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Not necessarily. Jing Tian was older than her co-stars in both Wonderland of Love and Si Jin and the "chemistry" worked. "Chemistry" is just acting - if the actors are chosen well and good at what they do, they make it work.

Ugh, how boring 😔! I actually wanted it to make sense!

Oy, the episode 4 massacre broke my heart. And then all the widows and orphans kneeling at the palace gates broke it again.

And what is the deal with the SML? Spitting blood this early in the drama can only mean dying from poison or some deadly disease. Which is it?

This was very much a feel-good experience and I thoroughly enjoyed it!

They actually managed to make me feel sorry for Xia Jingyan. He died like a man. I certainly felt more sorry for him than Xia Jingshi (well, I wasn't sorry for him at all).

I did feel sorry for the second prince. The poor thing just wasn't suited to real life. He actually could have been a decent emperor with his brother's support and guidance.

I wish the ending wasn't so rushed but this is cdrama after all. At least it's a HE.

All in all I really enjoyed this!

They went on a long, strange trip :).

This drama has just about every trope in the c-drama arsenal but somehow it all comes together and it works. And the censors were clearly out for lunch :). The main leads do a fantastic job and have great chemistry. I really enjoyed it!

I can't wait for the amnesia arc to end!

Ugh

I agree it would be a bad ending for the audience. But not for the ML, he doesn't want the stupid throne and everything it entails.

Ugh, not uncle, son.

Sorry, that whole brood of traitors should die - father, uncle and the nephew who killed the Hound and the other soldier. I get why Marquis Murong did it but he should still die.

Seriously. I can't stand amnesia plots this late in the game.

Sadly, I think in the end FSG will let his idiot baby brother remain the emperor. It's so stupid, he is supposed to be 20, but he acts 12.

I wish they just stopped before the whole crazy mother arc. Because the previously decent, coherent story just goes off the rails then.

Sure he is. He would do anything for his son, even take the d*amn throne himself if he has to.

For the drama it would make sense.

No, the drama did not keep much beyond the names and the titles of some of the key characters.

In the novel FSG becomes emperor of Susha and XJS emperor of Jinxiu, but in the novel XJS is a very different character, he is not a villain, he does not want to be emperor and becoming emperor is basically a punishment for all the things he did wrong.