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Not quite but this adaptation seems to capture the spirit of the novel.

Haha yeah😂

She committed suicide out of desperation and responsibility. She knew she couldn’t live as the 9th Princess nor as the Crown Princess but cleverly realised she could use LCY’s obsession to win peace.
Xiao Feng was a love brain at first but it’s LCY who stays a “love” brain forever.

Li Cheng Yin may think it’s love. He may even wish to be Gu Xiao Wu but it doesn’t change the fact that in the end it became all about possessing Xiao Feng. In the drama, if he loved Xiao Feng as opposed to wanting to possess Xiao Feng he wouldn’t have tried to force things. He wouldn’t have hurt her the way he did. In the book he assaults her at least twice and both times are violent. The drama cuts it down to one scene but there is no east palace or politics requiring him to hurt Xiao Feng. It’s all pure jealousy and possessiveness.
In the scene when LCY comes to Xiao Feng’s bedroom to confess his love, I’ve always thought part of the reason she stabs him is because she is scared of what LCY will do if she refuses him.

Xiao Feng was 15 so even younger. Regardless of his past, he treated her very poorly. There’s no forgiving that.

Thanks for the recommendation but Starry Love isn’t my cup of tea. I do agree with you about NSY tho. NYX at least owes her an explanation for the years they spent married.

That brow sweep😂 He saved a life that day.

Yeah being a drama fan is definitely the best life. When I was drama fan, I just whizzed through dramas without a care. It was great. 😂 There’s been some major strides in cleaning up fan culture though. Some of the big marketing accounts that start a lot of the fan wars got banned last month and it’s been so much more peaceful.

Same!

I don’t think foreign fans are doing it on purpose by comparing but on Weibo etc, fans of the TSL show, the pairing, and the actor have been causing a lot of trouble to RoaTF so it make some sensitive. One of the ways they do this is to ruin the word of mouth with complaints.

Right? If you like that drama that’s fine but please don’t use it to keep stepping on this show and the actress.

Woa, if this is true!!!!! Ahhhhh!!!!!

I loved the latest episodes. Episode 11 seems to have a different director. It’s still shaky but the shots of people, especially Xiao Ran are really good. I hope this Director features more. Gonna rewatch episode 12 again. I laughed so hard at the casino owner all beat up behind them while they had a couple moment.

Definitely don’t watch this looking for romance. It’s a proper tragedy, so tragic people still mourn the heroine 4 years after the show ended.

Yeah, the OP wanted to know when he realised someone other than the Danchi was involved.

Yes! I’m so happy for this! They both deserve some traffic.

Every so often I go back to scold Youku😂.

Honestly, I don’t think Xiao Feng is as incapable as everyone says. In reality the problem was she was too young and LCY by keeping her out of court politics never allowed her to grow up. Xiao Feng might not like complicated things but it doesn’t mean she’s not clever. I think she would have had some bottom lines but ultimately, I think she would have learned to survive.

I’d argue he’s not human and that’s where the drama messes up is in trying to absolve him. By the time LCY meets XFin the drama he’s already got the beginnings of turning into a monster in his veins due to the East Palace. In the book, he’s already a monster. His story is a corruption arc . Absolute power corrupts absolutely and becoming the monsters you fight. I’d argue it’s not love he feels but possession. He wants to own the one thing that brings a bit of light and humanity to his life but in his monstrosity, he destroys it. If there is any reason to pity LCY it is that; that he is destined to destroy that he loves most. In the book he seems to understand this which I can respect but that drama cheapens out by trying to make all that happen somehow out of his hands or not his fault.

If I remember that scene correctly when she tells LCY that her GXW is already dead and that LCY killed GXW with his bare hands, it’s a double message. A message to herself that the period she loved him is dead and never coming back and that’s there’s no hope in LCY because he killed that relationship/happiness himself with his betrayal. The second is to hurt LCY by stoking his jealousy.