Jenny

Men don't fight for their rights and never will because society is built for their needs.

If these things were said decades ago then I could have agreed to it but in this day and age men aren't treated well as well. They too have the pressure of being a man in society, like woman they too need to follow the set of rules and stereotypes that society has established for them to be called a man. The law of my country atleast protects women but there's no law to protect man. Idk where you live for you to view that misandry doesn't exist but all the places are not similar. There are places where women faces injustice and places where men faces injustice as well.
Also in this comment section I have seen people blaming the woman but I have also seen people blaming sei's partner/friend as well. Calling him names and saying worst things.

If it reassures you, the novel fans have said that the story's main characters are decent and there's no cheating plot. Also they are trying to explore the complexities of relationships as well as intimate life of individuals in this series, I guess that's what they want to show and that's where it's headed.

I wish this drama to be on Netflix as well :)

Now we know that sei and kazuaki aren't actually lovers. In my opinion sei is really confused what kind of relationship they have as kazuaki really care about him a lot more than a normal friend do but he refuses to have sex which is against sei's idea of normal lovers. So he is unsure of their relationship and also feels like their relationship is fragile and he is afraid of breaking it.

I don't think sei is being creepy tho. He is struggling with his feelings and physical needs. It's not easy to leave someone who is the only person in the world who cares about him, was there with him when he was going through hard time, the person he loves. These are all emotional aspects but as a person with needs he also wants to have sex with his lover (which is normally common). I like the way they have shown his internal struggle between platonic love and carnal love. (But honestly, it was indeed a bit uncomfortable when he said 'I will watch you masterbate/I will masterbate and you watch' but I just think that he had a complete breakdown at that time cause he knew that his lover won't like him demanding something like that but he still did)

I felt like it but thank god.

I'm also talking causally 😭. Ofcourse we are gonna watch his drama. I'm just saying that we will get to see him wear many clothes throughout the drama and then we can causally discuss if his clothes are good or not that good (tho there would be many other things to discuss when the drama is released). Please don't take my words seriously, I'm just discussing about it cause I like to discuss and wanted to express my opinion. (Why do I feel like we are arguing? 😭) (But I don't want to argue I just want to share my opinion 😭)

But clothes are also decided on the basis of character they are playing. Actually let's just watch the series to determine if his clothes are good or not cause the material released now shows just one get up. After the series is released we will have more to compare.

As I said in comparison with ML. Jun already looks so exquisite and handsome in his ancient get up and if they add an even better quality clothes then no one would look at ML and director as well as script writer won't want to see that happen as ML are priority for the story. But Idk if it's just me but I really like Jun's clothes better than ML, I feel that ML's clothes are plain boring. Also clothes are assigned according to the character they play. But well I can only say that we have different opinions. (By saying this I don't mean that no one would look at ML at all, it just means that I don't know anything about him or have never seen any of his series. It's purely based on both Jun's and ML's pics in this drama and I have this biased opinion that Jun looks more exquisite and based on it I have written my opinion above. Feel free to disagree as everyone has their own opinion. And I said that because many times people end up liking second male lead than the lead due to various factors including looks and because I find jun more handsome so yeah that's my opinion. If I come as rude then I apologise.)

But I liked his clothes more than the ML.

Chill bro, that's ancient drama. In ancient period it was considered good for the males to marry a main wife and have concubines also him being a crown prince and later king, it's impossible for him to not have many consorts and concubines. So women being jealous of other women was not seen as a good thing cause the status of women was low than men at that time. The main purpose of this series is to show the historical character that fl is playing is virtuous, kind and someone who is worthy to be an empress, the story is related to history. So the qualities that fl have are the qualities empress should have so she can't be jealous even if she is/ she is not shown jealous cause she is virtuous. Also she was trained to be empress from the start since her childhood so she has her own pride, for someone who should be empress to become a consort is a very big difference so she would rather be a cook than being by his side as there's many people's struggle behind it especially her mother's to make her become an empress, she suffered so much in childhood and later as a maid so later she should forget all these struggles and fall into the arms of ml happily? No good woman would do that. Later after marriage it was ml who wanted her to depend on him as if wanting to make her submit to him so whenever she faced something he started getting mad at her especially for not coming to him like a weak lady who needs support he even (tho unknowingly) made her suffer the truma that she suffered in past just because of his ego. He is the king with power and many concubines who flatter him but fl is not the one among those. It's because the series wanted the fl to be different from others that she is intelligent as well as stubborn and prideful. It's because as a king he could have whatever he wants but couldn't have her heart completely and that's what made her special from other women. If you think about it as ancient and historical setting then everything will make sense.

After Wang Xing Yue being second lead and a villain in previous dramas (with her), he is finally male lead with Bai Lu as female lead!

It's because we all have our own opinion and own taste. Though I still don't agree with your opinion about the two main leads I don't think pushing my opinion to others forcefully is good cause I won't like others doing the same thing to me😅. For me, it's enough to express my own opinion. But yeah orv fans would definitely watch this movie regardless their dissatisfaction with cast. I hope that they don't make too many changes from original novel, also I still don't get how they are gonna cover everything in movies. It would have been understandable if it was made in series.

I'm gonna feel so conflicted when LMH is called more handsome than AHS when dokja is an ordinary looking man and jung hyeok is super handsome.

They aren't being strange. It's only natural for novel fans to be disappointed with casting. As a novel fan I was disappointed too. You read the novel after knowing the cast so you might not think there's anything wrong with it but as a novel fan at least I don't think that LMH is handsome beyond words (if you are LMH fan of course you won't agree with my opinion but I have never thought that he is extremely handsome, neither in boys over the flower nor in any of his other series but I do respect his acting skills) but in the novel YJH is described as extremely handsome. For me AHS is more handsome that LMH but in novel dokja's appearance is described as ordinary so imagining LMH being called more handsome than AHS just doesn't feel right. Actually for me the casting of other characters doesn't matter as much as jung hyeok and dokja as they carry the whole novel. I know being handsome or not shouldn't matter a lot but yeah that's not how I had imagined the main male leads. As everyone have their own opinion, this is my opinion.

Thank you:)

Nope, ML did seem rude to everyone because he was stressed but he especially kept looking down on FL because she had the same name as his childhood love, her habits were same as the person he loves but her
capabilities were far different and that irritated him. It's not about looks, it's about capabilities. The
thing that irritated him the most was that his heart kept feeling that she is his childhood love but his mind couldn't match it with her image in his mind, also because logically he knew who hyejin was (hari) so his mind and heart were at conflict hence he was especially rude to her. Later when he got to know that she is trying to improve and is diligent and hardworking at whatever she
does plus his heart feeling that she is his childhood love that he fell in love with her. I don't entirely blame ML cause she really was lacking and narrow minded at the start (narrow minded cause she kept blaming him for being strict but didn't try to improve herself at first) At least in my opinion he did look down upon her due to her manners and capabilities.
As for SML, I never thought he was a creep cause then the FL would seem more creepier(cause hugging her pervious boss's leg and begging him to take her back in his department also almost pulling his pants, if this is not creepy then idk what is. Also always being sneaky, always hiding at the start to avoid the ML, yeah for me that's creepy) . Especially, she
never had problem with SML being around her. He was with her through her hard times, trying to lighten up her mood, protecting her from getting hurt, playing along with whatever she wanted. Since the start he had seen that she is kind hearted and never discriminated her because of her looks. Yes, I did feel bad about him cause until the very end he has helped her (also the ML). As for kidnapping her, I don't remember much but when ML had confessed his feelings for her she kept hiding from him for some reason (idk why). In my opinion, SML was helping her to sort her own thoughts out but yeah I'm not sure about 'kidnapping' cause I don't remember anything like that.
It might be that we just have different opinions.

Idk what others are thinking but they have known each other since childhood and knows everything about each other so there's nothing left to take time and get to know each other about, hence I think the pace they are going with is perfect.

Things are going really great in the next ep's trailer but I'm afraid something bad is gonna happen.

Will this ever release?😭. The line up of tan jian ci, chen zhe yuan and hong yi is insane! All of them are my fav actors!