Tong Hua won’t comment on the drama version of the ending, only saying that she treasures the ending she wrote for the novel.īBJX is a story that was perfectly able to create two compelling love stories and neither felt insignificant or any less meaningful than the other. She could only take the memories of him with her.Ĥ. But in the end, when she died, she couldn’t take it with her. Ruo Xi’s most treasured items from 4th Prince are the magnolia flower pin (beauty), the little dog snuff bottle (playful), and the arrow he took for her (sacrifice), which explains so much their love for each other. The blood jade bracelet 8th Prince gave Ruo Xi symbolizes eternity, the circle shape neverending, and the bracelet a piece of jewelry a person never removes even in sleep or bathing (unlike necklace or earring). 4th Prince and Ruo Xi were often seen around flowers and flora, their love as beautiful as the scenery, but ultimately would wither if not properly tended to. 8th Prince and Ruo Xi were often in the snow, their first walk hand-in-hand, their final break up, the coldness mixed with the beauty explains how their love could never be.
Tong Hua really buried a lot of meaning and significance in a lot of scenes and motifs in the drama. Ruo Xi actually loved too much, and not too little.ģ. But in the end Ruo Xi did throw all caution to the wind because she loved 4th Prince with her entire heart and soul, but she could never stop loving the other people she cared about as well. So in comparison, Ruo Xi’s reluctance to love 8th Prince without reservation, her inability to stay with 4th Prince in the palace at the very end – all of her fears are very modern sensibilities which feels out-of-place in that era. Lu Wu begged to be allowed to join 13th Prince in house arrest in a dark and dank little hovel, which ended up being 10 years, and in the end she killed herself rather than let her existence shame him. Ming Hui can love 8th Prince so much even when he’s down and remain the backbone of the family, even giving her life for him in the end. Ruo Lan can mourn her first love for twenty some years, never once giving into a loving 8th Prince who adored her. And modern people are the ones who are practical, realistic, not the type to love and lose at such a grand gesture. Tong Hua explained that viewers are forgetting Ruo Xi is really the soul of modern girl Zhang Xiao. With respect to many people disliking Ruo Xi as a heroine, because a lot of the other female characters in the book appear to love more passionately than her, yet she’s the one who keeps waffling and creating reasons not to be together. She thinks 14th Prince is the perfect balance – honorable and courageous, and with the emotional intelligence to be able to let things go.Ģ. She likes a man to be happy, enjoy life a little. 4th Prince is too unbending and extreme, as a husband it would be exhausting living with him. She thinks neither would make a good husband. She doesn’t like either 4th Prince or 8th Prince. Snippets from a recent interview with Tong Hua, the author of Bu Bu Jing Xin the novel:ġ. Clearly it’ll be a long time before the overwhelming sense of awe and heartache will dissipate from my heart. I don’t think my summary and screepcaps do it justice, because the scoring and acting raise the entire sequence a notch higher.īelow are some more BBJX-related goodies: (1) a recent interview with author Tong Hua, (2) a picspam of an indescribably poetic scene between Ruo Xi and 4th Prince towards the end of the drama that I didn’t mention before, (3) I’ve embedded the video of the final 12 minutes of BBJX for everyone to watch, and (4) some OST songs are out so have a listen. I must clearly be a glutton for punishment because I rewatched the ending again, and am once again just blown away. I was going to write a lighthearted Bu Bu Jing Xin post, but I don’t think I’m ready for that just yet (though it’ll be coming soon).
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