
The Harem: Empresses in the Palace
后宫·甄嬛传
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- Completed
- Length
- 1.4M Words
- Genre
- Ancient Romance
- Subgenre
- Palace & Household Intrigue
- Updated
- 1y ago
- Source
- Fanqie
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After reading the original work, I feel that the TV series is really good and a lot of unnecessary content has been deleted. In the original work, Concubine Hua is really domineering, the queen is really cunning, the emperor is really unworthy of love, and An Lingrong is really good at pretending to be weak.
Compared with the TV series, it is much more delicate, and because I watched the TV series first, the visuals are very strong, especially the portrayal of Sister Mei, which can be said to be "soul-infused". The TV series has cut out some of the plot, but the original work is richer, and the rise and fall of the concubines are also very clear. Both have their own charms. The writing style of the original book is really good. There are also notes at the end of the chapters. There are a lot of poems and allusions, and they are not obtrusive at all. Zhen Huan's mentality changes, and the direction of the plot is not very "steep". On the contrary, I can really feel her difference in the author's every word, and I fall in love with the author's writing style again~ The book is very good, I recommend everyone to read it!
After reading the original work, I suddenly understood An Lingrong.
I read the original work once before the TV series was released, and I felt that the content of this version was somewhat different. There were some deletions and changes, and I felt that it was not as good as the previous version. It's easy to abandon the drama after reading the book. Although the drama is also very good, after all, the book can be imagined by yourself, but all in all it is a very interesting book. But Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace didn't look into it [face covering]
I saw it once before but didn't pay close attention to it, so I'm watching it again now. The TV series adapted from it can be regarded as a conscientious work. The adaptation is better and the characters are not so complicated.
It's great, the characters are well drawn and you can understand why everyone does what they do. I still recommend not to have too much malice towards the characters in the book, and not to attack other readers because of it. No one is perfect, and the novel may reflect the mentality of a certain type of people. Zhen Huan and An Lingrong cannot be summed up as "good" or "bad". They are both complex and full characters. If someone wants to pursue one, they will step on the other to the ground, and they will also mock other readers who like a certain character. From many comments, it can be seen that it is really unnecessary. I was offended by too many comments at that time, so I suppressed the urge to be sarcastic and made an "educational" speech, haha, but I still agree with what I said at that time [note]
While watching, the voices of some actors automatically came to mind, especially Zhen Huan, which became Ji Guanlin's voice. So I don't understand why the rating is lower than the fanfic. There were two things that particularly struck me while watching it. "Then killing Mrs. Yu and Concubine Hua, wouldn't I be considered ruthless? Whether I'm kind or ruthless, you can see it all." "I'm actually not your ideal person. The pure and white Zhen Huan you love is not me. Or maybe what you love is just one of your ideals, not me." Can people really see others clearly sometimes, or even themselves? Is Zhen Huan a kind-hearted but forced person, or a ruthless person who pretends to be who she is? So sometimes human nature wanders in a gray area. People may feel that they are right but feel a sense of guilt. Or sometimes people don't care about right and wrong, good and evil at all. Let others judge these things and just go with the flow.
It's very interesting. The original work is better than the drama. The line about An Lingrong in the drama was so badly changed that one almost thinks that An Lingrong likes Zhen Huan.
Good books seem to be like this. Read often, always new, always have different understandings. From everyone's point of view, life is correct. Just say a pity, whether it is Zhen Huan who survived to the end and became the Queen Mother, or An Lingrong, Sister Mei, who died young, everyone is alive and really worth reading.
I don't know how, I read a little bit but didn't finish it. What I want to say is that Xuan Ling has never loved anyone including Chun Yuan and Shi Lan, he just likes them. Like is appreciation without restraint, love is tolerance with restraint. Xuan Ling likes Chun Yuan, but it does not prevent him from liking Shi Lan or liking more people. If Chun Yuan is not dead, Xuan Ling will like her and still like many people he is also interested in. If Chun Yuan is jealous and stops her at this time, Xuan Ling will be unhappy. He only likes her for his own pleasure, and he can also like her. If he likes any other woman who is interested in him for his own pleasure, he will not consider whether Chun Yuan and Shi Lan will be sad because of this, because he just likes them, just like his own possessions. He can only like them at his own discretion and can never be restricted from doing anything he wants to do because of them. He will never consider their joys and sorrows from their perspective, because in his opinion, their existence is to make him like and pleasure him, so he will never sacrifice for these women in the harem to tolerate their shortcomings, including Chun Yuan, who seems to be his favorite. He can only give it willingly and cannot ask for it without knowing what is good or bad. He is very good, he loves only himself to the extreme