Forgot to check in yesterday.😳 Just before 11:00 BS 7.4 & today just before 10:30 BS 6.9. Both times rising quickly to 10’s when I was vertical to take tresiba, now 76, &meds but, went back down to 9’s when eating breakfast.
A Very G’day Mates to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉
You can skip the rest if you want as it’s about cdrama! 😉
Just finished watching, as live as I can get & had to patiently wait for each new episode to come up, the second part of “Go Princess Go” about Qi Sheng & Zhang Peng Peng’s daughter Qi Pa called “The Princess and the Werewolf” that I enjoyed even more! 😛😎 It took 8 years to make which is unusual in the world of cdrama & preproduction started 3 years after the airing of “Go Princess Go” in 2018: started airing on 20/07/2023; just finished 09/08/2023. While the first was a low budget, low production values project that became a surprise huge hit, this second one was definitely a very high budget, very high production values project &, inevitably I suppose, a more hyped up affair BUT, I got to hear about the first one which I would otherwise have missed: I started this one, TPATW, & while waiting for the episodes to come up; I watched the previous one, GPG! 😛 The difference is very obvious in the set designs, costumes & just whole look of it!😎
“The Princess and the Werewolf” while it starts in the same world as “Go Princess Go” is actually, in the main, set in a different parallel fantasy world. In that other world Kui Mu Lang (Lang means wolf) is the King of The Beast Clan, humans with animal ancestry & characteristics. KML is a man by day & a werewolf by night because he’s transfusing his own internal energy force, Qi, into a hidden, in his palace bed chamber, Holy spring that’s the water source for everyone in The Beast Clan. That Holy spring water is keeping everyone alive from an outbreak of plague that happened hundreds of years ago & has never abated: all the previous Kings had to do this, never having a long lifespan, when their Qi starts depleting from the constant transfusions & their appearance changes they wore cloaked hoods & masks. Five years previously, when he first started changing into a werewolf, he tried to change his fate by getting “The Holy Pearl” but, his younger brother staged a coup & he lost it. Heavily injured he opened up a portal into Qi Pa’s world, Daxia, to escape & she, as a 15 year old was climbing a tree at the time, landed on top of him, knocking the wind out of him & he lost his grasp of The Holy Pearl. It goes down into QP’s throat & she swallows it! That was all told in flashback exposition.
Now for the proper start of the drama. KML, as a handsome during the day, has been going in & out of Daxia for the past five years looking for the girl with The Holy Pearl that he lost.
QP, now 20, is urged by her aunt, now The Empress, to marry & she’s “not bothered”, about it in the least so, leaving it up to her aunt to pick someone as she goes off horse riding! She, despite being urged not to, picks an untamed stallion to ride, loses control of it & is thrown from the horse. But, KML catches her as she loses consciousness. He can sense The Holy Pearl inside her: finally found that girl; heard QP’s guards calling for her & knows where to find her now at The Palace of Daxia.
Later that night KML, as a werewolf wearing a cloaked hood & mask, sneaks into the palace, kidnaps QP & brings her back to The Beast Clan. KML is going to marry QP & try to get her to fall in love with him as the only only way to get The Holy Pearl out of someone is through a “True Love’s Kiss”!
KML planned to woo QP in his handsome persona by day BUT, QP ruined that by finding the secret hidden spring in his bedchamber that night & saw his werewolf form. So, KML had to adopt two persona’s: as a handsome body guard Li Xiong by day; werewolf Kui Mu Lang at night.
So, that starts the opposition of two forces: KML’s insistence on marrying QP & not letting her go until she does; QP’s determination in escaping, to get back to Daxia & NOT marrying KML!
KML was only focused on marrying & getting QP to love him for The Holy Pearl through a “True Love’s Kiss” at first but, can’t help falling for QP as he gets to know her! QP is her mother’s daughter: a very modern girl with ways from the 21st century; always surprising him beyond his imagination &, as he put it to QP herself, as ebullient as the sun! Before QP, KML has only known duty & sacrifice in keeping the people of The Beast Clan alive!
It takes QP longer to fall for LX, at first, & start to notice the similarities between KML at night & LX during the day!
Of course, QP eventually finds out that LX & KML are the same person & they’re separated briefly before she forgives him. But, not before another attempted coup by KML’s younger brother before they get their “Happily Ever After” ending!
I enjoyed it a lot: just as funny as the first one; with a bit more romance! 😛
It’s 30 episodes with 18 currently subtitled on youtube, it’s a slower schedule, or you can watch the whole lot that’s subtitled on “myasiantv” where I watched it
