May I officially with you to the Ming Lan Fanclub?

Every lying liar in a drama always says this line!!! hahhahaa

He will, I promise.

Ugh! that was such a heartbreaking scene. I’m like 8 episodes in haha

Which drama? I feel like I should know this scene/have seen a scene somewhat like this before in a Cdrama

I absolutely loved The Story of Ming Lan! The story is so realistic and mirrors the lives of real women living in that time, their struggles, their strengths. You are going to fall in love with it more and more as you watch, at least that’s what happened with me 😊

Coming in knowing the ending made it more palpable that by the end I was thinking of reasons why each character died and whether it made sense for them to. with that in mind, I’d say I am quite happy with the end except for the fact that I lost DFS… but then again, he died protecting that which he loved, it better than dying of betrayal and being ordered to death by the king. This is probably a better ending for him. But if I could rewrite that I would make it so that he takes the fake-your-death pill (administer to him by BQ) and later just lives somewhere far away, attending to the sick and being his miraculous doctor self. I think I will be happy if that were to happen and that he finds his own bride that loves him back.

Awwww thank you for the final write-up of your thoughts!!! Being able to revisit the drama a little bit in the last couple of days through your screen caps and posts made me happy 😊
Up to a certain point, I just gave up & simply wished that our OTP would get a happy ending—and they did!!— so I don’t really care about the logic of how we got there or the logic of whether or not it was real, Bu Qi’s imagination, or Bu Qi’s dream 😂😂 I wasn’t too upset about so many character deaths, I honestly just rolled my eyes at many of them because I found it so laughable that they were so good all throughout the drama and then the writer(S) just got lazy & killed them all, but the deaths I was actually sad about was Cousin Yun for sure & also the death of Dongfang Shi in hindsight. Both men were such good people & good to Bu Qi 😭😭😭😭 I always shipped for Chen Yu when it came to his relationship with Bu Qi—because, yes, Zhang Bin Bin & Ariel Lin’s chemistry is just 🔥🔥🔥— because I alway saw in their relationship that they had this fundamental understanding & unquestionably deep love for each other that didn’t break & would always bring them back together, even in moments of near-death or actual death. I think going through the experience of being torn apart when Bu Qi faked her own death, which actually was the kickstart to their relationship, was the thing that helped them & their relationship be so strong right from the beginning, because they have already sort of experienced the pain of losing one another, so they know more than anyone else that they have to cherish the one they love. Yes, there were silly moments when Bu Qi was “jealous” of Chen Yu & his ‘business relationship w/ Liu Qing Wu, but I feel that was written just to give audiences a thought that maybe, just maybe, things could change & Bu Qi might choose to be w/ DongFang Shi in the end. Oh, DongFang Shi 😔😔😔😔 Poor puppy. He grew up privileged, he grew up w/ great knowledge & turned that knowledge into a great skill of learning medicine & helping people, but I also think that his privilege & great knowledge turned into arrogance & that’s where it all started to go wrong. His privilege & knowledge made him arrogant as he grew up & then knowing that Bu Qu’s family owed his family money made him feel higher up because the money was all that he could see & all he cared about until he actually took the time to get to know Bu Qi as a person & then fell in love w/ her because of who she is. I feel like the reasons why DongFang Shi fell in love with Bu Qi were the same reasons why Bu Qi & Chen Yu love each other so much: Bu Qi & Chen Yu both have a generous heart towards the marginalized & the poor of society (because Bu Qi experienced it & because Chen Yu has a blunt perspective of what is right & what is wrong), they will do absolutely anything & everything for the people they love & the people that they love, they love very deeply, they empathize w/ each other