Amarina

Clear-headed unemotional FL scheming her way up in a harem. ML is besotted with FL and is the only one to show actual romantic thoughts/emotions. Harem scheming is low-stakes for most part but does involve children taken from birth mother and talk of child death.

Overall though rather funny and cute. Very coherent plot that if anything makes you want to know some of the stories of some of the side concubines/consorts.

It's funny, I wrote almost the exact same thing earlier today when I was ranting about the bullet comments and how a lot of them are consistently bashing the FL. Because yes, while I feel the same and want to throw my phone sometimes at her 😅 I also feel it is for a POINT that she is THIS dumb, THIS stubborn, THIS everything.
She has had her prejudice and bias pointed out and thrown back in her face multiple times by now which proves she doesn't see the characters as real people who can do anything on their own.

What has always gotten me though is this strange fixation she has that one one hand she CAN change the script if she tries hard enough, while ALSO feeling like no matter what happens she CAN'T change the script and Nan Heng IS bad and will always BE bad and nothing SHE might do could possibly change THAT fact 🤡🤣

Literally the only reason I'm even considering starting this 😅

This jumps around a LOT which hampered my enjoyment of an otherwise enjoyable CP.

Yes/no, she had a lot of her power removed but she still held all her official prestige Empress and her last scene was her basically satisfied that "at least" the Emperor is still coming to her to ask her opinion on matters so she'll have that.

This was fun

This is GORGEOUS to watch and has such a touching underlying message so far. 😥

This poster practically screams there will be kisses... See the poster? See how their lips are? That's how ALL but the less than 2 second last kiss look in the show. Either hovering over the other lips and then switching to a new episode or the slightest of peck pressure with camera tilted off slightly. 😮‍💨

Definition of cute cp comedy but where the plot has little logic behind it and you have to turn your brain completely off to not be frustrated by all the plotholes 😅

Last couple episodes just sort of existed I thought. Best parts were the leads chemistry together with those evil cheeky smirks and side eyes, and the end song... beyond that though I feel like this one is one I'll forget in less than a month.

Exactly, they made it VERY obvious that the 18th Prince is a cowardly yes-man in every scene he's been in. If he becomes Emperor there's ZERO chance he's making any ACTUAL decisions himself.

There is absolutely a story but it doesn't actually start to make any sense until episode 5. In today's episodes 7/8 the storyline has started becoming more coherent since its not JUST her trying to figure the world out and random bits of lore being thrown in to confirm her assumptions.

Finally released for international. It's on WeTv (and usual sites) now.

Finally released for international

I wanted to like this more than I did. I pushed through it strictly because I wanted to see how they handled them not switching back and finally admitting they were attracted to eachother... They handled it by basically shrugging it off like one minute it was an issue and the next they liked eachother too much to care about looking at "their own" bodies when intimate 🤡.

I watched v=e8O below and the subtitles were SO much better than the ones above it (didn't bother even trying the last 2 links).
Could it have been better? Absolutely, but overall this one was really good in comparison to a lot I felt.
Loved the fact the ML but also 3ML... I second the comment below that in my heart she ended up with both.

Oh this was just the 1st 6 eps timeline just so you know but HONESTLY... I was very much looking forward to this and it's NOT good. The editing is a MESS in every way and this is Coming from someone that can usually overlook a lot of smaller editing mishaps and just downrate it a bit...

Np! With Tencent almost always their minis with go 1 ep a day after ep 12. The biggest issue to reading a calendar comes in when they delay the broadcast but this one aired day of so everything lined up correctly 😅

Since this was yesterday and you had express you were on ep 14 while non-express was on 12.
To read the calendar: today is the 20th. Ep 15/13. Look for the red fine lined 20 with the bold 15 on the red ribbon that says SVIP. Below that is the "trophy" photo. Below that is the Non-Express episode count saying ep 13.
There may or may not be an early Express ending released; if there is it will probably be on the 22nd or 23rd.
Regardless if there is or not the schedule is now 1 episode a day until non-express ends on the 28th.
Hope this helps! 🙂

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