Reaction/summary to Love Amongst War 薛平贵与王宝钏
[SPOILER ALERT!!!!]
First off, I liked this drama! The events that happened made me want to watch on and on until the very end. I don't usually watch Mainland China dramas though... this one, I feel if Jessica and Benny (the two HK actors) weren't in this drama, it probably wouldn't have caught my attention.
Now for my review on this drama.
The whole story line is powered from what started in the very very beginning of the drama. Bao Chuan's second sister's husband (Wei Hu) wanted his younger brother (Wei Bao) to come into the Wang family. Well now, why the Wang family you ask? The Wang family, Bao Chuan's father is the prime minister to the Tang Emperor. The only way the younger brother could be part of the family would be marry Bao Chuan (Jessica). Of course Bao Chuan is really good at looking and people and she could tell this younger brother was up to no good, so she adamantly refuses to marry him. And this causes all the trouble. The two brothers think of a plan to kidnap Bao Chuan when she goes to the temple with the sisters and the younger brother would do harm to her and make her his. >:O What a ................!
Luckily when this all happened, Xue Ping Gui (Benny) was on his way to town to find a doctor, and he heard Bao Chuan's cries for help. 英雄救美! He fights off the Wei Bao (black masked person at the time) and also saves Bao Chuan when she fell into the water. So just like typical dramas, thunder lightning, deep in the mountains, boy girl, stranded in a cave. You know what happens next ;) hahaha, I know what you are thinking there. ROFL But it is love at first sight. Wah so beautiful right? Such a happy event! Bao Chuan and Ping Gui will be happy forever! NOW HOLD ON WAIT A SEC, things don't turn out that way :( All the drama in this drama starts now!
Teehee, so I will try not to make it too long.
The main question in my head the whole time was "What will happen to Xue Ping Gui and Wang Bao Chuan?!?!"
Xue Ping Gui is such a good person! But because he saved Bao Chuan, he is now on the blacklist of Wei Hu and Wei Bao. In other words, Xue Ping Gui MUST die. (Oh gosh... why????? They are so evil) Wei Bao and his group of men with masked faces, go to Xue Ping Gui's house to kill him. They set his house on fire, killed the father and took the younger sister away. Xue Ping Gui is luckily saved from the fire by a group of beggars. He himself decides to 结拜兄弟with them and he becomes a beggar.
As this all happened, Bao Chuan's father wanted her to get married. Everyone wanted her to be their bride. She was pretty, smart, and of course the prime minister's daughter! Eventually, the emperor says he will construct a tower in which Bao Chuan will throw a ball down to possible suitors. Whoever can catch the ball, will be the man that she will marry on that same day. This gives Xue Ping Gui a chance right? Noo... the father, with the influence of Wei Hu, decides that only the men with invites can enter the area. Plus all the people he invites are all scholars except for Wei Bao. This isn't fair really, because he is strong and knows kung fu. Of course he will catch the 绣球 (the ball). Xue Ping Gui does catch the ball though :)
Now Ping Gui caught the ball, but the prime minister wouldn't let Bao Chuan marry him. Bao Chuan just wouldn't marry Wei Bao. She'd rather do three claps with her father to end their father-daughter relationship than to marry Wei Bao. Bao Chuan left her house and moved into the cave and married Ping Gui. Happy ending? Sadly no...
Not long after their marriage, Ping Gui was sent to war. Ping Gui, although he wasn't a major general, did outstandingly good during the war. Beating all the Xi Liang one on one competitions and he was able to persuade the princess to surrender. Of course Wei Hu and Wei Bao made sure Ping Gui would never come back. During celebrations, they put poison in his wine. He was knocked out and they put him on the horse, lit firecrackers on the horses back, hoping Ping Gui would die.
As luck would have it, the horse took him to the Xi Liang camps, the princess (who liked him) saved him and took Ping Gui back to Xi Liang. She tells the lie that Ping Gui was mistaken as a intruder and they killed him, thus the news that Ping Gui dies at war goes back home to everyone and Bao Chuan.
As a turn of events, Ping Gui is cured from the poison, he marries the Xi Liang Princess and becomes king and the father of two adorable kids. Time passes, 18 years, and as he is enjoying his luxurious life, little did he know, Bao Chuan was still waiting for him in the cold cave, starving and surviving on grass and roots. (Poor thing!) He comes back to find her, 18 years later, when he receives Bao Chuan's letter written with her blood. (Dramatic) The ending was epic ( at least... I thought so ^__^)
The ending~
Ping Gui comes back and he goes to see Bao Chuan's father, Bao Chuan also goes back home and dresses pretty again :) Everyone is surprised to see Ping Gui glad in luxurious clothes and they were even more surprised to learn he was the King of Xi Liang. Wei Bao still wants Ping Gui dead. So he and Bao Chuan's father decide, to have the high ranking general come to catch Ping Gui, because they say he is a traitor.
DUN DUN DUN DUN
Haha~ I just had to do that. This was absolutely SHOCKING! Well to all the bad people at least ;) Ping Gui turns out to be.....THE LONG LOST SON OF THE TANG EMPEROR!!!! Yes!! And the high ranking general is his uncle! They way the uncle found out was, Bao Chuan went to see him with the jade pendant on her neck and he starts asking questions. You can just imagine how shocked, the father, Wei Hu, second sister, and Wei Bao were (these are the MAJOR MAJOR BAD GUYS, so EVIL) They did so many evil things to Ping Gui (wanting him DEAD) They all knew that if Ping Gui became emperor he would killed them all for sure! And they do the stupidest thing EVER! Wei Hu has some control of the military. He banded them and decided to surround the Forbidden city to kill Ping Gui. Absolutely the biggest no no. Doing that will automatically give him the name of " traitor" which is automatic death sentence! Ping Gui still had his uncle, Bao Chuan's oldest's sister's husband and of course his wife from Xi Liang to control Wei Hu's forces. Victory for Ping Gui's side, and not long after, his father dies so he became the next Tang Emperor. The last parts was all about how he punished those who deserved it and rewarded those who helped him. I especially like seeing how he handled those mean people, and the second sister who said nasty things and looked down on him. They were all begging and bowing to him! Begging for their life. And of course, Bao Chuan becomes the Empress. I liked the ending because it is well deserved for Ping Gui, all he had to go through, all the pain, hardships and fearing for his life. He sure got back at those for making him go through all of that. As for Bao Chuan, she was not wrong in choosing Ping Gui, although she had to wait 18 years for him, it was worth it :)
AND SO THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER! YAY!! ^__^
