Relationship With Erkang
Fu Erkang met Zi Wei during a march, when Xiao Yan Zi was titled "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" or "Returned Pearl Princess". Zi Wei was trying to get to Xiao Yan Zi and confront her. Zi Wei wound up getting beaten by the guards but was saved by Erkang who commanded them to stop. He later took her into his family household and falls in love with her intelligence, beauty, manners, and talents, she returned his feelings.
Their relationship starts off being complicated because of Erkang's position of a royal imperial guard whilst Zi Wei is still a commoner. She tells him about her background and what happened with her and Xiao Yan Zi. The both of their titles cause complication, so Erkang gets her into the Forbidden City as a courtmaid with Xiao Yan Zi to try to improve her status. Yet, their relationship is still complicated because of the emperorQianlong's interest in Zi Wei, since he wasn't aware of her relations to him. Zi Wei is very traditional with her display of affection towards her Erkang, so she rarely ever shows any, unless truly necessary. Throughout the series, they have fights and disagreements that has a lot of emotional issues. Erkang cares for Zi Wei very much from when she's physically hurt to when she's emotionally. Since she can't fight, he gets hurt protecting her at times. Whenever one or the other gets hurt, they each feel very much pain. They marry in the end of Part II.
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