Female Prime Minister: Legend of Lu Zhen Episode 28 Recap

To be a Royal Woman, you must be able to withstand the pressure. To exist in the palace, you cannot just be a fragile flower but a poisonous bee – Royal Concubine.

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Female Prime Minister: Legend of Lu Zhen Episode 27 Recap

Lu Zhen’s road is littered with Enemies and they try their best to make sure that if she takes a step forward, then there are ways to pull her two steps back.

Female Prime Minister: Legend of Lu Zhen Episode 26 Recap

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Shen Jia Min has more reason to hate Lu Zhen as she realises how deep Gao Zhan is in love with Lu Zhen. The Royal Concubine declares war on Gao Zhan’s heart and Shen Bi continues to be the most cloying and annoying character in this drama. Clearly, a great wall of women are being built to separate the two main characters.

Female Prime Minister: Legend of Lu Zhen Episode 25 Recap

If you wait long enough, good things happen. And after four relativly shitty episodes, good things start happening again. If I had to pick the best episode out of ep. 20-30 then it has to be this one. Also, Gao Zhan has an amazing SPEECH that matches the caliber of the one Lu Zhen gives in Episode 3. It’s awesome, moving, and completely on target. It’s the speech of a man who is determined that the woman he loves knows how he feels. To heck with it, everyone should know how he feels about her.

Thoughts from Elizaphantrex: Dear God! Is this the episode when the two star-crossed lovers finally communicate with one another?

Female Prime Minister: Legend of Lu Zhen Episode 24 Recap

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For Lu Zhen the realization that Gao Zhan is forgivable and that she has been foolish comes in a cold prison, by the counsel of a dancing girl. For Gao Zhan to realize that he’s underestimated his royal brother who truly cares for him, it takes a fake poisoning and some wise words by said brother. They both are idiots and only when they talk to other people do they realize it. Ah, love, it makes fools of us all. But finally, the story is getting better. Again – thank you elizaphantrex for editing and making this post readable!!!!

Female Prime Minister: Legend of Lu Zhen Episode 23 Recap

Lu Zhen faces one of the toughest challenges of her time and Gao Zhan is running around trying to help her without letting people know that he’s helping her. I have to give a shout out to my editor elizaphantrex, who has grumpily agreed to edit my posts because I sometimes write like a drunken sailor.

Elizaphantrex here: Now that darling Rin Lee has introduced me, I guess I have to do my job.

Female Prime Minister: Legend of Lu Zhen Episode 22 Recap

Gao Zhan returns with a spoiled child who moons over his every turn and is dead set on becoming the Crown Princess. Shen Jia Min is arguably the worst character in the entire Lu Zhen story, and, to be honest, most of her schemes are so laughable that it’s almost a waste of time to go over them.

Mini Recaps of Episodes 11-20 Legend of Lu Zhen

As promised, here are the rest of the recaps I’ve done so far. I LOVED 11-20, there was so much goodness in these episodes. I’ve linked the mini-recaps to my larger ones. Let me know what you think!

Female Prime Minister: Legend of Lu Zhen Episode 21 Recap

Lu Zhen makes sense to herself and she makes sense to everyone else, but then she does ridiculous things that do not make logical sense.

The Story So Far – Mini Recaps of Episodes 1-10 Legend of Lu Zhen

I feel that since I’m at Episode 20, this is a perfect time to do a mini-recap. It keeps my mind fresh of the story and let’s anyone who wants to watch the show keep up with what’s going on without having to go through every recap. Yes, this is the lazy man (and woman) recap. I’m also adding links to the actual episode recaps for anyone who wants a in-depth description.

Female Prime Minister: Legend of Lu Zhen Episode 20 Recap

Once Gao Zhan loves, he Loves. And this makes him such a good character that I want every other man in drama-dom to follow his lead. To hell with the consequences, bring on the pain, he’s committed to one woman and one woman only. However, that doesn’t mean he can forget the past between him the the Royal Concubine Xiao. But what he acknowledges and she stubbornly resists is that their story is over.

Female Prime Minister: Legend of Lu Zhen Episode 19 Recap

Even if a lie is pretty, lies are still lies and can cut people seven ways to sunday. Shit hits the fan in this episode and the reverberations of Gao Zhan’s deceit shakes Lu Zhen to her very core. Yes people, this is the episode that most of us, whether consciously or subconsciously, have been waiting for. This is the episodes where Lu Zhen learns the truth about the man who she thought Gao Zhan was.

Female Prime Minister: Legend of Lu Zhen Episode 18 Recap

This is perhaps one of my most FAVORITE episodes in this series. I don’t want to say too much except  that the good parts were magnificently done. Some of it was slower than turtles crawling on a hot sunday but the rest made up for it.

Female Prime Minister: Legend of Lu Zhen Episode 17 Recap

The bad thing about keeping a secret from someone you love is that no matter what happens, you have to keep making more lies. Or worse, the communication between two people utterly fails. Gao Zhan experiences this first hand.

Female Prime Minister: Legend of Lu Zhen Episode 16 Recap

The lovers can’t fight forever, and I think the audience would have revolted if they kept this conflict going. Lu Zhen and Gao Zhan has this magnetic pull towards each other that made the episode (the latter part) pretty enjoyable to watch.