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Loving it so far!

They don't look the same age, tho. He looks much younger...

ML looks much younger than FL.

Me too, I don't watch again dramas with sad endings. At least I have one wuxia like that, which is Wonderland of Love. It's my comfort space amidst all the sad endings. :(

Was it to give her more time only?

I enjoyed the ride cause of the chemistry between ML and FL and because ML has the cutest smile ever. Was the dating and kissing of a corpse necessary? Not really. Was the romance between the king and the young concubine necessary? Not sure. Was the sad ending necessary? Probably not, since the whole theme was that they were undying and they suffered and lost enough. Overall they wasted a lot of potential with this drama, but I still recommend it cause the plot is good and so is the acting. PS Rant: ML should have never trusted someone else with that flower! I get that he did when he thought he was in danger, but after he became governor he should have taken the damn flower back so that the safety of the woman he loved was not in the hands of someone else, someone who had a position politically as instable as his!

EU central, but nevermind I found the info!

Yeah, I see him as a conflicted character too. Killing people, especially people she loved, like that is very dark, this is why I was taken aback. I will have to rewatch once it's over because I miss many things when they release one episode at a time.

You are right on SML, he was never that good, but I hope he would make the right choices when it came to Mei Lin since he respected her. He lied to crown prince and saved the beauties at some point, so I hoped he still had some good in him.
MRJH is not a good person in my book either, since he tortured her for years to make her an assassin and poisoned her knowing this would kill her at some point. But he's a general used to make life and death decisions. I don't think the end justify the means, but he has somehow his own ethics, that I believe too.

I don't know if I'm convinced about this switch to the dark side of SML... I could picture ML do something like this (at least ML as was shown at the beginning of the story), but not SML... I'm all in for character development (in good or in bad) but it's not very convencing if they just switch from one episode to the other. The only consistent character seems to be Mei Lin.

But of what day?

I don't know where this drama is going. It feels like from episode 10 they changed writer cause the vibe is different and characters are not really overcoming issues but just ignoring them...

Younger sister is so annoying. I hope SML starts making her jealous...

I lean towards this opinion too. I don't think you can stop loving someone you loved for so long. Either she didn't love JingHe either, but she admired him more and could see a life with him more, or she decided to accept the Crown Prince's heart even if she was not fully in.

Who do you think the general is in love with?

The fact they randomly drop one or two episodes is killing meeeee

But in the end it's spring and they are still running together and she has straight hair so it's not a flashback but the future! No?

I'm a little bit disappointed by the last 10 minutes... I don't know what made the difference and made her take him back compared to the day before when they met at the hotel. Was it that this time he didn't let go and went after her? Did he move to South Korea for her? Still loved this drama a lot and I'm happy I discovered this Japanese actor.

LOL I loved Xu Kai in Wonderland of Love. Did you watch it? My fav performance of his and my fav c-drama. But I agree he tends to be often stiff! I get what you're saying, I cannot watch Cha Eun Woo's acting for instance. XD But it's not the case with Zhang Ling He, I enjoyed him in other dramas! It's this one specifically, so I think it's a mix of reasons.

I don't know, it was really about the actor's acting style, not the character. I found it somehow artificial, especially the echo effect. T_T But it's personal taste for sure!