Amarina

.....So it updated just now but they only gave us TWO episodes? 👀🙄

He is after the time skip of 10 years yes 😅 He doesn't look like any 18 year olds I've met or remembered being though... but then, his 8 year old self didn't look 8 🤡

So I'm personally liking it so far but I will say 😅 Finding out those "teens" were only supposed to be 8 years old was ummm... yeah.... okay... whatever you say story 🤣

Lol.... for real! I was real time updating my watch and wrote this:
Okay girl.... for real... I get that you're a young teenager but you KNOW that your dad and the other dude are in a battle and you use your whip to break the formation? YOU caused your dad to be knocked off the mountain and die... not the boy or his master who your dad was fighting... and then going to attack a MASTER... yeah??? Blocking the hit caused you to ALSO be pushed off the mountain... but then to REFUSE help to be pulled up... 🙄😑 -BREATHE-
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Also... apparently she wasn't a "teen" though and was only 8? 🤷‍♀️ Maybe that's why?

🤣🤣🤣 DUDE! You just got me excited for nothing... I was looking for it this morning and didn't see it under LATEST so when I just read that thought "maybe you have to type it in to search" but it doesn't come up at all yet 😭

I LOVED Kiss Me, Save Me ❤️ It wasn't perfect but it was so cute and yes, the ML was good in his dual role.
This one.... yeah, I just was telling someone else who was iffy about the first few episodes that if you didn't like the beginning, that's honestly the best, most coherent part and then it devolves into a story mess relying on their pretty faces, acting ability and cinematography to carry the show... 🙄😮‍💨

🤣🤣🤣 See even HE said with the edicts she was being "cruel and stubborn" so exactly... 🤷‍♀️

I'm not sure what type of mini dramas you watch but there ARE several out there that are better at plot without sacrificing on something else, but the trend does seem to be "Choose ONE: Consistent Plot, Spice OR Cinematography and Costuming"

I DID read all of your comment 😅 I just don't really have anything to say about the rest other than the first part (but didn't want to make it seem like that's all I read 🤣🤡)

As for that scene at 12 minutes I DO get why you first saw it that way and are now questioning. When I was watching my brain was LITERALLY playing optical illusion with that line myself where I too at first was like "okay so he keeps coming and going..." But with me I kept going back to the part about how the Edict arrived when it said that the King had ALREADY surrendered and then he was given the choice... Then when 5 years passed he comes back and AGAIN says that he can stay because the King of Wei surrendered. So if they contradicted themselves there why not 3 seconds later? Honestly if they wanted to make us KNOW that he had been coming and going for 5 years just give us a 30 second scene showing him sneaking back in black and them hugging then him saying something like "Right now you need to consolidate your rule and already the next ruler is causing issues. Ill come back when I can but first, answer my question..." Her: "Of course I love you" *5 years Later* (proceed with end scenes). 🤷‍♀️

IDK if you ended up watching more or just dropping it but yeah... dropping this is/was probably the thing to do. For someone who NEEDS the story to make sense... I'm trying to forget this show existed now.

That was also my thing by the end "she's done NOTHING for him". There's being a simp for someone you love and who loves you back... And there's being a simp for the IDEA of someone you never even ACTUALLY met as a child, but who grew up and became the object of your undying worship.
By the end, "in theory" she loves him because he has saved and protected her so many times... but what has SHE done for HIM? 🤣

Okay lol I understand if you didn't think too much about it, I've had those dramas that I've absolutely loved and been blinded by. This one started out that way for me too which is probably why I'm as frustrated as I am. As you yourself said "he has to pick HER"... But why? He's always picked her every single time since he was a child. Now he has to "pick her" again but THIS TIME he loses his name and status, his mother (because the world says he's dead), AND STILL be away from her for 5 years 🤣. How did he even get INTO the palace as a dead no name? What has HE been doing the last.5 years?
I saw him and "almost" thought it was one of those ends where he'd been there the past 5 years but no, they made sure to tell us that he has indeed been gone doing something, maybe fighting more war? for the past 5 years...

Which is another thing lol... the military actions that had him leaving the palace were to suppress Wei and make it so they didn't go to war. That pre-end scene had him saying that since he'd suppressed the border he could go home since the "Emperor was ill"... and even the Edict said that he could EITHER go to some OTHER place and never return OR play dead and return.... So WHY did it take him 5 years? 🙄🤣

For me there's a "I can guess the ending so I'm not shocked" and "This makes no sense so even though we were told the ending as the very FIRST intro prolouge to the show, by that point nothing actually was supporting it so guessing the end is pointless. 😅

Hopefully you have better luck than I did with these last episodes... I caved and bought the Express... I wish I could UNbuy the Express and purge the ending nonsense from my head 😮‍💨

You're not the only one who didn't understand the point... I figured the same that it had to be because she wanted to rule that that entire last 1/3 of the drama devolved into a mess that made very little sense to me... Like why did the Noble Consort help with killing the Emperor? Why didn't SHE want the throne since she was the Noble Consort... The whole sudden war also made no sense to me, why was the Guardian Duke plotting to Rebel through the other country with the Crown Prince... 🤷‍♀️🙄
And then the explanation about her mother just "nah, she's been dead for 10 years after trying to help the female assassins... WHY was she trying to help them? Why didn't the Crown Prince know?

Like you said, don't think too much, BUT this one started off rather well with a simple enough premise and became a mess story-wise.

Oh 🤣 I just have my browser set to automatically translate so I didn't even think about that 🤡

Most of the cast can be found in this post here:
https://m.weibo.cn/status/5026317051363879

His name is Ling Xuan, he doesn't have a page on here or much presence on Weibo from the looks of it

Yeah I personally thought that was rather well done also because every scene they had together he treated her well and always listened to her opinions etc but he was just so blinded by his insistence that he loved Anning that he didn't recognize what he actually had until it was gone and there was no one there to help him any longer.

Personally, I was initially going NOOOOO but then the episode continued and by the very end... I was okay with the end. They basically told us multiple times how the story was going to ultimately end in both the song lyrics and each time she went to the temple and did the divination. Having him wait and get the affairs in order and make sure the country was stable was the very best thing he could do in his situation... He'd already lost her once, losing her a second time (this time because he was literally too slow to catch her) would have been a daily torture for him. Now, in the afterlife or in their next life etc, they can hopefully be together.

Thoughts on the end:

See THAT made no sense because next scene they referenced it having only been 6 months.