Bu Bu Jing Qing - Episode 2

Anyone who can make the gloomy Zhang Xiao smiles like that totally has my vote.  And it is my current favourite character from Bu Bu Jing Qing, Kang Zhen Tian.  While Kangxi inspired more fear than respect in Bu Bu Jing Xin, here he has my respect because he is less irrational and exudes sensibility and warmth despite his still regal standing.

Before we get to my favourite elevator conversation depicted above, we have to suffer through tons of unappetising scenes between Yin Zheng and Lan Lan.

The episode begins with Yin Zheng drinking in the bar with his Uncle Wang.  I truly miss the camaraderie between the Fourth and Thirteenth Prince.  No offence, Uncle Wang is no substitute for the Thirteenth Prince.

Uncle Wang is trying to advise Yin Zheng not to make his father angry anymore.  Here I am not impressed with Yin Zheng at all because he acts like a petulant child who feels unjustly mistreated and that the world owes him.  He thinks that Kang Zhen Tian didn't deserve any gratitude for taking care of his mom all these years and for making a success out of his real father's business.

This is where I think he's wrong and well, future episodes reveal as such.  If Kang Zhen Tian hadn't married his mom and expanded his dad's business, I doubt that Yin Zheng would have any such Zhen Tian Group to fight for and for this, he is even resentful of his half-brothers?  Oh, please..

This Yin Zheng is so different from the Fourth Prince.  Where is the calm and collected Fourth Prince who calculates his every move behind his icy appearance?

Anyway, the scene has to be made worse with Lan Lan walking into the bar with her magnolia tattoo on her back in full view and catching Yin Zheng's attention as she ordered a tequila.  The cheesy background music doesn't help the Fourth Prince's reincarnate's cause.  Sigh, I never thought I'd miss the iciness of the Fourth Prince.

And thus begins the ridiculous love affair of Yin Zheng and Lan Lan.  All because of the magnolia!  Ugh, Yin Zheng.  You've got the wrong girl!

Huang Di and Zhang Xiao have become my favourite pair of BFFs.  At least they are more palatable than the pair of Yin Zheng and Lan Lan.  Here they are dissecting the mystery of Zhang Xiao's interest in Yin Zheng and her likeness with Lan Lan over a bunch of McDonald's fries.  Huang Di seems to be a merge of the Tenth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Princes.  Oh, how I miss my princes until I'm seeing them in these modern characters!

Of course Huang Di had to dress up as an eunuch and mistook Lan Lan as Zhang Xiao in her dressing room.  Isn't that blockhead enough for you?  Haha.

We then see Jack showing Zhang Xiao her new cubicle in the office and exerting his bossiness.  Ah!  This reminds me of Ruoxi's first day in the palace as a palace maid and I miss Li De Quan.  The next scene shows Lan Lan being interviewed and Yin Zheng watching her.  It appears that she was targetting him and had done her homework well by matching her interests to his.  Boring.

After Huang Di's sleuthing stint, we now see Zhang Xiao sneaking into Yin Zheng's office.  She sees the jade ring and she only had the thought that he likes antique stuff?  Didn't she recognise it as the ring that Yongzheng used to wear? 

We find Zhang Xiao standing outside the Zhen Tian Group's building and we wonder what is in her mind.  A black car pulled up and we see that it's Kang Zhen Tian.  He told his assistant that he wants to speak with Zhang Xiao.

As she stood next to his car, he melted me with his fatherly attitude when he asked to get into the car because the wind was blowing strongly outside.  He then asked her if she liked working in the company and if she enjoyed her work.  Well!  You don't see Kangxi asking Ruoxi if she enjoyed being in the palace, did you?

What was also unexpected is Zhang Xiao telling Kang Zhen Tian that she had decided to resign.  Obviously he wasn't going to let her off that easily.  He was clever enough to tell her the following:

Kang Zhen Tian:  If you think that avoiding the problem would be a good solution to the problem, then I'm going to tell you that's not true.  Facing your problem is the best solution.  

Lan Lan is seen weaving her web over the smitten Yin Zheng in the next scenes.  She sent a representative over to discuss her contract.  He went all the way to Hong Kong to see her yachting.  The yachting scene between Yin Zheng and Lan Lan is pretty cool with he in white and she in red.

What is not cool that Yin Zheng thought he met her at the exhibition!  So not cool, Yin Zheng.  Something must be wrong with your head.  When she told him that she wanted to go horse-riding, I went like, oh, no, please don't desecrate my favourite horse-riding scenes from Bu Bu Jing Xin!

Luckily, they went riding on a merry-go-round and spent the day at Hong Kong Disneyland.  Really, Yin Zheng?  Yes, as ridiculous as it may seem but since he's with Lan Lan, I'll settle for ridiculous.  At dinner, she signed the contract without reading and when he asked her why, she said that she trusted him.  He believed her.  Again, really, Yin Zheng?

Using a good bottle of red wine as a reason, Lan Lan tried to lure him to her room but credits to him, a bouquet of flowers went in his stead with an apology card.  She was obviously not happy at the snub and binned them.

We then see Zhang Xiao pulling an all-nighter in the office drawing pictures of magnolias with Kang Zhen Tian's words ringing in her head.

An infatuated Yin Zheng got to office and found Zhang Xiao sleeping at her cubicle with her pictures of magnolias.  That's the girl you saw at the exhibition, Yin Zheng!  Gah!  After he left, Jack woke Zhang Xiao and sent her running to get his breakfast.

And that's when she inadvertently rushed into the Chairman's elevator.  Cue to the picture sequence above.  I loved it when they started talking about Kangxi.  I really wished that Zhang Xiao could tell him there and then that he was the reincarnate of Kangxi!  He was amused at her fascination with Kangxi and she told him that she thought Kangxi was not a simple Emperor, which he concurred.

He then told her that in response to her question the other day, he likes tea and not coffee.  I'm really looking forward to the day that Zhang Xiao makes him a cup of tea!  After Kang Zhen Tian and his assistant exited the elevator, he asked his assistant about his investigation on Zhang Xiao and news on Kang Si Han.

Jack passed a new tablet to Zhang Xiao and left her with instructions to see Yin Zheng.  She was really apprehensive about meeting Yin Zheng and who would have guessed that the one step she took towards him would lead her to being electrocuted again?  After she fainted, Yin Zheng went to her side and I can't believe that he actually thought she was Lan Lan!

The hospital scene in which Zhang Xiao woke up with her bandaged head and she wondering where she was was really reminiscent of the scene in which she woke up in the Eight Prince's house.  Wouldn't it be totally bizarre if this time, it was Ruoxi's soul in Zhang Xiao's body?

Fortunately or not, that didn't happen.  She put one hand over one eye like how Ruoxi did and when Huang Di appeared in front of her, she asked him who he was.  I went like, oh, no!  Total amnesia?

Huang Di:  I am Huang Di.
Zhang Xiao:  Huang Di?  Which Huang Di?

I burst out laughing.  When Huang Di left to get the doctor, who has to walk in but Yin Zheng?

In her blurry state of mind, she saw his figure and when he put the cover over her, she grabbed his hand and said: Don't go, don't go.  Then, she fainted.

In the next scene when she woke up after the doctor had left, she appeared not to know who Yin Zheng is and the significance of the jade ring he wears.  Even when he asked her if she remembered what she told him before fainting earlier, she hadn't got a clue.  All signs point to her forgetting her Bu Bu Jing Xin stint.  Oh, dear.

My thoughts:

I like Kang Zhen Tian.  Heck, I even like Huang Di.  I just don't like Yin Zheng and I don't like Lan Lan.  What do I think of the memory loss?  I would have liked to see how Zhang Xiao faces the modern world head on with her Qing Dynasty memory intact and I thought that she taking the first step before the accident was a good start but alas, this story arc was cut short.  Too bad.  So much potential.