Bowties are cool

I was starting to thaw out on the emperor, but dude. Absolutely NOT!!!
Just because you are miserable is no excuse to make everybody around you miserable too.

Ooo, an awesome tidbit.
Pregnant with who's baby? And if its the shifu's, please explain in glorious detail but if its the emperor's....nope keep that to yourself. I am not a fan of the emperor & haishi pairing that's suggested in the synopsis.

Where the hell is my mermaid aspect of the story? It was only in the opening scenes of the first episode and then not shown again!

Same!!! I also think he is the mastermind behind everything. Like for real, who falls asleep standing up in court?

I just rewatched the trailer. Uhmmmm, am getting mad sad vibes from the trailer. Like nobody, not a single pairing is happy. Even what I thought was my little safe pairing of the Zhou Ying and Zhe Liu had saddish vibes. I guess I will just watch this for the kickass fights

I kept expecting a hilarious accident but I was eternally disappointed!

More and more, am thinking that the emperor is just bored. like with life.
It kinda seems that he just wants something that distracts him from his seemingly miserable existence.

Ahh, you have good taste!

Seems to enjoy going on the hot airing cdrama and trashing one of the actors. Usually the fl although I remember they didn't like ML from Falling into your smile or was it Ancient Love Poetry or both. For some reason they kept saying how he should have been recast.
Blocked them, then and doing so once again. Everybody is entitled to their opinion for sure and they will differ. That doesn't mean I have to listen to it, especially if its a stupid opinion.

I know, right?! Luckily, that's what the block feature was invented for!

Exactly my thoughts!

Let me put it this way, in the first episode he is told that he needs someone to protect, a reason for being of sorts and being the naive secluded, adorable fool that he is, sister is what he chooses. Mostly because its what is suggested to him to help improve his cultivation. He has no experience of this type of relationship or any romantic relationship. So he thinks the only type of relationship between a man and a woman is a brother sister relationship even though they do a lot of things that don't happen between siblings.

where?

I would disagree on the fast forwarding through the first 3 episodes. They are a terrible horrendous mess of something. Don't know if its the script, or the edit or something but its atrocious but there is vital information that is introduced in those 3 episodes that helps explain what happens later.
People will be thinking that this girl picked up a book and she was suddenly an incredible doctor when its mentioned in those early episodes that she spent her childhood learning medicine with her mentor and her friend.

Historical Cdramas scripts don't dwell on how to make something possible, they just do it. The laws of nature don't apply unless the scriptwriter chooses to use it as a plot device.
My fave plot device so far is the flying around that everybody does, sometimes even from underwater. In light of that, I can believe that there is some magical skill that allows someone to change not only a person's face but voice as well.

Its all in the execution of the story.

Why not, this is a love match as opposed to an arranged one. Plus, in those days they used to do those horrendous things- the whole blood on the bedsheet- to check that the female was a virgin the morning after. Dramas have shied away from showing that kind of thing of late but it doesn't mean that it didn't happen. Especially considering that she was an entertainer before.

Yes, its on viki.

There is always one and he is the one for this drama

Her new drama just started airing like a week ago. It was meh in the beginning mainly because of a lackluster ml (in my opinion) but it has really gotten very good in the later episodes