Tear Jerker / The Legend of Zhen Huan

• Zhen Huan’s first pregnancy ends in a miscarriage, her reaction to this is to break down in sobs and scream for her child while the harem looks on.
• When Zhen Huan is confined, she collapses but the guards refuse to let servants bring a doctor, so Liuzhu deliberately falls on the guards’ swords in order to bring attention to her mistress.
• Zhen Huan gets pregnant again, but she finds out that the Emperor never loved her for her and instead loved her because she looks like his deceased wife, so out of despair, she gives up her daughter to Consort Jing and leaves the palace life to become a nun.
  • When she returns, she expects that Longyue will come running back to her real mother, but she is shocked when Longyue turns and cries to Consort Jing and asks why she is being left in the arms of what amounts to a stranger to her. Zhenhuan concedes and allows Longyue to come back with Consort Jing, as Longyue considers Jing to be her real mother.
• The death of Meizhaung, she lives long enough after giving birth to bid farewell to Zhen Huan and Doctor Wen before succumbing to the blood loss. Worst of all, her death was caused by An Lingrong who admits after the fact that she did it solely to hurt Zhen Huan.
• Caiping (Noble Lady Ying) is forced by her mistress Huanbi to enter the harem to distract the Emperor and ends up getting constantly harassed by her stepson Hongshi, and no matter how many times she rejects him and reminds him that she is his stepmother, he still persists and proclaims his love for her. Unfortunately, she ends up being accused of deliberately trying to seduce him to make the Emperor look bad in favor of Yunli and is executed for it.
• Yunli and Zhenhuan in general:
  • They meet when Zhenhuan is already married to the Emperor, but they click so well and Yunli even rushes to the palace to rescue Zhenhuan when the exhaustion gets to her and she passes out after micarrying.
  • After she exiles herself to be a nun, they start a relationship like a normal couple. Unfortunately, Yunli allegedly dies and Zhenhuan returns to the palace out of grief and to help her family keep their honor, and Yunli turns out to be alive but returns to learn that Zhenhuan is returing to the palace.
  • As the Emperor grows more and more suspicious, Yunli is forced to pretend that he’s actually in love with Huanbi and marries her. But he is clearly still in love with Zhenhuan and even spends 3 years defending the borders of the land just to keep away suspicions.
  • Zhenhuan ends up being forced to personally execute Yunli herself, and she doesn’t even have any time to come up with a plan as the guards directly escort her from her palace to Yunli’s house. They chat and reminisce about their past, but Zhenhuan discovers that Yunli drank the poisoned cup deliberately when she poured it for herself, and he apologizes and says goodbye one last time.
  • Zhenhuan leaves his hut in a cataconic state and Huanbi runs up and asks her in a worry where Yunli is. Zhenhuan only says he’s inside, and the viewers briefly hear Huanbi screaming for her husband in grief before Zhenhuan blacks out. The next day, Zhenhuan’s ankle is sprained from her fall so she can’t attend Yunli’s funeral, and she ends up crying in grief in her bed at losing the only man she ever truly loved. Everyone else who are already at the funeral are not allowed to cry loudly or grieve for Yunli, and Su Peisheng is forced to slap a hand on the mouth of Yunli’s son who is crying for his father so the Emperor won’t get mad. Huanbi, however, loses her mind from grief and runs up to Yunli’s coffin to slam her head on it to join him in the afterlife. So not only did Zhenhuan lose her beloved, and now her sister, but Yunli’s son is now officially an orphan.