Aramintai

What's even the point of reading it if the plot is different...

She clearly has...something.

Those who were burned looks like are 7 under the stone grave. That's not all people on the mountain. I assumed those were the persecuted court officials who graduated from the mountain.

Maybe a bad mistranslation, but it's both legs been mentioned at one point?
Though in that battle it looked like only one leg. But in prison it looked like both. And he was hitting one and the other, I dunno.

Maybe they all died of hunger or illness because of the blockade? Clearly nobody went to check up on them all those years.
Also, FL could have been biting herself, she clearly has "big bats in the belfry".

I like that the plot isn't dumb so far, that's the main positive.
Too many tropey, overrated af dramas lately, heavily relying on visuals and actors' baby faces, and turning into trainwrecks by the end. Hopefully good narrative will last here till the end, don't want to get disappointed like with POJ.
Main actors are also doing well, def another selling point here as well.

More like it's a drama that probably needs to be rewatched, I'm sure there are things the audience won't realize right away, like that one pair of slippers and the imaginary maid.

Good thing I don't have time to read these novels, keeping an open mind for dramas. And it's a decent enough drama so far, actors are selling it. Nothing too fresh plot wise though, except for FL's mental condition. Which is also a fan fiction as you'd say.

The drama is ok so far, another score bombing by delulu haters? This actress seems to be in crosshairs since the start of the year for nothing in particular other than simply existing.
I think MDL needs to block scores until drama finishes airing, most of the crazies’d get bored and leave by then. Same goes for day 1 reviews.

I think she looked better in Unveil Jadewind. But that drama had more expensive production in general.

There's an ongoing smear campaign going on against the actress. Lots of delulu bs every day, some of the crazies are already being sued. Some people speculate she's being targeted by the very agency she's been wanting to quit from, as it looks very coordinated.

Isn’t she always? Was there ever a drama with her being outshined by ML?

Ha, if only. She's a good actress, but some of the dramas she was in had very questionable plots and characters. Don't be a blind fan, rate dramas as a full package, like opera.

Anyway, so far it's hard to say how this drama's gonna go. Looks ok in the first few episodes, with some fresh things like the imaginary schizo people. But it's 40 episodes long, plenty of time fk this up with draggy plot.

Maybe because the synopsis doesn't sound like it's gonna be something fresh? I mean, these types of costume cdramas all have the same tropes - wronged leads, revenge, incessant scheming and plotting, underdogs ascending to power, swoonworthy set pieces for easily captivated by visuals, etc. You just likely seen a number of them and struggle to find a hook.
That's how it is for me, at least. I'm in it for the plot, not the visuals or tik tok reels. We'll see how it manages.

Ok then.

I've read he was faking it? Or got it cured?

Same. Very true.
There were some overhyped dramas with these actors that I just couldn't get into because of the plot or characters, like SOKP or LOTFG, for example. But I liked Bai Lu's recent Unveil Jadewind a lot because of the character she portrayed there, very cool. Not her typical one. And the plot was great too, even though not everyone's cup of tea since it was a grim historical detective drama, not the usual soap.

He simply returned to his own body in the present. While suppresed queen's soul regained control of her body. He also changed history while being in her body, as he learned by checking a history book, so the king's life changed as well.
What pissed me the most about that ending is that the king fell in love with the queen when the guy was controlling her body, when she became quirky af. The real queen's soul was asleep most of the time. So her returning back, even with saved memories from the guy, didn't mean she gonna be the same person the king loved. The guy was also content to be living in her body by the end, so him going back kinda sucked. And I think I'm not the only one here, judging by so many people not liking that ending.

With streaming services nowadays I don't think it's a big problem to have one with og actors's VA and the rest can be regional dubs, unless all of the actors can't speak one standard dialect (which likely most of them can).

I prefer original language with subs, any sort of dubs bother me. Though from what I've seen in recent cdramas, they're using actors' own voices.