Bu Bu Jing Xin - ep 5
1. First, just so that will be out in the open - every time Kevin Cheng comes on-screen, I have to resist the urge to make out with my laptop. Not good, self!!!
2. OMG, surely I wasn't the only one who noticed the look on Four's face when Kangxi was discussing Ruoxi's participation in the selections for the royal harem. He totally likes her!!! In his closed-off, 'will never admit it ever' way. Off to wallow in canon-shipping. I really had to eat every single misgiving I had about Nicky Wu in this role.
3. Currently, my front-runner uncanon ship for Ruoxi is Ruoxi/Thirteen in terms of plausibility. They are ridiculously compatible and are total bffs. I know the drama only wants us to see them as friends but then they shouldn't have cast Yuan Hong as Thirteen. I am not a Liu Shi Shi/Yuan Hong RPShipper because I don't really RPShip, but there is no denying that their on-screen chemistry has always been utterly ridiculous. I keep wondering when they will go off to have hot sexy sex against the wall while being worshipful and adoring at the same time. I think Eight and Ruoxi have lovely chemistry (honestly, the chemistry between the entire cast is insane - I just keep expecting a giant orgy), but I am too firmly on Eight/Ruolan ship for that to be my default.
4. Speaking of Eight/Ruolan, why don't you just tear out my heart and feed it to me, drama? That scene after the horse-riding competition was one of the most painful, awful things I've seen in a long time! He just loves her so freaking much and is just begging for her to give him a chance and she is so passively cold. (But is it just me - she totally looks like she wants to give in, which makes her feel guiltier and thus colder). They are both in so much pain. I just want to shake her and tell her to snap out of it - I get it that it sucks that she was not allowed to marry her lover who was sent to the front lines and died, and I get that she feels guilty because he was only sent to the front lines because of her but!!!!!!! It's not as if she's been married for a month. They have clearly been married for years and honestly, it's time to let go, you can't spend your whole life as if you were dead, especially since IMO it's clear she wants to come out of the darkness. Except that is the thing - I think she feels guilty and that it would be a betrayal to enjoy her life when he is dead so she sort of feels the unrelenting misery is her duty. Argh. I get the sense that, parodoxically, she keeps Eight at bay precisely because she could be happy with him. But yeah, when he kept looking at her doing those riding stunts with his heart in his eyes, it was awful.
5. Speaking of uncanon ships, ummmm, I ship Thirteen/Lu Wu, the prostitute/courtesan who is his drinking companion. I want them together so badly, it hurts. (As opposed to Thirteen/Ruoxi where I love their chemistry but I don't really genuinely ship them in the sense that I am emotionally invested in the outcome). GRRR. Chances of that happening are totally zero. I don't mean the chances of them hooking up because she is a courtesan so it may very well happen (though I get the sense he only wants her as a drinking/talking friend, nothing else) but long-term romantic relationship. Argh, I need that so badly and will be denied, I am sure. Hmmm, actually, currently I like Thirteen the best out of all the princes in general.
2. OMG, surely I wasn't the only one who noticed the look on Four's face when Kangxi was discussing Ruoxi's participation in the selections for the royal harem. He totally likes her!!! In his closed-off, 'will never admit it ever' way. Off to wallow in canon-shipping. I really had to eat every single misgiving I had about Nicky Wu in this role.
3. Currently, my front-runner uncanon ship for Ruoxi is Ruoxi/Thirteen in terms of plausibility. They are ridiculously compatible and are total bffs. I know the drama only wants us to see them as friends but then they shouldn't have cast Yuan Hong as Thirteen. I am not a Liu Shi Shi/Yuan Hong RPShipper because I don't really RPShip, but there is no denying that their on-screen chemistry has always been utterly ridiculous. I keep wondering when they will go off to have hot sexy sex against the wall while being worshipful and adoring at the same time. I think Eight and Ruoxi have lovely chemistry (honestly, the chemistry between the entire cast is insane - I just keep expecting a giant orgy), but I am too firmly on Eight/Ruolan ship for that to be my default.
4. Speaking of Eight/Ruolan, why don't you just tear out my heart and feed it to me, drama? That scene after the horse-riding competition was one of the most painful, awful things I've seen in a long time! He just loves her so freaking much and is just begging for her to give him a chance and she is so passively cold. (But is it just me - she totally looks like she wants to give in, which makes her feel guiltier and thus colder). They are both in so much pain. I just want to shake her and tell her to snap out of it - I get it that it sucks that she was not allowed to marry her lover who was sent to the front lines and died, and I get that she feels guilty because he was only sent to the front lines because of her but!!!!!!! It's not as if she's been married for a month. They have clearly been married for years and honestly, it's time to let go, you can't spend your whole life as if you were dead, especially since IMO it's clear she wants to come out of the darkness. Except that is the thing - I think she feels guilty and that it would be a betrayal to enjoy her life when he is dead so she sort of feels the unrelenting misery is her duty. Argh. I get the sense that, parodoxically, she keeps Eight at bay precisely because she could be happy with him. But yeah, when he kept looking at her doing those riding stunts with his heart in his eyes, it was awful.
5. Speaking of uncanon ships, ummmm, I ship Thirteen/Lu Wu, the prostitute/courtesan who is his drinking companion. I want them together so badly, it hurts. (As opposed to Thirteen/Ruoxi where I love their chemistry but I don't really genuinely ship them in the sense that I am emotionally invested in the outcome). GRRR. Chances of that happening are totally zero. I don't mean the chances of them hooking up because she is a courtesan so it may very well happen (though I get the sense he only wants her as a drinking/talking friend, nothing else) but long-term romantic relationship. Argh, I need that so badly and will be denied, I am sure. Hmmm, actually, currently I like Thirteen the best out of all the princes in general.