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I accidentally deleted my last comment but yeah, I think I have already blocked half of the haters in this drama’s thread from other shows 😂

The last heat index I can find was 23k from 13 hours ago.

Yes, but if a drama is promoted as a romance and advertised as a romance then it’s valid when people have opinions about half of the main couple being absent for most of the drama.

Personally, I prioritize romance dramas and struggle to maintain interest if the romance isn’t there or if half of the couple is absent too much. The Double was highly rated a very well-written drama, but I got bored with the ML’s lack of screen time. Same with the Rebel Princess and Pursuit of Jade. As a hetero, romance loving female I like my lovely Asian men to have a presence in the romances that I watch and there isn’t anything wrong with that, or with anyone else who is similar as me.

People watch and engage with dramas according to their personal tastes and preferences 🤷🏼‍♀️ Oh and FYI, I am loving this drama so far and trust this director’s work as he directed a couple of my faves. Yeah I felt that the ML was missing a lot from the first few episodes, but it’s still early and the stage of the plot is being set.

Yeah I am not sure what all is going on with the ML. WeTV didn’t translate what the token was, so I just assumed it was an imperial token, whether it’s his or he got it from someone else idk.

Well the other interesting thing is that he seems to have an imperial token? So maybe there’s more to him than we know right now

The trailers for the drama kinda show him as an official I think. I’m assuming he covers up his identity, but obviously the truth will eventually come out

I love the rogue ML- I kinda don’t want him to become an official lest he lose his charm and edge 🥺

OMG I didn’t realize that this director also directed Legend of Shen Li as well 😱??!??! So not only did he direct TPoB, but another one of my top Cdramas??? Omg guys the Road to Splendor is going to be so good 😭👏🏻

The Prisoner of Beauty- my all time favorite Cdrama. I have high high hopes that Road to Splendor will be just as fabulous.

It’s hard going from rewatching “The Story of Minglan” where the FL’s loving relationship with her grandmother was one of the shows highlights 😭🤌🏻 to watching this one 😭

At least Ancy Deng wasn’t a minor when this was filmed like Ai Mi was in KttPH 😕

I will follow this comment thread as well. I am doing a slower rewatch of the first few episodes to make sure I’m understanding everything, but I don’t want to say the wrong thing and then confuse people lol

Despite Lady Yu being kind of a terrible person, I also find her incredibly compelling and cool? Like her showdown with Zhao Ling in episode one was awesome. I don’t often feel this way about villainous characters, but I like her as a villain / ambiguous character 😬

I have to rewatch episodes and pause every five seconds to absorb what I’m reading 🤦🏼‍♀️

It’s a cutthroat world the women lived in during that time. It’s painful, but understandable.

Guys I feel really dumb and need a few things spelled out for me 😂 I am rewatching the first few episodes, pausing often to catch the fast subtitles and to make sure I get a good handle on the story and character names. Would someone mind explaining what exactly happened with the erotic paintings? Lady Zuo was using them to sabotage the FL’s marriage, but how did the FL get herself out of it by distributing them to all of the ladies in her room? What exactly did that do?

Last question - do we know her why Lady Zuo is so hellbent on Tingyun marrying her brother?

It really bothers me when women stop being allowed to be saved. There’s nothing shaming or wrong with it if it is done in the right way. The drama has already established that the FL is incredibly smart and can hold her own, and having the ML save her once in a while will not take away from that. It actually bothers me when people slap the “damsel” label on any FL who is saved by a ML. The “damsel” label should only be reserved for FL characters who are written to be dumb, thoughtless, helpless and clearly existing just to boost the masculine prowess of the ML. This FL is none of those things.

Wooow yeah I do remember that, and it’s probably safe to assume that the other three widows had similar treatment.

Ohhhhhhh wow, thanks for that explanation. Did I also correctly gather that the widows were more or less expected to live isolated and lonely lives after their spouses died? I’m thinking about that statement in the first episode about how the Zhuo woman “never came out”.

He’s not in the first three episodes much, but others suggest that he will have more of a presence in the upcoming episodes.