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Lol. I laughed when I read your post… I’ve never actually counted though I’ve rewatched this multiple times…. Perhaps not much… I think there are maybe only a handful of times?

This is one of the major “complaint” I’ve seen on MDL wrt this series (to be fair the situation was way worse in the original novel, they were hardly together). But I really found their chemistry and the love between the leads uber strong though. And this is the first time I’ve watched Zhou Yi Wei on-screen. Like they are so cute, I’m definitely in awe.

Edit: this drama has really good fight choreography! Visually stunning and really engaging. Everything else is………… hurm… yea. I can totally see it scoring 8.1. It’s good (like the main concept, outline and plot is actually a very good storyline/idea) but there are loadsa finer issues which often occurs with sucha big budget production and so many episodes. Can imagine a lot of disappointment.

Have to say the actor playing the emperor is really =.= …. Why didn’t they cast a better actor for this complex role… he is the most one-dimensional Chinese emperor I’ve ever seen. He was an angrybird the entire series and nothing else; epic fail. The casting for this drama isn’t great to begin with. The 2 leads and 7th prince, fine… not bad. Gong Jun amongst few others were alright. But the rest….. I.e wth is wrong with the 9th prince?!?! He was pretty bad, seems like a pretty green actor from his expressions/acting skills but he plays an important role. The Crown Prince was also =.= at least half the cast was questionable/lost/dreaming/ just down right quite bad….

BUT 1/3 into the series and it’s still really engaging/interesting! Will revert with the ending.

Edit: Waaaayyyyyy too long. The plot isn’t gripping enough, ended up FF-ing to finish it. Also the dubbing is kinda weird… feels like it’s old tech kinda dubbing. Think this would have been great if it were 30-40 episodes with better screenwriting. What a waste.

I don’t know how this drama is going to progress, read loadsa complaints that it’s too long with editing issues and I spse that is partially why the rating is relatively low, but I just got to say the fight scene in Episode 2 is super cool, and I’ve watched many fight scenes… Lol.

Nooooooooo….. I was really looking forward to Mark Chao and Liu ShiShi

I’m here because of William Chan, I’m not really a fan of his (he totally isn’t my type) BUT I was super surprised to watch him in Mystic Nine. He can actually act, and he can act well! Uber surprised. I haven’t watched him in anything else since so I don’t know if it’s just a fluke or coincidence…. I’m here to find out. 🤣 hopefully this is good. Super surprised to find Gong Jun in this series as well.

The ending was really weird… they wrapped up and closed everything but…. I wanted to say the storyline was a tad ridiculous, but it isn’t exactly that, it just came out super odd……. And it wasn’t related to bad editing or cliffhangers…. It was still reasonable… but it was just pure odd and unsatisfying…. I can’t pinpoint to specifics…. I wonder if anyone can articulate why.

This is truly a classic, irreplaceable even after decades… the casting was done well…

I remembered only Raymond Lam’s acting was kinda off and wasn’t great… luckily his face suits the role. Lol.

Gosh. Hong Siu Lung is back. Louis Koo was a natural in that role, it was as though I can imagine him being like that in real life. 😏

Word of Honour was good too. Like really good.

I was just about to ask after looking at the cast…. Lol

Lol. I liked the plot initially too, like at the very start but trust me when I say it went superb crazy after that and it left me “?!?!?” after it ended.
So I wouldn’t say you are missing out that much if you didn’t watch it.

It’s on Dramacool with Eng subs.

It’s on Dramacool with Eng subs,

Haha, kinda the same here. I’ve marked this as plan to watch for the longest time and have procrastinated just because of the first 15 mins of the 1st episode. Somehow couldn’t focus while watching so I stopped. So glad I finally picked this up again, it was a 8.5-9 for me.

Only issue for me was the romance bit between the main couple (and there was a lot of screen time), both leads were good actors but I found them a bit annoying together. Like the chemistry was a bit off somehow. I think because of how they physically look which I found totally incompatible or maybe the oddness in physical chemistry? There was just this weird vibe.. but it wasn’t fair to lower the score because of it. They were a great pair as kick-ass partners but I wince every time they come on screen as lovers, had to skip all their scenes esp towards the end. But this is likely due to my own personal taste/preference.

This series was defo a solid 8.5 if not a 9.

This was super refreshing, highly highly recommend!!
Totally Men-In-Black style… defo a Ghostbusters+MIB+Marvel genre…. Appreciate the effort made by Chinese producers to venture into uncharted genre by spending on casting, props, CGI (series would have been a complete fail without decent special effects make up and CGI) and a surprisingly solid storyline, truly deserves praise. Even K-dramas don’t have anything similar, at least not that I know of.

Storyline/plot was generic at the start… basically modelled after MIB (they did it successfully, was natural and believable, surprisingly pretty funny/comedic as well), so the watch was really enjoyable..
but surprisingly as it progressed, the plots/cases actually have quite a bit of depth to them.. and were quite creative + interesting. The flow and editing was really smooth which is surprising given C-drama standards.

Also the final arc was really good, that completely caught me off guard. Usually C-dramas have messed up and/or rushed endings…

Think to begin with they could have casted a different actor for the ML…. Whomever it was had big shoes to fill esp when paired with a strong actress like Seo Ye Ji, just her gaze itself is naturally piercing (even more so with makeup) but the actor for the ML has a flat and unfocused gaze naturally. Just empty when he looks at you…

I failed, couldn’t get pass the poor production quality…. Not even kidding, was just really really bad. Shows how much C-dramas’ production progressed in the past 5 yrs.

Ah… that explains it… but in a way I felt the storyline was more realistic for an Asian woman even in current times (maybe it won’t be the case in 20-30yrs)…. Esp since her husband isn’t actually a jerk, he actually didn’t do anything “wrong” aside from not being the greatest husband + partner….. the issues they faced was actually super realistic for most married couples, and not everyone would get a divorce because of it considering they share a child.

Exact same thinking! I think it’s a solid 8.5.