I haven't seen a TV movie/series wherein the leading lady (actress Zhen Shuang) suffered so much and in her portrayal of an abused, harassed and tormented child had to endure from childhood to adulthood.
Wei Lin Lang was born to a rich, influential family (Duke and Duchess) however her father was accused of treason and was punished together with the whole family, clan and servants they all were slaughtered to death at their own ancestral home. Wei Lin Lang was able to escape when her dying mother ordered her to close her eyes and pretend dead. The brother who was left dying while the rest of the family died instantly ordered her sister to run away and not to return from that place where 127 people died. Wei ran away crying trying to save her own life from the assassins. Her fate didn't stop from there, she was abducted by bandits, however, young shaolin kids saved her from another traumatic event. The head of the shaolin kids managed to hid her inside the cave. Anyway, the two made a "compact" about their secret and they promised to keep their secrets until they grow up.
Too many secrets and mysteries about them. The story is as complicated as the Chinese characters.
How many traumatic events in her life? Too many.
First the trauma of having to witness the manslaughter of her own parents, and members of her family and clan plus servants. From being a daughter of rich, influential aristocratic family she end up homeless and have to live in adoptive home of her uncle with two kids: Ning and Nalan Rong Ruo. While being there at Nalan's residence, somebody wants to kill her. She didn't die but she landed on a lotus pond and hit her head on the concrete, she was unconscious for days and days when she woke up she can no longer remember her past including her name and had amnesia for years and years.
Jealous women stepping on her hand when her work is not that of good quality. She was slapped on her face, let her kneel on the ground for hours and hours until the snow dropped and once again unconsciously taken inside the palace to heal, She was placed inside the tub filled with water while unconscious. She was left out outside under heavy pouring rain while she knelt and collapsed because who do you think can able to stand that punishment without food and water. She had to suffer under harsh cold weather condition. She walked outside the palace holding on to the two heavy metal bells while she recited the prayer. She was flogged at her back so many times while standing until she collapsed and until she coughed out and blood coming out from her mouth.
OMG! Her punishment is worse than that of G.I. Jane. Wei Lin Lang is a woman. Do you think she is a robot? Why the punishment is so severe? Do you think she suffered asthma and TB after all the complications from such old-age punishment? How many times she was sentenced to die? You have to watch CHRONICLE OF LIFE whether the sentence are justified or its just that the whims of jealous wicked women should have no place in politics? Wicked women were more than tyrants during that period of time.
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