Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace (Part 1) - Plot Appreciation

Ruyi 's Royal Love in the Palace was broadcast in 2018, starring Zhou Xun and Wallace Huo. It is also the sequel to the phenomenal TV series "The Legend of Zhen Huan " released in 2011.

Even if it is a sequel, Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace and Zhen Huan's Biography are from the same author's hand, but they do not follow the same pattern, that is, entering the palace - longing - disappointment - depression - awakening - blackening - revenge. The great success caused by the big heroine's revenge is replicated.

Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace wants to express more, I think it is in the Forbidden City of the splendid cage, women with different facial makeup insist on sticking to their hearts in their own way, but invariably converge on the extremely painful Da Che and enlightenment, so I pin my hopes on it. In the next life, I hope that in the next life, I no longer have to insist on the meaningless choices I chose in this life.

I have seen the video of the Internet celebrity Tai Lai analysing Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace on youtube before, so I came up with the idea of this article.

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Emperor Qianlong played by Huo Jianhua and Ulanara Ruyi played by Zhou Xun are a pair of childhood sweethearts who have known each other since childhood. Qianlong developed a suspicious character in his unhappy childhood and underappreciated youth, and the lively elf Ruyi (also called Qingying at that time) was perhaps one of the few hopeful lights in his life at that time.

She slipped him out of the banquet with him, climbed the city wall, and looked at the high city towers, as well as the opera wall horses that were vaguely heard from their banquet.
Later, she was chosen by him to be the side Fujin, and he attached to her ear on the wedding night and told her: "Don't be afraid when I'm here."

Even if the palace is filled with women who are "responsible" because of their family background, beauty, or just because of drunken sex, she still knows that he has her in his heart.

After going through a lot of things, he could finally marry her home regardless of the Gongqing family, the frontier tribes, and the opinions of everyone in the world.
Really gave her a name.

If it can stop abruptly when Ruyi is sealed, perhaps Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace will be, and it will only be a perfect fairy tale.
And sweet fairy tales without impurities have never been so lacking in this world as we imagined.

Ruyi's name may have hinted at the ending of the play early on.

In episode 5, she, who was still called Qingying, thought her name was too out of date and wanted the Queen Mother to give her a new name and a new beginning.

In this drama, Ruyi insists on keeping her true heart.
She ascended to the post for no vanity or power, just because the only person in her heart was the emperor at that time, so she wanted to go to that person's side and live in the same coffin with him.

It's a pity that her original heart helped her step by step to the rear, but it also made her queen's seat so difficult.

If she was a favorite concubine, of course she could indulge her temperament and ask the emperor to take care of the relationship between them and put herself first in her heart. When she became the queen, she was the emperor's wife and the mother of a country.
She will be embarrassed, sacrificed and wronged because of national affairs at any time when it is necessary or not.

After Empress Fucha passed away and Ruyifeng died, Emperor Qianlong once told Empress Fucha's daughter that the current empress is not as graceful and knowledgeable as your mother.

Yes, because in Queen Fucha's heart, family trumps everything. In front of the family, even if Qianlong was her husband, it was not as good as what she could endure for a while to contribute to the family.

In Ruyi's heart, only Qianlong has always been.

Yi, in fact, not only means beautiful and quiet, but also means queen.
Just relying on Ruyi's tight grip on the love between them, it is doomed that she will never be able to become a queen well.

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