Who knew things like this went on in the royal harem?

[dangermousie]

I sort of assumed that if you were a denizen of a harem, the only company you got was (a) other ladies (b) eunuchs (c) emperor, who's probably old, fat and/or full of STDs.

I did not realize you get your own poseable Feng Shao Feng if you signed up. Hmmmmmm - time to consider a career change, self?

Anyway, the above is related to an upcoming period cdrama called (surprise, surprise!) The Royal Harem and it reunites Ady An and Feng Shao Feng yet again, this time as yet another star-crossed pair. She's one of the new concubines imported into the palace in order to help the emperor to produce an heir. He's...well, not the emperor. You can see how well this is going to end, I am sure.

Full disclaimer - I have no idea of the ending, but come on, who are we kidding? It's a period drama and she's the emperor's concubine. And in any event, Ady/FSF seem to specialize in shippy misery x infinity. Though when I was joking that they should start lopping limbs off for their next drama as it's about the only angsty thing that hasn't happened to them on-screen, I was kidding. But seeing they stuck them in the Ming Dynasty, apparently not.



Ady An is inhumanly gorgeous. I can totally buy that a man would be willing to risk getting his head lopped off for her sake.








Not that FSF is particularly hard to look at (here he is with the other male lead, I believe?)




He even manages to pull off (barely) the horrible hat.




Shippiness:





I approve.



Prettiness:







Yeah, like I said.




Can't wait!!!

Comments

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yay! Except for Barbie, who's married and off the market (and mainly moved on to movies anyway), she's my favorite Taiwanese actress (though she seems to mainly do Mainland stuff nowadays). She's one of the very few actors I'll watch in pretty much anything.

I don't know how people survived with all those beatings AND subpar nutrition.

I am pretty sure in rl they didn't. In SoaB, I boggle how assassin, general, and assorted other characters stab themselves to make a point and run around as good as new. Clearly ancient world has never had sepsis :P (Just like the scene where Ruby stabs her aunt 3 inches below waist because there are few blood vessels there so she wn't die and I kept thinking - she got stabbed in the abdomen with a big sword. In the era before surgery or antibiotics. Sorry, she's dead). But all the period dramas do this :)

[hollyxu.livejournal.com]

I think Barbie was rather trapped recently, with her popularity and all those expectations. Well, anyway, fresh blood! (This is not in any way meant to be creepy.)

Re: abdomen wounds - Yeah! I'm a biochem/life sciences major! It's still hard to keep people alive with ruptured peritoneum/intestines today, if you don't have adequate equipment and care, so, I really don't know how they did it. I mean, muscles only help cushion the force to a finite extent, etc...

I hate her aunt so much.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Plus, by actress standards, being 34 or so, she's getting on in years (ugh, this made me ill to type that. ugh).

Yeah. and after the wound, she spent hours in a cold cold grave with dirt on top. I am sorry, unless she's an alien from Planet Zorg, she shouldn't be surviving this.

[hollyxu.livejournal.com]

She's a cockroach, it's the only explanation.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That would certainly fit the personality.