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There’s an unfortunate car accident. A bloody female body and a mummified male cadaver lie on the road. The female’s gushing blood travels its way to the cadaver. On the verge of death, the last thing the female sees is a man’s blurry silhouette.

Our mystery man is Xue Ling Qiao (Kim Tae Hwan). He looked like an ordinary pretty face but in truth, he is a mutant with superpowers who has been living with the human race for 400 years. One hundred years ago, someone wanted him dead by draining his blood. But killing him proves to be a lot more difficult task. Instead, he was only put into a deep sleep. His casket and dormant body was later discovered at the bottom of a river. On the night of the accident, his body is supposed to be delivered to a research facility. And because of the female’s blood, he is awakened from his slumber. But sadly, he has no idea of who is responsible for his “murder”. He is a man lost in the past and oblivious of the present.

That same night, Tian Jing Zhi (Wu Qian), a luckless, second-rate actress initiated a marriage proposal to her boyfriend but got rejected by him in front of her friends. Turns out, his boyfriend is in love with her best friend who has been living with her since high school. The saddest thing is, the said best friend already stole a total of 7 ex-boyfriends from her! Haha!

Depressed and brokenhearted, she then attempts to jump off the roof but every time she gets on the edge, she cowers down. The security guard who watches her countless failed attempts for two-full hours comically complains about her hesitancy. The guard firstly dismissed her reasons as minor setbacks but upon hearing the full story, he concludes that she is indeed the unluckiest girl in the world and supports her suicide plan. Haha!

But thankfully, she comes to her senses and mulls over the fact that her ex-bf ain’t worth dying for. She goes to her car and there awaits… a parking violation ticket. Haha! Indeed the unluckiest. And to conclude her worst night ever, she gets herself involved in the tragic road accident.

After a month of hiding in the hospital, the nurse bluntly tells Jing Zhi to check out because she has obviously fully recovered from the accident. Haha! Jing Zhi’s mom, also an actress, comes by to visit and convinces her to go home. But despite her mom’s urging, she’s still not ready to face the media or the shame of public rejection.

That night, Ling Qiao stares at the soundly sleeping Jing Zhi. He’s rather confused why his heartbeat is audibly in sync with hers every time they are near each other. Somehow, Jing Zhi feels his creepy presence and wakes up. She screams and the nurses come to her aid. She tells them she saw a man and hears a loud, steady heartbeat sound. They search her room but since no one’s around, the blunt nurse deems that Jing Zhi is just imagining things and uses that as an excuse to prolong her stay. Haha!

At the rooftop of the fronting building, Ling Qiao smiles at Jing Zhi’s terrified reactions. He regards her as someone vulnerable and easily-led but whether he likes it or not, she may be the key to his forgotten past.

Jing Zhi is craving for real food. She tries to sneak out and deduces that the only way to escape is by jumping over the wall. She runs speedily towards the perimeter fence but unfortunately she didn’t see the uncovered manhole conveniently placed in her path. As expected, she falls directly inside. Haha!

One again she hears the loud heartbeat, which we know signifies that Ling Qiao is just around the corner. And yeah, he’s just lazily sitting on a branch of a nearby tree. She shouts for help and he’s forced to lend a hand but not before teasing her a bit. Haha! She tries to bribe him with an autograph but he is apparently uninterested. She then offers him money but it’s still a no. So she asks him what he wants in exchange. Well, he wants some questions answered. Thinking that he’s a random crazy dude, she agrees.

He asks her if she believes in immortality. She answers him a flippant yes. Second question is if she wants to be immortal. This time she earnestly tells him no. Even if she have lots to gain, she has more to lose. She can’t bear the idea of seeing her family and friends die one by one. It’ll be lonesome life and people will treat her as a monster. Ling Qiao remains silent and reflects on that thought. He then tells Jing Zhi to close her eyes and count to five. In less than 5 seconds, she finds herself outside the manhole. Dun-dun-dun!

It’s time for Jing Zhi to finally go home and she’s desperately trying to stay, feigning to be suffering from different kinds of illness. However, Blunt Nurse is adamant to kick her out and insists that she’s healthy as a horse. In fact, she’s too healthy that even her bones shine. Haha! In the end, Jing Zhi is forced to discharge. Blunt Nurse assures her that no one knows she’ll be leaving the hospital, but to her surprise, all reporters are already waiting for her. Haha! I love that Blunt Nurse’s smile of triumph. Sassy!

The interview is going well until one reporter asks about her comment on the rumor that some pervert took advantage of her unconscious state and kissed her. The news enraged her so much simply because it was her first kiss. She vents her anger to Mom who appears apathetic of her rants. Dad, however, supports her principle of delaying intimate kisses for at least months. But nevertheless, the fact remains that some pervert stole her first kiss. She hopes to forget about it and prays for amnesia. Mom laughs because only leading ladies get to play the part. Haha!

Meanwhile, Ling Qiao is busy searching the net for answers. He reads about the people involved in the research project about him. He goes to the facility to investigate. There he sees his mummified picture (tagged as the Sleeping Beauty) and laughs at how handsome he really is compared to the said picture.

Jing Zhi is staying at her parent’s place and plans to take another 2 months leave off work. But to her horror, she finds her savings almost depleted. Dad patiently explains that it’s all because of her one month-long “staycation” at the hospital and her monthly car mortgage. He didn’t bother telling her because she’s evidently very happy living there, and besides, it’s her money to waste. Haha! Jing Zhi nearly died of heart attack after hearing Dad’s “rational and smart reasoning”. She immediately decides to go home and make money! Haha!

She finds her infamous ex-boyfriend Li Yan Zi (Fu Jia), a police detective, waiting outside her house. It seems he wants to make amends and though he didn’t mean to reject her in front of other people, he didn’t regret telling her the truth. It’ll be unfair for her and she deserves someone who truly loves her. But Jing Zhi is not ready to forget and calls it quits. Inside, she bares her angry façade and weeps.

Someone rings the bell. Thinking it’s Yan Zi, she arms herself with a cucumber and tries beating him with it. Haha! But no one’s there. She then spots Ling Qiao, his hand on his chest and looking at her. She too feels the same heartbeat and they look into each other’s eyes. She’s instantly attracted to him no doubt. And then comes a car which interrupted their eye to eye moment. Tehehe!

It’s Ex-BF No. 6, Ye Chen. Jing Zhi is still pissed at him though and shoos him away. She’s about to close the door when he tells her that his visit is actually about the road accident she was in. Coincidentally, Chen is one of the scientists who were tasked to study about the mummified body. He tells her that the said body is an important artifact and since it’s allegedly stolen, he wants to know if she remembers something out of the ordinary that night. But she can’t recall a thing, so Chen gives her the Sleeping Beauty pamphlet. Jing Zhi looks at the picture and is petrified that the picture opened its eyes. She throws him out and prays that Chen didn’t bring ghosts or bad luck inside her home. Tehehe!

Outside, Chen calls Yan Zi. Okay, it’s weird for two ex-boyfriends to team up for the sake of their ex-gf. Just an opinion. He informs him that though Jing Zhi appears to have no knowledge of the dead body, she’s still in grave danger. Many people are interested to get it and they must protect her no matter what.

The last thing we see is Ling Qiao hiding behind the tree branches, his eyes looking intently ahead.

THURSDAY ON TRIBES AND EMPIRES - EPISODE 1 ON JOY PRIME @9: PM

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Episode 1
Fortuneteller climbs mountains and drinks water from a pool, Shuofeng Heye shoots him stopping him from drinking and tells him he shouldn’t drink too fast. He takes him into Shuofeng tribe and is going to let him to be his slave, but his mother Longge Danzhu thinks fortuneteller isn’t lucky as he doesn’t comes from Hanzhou grassland. Shuofeng Heye wants to get outside information from this man. Longge Danzhu uses salt water to treat fortuneteller and tells Shuofeng Heye he has to get his father’s permission if he wants him staying here.

Shuo Fengda is back with his hunting hobby, his wife welcomes him. However, Muru cavalry comes with their hunting man. Longge Danzhu complaints to Shuo Fengda that hunting bobbies are less and less even if they go out to hunt more and more. He tells her he approached black forest to hunt animal without any result.

Shuofeng Heye feeds fortuneteller and asks his name. He tells him his name is Zhu Aqi and wants to go to black forest as empire is going to be destroyed. Shuofeng Heye takes him to visit his father. Shuo Fengda lets his son throw him away and thinks he is useless after checking his body. Zhu Aqi tells Shuo Fengda that their misfortune are because of Emperor Ming of Duan’s Sixth Prince Muyun Sheng. When Shuo Fengda is going to cut his tongue, Muru cavalry enters tribe.

Shuofeng Heye opposes cavalry with a stick, but they are tough with sharp sword. While they are going to kill him, Shuo Fengda begs them forgiving his son. They ties him up and burns him, confiscating Shuofeng tribe’s property because they harboured criminal.

People blame Shuofeng Heye as he brought disaster. He goes to chase Muru cavalry, robbing sheep, but his father stops his stupid action. Shuo Fengda tells him his forefathers Kua Fu defeated Human clan on the land, but they lost their soldiers of elite, defeated by Muyun and Muru families and separated into eight tribes three hundred years ago. He hopes his son can unite the eight tribes to oppose human clan in the future.

Shuo Fengda gathers people in Shuofeng tribe and announces he is going to attack Suqin tribe’s territory which belonged to them. He lets them eat all of meats they own and just leave bones and death bodies to Muru family. They burns their houses before setting out.

Shuo Fengda saves Helan Dao from enemies. Helan tribe joins Shuofeng tribe since then. Shuofeng Heye discovers Suqin tribe’s territory and reports it to his father. Shuo Fengda gives his son the battle axe which was made by Kua Fu’s leg bone. He hopes Shuofeng Heye can lead Shuofeng family living a better life.

Shuofeng family attacks Suqin family in the morning, Shuofeng Heye takes the lead killing a person with his battle axe.

Short update:
It all starts with a guy walking, walking, walking through absolutely breathtaking scenery, wow, I could watch this ALL DAY AND NIGHT (and I'm so in love with my 1080p files, you will hear this often). He gets very thirsty though, since he also walks through the desert. And it ends rather abruptly at a very meager kind of waterhole, where he is captured by little Shuofeng Heye of the Shuofeng tribe when he drinks much too much water after being parched for too long. Heye means to keep this man as a slave.
Plus that water is filthy, it's a mudhole more than anything else. He should get violently ill, but it looks like he won't live long enough for the bacteria to get their little hooks in him. Is Trot part of this project? I find myself looking forward to her comments on general preparedness for life under extreme conditions.
The  cinematography, WOW. So absolutely stunning. I can already see the mega budget and sheer scope of drama. That man spent a very long time walking. I was happy for him that the water wasn't a mirage (I thought it was initially) but yeah such filthy water.
I wonder where they filmed?

Here's kiddo Shuofeng Heye:
He's a bit headstrong, but a good lad overall.
Loves the idea of having a slave though.

The Shuofeng tribe is in dire straits - the weather is crazy (winter is coming - much too early, every year), they're starving. Their men need to hunt in dangerous places to even stand a chance to find deer to shoot. But apparently, those scary places are so scary that even the animals won't go near (will we see this place? I'm intrigued...(I hope so, because they rather dropped the topic.)). We meet little Shuofeng Heye's parents, Shuofeng Da and Longke Danzhu. Oh my, his dad is hot. There's real kissing (with tongue?) too. They're very much in love and I ship them like crazy even though I immediately think this Hot Dad won't survive for long. He has the air and the facial hair of a doomed man.
Man, he is hot. And she reminded me a bit of our beloved Nihuang.
(H)air of a doomed man indeed. I also get that vibe but gosh he is So Hot! And the passion between his wife and him is just so immense. "That place" sounds so scary- the way it reduced her, a strong woman sent chills down my spine.
I didn't find her that tough, tbh.

Hot Dad says to kill and eat the sheep to beat the hunger, but his wife tells him he's crazy: They need to pay tribute to the "Eastern Land" (the Muyun) and if they do not deliver, they will all be executed. Hot Dad doesn't like this prisoner his son brought home at all, especially not when he starts babbling about DOOM AND GLOOM and talks about a horrible secret the ruling family has. In Tian Qi City, the emperor desperately wants to hide the secret of one of his son's background - but it seems the baby has doomed the lands; winter keeps coming earlier and earlier every year. Natural disaster and great suffering everywhere. And the secret: the prince's mother is "not just a Mei" (not just a spirit). DUN DUN DUN.
Ooohhhhhh we get supernatural in with all the gorgeous me...er scenery?
Reaction of dad was very swift and brutal to the Prisoner's tales. I wonder if he shut him up because he knew the secret and didn't want the man to say the secret or if he was just being annoyed at the Muyun Royal family slander.
If the prisoner starts saying bad things about the royal family, the listeners could get in trouble just for listening.

Yes, this is the kind of knowledge that will get you killed - especially when the Muru Iron Cavalry arrives basically right after the monk spills his beans.
How convenient.  Do you figure they were chasing him, or was it really just a coincidence?
Oh yes, he hit him because he was scared of the information. Smart man. Jo, they showed the Muru tracking him with the help of that weird slave tracker.



They were closely behind our fortune telling monk - who is seeking the Black Forest, which sounds a bit like that place that Hot Dad went to but shouldn't have gone - using a human tracker (he is kept like a dog and he sniffs things like a dog too).
Okay that guy was scary.
Don't like them.
Use a real dog. Much cuter.

They're goddamn scary, these knights. But hot. They let Hot Dad live (for a moment there, I thought we'd lose him already), but burn the fortune telling monk alive (yikes - and probably thanks, Chinese censors, Game of Thrones is brutal enough, I don't need details) and punish this tribe for harboring a fugitive by taking away ALL their assets / livestock. Which means they're doomed to starve and/or to die when the tax collector come.
Why not just kill them, then?
Hot Dad crawling to them and his back being used as a step from the horse made me mad. Their punishment was so harsh though, seeing as it is basically a death sentence. They were barely surviving and now they have absolutely nothing.
It was unnecessary. They knights could've just killed everybody and spared them the torture of starvation.
I think that's exactly the point. Torture.

Shuofeng Da has one last reckless plan: go and seize some land that used to be theirs from another tribe. He tells his son that once upon a time, all the tribes used to be united, fighting against giants that wanted to take their land away. But afterwards, when they were weakened by the war, the Muru and Muyun came (back then, they were allies) and defeated them. After that, they split into eight tribes, according to the eight different branches of the army:
Long-ge: archers. Shuofeng and Helan: cavalry. Kusu: infantry. Suqin: engineers. Danyao: mystics. Heshu: horse whisperers. Suoda: logistics.
I missed that part.  Explains why later Hot Dad practically has an orgasm over the Maru horse when he sees one up close for the first time.
And the Empire has been stealing all the healthy horses from the Shuofeng.
Poor HeYe felt so guilty. His parents are so supportive! They didn't blame him whatsoever which makes me even more sure they die very soon :(( The giant story was cool. It makes me sad that their reward for fighting them off was annihilation. I can't wait to meet more clans; except the Danyao.
a giant giant altar
special shout-out to the horse here! Who, amongst a lot of drama, ate its lunch and looked at the camera going: wazzup, dude.

He was cutely chewing.

Nowadays, they're enemies. Is he secretly hoping to united the tribes again? Well, his entire tribe packs their things and leaves - except for their elder, who is too weak to walk. He beats the war drum as everybody leaves, only leaving ashes behind. Very sad.
It was sad.  Not for the first time, I had a strange moment of recognition here - I will mention later.
Elder stayed behind rather than be a burden. It takes such strength to do that.
It's tribal behavior, I guess. I've seen this in other movies romanticizing ancient tribes and their social mores.

It seems the Shuofengs are especially vicious - Hot Dad beats about ten warriors of another clan (Helan) single-handedly. They become blood-brothers through a slightly strange ritual involving some blood and a stone that is rubbed along the Helan dude's head (this is Helan Dao). We also meet: Helan Tieyuan (his son) and Helan Tieduo (his daughter). She is rather smitten with Shuofeng Heye.
Slightly strange?  Completely strange.  Helan Dao is not as hot as Hot Dad but he's not bad at all.  And there's another guy in Shuofeng tribe who is also very hot.  We get a lot of them upfront, hope it lasts!
I thought to be blood brothers, there should be mingling of blood? I would have expected Shuofeng Da to also cut his wrist or something... Anyway, Helan Dao is Hot too. It must be all that fighting. No flabbiness allowed.
There is so much cutting of skin in this show.

While playing (=shooting arrows etc.), they discover another tribe's campsite (Suqin tribe). Shuofeng Heye receives a special gift from his father: an axe made from the thighbone of one of those giants they once battled. The next day, the combined forces of Shuofeng and Helan storm the campsite of the other tribe (they had some celebration and are drunk, poor sods), killing many. Shuofeng Heye kills someone too, without even blinking. Wow, dude. I guess that "innocent" up there was really misleading.

MY SWEET CURSE

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Hello great people, hope you are all doing so wonderful. We are continuing with MY SWEET CURSE today and in today's episode,
Rodrigo goes back to Father Basilio to inform him about what happened with Aurora and how Rafael came to pick a fight with her and Father scolds her for kissing Aurora against her will like Dionisio and Rodrigo tries to defend himself that his is different from that of what Dionisio tried to do to her because if Aurora should fall for Rafael, he will die but Father tells Rodrigo that if Aurora falls in love with another man, he will have to accept it and sacrifice himself because he caused everything.
Again, Rodrigo then explains to Father Basilio that he couldn’t make it on time to his date with Aurora because they happened to find out that Corina was the one who stole Elsa’s jewels, and that he is going to have a hard time apologizing to her because she won’t let him come near her anymore.
Corina rents a room in Altagracia and Maximina’s apartment.
Macrina keeps poisoning Xochitl’s mind against Aurora, and she has no idea that Macrina has had a hand in all the bad things which happened to Aurora.
Elsa tells Jeronimo that she was wrong about Aurora because the real thief turned out to be Corina and that she wants to ask for her forgiveness. So, she goes to see Aurora to plead for her forgiveness but she never mention to her who actually stole the jewel and Aurora tells Elsa that she forgives her in spite of all the pain she caused her when she kicked her out of the hacienda and Apolonia tells Elsa that it’s a great lesson that a humble girl like Aurora is a much better person than she (Elsa) is. Aurora tells Apolonia that she is happy to live in her home because she doesn’t feel forced to be something she’s not in order to be loved.
Jeronimo asks Elsa if she still will refuse to not allow Rodrigo to be with Aurora and Elsa tells Jeronimo that she still feels relieved that Rodrigo and Aurora’s relationship ended because no matter what there can’t be any future between Aurora and Rodrigo since their social background is still a limit for their being together.
Monica asks Rodrigo to accept the fact that Aurora has moved on and she is now being very close to Rafael, since they’re going together to San Miguel’s Fair and Rodrigo also decide to go for the fair too.
Camilo doesn’t buy Ines’ excuses to not spend time together, and he thinks that maybe she is in the relationship as a tactic to keep Chalo away.
Onesimo tells Wenceslao that the investigation is over, so he is no longer under orders to keep going out with Xochitl, and that he should keep in mind who her mother is.
Onesimo arrests Dionisio after he is found guilty and will be behind bars for 6yrs and Onesimo reports the situation to Gloria and Ponciano and she almost fainted.
Monica pays a visit to her mother and in their conversation, she tells her that Rodrigo is still after Aurora and Monica remains pensive when Corina tells her that Rodrigo would only get involved with her if she were dying and Monica asks her to repeat what she said and this surprises Corina.
Stay tuned to tonight's Episode of MY SWEET CURSE at 8:00pm! Watch the Repeat every afternoon at 2:30 pm, and omnibus on every Sundays from 12:00noon - 3:00pm. UTV, it's all about you!!

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