#shen zhiyi

[thecarelessvoice]

Guess who have a new hyperfixation?!!!!

#story of kunning palace #sokp #i just can't get this chaotic group of ppl out of my head #tried to make this as accurate as possible #it was a hard one :) #jiang xuening #xie wei #yan lin #zhang zhe #shen zhiyi #shen jie #xue dingfei #you fangyin #lyu xian #cdrama #tumblr meme chart

[storge]

You're in love. Yes, I am. Is there anything you can do about it, Your Highness?

Story of Kunning Palace (2023) 1.36

#story of kunning palace #宁安如梦 #cdramaedit #userdramas #cdrama #asiandramanet #cdramasource #dailyasiandramas #asiancentral #asiandramasource #perioddramaedit #liu xiening #shen zhiyi #mymymy #ep 36 #my princesssssssssssssss #I really loved thisss but ): #as much as i loved xuening 'how could i forget about him' i really felt for pincess here #yeahhhhhh say what you want but she loves our girlieeeeeee #its okay tho cause xuening got 2 hands so she always gonna have her by her side even if not allll the timeee

[diamantdog]

it’s uncanny (x)

#story of kunning palace #liu xiening #bai lu #jiang xuening #shen zhiyi #jiang xue ning #shen zhi yi #zhining #the handmaiden #jiang xuening x shen zhiyi #jiang xue ning x shen zhi yi #cdrama #drama: story of kunning palace

[be-bi-do-crime]

“you know lately, i’ve been dreaming... dreaming about you”

another @cdrama-action prompt fill! this one’s for @harocat, who wanted anything zhining! thank you so much for requesting! donations are OPEN! if you’re interested in receiving something from me or other creators, go check out cdrama action’s page for more info!! every dollar counts! <3

#my edits #story of kunning palace #宁安如梦 #shen zhiyi #jiang xuening #shen zhiyi x jiang xuening #zhining #crazy how jiang ning wrote a full 1m word fic about falling in love with her best friend in her head like so true of her!

[faraige]

Make Shen Zhiyi the Emperor. She gets it.

#just watched ep 29 #I want Xue Shu beheaded like yesterday #story of kunning palace #shen zhiyi #shut up faraige

[shewholovestoread]

Story of Kunning Palace - Jiang Xue Ning - Part 1

There was something I wanted to touch upon about Jiang Xue Ning (Xue Ning) specifically the part about the first life.

All we know about the first life and her actions therein are largely from Xue Ning's perspective. Since we're limited because of this perspective, it is also hard to judge just how "evil" she was. She certainly judges herself very harshly but let's dig a little deeper. For the purpose of clarity, I'm going to break this up into a few key points that I think would illustrate what I'm trying to say, the post is split into 2 parts:

PART 1 1) Early Life 2) Desire for power and control. 3) Ning's desire to be loved.

PART 2 4) Alliances in first life and her influence in 2nd life 5) Ning's Personality 6) Conclusion

EARLY LIFE:

Wanniang, Xue Ning's father's concubine, switched her own daughter with Xue Ning, partly out of spite because she was being thrown out and partly because she wanted her own biological daughter to have a good life (a massive fuck-you to the Jiang family)

On her deathbed, Wanniang confesses to Xue Ning about what she did and that she has informed the family as well. Once, Ning's back home, she's faced with a family that she knows nothing about. Her father, in her first life, was largely indifferent towards her, her mother was outright hostile (she remained the same for a large portion of the 2nd life as well) and finally there was Xue Hui, the usurper. Her entire life, up until that moment had been a massive lie and one that had absolutely nothing to do with her, she was just unfortunate to get caught in the crossfire.

If we look at things from Ning's perspective, she was raised by Wanniang and thinks that Wanniang didn't really care about her, she talks about her insecurity both in the novel and show, when she says that Wanniang would sometimes look at her as if trying to see someone else in her face, or that she'd suddenly pull away from Ning. It was only later that Ning realised why that was.

At home, she always felt like an interloper. She knew that when her mother looked at her, she saw Wanniang and would not let go of that prejudice. Her father had no influence at home (he's repeatedly told that he should leave the home front to the wife) and the sister, who is so damn virtuous that there's no way that Ning could compete with her.

Her ambition then, to become the empress, makes complete sense, it stems from wanting power and control over her life.

DESIRE FOR POWER AND CONTROL:

This is tied to her early life where she felt that she had no control. It is easy to see why she would want to be the empress because the only person more powerful than her would be the emperor. But never again would she be left unable take the reins in her life. I'm going to go in deeper into how she did that in another section.

Her pursuit for power and control stems from her perceived lack of either in her life. She felt like she didn’t have any agency, all of the things that had happened were due to other people and the decisions they made, no one considered Ning’s feelings or what she might want to do.

That she pursues Shen Lang is for 2 reasons, his older brother is sickly and sooner or later, it would be Shen Lang on the throne. The 2nd is that she sees it as balancing the scales. Since Xue Hui took everything that was meant to be hers, she would take Shen Lang, it's that simple. It's fortunate that Shen Lang is a decent man and while Ning was never in love with him, she did care about him.

DESIRE FOR LOVE:

Ning herself would beat up anyone who dared to say that she was driven by her desire for love. Now, some might be thinking that in that case, why did she rebuff Yan Lin who so clearly liked her? That's partly tied to her desire for power and control. She's so incredibly haunted by what her life was like, everything that was taken from her and feeling unwanted by her own family.

She knows that love doesn't mean a damned thing if she's still powerless and ultimately her need for power overshadows any tender feelings she might harbour for Yan Lin. She feels used by the people who should have been looking out for her. Ning thought that Wanniang didn't love her and she could probably deal with that if she got along with her 'birth' family but she instead found herself alienated from them as well. I imagine she felt that there since there was no one in her corner, no one to protect her, she would have to do that herself but that also came from a place of hurt and disappointment. Her attitude towards and treatment of the people in her first life reflects her vindictiveness, she's going to use them to get what she wants.

Ning's actions in the first life are largely driven by her hurt and the all the trauma she's experienced. Imagine coming home to your "family" and realising that you're the outsider. Her desire for power and love are so deeply intertwined that I doubt that Ning herself could differentiate between them. She’s been hurt by people who should have cared about her, accepted her, and she will be damned before she lets anyone else do that again. It never occurs to her that there are people who could genuinely care about her and moreover she doesn't let herself consider that they might care.

It is only once she comes back that she has more information and context and she spends more time with people like Xie Wei, Shen Zhi Yi, Yan Lin, etc that she realizes that maybe she was wrong. Time and distance allow her to see people more clearly now that her judgement is not clouded by her prejudice, by her hurt. It's why she realizes that Shen Zhi Yi is very clearly in love with her (that's just not up for debate) and even at the end of the first life, when Xie Wei gave her the knife, maybe he did want her to have something to defend herself with. Xie Wei had to know what Yan Lin was doing every night but being an ally, he probably didn't want to alienate him, so instead gave Ning the dagger to protect herself with.

In keeping people at an arm’s length lest they hurt her, Ning doesn’t realise that she’s also closed herself to people who might genuinely care for her and I think she does realise that. It’s just that she figures that it’s a fair trade, she’s convinced that love and regard won’t last in the long run but shared interests will (hence her relationship with Zhou Yinzhi) but she only had to look at You Fangyin to know that people do have the ability to surprise you.

Click for Part 2

#the story of kunning palace #cdrama #sokp #sokp spoilers #xie wei #jiang xuening #shen zhiyi #bai lu #you fangyin #character meta #character breakdown #kunning palace

[harocat]

Jiang Xuening/Shen Zhiyi commission from wribbless!! I've been wanting art of these two forever, and they turned out SO CUTE. THEY ARE IN LOVE. 🩷🩷🩷

#story of kunning palace #sokp #jiang xuening #shen zhiyi #commission

[pi-ying-xi]

Come for the het romance, stay for the saphhic queens.

Eta: credit to twitter user @zhaoyaos

#story of kunning palace #cdrama #jiang xuening #shen zhiyi

[beri-allen]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Story of Kunning Palace (TV), 寧安如夢 | Story of Kunning Palace (TV), 宁安如梦, 宁安如梦 | Story of Kunning Palace (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jiang Xue Ning/Shen Zhi Yi, Background Jiang Xue Ning/Xie Wei Characters: Jiang Xue Ning, Shen Zhi Yi Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Reincarnation, Future Fic, Fluff and Angst, Self-Aware Jiang Xue Ning, Out and Proud Shen Zhi Yi, Chinese Mythology & Folklore, Loose Interpretation of Chinese Philosophy, Suicidal Thoughts, Mental Health Issues, Modern Era, Implied/Referenced Suicide Summary:

After countless lives, Jiang Xuening wakes up in a present-day Qian, only to discover that she's lost the man she loves the most. Lonely and desolate, Xuening wishes to end it all, when a familiar figure comes and saves her life.

Shen Zhiyi.

#overstimulated and overwhelmed by work so i decided to finish and post this ha! #story of kunning palace #jiang xuening #jiang xue ning #shen zhiyi #shen zhi yi #zhining #jiang xuening x shen zhiyi #jiang xue ning x shen zhi yi #bai lu #liu xiening #cdrama fic #宁安如梦 #ning an ru meng #sokp

[craniumflight]

tfw princess shen zhiyi put the metoric sword on xiao ye's neck to threaten xiao yuan from cutting zhang zhe's shoulder

#story of kunning palace #princess leyang #shen zhiying #shen zhiyi #story of kunning palace novel

[nemainofthewater]

Best character surnamed : Shen

Come and vote for the best characters with the same surname!*

What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!

*note, the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often there will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.

Propaganda is very welcome! If I’ve forgot anyone, let me know in the notes.

This is part of a larger series of ‘best character with X surname’ polls’. The overview with ongoing polls, winners, and future polls can be found here

#poll #scum villain's self saving system #guardian #nirvana in fire #legend of fei #word of honor #joy of life #thousand autumns #miss s #sha po lang #the story of kunning palace

[zhanglinghez]

princess shen zhiyi being completely whipped for jiang xue ning 🥰

STORY OF KUNNING PALACE 宁安如梦 (2023) → EPISODE 04

#story of kunning palace #bai lu #liu xie ning #cdramasource #asiandramasource #dailyasiandramas #cdramaedit #cdramagifs #lextag #tusermona #userxlh #samblr #useryd #udeokmis #userjap #todramaism #userhoshii #*_mine_* #asian dramas #chinese dramas #cdrama #gugudan

[storge]

Story of Kunning Palace (2023)

#story of kunning palace #宁安如梦 #cdramaedit #userdra #cdrama #asiandramanet #cdramasource #dailyasiandramas #asiancentral #bai lu #liu xiening #xuening x shen zhiyi #tuserjade #usermare #lextag #useryd #samblr #mymymy #ep 29 #romanticismmmmmmm #they are couple cause they have couple coded scenes like yeahhhh #THIS EP HURTEDDDDDDDD #WHYYYYYYYYYYYY #we could have had it allllllllllll #im in painnnnnnnnnnnnnnn #gonna try and do a compilation for them during the ep break cause yeah my lovessssssss

[diamantdog]

just casually comparing our friendship to the relationship between the emperor and his favorite concubine, nbd.

#story of kunning palace #cdrama #sokp #ning an ru meng #宁安如梦 #jiang xuening #shen zhiyi #bai lu #liu xiening #jiang xuening x shen zhiyi

[be-bi-do-crime]

here's a full zhining edit from me after my multitude of shorter ones!! i had so much fun making this, dianxia and ningning spoil each other so much 🥺 enjoy!!

#my edits #story of kunning palace #jiang xuening x shen zhiyi #zhining #jiang xuening #shen zhiyi #宁安如梦 #Youtube

[chawarin-panich]

What I love the most about Story of Kunning Palace is that it uses the unreasonably possessive male lead and pits him against a female heroine who is entirely immune to any and all of his machinations. While Xie Wei's madness is almost instrumental to him ultimately winning Jiang Xuening's heart, the story doesn't shy away from the fact that it was the very same love that had destroyed them both in their first life.

Every attempt Xie Wei makes at trapping Xuening within the ties of societal propriety in their second life also spectacularly fails. For a story about going back in the past to fix one's mistakes, the romance between Xie Wei and Xuening somehow manages to stay above the lazy strings of destiny.

They kiss, they have sex, he does her immense favors - all in poorly veiled attempts to purposefully manipulate her, but she still refuses to be 'his'. Jiang Xuening, not even for a moment, turns away from the duty and love she feels for Yan Lin, Princess Shen Zhiyi or even Zhang Zhe, who is Xie Wei's direct competitor and in many ways the one who 'won' the battle for Xuening's heart in the first life.

In Xie Wei's obsession over Xuening's feelings for Zhange Zhe, he does manage to understand the core of what moves Xuening's heart: sincerity. I think it's pretty undeniable that the day Xuening kills herself in the first life, Xie Wei was there to marry her. I see it as more than just a simple misunderstanding; Xuening did not love Xie Wei and she especially did not vibe with his desire for mutual punishment and destruction.

Even though Xuening desires devotion, she values life above all and not just her own either. She loves her friends more than she loves any of these men romantically and the one person who's given her devotion and sincerity in spades and won hers in return in both lives? You Fangyin. Even though her relationship with Xuening ends her life both times, You Fangyin always dies with her spirit intact. Whereas, Zhang Zhe's devotion to Xuening in their first life destroys the core of Zhang Zhe's being. When Xuening realizes that they're forever unable to escape this particular fate, she gives him up immediately.

Xie Wei's madness, his crazy red flag possessiveness allows him to weather the turmoil of giving her a devotion that surpasses that of even You Fangyin's. And it takes him two lifetimes to figure out how to give it to her without her recoiling in disgust.

Of the three male leads Yan Lin Zhang Zhe and Xie Wei, Xie Wei is indeed the personality that suits Xuening best, he may very well be her ideal man - but that’s not enough! It's a destiny you have to work for and a destiny you have to choose.

Go figure.

#story of kunning palace #sokp spoilers #sokp meta #xie wei x jiang xuening