步步惊心 / Bu Bu Jing Xin
Cast:
- Liu Shi Shi as Maertai Ruo Xi / Zhang Xiao
- Nicky Wu as Yin Zhen (4th Prince)
- Kevin Cheng as Yin Si (8th Prince)
- Yuan Hong as Yin Xiang (13th Prince)
- Lin Geng Xin as Yin Ti (14th Prince)
- Ye Zu Xin as Yin’e (10th Prince)
- Damian Lau as Kangxi Emperor
- Zhang Lei as Yin Reng (Crown Prince)
- Annie Liu as Maertai Ruo Lan
- Liu Yu Xin as Gorolo Ming Yu
Year: 2011
Episodes: 35 (45 minutes)
Opening: One Persistent Thought by Hu Ge and Alan Dawa Dolma
- Deng Ni De Ji Jie by Liu Shi Shi
- Ai De Lian Yi by Alicia
Ending: San Cun Tian Tang by Yan Yi Dan
Story/Synopsis:
Zhang Xiao, a contemporary, ethnically Han Chinese young woman from the 21st century, accidentally travels back in time to the Qing Dynasty period during the reign of Kangxi Emperor after experiencing a deadly combination of traffic collision and electrocution, resulting her somehow reliving the life of one of her previous incarnations and forcing her to assumes the identity belongs to her past avatar: Maertai Ruoxi, teenage daughter of a Manchu nobleman, who also had a near-fatal incident in her own time which Zhang awakes from.
Being stranded in the past, in the body of a centuries earlier incarnation of herself, and believe by many of Maertai’s family and friends that the sudden change of her behavior and memory loss is resulted of her head injury, Zhang Xiao awares that there will be a dangerous power struggle known to history between the scheming princes for the throne, which will results Aisin-Gioro Yinzhen to succeed as the Yongzheng Emperor after his father’s death. Zhang Xiao tries to change the future outcomes for the better, hoping to prevent any casualty as written in the future without interfering a man’s destiny, while trying to find a way to return to her time period. However, Zhang ultimately realizes that, not only she fails to alter the course of the approaching events, but also, under a predestination paradox, she is fated to become an instigator of the tragedy she tries to prevent resulted by her actions in the past and the princes’ romantic affections towards her.
Essbee’s Opinion
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