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Maybe a weird comparison, but as for the first time I am watching bits of the "Legend of Condor Heroes", it made me think from a different perspective about a Drama and Novel here.

Why? Because seeing how dumb and easy to calculate against ML is there, despite having an absolutely brilliant strategist and ruthless enough Huang Rong as a girlfriend, it made me appreciate the ML and his family in "Lu Songli's adventure", as they were not only smarter on average, but also willing to follow the female lead without any reservation. Which, by association, made them immune to being calculated against.

The same can be said about "Blossom", but the list is actually quite short.
Even in the otherwise fantastic "Story of Minglan", Gu Tingye inexcusably didn't tell Ming Lan about the upcoming rebellion.

Maybe a weird comparison, but as for the first time I am watching bits of the "Legend of Condor Heroes", it made me think from a different perspective about a Drama and Novel here.

Why? Because seeing how dumb and easy to calculate against ML is there, despite having an absolutely brilliant strategist and ruthless enough Huang Rong as a girlfriend, it made me appreciate the ML and his family in "Lu Songli's adventure", as they were not only smarter on average, but also willing to follow the female lead without any reservation. Which, by association, made them immune to being calculated against.

The same can be said about "Blossom", but the list is actually quite short.
Even in the otherwise fantastic "Story of Minglan", Gu Tingye inexcusably didn't tell Ming Lan about the upcoming rebellion.

Rude? Come on, I am not American/Western European to get offended over someone else having a different opinion :)
Cheers.

I know him from cheap anti-Japanese dramas, and currently watching him as the oldest master among 7 freaks in the "Legend of Condor Heroes".

If someone wants to get a headache, go and check his Baidu profile on how many dramas he has had in his career, lol :)

It's my first serious attempt to watch anything Jin Yong related - mostly because I wanted to check how smart and capable Huang Rong is (and the actress was praised for her portrayal here).

But, it's a really, really difficult watch to see so many dumb/muddled characters, mostly "the good ones".
Ugh.

I love the opening song, though.
It's also interesting to see Wang Kuirong playing the oldest master among 7 freaks, as I know him only from playing in cheap anti-Japanese dramas.

It's an old link that nobody cares about, but are you sure you picked a correct Zhao Jia here?
I just watched a vertical drama with a dierent one (I think) - https://kisskh.at/people/116549-luo-mei-hao

Interesting perspective. I see things a bit differently, but no reason to get deep into it. Thnx.

What happens when the governor's daughter want to snatch husband from Lu Songli, after he saved her from bandits?

She makes the rumours about her getting defiled by them, and then makes his father lose his governor position by her scheming... to promote her own father.

Novel link - https://www.fanmtl.com/novel/i-became-the-cannon-fodder-who-died-early-and-i-angrily-married-the-villain.html
Drama link - https://kisskh.at/797412-huan-qin-hou-wo-shun-bian-huan-le-jiang-shan-hen-he-li-ba (Part 2 is linked there, no more done so far)

It's a long-ass, but fascinating novel, so far only partially transformed into a Vertical Drama.
Links and minor spoiler below.

For example, they are a bit of "enemies to lovers", as if not for the female Lead's brilliance, she and her friends would be killed by the ML in Episode 5 (great episode, btw).
And it took them a while to trust each other fully (which is of course natural)

Heh.
You can add me to team Evil :)

Also, it reminded me what my favourite heroine Lu Songli did when one highly-ranked woman wanted to snatch her husband :)

To be fair to the writers, the FL's maid, at least one of them, was consistently dumb/rash through the whole drama.

And the FL was perfectly aware of the ML's brother schemings against her naive/in-love friend. Should she done more? Maybe, but it's not easy against the Empress decreed marriage.

Great rant.
I really enjoyed Blossom (and there are some episodes which I repeat), ,but to be precise, some of the things you said aren't there, were there :)
It's just the doses were lower, making it a much better experience.

I feel like pretty much every historical costume drama ends with rebellion. which is super repetitive. And obviously, politics/palace drama leads it there.

At least the rebellion in Blossom was extremely nicely done, definitely one of my favourites.
For comparison. I disliked the ones in"Ming Lan" and "Yanxi", especially the latter.

Any episode when this female general was featured prominently?

Depends on what you like, I guess.
If you literally expect "Legend of the Female General", then you can be quite disappointed.
But, if you are okay with the "Romance of the Female Soldier" then it's pretty good.

No Romance tag?
Does it mean the female lead won't need to be saved multiple times by the ML, like the one in Princess Weiyoung? Sometimes twice in one episode, lol? :)
I'm in (maybe).

PS. Apparently, Princess Weiyoung was more formidable in the novel, but didn't have a chance to read it.

I'm watching a bit of - https://kisskh.at/742625-jin-yong-wuxia-universe-tie-xie-dan-xin

For a while, I couldn't figure out why the female lead's looks and mannerisms seemed so familiar. I finally realised, the actress playing her (Bao Shang En) does it in a very similar way to He Yan - it didn't work for the latter, as it didn't seem general-like enough for me, but actually works well for the mischievous, clever and bubbly Huang Rong.

Well, both shows were supposed to be strongly fl-centric and only "Pursuit of Jade" did it properly, giwing the fl chance to achieve success on her own without getting constantly rescued by the ML.

And there was not much to develop with Marquis, as he was already terrtyfyingly skilled when the drama started, and showed it when had a chance to fight in various situations (including sparring against the female lead, using only one hand against her).