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The last episode had a Hunger Games vibe. I kept waiting for the Panem anthem to play while Han Li was hiding inside that tree.

Isn't it kind of the point? Nice job by the make-up team.

He looked young/different enough that I wasn't sure. Whatever potion they gave him for those 1 1/2 episodes, I want some! ;)

That was Yang Yang? Wow, I thought for sure it was a younger actor (I actually thought finally a c-drama has a teenager that looks like a teenager;))!

It's interesting enough so far and not too gimmicky for someone like me who isn't much into xianxia. We'll see how it develops.

I thought this was a really good watch overall.

Must give a shout-out to the actor who played Prince Chang - I had no idea it was the same person that played Wei Xiao in TPOB, he carried himself so completely different, great job!

I am probably the only person who thought that the body count in the end was too high, especially compared to the novel. There was no reason for the harmless Crown Prince to die. JMO, of course.

Sounds about right.

I believe Xiao Hua means Little Flower, which makes sense for Mudan, I am just curious what Dashan means. Shan might be mountain, but I am not sure how it makes sense in context.

It wasn't on Viki, it was on on iQIYI. Sometimes I wonder if the subs are either AI-generated or done by someone who does not appreciate the nuances of the language because ...yeah ;)

Does anyone know what the story is with the name Jiang Dashan and why JYC was complaining about it?

Ok, since we are asking questions:

I actually think that in some ways in the drama they made the LYC character worse. In the novel, he was scheming, but in some respects, outside of his relationship with the princess, he had more free will and eventually finally realized he needed to leave Mudan and JYC alone. The princes, OTOH, was beyond redemption horrible in the novel. Yeah, in the KMLM novel, the ML was horrendous, it was not love, it could only be full-on Stockholm syndrome, whoever wrote that must really hate women.

Hmm... It's hard to say. While I feel that this couple in the drama were sort of, to an extent, victims of their circumstances, I am ok with their ending - they kind of had it coming. But if they have gotten their cabin in the mountains, I would have been ok with it too because they have learned their lesson in the end. But it was very hard to see the SFL in the novel as a victim of her upbringing, she was just too selfish and cruel for no reason.

In the novel she has no redeeming qualities whatsoever while LYC sort of does.

It has nothing to do with the novel.

The SFL is much worse in the novel than she is in the drama. By the end of the novel LYC divorces her and her family pretends she is crazy and imprisons her in their home.

The novel is VERY different.

What a delightful drama! As a single piece with Flourished Peony, this is definitely one of my top three! And I am so glad I discovered it recently and didn't have to go through the wait!

The princess is actually worse in the novel believe it or not. LCY is actually somewhat better, not as evil. In the end, he divorced the princess and sort of grudgingly realizes that constantly trying to one-up JCY and Mudan gets him nowhere and he should just go off and live his own life and leave them alone.

Thanks!