AleksandraSucur

well, the whole drama and espc. "the iconic scenes" (we were supposed to like while we actually don't) are meant to create a sort of guessing game for the audience "what will happen next?", "will or how will this 'iconic scene' happen in a re-written scenario?", making the drama a parody of its genre and certainly more enjoyable (and subject to interactive discussions on the platforms as well).

Actually, not even one "iconic scene" (including the initial ones) happened exactly as it was written in the first script, only apparently, they all happen only tnx to the "typing sound mechanism" which blinds the viewer (and FL in particular) making the scene to appear as inevitable.

my thoughts exactly, they've both poorly handled the danger they knew all about

Can't be anybody else. He is in the body of Lord Qianyu, a military doctor would not take orders from anybody else except from him and CGH

yup, they've all survived stabbing. She jumped from the fortress later but didn't die, just became an invalid. "Iconic scenes" are a bunch of horror garbage passed as "over-the top, messy thing the audience like", lol

That fan spreading feathers looks familiar, think it was used in A Journey to Love spreading leaves (one leaf accidentaly sticked to LYN's face 🤦‍♀️ , later it was decided to keep the scene 👌)

TTEOTM is probably worth watching if you like to heavily invest your imagination in plotholes and interpretation of weird characters' behaviour. It is not a guessing game, as ADWAD or Lost You Forever, you must imagine things that you don't see in the drama and create explanations in your head practically out of nothing. That "creative work" viewers ought to do (and then shared with other viewers) is probably the reason why it was so discussed.
But if you prefer to be an audience-audience (ie. not interested to exercise your own creativity while watching a drama) like me, you won't like it.
Besides, the description "over-the-top, messy drama" mentioned by the "scriptwriter" in ADWAD perfectly fits to TTEOTM, it holds a record for blood spitting, Bai Lu's screaming, everything is super exaggerated (colours, tones...) and may actually be very irritating

I've seen GJM Painted Skin, on its MDL's page (surprisingly) it isn't particularly discussed, I didn't know about this adaptation...

Thank you a lot. BL subjects, especially if banned, do attract a lot of discussion, it's understandable.
As for LYF, I remember I've also enjoyed it (great Yang Zi's acting and mesmerising chemistry with Tan Janci) and can understand why it was so discussed, the plot, or better, her complex relations with three MLs, divided the audience in 3 fanbases (whom will she chose?) and it was also a sort of guess game how it will all end up.

it's probably their wedding. Or, if the fruit is that "pear pomegranate" which sounds similar to "Li Shiliu", it indicates smth related to his alias

true, tnx a lot

Oh, tnx a lot
I was referring to aired dramas

Yeah, you're right about LYF
But what is Immortality, can you link it?

it will be more constructive if you link it
Tnx

The PoB had less than 15K when it ended, I've reviewed it. It wasn't a great script, but I get why it was talked.
What is Immortality?

Wow, 132365, tnx a lot.
I've dropped that one after ep 6, for me, it was truly unwatchable

I think this drama will break every record of comments on MDL - personally don't remember any drama anywhere near 15K comments and we still have to see 1/4 of it. If anybody knows such a discussed drama on this platform, pls. let me know.

This (real) fact confirms the (fictional) screenwriter's statement (on the objections of Nan Feng's agent) in the opening ep: "This whole love-triangle stabbing-each-other thing is an iconic scene in costume dramas. Audiences love this kind of over-the-top, messy drama." (and the Director adds: "Platforms love it, too"). From that point on (ie., after the initial 10 min. of the drama), it was clear the "iconic scenes" served just to challenge (read: to hook) the audience while the screenwriter and director will engage in "managing the mess" by REWRITING not only the script (FL just superficialy/lazily skimmed through), but also the characters, while OPENING A GUESSING GAME for the audience "what will happen next?", "will or how will this 'iconic scene' happen in a re-written scenario?" and so on, making the drama a parody of its genre and certainly more enjoyable and subject to interactive discussions on the platforms... The invitation for a guessing game was also clear by the (real) director https://kisskh.at/discussions/70247-jiang-dui-dui-chong-sheng-ji/142950-director-s-message-towards-the-audience

That been said and despite many wrong guesses I've read here, I think a skilled writer would be able to outline plots for dozens of dramas in the genre.

Now, entering the final quarter of this "interactive game", being confident of my earlier correct interpreting of what was foreshadowed and having a few hints from "Calendar" https://kisskh.at/discussions/70247-jiang-dui-dui-chong-sheng-ji/142904-calendar-airing-schedule
for the remaining eps, my predictions are:
1. the white horse for the eps tomorrow is the Pegasus she desired when she was listing the things her man would provide her to fall in love with him. She'll fall for him because she'll realise her previous desires-expressing changed smth important in the plotline.
2. "heart" in English are their sweet moments together we've seen in leaked scenes
3. ep. 37 deals with an event connected with the fortress (from which she would have jumped in the "first script" rivaling her sister, both being pregnant with NH and NH favoring her sister over her). No way this could happen: her sister loves another man and she doesn't have any reason to test him. Alternatively, the confrontation with CGH also happened under that fortress, but CGH's rebellion occurred (read: was justified) after NH killed his father and brother. The probability NH will kill his father and brother is next to zero... Imho, neither of these 2 "iconic scenes" will ever happen.
4. "swords" may mean battle, but somehow the misterious sword forging comes to my mind
5. pen & paper. The scriptwriter (the "God") enters into the story. The characters, confident they can make a difference and ask justice, make their move.
6. sunglasses. Relaxed ending

"the drama purposely holds back information to show the audience that we also have prejudices"
YES

I'm not that good in deciphering symbols. From trailers, we know he will be in prison in ep 29, but I expect he'll be liberated quickly, in ep 29-30, while the heavy CGH's torture on his brothers today (we've heard the sounds of whipping during the long dialogue between CGH and NR today) actually may not survive. The horse may represent many things, not only freedom: strenght, (military) power (will he maintain Xuanjia army?), deep loyalty (of his brothers in arms?), spiritual connection (Pegasus) etc. Or it may be some physical horse, who knows.

As for the emperor, we've seen his reasons for mistreating and mistrusting NH when he told NH's mother who were "true wolves" from his perspective: the powerful Gao clan and their allies in the court (led by the Gao chancelor) and he was not wrong about that. He didn't catch his son and Gao uncle started to have different goals and interests. Now, after the emperor realised NH had built up a parallel force, WRC and Nightwalkers (ie. the force beside the army in which Gao uncle has his people, loyal only to him and able to intercept and destroy the message for help during the Pingrong Battle), the force NH established in an effort to districate himself from his uncle, after he denounced his uncle's embezzlement of the relief fund in order to save SH and with Gao (unfortunately, only apparently) out of the picture... ofc. the emperor starts to notice things he didn't (or couldn't afford to) notice before, when he was desperate to counterbalance Gao's power with any mean available, such as a designation of CGH (a defeated general!) to the command of the imperial forces.
So, I think the emperor is redeemable, the unredeemable is CGH (he is far on his way to insanity, espc. if the two Nightwalkers die) and Gao uncle

The guard was one of his uncle's man inside Xuanjia army commanded by NH. His uncle hided this person all those years, used him to frame NH in front of CGH and then discarded him, ordering Kui Gang to kill him, framing the 2 Knightwalkers (for the murder of a"witness") who were lured to that forest by the same gang.

The ending will definitely be different, I wonder how the FL still didn't notice that not only the plot started to differ, but also the "major/most iconic moments" such as NH's betrayal with her sister. The moments can "happen" in terms of "being similar" (NH and SYT were actually found in bed), but their meaning and timing is completely different.

Btw., the synopsis on MDL states:

"Only when Xiao Yu realizes that she is no longer living in the old plot and Nan Heng isn’t the villain she thought he was, could they both find the truth and perhaps love along with it." - well, this will happen very soon and will change the ending, too