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Ah…. I never knew, then seriously poor Deng Lun…. This is just an error and overlook. Even I’ve made errors with my taxes… on many occasions. Lol.

Good list. I have a lot of overlaps too.

Would say that he’s more of an antihero…

Lol. Sad that it doesn’t have a huge fan base for its novel like Daomu Biji.

Lol. I rewatched Season 2 and prior to rewatching Season 1 I thought the same as you…. I was like…. I don’t remember them being very close…. AFTER rewatching Season 1 then yea, there was some weird “sexual” tension between them for most of the series, there was even a scene whereby she used her mouth to pick a necklace he was wearing!! But could tell that it was mostly her being very intrigued/attracted by him..

But yes, Elvira totally owned the role, Aliya was kinda odd as Huang Yan Yan, chemistry was off. Totally missed Elvira as Huang Yan Yan, she was a real badass!

No but there are similarities… so there is the whole mystery and secret factions surrounding this series as well. Like different sects with different skillsets + secrets and they get passed down from one generation to another.
There is also a lot of adventure because of that. It is more “realistic” than the tomb hunting genre because there are no supernatural elements.

Just to add…. With my intermediary Chinese…. I only get about 70-80% of it, the jargons, definition and plot is too technical….. I’m also rooting for Eng subs….

Hope this gets subbed in Eng for international viewers. It was really good…

Also, totally appreciate the production crew for casting actual bilingual Japanese + Mainland actors, makes the viewing experience so much more enjoyable and pleasant… also makes it very believable/realistic…

This is basically a prequel to the Mystery of Antiques and Midgame right? It’s basically the story of Xu Yuan’s grandfather? 🤓

Yeap. Was rushed but at least it turned out reasonable and sensible.

“Theoretically” it should be Zhang QiLing… well at least based on the novel for sure it is.

Liang Wan here really really really annoyed me. Shitz… and she is quite crucial to the plot…. I cringe almost like every time when she is in the picture.

Seriously… was perfect… like I mean there are soooooo many actors that play the China Emperor roles… like I can’t tell A from B honestly coz there are just too many… but he nailed this particular role head on. Very impressive and also memorable.

I did a short Google check on him and apparently he is the go-to Emperor actor though….. but I don’t think I’ve watched him prior to JoL.

Claps to the editing and production crew. It was rushed BUT the flow was natural unlike the crazy Mystic Nine drama I just rewatched.
Am glad C-drama editing seems to be somewhat progressing…

Ending was rushed but was smooth and coherent, they did address the ID theft issue!

Ideally it should have been a 1-hour episode then it would be close to perfect… surprisingly they closed the water contamination arc pretty abruptly… so they took a “shortcut” there…

Yea, can already tell how rushed it will be with how Episode 39 ended. They are probably only going to address the water contamination arc. It’s madness. And C-dramas’ individual episodes are only 35-40 mins, not even an hour……. =.=

Ah…… right. Lol. My bad. Got it, thanks! I somehow thought he wanted to say that Porsche looks like himself or his brother.

The ending is going to be super rushed again…….. why do so many C-dramas have this issue…. 😔

But then there was an insinuation that Porsche is his son…… coz there was that flashback when Korn first saw his surveillance footage he made a statement…. “He looks like……” and then the sentence was incomplete….

Ah… ok. So part of it was left open… thanks for summarising it.