Haha, new title: How to get away with murder (of my kids, 'cos I'm the Emperor).
OMG, the dubbed version! When I went back to the site where I found this gem listed, it wasn't up any longer, or "not available in my country" (boo! hiss!) - I wanted to watch the trainwreck too. Also, I'm having Vietnam-style flashbacks to when I still watched anime which had been dubbed into English.
I'd never heard the Chinese poem origin - it would have been nice to know that, though I don't know why it was deemed more approachable than The Langya List, which has alliteration at least!
I honestly don't know if it's a common Chinese expression, but I've come across it in two c-dramas to date - some variant on 'being close to the Emperor is like living with a tiger' and it's so true.
It always struck me that he was so quick to turn on Jingyan for like . . . breathing . . . while he seemed completely prepared to forgive Prince Yu for raising an army against him. IMO always, but I feel that he went to that prison cell expecting abject apologies and pleas for forgiveness, while not realising how completely traumatised Yu had been by what happened to his older brother, 12 years ago. Don't get me wrong, Prince Yu= utter scumbag, but man, way to fuck up your kids.
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Date: 2020-07-16 06:05 pm (UTC)OMG, the dubbed version! When I went back to the site where I found this gem listed, it wasn't up any longer, or "not available in my country" (boo! hiss!) - I wanted to watch the trainwreck too. Also, I'm having Vietnam-style flashbacks to when I still watched anime which had been dubbed into English.
I'd never heard the Chinese poem origin - it would have been nice to know that, though I don't know why it was deemed more approachable than The Langya List, which has alliteration at least!
I honestly don't know if it's a common Chinese expression, but I've come across it in two c-dramas to date - some variant on 'being close to the Emperor is like living with a tiger' and it's so true.
It always struck me that he was so quick to turn on Jingyan for like . . . breathing . . . while he seemed completely prepared to forgive Prince Yu for raising an army against him. IMO always, but I feel that he went to that prison cell expecting abject apologies and pleas for forgiveness, while not realising how completely traumatised Yu had been by what happened to his older brother, 12 years ago. Don't get me wrong, Prince Yu= utter scumbag, but man, way to fuck up your kids.