Every time I rewatch Ruyi's Royal Love, my throat starts closing and my heart begins aching when Yihuan is introduced to us. This beautiful young girl comes in, reciting a poem in the most beautiful, refined voice, fresh faced and full of life. We learn how she fell for the emperor the first time she saw him, and had true feelings for him ever since.
We're forced to watch how being with the emperor causes the deterioration of this smart, talented, innocent young lady. Being stuck between the emperor and empress dowager, being kept at arms length by the emperor, struggling to have a child for years blaming herself for the reason why, poisoned by Yanwan during her pregnancy to weaken her body and the child. Then the son is born and immediately sent away from her based on an ridiculous superstition, and the moment she's allowed to go see him, he dies. He doesn't even get to make it back to his mother's palace and he's gone. And Yanwan tells her the emperor never had true feelings for her and has been lying to her face all this time.
We see many consorts die over the many episodes covering Ruyi's life. Hui, Jia, Shen, Mei, Yi, Empress Xioxian. It is always sad. But it's Yihuan that stood out most to me. Aside from Chun, she is the only one Ruyi was close to that we see die. It's so wrong. It's shouldn't be. Someone so young, beautiful and talented. Only to have her story cut off this way. She dies reciting that same beautiful poem "To the Tune of Intoxicated Under the Shadow of Flowers" she recites the first time we see her.
But the feeling, this time.. could not be more different.
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A Journey to Love’s Fang Yilun & Chen Haoyu take the cover off Chic Magazine - February 2024
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🌹Different flowers, different men, different feelings...🌼
Chen Hao Yu as Chu Yue in "A Journey to Love" - eps. 27 and 30
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A Journey to Love 一念关山 (2023)
Dir. Zhou Yuan Zhou, Zou Xi – Ep. 29-30
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