Because she is not angry at the object of the emperor’s obsession. She realizes that the woman is a victim and prisoner like Ruyi

Oh, she's jealous. She just sees that it's not the Princess Also, have you notice the harem of consorts and mistresses all around???? Oh, they play the jealous role daily. Now they must unite as one. They see her as an outsider.

Nah, she is mad jealous. She blames the emperor more and silently resents the princess. In Yanxi palace she is graceful and nice too. She only acts on people who harmed kids or to defend herself. Both versions she is entirely devoted to the emperor, but he is beyond fickle.

You must not be watching the same thing... maybe only the clips. Ruyi is not a jealous person at all. She loves him but understands his it is in the palace

Exactly! Especially since he wanted NOTHING more than to have her by his side even begging his father when she was first kicked out the palace. Like even as the holder of the Mandate of Heaven still a feeble human

It breaks my heart too how the emperor treated ruyi in this episode 😢 .

Well said.

Wow, I did not catch that; thank you!

@@meileedefrancesco9975 He spoke with her in a misguided effort to show her due respect because he knows how deeply he disrespected her. He is inept in the ways of women. That went the exact opposite of how he hoped. She knows both she and the Han princess have been disrespected by his whims and yet he refuses to see it. And she refuses to cosign this abuse of power.

I know right. The actress playing Empress Ruyi is amazing too. She doesn't have to say anything her face is filled with such sadness and emptiness already. Like I feel for her.

I was borderline disgusted by him when he said that, honestly men that time were very much dissapointing

@@tandzilebhembe1255 cross the border. It is full on disgusting

@@tandzilebhembe1255 indeed so sad, he knew if he could not have her heart, he can have her body, shameful, beging a Queen or empress at the time means nothing, in my opinion, he husband can still make a mistress, it concubine just as powerful as a Queen or empress, these woman I feel sorry for.

Actually, why he said was, “even if I can’t win her heart, at least she’s here in person,” meaning it’s better than nothing. Still definitely disagree and disgusted with all this, but just clarifying what he said.

@@SweetSista isn’t that the same thing?

@Divya A A good point, but the producers usually make the "current lover" position out to be the villain. Their characters are most often built to be discriminated upon and disliked, so I was prepared to dislike her but was pleasantly surprised.

@Divya A They make the "current lover" dislikeable, in my opinion, so the viewers have an excuse to pair the love interests with one another without feeling bad.

I wouldn't be surprised to find Empress Ruyi has a similar personal experience. You can get that from her conversation with the Emperor.

She had to do so..... Under the treat of Death. Even the Hans Princess knew the Emperor cherished her and lightly without words threatened her. He brought the weaker of her Tribe to subliminal put the weight upon her that if she should release herself from this life to be with him... She leave her ppl that are there with her to carry the burden. She sees that would be such an unwise decision. This is why she said, Why did you all come here? Also the reason why he excited, with the Empress Ruyi on his heals was because The Hans Princess did not take her life. She now will want to stay. So, The Empress and Mistresses really had no choice in tbe matter. Such outspoken dislike would of placed her on the wrong side of his grace. ~Shalom~ 🕊 🌞 🤴🏾 🐏🐑🐏🕎🐏🐑🐏 👑 👸🏽 🌕

@@TouchnotDAnointingof136DZion Wow, I didn't read into the threat. I also saw a documentary video that stated it was the Empresses job to be a mother figure to her people and her husband's mistresses. The Empress knows first hand it's her duty to treat this girl with warmth, but instead of supporting her husband, she is genuinely concerned for the Han princess. The Emperor is lucky to have married such a remarkable and kind hearted woman. Readily and shamelessly unfaithful partners should be thrown to the curb.

I think that is a slight mistranslation but it bluntly tells you what his real sentiment was.

yea the person that plays her is also in a show that recently came out about a girl who lives in an abusive family and the actress that plays Ruyi in this ends up saving the little girl. in that show this actress is amazing she plays the role so so well

From one Elizabeth to another! I watched 3 clips so far and man... I can't tear myself away. But I'll get angry with it sooner or later, my blood is already boiling. She is sooooo amazing though isn't she!? One of the best I have seen in years... Can't remember last time I felt what the actress was feeling just through voice, punctuation and poise. Incredible!

@@sunflowerlavender1783 ...can you please share the name of the movie?

Me too!!

this actress is called Zhou Xun, her most famous character is a fox demon from a movie called Painted Skin, u can find it on KZfaq. She's brilliant

Totally agree👍

Same

@Renalyn Sese Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace

Yes. Worst those all women will go to the monastery and become a monk after the emperor died

😮💀☠️ R U SERIOUS BRO!?

Ikr?! 🙄 🔫

@@faridahfaizul8419 of course not. they will live in the palace till death

@@faridahfaizul8419 In some dynasty they were buried alive sealed in coffins just after the emperor dies.

I wouldn’t be surprised

samyvanegas, which book would you recommend?

Yes... Thanking my Heavenly Father which is The King of Kings for Liberation for all women whom dwell below in this earthly realm or mortals and The Divine Feminine above in the Heavenly Realm of the Immortals. Long live the gracious Almighty Heavenly Father: King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Thanking you so very much for Libration from the oppression of mortal males and immortal masculine energy. May you reign forever more..... And continue to be 4 Ever Heavenly. ~Shalom~ 🕊 🌞 🤴🏾 🐏🐑🐏🕎🐏🐑🐏 👑 👸🏽 🌕

They are All depressing...

or royalty... lots of princes and princesses had it rough. lots of forced marriages, scheming, etc

I laughed aloud when I saw your comments, lol

Middle age male crisis. The biggest difference is that is he is the emperor and has the wealth to do impressive gestures. Xiangjian just felt the doors to her prison slam shut. The emperor really thinks his expensive gifts are enough for Xiangjian to switch off her love and grief.

No love bro, but lust. It’s middle aged gentlemen who still thirsty about something...

Unfortunately there's no true love in the emperor's heart. That's y they have thousands of concubines in the palace. All they have is lust.

Meilee DeFrancesco Do you really think it was their choice to have multiple concubines and wives as well as mistresses? Nope, not their choice. Every Qing Emperor, starting with Nurhaci (Emperor Tianming), all had multiple wives, concubines, and mistresses. The harem system was all part of the imperial Chinese institution since the beginning, the Qing Dynasty just maintained the harem system. Lol as if Christian Europe is any better? Just because you are legally married to one woman, doesn’t make you immune to having mistresses and fathering illegitimate children on the side. The point of emperors having a harem was to keep the loyalty of talented court ministers and military officials, produce potential male heirs to the throne, produce daughters for political alliances with Mongolian royalty and court ministers, and maintaining ethnic harmony between the three major ethnicities: Manchu, Mongol, and Han Chinese. The women in the harem for the most part, are women of the Eight Banners, they were the daughters of court ministers, military officials, Mongolian royalty, bondservants, etc.

@@BatkhuuChuluun I know the history of China. I'm 100% Chinese. Its just a comment from a TV DRAMA!! SMH. I do not need lecture from someone from KZfaq. Seriously?

I was surprised to find out that the voices are dubbed by other actors. I didn’t believe it until I looked it up. Very common in Chinese film industry.

​@@Plucky-ek4bd you mean English dub? Because them dubbing a Chinese show for the Chinese makes no sense...

lol

Lmaoooo

And so an hour after this comment my dreams were crushed and I’ll never be the same

@@ganganwoo3282 omg what happened? Did she get a sad ending? Should I watch the drama, it looks good. And I agree, she looks like a great empress. Sad she's being wasted on the emperor.

@@lucyshiki9604 well... I only watched some of the clips but from what I’ve seen you should really watch it. I’m gonna go watch it. And it’ll probably hurt me as much as it did the first time

@ ByunBaekoned Thank you for kindly explaining that scene and significance 💐

Oh God! We have some such stupid saying in India too that women cross over a threshold with their right foot while men use their left foot. I had no idea they have this in China as well. Also, I noticed we have a lot of similarities in wedding rituals as well.

Agreed she doesn't want her clan wiped out because of him

That was really a blackmail threat delivered with a smile.

The empress seems not be able to bar a child so this why their mistresses they did this back then.

He is a man LOL.

sadly yeah because he is a man....and its not his fault its biology. But while nowadays most people follow moral rules or religion that prohibit having more than 1 wife (apart from Islam) if a man is given a free reign to have as many women as he can he will . Actually its not so different from dating now......only difference . Major difference. That those women were basically trapped and unable to seek other partners and he could have as many as he wished..... this harem system is rather disgusting..... even European kings didn't have so much power over their mistresses.

@@electroandcake6658 didn't s British king kill his wives when he couldn't divorce them?

@@teedoug5433Are you talking about Henry the 8th ? No . He didn't kill his first wife who he couldn't divorce .What he did was actually ...well to put it short changed a religion of his coutry. From Catholicism to forming the Church of England. After that annulled the marriage with(divorced his first wife) . He beheaded his second wife for alleged adultery ( which was considered treason ). He divorced his 3rd wife shortly after the marriage cause he didn't like her looks at all and apparently they never even had sex .But he had good friendly relationship with her after and treated her like a sister. 4th wife was beheaded also because of alleged adultery. And last wife lived longer than him and then married someone else. Actually she was married 4 times. The king was her 3rd husband.

In the Chinese film industry, it’s common for their lines to be dubbed by other actors and actresses.

Lol

I enjoyed the ending very much. the emperor got what he deserved

Not only that. The one who deserve to get into a portrait with a man is only his legitimate wife (in this case, it's empress). By ordering another woman to have a portrait drawn together with him is like announcing he's going to have her as his legitimate wife. Imagine how the empress feel about that.

@@shikumohayashi6990 Good point! Plus when she was the love of his life, he never broke the rules to do a portrait like that with her.

The Han Princess could've use the Emperor's obsession over her to her advantage. She might even asked to be Empress and the idiot would toss Ruyi aside and do it.

She gave up on him lol

Middle aged male crisis...

Do you understand?

Lust lust lust

Well, the actual translation would be "but at least she as a person is here". But still, he's horrible regardless.

Drama title?

yeah, you are right😭what a hypocritical man!!!

I'm too viscous a person to live in that era...Hongli would've been murdered a hundred times over.

If I was a person in that time as per what I am thinking now , I would have just enjoyed my life not caring for that stupid dog , or I would have killed him .

i just hope in her next life she could find someone like ling yunche and be happy. the emeror dont need to reincarnate or if he does just let him be forever alone

Yes even the dowager empress said that the first time the han princess came .

Because David was a fucking asshole

To be fair, many of his concubines and consorts are from powerful noble families and clans...many of them provide basic necessity for the palace and also helped defend and keep the empire together....so he oftentimes he had to turn a blind eye to the trouble makers.

Like she had a choice? Since day one she was only his secondary wife, but she foolishly thought that because he supposedly truly loved her, the other women meant nothing to him. Pretty soon, she was relegated to the same level as all the other consorts.

Qing tribe didn't do that. Actually Han people used to bind their daughter's foot. Qing Dynasty forbidde that practice.

@@yennifersalinascastillo9129 Ohh, I didn't know that. Thanks

It's the typical manchu conbubine shoe. It have high heel in the middle of the shoe, which makes women walking slowly and more elegant.

Wait till you get to ep 81

有时候就是这样的，昏君就是这么来的