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This is not a Thai BL drama 🤣

Better wife and lifetime partner for Han Li: Nangong Wan or her cousins Nangong Ping? 🤔

Donghua isn’t close to being finished yet *sigh* Was manhua fully completed?

The book is very long so this is just a first part of his journey. Next, he will have a lot of adventures in his new destination before coming back (we know he comes back because of very first scene in Ep. 1).

Wow, the final 5-6 episodes were really great. Look forward to Season 2! 🙏🙏😉

Mood of Episode 27: as if it’s a World War 2 movie and heroes are preparing for the last battle they are likely to lose 😳🥺🫣

Ahhh… My bad, I didn’t realize it was Xu holding family hostage 😳

Thanks! Maybe it makes sense in the context of other things in the novel. Here, Anxi is supposed to be a trusted lieutenant of the general which would imply not holding a family hostage. But okay, not going to think too much :)

The Princesa Royal managed to sneak time travel/rebirth past censors but, yes, usually they explain it as occurring inside a dream or inside of a book that one of the leads is writing. It can be done well but we’ll see what happens here.

It will take more time. The original novel (and sequel) are very long. Ongoing donghua has 156 episodes out (roughly same runtime as 52 45-minute episodes) and it’s covered maybe 1/4 of the book.

People who have read the original novel and watched donghua generally agree that it’s pretty close to those sources. They said some things got slightly changed but live action drama is created by same team as donghua, so they didn’t turn this into a typical romance drama or anything like that.

For real 😮 Even if they normally keep gates open, shouldn’t there have been sentries ans lookouts? That and constant comedic situations now make me think this is a more lighthearted drama instead of being super-serious. I still enjoy it though. P.S. The way that FL gets drunk often is straight out of a modern drama. Especially in Ep. 14 — she knows that person isn’t good but she still got hammered? Weird.

The father claimed it was ML’s father who got the son killed. And now ML has to pay for his father’s sin. I mean, it’s not the worst excuse ever for a drama, but still not very realistic.

Am I the only one who finds the spy’s (inside man) motive for revenge to be really unreasonable? So, his son died because he was in ML’s father’s army… but it’s an army and many people die. Perhaps the book explained it better 😳

Yes, NGW is a lead but their story is just beginning here. We won’t see it until Season 3 😁

Very fair point. The plot feels like a video game a bit and may not be for everyone. I would say that the latest episodes have been more somber and emotional — they gave actors opportunity to show some of their strengths.

Almost no romance. Some ladies are into Main Character, but he doesn’t reciprocate for various reasons. There is one female character who has a better chance, but they are usually far apart geographically so very little interaction. That’s pretty much how it was in the original novel too — all the focus is on his journey to immortality.

Main character is not very strong initially, so he has to use his brain to fight (or flee), figure out how to get better, acquire useful items/skills, etc.

To be fair, after Ep. 1 the quality of effects increases. Now, all the fights are done well (graphics wise) and it’s mostly flying that looks a little weird / old-school.

Stricly for promotional reasons, we think. In this drama we only have Main Character and everyone else is a supporting actor.