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I don't not agree with you, but I guess I'm just not as frustrated about it as you because there are constraints to these dramas both in the scenes and behind the scenes.

In reality Ruyi did move on, long before she cuts her hair or dies. In the last third of the drama, emotionally she probably cares a lot more about literally everyone else around her than Qianlong. But as you said she’s also confined in her role. Any attempts she makes to curb/disapprove of Qianlong’s behaviour after a certain point is just because she’s still the empress and in this culture there’s still a certain expectation that women should be able to influence their husbands into good behaviour. (It’s stupid but it exists.)

You can also no longer be in love with somebody and still mourn who they once were and what they could have been, especially when you’re still trapped in this life together.

As for physically moving on, you could make a strong case for the women in harem dramas getting together, but it’s never going to be explicit on screen because it’s China. It’s not like Ruyi could leave the palace – and in the end, her cutting her hair is as much peacing out as she could manage under the circumstances.

If you want someone who moved on both emotionally and physically, and it’s not condemned in the narrative, there’s Zhen Huan.

With a few disclaimers: this is obviously an extremely subjective list based on my extremely subjective preferences. I love palace conflicts, enemies to lovers, grumpy-sunshine, and devoted MLs. I’m not a big watcher of xianxia as a genre (the last one I finished was …journey of the flower? Unless you count novoland: castle in the sky as one, which I don’t) and youth dramas. I’m also generally allergic to republic era dramas. But it doesn’t mean that there aren’t good ones, just not my genre.

Anyways, drumroll…

1. Legend of Ruyi (bc I refuse to call it Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace)

I wrestled back and forth with this and my #2. Funny enough, this one does not have a devoted ML (I think Qianlong is like the opposite). Zhou Xun’s acting is breathtaking and what a journey she takes you on.

2. Story of Minglan

This is pretty much what I wish BBC period dramas could produce and everything that Downton Abbey wished it could be. Yeah I said it. The only reason it’s #2 is that I rewatch Ruyi more.

3. Bu bu jin xin (step by step/original scarlet heart)

I have it higher than Gong because BBJX is one of those dramas that you see new things even upon the 10th rewatch. It’s also a master class on concise writing/directing.

4. Glory of Tang Dynasty

I’ve devoted a lot of posts about it. There are probably ones lower on my list that are objectively “better” but that entire list that I’m weak for? This contains all of them.

5. Legend of Zhenhuan

Funny enough, 5 years ago it would have been on the top of my list. It’s still great, but I just like the 4 above better.

6. Go Ahead

Wait, a modern cdrama on this list? Yes. What can I say, it’s a show where in the span of an episode I’m laughing so hard my stomach hurts and crying into a pillow.

7. Singing all along

I didn’t anticipate this would be so high up my list when I first watched it. But it’s probably one of Yuan Hong’s best performance to date and other than the enemies to lovers, it hits all of my kink. It does have an HEA (that’s not a spoiler, it’s based on 2 historical figures), but get ready for a lot of angst to get there.

8. Jade Palace Lock Heart

I maintain that it’s the best adaption of boys over flowers and I stand by it.

9. General and I

This is probably where my disclaimer comes in. Yes, there are plot holes. Yes, Angelababy’s acting is questionable. Yes, there are questionable CGI. Yes, there are pacing issues.

But it is a sweeping romance novel coming Tom life and hit every one of my kinks.

10. Battle of Changsha

A republic era drama on this list? That has motherland patriotic tones giving this first gen Chinese American very complicated feelings?

But it’s like Wallace Huo’s best acting to date. It is hopeful and heartbreaking at once.

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