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    [Mainland Chinese Drama 2020] The Sleepless Princess 离人心上

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    • Hi everyone!!!

    For fear of forgetting someone, i won't tag anyone but I just wanted to say thank you once again! the meaningful insights and deep conversations that the drama brought on for thi....these days, it has me reflecting on love alot (hehehehe).

     

    i'm not ready for it to end and i still want to read all your insights on here! So many little details of this drama can be dissected and talked about for hours!

     

    I have tried watching dating in the kitchen ...and it seems really cute ...but i just can't ...i keep going back to TSP and the OST!! Wow! Honeslty, i wish it go tmore views - maybe it will when it is actually fully subbed! I really hope VIKI will pick it up! Because it's a work of art. I just commented over on YT that i don't understand a word of the BTS videos but i could watch it so many times because the crew's sincerity shines through! When the director speaks...sigh. You don't need to understand what he's saying, you just know he poured his heart into this.

     

    i wonder if - because they had some extra time - they could refine the story and really focus on the storytelling and that's why it flows a little better ( at least, for me! i felt the script was just a better quality). Yes, like anything, it had its flaws. but like everyone's been saying, HYX's smile - it just makes you forget everything else!

     

    Aiyoh, so many more scenes i would have loved to have seen! Honeslty, i would pay alot of money to have the cast and crew come back to film  a= couple of extra episodes!

     

    Lots of love to everyone! Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

     

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    [Mainland Chinese Drama 2020] The Sleepless Princess 离人心上

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    On 9/15/2020 at 5:51 AM, Montato91 said:

    The second wedding scene gets to me every time :tears:

     and then when she’s in jail triple stab in the heart  :bawling: my feelings gets played after they divorce 

    I think this episode will air today with subs - cue tears!!!

     

    Even though i can't get myself to watch A love of 1000 years, and I can't watch ZYC with another FL just yet - I am going to check out ZLS new drama: dating in the kitchen

     

    Anyone with me?

    [Mainland Chinese Drama 2020] The Sleepless Princess 离人心上

    in Mainland China

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    12 hours ago, honeytime said:

     

     

    also, the way CY and XY look at each other.....oh my....ZYC and HYX do such a FANTASTIC job portraying the looks of love and admiration and excitement and happiness and care and longing that the characters have for each other......it's just so perfect sigh lol

     

    LOLLLLL whenever i watch dramas i always feel that way....but im too busy and stressed in real life to bother falling in love xD I'll stick to experiencing love through dramas hahah thanks to XY and CY, I've been in love this past month :")

     

    Usually, i'm so busy and stressed too! LOL. But this drama changed me , honestly!

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    [Mainland Chinese Drama 2020] The Sleepless Princess 离人心上

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    19 hours ago, SIMNEE TING said:

    Dear All, 

     

    Tq so much for all ur response.. I still havent grasp how to tag and use quote here. @dragonfly @honeytime @mblgoh  u all are very encouraging in ur response to my thoughts on TSP. Makes me so happy. Tqsm to fellow fan @enzek who share about upcoming series. Jin xin si yu is def on my watch list.. Wallace chung yes as general whoosh... And the ot general lady too... .need another good drama quick to detox frommTSP.. But the chemistry between hopefully as good if not better eh... Haha... 

     

    I just realise something which i think all of you will love. Their son's is name 盟 means an oath, alliance and promise. N the best bit is the comtains XY amd CY name. His name 曜 yao has a sun in it and her name yue is the moon. That isvthe top bit of meng. For such details, This scriptwriter is a keeper. Must watch out for his work in the future. 

     

    By the way can anyone tell me, when was XY aha-she-is- the- one moment? I was like rewatching ep1 to 18 n could not point out his aha moment. There was :

    the apple shooting/horse riding when he realise she may not be so bad after all n she was kinda different from the usual noble gals,

     

    the dungeon prison n moment when he was touched by her go to hell promise, ,

     

    then the spin her the garden move followed by the pick up aunty moment when he was stunned by her beauty esp her smile and keep seeing it after,

    lord bei zhe and the aftermath moment when he thought she was molested and he wanted to protect her by guarding her in her sleep. All the soft spots were emerging. 

     

     then the garden moment when she asked how he made her sleep n wanted to watch liren flowers with him this year and how they had a big quarel about her lying to him about being molested and how he came rushing back from the camp when he saw she send him liren flower and found her being punished by aunty. All protective instinct turn on. (could it be this moment but i think he felt very hurt by the lying more). 

     

    The fan lou episode when she kissed him to protect another 'man' and make him so angry on the street yet he still walked her home. I saw him shaking his head twice n sighing.. That look of what am i going to do with u hahaha . (could it be this point??? The i m hopelessly in love moment) 

     

    Their hot kiss in the pond (haha that was smothering) and then him carrying her back from XC manor saying he did not want her to be unhappy n she had him as family and Xue is her home now. 

     

    Her telling him truth in the palace was such a sad moment for them both. He did not listen n was too pre occuoied with yun fei incident. Very angst moment fot me. Arrrggghh listem up u idiot!!! Such important information.

    He already asked what was it that u hv that the assassins is going after. If only he listened. Sigh. 

     

    The birthday parade and all i could see was guilt and lots of  concern. 

    Jump off the cliff amd cave episode definitely show he was in love d but lots of guilt there. 

     

    Or is it at the ancestral hall when the aunty said maybe ur best solution will be divorce if u were to go on investigating. N him rushing into aunty room when CY was called.. He was scared all right. It was so on his face. He thought aunty maybe suggest divorce with CY. 

     

    But i was looking for the realisation moment for him. Anyone has any thiughts on this? N can someone tell me how on earth he can carry her so effortlessly... I m seriously amazed. No matter how skiinny she is i m Sure with clothings n all 50kg is min. He just swiped her off her feet and walk around with ease, steps strong n back straight. He makes her feel weightless. Did he use some techniques? One of the period drama with most carry her scenes all beautifully done. 

     

    ZyC is a really good actor esp at his age. His expression of love, guilt, pain, torn, joy, tenderness, anger all were so easily read by audience and goes to touch our hearts. He has a perfect physique for period costume drama. Lean amd tall. Costume drama needed to pile on layers of clothes n if actor is too bulky to start off with... It will not look good. That is why wallace chung looks good im costume drama too. U need tall lean actors with no gymmer looking bulk. I woukd not mind a sequel like a 12 episode of them with their kids maybe a sister hehe... Could be XY is needed by XC to fight the ambitious xizhao state who is at it again, amd unravelling the mystery of birth rock and burying it for good so that it will not affect their daughter maybe... Maybe She inherited the stone from beautiful mommy. But the line will be like story of minglan/last bit of general amd i... Where there No angst between husband n wife but lots of love for each other and two loyal ppl to the nation, working together to resolve many things together. N of cause XC love line. Lots of funny moment too. Mr scriptwriter i think u can do it. Hehe.... Oh well.. I can only hope.

    So, i'm currently re-watching and i don't know if there's any big, specific AHA moment. But what i really like about this drama is that they both fall for each other slowly and then...completely and it's through these little moments that their love and affection gorw. I think CY even says sth like this Naxi in one of the episodes.

     

    By episode 10, it's so completely clear they both care for each other but for various reasons they hold back/don't express or don't even fully realise they've fallen for each other. I like those little moments. I also like that the scriptwriter took these two characters that are so completely different - one outwardly expressive, the other who holds everything in his heart ( i think that's actually a realistic expression of how people are or can be)  instead of filling the drama with all these supposed grand gestures only. Yes, he gradiosely saves her many times but it's also the quiet moments and smaller actions that really make you fall in love.

     

    @SIMNEE TING thank you so much for posting! i'm really enjoying the conversations and i love your insightful thoughts! it's really great to re-watch and share all these thoughts and feelings! and thank you to everyone else too! i love reading about everyone's ideas and thoughts!

     

    I don't know about anyone else, but i'm kind of feeling like i wanna fall in love too!!! (LOLLLL)

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    [Mainland Chinese Drama 2020] The Sleepless Princess 离人心上

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    48 minutes ago, SIMNEE TING said:

    Hi All 

     

    this is the first time I wrote on any C drama forums. But i really wanted to say i totally enjoyed this thread. The discussion, analysis and rantings and all that keeps me coming back. hahaha...so thank you all. So since i am at it, it will be a long post. To give myself a closure too hahaha....

     

    i really enjoyed TSP. it was so unexpected because this first episode with the transformation to a rat... i thought to myself....oh dear...this is too childish but the ML carrying the FL from the wedding carriage part did the job to make me go on. Oh boy!!!!...So here i am watching all the 36 episodes. and i would say the story pacing is good. all the angsty and heartwrenching moment when they both separated was not drag for long. They somehow just go back to love one another very quickly, which i think should always be the case. like what CY says in the prison episode. Fight at bed head, make up at bed end. that is how marriage should be. 

     

    I totally buy into the line of brother XM and XY in love with the same woman. XM love is so deep and so heartwrenching.The bit in the letter he says there is No guanshan and wan wan but one day you will be someone wan wan and on that day you will be his beautiful bride. WOW...that someone is XY. golly, the scriptwriter did a brilliant job here. XY reaction was so well done by ZYC. The pain, the anger, the lost...i think it is something not anyone can digest in a few hours after that. so him pushing her away was totally real. this thing takes time. and he figured out very fast. To cherish what his brother paid for with his life, CY. The scene when he woke up after being drunk was the beginning of the soberness...his word: so this is the way brother felt about CY, the same way as i do (means he did not love CY less). he understood XM love for CY and i think it all start to flow from there plus his suspicion that things with dongshi were not so simple. smart guy after the venting, back to using his head.

     

    XM love was not meant to be. He held no high position, no war merits because of his hostage position, he could never request to marry a princess. It is like his purpose was his love that was to protect the two persons he loved most. XY and CY. Without him passing, XY will always be a cheeky little brother behind the cool matured responsible XM. He would not have gone to wars, fight, experience heinousness and pain of wars, grew up and became a man he is. And it is that kind of man that CY need. because of XY war experience which was carved into his bone and soul (the smell of blood on XY) that he could suppressed CY nightmares. He is CY's fated one. XY only have the chance because XM died. The loop is completed. So XM did protect CY till the end, his love lived in XY. 

     

    And i also want to mentioned why i think the Xue's men were designated for CY (one died for her and another to love and protect her all of his life). Xue family was generations of generals protecting the land and its people. CY father was the grandmaster who altered 11 times the fate of the country. in that process, xue family most likely would have been saved by the grandmaster interventions many times. The elements of what you sow and what you reap is very strong in TSP. It is just like saying fate has a little surprising twists all the time. 

     

    I also think that the reason why she could wake up was because of the same reason. XY was the one. the one who could suppressed her nightmares just like that, the one whom can keep her conscious during her transformation (all the 11 x she could never remember what happen), and also the bit that they consumate their marriage during the transformation. He had left 'seed of life' with her during that consummation. And of course his love (more than one year of taking care of her and to her places in her coma state) and his near suicide woke her up. only he could do it. the theme of min chung ren (fated one).

     

    Even if the ending was he jumped of the cliffs with her would be a reasonable ending, tragic but quite real in portraying how heart broken he was when he could not woke her up and worry of how she will be scared if one day he is not around. oh dear....my heart wrenched again. but like everyone else i demanded a good ending. Glad we all had it!!! But i agree also 15 min our of 31 min. we really dont need that much time for the SLeads. if last 15 min is maybe a happy reunion at Xue Manor with everyone will be nice and enough to show how other couples are doing, XC spotting a gal maybe, whether grandaunty is good, how is mr bai doing (why need to show the maid with NX guard..i roll my eyes many times...what a waste of 15 min).

     

    My last thought on the story which TSP got me thinking is:

    1) if you love someone enough, you dont give up so easily. CY gave up many times especically with NX. But she went back to fight for it by asking him to elope. it really rings in my head. how many times when a marriage had a 3rd party entering into the picture, most thoughts will be ur partner is unfaithful, we dont need a guy like that...but have we ever asked the question how much do we love him or her. enough to stay back and fight back. win ur partner back and then sort out all the grievances and brokenness later. it is about love. not about who win who lost. things will only be lost if love is gone.

    2) in face of relationship adversity, honesty and talking it out is very important. XY character was internal like mentioned by another fan. He get on with the task first. if he had and was honest with cy every time (first time using her as bait, second with his past with NX), there will be less heartache. CY was going around getting into more trouble because she wanted to help without the necessary information from XY. CY of course many time were to naive but i really admire that attitude...unless he says so in my face, i will not believe anything anyone says. I think we really should learn that.

     

    anyway this is my thoughts on TSP. Sorry for the long post. Stay healthy and happy dramaing..for those interested in super generals who love with one heart only...try General and I. Wallace chung as Chu bei jie is to die for, still my favourite General (in look, intelligence, love for their partner, everything). now ZYC is on par. chemistry wise ZYC and HYX is unbeatable. Legend of yunxi line is similar with TSP. Zhang zhe han as ML as Qin Wang is good to watch, also a general but added he is royalty and hence slightly more refined than ZYC's XY. Chemistry with FL Ju Jung yi was really good. i love them too. but TSP chemistry is tad better.

    First, I absolutely loved reading yoru thoughts! it was so beautiful, i started tearing up. I mentioned on another forum how this drama is such a dopamin rush but actually, you're right, it so, so , so much more!

     

    Sigh. it truly is a rare gem of a drama!

     

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    [Mainland Chinese Drama 2020] The Sleepless Princess 离人心上

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    Please do not quote pics! Thanks!

    1 hour ago, enzek said:

     

     

    Zheng Ye Cheng upcoming dramas according to Mydramalist:

     

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    1) Stealth Walker (modern drama)

     As main male lead, Zhang Xian He

     

    synopsis:

    About a group of young policemen who take down drug organizations.

     

     

    2) Mirror: Twin Cities (historical drama)

    As second male lead, crown prince Zhen Lan

     

    synopsis:

     

    Within the six realms and four seas, there exists a dreamlike paradise named Desolate Clouds. Su Mo, the new generation Sea Prince meets Bai Ying, a female disciple of the Sword Saint. The two of them unknowingly gets embroiled in a generation feud and struggle of fate. In the midst of the political struggles, Su Mo painstakingly loses his loved one. He then travels the world in cultivation for a hundred years, and returns with a new-found identity as the King of Sea. Su Mo meets Bai Ying again, but due to circumstances, the lovers are unable to reunite. Bearing the burden of bringing the Merman folks back to their tribe, Su Mo embarks on a journey to resist the Cang Liu kingdom.

     

     

    3) Bei Zhe Nan Yuan (modern drama)

    As one of the male lead (still no info about his character's name)

    This drama revolved around a female centered plot.

     

    synopsis:

    About five women who opened up a restaurant named Bei Zhe Nan Yuan; and in the process they mature and attain love.

     

     

    Hu Yi Xuan upcoming dramas according to Mydramalist:

     

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    1) A River Runs Through It (modern drama)

    As main female lead, Xia Xiao Ju

     

    synopsis:

    A story that follows students who journey through life and share experiences in sadness and joy. It starts with a transfer student who makes a new set of friends at her new school. Xia Xiaoju transferred right before the gaokao examinations. She meets the compassionate Cheng Lang, the straightforward Lu Shiyi (Wang Ruichang), the often dazed Qiu Letao and many others. Despite feeling flustered by her new environment and starting off meeting her new classmates over a misunderstanding, she tries to make the best of it. With gaokao fast approaching, the students make their own decisions that bring about a set of challenges.

     

     

    2) Unforgettable Love (modern drama)

    As main female lead (still no info about her character's name)

     

    synopsis:

    (still no full info about the synopsis)

    As I know, it is a contract marriage plot. Which is one my top favorite plot:P 

    but with MangoTV again

     

    I hope they can reunite again in another drama with a good script before 2030

    When I re watch this drama, I realized there were many plot hole in the story but Zheng Ye Cheng and Hu Yi Xuan acting and chemistry together are really compatible that it blinded me:lol:

    That's why this drama reached until 1 billion views and MangoTV can scammed more money from the loyal fans through their apps LOL

    ah! thanks so much! I'm looking forward to all their other dramas! I love contract marriage tropes too!

     

    True about the plot holes....i think the other aspects of the drama and their overwhelming chemistry (and also those amazingly well done couple moments) more than make up for it. I kinda liked that it was more romance focused .... i hate when a drama over focuses on the villian or sth...it just gets annoying.

     

    Sigh, i love this drama toooo much!

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