MariaB

So that is where those photos came from. Some of them did look like they were screenshots from a video. It makes sense now.
I'm so upset for the PoJ team.

What does netflix have to do with it? It's just a distribution platform. The production companies will be the unhappy ones.

There might be short clips, but not the whole episodes.

They are not on weibo

They could have broken a lot of records. They were really close to 55% viewership (#2 place in history)
They have great heat index, but there are a lot of successful dramas with better indexes

The emperor had preferred another son to be his heir (the 16th prince), but crown prince was capable, heroic and admired by all so he was hard to put aside.

17y ago, while crown prince and general Xie (ML's dad) were fighting, prince 16 and general meng were supposed to bring supplies and reinforcements. However, prince 16 wanted to attack the enemy against general Meng's advice and got captured. General Meng asked for advice from the emperor since he now needed to go into 2 directions at once.

The emperor sent Wei Yan to general Meng with the tiger tally, but on his way found out the crown princess consort needed help and went back to the capital, leaving Wei Qilin the tiger tally and a letter from him to general Meng informing him of the plan.

General Meng was supposed to rescue prince 16, and Wei Qilin was supposed to ask Changxin to assist crown prince with the supplies and reinforcements.

But prince 16 died, and Changxin declined saying the tiger tally was a forgery.
General committed suicide and Wei Qilin and his wife ran away.

I read the novel.

Former emperor was bad and ministers wanted to make him step down and let Crown Prince Chengde become emperor. Wei Yan contacted Crown Prince about this, but he wasn't sure if he wanted to depose his father. Emperor found out and conspired with Lord Changxin to remove Crown Prince and his line from the inheritance.

Wei Yan, general Meng and Wei Qilin were framed, but Wei Yan managed to switch thing around and depose the emperor and install one of his younger sons instead after Crown Prince died in the massacre

Someone who was part of the process and had access to the finished product. For example, people on the translation teams.

I'm so upset for the team that worked on this project and I am not even involved. They must be feeling horrible

More than 10. Apparently the whole drama has been available on pirate sources since Wednesday

Damn. The leak apparently happened on the 18th of March
https://www.facebook.com/100085908610594/posts/914548364752109/?app=fbl

I saw on fb that they were leaked since the 18th of March

The drama got leaked on pirate sites. This is not a cause for celebration

This one?
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YWtfz7dPklg&si=DCBqp3bMmIjdI1ux

Hopefully we will have a reaction from the platforms soon

From what I see on weibo, people are rallying against the pirated content. No response from the official drama account or either of the platforms that are airing the drama.

10500 on iQIYI heat index. God I hate the fact that the show leaked

At the moment the indexes are both growing, but the real high should be tomorrow, when the express package drops and/or when the finale is aired on the 30th. If the leaks are real, it will impact the drama viewership unfortunately

That sucks for the team. Will they counteract this leak? Bring the express package sooner?

WeTV
Current index 31011
Highest index 31248 (last weekend)

iQIYI
Current index 10481 (highest)
Highest index until now 10461 (last weekend)