It's a sad ending, but a fitting one. There is an epilogue set in the modern world and it's just the two leads…
The epilogue is of their life in the modern world. I'm pretty sure there was no murder of FL's first love their second life . The epilogue just follows their life as a regular couple spending their life together.
Despite all my previous complaints, I am truly looking forward to the finale of this show. In a interview, the actors/actresses have said the finale will tie everything together. I'm hoping they'll manage to overturn most (I still think they should've gone another route with Chuchu, but it's too late to change anything) of complainants and give the audience a satisfying ending.
very average drama but with fresh faces. eg. lee ka ting, yvonne lam, geoffrey wong, kiwi yuen, jessica kan, becky…
Really, I feel like I'm seeing a lot of familiar faces for this drama. It's probably because TVB has been releasing Samatha Ko's drama right after another.
I think they should've deleted the body swap part if they weren't going to stick with the original story in the first place. I would've enjoyed watching Mowan trying to get revenge for her sister more than Moxin using Mowan's body to get revenge.
It makes things overly complicated and harder to like the main female lead. In the novel you get why Moxin was so obsessed with taking down the emperor and willing to use any method to dethrone him. This one waters down everything to the point that everything is a bit nonsensical.
I too think that Qingfeng's character got too much hype in the beginning but when the mystery finally got solved…
I was offended that they misused QF's character (and honestly question the purpose of multiple other characters in the story). His only purpose with to help XE&AR get together. It feels like his backstory was introduced to move the plot along but rather like a random addition. I think it wouldn't have been this bad if his story actually gave us clarity on the novel world or gave depth to the situation XE is in. His story, while interesting, doesn't have anything to do with the story. What does it matter that he's from a different story and has been drifting?
I personally like TX more too. I can actually see XE&TX falling for each other and it doesn't feel random or quick. They're spending time on developing the relationship between the two characters. I found XE's relationship with AR too abrupt for it feel like true love. They were telling us that AR&XE could die for each other, but the scenes we saw couldn't match the depth of that emotion. From the audience perspective, all we saw was them spend 2 or 3 days indulging in food wars and banters... and suddenly they're in deep love? They did a better job at building QF&XE
There was definitely more plot potential in real life. When they reached the climax of the novelworld, I was like "that's it?" They also didn't introduce MoRan early enough to feel like he was an actual threat. The whole kidnapping and attempted murder felt strangely anticlimactic. It didn't help that the real life counterpart, Tianjin, seemed like a loser.
I agree. Was waiting for todays episode and I am so hugely disappointed.
The new episodes aren't introducing anything new to the story. I doubt half of us care about the company succession, Chuchu honestly don't pose as much as a threat as they think she does, and we're all just sitting here wasting our lives away waiting for the ML to remember. The acting is fine and the budget is sufficient but the writing is plain bad. It feels like the story lost focus but isn't self aware enough to realize where it's going wrong.
It's disappointing what they whittled QingFeng's character down to. He had so much potential in the beginning but it was all wasted. There were exciting and interesting theories about his origins and what he meant to the story. What waited at the end of the tunnel was just disappointment. His character was only a plot device to accelerate the leads' relationship. He didn't contribute to the grand scheme of things. He didn't bring anything new information to the table that would help move the plot along. His backstory ended up as nothing but a plot device to force the leads to interact with each other in the real world.
The story could've been great but it failed to tell a STORY. What was the writer trying to get across? No matter how different people seem on the surface, they might not be so different at the core? All lovers are destined to meet? Perseverance can create miracles? None of the possible themes I have mention translated well in the story. They didn't spend enough time developing any of these ideas to covey that properly.
Maybe I wasn't watching it carefully enough or maybe they just just did a bad job… I don't know anymore
It makes things overly complicated and harder to like the main female lead.
In the novel you get why Moxin was so obsessed with taking down the emperor and willing to use any method to dethrone him. This one waters down everything to the point that everything is a bit nonsensical.
I personally like TX more too. I can actually see XE&TX falling for each other and it doesn't feel random or quick. They're spending time on developing the relationship between the two characters.
I found XE's relationship with AR too abrupt for it feel like true love. They were telling us that AR&XE could die for each other, but the scenes we saw couldn't match the depth of that emotion. From the audience perspective, all we saw was them spend 2 or 3 days indulging in food wars and banters... and suddenly they're in deep love? They did a better job at building QF&XE
There was definitely more plot potential in real life. When they reached the climax of the novelworld, I was like "that's it?" They also didn't introduce MoRan early enough to feel like he was an actual threat. The whole kidnapping and attempted murder felt strangely anticlimactic. It didn't help that the real life counterpart, Tianjin, seemed like a loser.
His character was only a plot device to accelerate the leads' relationship. He didn't contribute to the grand scheme of things. He didn't bring anything new information to the table that would help move the plot along. His backstory ended up as nothing but a plot device to force the leads to interact with each other in the real world.
The story could've been great but it failed to tell a STORY. What was the writer trying to get across? No matter how different people seem on the surface, they might not be so different at the core? All lovers are destined to meet? Perseverance can create miracles? None of the possible themes I have mention translated well in the story. They didn't spend enough time developing any of these ideas to covey that properly.
I mtled the end of the novel and it seems like the sisters remain sisterly towards each other.