One Royal Lady and One Wrecked Woman. Oh life.
Jiang Xin will take on another villain role in upcoming modern drama, Keep The Marriage As Jade (守婚如玉), portraying a home wrecker between veteran Jiang Wen Li and Xu Ya Jun. But to be fair, we need two hands to clap, so he’s a cheating bastard too. She’s stunningly sad and beautiful at the same time in the stills below, how can I hate her? Added trailer. 🙂
My favorite shot.
For those who is new, Princess Wei Young is the drama adaptation of Jin Xiu Wei Yang (锦绣未央) written by Jian Qin. Tang Yan plays the kind-hearted Princess Xin Er of Northern Wei Dynasty. After her kingdom falls, she wanders around and is rescued by Li Wei Yang, an abandoned daughter of a respected tutor. However, Wei Yang dies protecting Xin Er, and the latter assumes Wei Yang’s identity to reside in her home, where she is disliked and shunned, and her journey of more suffering begins. But being trampled on boosts her fighting spirit more than ever and she rises to become a very powerful and cunning woman. Playing Wei Yang’s sisters are Mao Xiao Tong and Hsin Ai Lee.
Luo Jin as Ta Ba Jun. He is a bright, sunny, compassionate man who doesn’t care about royal politics and is the Emperor’s favorite son. Someone hand me a pair of scissor so I could cut those dangly beads at his ears! BURRR.
Vanness Wu as Ta Ba Yu, the other brother. His character is described as cold and ruthless with a hidden burden that could only be lessened by our heroine. Always looking good.
Rachel Mao! You cutie. She loves Vanness but his heart yearns for the female lead. What’s wrong with you dude?
Hsin Ai Lee.
Bromance. =D
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I cringed when I read the description of Tang Tang’s character – a kind-hearted woman (not again!!!) but wait, she becomes a very powerful and cunning woman!? Now, I’d love to see that.
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Let’s hope the scripts take her where we want her to be!
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Sounds like Miyue and dozens of other dramas where the kind and innocent girl survives all suffering/obstacles and rises to the top of the harem world.
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I know Jiang Xin’s acting can handle the complexities of such a character but I can’t imagine myself ever wanting to watch a drama about a home wrecker. It’s daring of her to choose this project though.
Don’t know what the stylists were thinking when they did Luo Jin’s hair but it doesn’t look good on him. Wish they had given him Vanness’s style or a man bun instead. Him and long hair…nah.
Weiyang is brilliant in the book but only because she’s given a second chance at life. She has everyone all figured out and her schemes against her opponents are so entertaining to watch. She definitely gives them a taste of their own medicine. This is wishful thinking but I hope the scriptwriters bring out how cunning Weiyang can be and still win over people’s hearts with her kindness.
Rachel Mao is so cute. <3
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In one of their interviews, Jiang Xin said she chose this project because she admires veteran Jiang Wen Li like her idol. Should’ve went bold and have her go after the wife! Lol. Kidding aside, I don’t think I can stomach that either. But if she’s gonna go bad, might as well go all the way.
Wishful thinking… ah… 🙁
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Lol. I know everyone (me including) hates homewreckers, esp the kind that doesn’t give up the guy/girl even after she/he ruins the marriage, but honestly, I see it more, the married participant as more disgusting. Dramas always portray the married participant as the one who has an excuse, who really does love their spouse, and the third wheel as the despicable cunning slut and gold-digger who set things up. But Kap’s right. It’s never all the third party’s fault. Actually, it’s more logically the married participant’s fault than it is the third party’s, since they’re the ones truly betraying the marriage. Unless the third party somehow rapes the married participant repeatedly over a long term basis, it’s highly unfair to blame the third party.
In real life, I obviously easier for the victim to blame the third party (and truly, the third party is undoubtably guilty and awfully amoral to go after a married person) since the victim still holds feelings and lost trust toward the spouse. But the married participant needs to not blame the home wrecker, cuz they themselves are also the homewreckers who ruined their own marriage.
Like in the trailer here, the drama are obviously setting Jiang Xin up to be the villain, so they wrote the characters so that the guy is “naive” and too empathetic and is being manipulated by Jiang Xin’s schemes to keep him. It’s frustrating, but I’m really looking forward to watching the awesomeness of a multi-faceted, subtle, angsty Jiang Xin (that’s like her…always. Excited for Ode to Joy where she’s finally one of the leads…although there too she seems to have a sad difficult storyline with no obvious happy ending).
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Lol had a hard time keeping the response gender-neutral.
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I think some marriages are doomed from the start. But sometimes, out of pride, they still get married anyway, hoping that things will change after the wedding and having kids. I think that’s how some people perceive it and so they forge on with the marriage. Then when the homewrecker appears, they’re forced to face the fact that they overestimated their abilities to change a cheater and liar.
Also, the media seems to favor the cheating spouse rather than the homewrecker. Like Wen Zhang cheating on Ma Yi Li with Yao Di. YD basically went into hiding, and while people expressed their disgust at WZ, look at him now. Still working and still married. Meanwhile YD had to start slowly and she was put in the limelight again when Taiwanese actor Li Wei publicly declared his love for her. Of course the media and netizens had to dig up her cheating scandal. Talk about equality. There’s none, thanks to the media.
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@ Julianne: totally agree with you! The married person is even worse cuz they have more responsibility as the married partner.
@ polaris: I think it just all comes down to how sexist China is. China (and the world, really) has always treated females much worse than males. All this crap about “fairness” and “equal opportunity” doesn’t apply unless you’re white and have a dick. Women, ESPECIALLY women of color, are at the bottom of the social ladder and everyday is just a Goddamn struggle for even the most basic of equality.
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Totally agree. It’s also disgusting how men are taking advantage of this.
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LOL what is with Jiang Xin and all her angsty / tragic roles? She’s an awesome actress and can make you feel so much sympathy for her but watching so many of her angsty roles makes me wanna see her happy for change OMG
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This sums up what I mean more eloquently than I can say:
http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/what-to-change-while-we-wait-117-years-for-full-gender-parity-20160307-gnch3t.html
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I’ll keep an eye on this, just to see how the audience likes it. China has a done a couple of productions similar to The Fierce Wife but I don’t recall seeing one like this. But then again I’m not specifically hunting for homewrecker dramas. :p
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I agree! Really daring of her since this is a very controversial topic and moreover, she seems like a crazy home wrecker lol.
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Does this mean the Princess Weiyoung drama storyline is totally different from the book? No second life to exact revenge on her enemies?