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You made it this far. Just 24 hrs to go. Avoid all social medias. lol 😂

Imagine not understanding Mandarin and having to try to comprehend this with the crappy subs.

Exactly. Adapting the novel 1:1 with just 40 episodes is impossible, and expecting so is unrealistic. It's a matter of which parts get cut. For me, the drama did a fine job for an adaptation. And like you said, the characters are consistent within its own narrative.

It's a shame some scenes didn't make it to screen, but I'm happy with what I've seen.

Yes, the episodes are legit.

Yea, those were leaked episodes. Please don't discuss about the contents yet, or put spoiler tags, as many viewers here are still following the official schedule.

Come on, the novel is a female centric story through and through. Don't twist the facts.

This is so true. I enjoy discussing with fellow watchers, regardless of positive or negative views of the drama. Because I can reason and hold a proper discussion with them.

For the trolls and haters, they just choose to ignore any constructive discussion. They'll pull out anything to spread their narrative. You are just wasting your time and energy arguing with them.

There are politics at play regarding the rewards.

For XZ, it's kind of difficult to reward him further because he was already enfeoffed as a Marquis, and he holds real military power. Plus, he's publicly regarded as someone from Wei camp due to his blood tie with Wei Yan.

For Changyu, the geezers at the court don't want the military authority to fall into either hand, so they chose a middle ground and gave it to Changyu in the form of a reward. Because that's better than it falling completely into either of Wei or Li's hand, and they plan to rope her in to their camp later.

And it's such a cheap way to add shock factor at that.. they could have totally kept those ones alive and achieve the same result tbh. Novel did it, why can't the drama too...

And all the politics were stripped off to bare bone... they really wanted to keep it as a rom-com.

ah... my rambling. This is like my sour spot for that drama. lol

Oh, it's from the author of Are You The One and Love of the Divine Tree novels. Thanks, the synopsis looks interesting. Added to my reading list. haha

You mean Mo Li right?

Yeah, the synopsis already looks quite different from the novel. If they pull it off correctly, it might even be a better approach than half-assingly condensing the novel I guess.

You should definitely check out Mo Li. It's novel name is Golden Age Legitimate Fei. The story is pure epicness of intense romance, deep intrigues, and massive wars. Mydramanovel should have it now.

Tyrannical Wang’s Beloved Wife. This one is super long, like 600+ chapters. But the romance is chef's kiss, and it makes use of it's long length very well. You can find it on Novelupdates.

If you like revenge story, what Ti02 suggested are very good ones. Malicious Empress, Rebirth of a Star General (LOTFG), etc. From same author.

Since you like romance, I'll add a few more with just pure fluff with interesting writings.

Greetings, Ninth Uncle. No drama adaptation. Very unique FL, and super fun dynamic between the main leads.

To Be A Virtuous Wife. No drama adaptation. If you liked this novel, check out other works of the author. Each of them are unique and very charming. Many of the author's works have drama adaptation, but all of them failed to capture the charm of the novels imo.

What do you prefer? Romance, politics, wars, etc.

You stopped at the point where things start to become bat shit crazy lol.

Just watch it with a fresh mind. I'm sure the drama will differ quite a bit from the novel anyway. It'll likely follow Blossom route which is basically cutting off tons of sub plots.

I'll be happy if we get good battle scenes and decent adaptation of the politics, that's enough for me. haha

Sometimes, drama only is the way to go haha 🤣

But my impatient a** led me to read the novels of upcoming dramas every single time lol. After POJ, I'm very very concerned about Mo Li next, because the novel is about 3 times longer than Zhu Yu. 😂

I've long given up regarding this aspect in the dramas, not just POJ. Seems like many directors and writers prefer it this way.

One of the examples from recent dramas is Prisoner of Beauty. While they did a very good job at making changes to the main characters, they kept everything else very... 'light'. Totally different flavor from the source material. So I just tried to watch it as a standalone drama.

May be this is just my preference speaking.

The first question gotta be this.

Did you rely on only those machine translated subtitles? Or do you understand Chinese?

Because those subtitles are crap, and often off from the original meanings by a mile.

What was cut for Xie Zheng here is child's play compared to He Yan.

They kept all her romance scenes in but cut out a lot of her military exploits like how she formulate strategies, how she leads army, etc. If you want to see He Yan in all her glory, just read the novel.

umm.. because I enjoy watching it?

Seriously answering, I liked the novel and this adaptation is one of the better ones. They didn't butcher Fan Changyu like LOTFG did to He Yan. That's already a win in my book.

And I gotta support my girl Xiao Tian.

Gotta love how petty and vengeful she can be. She doesn't take any 💩 haha 🤣