I don’t generally like to watch Asian movies, but that’s only because I can’t understand what the hell they’re saying.
However, this one has subtitles so it’s okay.
Basically, this movie is about like medicine, and the imperial family and such. I don’t really get it since I’m watching it in secret (I’m spying on the family elders), but apparentally the mean emperor dude controls all the medicine in China and it’s rationed strictly by dosage.
The emperor and empress don’t really seem to get along, and he forces her to take all these crazy medicines because he thinks she has a disease, which (you can tell from the movie) she totally doesn’t. There’s this awesome scene where she’s all like “Leave me.” and you know what that means- she’s pissed (“Back off bitches.”)
And there’s this other girl (I think it might be the same one), but she was being delivered medicine from Persia, and she was all grossed out by it, because it seems like she was being forced to take it- which does lead me to believe it’s the empress character. She asks the person delivering the medicine why she has a mark on her face- which is a sign of them being imprisoned, apparentally -and she didn’t want to answer and took off.
The (supposed) empress character picks up her cross-stitching.. it’s a really intricate design, but then all her feelings well up, and then she just.. breaks the thread.
Crap! Got caught by the elders 
I think it’s turning out to be a really good movie though D:
