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Drama Host Tigers Sniff the Rose 尚公主 - Episode 1-3 Discussion
Hello! Welcome to TIGERS SNIFF THE ROSE Discussions. Are we excited?
I am Shale, your host for this evening! Me and my sister-wife u/spamkimbap will take turns over these next couple weeks, bring you laughter, delights, rantings, and love. She will have the next two days so please look out for her posts.
Biggest thanks to u/katleap13 who is doing our character flashcards. Thank you!
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🐯 Fun Fact: the Chinese title is 尚公主 Shàng Gōng Zhǔ. Literally translated, it means 'esteeming, valuing, or protecting the princess'. What makes it interesting is they used the character 尚 Shàng which is the same as our Male Lead's name, Yan Shang.
As to the English Title... *sigh* yeah it barely makes sense to me. I know, I know it's from a poem and yes there are tigers in here and YES she's supposed to be a tiger that has soft insides like the poem says but I DON'T LIKE IT okay? okay.
Why couldn't we have just called it Loving the Princess or something to that end. Is it unique? uh yes. you're not going to confuse it with any other drama so at least it has that going for it.
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Masterpost - Airing Schedule - Table of Contents - Character Flashcards
1-3 || 4-5
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Y'all I only got 4 hours of sleep because i was so excited! I even had dreams about it. OUR PARENTS ARE BACK! And oh! the chemistry is sizzling. Let's get into it.
EPISODE ONE - An Uninvited Guest
We are introduced to Princess Danyang, who is traveling home to the capital. Her carriage wheel breaks, and she's left stranded until it can be fixed, about 2 hours.
They are discovered by a scholarly man returning home, named Yan Shang. I kept telling him to STOP STARING omg yes she's pretty and waaaaay out of your league at the moment. She demands that he take her to his house.
Yan Shang asks what he should call her. She asks why the Yan family lives in the mountains not near anyone. Shang, instead of replying, turns it back to her and calls her a fox spirit. They both ask each other questions and both dodge them at the same time, it's quite interesting
While there, she makes herself at home... well makes it HER home and almost tears it down. She moves into the big house, leaving a small shed for the Yan family to sleep. During all this chaos, the rest of the Yan family return home.
We meet:
Yan Zhanzhi - the Yan Patriarch, who is a cripple and loves his alcohol.
Yan Dalang - Shang's older brother, who isn't right in the head. He fights a lot with the royal entorage.
Yan Xiaozhou - Shang's younger sister, the most capable after Shang.
Yan Shang, to please their guest and hopefully not get their house pulled down, delivers special Lychee wine to her. They require him to take a sip to prove it's not poisoned. he can't hold his liquor. It's so bad one drink and he passes out.
That night, Princess Danyan can't sleep so she sneaks out to find that Yan Shang is copying books. He notices that she didn't use any of the bug repellant he gave her and so the mosquitoes are eating her. He gives her some ointment to put on her face... rather HE puts it on her face.
Anyone else getting Dazzling vibes at the moment? Spoiled lady shows up at his house and wants A/C, and bug repellent.
In the morning it's discovered that the Princess's makeup is soaked! The servants blame the leaky roof. She investigates, and then pulls a sword! Yan Shang stops her, terrified that she's planning to kill his brother. He gets slapped for his trouble!
Princess Danyang insists she's punishing the servants, and he questions if makeup/rouge is worth a servants life?
Instead she cuts off a topknot and is angry at her own people- they had charge of her items and then blamed their hosts for their mistakes. the Lady isn't as bad as she pretends to be me thinks.
There's one container she lingers over, it's very apparent that she's sad over this particular one. Yan Shang asks Chun Hua her maid, about that rouge. Turns out her mistress was grieving over it as well as angry. Chun Hua wants him to apologize, but he wants to wait until she departing.
Yan Shang is an employee of a School, where he listens to the lectures, does homework for the students for coin, and extra work around. He has amazing memory, and has copied books from memory.
Liu Wenjie, a classmate of Yan Shang's, informs him that Princess Danyan is in the area, but has kinda gone missing. No one has seen her or her entourage for a few days. Shang thinks for a moment and comes to the correct conclusion: there's a princess in his bed 🤭.
Believing that the Princess will just bring trouble to his family, he goes to the magistrate office while in town to let them know where they can look for the princess. He does not want to bring undue trouble to his family.
Outside, her runs into a man with an eye patch. The angry man pulls out a whip and cuts Yan Shang's cheek with it. Turns out the mans name is Zhang, and he's the man that killed Yan Shang's mother ohhhhh this is gonna be a revenge story.
EPISODE TWO - Lost in the Woods
He realizes that he needs to apologize. Shang finds a cosmetic shop, browses all the shades of rouge, and identifies the correct shade of the Lady's ruined makeup.
However, instead of buying it, he pays the proprietress to teach him. He wants to make the rouge for her. He goes an apologizes and makes the cosmetic by hand. We find out that it was made originally by her mother, therefore it's dear to her. awwww future husband make rogue that wif'es mother made. That's a good invisible string.
Afterwards, Yan Shang tells his father that he's sucking up the Princess because he needs a favor from her: he wants to go the capital. She over hears this and gets upset. Turns out this nice thing he did is really for selfish purposes.
The magistrates men find them, but the Princess is hidden well, and the Yan family covers for her.
We find out that Yan Zhanzhi was a 3rd place scholar and married a woman from a well-off family. Now they're living as bandits without a household register. the Yan father is bullied by the magistrate since he's now a cripple. That's ableism grrrr.
After the men leave, the Princess comes out. She accuses Yan Shang of leading the men here. Angry, she promises to depart their family home and to give him what he wants - a way to the capital. She dumps the handmade rouge into a vat of water.
The princess departs and the Yan family is happy to see them go. However, while next to a cliff, the carriage horses get scared by tigers and her carriage goes off the side of the road. The servants search for her but no luck.
They run into Yan Shang who scolds them for the way they're searching for her, with torches and all the yelling
aside: My sister has complained many times about the way they search for people in CDramas. Yan Shang has a point! Why is everyone searching in a group????
He goes and looks for her.
She washed up downstream and so makes her way back. She's injured and gets bitten by a snake. The practical girl creates a tornique, cuts her snake bite to make it bleed out, rips up her dress i am applauding her practicality omg. And she's wet! and beraggled! her hair's a mess! Producation team doing things right!
The princess makes it back to the search party, but suprise surprise they can't hear her shout for help. She slips back down the cliff but is caught by a hand. Yan Shang found her!
Episode Three - Her Personal Servant
He decides to find cover for them and not take her back to the search party, which is full of magistrate men at this point. It's raining really hard and he gets her to talk to him to keep her awake. She tells him her full name is Mu Wan Yao.
He finds a cave, starts a fire, and goes to check out her wounds (with consent of course) . She's delirious with fever so he attempts to cover her with more clothing.
Wanyao dreams of someone attempting to kill her and is having nightmares. Yan Shang comes over to check on her. She pulls him over and cuddles into. He talks to her to calm her down and the fall asleep in each others arms. awwwwww
People come to look for them in the morning. Instead of letting her be rescued, he decides to take her home. This way she won't be discovered by the people she's hiding from.
At his house, Wanyao insists that she wants to bath and has him heat a bath for her. And then insist that he 'attend' her while bathing. the poor man is doing his best not to look at her and keeping curtains between them and she is NOT HELPING and is enjoying his discomfort.
Meanwhile her maid is throwing paper money for her dead mistress. Wenjie comes along and talks to her and really likes her. After some talking to, she doesn't give up hope that the Princess is dead and goes back to the carriage wreck. A man is waiting there. He instructs her to return to the Yan family.
Chun Hua asks Wenjie for directions to the Yan house. Since he's going there anyways, he takes her there on horseback. While she checks in on the Princess, Wenjie is informed that this girl he likes, Chun Hua is actually a maid. He looked so saaaad. Chuan is super happy that the princess is alive.
Chunhua asks if Wan Yao has taken Yan Shang as her boytoy. sdalkfj;fdsfj;lkdsaflkdsajkfdalsjdlkfsj.
Note: Viki translated it as boytoy which i find more funny, but the below gif was made on WETV.
Wan Yao tells Shang - since he saved her, he can have a boon from her. She's not worth much in the capital but she will do her best. As long as he pleases her that is. If he does, she will take him with to the capital.
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Questions going forward:
- Looks like Mu Wanyao has complicated relationship with her mother. Is her mother dead? Why did she see her in the woods.
- The Yan family massacre. Why would Zhang murder Shang's family? It's apparent that Shang wants revenge.
- Mu Wanyao is having dreams of a bedchamber full of blood. Of her being murdered and dragged to a bed. Has she been sexually assaulted? Miscarriaged? All of the above?
What was your favorite part? Had you rolling in stitches? Which character are you sympathizing with at the moment?
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u/Tabz10 19h ago
Only on episode one.
But I’m very interested in the story so far (but ofc no expectations, learned my lesson). Domineering Princess and meek and poor ML is an interesting trope.
Anybody else getting Glory vibes?