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I think this entire drama represented the actors getting so immersed in their acting (SXY and NF) that they fell in love in real life. So, really, NF “remembering” the script world just really means that the character’s feelings of love for SYM broke into the other scripted world (SXY’s) and NF has feelings for SXY and vice versa.

Episode 32 was amazing. From Nan Heng scoffing at the ridiculous 3-way sword stab scene after SYM finished describing it, to Song Yi Meng pulling Nan Heng back in when she agreed to marry him, to Song Yi Meng being surrounded by a loving family before the wedding procession started and then the actual iconic scene!

Poor Song Yi Meng trying with all her might to cling to the carriage so that she wouldn’t interfere with Nan Heng’s handling of CGH! But she eventually had to give in to the horror of totally being controlled by the iconic scene. Loved seeing Nan Heng pulling Song Yi Meng out of CGH but then gasped in horror when he realized that, yes, he would be forced to follow the script and stab SYM.

But our hero then brilliantly executed his plan to activate the hero protecting the FL mechanism.

The only thing I hated was CGH still getting to stab poor Nan Heng from the front when Fugui has already stabbed him in the back.


But then! For all that many complained about our FL being heartless and rejecting Nan Heng, she proved that once she’s in, she’s ALL in because the way she thrust that sword and pushed CGH away from her beloved…and then subsequently cried out in panic-stricken anguish when she realized Nan Heng was fading…someone else commented in another episode thread that Song Yi Meng was going to work to love him with all heart just as dedicatedly, ferociously and stubbornly as she had rejected him and she proved that in spades in this ep.

And with this, I hope the angry keyboard warriors can finally ease up in SYM so that the lovely Li Yi Tong can finally rest and enjoy the fruits of all of her hard work in bringing the character to life!

And he wants to marry her to him because he knows his son is a fool who is going to get himself killed in the dog eat dog world palace and, at this point, sees that a wife like SYT suffers no fools (would keep NR in check and alive) and doesn’t suffer fools either (might be able to whip his son into shape). Plus, he noticed NR’s reaction to seeing SYM (he wears his heart on his sleeve).

Yup. I caught that when the caption read “modern suturing technique.”

I agree with the taking NH into “her world”. But I actually think that’s code for SXY and NF (actors) actually being so much like their characters that the love they act out in the drama results in real life love between the actors. So, in a sense, SXY finally taking the script seriously and revealing her true self (which she hadn’t before because of child trauma through loss of parents, not having much success in her career and a general lack of trust of others) leads to NF (whose personality, despite the rumors about the actor IS NH’s) actually falling in love with her and vice versa as they’re acting out what’s written and then that spill out into the non-script world. Either that, or, given actor NF was the one who originally prompted script changes through his manager at the beginning of the drama, he was already in love with actress SXY before and wanted those changes in hopes that SXY would reciprocate his feelings and the script love would spill over into the real world.

Also, SYM constantly refusing to give in to her feelings in the script world is actually actress SXY denying her feelings because “it’s just a script,” “he’s just playing a character in a story,” and those are excuses keeping her from falling in love with actor NF in the real world. What we can see now is that she’s throwing caution to the wind and, in the end, the tragic ending of the drama the actors are participating in won’t stop their love from continuing on “transmigrating”) in the real world.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, in the final scene I the script world, we see a tight shot of whoever dies (either or both) and then the shot pans out so that we see the crew, cameras, director, etc. to transition SXY back into the real world.

Random thought: What if, in the end, it’s actor NF’s manager who is the “villain” who (behind the scenes as the drama we are watching unfolds) notices the love growing between between NF and SYM through their characters and has been trying to re-route the storyline back to how it started to derail that love “for the sake of NF’s career?”

ADWD deserves a higher rating by virtue of inspiring deep thought and analysis about the plot and for its unpredictability!

LOVE THIS for him! He’s seems so down-to-earth and humble. I just hope that our girl Li Yi Tong’s popularity can also grow and that she gets the flowers she deserves too and this role leads to even more work opportunities for her in the future!

Yes! The haunting song that was playing when NH was sitting and drinking by the canal was especially moving.

This drama is a loving critique and homage to costume dramas but it is also such a great example of what all good writers know: you can plan and outline a story and create characters within that story but, as a writer begins to flesh them out, those characters will take on a life of their own with their own character traits, hearts, and motivations. A good writer will go where the story takes them, respecting how their characters grow as well as the natural evolution of those characters in the story.

The “script world” writer, however, is fighting the characters and insisting on keeping remnants of his original outline, which no longer make sense because the characters (namely NH and CGH) changed.

In a drama, if the scriptwriter insists on going this route, on writing what will trend, writing only what/he she considers iconic but doesn’t make sense according to how the story is organically developing, and is only interested in serving their or others’s purposes, that’s where you get WTF plotlines, character reactions that make no sense and aren’t aligned with the story that should be told and, horrible endings that leave an audience dissatisfied.

My prediction (not a spoiler): there will be a “tragic ending” in the script world because it’ll reflect the tragedy of a stubborn, “villainous” scriptwriter who insisted on serving his own intentions, but the “real world” storyline (because I’m guessing that SYM will “wake up” from the costume drama dream) will give us the happy ending that makes sense for this romantic comedy costume parody drama as written by the actual ADWD drama writer.

A sigh of relief and a round of cheers because SYM has entered her “hell hath no fury like a woman whose man has been harmed” aka “Crown Princess in love with her Crown Prince” era!

And until she was able to see an actual consistent change in his attitude toward her, his behaviors and also gather more information about his actions before (which she realized she had been wrong about). Moreover, that conversation in the cave where he was honest and accountable about his previous attempts to kill her and how he had not thought about doing so since went a long wat in breaking through her armor.

Like, really! People getting angry at SYM refusing to want to have anything to do with Nan Heng after he SERIOUSLY and INTENTIONALLY tried to kill her multiple times is the equivalent of this:

SYM: “I’d like to remind everyone that he tried to kill me.”

Audience: “BUT DID YOU DIE?!”

At least her stupid “plot” (if you can call it that) to kill him was never a serious attempt because SHE KNEW THE PLOT ARMOR WOULD NOT ALLOW HER TO ACTUALLY KILL HIM.

Like, the audacity of the audience for hating her for not trauma bonding with NH! Lol.

You’re right!

30 episodes in and I can honestly say that SYM is my favorite costume drama FL of all time (followed by Xiao Man from TPOB).

She’s been headstrong, stubborn and selfish, but has been consistently so and has not given in easily to love when it comes to ML because, at the end of the day, if it’s between love or being alive she will choose being alive each and every time.

And when I think about being in that same situation, if transmigration were possible (we obviously know it’s not), I wouldn’t give a flying fig about love if I had even a thought that it would lead to my death.

I do, however, suspect that we are about to start the final arc where she figures out that giving in to love and marrying the crown prince may serve to keep her alive (and I’m sure she’ll take that deal with gusto).

As long as she can make it through that pesky next iconic scene (the stabbing of the love triangle by sword).

I like your theory but there are other factors at play now (for example, SGH in love with SYT) where the Song family death won’t happen (more than likely there will be a staging of it) and the stabbing at the wedding will look different as well as SYM terrace jumping scene. I think SYM and NH and their family and friends will start working together to help shift the narrative/storyline.

This looks right. It’s always been my understanding that they do one episode a day for the last four (unless you pay for a premium VIP subscription and I think they release the final 4 of that tier at once to those members (but someone will correct me if I’m wrong).

Lol. Poor NH almost died and got a “but DID YOU DIE” reaction (after some initial hysterical, grief-stricken crying when she really thought he had died) from SYM..

That’s totally fair. I myself don’t think the show is perfect by any means (and do wish SYM had started having her realization at about ep 20) but am fascinated by the loveline and the pairing in this drama is my favorite out of all the costume Cdramas I’ve watched.

If you consider that these past three episodes were basically SYM doing the FL version of angry ML who wants to push away his feelings by hurting and rejecting the love interest…I find it believable. Like, homegirl did protest too much and was fooling no one, let alone herself.

If they lived in the real world, all of the past FLs from previous costume dramas who were forced by the storyline to experience trauma after trauma and harshness, abuse and mistreatment from their MLs and still required by that very same storyline to stay loyal to and in love with them would be side eyeing the audience for putting up flaming pitchforks and dang near wanting to burn SYM at the stake for what she’s dished out to NH. Like I commented under another thread: what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Lol.

No, she already had her realization (as shown by her hysterical crying when she thought NH had died). The next 14 will (I’m guessing) involve SYM and NH both leaning into their love and establishing their relationship, now on equal footing.