This episode in "not paying attention to Prince Jing" apparently no-one has bothered wondering why he is interested in this particular child slave beyond presumably buying the argument that he thought this kid looked sad, and Jing is like that. The first time I watched, I really thought that Jing had a stick up his bum and it took me some time to warm to him. Now, well he doesn't care for MCS, but we can see he and Nihuang have a connection.
Mu Qing is great. He's young enough that Lin Shu presumably didn't know him well, especially as he was presumably raised in Yunnan, with Nihuang the Jinling hostage?
IIRC the novel has it more explicit that Liyang knows what has gone on with the babyswap and possibly her servant set up the victim? But I don't recall the detsil so might misremember.
Haha, definitely the first square! And the first time we see Lin Shu come out, because nothing about MCS so far has suggested that mischief-making is a fundamental part of his character.
Sometimes it's hard to tell a stick up the bum from a gigantic chip on the shoulder, but this Prince Jing really is strikingly different from the Jingyan we come to know and love. In a way you could say that although MCS does a terrible thing to him in making him Emperor, he doesn't actually make Jingyan any lonelier than he is in these first episodes, when he has no friends, hardly ever gets to see his mum and is in constant emotional pain from the stick up his bum.
Even though we're given sympathetic scenes for him very early, he's so closed-off that it's difficult to engage with him personally at this stage. He really is such an isolated figure in his adulthood. The two years of working with MCS and co are this island in a before of exile and mistrust, and an after of splendid isolation, although at least he does end up with trusted allies and can see his mum whenever he wants.
Consort Jing gets the only really happy ending - she looks so different in the final scene, smiling at her grandchild and getting on well with her daughter-in-law. God knows, if anyone deserves it she does. And since Empress Yan comes out of the palace to visit Liyang, presumably the Emperor's mother enjoys similar freedoms.
She really deserves it. Never having to smile carefully in case it's an excuse to murder her or her son again. As many books as she wants. I hope she got to spend time studying medicine again.
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First square in the MCS passive-aggressive eating bingo?
Mu Qing is great. He's young enough that Lin Shu presumably didn't know him well, especially as he was presumably raised in Yunnan, with Nihuang the Jinling hostage?
IIRC the novel has it more explicit that Liyang knows what has gone on with the babyswap and possibly her servant set up the victim? But I don't recall the detsil so might misremember.
Re: First square in the MCS passive-aggressive eating bingo?
Sometimes it's hard to tell a stick up the bum from a gigantic chip on the shoulder, but this Prince Jing really is strikingly different from the Jingyan we come to know and love. In a way you could say that although MCS does a terrible thing to him in making him Emperor, he doesn't actually make Jingyan any lonelier than he is in these first episodes, when he has no friends, hardly ever gets to see his mum and is in constant emotional pain from the stick up his bum.
Re: First square in the MCS passive-aggressive eating bingo?
Re: First square in the MCS passive-aggressive eating bingo?
Consort Jing gets the only really happy ending - she looks so different in the final scene, smiling at her grandchild and getting on well with her daughter-in-law. God knows, if anyone deserves it she does. And since Empress Yan comes out of the palace to visit Liyang, presumably the Emperor's mother enjoys similar freedoms.
Re: First square in the MCS passive-aggressive eating bingo?
Re: First square in the MCS passive-aggressive eating bingo?
Re: First square in the MCS passive-aggressive eating bingo?
Re: First square in the MCS passive-aggressive eating bingo?
Perhaps they thought he did it to annoy the Emperor, give how much Dad dislikes people being nice to servants from the prison?
Re: First square in the MCS passive-aggressive eating bingo?
Re: First square in the MCS passive-aggressive eating bingo?