Yes, that is a solid gold tree in the background.
After over 80 episodes, Fan Bingbing‘s Wu Zetian finally becomes The Empress of China to Aarif Lee‘s Emperor. The outfits were apparently so heavy that Aarif Lee couldn’t say his lines after climbing the stairs. He’s lucky, because Fan Bingbing still has to become the Heavenly Empress and the Empress Regent, each of whose costumes are even more elaborate and heavy. Some photos from the extravagant scene (episode 85 and highly recommended, complete with a gold tree) below the cut.
Zhang Jane@YouTube was even kind enough to put up a cut of it, so you really have no excuse to not watch it.
Here’s a cut of that scene:
It looks like she’s wearing a slice of watermelon.
LOL! The thing on her head? I totally did not notice that.
Now that you mentioned it, it can’t be unseen!!
It does! Now we’ll never be able to see that scene the same again.
Hahahaha! Now I can’t unsee that. What did you do, adorable panda? D:
All I can say is WOW!