Aramintai

Missing out.

Look, there were dramas airing with livelier kisses on CCTV, nobody censored anything. Heck, you don't even need to go far - FL's previous drama wasn't even romance focused, but had way livelier kisses and engaging romance.
Also, even if they could only show these timid kind of kisses they had here before, why couldn't they add 1 more at end of the drama? This is a romance drama, ffs. It's not like people are expecting anything out of the ordinary here. What, there's kissing scenes limit per drama? Give me a break. They didn't even fill the quota here, if it even exists.

I really doubt this has anything to do with broadcasting.

After you watch express, you'll learn how much of a conniving bastard he was from childhood. And FL saw right through him long ago.

Difference being, he kills innocents.

I saw it coming from a mile away. They always take pity on female villains, especially when they start telling their sob stories and crying.

They air passionate romance dramas on CCTV all the time, wdym. This here definitely was somebody's deliberate choice.

Happy ending, you can relax.

She imagined herself a hero in him, then got angry at him for not meeting expectations, then lacking any sense or self respect kept running after him, trying to fix him. Typical female logic, wdym 😂

He fought FL first, then ML came to help her. They beat him and then ML ordered to shoot arrows at him cuz he wasn't submitting.

MJL was defeated by the leads and killed by tons of arrows. He tried to breach the palace to kill the emperor.

Levels below Unveil: Jadewind.

Tbh, the last couple of episodes before the finale were very filler-y. Even though that whole long rebellion was shown behind the scenes. Probably could have shortened the drama by a few episodes.

It's a happy ending.

You talking about MDL scores here? They are biased af, I gave up on them long ago. Too many obsessed fans giving 10/10s to mediocre plots.

You have to agree, Mo Li has flaws. It's far from being perfect. I tried to give my honest opinion on them in detail.

Also, interesting you comparing MLs of these dramas. I also think that WXY was a more interesting ML. He also worked very well together with FL through all the plot, spending way more time with her in general. And there was never any doubt about their budding romantic feelings.

Leads in Mo Li were working and plotting on their own for the larger part of the drama. Not aligning their goals or fully trusting each other on the one hand, but trying to play devoted married couple on the other.

My detailed review after watching all episodes:
https://kisskh.at/profile/10070561/review/582260

It's def not FL actress's fault here, she had way better performed romances. The actress hard carried this drama, honestly.

Some other person mentioned it's the script writer's mo. I'm also putting the blame on the directors - that one single lackluster bed scene that we had here was filmed at such weird angles, it made me wonder whether they're also allergic to romance.

They really fked up the romance part here. I don't think it's the actors' fault here even. It's just how it was written, prudishly filmed and cut.

And I agree about questionably cut scenes as well. At times haphazard; at times abrupt; at times mulling over something too long; at times mentioning names but not showing who the f they are; at times showing people but we've no clue who they are; lots of "blink and you miss it" plot points. Could have been filmed more coherently.

1. The plot slowed down considerbably. They took a very sweet time to show everybody's epilogues. Could have shortened it by around 2 episodes and nothing of real value'd be lost.
2. The rebellion was quelled behind the scenes likely due to lack of budget.
3. SML died in a questionably choreographed last ditch effort to storm the capital. They lacked background soldiers even there, though had enough budget for a giant CGI Go board.
4. The empress dowager wasn't killed. She fell ill after everybody started guilt tripping her with her past mistakes and died.
5. The young emperor vowed to be good and started working full power.
6. Lishan academy got reopened with many new students. FL's shop's accountant guy was promoted to new headmaster position.
7. Canbei princess really died. SAD! But at least ML's merchant friend got to kill the evil Su bish.
8. The dumb assassin who was following FL around didn't do anything of notice to repay her 2 lives. His brother also died. Missed opportunity.
9. SFL was driven to a small frontier town by SML and stayed there to grow flowers or some sht.
10. The leads had another great opportunity to have a bed scene after FL went to visit ML in the army but they didn't even kiss. In the end, no extra romantic scenes, no kissing, no children. Looks like the director is a fkn prude, it's not that this drama aired on CCTV, I've seen dramas airing on it with passionate romantic scenes, nothing cut. Heck, even FL's previous drama Unveil: Jadewind had more going on between the leads, even though it was a detective drama for the most part.