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* {{Jack of all Trades}}: Fan Xian is skilled in tactics, combat, and politicking his way through the imperial court. He also is seen as a literary genius by many other characters (though that's more due to his {{A Little Something We Call Rock and Roll}} shenanagins than his own actual skill.)
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* {{Jack of all Trades}}: Fan Xian is skilled in tactics, combat, and politicking his way through the imperial court. He also is seen as a literary genius by many other characters (though that's more due to his {{A Little Something We Call Rock and Roll}} shenanagins than his own actual skill.)
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*{{Deceptively Human Robots}}: [[spoiler: Wuzhu, who looks pretty much like any other human, but acts a little weird and does not age.]]
*{{Defeat Means Friendship}}: Happens a couple times.
**At the start of the show, Fan Xian beating Teng Zijing in combat leads to the beginning of their beautiful friendship.
**Fan Xian's fight with Haitang Duoduo also leads to them becoming friendly acquaintances.
*{{Defeat Means Friendship}}: Happens a couple times.
**At the start of the show, Fan Xian beating Teng Zijing in combat leads to the beginning of their beautiful friendship.
**Fan Xian's fight with Haitang Duoduo also leads to them becoming friendly acquaintances.
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*{{Dead Sidekick}}: [[spoiler: Teng Zijing.]]
* {{Double Agent}}: [[spoiler: He Daoren]], an agent of Northern Qi, turns out to actually be working for the Overwatch Council.
* {{Double Agent}}: [[spoiler: He Daoren]], an agent of Northern Qi, turns out to actually be working for the Overwatch Council.
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* {{Double Agent}}: [[spoiler: He Daoren]], an agent of Northern Qi, turns out to actually be working for the Overwatch Council.
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In the modern day, a young man with a terminal illness dies, only to be reborn in imperial China with all his memories intact as the illegitimate son of Fan Jian, the assistant financial minister to the emperor, and Ye Qingmei, a woman who was assassinated under mysterious circumstances soon after his birth. Now named Fan Xian, he is raised in the countryside province of Danzhou at his grandmother’s estate where he completes an apprenticeship with Fei Jie, a master of poisons and medicines, and learns martial arts from his mother's former servant, a blind man named Wuzhu, until one day, an attempt on his life and a summons from his father lead him to journey to the capital. There, despite his best efforts, he is soon drawn into the political plots revolving around the royal family and a powerful organization answering only to the emperor known as the Overwatch Council.
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*{{Adaptation Deviation}}: The cliffhanger end of season 1, where [[spoiler: Fan Xian is stabbed by Yan Bingyun]], does not happen in the books.
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* {{Long Haired Pretty Boy}}: Fan Xian wears his hair down for most of the first season, as do a couple other male characters (most notably Yan Bingyun, for fans of Series/{{The Untamed}} ).
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* {{A World Half Full}}: Arguably, this world, with its inequality, corruption, sexism, and lack of concern for the lives of those deemed "insignificant" is this, something that Fan Xian initially feels like he can't change, but then eventually decides he's willing to try to change. [[spoiler: This is what Ye Qingmei, Fan Xian's mom, created the Overwatch Council to try and fix, though ultimately at the cost of her own life.]]
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* {{A World Half Full}}: Arguably, this world, with its inequality, corruption, sexism, and lack of concern for the lives of those deemed "insignificant" is this, something that Fan Xian initially feels like he can't change, but then eventually decides he's willing to try to change. [[spoiler: This is also what Ye Qingmei, Fan Xian's mom, created the Overwatch Council to try and fix, though ultimately at the cost of her own life.]]
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*{{The Spymaster}}: Chen Pingping, obviously.
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** As a child, he'd written letters to his younger sister Ruoruo telling her the story of ''Dream of the Red Chamber'' (红楼梦), one of the four great Chinese classical novels, only to find out later when he gets to the capital that she'd distributed his letters to many of the other noble ladies in the city and it'd become extremely popular.
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** As a child, he'd written letters to his younger sister Ruoruo telling her the story of ''Dream ''Literature/{{Dream of the Red Chamber'' Chamber}}'' (红楼梦), one of the four great Chinese classical novels, only to find out later when he gets to the capital that she'd distributed his letters to many of the other noble ladies in the city and it'd become extremely popular.
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*{{Brain Uploading}}: [[spoiler: As it turns out, Fan Xian's "reincarnation" is actually due to his past consciousness being uploaded into a new baby in this time (by Ye Qingmei).]]
*{{Hidden Depths}}: Fan Sizhe's skills with business and finance.
**To various people in the capital, Fan Xian's "literary prowess" seems like this.
**To various people in the capital, Fan Xian's "literary prowess" seems like this.
*{{Papa Wolf}}: Fan Jian is implied to be this based on his serious vow to cause a ruckus in the capital if Fan Xian suffers any harm on the mission to Northern Qi.
**When Fan Xian is [[spoiler: being threatened by Xie Bi'an on behalf of Li Chengze with insinuations made about the future well-being of his family and friends should he choose not to side with the second prince]], he calls their bluff by saying if anything happened to Fan Sizhe, Fan Jian would tear up the capital.
**When Fan Xian is [[spoiler: being threatened by Xie Bi'an on behalf of Li Chengze with insinuations made about the future well-being of his family and friends should he choose not to side with the second prince]], he calls their bluff by saying if anything happened to Fan Sizhe, Fan Jian would tear up the capital.
*{{Reincarnation}}: The story starts with Fan Xian being reborn as...well, Fan Xian, with all his memories of modern life still intact.
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*{{Wicked Stepmother}}: Subverted. Initially, Fan Xian suspects Liu Ruyu, Fan Jian's second wife and Fan Xian's stepmother of being the one behind his assassination attempt, but after they clear up a few misunderstandings, their relationship with each other becomes quite genial.
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*{{Bastard Angst}}: Subverted with Fan Xian, who couldn't care less about being an illegitimate child, but played somewhat straight with Lin Wan'er, who is only too aware about how her status has affected her family and how she was raised (i.e. in isolation).
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*{{Gilded Cage}}: Lin Wan'er, being the illegitimate daughter of Prime Minister Lin and Crown Princess Li Yunrui, as well as a very sickly girl suffering from lifelong tuberculosis, is effectively kept in one of these.
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*{{Heroic Bastard}}: Fan Xian, being an illegitimate son, is this.
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* {{Excellent Judge of Character}}: Fan Xian is definitely this, given how much he uses his understanding of other people's character flaws and motivations in his plans [[spoiler: though it fails him at the very end of season 1.]]
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* {{Kansas City Shuffle}}: Happens several times, with several parties.
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In the modern day, a young man with a terminal illness dies, only to be reborn in imperial China as the illegitimate son of Fan Jian, the assistant financial minister to the emperor, and Ye Qingmei, a woman who was assassinated under mysterious circumstances soon after his birth. Now named Fan Xian, he is raised in the countryside province of Danzhou at his grandmother’s estate where he completes an apprenticeship with Fei Jie, a master of poisons and medicines, and learns martial arts from his mother's former servant, a blind man named Wuzhu, and completes an apprenticeship with Fei Jie, a master of poisons and medicines, until one day, an attempt on his life and a summons from his father (for an arranged marriage) lead him to journey to the capital. There, despite his best efforts, he is soon drawn into the political plots revolving around the royal family and a powerful organization answering only to the emperor known as the Overwatch Council.
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*{{The Dragon}}: Yan Xiaoyi could be considered as this for Li Yunrui. [[spoiler: Also, Xie Bi'an for Li Chengze.]]
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*{{Tragic Bromance}}: [[spoiler: Over the course of Fan Xian's initial trials in the capital, he and Teng Zijing become close enough to regard each other as brothers. Teng Zijing dying to protect him from an attempt on his life marks a big turning point in the story, forcing Fan Xian to realize that there are people in this world he truly cares about and keeping him in the capital to enact revenge on all parties who had a hand in Teng Zijing's death.]]
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*{{Nothing Personal}}: Li Yunrui [[spoiler: tells Wan'er that her attempts on Fan Xian's life are this--that she has nothing against him, really, and it doesn't matter what kind of person he is, it's just that once Wan'er fell in love with him, she had to kill him to keep Wan'er from being dragged into the political mess surrounding him.]] Whether or not this is true is debatable.
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*{{Revenge}}: The reason behind why [[spoiler: Fan Xian chooses to stay in the capital.]]
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* {{Affably Evil}}: [[spoiler:Li Yunrui]], who veils her malice towards Fan Xian under a veneer of politiness and geniality, once even inviting him into her quarters to chat. And later, [[spoiler: Li Chengze]] arguably also counts, though whether or not one truly counts him as "evil" given the show's {{Grey and Gray Morality}} can be debated.
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* {{Affably Evil}}: [[spoiler:Li Yunrui]], who veils her malice towards Fan Xian under a veneer of politiness politeness and geniality, once even inviting him into her quarters to chat. And later, [[spoiler: Li Chengze]] arguably also counts, though whether or not one truly counts him as "evil" given the show's {{Grey and Gray Morality}} can be debated.
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* {{Anachronism Stew}}: This is set in a fictionalized version of imperial China, so things aren't accurate to any particular period of real life [[spoiler: and in-universe, Fan Xian also starts to notice these discrepancies, only to find out that he actually isn't in the past at all.]]
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* {{Anachronism Stew}}: This is set in a fictionalized version of imperial China, so things aren't accurate to any particular period of real life life. [[spoiler: and in-universe, In-universe, Fan Xian also starts to notice these discrepancies, only to find out that he actually isn't in the past at all.]]
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*{{Assassination Attempt}}: What kicks off the story, and continues to happen several times, to several different parties during the show.
*{{Ass in Ambassador}}: Fan Xian is taken off-guard when the diplomatic negotiation he attends between Southern Qing and Northern Qi is filled with these.
*{{Badass Long Robe}}: Given that most characters in the show are wearing robes, some characters count as this.
*{{Ass in Ambassador}}: Fan Xian is taken off-guard when the diplomatic negotiation he attends between Southern Qing and Northern Qi is filled with these.
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*{{Cassandra Truth}}: Shen Zhong, who kept insisting that Fan Xian's plan regarding cutting Northern Qi into the profits of the Qing imperial treasury was part of a bigger plan to meddle in Northern Qi affairs despite the fact that no one would listen to him.
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*{{In the Hood}}: The Shadow, Chen Pingping's nameless, masked bodyguard wears a dark, hooded robe.
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* {{Earth that Was}}: [[spoiler: As it turns out, Fan Xian was not reborn in the past, but instead thrust far, far into the future, to a time when the earth had undergone another ice age and all of human civilization as we know it has already been wiped out to start anew, which is why this "past" is nothing like Fan Xian remembers from his studies.]]
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* {{Earth that Was}}: [[spoiler: As it turns out, Fan Xian was not reborn in the past, but instead thrust far, far into the future, to a time when the earth had undergone another ice age and all of human civilization as we know it has already been wiped out to start anew, which is why this "past" is nothing isn't quite like how Fan Xian remembers from his studies.it should be.]]
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*{{A Little Something We Call Rock and Roll}}: At one point, Fan Xian is roped into a poem competition during which he simply copies down from memory "Climbing High" (登高), a famous ancient Chinese seven-verse poem by the Poet-Sage Du Fu, thus winning the competition and receiving wide-spread acclaim.
**Later, at an imperial banquet [[spoiler: where he is accused of plagiarising "Climbing High" as part of another plot by Li Yunrui]], he gets drunk and starts reciting hundreds of classic poems from memory, thus earning for himself the nickname "Poet-Sage".
**As a child, he'd written letters to his younger sister Ruoruo telling her the story of ''Dream of the Red Chamber'' (红楼梦), one of the four great Chinese classical novels, only to find out later when he gets to the capital that she'd distributed his letters to many of the other noble ladies in the city and it'd become extremely popular.
**Later, at an imperial banquet [[spoiler: where he is accused of plagiarising "Climbing High" as part of another plot by Li Yunrui]], he gets drunk and starts reciting hundreds of classic poems from memory, thus earning for himself the nickname "Poet-Sage".
**As a child, he'd written letters to his younger sister Ruoruo telling her the story of ''Dream of the Red Chamber'' (红楼梦), one of the four great Chinese classical novels, only to find out later when he gets to the capital that she'd distributed his letters to many of the other noble ladies in the city and it'd become extremely popular.
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*{{Guile Hero}}: Fan Xian is this in spades.
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* {{Hitman With a Heart}}: The reason why Fan Xian is able to talk Teng Zijing down from killing him at the start of the show, [[spoiler: as arranged by Chen Pingping.]]
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**Xiao En is convinced that Chen Pingping withdrawing his protection from Fan Xian's diplomatic party is a trick to get him to kill Fan Xian [[spoiler: who he suspects based on hints of information fed to him by Chen Pingping is his grandson, stolen away and brainwashed to be an Overwatch Council agent. It's really a trick to help convince him that Fan Xian is his grandson, thus tricking him into spilling his secret to Fan Xian.]]
**In Northern Qi, Shen Zhong thinks Fan Xian's plan to loop Northern Qi into an embezzelment scheme with the Qing imperial treasury is an attempt to scam them. [[spoiler: It's really an attempt to ruin his favor with the empress by manipulating him into loudly voicing disapproval of a publicly popular venture.]]
**Xiao En is convinced that Chen Pingping withdrawing his protection from Fan Xian's diplomatic party is a trick to get him to kill Fan Xian [[spoiler: who he suspects based on hints of information fed to him by Chen Pingping is his grandson, stolen away and brainwashed to be an Overwatch Council agent. It's really a trick to help convince him that Fan Xian is his grandson, thus tricking him into spilling his secret to Fan Xian.]]
**In Northern Qi, Shen Zhong thinks Fan Xian's plan to loop Northern Qi into an embezzelment scheme with the Qing imperial treasury is an attempt to scam them. [[spoiler: It's really an attempt to ruin his favor with the empress by manipulating him into loudly voicing disapproval of a publicly popular venture.]]
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* {{Justice by Other Legal Means}}: Fan Xian can't directly get Li Yunrui [[spoiler: for the murder of Teng Zijing, his friend, because to many people, the fact that Teng Zijing was a lowborn nobody means that his death is insignificant]], so instead he [[exposes her for meddling with the Overwatch Council, thus breaking the emperor's cardinal rule and getting the emperor to exile her far from the capital]].
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* {{Justice by Other Legal Means}}: Fan Xian can't directly get Li Yunrui [[spoiler: for the murder of Teng Zijing, his friend, because to many people, the fact that Teng Zijing was a lowborn nobody means that his death is insignificant]], so instead he [[exposes [[spoiler: exposes her for meddling with the Overwatch Council, thus breaking the emperor's cardinal rule and getting the emperor to exile her far from the capital]].
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In the modern day, a young man with a terminal illness dies, only to be reborn in imperial China as the illegitimate son of Fan Jian, the assistant financial minister to the emperor, and Ye Qingmei, a woman who was assassinated under mysterious circumstances soon after his birth. Now named Fan Xian, he is raised in the countryside province of Danzhou at his grandmother’s estate, until one day, an attempt on his life and a summons from his father (for an arranged marriage) lead him to journey to the capital, where, despite his best efforts, he is soon drawn into the political plots revolving around the royal family and a powerful organization answering only to the emperor known as the Overwatch Council.
Part political drama, part comedy, and part science fiction, the series follows Fan Xian’s journey as he navigates imperial court and world politics insisting all the while that he simply wants to use this second chance at life to live as well as possible, unraveling along the way the secret behind the world he’s in and his arrival in it, the mystery of his mother’s murder, and what it truly means to live a life of fulfillment.
Part political drama, part comedy, and part science fiction, the series follows Fan Xian’s journey as he navigates imperial court and world politics insisting all the while that he simply wants to use this second chance at life to live as well as possible, unraveling along the way the secret behind the world he’s in and his arrival in it, the mystery of his mother’s murder, and what it truly means to live a life of fulfillment.
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In the modern day, a young man with a terminal illness dies, only to be reborn in imperial China as the illegitimate son of Fan Jian, the assistant financial minister to the emperor, and Ye Qingmei, a woman who was assassinated under mysterious circumstances soon after his birth. Now named Fan Xian, he is raised in the countryside province of Danzhou at his grandmother’s estate, estate where he learns martial arts from his mother's former servant, a blind man named Wuzhu, and completes an apprenticeship with Fei Jie, a master of poisons and medicines, until one day, an attempt on his life and a summons from his father (for an arranged marriage) lead him to journey to the capital, where, capital. There, despite his best efforts, he is soon drawn into the political plots revolving around the royal family and a powerful organization answering only to the emperor known as the Overwatch Council.
Part political drama, part comedy, and part science fiction, the series follows Fan Xian’s journey as he navigates imperial court and world politicsinsisting all the while even as he insists that all he wants is to simply wants to use this second chance at life to live as well as possible, unraveling along the way the secret behind the world he’s in and his arrival in it, the mystery of his mother’s murder, and what it truly means to live a life of fulfillment.
Part political drama, part comedy, and part science fiction, the series follows Fan Xian’s journey as he navigates imperial court and world politics
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* {{Affably Evil}}: Li Yunrui, [[spoiler:Li Yunrui]], who veils her malice towards Fan Xian under a veneer of politiness and geniality, once even inviting him into her quarters to chat. And later, [[spoiler: Li Chengze]] arguably also counts, though whether or not one truly counts him as "evil" given the show's {{Grey and Gray Morality}} can be debated.
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*{{Light is Not Good}}: [[spoiler: Crown Princess Li Yunrui]] wears mostly white despite being [[spoiler: the main villain of the first half of season 1.]]
**Subverted during [[spoiler: the confrontation with Wan'er, when she's wearing a black dress to contrast with Wan'er's white one.]]
*{{Literal Minded}}: Wuzhu doesn't get figurative speech, let alone Fan Xian's jokes and references to stuff from modern times.
*{{Lonely at the Top}}: Implied to be how the emperor feels, given his reaction to the poem Fan Xian recites. The poem also resonates with Li Yunrui, who even takes it as a threat.
**Subverted during [[spoiler: the confrontation with Wan'er, when she's wearing a black dress to contrast with Wan'er's white one.]]
*{{Literal Minded}}: Wuzhu doesn't get figurative speech, let alone Fan Xian's jokes and references to stuff from modern times.
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*{{The Reason You Suck Speech}}: Wan'er delivers one of these to her mother [[spoiler: the night before Li Yunrui is set to be sent out of the capital]], telling her that she doesn't even know her favorite foods, anything she likes, or even anything about her while Fan Xian does, because she never came to see Wan'er when she was growing up.
*{{Screw the Rules I Have Connections}}: Used both by Fan Xian and the villains to get off scot-free from various legal violations ranging from assault to murder, and even treason.
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*{{Those Two Guys}}: Wang Qinian and Gao Da in the later half of season 1, providing comedic moments as Fan Xian embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission to Northern Qi.
*{{Training from Hell}}: Fan Xian goes through a bit of this in his childhood, with Wuzhu's idea of teaching him martial arts being "I hit you until you learn to dodge my attacks" and Fei Jie's idea of teaching him poisons being "I make you ingest poisons until you can tell them apart and poison me".
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*{{Voiceover Letter}}: Happens when Fan Xian finds and reads the letter his mother left to him.
*{{We Help the Helpless}}: Part of the reason behind the establishment of the Overwatch Council, as is written in its purpose statment carved on the stone tablet outside the Council headquarter's gate.
*{{Well Done Son Guy}}: Fan Sizhe’s borderline comical obsession with money is suspected by Fan Xian to have stemmed from this in order to get praise and attention from their father, who is a minister of finance and who thinks Fan Sizhe is just a lazy idiot until Fan Xian helps him recognize Fan Sizhe's hidden talent.
*{{Voiceover Letter}}: Happens when Fan Xian finds and reads the letter his mother left to him.
*{{We Help the Helpless}}: Part of the reason behind the establishment of the Overwatch Council, as is written in its purpose statment carved on the stone tablet outside the Council headquarter's gate.
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*{{Combat Pragmatist}}: Fan Xian is definitely willing to fight dirty whenever he can get away with it, notably when he poisons Haitang Duoduo instead of having an honorable duel with her [[spoiler: and then it turns out he'd lied about the poison just to freak her out and make her run away anyway.]]
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** Then, and most notably, the entire scheme to get Xiao En to reveal his secret, [[spoiler: starting from even 'before Fan Xian was born', with Chen Pingping slowly feeding false information to the imprisoned Xiao En over the course of more than twenty years to trick him into coming to the conclusion himself that Fan Xian is his grandson, then riding off of Li Yunrui's attempted assassination to get Fan Xian back into the capital, all in order to get Xiao En to tell Fan Xian the location of the Temple]].
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** Then, and most notably, the entire scheme to get Xiao En to reveal his secret, [[spoiler: starting from even 'before ''before Fan Xian was born', born'', with Chen Pingping slowly feeding false information to the imprisoned Xiao En over the course of more than twenty years to trick him into coming to the conclusion himself that Fan Xian is his grandson, then riding off of Li Yunrui's attempted assassination to get Fan Xian back into the capital, all in order to get Xiao En to tell Fan Xian the location of the Temple]].
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*{{Master Poisoner}}: Fan Xian, his teacher, Fei Jie, and all the members of the Overwatch Council's third bureau (which Fei Jie is head of) specialize in poisons.
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*{{Obfuscating Stupidity}}: Fan Xian makes use of this initially at his arrival to the capital, pretending to be a country bumpkin with no knowledge of proper etiquette in order to further his own goals.
*{{Oh Crap}}:
**Li Yunrui when she realizes [[spoiler: her and Zhu Ge's plan to kill Yan Ruohai has been exposed, and so has her meddling with the Overwatch Council.]]
**Fan Xian at the very end of the season when [[spoiler: Xie Bi'an shows up with the second prince's "message" for him.]]
***[[spoiler: And then of course, when Yan Bingyun stabs him.]]
*{{Oh Crap}}:
**Li Yunrui when she realizes [[spoiler: her and Zhu Ge's plan to kill Yan Ruohai has been exposed, and so has her meddling with the Overwatch Council.]]
**Fan Xian at the very end of the season when [[spoiler: Xie Bi'an shows up with the second prince's "message" for him.]]
***[[spoiler: And then of course, when Yan Bingyun stabs him.]]
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* {{Forged Message}}: The letter Teng Zijing receieves with the orders to kill Fan Xian on behalf of the Overwatch Council [[spoilers: [[spoiler: and was actually written by Li Yunrui]].
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* {{Blind Obedience}}: Yan Bingyun is a staunch patriot who strictly adheres to the Overwatch Council’s rules [[spoilers: (something that may have been brainwashed into him as a child on Chen Pingping’s orders as part of the Xiao En gambit)]].
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* {{Blind Obedience}}: Yan Bingyun is a staunch patriot who strictly adheres to the Overwatch Council’s rules [[spoilers: [[spoiler: (something that may have been brainwashed into him as a child on Chen Pingping’s orders as part of the Xiao En gambit)]].
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*{{Batman Gambit}}: Fan Xian uses this often, and often to great success.
**An example of this is when he [[spoiler: single-handedly orchestrates Shen Zhong's downfall in Northern Qi by first maipulating Shangshan Hu into pledging to the empress dowager, then using Shen Zhong's loyalty to his country against him and disfavoring him in the eyes of the court.]]
**An example of this is when he [[spoiler: single-handedly orchestrates Shen Zhong's downfall in Northern Qi by first maipulating Shangshan Hu into pledging to the empress dowager, then using Shen Zhong's loyalty to his country against him and disfavoring him in the eyes of the court.]]
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* {{Big Screwed Up Family}}: The royal family is this, with the large number of wives the emperor has, the relationship between the crown prince and the second prince being downright homicidal, and the emperor himself seeming to relish in the infighting. [[spoiler: And once it's revealed that Fan Xian is actually the emperor's fourth son, the web only grows larger and more screwed-up.]]
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* {{Big Screwed Up Family}}: The royal family is this, with the large number of wives the emperor has, the relationship between the crown prince and the second prince being downright homicidal, and the emperor himself seeming to relish in the infighting. [[spoiler: And once it's revealed that Fan Xian is actually also one of the emperor's fourth son, sons, the web only grows larger and more screwed-up.]]
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*{{Blind Obedience}}: Yan Bingyun is a staunch patriot who strictly adheres to the Overwatch Council’s rules [[spoilers: (something that may have been brainwashed into him as a child on Chen Pingping’s orders as part of the Xiao En gambit)]].
*{{Blind Obedience}}: Yan Bingyun is a staunch patriot who strictly adheres to the Overwatch Council’s rules [[spoilers: (something that may have been brainwashed into him as a child on Chen Pingping’s orders as part of the Xiao En gambit)]].
*{{Cliffhanger}}: The first season ends on a ''huge'' one of these.
*{{Earth that Was}}: [[spoiler: As it turns out, Fan Xian was not reborn in the past, but instead thrust far, far into the future, to a time when the earth had undergone another ice age and all of human civilization as we know it has already been wiped out to start anew, which is why this "past" is nothing like Fan Xian remembers from his studies.]]
*{{Fish Out of Temporal Water}}: Fan Xian, being a modern guy with perfect memories of his past life, is this, and it's used both as a source of humor and a source of drama.
*{{Forged Message}}: The letter Teng Zijing receieves with the orders to kill Fan Xian on behalf of the Overwatch Council [[spoilers: and was actually written by Li Yunrui]].
*{{Gambit Pileup}}: In a series filled with chessmasters, this is inevitable. Happens most obviously whenever Fan Xian is up against another chessmaster (ex: vs Li Yunrui or Shen Zhong).
*{{Forged Message}}: The letter Teng Zijing receieves with the orders to kill Fan Xian on behalf of the Overwatch Council [[spoilers: and was actually written by Li Yunrui]].
*{{Gambit Pileup}}: In a series filled with chessmasters, this is inevitable. Happens most obviously whenever Fan Xian is up against another chessmaster (ex: vs Li Yunrui or Shen Zhong).
*{{Giving Radio to the Romans}}: Fan Xian occasionally does this, reinventing things like a humidifier and soap, but to his surprise, when he tries to patent some of these "new" inventions, his father tells him his mother had already invented these things. [[spoiler: This is because Ye Qingmei was also a "modern" person.]]
*{{Hazy Feel Turn}}: [[spoiler: Yan Bingyun literally backstabbing Fan Xian at the end of season 1.]]
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* {{It's Personal}}: : Fan Xian was going let everything that happened to him in the capital go and return back to Danzhou to live out a peaceful life after getting the engagement with Wan’er straightened out, but then [[spoiler: Teng Zijing is killed protecting him from yet another attack on his life and he stays to get revenge on the perpetrators.]]
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*{{Inventor of the Mundane}}: How the imperial treasury, under Ye Qingmei, got most of its money.
*{{It's {{Its Personal}}: : Fan Xian was going let everything that happened to him in the capital go and return back to Danzhou to live out a peaceful life after getting the engagement with Wan’er straightened out, but then [[spoiler: Teng Zijing is killed protecting him from yet another attack on his life and he stays to get revenge on the perpetrators.]]
*{{Justice by Other Legal Means}}: Fan Xian can't directly get Li Yunrui [[spoiler: for the murder of Teng Zijing, his friend, because to many people, the fact that Teng Zijing was a lowborn nobody means that his death is insignificant]], so instead he [[exposes her for meddling with the Overwatch Council, thus breaking the emperor's cardinal rule and getting the emperor to exile her far from the capital]].
*{{Kangaroo Court}}: The court in which Fan Xian is tried for the assault of Guo Baokun is clearly this, with the judge flipflopping on his verdict every time another member of the royal family walks in to "spectate" on the judging. [[spoiler: and then the emperor simply shuts the whole thing down and declares Fan Xian innocent regardless, even though he's actually very much guilty.]]
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*{{Justice by Other Legal Means}}: Fan Xian can't directly get Li Yunrui [[spoiler: for the murder of Teng Zijing, his friend, because to many people, the fact that Teng Zijing was a lowborn nobody means that his death is insignificant]], so instead he [[exposes her for meddling with the Overwatch Council, thus breaking the emperor's cardinal rule and getting the emperor to exile her far from the capital]].
*{{Kangaroo Court}}: The court in which Fan Xian is tried for the assault of Guo Baokun is clearly this, with the judge flipflopping on his verdict every time another member of the royal family walks in to "spectate" on the judging. [[spoiler: and then the emperor simply shuts the whole thing down and declares Fan Xian innocent regardless, even though he's actually very much guilty.]]
*{{Long Game}}: In spades, given the amount of chessmasters in this show.
**First there's the scheme to flush out the traitors within the Overwatch Council itself, [[spoiler: with Yan Ruohai pretending to be entertaining ideas of a coup against Chen Pingping in order to trick Zhu Ge, the real traitor, into revealing himself.]]
**Then, and most notably, the entire scheme to get Xiao En to reveal his secret, [[spoiler: starting from even 'before Fan Xian was born', with Chen Pingping slowly feeding false information to the imprisoned Xiao En over the course of more than twenty years to trick him into coming to the conclusion himself that Fan Xian is his grandson, then riding off of Li Yunrui's attempted assassination to get Fan Xian back into the capital, all in order to get Xiao En to tell Fan Xian the location of the Temple]].
**First there's the scheme to flush out the traitors within the Overwatch Council itself, [[spoiler: with Yan Ruohai pretending to be entertaining ideas of a coup against Chen Pingping in order to trick Zhu Ge, the real traitor, into revealing himself.]]
**Then, and most notably, the entire scheme to get Xiao En to reveal his secret, [[spoiler: starting from even 'before Fan Xian was born', with Chen Pingping slowly feeding false information to the imprisoned Xiao En over the course of more than twenty years to trick him into coming to the conclusion himself that Fan Xian is his grandson, then riding off of Li Yunrui's attempted assassination to get Fan Xian back into the capital, all in order to get Xiao En to tell Fan Xian the location of the Temple]].
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* {{Secret Test of Character}}: The initial attempt on Chen Pingping's life, leaving him, Fan Xian, Wang Qinian, Si Lili, and the Shadow seemingly trapped in the Overwatch Council's dungeons with no chance of escape is revealed to be this for Fan Xian (the Shadow suggests that Fan Xian kill Chen Pingping himself so that the rest of them may live to see if Fan Xian would take the suggestion or choose to try and protect Chen Pingping by fighting). Less dramatically, Wang Qinian also frequently subjects Fan Xian to this with a variety of "innocent" questions.
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* {{Secret Test of Character}}: The initial attempt on Chen Pingping's life, leaving him, Fan Xian, Wang Qinian, Si Lili, and the Shadow seemingly trapped in the Overwatch Council's dungeons with no chance of escape is revealed to be this for Fan Xian (the Shadow suggests that Fan Xian kill Chen Pingping himself so that the rest of them may live to see if Fan Xian would take the suggestion or choose to try and protect Chen Pingping by fighting). Less
**Many of the things Fan Xian has to go through in season 1 are all basically this from either the emperor or Chen Pingping in order to see if he really has what it takes to control both the imperial treasury and the Overwatch Council.
**Less dramatically, Wang Qinian also frequently subjects Fan Xian to this with a variety of "innocent" questions.
**Many of the things Fan Xian has to go through in season 1 are all basically this from either the emperor or Chen Pingping in order to see if he really has what it takes to control both the imperial treasury and the Overwatch Council.
**Less dramatically, Wang Qinian also frequently subjects Fan Xian to this with a variety of "innocent" questions.
*{{Signed Up For the Dental}}: Teng Zijing professes to only stay behind with Fan Xian because Fan Xian’s paying him enough to support his family comfortably, and even though he’s Fan Xian’s bodyguard, if anything happens, he’s going to ditch Fan Xian and run away because his family comes first. [[spoiler: This, tragically, turns out to be a lie.]]
*{{Stepford Smiler}}: Fan Xian, who acts pretty upbeat and carefree most of the time, but underneath suffers from a deep loneliness and disconnection from the world around him as a result of being a {{Fish Out of Temporal Water}}, is this.
*{{Stepford Smiler}}: Fan Xian, who acts pretty upbeat and carefree most of the time, but underneath suffers from a deep loneliness and disconnection from the world around him as a result of being a {{Fish Out of Temporal Water}}, is this.
*{{A World Half Full}}: Arguably, this world, with its inequality, corruption, sexism, and lack of concern for the lives of those deemed "insignificant" is this, something that Fan Xian initially feels like he can't change, but then eventually decides he's willing to try to change. [[spoiler: This is what Ye Qingmei, Fan Xian's mom, created the Overwatch Council to try and fix, though ultimately at the cost of her own life.]]
*{{Worth Living For}}: What Fan Xian is truly searching for.
*{{Worth Living For}}: What Fan Xian is truly searching for.
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*{{Xanatos Gambit}}: The plan to get Xiao En to spill his secret was so carefully thought out that every possible twist and turn was accounted for.
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Chen Pingping, Fan Xian, and the emperor.]]
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*{{Affably Evil}}: Li Yunrui, who veils her malice towards Fan Xian under a veneer of politiness and geniality, once even inviting him into her quarters to chat. And later, [[spoiler: Li Chengze]] arguably also counts, though whether or not one truly counts him as "evil" given the show's {{Grey and Gray Morality}} can be debated.
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* {{Big Brother Instinct}}: Fan Xian is protective to both of his younger siblings (Ruoruo more so, but also towards Sizhe), and Sizhe). Wan'er's older brother Lin Gong is also extremely protective towards her.
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*{{The Chessmaster}}: So many people. This is a series filled with chessmasters, but Fan Xian, Chen Pingping, and the Emperor get special mention.
**Also in the royal family, Li Yunrui and Li Chengze (second prince).
**From Northern Qi, Shen Zhong also is this.
*{{Double Agent}}: [[spoiler: He Daoren]], an agent of Northern Qi, turns out to actually be working for the Overwatch Council.
*{{Even Evil Has Loved Ones}}: Shen Zhong, the villain of the Northern Qi arc, cares very much for his younger sister to the point where he fakes stabbing her to let her be taken to Qing to start a new life before he’s arrested by the Northern Qi imperial guards.
**Xiao En, the fearsome Northern Qi warrior who was responsible for Chen Pingping's disability, seems to care very much for his family, [[spoiler: treating Fan Xian kindly when he becomes convinced that Fan Xian is his grandson, and telling him to notify his brother about his death.]].
*{{Evil Prince}}: Li Chengqian, the crown prince and third son of the emperor, who is suspected of trying to assassinate Fan Xian. [[spoiler: It turns out to actually be Li Chengze, the second prince, with the help of Li Yunrui.]]
*{{False Friend}}: As of the dramatic reveal at the very end of season 1, [[spoiler: Li Chengze]].
*{{Family Honor}}: As typical of dramas in similar settings, family honor is a Big Deal and people come/come close to blows over it often.
*{{Femme Fatale Spy}}: [[spoiler: Si Lili, the most popular and revered courtesan in the capital, is actually a spy for Northern Qi.]]
*{{Grey and Gray Morality}}: Arguably, most of the villains of the show are "villains" only because they are working against Fan Xian’s goals or have hurt Fan Xian’s friends or family, but whether or not they are actually “bad guys”, or whether even Fan Xian himself can really be counted as “good” can be up to debate.
*{{Handicapped Badass}}: Wuzhu, who is blind, but is still a martial arts grandmaster who can stand his own against the highest level martial arts grandmasters in the land [[spoiler: though whether or not he's actually "blind" by human standards is questionable]], and Chen Pingping, who is in a wheelchair and is a [[{{The Chessmaster}} Chessmaster]] of the highest order as well as the second most powerful person in all of Southern Qing.
*{{Hitman With a Heart}}: The reason why Fan Xian is able to talk Teng Zijing down from killing him at the start of the show, [[spoiler: as arranged by Chen Pingping.]]
*{{Ignored Enamored Underling}}: Yan Xiaoyi's blind devotion to Li Yunrui gives off vibes of this.
*{{I Just Want to Be Normal}}: Fan Xian isn’t a fan of his father’s wish for him to take over the imperial treasury and continue his mother’s legacy, nor is he a fan of Chen Pingping’s wish for him to take over the Overwatch Council (also his mother’s legacy), because both will paint large targets on his back.
*{{Ill Girl}}: Lin Wan’er is literally this as she is frail and suffers from consumption/tuberculosis.
*{{It's Personal}}: : Fan Xian was going let everything that happened to him in the capital go and return back to Danzhou to live out a peaceful life after getting the engagement with Wan’er straightened out, but then [[spoiler: Teng Zijing is killed protecting him from yet another attack on his life and he stays to get revenge on the perpetrators.]]
*{{Leave Behind a Pistol}}: When [[spoiler: Zhu Ge]]’s treachery is revealed, Chen Pingping gives him a dagger to kill himself with to spare him the shame of being dragged back to the emperor in chains to face justice.
*{{Long Haired Pretty Boy}}: Fan Xian wears his hair down for most of the first season, as do a couple other male characters (most notably Yan Bingyun, for fans of Series/{{The Untamed}} ).
*{{Luke I Am Your Father}}: [[spoiler: The reveal that Fan Xian’s biological father is actually the emperor.]]
*{{Meet Cute}}: Or should I say, [[{{Lame Pun Reaction}} Meat Cute]]...Fan Xian and Wan’er’s meeting, with him running into her hiding under a table in a temple eating a chicken leg could count as this.
*{{The Mole}}: Someone in the Overwatch Council is spilling secrets to Li Yunrui, in direct violation of the rule that states no member of the royal family (excluding the emperor) may interfere with the Council's affairs. [[spoiler: It’s Zhu Ge]].
*{{Murder is the Best Solution}}: Li Yunrui’s solution of choice regarding her unwanted future son-in-law.
**The Overwatch Council is also a big fan of this.
*{{No Sense of Humor}}: Wu Zhu, who takes everything people say to him literally and rarely, if ever, smiles. [[spoiler: This is because he's a robot.]]
*{{Perfectly Arranged Marriage}}: See {{Arranged Marriage}}.
*{{Photographic Memory}}: Fan Xian has this to some degree, as he can memorize maps and such in incredibly short periods of time, and retains perfect memories of hundreds of poems he read back in modern times.
*{{Pocket Protector}}: The mysterious key that used to belong to Fan Xian's mother manages to save Fan Xian's life by blocking an arrow from Yan Xiaoyi when he's caught sneaking out of the palace.
*{{Raised by Grandparents}}: Being an illegitimate son and thus a shame to the Fan family name, Fan Xian spends most of his childhood out in Danzhou where he is raised by his grandmother.
*{{Secret Test of Character}}: The initial attempt on Chen Pingping's life, leaving him, Fan Xian, Wang Qinian, Si Lili, and the Shadow seemingly trapped in the Overwatch Council's dungeons with no chance of escape is revealed to be this for Fan Xian (the Shadow suggests that Fan Xian kill Chen Pingping himself so that the rest of them may live to see if Fan Xian would take the suggestion or choose to try and protect Chen Pingping by fighting). Less dramatically, Wang Qinian also frequently subjects Fan Xian to this with a variety of "innocent" questions.
*{{Show Within a Show}}: Or rather, {{Book Within a Book}}, as Fan Xian’s entire story is framed as a book a university student is writing for his science fiction professor.
*{{Trapped in the Past}}: Fan Xian, being a modern guy now stuck in imperial China, is this. [[spoiler: Though, the truth turns out to be a little bit more complicated than that.]]
*{{Wire Fu}}: The staple of Chinese drama martial arts combat.
*{{Wuxia}}: Contains elements of this.
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Joy of Life (Chinese: 庆余年; pinyin: Qìng Yúnián), also known as Thankful for the Remaining Years, is a 2019 Chinese drama starring Zhang Ruoyun, Li Qin and Chen Daoming, based on the novel series of the same name by Mao Ni.
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The first season, with 46 episodes, can be watched with English subtitles on Youtube, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87veEAC0CY0&list=PLTB73Ibi_X3H0oT42WnzzY_6lo3pQjNMW Youtube]], with a second season slated to air in 2022.2022.
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*{{Action Girl}}: Applies to Ye Ling’er, Haitang Duoduo, and Si Gujian’s unnamed disciples, all who know martial arts.
*{{Arranged Marriage}}: Between Fan Xian and Lin Wan’er, which, despite their initial hesitations due to several miscommunications, is quickly welcomed by both.
*{{Big Brother Instinct}}: Fan Xian is protective to both of his younger siblings (Ruoruo more so, but also towards Sizhe), and Wan'er's older brother Lin Gong is also extremely protective towards her.
*{{Big Screwed Up Family}}: The royal family is this, with the large number of wives the emperor has, the relationship between the crown prince and the second prince being downright homicidal, and the emperor himself seeming to relish in the infighting. [[spoiler: And once it's revealed that Fan Xian is actually the emperor's fourth son, the web only grows larger and more screwed-up.]]
*{{Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage}}: Fan Xian and Wan’er’s match was personally arranged by the emperor rather than by either of their parents as a political maneuver by the emperor to transfer control of the imperial treasury from Wan'er's mother, Crown Princess Li Yunrui, to Fan Xian.
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*{{Action Girl}}: Applies to Ye Ling’er, Haitang Duoduo, and Si Gujian’s unnamed disciples, all who know martial arts.
*{{Arranged Marriage}}: Between Fan Xian and Lin Wan’er, which, despite their initial hesitations due to several miscommunications, is quickly welcomed by both.
*{{Big Brother Instinct}}: Fan Xian is protective to both of his younger siblings (Ruoruo more so, but also towards Sizhe), and Wan'er's older brother Lin Gong is also extremely protective towards her.
*{{Big Screwed Up Family}}: The royal family is this, with the large number of wives the emperor has, the relationship between the crown prince and the second prince being downright homicidal, and the emperor himself seeming to relish in the infighting. [[spoiler: And once it's revealed that Fan Xian is actually the emperor's fourth son, the web only grows larger and more screwed-up.]]
*{{Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage}}: Fan Xian and Wan’er’s match was personally arranged by the emperor rather than by either of their parents as a political maneuver by the emperor to transfer control of the imperial treasury from Wan'er's mother, Crown Princess Li Yunrui, to Fan Xian.
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Joy of Life (Chinese: 庆余年; pinyin: Qìng Yúnián), also known as Thankful for the Remaining Years, is a 2019 Chinese drama starring Zhang Ruoyun, Li Qin and Chen Daoming, based on the novel series of the same name by Mao Ni.
In the modern day, a young man with a terminal illness dies, only to be reborn in imperial China as the illegitimate son of Fan Jian, the assistant financial minister to the emperor, and Ye Qingmei, a woman who was assassinated under mysterious circumstances soon after his birth. Now named Fan Xian, he is raised in the countryside province of Danzhou at his grandmother’s estate, until one day, an attempt on his life and a summons from his father (for an arranged marriage) lead him to journey to the capital, where, despite his best efforts, he is soon drawn into the political plots revolving around the royal family and a powerful organization answering only to the emperor known as the Overwatch Council.
Part political drama, part comedy, and part science fiction, the series follows Fan Xian’s journey as he navigates imperial court and world politics insisting all the while that he simply wants to use this second chance at life to live as well as possible, unraveling along the way the secret behind the world he’s in and his arrival in it, the mystery of his mother’s murder, and what it truly means to live a life of fulfillment.
The first season, with 46 episodes, can be watched with English subtitles on Youtube, with a second season slated to air in 2022.
In the modern day, a young man with a terminal illness dies, only to be reborn in imperial China as the illegitimate son of Fan Jian, the assistant financial minister to the emperor, and Ye Qingmei, a woman who was assassinated under mysterious circumstances soon after his birth. Now named Fan Xian, he is raised in the countryside province of Danzhou at his grandmother’s estate, until one day, an attempt on his life and a summons from his father (for an arranged marriage) lead him to journey to the capital, where, despite his best efforts, he is soon drawn into the political plots revolving around the royal family and a powerful organization answering only to the emperor known as the Overwatch Council.
Part political drama, part comedy, and part science fiction, the series follows Fan Xian’s journey as he navigates imperial court and world politics insisting all the while that he simply wants to use this second chance at life to live as well as possible, unraveling along the way the secret behind the world he’s in and his arrival in it, the mystery of his mother’s murder, and what it truly means to live a life of fulfillment.
The first season, with 46 episodes, can be watched with English subtitles on Youtube, with a second season slated to air in 2022.
