I really don't know how Ruyi could even stand the Emperor's touch. He's a empty shell of a man without remorse where feelings are concerned. He doesn't know a thing about love, respect, or compassion. I truly think he's one of the worst emperors ever depicted in a drama. She deserved so much better than what she got. Her disappointment in him was palpable.
Ironically, the frostbite scene is symbolic. He says that he sees it, because it's a visible symbol of what she went through in the Cold Palace. When he applied the medicine himself and Ruyi said "this isn't something you should do" it's because that is a task for a servant; at most for a physician, if the matter was very grave. So he said "but I want to" because he wanted to lower himself to the level of a servant as an apology. It's true that he is short-sighted in that apology but at this stage he isn't at his worst yet. It would have been better if he'd told her about the plan but he thought it was too risky. So basically he's bad but he's still trying; he hasn't gotten to his super awful stage yet
They were childhood sweethearts. Ruyi hoped he would love her the same, but the emperor's lack of trust in others & refusal to accept responsibility for his actions led him to wrongly accuse her of so many things. This drove her love for him away.
It doesn't work like that. Once you're inside the palace there'll be no ways out. If his love for her has gone then he'll just won't care about her anymore but he won't let her go. He might jailed her or jailed her in her own palace. There's nothing called divorce in this place because once you're his's, you'll always be his's. If he let her out of the palace that's even worse. Because that's when she lost her standing and everyone will despise her even her own clan
She has duties of helping her clan especially after her aunt has been dethroned and the clan’s power has greatly weakened. Also if she go home to her clan that’s a big disgrace to her and her clan. She won’t be able to remarry and everyone will know that she’s lost her purity (virginity). (That’s pretty serious for women back then because their duty is to marry and give birth to carry the family line.)
michxshao in the past, only the husband can divorce his wife and not the other way around. However, in the palace theres no such thing as divorce because once you become the emperor’s concubine/consort, you belong to him so you can only stay and die in the palace.
Many people don't seem to put the emperor in the right context. He was raised to implement rules, follow many of them himself within a strict protocol. Having to deal with people who all wanted something of him. His concubines, he has to try to keep them all at ease so they don't fight and give birth to as many heirs as possible. Even being the ruler, his mother and others constant want to spy on him, gain influence and fool him. To show true love to Ruyi, isn't always easy for him cause he mistrusts nearly everyone and cannot slways show that he favors her, more than others in a special way. He researching and taking action to prepare this gift for her, isn't superficial to him. For him it's showing his care for her.
Yeah, it's called letting her in that you knew and have her help you figure out the problem faster. Edit: And having a backbone and treating her with respect.
@@vanisanthiran5850 Agree,but maybe...just maybe his ego and unhinged paranoid attitude towards Ruyi could be a little more controllable since he would have no emperor ego specifically attached to him. Being an emperor really messes Hongli big time
@Vani Santhiran Having consorts and concubines was the norm for royalty and nobility. You have more than one wife so that you have lots of children. You have the main wife, your legitimate wife, and a bunch of consorts and concubines that have a single job: having kids.
She has to be kept in cold palace to protect her from other evil and wicked concubines pending slow investigation. Consort Xian carry herself and play her card well and right. She needs to stay alive and come out from the cold palace and eventually she came out. She maintained good relations with others.
Tres años de separación en una pareja, es una vida. Que dolor. Tan joven Ruyi tuvo que atravesar semejante dolor. Además, en ése trayecto, perdió a su padre o, mejor dicho, mataron a su padre, el sabía quién lo hizo y no tomó ninguna medida contra esa criminal.
If he never became emperor and was a prince and they married it might not have been so bad. But lead in the makeup? I know it used to be popular to look lighter but if they are wearing lead no way they would all have such perfect skin.
Umm, so I got curious by the ingredient of the make up so I tried to search them up and I found something intriguing, though who know if its the same. Borneol may cause eye, skin, and respiratory irritation; it is harmful if swallowed. lol
rye yep in my native language we have a saying that (loosely) translates to. If you want to be beautiful you must suffer, ‘cause in the old days they would put all kinds of poison on their skin to make it “pretty”
Unfortunately he wasnt even a good ruler. His father was. He did many horrific genocides and other stuff you can read on Wikipedia. If you click the wiki sources, it's scarring to read..
The energy he used to prepare that expensive gift, he should have channeled it into being a decent human being.
Real talk !
The actress Ruyi is really good. Her reaction when she saw the emperor was so spot on. You can feel her disappointment in him
Ruyi went through a lot in the cold palace and she is finding out that the emperor only cares about himself and not her
The actress is amazing. When she was told to trust him, her eyes were utterly empty. She no longer has any faith in him.
Zhou Xun (Ruyi) is so beautiful. She's absolutely luminous, her voice is so pleasant to listen to and her acting skills are peerless.
I really don't know how Ruyi could even stand the Emperor's touch. He's a empty shell of a man without remorse where feelings are concerned. He doesn't know a thing about love, respect, or compassion. I truly think he's one of the worst emperors ever depicted in a drama. She deserved so much better than what she got. Her disappointment in him was palpable.
Typical male. He saw the frostbite but not her emotional pain and despair...
Ironically, the frostbite scene is symbolic.
He says that he sees it, because it's a visible symbol of what she went through in the Cold Palace. When he applied the medicine himself and Ruyi said "this isn't something you should do" it's because that is a task for a servant; at most for a physician, if the matter was very grave. So he said "but I want to" because he wanted to lower himself to the level of a servant as an apology.
It's true that he is short-sighted in that apology but at this stage he isn't at his worst yet. It would have been better if he'd told her about the plan but he thought it was too risky.
So basically he's bad but he's still trying; he hasn't gotten to his super awful stage yet
The childhood sweetheart bond is so dangerous...
I love this scene the most out of all the other scenes!
All she wanted to hear was sorry and have some affection to let her know she's loved. Instead she gets make up.💔
" to allow your complexion to be pearly white " YEAH. For HIS pleasure
I heard that
I don't really understand why Ruyi loved him so much? All he did was cause her sorrow, hurt and mostly didn't trust her.
I don't get it either.
They were childhood sweethearts. Ruyi hoped he would love her the same, but the emperor's lack of trust in others & refusal to accept responsibility for his actions led him to wrongly accuse her of so many things. This drove her love for him away.
@@loveisinfinite1997 I srly hoped that he would improve in every episode, but that never happened. I was so disappointed
@@loveisinfinite1997 Sadly, if you know who Consort Xian is in real life, you'd know that was bound to happen.
@@artismylife2641 why who was she?
What a jerk! Don’t let him touch you! She should not have forgiven him so easily.
Bruh exactly just because they are the king bruh smHHH
She didn't really have a choice and she also made up so she could take revenge on those that hurt her.
Her words of forgiveness were spoken as his words of love ... With no true feeling
@@lawwhi4204That was so poetic! Lol
Ah the more I watch of these the more I’m so very sad for her, she is so kind and sweet and then to be treated like she has/will be is heartbreaking
This is when my relationship with him would have come to an end period
I can't imagine having to live a life like that!
Her life is in his hands
She has no power
She is being gracious in order to survive
The emporer did not deserve the love Ruyi had for him. He made her suffer for no reason.
I think her life would have bern happier if he had just divorced her and let her go home to her clan
It doesn't work like that. Once you're inside the palace there'll be no ways out. If his love for her has gone then he'll just won't care about her anymore but he won't let her go. He might jailed her or jailed her in her own palace. There's nothing called divorce in this place because once you're his's, you'll always be his's. If he let her out of the palace that's even worse. Because that's when she lost her standing and everyone will despise her even her own clan
She has duties of helping her clan especially after her aunt has been dethroned and the clan’s power has greatly weakened. Also if she go home to her clan that’s a big disgrace to her and her clan. She won’t be able to remarry and everyone will know that she’s lost her purity (virginity). (That’s pretty serious for women back then because their duty is to marry and give birth to carry the family line.)
That could never happen. This is no such thing as divorce back those days. Women just die in palace.
michxshao in the past, only the husband can divorce his wife and not the other way around. However, in the palace theres no such thing as divorce because once you become the emperor’s concubine/consort, you belong to him so you can only stay and die in the palace.
@@lizdubois2390 so weird, that the emperor won't let woman go, inlet them leave to go home, it's interesting but kind of creepy at the same time.
Many people don't seem to put the emperor in the right context. He was raised to implement rules, follow many of them himself within a strict protocol. Having to deal with people who all wanted something of him. His concubines, he has to try to keep them all at ease so they don't fight and give birth to as many heirs as possible. Even being the ruler, his mother and others constant want to spy on him, gain influence and fool him. To show true love to Ruyi, isn't always easy for him cause he mistrusts nearly everyone and cannot slways show that he favors her, more than others in a special way. He researching and taking action to prepare this gift for her, isn't superficial to him. For him it's showing his care for her.
He isn’t a man of his word.
He never truly loves her.
Those are empty words emperor.
Yeah, it's called letting her in that you knew and have her help you figure out the problem faster.
Edit: And having a backbone and treating her with respect.
They would have been happy together if he was a duke
Once a slut, always a slut. He might have recruited a HOUSE full of concubines...
@@vanisanthiran5850 Agree,but maybe...just maybe his ego and unhinged paranoid attitude towards Ruyi could be a little more controllable since he would have no emperor ego specifically attached to him. Being an emperor really messes Hongli big time
He's not a good person so I highly doubt that.
@Vani Santhiran Having consorts and concubines was the norm for royalty and nobility. You have more than one wife so that you have lots of children. You have the main wife, your legitimate wife, and a bunch of consorts and concubines that have a single job: having kids.
I've thought that too
I have no idea what this story is but the music is sooooo on point!!
Turns out makeup made out of lead is not such a great gift
She has to be kept in cold palace to protect her from other evil and wicked concubines pending slow investigation. Consort Xian carry herself and play her card well and right. She needs to stay alive and come out from the cold palace and eventually she came out. She maintained good relations with others.
Tres años de separación en una pareja, es una vida. Que dolor. Tan joven Ruyi tuvo que atravesar semejante dolor. Además, en ése trayecto, perdió a su padre o, mejor dicho, mataron a su padre, el sabía quién lo hizo y no tomó ninguna medida contra esa criminal.
李玉也是暖男一枚
The emperor is all about lip service underneath.
Well all know he is a man of his word. Ha just lip service. She truly love him but he never loved her as she loved him
He didn't owned up by what his so called first wife has done and is still doing
Beautiful,if it could only be reality.
I keep getting confused. Is this a Japanese drama or a Chinese drama. I enjoy it so much but I will like to know what I am hearing. 🙂✌️
If he never became emperor and was a prince and they married it might not have been so bad.
But lead in the makeup? I know it used to be popular to look lighter but if they are wearing lead no way they would all have such perfect skin.
What is dunouxiang ?
Lead in makeup no wonder these poor women were so sick
well if u live in that era u must also.using it...
This emperor is selfish at all!!
Umm, so I got curious by the ingredient of the make up so I tried to search them up and I found something intriguing, though who know if its the same. Borneol may cause eye, skin, and respiratory irritation; it is harmful if swallowed. lol
Very interesting
7:42 oh no! So bad if it’s lead.. 😬or is it mistranslation?
Well lead was a beauty ingredient in the past and still use till the time of queen elizabeth
rye yep in my native language we have a saying that (loosely) translates to. If you want to be beautiful you must suffer, ‘cause in the old days they would put all kinds of poison on their skin to make it “pretty”
he may be considered a good ruler but as a husband and as the father he is the worst worm
Unfortunately he wasnt even a good ruler. His father was. He did many horrific genocides and other stuff you can read on Wikipedia. If you click the wiki sources, it's scarring to read..
Weak