Princess Agents Brief Summary/ Cute Moments Episode 1-8

I've left this blog for almost three-four years now. Time really flies. College/work/and other life priorities have been keeping me from posting. True props to active bloggers that take the time out of their personal life and make such great posts. Especially since they are much more time consuming than people think.

My comeback post is going to be my current drama obsession "PRINCESS AGENT" starring Zhao Li Ying, Lin Geng Xing and Shawn Dou.

Zhao Li Ying is seriously one of my woman's crush. I've adored her since Prime Minister and I, and Boss and Me. She just keep on getting better and better. She definitely shed away her baby fat and took on a more serious role.

She is literally so freaking cute

This post is dedicated to the cute/romantic moments within the first 8 episodes. I shipped Zhao Li Ying and Lin Geng Xing so freaking hard.

Zhao Li Ying and Lin Geng Xing

Shawn Dou is also a cutie, and I can totally see him as the second male lead that makes all the females go gaga over him. I'm a sucker for the second lead also, but his interactions with Zhao LiYing is definitely not as significant as Lin Geng Xing in the first 8 episodes. (Spoilers: Zhao Li Ying eventually falls in love with Shawn Dou's character. He got too power hungry and used her for his own benefits, therefore she gave up him).

First impression of the first 10 episodes would be "CRUEL" 

Quick Summary (contain spoilers): 

The story sets in Northern and Southern Dynasties, where slaves/ birth rights basically determine your future, your behaviors, basically the values of your life. Jin Xiao Liu (Zhao Li Ying), a slave girl whose life of intertwined with the royal families and how she basically used her wits/natural talents to become one of the best spies in the nation and end slavery. 

Our badass Zhao Li Ying

What makes the story interesting is the fact that Jin Xiao Liu (Little Six) is not actually Jin Xiao Liu. Her real name is Chu Jiao (I have some speculation about her background and I will reveal it in another post later on). Our female lead lost her memories and only live her life as Jin Xiao Liu. The beginning of the story shows frequent flashbacks and scenes in which she was training martial arts as a young child (which contributes to her ability learn martial arts and has extremely quick flexibility/strength)

The initial story begins with Xiao Liu got involved with the YuWen manor in which her entire adopted family are slaves/servant for. Xiao Liu and her siblings got pulled into the power struggles within the YuWen Mannor, which causes two of her older siblings to die, leaving her with two young, naive and helpless sisters, Xiao Qi and Xiao Ba (basically the numerical name, Little Seven and Little Eight). Xiao Liu swore that she will protect her sisters no matter what, even if it costs her her life. 

Yu Wen Yue, our male lead, kills Xiao Liu's older adopted brother. He's the fourth young master of the YuWen Manor, and also the secret descendant of the spy organization, God's Eye.
Despite witnessing her brother's death and wanting to avenged her siblings, Xiao Liu also knew that her priority at this moment would be to stay alive. Xiao Liu knew that with her low status, there is no way for her to protect her sisters unless she is able to climb up the ladder somehow. (This is what I really like about her characters, she's smart and she knows her priorities).

Xiao Liu became the Chamber Maid for the young master, Yu Wen Yue (of course through a series of trials). Being a chamber maid means you literally are in their sleeping chamberYu Wen Yue know that Xiao Liu had ulterior motives in becoming his chamber/personal maid. At the same time, he's attracted and appalled by her wits/ photographic memory and her natural talents to become a great spy therefore naturally take her in under his wings and test her loyalty and her talents at the same time. He gave her a new name "Xing'er", which is a more endearing way of saying "Star"

Just a disclaimer that I am not recapping all the episodes, but rather recapping my favorite moments for this couple. It is of course not all the interactions, but these are my personal favorite, or turning point of their relationship.

LiYing & GengXing Best interaction #1


In the beginning of episode 5, Yu Wen Yue asked Xing'er to shave for him using a knife. Of course this is one of this test of loyalty because he knows that she has the motive of killing him to avenge her. If she has the chance to kill him using the knife, right there and then, would she have done it?


For a brief moment, Xing'er had an internal struggle, reminiscing the exact moment of YuWen Yue killing her adopted brother. Yet, she decided not to do anything about it. Our male lead also questions her because she had a chance to kill him, why not do it?





Xing'er indicated that she wouldn't dare to, however YuWen Yue beg differ and believes that she has the guts to. He also threatens her with the life of her younger sisters. This is YuWen Yue's warning that he could easily end their lives if she dare to do anything stupid.

Xing'er knows her limits and priority. You Go coco! Gotta strengthen yourself first and climb the social ladder to become better than them.




LiYing & GengXing Interaction #2

Xing'er fell asleep on GengXing's bed and he just stares at her. This is the initial point where GengXing displays a hint of emotions of Xing'er. He doesn't show any facial emotion, but the fact that he's just sitting there, staring at her, shows that he has some interest in her.

If you have been observing Yu Wen Yue, he cares about very little amount of people. He seems disinterested in everything.

You never see him show any emotions or even look at any of the maids. Yet, WenYue actually puts a blanket on Xing'er.
He could have left her there and not do anything but he chose to covers her up.

Please keep in mind the social status at this time, he is a young Master, of high status, and she is a slave whose life is worthless.




Next morning, Xing'er woke up and realized that she was on the same bed and under the same blanket. She immediately freaked out and questioned if anything happened the night before.







YuWen Yue of course attacked her and indicated that she needs to know some martial art if she's going to be serving him. He started showing her some moves.


Once Xing'er picks up on the moves, she started fighting with her master. Somehow the fight scene becomes this romantic dance scene where he holds her up and they twirl around.




Of course this moment got interrupted by our annoying maid, Jin Zhu (Pearl). She walked in when he's holding her hostage from their martial art practices, but it seems to others as if they're displaying affection. Awksssss

YuWen Yue even feeds her soup in front of the maid. The maid immediately noticed blood on the bedsheet (from him cutting her hand) but of course it indicates something different. She's assuming our OTP had some sexy time the night before and got even more jealous.







LiYing & GengXing Interaction #3

In Episode 7, YuWen Manor got broken into by assassin, which distracts Yue Qi (YuWen Yue's righthand man). Instead, the ice figure poisoned YuWen Yue, making him completely weak and unable to exerts energy.

Xing'er witnessed her master being completely helpless, and swung the sword. YuWen Yue was under the impression that she would kill him, recalling how her adopted brother died. However, Xing'er swung the sword to kill a poisonous snake that was near YuWen Yue and fainted.

This moment was also crucial because Xing'er had almost a perfect chance to kill him, but she didn't. The true reason why she gave up on killing up could be due to two things.






1. She is truly ambitious and wants to learn all the skills he is teaching her. She does not want to kill him yet because she knows that she will be able to use martial art skills that he taught her in the future. She wants to use him in the future.

2. She knew that Yue Qi (guard) was coming back and changed her mind at the last second.

Nevertheless, Xing'er fainted and YuWen Yue used his internal strength to help her.

Once they called the doctor to examined YuWen Yue of his injuries, he also asked the doctor to examined her. The doctor refuses because she is a slave and isn't worthy of his time. YuWen Yue threatens the doctor and indicated that he will change the doctor's rank to a slave if he doesn't do so. This shows his protective side of him towards her.


LiYing & GengXing Interaction #4

In episode 8, YuWen Yue used his "neigong" to help save Xing'er. During this process, Xing'er had flashbacks of her childhood memories.










After saving Xing'er, Yu WenYue told his guard that he lost his vision. While Yue Qi (guard) questioned why he's wasting his effort on a maid, Wen Yue indicated that she isn't purely just a maid. He suspect that either Jin Zhu (evil maid) or Xing'er could be the spy/culprit behind his grandfather's murder. At the end of their conversation, you see that YuWen Yue was breathing heavily, which shows that he used a good chunk of his energy to save her life.

I believe that he's lying to both himself and Yue Qi. For someone that's nickname "Ice man" and he never shows an inch of interest in other people, he exerted his energy on a maid. This is  one of the subtle moment where viewers have a glimps at the fact that he cares for her.






LiYing & GengXing Interaction #5

In episode 8, YuWen Yue called Xing'er out for her actions while dealing with Jin Zhu (evil maid). YuWen Yue explained his reasoning, indicating that even when he's blind, he knows her every move.






At one point, he held onto her arm very strongly which caused Xing'er to grasp in pain.

The cute part of this is when YuWen Yue apologized and asked if she was okay? C'mon guys, this guys didn't even care when he was hitting her with a sword, or even have her practice with arrows, yet apologizes when he gripped her arms too hard?
This is the second slips by our Young Master indicating that he really cares for her.

When YuWen Yue kicks Xing'er out of his reading room, he told her to leave because she's an eyesore. Xing'er retort by saying that how is she an eyesore when he can't see. I laughed out loud for a second. Wen Yue told Xing'er that he's blind, but he's not deaf and upon hearing that, she immediately apologized. She didn't seem very apologetic though. Wen Yue also calls her out by mentioning that he can't see, as if she wants the whole city to know. Xing'er once again apologized for her action despite not meaning it at all.

This is another turning point, showing Xing'er's sassy side. She isn't afraid to say or feel anything. This also marks a new point in their relationship because Xing'er is being able to report and sass out in front of her young master.





YASSSSS! I'm sure you guys are as excited as I am about this drama. Will be doing the next 8 episodes recaps of cute scenes in a bit. There are much more in the next 8 episodes as you can tell Yu Wen Yue is showing his feelings towards Xing'er a lot more

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