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Why didn’t they follow the novel…… the plot and characters in the novel were so much better…..

Yea, I rolled my eyes on the amnesia too. I’m like shitz, why did they do that….

But can you really love someone you don’t trust? I can’t though actually…. Tbh I tried imagining it and I actually find it very confusing and quite scary actually. I probably can be in love with a person and not trust him, but I won’t get married to that person coz it will eventually just be pure torture once love fades and time passes. In the novel because they do detail their inner thoughts, it actually gave me a new perspective… I actually think it defines a new meaning of ‘love’. I think TaoHua actually loves herself the most, and she can love different people and different things, romantic love for her isn’t like the typical Cdrama or C-novel kinda utmost priority. Like she can just give up on it because she has other more important things to do…..

I think it won’t be much higher anymore because the plot now is quite similar to Prisoner of Beauty, which was also released recently… that one had a strong cast….

They did stick to quite a lot of things, but they changed the FL significantly and the sequence of events in the plot, like for example they brought forward when ML knows about the poisoning… also they changed the small details of the plot. But once you change a lot of the small details, then these add up though…. It will accumulate and totally change the story as a whole….

I still think they should have left the FL as promiscuous, flirty and just…. I mean they should have just stuck with both ML and FL debating trust vs. being in a marriage vs. Loving someone…. I think the novel was unique in the sense that it was echoing modern marriages/relationships whereby trust vs. benefit vs. a marriage…. Can you be in a marriage, in love, but actually you don’t trust that person….?

I finished it….. have you watched the latest episodes? They basically changed the tone of the drama…. Like they maintained a lot of things, but they changed the FL character by a lot…. And it altered and skewed the feel and vibe of the drama….. but I think some of the removal is likely to pass censorship….? But this just makes the drama kind of plain because the current trope and genre now has been produced before in other C-dramas, unlike the novel which was quite different and unique….

Damn…. The novel is actually really good. I’m pleasantly surprised.

Not only that, I find it unrealistic because I’ve never seen a person like that in real life. A person who loves no one else but himself, yet he makes an sole exception for another person, in this case, his mother…. It just makes me question the drama every time his extreme scenes with his mother are on….

I loved Wrath of Time. I felt that was the best. That story and plot was more original and less cliche. This one was good, no killing off characters but Pan Yue Ming as Hu Ba Yi had quite a few subsequent productions. I felt this was the best and as it goes they were somewhat rather disappointing because they had a formulaic approach…, so the plot was sort of on repeat but with a different background, setting.

I’m a big MereBear fan too! I love all the Extras she’s posted.

I remembered that bit. Ah right, so it’s about taking out his army… ok, that kinda makes sense, but before he declared like he will help Zhang Hai….. he basically lied right? So he knew who the 3rd guy was all along? And he was already ZBW’s ally before he left the Capital?

When did he decide to help Zhang Hai again? When he said ok, let’s destroy the seal? But then why did he lead Zhao BingWen to the entrance of the cave then? So actually all along he was lying to Zhang Hai and he is an ally of Zhao Bing Wen?

It was a bit rushed. I didn’t really feel anything when he died, aside from being surprised and then I was like….. damns, that’s unfair.

Actually I was a bit confused about Zhuang Zhi Xing though.

Yea, I got that bit…. But it was still very……. Underwhelming. I mean as much as it was poetic justice, he never went through any suffering, unlike everyone else, be it the protagonists or antagonists…. Everyone suffered mentally, or physically, or both…

I thought so too. I’m like wot…… after all that, and that’s how he dies? Left me kind of baffled. I still think it would have been more fitting if he stabbed him with a dagger as a closing….

That’s all from the original Daomu Biji plot… Actually even the hallucination from the mural is DMBJ’s common plot.
This explores origins of it, also the ghost seal with the copper fish.
https://kisskh.at/28695-the-lost-tomb-2

I think the original plan that Kennedy Xu had for this TV series was to actually expand on Wang Zhang Hai’s secrets and origins but the drama got bought over entirely shortly after they started producing it. It might be partially coz there is no original DMBJ novel specifically written on Wang Zhang Hai, so regardless an entirely new script/storyline must be produced.

This in a way is kinda painful to watch. Having similar character to Su Xiao albeit not as extreme, so many of the scenes, sub-plots, hit very close to home…. I also work for an inefficient MNC with a strong legacy and culture problem… funny thing is it’s actually listed…

Could be, I mean they kept the ghost soldiers bit…. That is basically fantasy genre… so it couldbe anything really….

He isn’t human…. It’s related to the Ghost Seal and the copper fish. But it’s actually meant for the DongXia kingdom though…. So I don’t know. It’s still a guess right now as to how much of the DMBJ plot they retained.

The might have maintained the plot of Daomu Biji wrt that….. esp when they also revealed he has no sons….. I don’t know. Hard to say at this point….

lol. It’s very lengthy. Because it’s a series of novels. In the original novels the emperor isn’t human… I noticed MDL leaving the original ‘Fantasy’ genre tag… but if they are going with undead soldiers then they have kept the original plot of the Ghost Seal and copper fish so far.

If you are interested:
https://merebear474765851.wordpress.com/

The summary of the Ghost Seal:
https://daomu-biji.fandom.com/wiki/Ghost_Seal

I wonder if they will follow the Ghost Seal plot from Daomu Biji…. I keep thinking they might because the Emperor has been a no-show……