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[Review] Unchained Love (2022)

“Fu Tu Yuan” is directed by Wu Qiang, starring Wang Hedi, Chen Yuqi, Ho Rundong, Zeng Li, He Nan, Wang Lixin, etc., and Zhang Zijian, Shi Yu, Zhang Shaogang, An Weiling is a costume adventure drama. The play will be broadcast on iQiyi on December 27, 2022. The play is adapted from the novel of the same name by You Sijie. It tells the story of Xiao Duo, the head of Zhaoding, who has power over the government, and Bu Yinlou, a talented person of the late emperor, who bravely resist fate and feudal ethics, support each other, overcome life and death difficulties, and win freedom.

Title: Unchained Love / 浮图缘 / Fu Tu Yuan / Forbidden Love / Futo edge / เล่ห์ลวงรักต้องห้าม
Genre: Historical, romance
Episodes: 36
Broadcast network: iQiyi
Broadcast period: Dec 27, 2022 – Jan 24, 2023
Air time: 20:00
Writing: Fu Tu Ta (浮屠塔) by You Si Jie (尤四姐)
Director: Wu Qiang
Screenwriter: Li Jing Ling, Xiao Ou Ling (肖鸥凌), Zhang Xi (张煦)

Starring: Wang Hedi (Dylan Wang), Chen Yuqi, Ho Rundong (Peter Ho), Zeng Li, Wang Yue, Xin Henan, Guan Chang, Han Haotian

Synopsis:

During the Longhua period, eunuch Xiao Duo plotted with Fu Wang to help him sit on the throne. Bu Yin Lou was supposed to be buried with the late Emperor but she is rescued by Xiao Duo.

Bu Yin Lou, a lady-in-waiting, was meant to be the emperor’s woman. Due to her status, she was supposed to follow him in death but Xiao Duo saves her because she has caught the eye of Fu Wang. She then stays at Xiao’s manor and they grow closer over time. However, they cannot reveal their feelings.

The road is full of obstacles…what will become of their fates?

Diversity Plot:

Unchained Love 浮图缘 Episode 1 Recap

In the eleventh year of the Longhua reign of the Daye Dynasty, Emperor Yuanzhen passed away, leaving the throne vacant. Xiao Duo, the young head of the Zhaoding Division, led his subordinates Cao Chun’an and She Qilang to deal with the affairs of Emperor Yuanzhen’s death by means of thunder, and ordered the buried Chaotian girl to go on the road that day according to the palace rules.

Cairen Buyinlou hurried back to his residence, wanting to find a place for the maid Tongyun before sneaking off, but he didn’t want Tongyun to know the inside story and secretly asked Bufu for help for her. Unable to escape, Buyinlou was escorted to Xiecuiyuan. In Xiecuiyuan, the concubines who were selected as Chaotian women cried bitterly when they heard the news, but Buyinlou regretted why they didn’t have a generous breakfast so that they could eat better.

At this time, Zhou Chengde, a senior scholar, led a group of ministers to demonstrate in front of the hall, and Xiao Duo subdued the crowd with the thunder time. The time for Chaotiannv’s burial is approaching, but Buyinlou has never given up on saving herself. Although her father is a grand tutor, she is a concubine, and the only one in the family who truly cares for her is her own mother, so she has no intention of relying on the family to save her. On the other side, where the most honorable empress of the harem is located – Fengyi Palace, Empress Rong An privately executed Concubine Shao, planning to make her young son King Rong succeed to the throne. Although Empress Rong’an loves Xiao Duo, she is also afraid of Xiao Duo.

She secretly contacts Nanyuan Wang Yuwen Liang and rushes to Beijing to be regent. In Zhaoding Division, Xiao Duo is paying homage to a stele without characters. It turns out that Xiao Duo once had a younger brother with the same appearance, and the younger brother is the real Xiao Duo. A few years ago, his younger brother died at the hands of Yuwen Liangshi, and Xiao Duo has been waiting for an opportunity to take revenge for many years.

Unchained Love 浮图缘 Episode 2 Recap

Buyinlou Bai Ling put her neck around her neck, and her life was hanging by a thread. In a critical moment, Xiao Duo came to save Buyinlou. When Bu Yinlou woke up, he didn’t understand why the dignified Zhao Dingsi had come to save him, a young talent, and felt uneasy. However, Xiao Duo saw that Bu Yinlou used various methods to save himself from the beginning, and felt that she was actually quite clever. Although Buyinlou didn’t even see the emperor once after entering the palace, Xiao Duo also pointed out to her the status of concubine—Concubine Zhenshun Duan.

Xiao Duo took him to visit Buyinlou, but was misunderstood by Buyinlou and fell in love with him, and pretended to be crazy, hoping to make Xiao Duo disgusted. Instead, Xiao Duo misunderstood that she deliberately pretended to be a pig and eat a tiger. Xiao Duo told King Fu about saving Buyinlou, and asked King Fu to fulfill his promise-agreeing to help Xiao Duo protect King Rong. King Fu can also use this to gain strength and truly protect the Buyinlou he cares about.

But Empress Rong’an had been on guard for a long time, and she never left to take care of King Rong personally. Xiao Duo analyzed that on the night of Emperor Yuanzhen’s funeral, the empress had to lead all the concubines to guard the coffin in the Shangqiong Palace, and that was the best time to take away King Rong from Fengyi Palace. However, one person still needs to hold Empress Rong An to buy time for them. Xiao Duo thought that the most suitable candidate was Buyinlou who also wanted to guard the spirit of Emperor Yuanzhen. Xiao Duo secretly joined forces with King Fu to create chaos in Fengyi Palace.

Unchained Love 浮图缘 Episode 3 Recap

Xiao Duo successfully robbed King Rong out of Fengyi Palace. On the other side, under pressure from Xiao Duo, Buyinlou took the risk of setting Empress Rong An’s dress on fire in order to keep Empress Rong An in the mourning hall of Shangqiong Palace. Later, Empress Rong’an knew that King Rong had been robbed, so she didn’t care to investigate and deal with the person who lit her dress, so she hurriedly took people to find King Rong. Bu Yinlou guessed that the robbing of King Rong was Xiao Duo’s plan, so he was involved and exposed, so he quietly rushed to help. She analyzed that Xiao Duo might be hiding near Xiecui Garden, and when she arrived, she saw that King Rong refused to leave with Xiao Duo.

Bu Yinlou and Xiao Duo sang together, and King Rong finally chose to trust Xiao Duo. But at this moment, Empress Rong An led people to track down to this point, Buyinlou took the initiative to step forward, tricked Empress Rong An away with a gag, and allowed Xiao Duo and King Rong to evacuate safely. But Empress Rong’an later found out that she had been deceived and wanted to torture Bu Yinlou for interrogation. In a critical situation, Fu Wang’s sister, Hede Emperor Ji Murong Wanwan, used the Queen Mother as an excuse to rescue Buyinlou.

It turned out that it was Xiao Duo who couldn’t bear Bu Yinlou and asked Murong Wanwan to save Bu Yinlou. Bu Yinlou thinks that Xiao Duo did this because he felt that he was useful, but it was she and Murong Wanwan who hit it off. Xiao Duo placed King Rong in the mansion of King Fu, and persuaded the ministers to support King Fu as regent. Empress Rong’an was informed by Xiao Duo’s subordinate Yan Sunlang, knowing that Xiao Duo had chosen to stand against her, she secretly contacted Yu Wenliang and went to Beijing to help. And Xiao Duo planned to take the opportunity to take Yuwen Liangshi’s life to avenge his younger brother.

Unchained Love 浮图缘 Episode 4 Recap

Murong Gaogong returned to Prince Fu’s mansion and fell into the memories of the past. When he was a child in Taifu’s mansion, he was bullied by other princes and was deliberately locked in a dark room. He was afraid of the dark, and when he was terrified, it was the young Bu Yinlou who showed up with a lantern to rescue him. From then on, he secretly paid attention to Buyinlou, and gradually developed a youthful love, until today he is so infatuated. At this time, King Rong played tricks on Murong Gaogong, and Murong Gaogong was frightened, and accidentally pushed down King Rong, causing him to die unexpectedly.

Xiao Duo was furious, but he could only clean up the mess for Murong Gaogong, trying to clean up the relationship between Murong Gaogong and King Rong’s death, and then helped the younger brother of Emperor Yuanzhen, Murong Gaogong, to ascend to the throne and stabilize the court. But in Xiao Duo’s heart, he felt guilty for failing to protect King Rong. He even endured malicious speculation from the outside world, believing that he deliberately killed King Rong for the sake of power. However, through analysis, Bu Yinlou believed that King Rong was not killed by Xiao Duo.

Xiao Duo didn’t expect that the person who understood him best was Bu Yinlou. Bu Yinlou saw his loss even more, and said that he would take him to a place. Buyinlou took Xiao Duo to the vegetable garden of the Shangshan Supervisor, and compared Xiao Duo with the daylilies in it – the daylilies are poisonous because of the living environment and for self-protection, but in fact they have a unique sweetness, which makes Xiao Duo Always happy.