AnastasiaWun

Deciding to drop this after watching #1. Was on it for Caesar but seems like this is a poorly directed drama lined up with B or C cast. The actor playing Bao Zhen doesn't have the aura of the infamous Bao Zhen. Zhan Zhao is supposed to be a top class imperial guard and fighter but failed to catch a low class thief. And it's even more ridiculous that a Zhan Zhao could stop in his pursuit just because he tore open a female blouse!

The synopsis is incorrect and exaggerating...

it's within my expectation that Miss Mu Wan Ting comes back with the Japanese. Deep core villains don't die that easily, only good guys do.

this drama is set at the time of warlords fighting against each other, the cause and fight of the Republican army, and all during the beginning of Japanese espionage and army invasion. Based on history, Japs conquered and ruined the lands they set foot on. So, i doubt there'll be a HEA for all three couples...

Thanks for the info. Up to now, i haven't watched S1 cos FL Li Xirui besides looking much older than ML, the CP doesn't look compatible together.

I'm skipping PM1 and will start PM2 instead.

This drama is built on ML's appeal to women, not on misunderstanding. His handsomeness and husband material qualities are sought after by many noble ladies. So, you'll expect several women, each scheming to break up the betrothed/ married couple at different stages of storyline.

This drama is one of those very rare ones that the screenwriter/director rewards us viewers with a complete ending and sealing it with a kiss of sweetness and romance.

Princess Xinning claims she acted on Magistrate's advice and admits her wrongdoings. Emperor being lenient towards her, of course pardons her and punishes her by only grounding in Palace for two years. Whereas he is depriving the Magistrate of his role and duties and sending him to exile.

Ye Changqing becomes very angry with the unfair and severe sentence on him. While Princess Xinning is let off so easily for her wrongdoings, he has to bear the punishment alone.

In his anger, he slashes Xinning hard on her back. Since there is no mention of her in the last nine minutes of finale, we can assume that Xinning has succumbed to the slash injury and dies on the spot.

The only mention of the aftermath is the emperor's pardon of Zhou Junjue. The emperor credits ZJJ for protecting him and absolves all charges.

As you can see in the last nine minutes, Xu Chunchun's dessert business flourishes and her books of dessert recipes sell like hot cakes. Even the Emperor bestows on her a plague.

Now that her dessert business is doing so well to the extent of having a store bigger than her husband's teahouse, Chunchun offers to help her husband achieve whatever ideal/s he still has not achieved.

To this, his sweet reply is her. No matter how calm or turbulent their life will be in the future, he will always remain by her side and let her become the richest person without any worry at all.

which part confused you?

Anyone else feeling the same? For me, Red Sleeve is much more funny, interesting & laced with excitement than the slow moving & bland King's Affection. Each TRS ep holds my attention and never miss a scene whereas for TKI, i tend to speed it up to get it over and done with...

yeah, he's quite a visual in Produce X101. Too bad he didn't reach the milestone, but sure glad to see him progressing here...

With a tall, dark & mysterious persona, Choi Byungchan is certainly quite mesmerizing & captivating attention. It's only a supporting role, can't imagine the attention he'll get when he's cast as the main in a wuxia drama.

Yup, in Cdramas, most of the "young" actors are made to look much older than their age. Just like Wang Xing Yue in "Your Sensibility, My Identity", and Tong Meng Shi in "Bright As The Moon".

But TBH Yang Mi definitely looks at least 30 already. We Chinese can gauge that from her face and physique. William Chan too looks his age, especially in the way he's been "packaged for this drama."

It's a pleasant surprise to see Huang JJ in this drama. Such a handsome visual and he played his part quite well. But I'm even more surprised by the wide age gap of 12 years between Huang JJ and Yang Mi.

yes, both countries speak Mandarin but each with a different twang and slang. We Mandarin speakers can distinguish the difference between them immediately. China Chinese write simplified Chinese characters while Taiwanese uses Traditional Chinese.

The "national" dialect in Taiwan is Hokkien. So, I guess that's why most Taiwanese speak Mandarin with a Hokkien accent.

i'm with you on that

based on what i see in the opening guide (Episode#) of both videos, Episode 40 is labelled as Episode 40, while Episode 41 is labelled FINAL Episode instead of Episode 41.

That said, both videos have the same opening scene with FL and the ending scene with FL/ML at cafe. I didn't watch the two videos but i assume they have the same contents.

this is just my speculation, not a spoiler.
Emperor marries Haishi to save her from deception crime (female identity), punishable by immediate execution. Haishi becomes Queen while Tilan remains Consort.
Because Emperor trusts his little brother Jichang so much, he isn't wary of him and throws caution to the wind even to the point when questionable evidence kept pointing to his little brother being the mastermind plotting against him. So Jichang succeeds in dethroning and killing the Emperor,
Shifu succumbs to his accumulated injuries and dies.
Haishi succeeds in getting rid of Jichang and becomes Empress and rule the nation, either as herself or as the regent.

FL's unnatural cuteness and goodiness and her not stopping 2ML's manipulation and cutting him off totally is getting on my nerves.

i've lost interest in CP already. Staying just to root for only Xu Wei & Fang Qi

the secret relationship i mentioned was referring to the time he was a fugitive and presumed dead after being framed for something...

i've yet to resume from #4. Based on what i saw in #24, they got married but due to ML's ardent admirer, they had to separate. Think CP kept secret relationship in order to counter the evil villain/s.