JillI am a week late starting the #WinterBegoniaWP watch party, so that means eps 1-2 at least today. I'm actually excited for it, as I was ready for a new story...
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LOL so much for filial piety!
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I feel like Second Master guy kinda has the hots for the opera singer? He is far too friendly and interested in him. And complimentary, too. 👀
"We both really don't like each other. Is there a need to pretend?" LMAO this opera singer has no fucks to give.
"You're used to rescuing damsels in distress. I'm not a damsel in distress. I'm a hero. Listen to my performance. You won't be disappointed." What a bad ass.
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I did not expect the opera singer to be able to run away so fast!😄
Oh, Mrs. Second Master is jealous! Honey, not every couple is that gratuitous in showing affection to each other.
Ha ha. "He isn't qualified to be my enemy." This Commander Cao sounds reasonable.
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OK, I take it back that he's reasonable. He just pulled out a gun and shot it because two people tried to leave a performance? 😬
"I wasn't afraid when you pointed a gun at me in the past. I'm not afraid now." Opera singer is ballsy, wow. And Commander Cao respects that! 😲
That was a very long conversation out in the cold and snow.
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Same. I tend to shout back or hang up on them.
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So much backstory in the first 3 minutes of this episode. I for sure will not remember it all. 🥴
"All the plays in this world are stories about me." I feel that. Being able to connect so deeply with a piece of art is something special.
"Proprietor Shang, have you tried?"
"I am highly skilled, I don't need that." 😎
These two becoming best buddies! 😍
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I love this engineer trying to figure out how the roof was built. I am very much That Guy, too. When I got to visit Ellis Island, I was mostly fascinated by the mechanisms to open and close the windows or provide airflow from rooms to the halls. 🤓
Omg, I want to play with all the architecture models! Nerd joy fills the shelves in that house! 😍
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I know how to count (kinda) in Mandarin, so saying "60 years" as "six ten years" makes sense to me. The word for "year" sounds similar to the Korean word for year "년". But in Mandarin, it sounds more like "냔". #LanguageLearner
He wants a trigger to be able to collapse the tunnel at will?! Yikes. But, I guess, war and commerce are both bloody and risky games? "You look like someone with stature but you have the air of a bandit." 👀
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Second Master Cheng is certainly throwing a lot of his money around today. Paying any price for a mountain tunnel. Paying for that hall restoration. Paying for the opera company to stay. He sure has a lot of money to spare... 😬 I hope he's not overextending himself...
Oh, he has enemies, too!
Leading 10,000 troops is easier than 10 theater workers? 😂
LOL I keep thinking this show will be serious and then there's this gossipy fight!
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Holy, how much do they pay the soldier for being willing to stand with a cake on his head and be shot at?! Yikes. Holy fuck, and a no-look shot like that?! Was that speech about fearing the unexpected and even tigers dozing off a threat from Cheng to Cao?
"I sincerely want to collaborate with you" sounds a bit weird after he stole that guy's goods and then tried to scare him off with gunmanship. 😬
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Holy shit, accusing the elder Cao of conspiring with the Japanese and that Cheng has been unknowingly supplying them?!
This is not the image of a happy man. Much more evil retribution plotting.
Another 100k to buy his wife's brother's unborn baby. Another 10k to bribe his brother-in-law's brother. His piggy bank has to hit bottom at some time, right?
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"When I went home yesterday, your sister wasn't angry with me. It shows that there is room for discussion." To have that kind of removed insight and mindset to your spouse's emotions. Wow.
But apparently, that grace is not between her and Shang Xi Rui! Yikes! The way she can slander an entire profession. And conflate an interaction with thievery that will turn into arson. 
"Just go home and ask your articulate Second Madam!" 😳
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Wow, Shang Xi Rui is not afraid to kick some ass when necessary!
That little giggle just as he's about to put pen to ... back. 🤭
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Does touching your earlobe reduce the heat of holding a hot baked yam? Both these guys keep touching their earlobes.
"I'm inviting you to eat noodles, not lick the table." 😂
"9 out of 10 times it is boasting" and "i have a new act, too! It's called ... um ... um ... Goddess Steps." 😂 Marketing!
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Was dancing on the drum to show how lightly his steps were? (I keep wanting to call him "her" when he's performing.) It probably DOES take a great deal of leg and core strength to control your footsteps that quietly!
"Is this four-eye Fan Lian really worth that much?" 😮 "The fourth Fan is a money-loser who hasn't achieved anything." Fuckin' OUCH. I thought he treated this guy quite generously for familial reasons, but damn!
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"What can they do to me?" Famous last words. 😬🫣
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Damn, Shang Xi Rui is pretty scrappy for an opera singer.
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"The talent i have is worth so much more than a piece of paper." MIC DROP
"In the future, whoever catches him can stab him to death," says this Queen Bandit lady sitting on her throne of tiger skins. Damn, girl.
Commander Cao's son "hugging" his step-mom from behind like that. "My request is not small." Is it ... getting bigger? 🤨🤭
"How long has it been since you were rejected by someone?" he says, like he's not obsessed with her.
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Genuine giggle as Shang Xi Rui pulls that one guy's hat off so him can rub his shaved head. 😁 That guy is adorable. He even agrees that it is fun to rub a shaved head. And the little grin he has when he admits he's really going to Shanghai for his girlfriend. 🤭
"I can write better stuff with my foot!" Ha, the lines in this show are great.
"A man from the south," and Commander Cao shows up?! 🤔😏
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"Sir, the weather is turning. We can't take the trails back down."
😃 "so you have to spend the night!" 🍑😆 she's going to get that extraordinary son tonight, no matter what. 😆 "you looked pretty good yesterday, but now that there's this NEW strong guy..."
Cheng Fengtai scratching his head with the barrel of her gun... his lack of fear around guns is hilarious.
I love Gu Dali so so much. She is my favorite.
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NOW I recognize that shaved guy! He's Tan Jian Ci! How mad were his fans when they found out they shaved his head FOR REAL?! 😅😅😅😅😅
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Gu Dali knocked his TOOTH out?! 🤣🤣🤣 And he seems a lot less ... uptight ... around his step-mom now that he had a night with Dali.
I did NOT expect the younger Cui to go to bat for Shang Xi Rui like that! Wow! He really teamed up with his young uncle Cheng Fengtai, didn't he?
Oh, I didn't connect the dots that Father Cui is supplying the Japanese and Son Cui is fighting for China... 😳 Yipes!
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D'aw, Shang Xi Rui just got adopted by an opera elder! One who respects his teacher's skills! He even kneels down to serve him tea, this scrappy opera singer! 🥹 Liu Hanyun.
"If I go to Shanghai with you, will you get me a godmother, too?" 🤭
So many politics. Godfather politics. Storefront politics. School friend politics. Cha Cha'er isn't even exempt!
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When Cheng Fengtai asks Shang Xi Rui if the performance was fun, I did NOT expect Xi Rui to grin at him like that! "It was fun. Dangerous and exciting!" ... "Bring it on! Call me anytime." 😆
Cha Cha'er is nonplussed, however. 😬 and understandably so. Using her and her school friend as leverage like that. Now she's *really* not going to have any friends at school.
Shang Xi Rui dares to sit on the Emperor's throne!
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I love this scene where the all-powerful military commander is rendered mumbling and nervous between two strong women. His wife, who, only a moment before, was all doe-eyed and innocent and meek with him, feeding him food she had prepared. And now, "How did I not know you had coronary heart disease?" 😤 I love this duality of handling him. But also the power struggle between Madam and Doctor over the commander.
Is Doctor Japanese...?
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I FUCKIN' CALLED IT!
So is commander *really* fighting for the Japanese or just compromised by this Japanese doctor interfering?
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Shang Xi Rui gets to pick what Proprietor Huo sings next and it's like he just got free reign at a candy store. How big his eyes got! 😳
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What is this Royal Mother freaking out about?! She didn't keep the Little Prince? Is Xi Rui the orphaned prince?!
"Is there even something that bothers you?!" Cheng Fengtai usually has 3 plans up his sleeve and a fourth in one shoe, but he is bothered today. Shang Xi Rui says to just be direct and ask, not sneaking around.
"Commander, i refuse to be a traitor." Xi Rui was right. You have to speak directly to someone like Commander.
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... Commander specifically yells about this, being able to protect his brother-in-law's insignificant family, in front of the Japanese doctor. He even stands UP when the Japanese doctor walks in.
Dude is VERY compromised and walking around with a live grenade in his hands.
Cheng Fengtai now holding freight instead of shipping it for Commander. Shit just got serious.
Dr. Neon, PhD in Tragedy@JillsJoy SXR is not but the song he sang triggered her trauma.
@JillsJoy i felt so bad for cha cha'er!
SXR dares to do anything!
SXR dares to do anything!
@JillsJoy yeahhh, it's a point of tension between the two Caos
Gu Dali is great and she continues to be awesome!
Gu Dali is great and she continues to be awesome!
@JillsJoy Gu Dali is great! I love her so much too!
@JillsJoy I find Commander Cao, his son and Meixin's relationship to be quite fascinating and interesting. Meixin is a pretty complex character who I am intrigued by, even though I might not like her very much
@geraineon she seems like a lady who has made some very conscious decisions in her life.
@JillsJoy yep, she has definitely made some Choices.
@JillsJoy it's ok, he (his wife) has a lot of money!