Anne: Pleased Tuesday everybody! Properly…my week glided by in flurry of labor and craziness that may in all probability proceed till subsequent yr. It actually was by no means a good suggestion to have a consumer assembly as one of many very first thing Monday morning. After the assembly this week, the place we did not even end discussing the agenda, I wanted a drink. I needed to schedule one other hour for later this week with the hope that we are able to end. Sigh… not less than the tip of the yr is coming, and regardless of all of the stuff that I nonetheless must do…similar to full my written suggestions for my workforce, the pressured holidays will not less than sluggish some stuff down. Is not this a bit unhappy? I actually need a treatment for my work-a-holic illness.
Anyway… bear in mind final week once I went via a few of my favourite dramas of the yr, and I mentioned that if nothing uncommon occurs, then this yr ended with a brief checklist of dramas that caught my consideration. Properly…let’s discuss my present obsession…
Blossom
This was definitely a shock on the finish of the yr. And the explanation why I began that is actually foolish, the English title. I used to be like…why is there a THIRD drama with the phrase Blossom within the title? (And I am not even positive WHY? The Chinese language title has nothing to do with the phrase.) Now, I preferred the opposite two dramas, so I assumed I ought to give this a attempt. The synopsis of the drama didn’t point out that this was a re-birth drama. Think about how confused I used to be when the primary episode began with Tune Mo and Dou Zhao principally going quick in direction of a tragic ending (each of them are “sickly”). Tune Mo kills the crown prince, who inform him that he is looking for revenge from the incorrect particular person. On this chaos, Dou Zhao discovers that her husband has been having an affair together with her half sister. Rightfully pissed, she decides to divorce her husband. In her escape, she runs into Tune Mo. (I actually like the best way they did the streaks of white in his hair.)
With them of their finish was a younger monk named Ji Yong, who gave Dou Zhao a “ebook” and opened a “doorway” of types that pushed them again into the previous.
Now, think about how excited I used to be that this was one other re-birth drama!!! One in every of my favorites. Now.. it does seem that solely the FL retained the reminiscence of the previous life.
After they return into the previous…Dou Zhao wakes up in the identical place the place she died, with Ji Yong by her facet, telling her that she was emersed in her ebook that she knocked herself out.
Again in her childhood, together with her final life’s experiences, she refused to depend on a person for her future. She made positive that she implicated her new step mom in attempting to “hurt” her and was capable of get taken away by her grandmother. This life, she select to make herself as autonomous as doable, even all the way down to the purpose of constructing positive that each ladies in her make use of realized sufficient martial arts to guard themselves. The very first thing she tried to do was to stop her mom’s loss of life, however regardless of her finest efforts, she wasn’t capable of change her mom’s destiny. There was a fantastic scene (not less than from my perspective), the place she is on the river and requested the passing “writer” of her ebook, why nothing actually modified regardless of her finest efforts to alter the occasions. The passing “writer” tells her that her makes an attempt are merely throwing rocks right into a flowing river. Regardless of how massive the rock, the one factor it does is to make ripples within the river. Nevertheless it by no means alters the trail of the river. If she actually desires to alter her destiny, she must turn out to be highly effective sufficient to maneuver a mountain. It’s the solely approach to change the trail of the river.
For the subsequent few episodes, as much as 10, which I’ve watched each single one, advised the story of Tune Mo, and the way he turned the scary common that he turned in his final life. It was nice to see his relationship to his maternal uncle, the Duke whose loss of life was the foremost affect in his previous life that brought on him to doubt every little thing that he believed in.
On this life, Ji Yong, the younger monk from earlier than, turned her childhood buddy, rising up together with her. The 2 of time meet once more, within the city the place she grew up together with her grandmother, as Tune Mo eliminates the pirates plaguing the realm. As his uncle will get “known as” again to the capital, Tune Mo saves his uncle’s solely baby, and in his journey, he results in Dou Zhao’s residence. This units off an attention-grabbing “hostage” scenario between our two leads. Tune Mo is sweet at studying folks. However Dou Zhao is best at navigating courtroom politics.
As her step mom and uncle plots to marry her off to the person in her previous life, she is actively attempting to flee that. Alongside the best way, Tune Mo’s uncle nonetheless finally ends up being tortured to loss of life and convicted. At this lowest level in his life, which is the tip of episode 10, is the turning level in his life. The episode ends with Dou Zhao, who was “launched” from the combat, turning again, and (more than likely) be the help he wanted to stop him from spiraling down the identical path as earlier than.
I’m fully hooked! I like it!
Okay. That is the place I’ve stopped this week. On one other hand, there’s a brief drama on iQiyi known as The Evening is Nonetheless Younger…I’ve a sense this factor will finish in tragedy. It’s one other re-birth drama, however on this one, the FL by no means realized that every little thing she “knew” wasn’t the reality. And that the enemy she thought was answerable for her household’s loss of life, is definitely the one who beloved her probably the most.
Hope everybody have a fantastic week!