She meets the dude who tortured her husband back then and the man is insane AND with a death wish, apparently.
And she goes mad and stabs him, over and over!!!
And Helian Xi overhears whatever insanity is going on, bursts in, and shortcuts this whole thing by killing the man cleanly.
But she is having a full-on breakdown and is not even processing the man is already dead and is waving the sword around utterly out of it and the way he tries to talk to her and hold her to calm and soothe her to get through aaaaaa
Honestly, the fact that she lost it so deeply over his being tortured is HEALING MY SOUL OTHER OTPS SHOULD DO THIS!!!
You know, communication is so important in a marriage. If you're a demonic poison butterfly with a thirst for human blood, you owe it to your partner to be honest and disclose that sort of thing. It's basic respect, people!
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It’s another bright sunny morning for Tang Qianyue.
She owns a successful rouge shop and has a doting husband- the very handsome military general Ling Changfeng.
marry me
But Tang Qianyue has a secret. She may not be as human as she first appears.
Well, Ling Changfeng, that's what you get when you marry the only survivor of a village that was slaughtered by the evil, poison-loving Butterfly Clan. C'mon guy, didn't you ever see Painted Skin?
Tang Qianyue and her husband go out to enjoy the lantern festival but their date night is ruined by the murderous Butterfly Clan who have disguised themselves as the Hua Cheng Dancers, right down to the silver butterfly masks, bells and red umbrellas.
In the ensuing fracas, Tang Qianyue is attacked (or is she?) and when Ling Chanfeng comes to her rescue she helps herself to his jugular. Ouch!
But it turns out that was all just a bad dream... or was it?
suspicion intensifies (but where did the bite on his neck go?)
Who else is in this?
Wang Ruolin, whom you may remember as the world's worst sugar daddy Zhao Jing from Word of Honor.
Smile Hu as Si Xiaonian and Yang Ze as Yan Wuming from The Killer Is Also Romantic because they are reprising their roles! It's set in the same universe!
The Good
I already wrote a recap for The Killer Is Also Romantic and it's here.
This is great- spooky, atmospheric and the plot is really interesting so far.
The music is surprisingly good
The Bad
Episodes are only 20 min long and there are only 22 of them.
Healthy relationship alert!!!!! She stabs, he chokes, their sex life is fire.
That lineeeeeeeeee!!! This drama speaks to my fanfic reading teen past self like nothing else can!
What if you found your evil, stabbed you and genocided your whole clan, wife but she's lost her memory and has no idea why you are chasing her? DELICIOUSNESS, THAT'S WHAT!
i don’t know anything about zhao yiqin (招惹 is the first drama of his that i’ve watched)
i just remember seeing his face many years ago and immediately thinking, this actor has to make it big
it’s partly the fact that he’s very very good-looking and has the type of bone structure that comes across well onscreen, but you can also see from his face that he can act, because there’s a certain concentration and deliberateness in even his more neutral facial expressions