AnastasiaWun

she didn't accept his proposal. She just wants to continue dating and not getting married.

thanks, i've watched the full #18 on Dramacool.

well, i won't say that's incorrect, just that the narrative omitted the first 10 min of Ep# 1 and dive into the main plot.

the above narrative is correct. The last two sentences will occur in the 2nd half of the story.

hahaha, dead fish kissing cos' she can't see herself doing and directing it well while in the kissing process!!!

So, how did it wrap up? From YT clips, seems like FL didn't accept his marriage proposal.

Empress Dowager (Tai Hou) is the Emperor's mother, be it biological birth mother or not.

Empress (Wang Hou) is the Emperor's wife.

How Royal Mother-Son relationship can become bad:
When an Emperor dies with his heir still a child or dies without a heir/crown prince, the court may have selected a next in line child to succeed as emperor and also appoint either a minister or the empress (dead king's wife) to be the regent/advisor to the child emperor. So, when the child emperor grows up and reaching of age, the appointed Regent (Empress Dowager or Minister) who has been managing behind the emperor will have to step down.

From what i see in Ep 2, i guess the Empress Dowager doesn't want to lose her power / control in court...

Sorry if i'm not clear in my explanation...

#9, but guess you probably found the answer yourself by now

not the kissing part. It's the part where she looks at the glass panel and then the view switches to us looking into the glass room in full view of her bare body hugging his!!!

wonder if they use stand-in persons for the make out scene!

how do you classify as good happy ending? FL survival?

LOL, is that word a forbidden word, even though marked with spoiler!!!

her solo fighting scene reminds me of The Villainess!

woah, what a transformation! From a beautiful sexy mistress in TWOTM to artistic pretty undergrad in Nevertheless, to a juvenile punk turned drug ring undercover in police force!!!

LOL always wonder why cdrama directors include scene with huge empty ballroom and love props just to show the rich boyfriend/ husband having a one course meal?! So unrealistically boring!

agree with you on the 2nd last para. For me, somewhere along the way, it became my PTL drama - something i put on to Pass Time while working on my Laptop.

It started off pretty well but somehow midway got bored... nothing to do with FL or any of the characters, but just its storyline and how they reveal their counter attacks on the villains each time.

LOL why do they even bother to produce such stuff?!

Did you just add LBH in the cast list? He's right at the end of the list.

Guess if we don't put too much expectation on films shot 4-5 yrs ago with greenhorns and rookies as leads, and perhaps outdated techniques, etc... we can still enjoy...

But i must praise tone deaf Simon for doing well in his lip synching...

Boring looking ML. Would have tried checking out had it been a 16 parter