I like how Wei Yanwan (and presumably, Jinzhong) is positioned on Qianlong’s right while Empress Dowager, Ruyi, and Xiangjian on his left, representing the contrasting impact of the two groups on the emperor. EVIL vs GOOD. 😅
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