Chinese Drama

Dr Cutie (Chinese Drama Review & Summary)

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• Genre: Romance, Historical Costume Drama Fiction, Gender-Bender, Ancient Medicine, Murder Mystery, Revenge, Love Triangle
• Release Date:  18 January 2020 – 12 February 2020
• Origin: China
• Cdrama: 28 Episodes

Cast

• Huang Jun Jie as General Ji Hen
• Sun Qian as Tian Qi/Shen Zhao Er
• Zha Jie as Ji Zheng
• Hong Shan Shan as Kang Ning’er
• Guo Zi Yu as Kang De
• Liu Zhe Hui as Zheng Shao Feng
• Yang Yi Tong as Wan Hong (Auntie Hong)
• Wei Ai as Sun Cong Rui
• Dong Ke Fei as Teacher
• Mao Feng Bin as Chen Wu Yong

The story is about a girl who entered the palace disguised as a boy in order to study medicine and exact revenge to those who framed her father resulting in the massacre of her family.  She was the only survivor.

Bent on revenge, her situation got complicated when the General Ji who made her his personal eunuch learned she was a girl and wanted to make her his wife.

Cute.

Rumour: News going around that this drama will be released on 18 Janaury 2020!

Rumour is factual!

Episode 1

Note: Tian Qi is pretending to be a boy eunuch so she could enter the medical academy.  So if I use the pronoun he/she then please just bear with it. 😜

19-year-old Dr Tian Qi was crying uncontrollably over the coffin of Infanta Shucheng, the fiancee of General Ji.

The Infanta was about to marry the general, which accounts for the red banner decorations everywhere which annoyed General Ji when he went to see the body of the Infanta.

A few days previously…

Tian Qi (pretending to be a boy eunuch) came top of the newly qualified doctors at the General Medical Academy and as such, ‘he’ was told that ‘he’ will become a physician for the emperor.

Tian Qi, thinking on her feet, said that she dare not go accept the position because is known a hoodoo, a curse, a jinx. She elaborated that she had caused many to die just being near her and she would not impose herself to the emperor.

Tian Qi was really determined to go to Mansion Ji, because she heard that the killer of her father and the rest of the family was someone from the Mansion.

Her Shifu at the academy was being assigned to Mansion Ji so she begged him to take ‘him’ as his intern.

His Shifu finally agreed but for a price of 200 guan.  It was a lot of money but Tian Qi was desperate so she agreed.

Anyway, Tian Qi got along well with the Infanta.  She was helping the infanta to be even more attractive and memorable to General Ji, who happens to be a gorgeous man, popular with the women despite his reputation for utter cruelty in battles.

During a tea party held by the General to introduced his soon to be wife, the infanta, an assassin who was about to attack the general knocked into Tian Qi, who fell on the lap of the General, who with one hand, held on to the blade of the knife used to attack him while stopping the assassin altogether.

The General then told Tian Qi who was still resting on his lap to get up.

While the assassin was being apprehended, the Infanta collapsed.

And a few hours later, she was declared dead by poisoning.

And this how the General found Tian Qi.  She was crying disconsolately, burning incense and money and papers by the coffin.  Because just before the General turned up, Tian Qi was crying so hard because she knew without the infanta she will be sent back to the General Medial Academy. She had already spent a lot of money to be able to stay at Mansion Ji.  Then she saw the jewels which will be buried with the Infanta.  She thought it would not really benefit the infanta to where she was going but it would certainly be of use to her.  She was just about to take them when there was a ghostly haunting.

Immediately, Tian Qi knelt down asking for forgiveness.  She was crying so much she did not notice that the General was standing next to her.  Only when she reached down to what she thought was her hanky which she used to mop up her tears and blow her nose noisily into that the cloth was in fact the hem of the annoyed General’s hanfu.

The General asked who ‘he’ was.  He did not trust her.  He asked his bodyguard to find out everything about the young doctor.

He wanted to find out what the excessive grief of the young doctor over the infanta.  He suspected that perhaps they were lovers!

The General was in his mansion when an assassin appeared.  After a beautifully executed martial arts where the General won it in the end, he found out that his assassin was his brother Yi Zheng who had just come back from his travel.

They were happy to see each other and General Ji asked him to stay with him as he needs him to help him with things in the empire.

There was a newly acquired backstory story for Yi Zheng.  A few days ago he was crossing the bridge when he saw a beautiful elegant woman.  He fell in love with her at first sight.  But she did not even notice him.  He accidentally has gotten hold of her hanky.

The woman was, of course, Tian Qi, who was at that time dressed as a girl.

Episode 2

Tian Qi was on her way to see her ‘Aunt’ Wang Hong who runs a brothel with Uncle Lin.  They looked after her when her parents and whole family were massacred.

She told them that she might have to leave Mansion Ji because the infanta had been poisoned and died.

Anyway, the General received the report about Tian Qi.  He learned that she was some sort of pariah at the academy because she had told them that she was a hoodoo.

Instead of being wary, the General felt a little sympathy for TIan Qi.   He said that once upon a time he was also called a hoodoo who would kill his own father to get to the power.

However, he still did not trust Tian Qi and after she confessed that she needed the money was the reason she was crying piteously.

The General, however, ordered that ‘he’ be punished with 30 lashes.

He then told her to look after his azaleas and make sure she found out who poisoned the infanta before all the flowers dropped.

Tian Qi was tending to the flower carefully when the General started plucking them.

Episode 3

The General was really putting Tian Qi into all sorts of bother.  He started plucking the flowers because he was blackmailing Tian Qi into agreeing to become the bait for the poisoner who murdered the infanta to come out into the open.

Tian Qi had to agree but really got scared remembered that she was the only one left of the Shen family.  Her mother and father before they died had told her that she must live a good life and to stay out of trouble and yet here she was putting herself in danger.

It seems Tian Qi and General Ji had more in common than they think.  They were actually childhood friends who lost touch.

General Ji had always felt guilty and still gives him nightmare that he was too late to save the Shen family.  He had been looking for little Zhao Er ever since.

As much as Ji Hen was rather petty and a tad cruel to Tian Qi, he had always felt that he reminded him of young Zhao Er and this he found confusing.

Meanwhile, Ji Zheng received information that the anonymous girl he fell in love at sight with had been seen entering Bar Warhong, a popular brothel in town.

Ji Zheng was rather disappointed upon hearing that the brothel owner was rather familiar and welcomed the girl happily.

Episode 4

Ji Hen was suffering from sleep disorder partly due to his worry and guilt about Zhao’er, the girl who might have been killed with her parents.  As they can’t find her body, he hoped that she escaped.

Ji Hen was very fond of the little girl and might have been a little in love with her as well when he was also just a little boy.  He still remembered the girl insisting to buy his and her’s masks during the festival.  She did not know then the meaning of the masks.  They were for lovers.

Anyway, despite his love for Zhao’er, he is uncomfortably drawn to Tian Qi because, for some reason, Tian Qi reminds him of Zhao’er.

As Tian Qi was a ‘boy’ he was doubly cruel to him sometimes but he gets angry if anyone else victimises Tian Qi.

Tian Qi was being set up as the fall guy by the murderer.  Thank goodness Ji Hen knew about this.

Tian Qi had become Ji Hen’s personal doctor as well as the fan handler.

Episode 5

Ji Zheng found out that the girl he was looking for was in fact a eunuch who was a doctor as Ji Mansion.  This was rather a long story but in short, servants led by Sun Dali were bullying Tian Qi.  She was running away from them when Ji Zheng noticed how the boy (Tian Qi) looked so much the girl in the bridge.

Ji Zheng helped Tian Qi but she got hit on the forehead.

Ji Zheng asked his bodyguard, who also noticed the resemblance of Tian Qi to the drawing that Ji Zheng had made of the girl in the bridge.

Ji Zheng half agreed that the girl might be one and the same as the Tian Qi.  However, he commanded that his bodyguard should investigate Tian Qi’s background further.

Ji Hen noticed that Tian Qi had a bleeding bruise in her forehead.  She went to find out what happened.

He had Sun Dali punished when he found out that it was him who hurt Tian Qi.

As his personal doctor, Tian Qi was always with him.  She would fan him to sleep and would ended falling asleep by his bedside.

The guards began to gossip especially when then were seen in a rather compromising position.

Rumours started spreading that Tian Qi and Ji Hen were in a gay love affair.

Ji Zheng went to tell his brother about the rumours and advise him to be not around Tian Qi so often after all they were only using Tian Qi to smoke out the poisoner.

Ji Hen was not having this and got annoyed.

Ji Zheng realised that Ji Hen did not know that Tian Qi was a girl.

Ji Hen had told Tian Qi that he did not need her that night so he(she) could go home.  He noticed though that significant smell to Tian Qi.

Tian Qi told him that it was the gardenia from her scent pouch she made.  She said that she always had one since she was a little.

Ji Hen told her to leave the pouch to him.  He thought that that was the secret why he could now sleep at night.

But once again he woke up from a nightmare while still clutching the pouch.  He then realised that it was not the scent that made him fall asleep, it was Tian Qi.

His guard noticed how rather dejected and stressed he was so he asked if they should call Tian Qi.

At first, he said no but Ji Hen changed his mind and ordered to get Tian Qi.

It was a good thing too because during that time Tian Qi was unconscious and being snuck out of mansion Ji.

Ji Hen found out that Tian Qi was missing and ordered immediately a total lockdown of Mansion Ji.

The masked kidnapper was almost caught but he opted to chuck the bound Tian Qi into the pond/lake.

Episode 6

I have to say this drama is aptly titled at Dr Cutie.  The lead girl is so darn cute but the male lead is absolutely gorgeous.  He can count himself as one of the most gorgeous actors in a historical costume.

Their chemistry is so appealing.

Anyway, Ji Hen caught in his peripheral vision that a man in black was dumping a body in the pond/lake.

Ji Hen jumped in to the rescue which was witnessed by his brother, Ji Zheng.

Ji Hen rescued the bound and unconscious Tian Qi.  He was just about to check on her when Ji Zheng told him to leave because it was not appropriate that JIn Hen, being a general should put himself into danger to save a mere doctor in the house.

Ji Hen did see the logic of what Ji Zheng said and left.

Anyway, he returned later to check on Tian Qi.  She was surrounded with everybody from the manor who wanted to know who saved her.

She can’t really tell as she was unconscious then but they needed her to give an answer.

Ji Zheng came to the rescue and said that it must be the legendary giant turtle he had heard about a long time ago while he was growing up.  He said that it was more than likely that the spirit turtle got fed up because no one was talking about him anymore and what better than save someone to get himself trending once again.

His audience believed him at once.

Anyway, Tian Qi realised that her life was really in the hands of assassins so she decided to find out more about his father. What was the reason why he was banished suddenly from Mansion Ji?

Tian Qi managed to get inside the well-guarded document library.

She was almost found out but Ji Zheng saved her.

Ji Zheng asked what was she looking for in the library.

Tian Qi made up a story about being in love with someone and wanted to find out about their birthday.

Ji Zheng was curious and surprised that she was already in love with someone.  He asked it it was one of the guards, or even his brother.

Tian Qi pretended to be scandalised.  She said why would she like a guard.  She’s a man.

Ji Zheng was impressed with her quick wit.

But he did not let her get away because he saw her again and confronted her that he saw her dressed a girl outside the mansion.

She pretended to do self-harm if he continued to insist that she was a girl.

Ji Zheng can’t really force her to confess but he thought that he will watch her more assiduously.,

Meanwhile, Tian Qi and Ji Hen had such a cute scene involving the pot plant which had all the flowers dropped off.

Tian Qi was trying to distract Ji Hen from seeing it.  He knew but he pretended otherwise and they were just the cutest.

Love this drama for a light-heart uncomplicated watching.

Episode 7

.It has been revealed than Madame Su was the mastermind of the killing of the Infanta.  Madame Su is Ji Hen and Ji Zheng’s stepmother, being their father’s concubine.

Episode 8

Madame Su was protecting a bigger mastermind.  Rather than reveal who he was or where he was hiding, she poisoned herself.

Now Ji Heng and Ji Zheng were back almost at square one finding the real killer of the infanta or rather the one who wanted to assassinate Ji Heng which unfortunately put the infanta in the thick of it.

Tian Qi saw the man going to Mansion Ji who betrayed her father.  It was Sun Cong Rui.

Episode 9

Ji Heng was trying to smoke out the assassins so he decided to use the alibi of going to military training.  He took with him a reluctant Tian Qi.

During a lunch break, Tian Qi wandered into a clearing.  It was surrounded by peach blossoms.  Somehow the place brought some nostalgia.  The place looked familiar.  She started thinking of happy days with her father and mother.

She was lost in her daydream when Ji Heng found her.  He thought she was a girl as she was singing sweetly and had her eunach hat decorated with pretty flowers.

Ji Heng pretended to punish her by making her, who is supposed to be a boy, walk in front of the other men with flowers on her hat.

When they got to their destination, Ji Heng asked her to help him undress for his bath.  Tian Qi was really not happy about it but Ji Heng was giving her the ferocious look.

She managed to take off his top and then he changed his mind when she nervously started to remove his trousers.

Ji Heng started suspecting that perhaps Tian Qi was a gay boy.  The thought made him rather uncomfortable.

On the second leg of their travel, they were ambushed by a bank of black ninja.  There were some spectacular fighting scenes where Ji Heng and Ji Zheng, who came to the rescue excelled.  Both the actors who played them were gorgeous.

During the mayhem, Tian Qi tripped while running towards Ji Heng.  Her falling into him saved him from an arrow that went into her chest.

Tian Qi was brought into a manor, while Ji Zheng went to look for a doctor.

Ji Heng was looking after Tian Qi, who was death pale and in absolute agony.  Ji Heng offered to take out the arrow as he was aware of how to stop the bleeding.  But first, he had to cut down her clothes.

Tian Qi was beyond modesty but she did beg Ji Heng that whatever he finds out, he must not kill her.

Episode 10

When Tian Qi woke up all patched up, she worried that Ji Heng had found out her secret but Auntie Hong was there and comforted her that her secret remains hidden.  Aunt Hong came just in time to remove the arrow.

But she told Tian Qi that she must have been extraordinarily special to General Ji because he stayed with her all night, looking after Tian Qi himself.

Aunt Hong tried to convinced Tian Qi to abandon Mansion Ji but Tian Qi said not before she found out who had her parents killed.

Tian Qi also mentioned that the person who betrayed her father was still at Mansion Ji.  He was Sun Cong Rui.

When Tian Qi got better, she went back to Mansion Ji.  She was surprised at how popular she had become.  She was being warmed welcomed by everyone.  Her teacher said that was because there was a rumor that she had become a trusted personnel of the General.

In fact, the general had her old lodging cleaned up.  He also had another bed put in his manor so she can use it when she stays the night with him (fanning him or watching him sleep).

Episode 11

Tian Qi for taking the arrow for Ji Heng.  She then asked if she can have a day off the next day to deposit her reward money then perhaps spend the day in the busy market place just to do a bit of shopping, mingle and see some shows.  She then asked half-jokingly if Ji Heng wanted to go with her.

He did.

So they went on a date and Ji Heng said it was rather strange to be too formal with each other so he said why not call him Bai.

They were having a good time looking around in various shopping carts.

Tian Qi forgot for a moment that she was supposed to be a boy when she saw an arrow of accessories.  She saw a lovely hairpin.

The vendor was looking at her strangely and so did Ji Heng.

Tian Qi immediately said that she was buying it for a girlfriend.

As a cover, she spotted a girl who she asked if she could try the hairpin in her lovely head.

After a brief hesitation, the girl agreed but her boyfriend/admirer arrived and started a fight with Tian Qi.

Ji Heng did not do anything to help.

The fight was getting out of hand, so Tian Qi ran off with Ji Heng.

In a hidden corner, Ji Heng fought of their chasers one by one.

Afterwards, they Tian Qi and Ji Heng continued meandering in the market.

Thinking that Ji Heng still suspect that she was either gay or a girl, Tian Qi dragged him to a book cart where she proceeded to look at porn.

Ji Heng was so shocked and even more shocked when the bookseller said that his number one customer was General Ji.  He then showed them a poster of a rather swarthy General Ji, which was photoshopped.

Poor Ji Heng was between humiliation and anger which made Tian Qi giggled so much.

Before Ji Heng fully recovered from this embarrassing situation, Tian Qi dragged him to a brothel.

Tian He hired a room and had four lovely ladies to serve them.  She made it looked like she was a regular.

She then pushed the girls to Ji Heng and left them all to entertain him.

Now he was incandescent with rage.

But not so upset enough because he gave a free pass to Tian Qi, which meant she can come and go in Mansion Ji.

Tian Qi was feeling the kindness and utter gorgeousness of Ji Heng while she watched him sleep.  But she told herself that she cannot be in love because she has a mission to avenge her parents.

Episode 12

Ji Zheng was both jealous and feeling guilty of what he knew about Tian Qi.

He wanted to tell Ji Heng that Tian Qi was really female but Tian Qi might get kicked out of Mansion Ji, he likes her too much for that.

Anyway, he followed Tian Qi when she left the mansion again.

He finally confronted her about her true gender.

When Tian Qi started saying that he was really boy, Ji Zheng said that he would see it for himself.

Tian Qi had to confess the truth.

Episode 13

Ru Yi, Ji Heng and Ji Zheng’s nephew came to stay at Mansion Ji.  For some reason, the young boy attached himself to Tian Qi and had started calling her ‘mom’.

Ji Zheng found this too ridiculous and got annoyed of teaching his nephew silly things.

Madam Ji, Ji Heng’s mother had come back from the temple together with her assistant, the commander of Mansion Ji, Chen Wu Yong.

Chen Wu Yong had a reputation for being wicked and cruel.

Dr Ding and Tian Qi saw the commander ordering a maid to be given 50 lashes for not maintaining the pristine condition of his apartment at the mansion.

Chun Hua saw Tian Qi and Dr Ding.  She warned them not to get into the bad side of Mr Chen.  She also said to Tian Qi that as soon as she saw Mr Chen again, she suddenly remembered that it was him who was wearing the Buddha jade bracelet that Tian Qi was asking about.

Little Ru Yi was telling Madam Ji how much she likes Tian Qi.  Madam Ji got curious about the doctor who seemed to be popular with everyone including to her own son, Ji Heng.

Meanwhile, Tian Qi went to see Mr Chen with a small chest of jade jewels including the red bead jade Buddha bracelet as an offering.

Upon seeing the bracelet Mr Chen was visibly shocked.

Tian Qi asked why he seemed interested with the Buddha bracelet.

Mr Chen said that he used to own it and had given it to someone else.  He was surprised to get it back again.

Seeing the bracelet again had given Mr Chen a nightmare.  In his dream, his throat was cut by Tian Qi.

Because of this, he planned to get rid of Tian Qi.

He recruited the maid of the former concubine to tell Madam Ji that Tian Qi was known for being a jinx and the sooner that they get rid of her the better.

Madam Ji concocted her own plan which was influenced by Mr Chen.

She met up with Ji Heng and Ji Zheng for a welcome home dinner.  It turned out that Ji Heng was her son but Ji Zheng was the son of a concubine.

Madam Ji had a hand with the death of the young concubine.  She forced the girl to drink poison.  She then had taken Ji Zheng as her own son.  Ji Zheng quite loved her as well.

Anyway, she told her sons that it was time that they are married.

Both boys said that they were not ready.

Knowing that she can’t force them in that subject, she started telling Ji Zheng that she heard so much about Tian Qi from Ruyi.  She said that it would be good if Ji Zheng could give the doctor to her so Tian Qi could look after her, now that she was getting older.  This would also be good for Ru Yi who had taken a liking to the young doctor.

With this explanation, Ji Zheng could not really say ‘no’ to his mother.

He was going to see Tian Qi about it but he got the news that Tian Qi was under quarantine.

Tian Qi had colluded with Dr. Ding about inducing the chickenpox ailment so that she does not have to transfer to Madam Ji’s mansion immediately.

Dr. Ding agreed because he was the one who told her the gossip that Madam Ji was meant to have her killed.

Ji Zheng found out that Tian Qi had the pox. Despite the quarantine, he forced his way into the sick Tian Qi’s room.  He then told Dr Ding that he will look after Tian Qi.

Meanwhile, Ji Zheng was aching to see Tian Qi but it would look bad if he actually did.

Episode 14

Rumours were abound that there was an unseemly relationship between Ji Zheng and Tian Qi.

Chen Wu Yong did not waste any time conveying this to Madam Ji.  He also mentioned that Tian Qi seemed to latch on to men very easily and even General Ji was not averse in protecting the young doctor.

Chen also mentioned that he heard Tian Qi was a hoodoo.  The faster they get rid of him the better.

Ji Zheng was in town and had met with his friend Sheng Zhaofeng, who took him to a brothel to prove that the rumours were baseless.

Zhoufeng had told them that the rumours were initiated by the son of Sun Congrui as revenge for making him sail in the river running through the town naked for all the public to see.

Meanwhile, Madam Ji called her son about Tian Qi.  She said that Tian Qi was not suitable to be around Mansion Ji because she was a hoodoo.

Ji Heng, without batting an eyelid, said then they must execute Tian Qi immediately.  Ji Heng then said that he used not to believe about supernatural knowledge but after meeting Hermit Yuhang he had changed his mind.  Everything seemed to make sense when he was taking with Hermit Yuhang.

Madam Ji who believed in that kind of thing immediately wanted to speak to Hermit Yuhang, who said that Mansion Ji had an excellent Feng Shui. It has a pond, with plenty of carps, tall pine trees which means good fortune and posterity.

Hermit Yuhang noticed that it seemed there is was troubling Madam Ji.

Madam Ji readily said that there was.

Hermit Yuhang said that he knew that this might be someone and he would like to see the birth sign of that person.

Hermit Yuhang looked at the information and immediately said that this person was super bad luck.

Madam Ji was really troubled now.

However, Hermit Yuhang said that keeping the person very closed to the fortunate General Ji would only enhance his good luck.  It would be a case of the perfect yin and yang.  They go together.

Immediately, Madam Ji ordered Chen to stop the execution.

Sheng Anhui had arrested Tian Qi and was making her work round and round.

Tian Qi asked so many questions and Sheng Anhui told her that if she knew what was good for her then she should cease and desist with her many questions.

Tian Qi said can she asked a last question?  General Ji was only doing this to save her from the gallows.

Ji Zheng turned up and he was powerless to do anything as he would be fighting his brother’s army.

Chen came by and announced that Madam Ji wanted the execution to be stopped.

Episode 15

Tian Qi had become a favoured commodity to Madam Ji.  To protect Ji Heng she had now to protect Tian Qi as well.

Ji Zheng met Tian Qi in town again.  He forced her to accept a jade token, which Tian Qi was very reluctant to take.

Ji Zheng said that he felt really helpless when he cannot save her but with his personal jade token, she just had to show it and they would know tht she was Ji Zheng’s man.

Ji Heng was contemplating how he was going to go about getting more money in terms of taxation without penalising the poor.

He said it was time that the nobility did their fair share of paying taxes.  He would start with Sun Congrui.

Sheng Anhuim, the gossip, said that there was rumours going around that there was more to the friendship between Ji Zheng and Tian Qi.  They were always seen in town in a rather intimate manner.

Ji Zheng was so annoyed when he found out that Tian Qi had gone out again.

He went to find her and sure enough she was with Ji Zheng and saw them holding hands.

He then followed them to a drink house and surprised them.

Ji Zheng was ordered to leave them and told off  Tian Qi.

Tian Qi humbly accepted what he said.  Tian Qi said that she accidentally met Ji Zheng; it was not Ji Zheng fault it is just like normal young men, Tian Qi was feeling horny and wanted to see some action.  She was looking at the girls dancing seductively at the stage down below.

She looked like she was salivating which only made Ji Heng more annoyed.

He told Tian Qi that she was vulgar and nasty.  She said she was horny and she had bought more stocks of porn books. She came to town today for the brothel and the porn.

On their way home, the carriage was ambushed by the son fo Sun Congrui.  But Ji Heng had his men overpowered the son within seconds.

A servant who had been almost fatally poisoned was brought to Tian Qi. She had just started examining him when Miss Kang pushed and wanted Tian Qi to look at the little cut in her finger.

Tian Qi ignored her and Dr Ding said that he will see to the cut but Miss Kang wanted Tian Qi to treat her.

Tian Qi said that if she wanted her to deal with her cut then she had to wait.

Miss Kang threw money at Tian Qi but still was ignored.

Miss Kang went directly to Madam Ji to complain.

Madam Ji said that if she wanted to be married into Mansion Ji then she should stop being such a spoiled girl.  How can she manage the household?

Ji Heng called both Tian Qi and Ji Zheng to see him.  He asked Tian Qi what was her opinion when Ji Zheng turned down both the candidates for a marriage for him.

Tian Qi said that it had nothing to do with her.  Master Zheng can marry anyone he likes.

Outside Tian Qi said that she heard a rumour that her and Ji Zheng were too close and that she had seduced him.

This seemed to please Ji Zheng and asked if she did seduce him.  Awww, they do have good chemistry as well.

Episode 16

Ji Heng asked Tian Qi to be there when he speaks to Sun Congrui.  However, Tian Qi became rather to full of herself because of her hidden anger toward Congrui.

When Ji Heng seemed to not punished Congrui, she called him bureaucratic.

Her mouth was almost unstable with her vitriol so Ji Heng had to punish her.

She had to kneel down where she was standing until it got dark and started raining heavily.  Ji Heng told her to preceed to her room.

Before she could do, she fainted and had to be brought back to the room.

Ji Heng almost got seduced by the voice of Kang Ning’er singing but in the end, he went the opposite way.

Thinking that Ji Heng let off the Sun, Tian Qi became ultra-careful with Ji Heng which upset him.

Sheng Anhuai told Tian Qi that she must make up with Ji Heng and treat him like he was a friend again.

In the end, it was not too hard to treat him warmly again because he gave her a couple of chest of money.

Episode 17

Tian Qi was immediately happy to see the money before her. She then asked if Ji Heng regretted punishing her.

He was very surprised by her question but he said ‘no’.

Tian Qi then said that she cannot accept the money if there is no regret, then she does not deserve merit.

Ji Heng was flummoxed and said so to Sheng Anhui who was equally confused with money loving Tian Qi declining to get them.

Ji Heng, however, thought of a way to subtly apologise to Tian Qi.

He flew kites with a hidden message of regret.  Tian Qi found one of the kites and went to find Ji Heng.

Sheng Anhuai was grinning giddily.  He loved seeing his master looking happy despite finding that happiness with another man. What a gay and joyous life! LOL

Ji Zheng came to see Ji Heng.  He told his brother that he was going to be staying permanently in town and even got himself his own mansion.  The thing is that he needed people to fill the post in his manor.  He would like to start by hoping that Ji Zheng can let him have Tian Qi as his assistant.

Ji Zheng started by being calm about it but ended up shouting at Ji Zheng for trying to poach Tian Qi.  He said that they were already rumoured for having an immoral relationship.  He does not want his brother and Tian Qi to live a life of wenching and debauchery.

Ji Zheng got annoyed as well while denying the accusation.

Ji Heng ended up ordering that Ji Zheng should be punished with the Ji Family Special.

In front of their family altar (or something) Ji Heng was about to commence lashing Ji Zheng when Tian Qi appeared and begged Ji Zheng to punish her instead because it was her fault.

She said that she bed Ji Zheng to take and employ her in his mansion.

Ji Heng ordered everyone out so he can talk with Tian Qi alone.

He then asked her why she wanted to leave.

She said, “I like you.”

Ji Heng was shocked.

Tian Qi said that what she meant that she admired Ji Heng so much that she feels so inferior next to him.  He was so perfect, next to him she felt like they were cloud and mud.

It was the Dragon Ball Festival celebrating Daughter’s Day.

Tian Qi thought it would be clever to dress little Ru Yi as a girl and present him to Madam Ji who was desperate for a granddaughter.

Madam Ji was very amused and rewarded her for it.

However, they met Ji Heng outside and went ballistic when he saw his nephew dressed like a girl. He told off Tian Qiu for anything for money and she was so shameless.

He punished her to dress up like a girl.

As much as he does not want for Tian Qi to leave, Ji Heng was left no choice but to fire a reluctant Tian Qi from her post as his personal doctor to appease his brother.

Episode 18

Ji Heng sent Tian Qian to an isolated farming village to tend to an herb garden.  He thought the father she was from him the better becasue the very sight of her irritated him so much.

But when she was finally out sight, Ji Heng found that he can’t sleep.  He was missing her.  His sleepness night became everyone serving him their problem as well.  If he can’t sleep, they dare not sleep.

Sheng Anhui went to see Tian Qian to ask her to come back as the Ji Heng and everyone else had had not a good night sleep since she left.

Tian Qian thought about it but she cannot just return without being ordered by Ji Heng to return. Instead she gave a herbal pillow with her favourite gardenia flower in it to Shen Anhui to pass to Ji Heng.  That should get him to sleep.

When Sheng Anhui returned to Mansion Ji, he told Ji Heng that what he saw almost broke his heart.  Tian Qi was in such a sorry state.  She was all skin and bones, she was wasting away from the heat on the farm.

Ji Heng felt so sorry and guilty about Tian Qi, he told Sheng Anhui that he will go to see for himself.

But when they got them, Tian Qian was anything but wasting away.  She was making so much money for creating a wonder beauty product, a very moisturising mud medicinal mask that became popular with the young ladies of the village.

Dr Ding was so sure of their medicinal masks that he went back to Mansion Ji to give a sample to Kang Ning’er and Madam Ji.  He was hoping Madam JI would be so impressed, she would overrule her son and bring Tian Qi and him back to Mansion Ji.

Episode 19

Mr Kang went to Tian Qi and Dr Ding’s cottage and had them both arrested for maliciously giving a poisoned medicinal masks to both Ning’er and Madam Ji.

Mr Kang was just about to paddle Tian Qi when Ji Zheng and his men arrived to stop them.  He told Mr Kang that he has no right at all to exact punishment to anyone from Mansion Ji and its locality without permission from General Ji.

Anyway Ji Zheng took Tian Qi to JI Heng and he said the same thing to Mr Kang. And if he did something like that again, Ji Heng will personally torture Mr Kang.

As to the poisoning, he said to live Tian Qi with him alone to talk.

Tian Qi asked him if ever believed in her.

Ji Heng said that he only believed in evidence.

However, Tian Qi persevered.  She reminded him what he previously said that in the army if someone protected you with their life, you have to return the favour.

She then left him defeated.

But her trouble was not over.  She was then kidnapped by Mr Chen and taken to Sun Fan to kill and torture.

Episode 20

Chun Hua who witnessed the Tian Qi’s abduction went immediately to Ji Zheng for help.

Ji Zheng in return, went to Ji Heng for consultation of the abduction.

They both concluded that it would only be Sun Fan.

Then went to the Sun manor and right enough they found Sun Fan about to brand Ti Qian.

She was saved and she was grateful.

She then heard about Chun Hua having been beaten up and locked in a warehouse by the Kangs.

She went to see Chun Hua but she was locked in with her.

When the door next opened, it was Ji Heng who was half shocked and half jealous of Tian Qian locked in with a woman in the warehouse.  He was so jealous, he did not bother to ask who locked her in with Chun Hua?

What Ji Heng asked if Chun Hua was that one, he remembered a lie she once said that she was already in love with someone.

Ji Heng said that Tian Qi and Chun Hua do not have to hide in some obscure places because he will arrange a marriage between Tain Qi and Chun Hua.

Chun Hua was rather happy about it.

Tian Qi begged and begged Sheng Anhui to let her see Ji Heng just once.

When she saw him, she asked JI Heng why suddenly he seemed to hate her.  She thought they had become friends at least.

Ji Heng felt cornered.  He said that the simplest reason was that he doesn’t need her anymore. She was now useless to him.

This really hurt Tian Qi and she doesn’t have a comeback for it so she said that she was now formally giving him a final goodbye because she doesn’t know whether she will see him again.

What she does not know was that he can’t really say what he wanted to say that he thinks he’s gay because he likes her.  Hohoho.

Anyway, the Kangs can’t seem to stop themselves from plotting more dastardly acts.

Kang Ning’er drugged Ji Heng when she asked him to go drinking with her.

In his drunk/drugged state, he started seeing a girl Tian Qi in the body of Ninger.  He started hugged Tian Qi tightly and then he came to his senses and saw Ning’er who he said drugged him.

He then stumbled out into Tian Qi room.  Tian Qi at that moment had her hair down.

She was shocked to see him and he was as shocked to see that she was a girl.  Then he fainted.

Ji Zheng was there immediately to take control of the situation before Ji Heng’s guards came looking for him.

When Ji Heng woke up from his rather seductive dream about Tian Qi, he was happy and order Sheng Anhui to get Tian Qi.

Sheng Anhui said that that might be difficult at Tian Qi was getting wed to Chun Cha.

Ji Heng ordered to cancel the wedding.

Episode 21 – She is a Girl

Yep, finally, in this episode, JI Heng was sure tath Tian Qi was a girl.

It was not easy for him to find out because in the beginning, Tian Qi was a few steps ahead of him.  She asked Auntie Ye what she needed ot do to make him doubt what he believed he saw whe he was drugged.

Auntie Ye gave her a leather vest that would like she had the body of a man.  It was hilarious when she started touching her chest and encouraging JI Heng to touch her muscular chest as well.

Ji Heng’s face was a masterpiece of shock and indecision.

He actually beginning to doubt what he saw.  So just to confirm, he started staking her and while she was having a wash by the riverside he found her combing her long dark hair and then she removed her top.  He saw a band across her breast area to obviously flatten her chest.

Ji Heng had never been happier in his life.  He was like a jockey on his horse having won the race.

He started self-analyzing himself that he liked Tian Qi because deep down he had an inkling that she was a girl.  He was instinctively reacting to her feminine gender.  (he is was really in denial that he might be gay)  the hilarious bit was that he also started thinking that, maybe Sheng Anhui might also be a woman because he also likes him and trusted him.  Ji Hnegn imagining Sheng Anhui dressed as a woman whit a mustache was so funny.

After he was sure that Tian Qi was a girl, he tried to keep away from her and then realized he can’t.

Episode 22

Having inspired by Sheng Anhui’s pronouncement that if he could bring back time, he would have seized the moment and declared his love to someone.

Bearing this in mind, Ji Heng courted Tian Qi forcefully until she can say know.  And before she knew it she was wearing a dress and spent the day being so cute and sweet together and free.

Ji Heng had given all the servants a day-off.

But Little Ru Yi came home early and witnessed his Uncle Ji Heng kissing Tian Qi who was dressed in a dress over a romantic backdrop of fireworks.

Ru Yi innocently told everything to his grandma, Madam JI, who was so scandalised that her son was kissing a boy in drag.  LOL

She went to see Tian Qi but found her about to be kissed by her son.  She was demented with shock. Asking her son how can she fave their Ancestor Ji?  Her son likes boys.

Madam Ji ordered that Tian Qi should be killed at once.

But suddenly Ji Zheng was there and ready to protect Tian Qi as well.

Madam JI quickly realised that she does not only one gay son, both her sons had been seduced by Tian Qi.

Finally, both boys took pity on their mother and they simultaneously said that Tian Qi was a girl.

Madam Ji calmed down a bit but got worried because it meant Tian Qi lied at the academy.  The king will be upset.

Episode 23

Madam Ji gave the brothers ultimatum regarding Tian Qi.  They either report her to the King and let the king punished the girl that fooled the academy or ask Tian Ji to leave Ji Mansion.

Ji Hen objected.  He said he would neither report to the king nor ask Tian Qi to leave the manor.  That was final.

His mother was so annoyed, she told everything to her assistant, Commander Chen Yu Wong, who started plotting what he was going to do.

And what he did was try to kill Tian Qi, who had now turned into a beautiful girl.

Tian Qi had always been a resourceful girl, so she had a vial of powder that she spread on Chen Wuyong.

Tian Qi was rescued by Ji Zheng and then Ji Hen and yet a masked Chen Wuyong still got away.  Tian Qi was sure though that the man was Chen Wuyong and that she saw the bite mark on his arm she gave him when she was a little girl after he killed her parents.

Ji Hen said that Chen Wuyong was probably realised who she was, who her parents were and was trying to kill her or Madam Ji had ordered Chen Wu Yong to kill Tian Qi.

Poor Ji Zheng was rather sad to know how loving to each other Ji Hen and Tian Qi were, though he had already given them his blessing.

Ji Zheng went drinking with his friend, Shaofeng, who came him a document that said Madam Ji had his mother killed to protect her son, Ji Hen.

That was such sad a sad scene between Ji Zheng and Madam Ji. Ji Zheng asked Madam Ji about his real mother and was it true that she forced his mother to commit suicide?

Madama Ji was shocked to find out but she was honest.  She said that her husband had fallen in love with his concubine and would like make her son, Ji Zheng, his favoured son.

So she made the concubine make a choice: kill herself or kill Ji Zheng.

Ji Zheng was heartbroken that his mother had to kill herself because of him.

He then unsheathed his dagger and threatened to kill her.  She closed her eyes and told him to do it but he must not take his anger on Ji Heng, who had always thought of him as a real brother.

Ji Zheng was about to slash Madam Ji’s throat but he remembered all the times that she was so loving and kind to her.  She did treat her like her own.  So he said he can’t be with her anymore.  This was so sad, I was crying.

Meanwhile, Ji Heng found out where Chen Wu Yong was hiding.

Chen Wu Yong readily confessed why he wanted to kill Tian Qi.  It was for the Ji Family, for Madam Ji to be precise.

Chen Wu Yong recounted that Shen Young (Tian Qi’s father) knew of the forced poisoning of the concubine.  So Madam Ji ordered that any witness should be terminated.

Ji Heng realised that his first love, Zhao’er was Tian Qi all along.

Episode 24

Ji Heng was disgusted and heartbroken to find out what length his mother would go to to protect him.  But he said that since it was because of him, he will sort it out.

Poor guy was having nightmares about it, including seen in the dream that Zhao’er can’t forgive him she stabbed.

Ji Heng felt so guilty towards Tian Qi that he started getting out of her way, even pretending that he was away.

Ji Zheng got to Tian Qi and asked who her parents were.

He was so shocked he went to his brother immediately and confronted him that he was sweeping what Chen Wu Yong did under the carpet.

JI Zheng told tian qi that Chen Wu Yong was in the dungeon of Mansion Ji.

So she went there with her uncle to find out about her parents’ murder.  Ji Zheng turned up and save them from the guard.

Chen Wu Yong lied and said that Ji Heng was the one who ordered him to kill her parents.

She could not believe it, not Ji Heng but Ji Zheng that it was true.

Episode 25 The Revenge stabbing

Ji Heng finally had a confrontation with Tian Qi about her parents.  She said that she hated him and can’t forgive him.

He said that he loved her and that he can’t lose her again.

He started walking towards her while she was holding a dagger. She then stabbed him and yet he kept begging her to not leave him.

Madam Ji went to see Tian Qi at the dungeon where she was locked up.  She told Tian Qi that Ji Heng had nothing to do with her parents’ death.

Meanwhile Ji Zheng spoke to Madam Ji and told her that he was going to fight Ji Heng and the winner takes all or he would take Tian Qi away.

Madam Ji said to take Tian Qi away after she went to speak to Tian Qi again to ask her if she regretted stabbing Ji Heng.

Tian Qi said no, she was revenging her parents.

Ji Zheng was in a carriage leaving Mansion JI .  He realise that it would be hard to make Tian Qi to like him and forget Ji Heng.

JI Heng woke up finally but he looked like death warmed up.  He said that without Tian Qi, he might as well be dead.

Shaofeng was finally revealed as the villainous white robe master.

Episode 26

Tian Qi realised that despite General Ji ordering the death of her parents, she still loved him and did not want him to die.

She also found out that Ji Zheng was not the boy she met when she was still a little girl.  It was Ji Heng in fact.

Episode 27

Madam Ji prayed to Buddha that if her son gets better she will live a life of utter piousness.   She will become a nun.

Tian Qi went to get Aunt Hong to help cure Ji Heng.

Ji Heng, however, refused to take in his medication or had lost the will to live.

Until Tian Qi took over. She sipped some of the medication and pass it to the half-conscious Ji Heng by mouth to mouth. The onlookers including Madam Ji were amazed that Ji Heng was responding.

Madam Ji realised that the young lovers loved each other very much, more than the lovers know themselves.

When Ji Heng got better, he can’t find Tian Qi, who had been told by Ning’er to go away.

Ning’er pretended that she was the one who nursed Ji Heng.

Ji Heng told her to go away.

Shaofeng had Tian Qi kidnapped.

Episode 28 The Finale

Shaofeng and Ji Zheng had conspired to finish off Ji Heng.

Ji Heng was in his full armour attire, ready to battle it out with Ji Zheng to stop him marrying Tian Qi.

Madam Ji gave her blessing to her son to get Tian Qi/Zhao’er.

The marriage procession was just starting when Ji Heng interrupted. Saying he was there to come for his wife.  He unveiled the bride and found that it was not Tian Qi.

All the confusion turned into a farce and ended with Ji Heng stabbing Ji Zheng with his sword.

Shaofeng was so happy with the outcome.  One Ji brother down, next Ji Heng.

He then ordered his minions to bring out Tian Qi.

Shaofeng put a dagger next to Tian Qi’s neck.  He told Ji Heng that it was either Tian Qi or him.  To save Tian Qi, he had to kill himself.

Ji Heng said he will end his life that Shaofeng had to promise not to harm Tian Qi.

He then unsheathed his sword and threw it in the sky which was a signal for the lone arrow man stationed by the rood to shoot at Shaofeng.

Shaofeng was hit and then the seemingly dead Ji Zheng stood up and finished off Shaofeng with a thrust of his sword.  He said that thanks to Ji Heng’s supper supple leather vest, he was unharmed.  The blood came from his hands which he used to hold off the blade of the sword.

They told Shaofeng that no matter what upheavals the brothers have in their personal life, they were soldiers and would work to defend their county.

When all was settled and Ji Zheng had Tian Qi in his arms, Tian Qi got annoyed to find out that they left her out of their plans.  She marched out in a huff.

Ji Zheng went to see Tian Qi and told her that he was leaving to go traveling.  He said that he was so glad that he had met and loved her because she brought him a lot of happiness.   He said that he realised that Ji Heng will only be the one in her heart and he wishes them both well.

Ji Heng work on getting Tian Qi back.  They are so cute.

Aunt Hong, knowing that Tian Qi really loved Ji Heng but really playing it cool advised Ji Heng to work at the bordello as a servant.

He then turn up one morning and started cleaning.  Tian Qi was scandalised to see General Ji scrubbing the floor.  He was polishing banisters, he was a waiter, serving drinks.

Ji Heng, being gorgeous, became so popular with the ladies of the brothel.  They surrounded him and they were cooing and wooing over him when Tian Qi can’t take it much longer.  She pulled Ji Heng away from them and told them “He is mine.”

Oooohhhhhh so cute.

Then they had their wedding.   Ji Zheng watched secretly from the roof and was eventually happy that the two most important people in his life are now together.  Oooh.  Love him as well.

Now the wedding night.  Ji Heng could not wait to get started.

Instead of drinking wine from two cups with their arms entwined, Ji Heng only served one cup which he said should be their routine in the future.  They will be always working as one. :). Always be together.

Well the naughty bits of the wedding night.  They were both naked in bed covered only with a blanket.

Tian Qi asked Ji Heng what should they do next?

Ji Heng wickedly revealed the booklet of kama sutra she gave him.  So cute.

Few months later….

They were in the market when Ji Heng was accosted by a couple of females wanting to know if he was married.

The loved-up Ji Heng said yes and his beautiful wife was right behind them.

Ji Heng and Tian Qi ended up by the bridge.  They could not be happier and yes then can at a stratospheric level because Tian Qi whispered that he was going to be a father.

Ji Heng was confused at first as how?  She said in a few months’ time they were going to have a baby.

He quickly got over his shock and hugged Tian Qi tightly and then shouted that he was going to be a father.

The End

 

 

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