Would you cry if one of your friends died in front of you? Let alone they betrayed your trust and wanted to murder…
YWY is a childhood sweetheart so by plot logic, he has a unique existence to Yezi even if it’s not romantic love. Plus, she still thinks YXM is immortal at that point and YWY is literally two feet away and has a sword sticking out of his chest compared to YXM sitting in a chair. She would get scolded to death by most audiences if she ran past him.😂
It’s a slow burn romance and most of the chemistry is in the push-pull relationship the two have but the first…
It’s really not a lie to say this show is a slow burn . However, I can understand it’s not for everyone. It’s also not that passionate super intense love style either. The romance is very step by step. It feels realistic and given the age gap of the characters, it’s kinda nice the show gives Yezi time to process her feelings. Part of Yezi’s growth line is letting go of A’Rui and letting go of revenge. I think for someone like Yezi who hasn’t really had too many ppl to rely on in life it would be a slow process. When she does realise her feelings it’s very sweet tho.
well I know that their actual age gap is not that huge but still, it looks huge in appearance. It might put some…
That’s fair. Some people are more okay when they know her real age so I always give the information. I feel a bit bad for her. The actress sometimes gets ridiculed for acting with younger actors that look more her age but now she’s paired with an older actor, she’s also getting ridiculed (not here but on Weibo). She can’t win lol.
and does anyone know why so many episodes were cut?
The rules are always changing which is why dramas end up getting cut or making changes. Political stuff gets cut but other things like no ghosts, no BL, no soul transfer rules also exist. Apparently the name or title of some character from the hit drama Canglan Jue had to change due to one of these types of rules.
and does anyone know why so many episodes were cut?
Nah all dramas have to go under the censorship review before they air. Historical dramas have the toughest review but even modern and fantasy can face cuts.
and does anyone know why so many episodes were cut?
Supposedly it got cut down due to censorship. I think it’s worth watching but I’m a fan of one of the actors in the show so maybe I have a filter. I’d say if you go in with no expectations and understanding it’s had deep cuts that affect the plot, characters, and pacing, it’s fine. There’s also some character analysis posted in the discussions that can give more context to what is missing. The first three episodes are the roughest but it gets better after that. The acting between the two leads is the biggest draw for most. They have a really good dynamic.
He seems like he was supposed to have more of a role. There also seems to be some one sided pining on his part…
It’s a shame haters on Bstation got to this show first. It was honestly a shipfest😂. There were so many possible pairings flying around everywhere that it would have made the fan video scene lively.
What a disappointment this drama has been so far. It's not bad as much as extremely mediocre. Terrible editing,…
Lol, a fan watching the show said why has the show given them more grievances than a ghost. I don’t think it’s the script. Apparently it took years to polish. Fans are also trying to get ahold of it because the show has been redubbed from the original lines. I also doubt it’s the director since he has some classics. Most domestic opinion feels that the fault is 100% with the editors. I think that’s partially why the crew put out the tidbits and BTS so early, so fans could understand/see the contrast between what was shot and what was the end result. As viewers have probably learned with SJFY, the difference between a good movie and a bad movie is often in the editing. That’s why some of the bigger names make some serious bucks. As for PXR, her fans are really disappointed in this show. I’ve been reading the clarification posts and watching BTS and it seems like for whatever reason, the later editors gutted PXR’s character. Her growth line was essentially the acceptance of love but through the delivery of a revenge plot. By cutting out the revenge part entirely, the show cut out Yezi’s transformation from revenge on behalf of A’Rui, wavering because YXM is good to her, wanting go back to the past to save A’Rui (which in turn will allow her to love YXM guilt free), to the final stage of mourning A’Rui but moving on with her own life. This story basically only gave us the middle part of Yezi’s growth although I’d argue that Yezi in episode 21 is far more savvy than in episode 1. Yezi will probably never compare to Xiao Feng to viewers in performance because she isn’t given enough time. GMP is 55 episodes to SJFY’s 25. That’s 30 more episodes plus 3 Easter egg specials for Xiao Feng’s story to unfold. In fact, I’d argue the first ten episodes or so of GMP exist mostly to ensure the audience realises Xiao Feng as a full blooded character before the “romance” kicks in. This helps the audience understand just how drastic her transformation is during the drama. And even tho ppl complain about GMP’s editors, they did take care to give us shots that showcased PXR’s acting. The same can’t be said for SJFY. Its editors basically either cut, shortened, rearranged out of place , or redubbed inappropriately any super emotional scene of Yezi and it’s absolutely mind boggling when PXR’s acting skills were one of the shows draws. I mean in this tidbit, her skills are no worse than GMP: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4849903807243975 But the scene in the aired episode has less than a fraction of the emotion. It’s really a pity because Yezi is the first character PXR has played that actually has a clear line of growth and a deeper complexity. Xiao Feng stays sweet until the last scene and doesn’t grow up until the very end and that’s part of what leads to her tragedy. Jun Jiu Ling learns a little from her initial mistake but her setup is too much the perfect heroine. Li Binghe is sweet like Xiao Feng but has growth but unfortunately her part ends before she realises it.
when does FL really fall in love with ML and not just treat him as a king?
It’s a slow burn romance and most of the chemistry is in the push-pull relationship the two have but the first proper romantic scenes happen in Episode 13 and that’s when Yezi starts to see him in a different light.
“The plot of the heroine being deleted/tampered by the scissorhands is not completely counted. Anyway, the show…
Yeah I think having the back story and BTS really helped with enjoying the show. It also helped make me more angry lol. On Weibo they’re still scolding the show. 😂
“The plot of the heroine being deleted/tampered by the scissorhands is not completely counted. Anyway, the show…
Another blog by the same blogger with some edits for clarity:
“Ye Lingshuang/Bai Lu's daring to love and dare to hate has never been just talking about it orally, but thinking about it in her heart. When she hated to the extreme, she could stab Ming Emperor, who came to visit her, regardless of the situation where she was about to be killed by Ga [be heading]. When she loves to the extreme, she can reverse time and space and go back to the past to earn herself a chance to love frankly, and sleep [with] the male lead without saying a word (although she only realized when she woke up the next day that she was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger instead of being killed by a tiger) eat) [that she who was a tiger pretending to be a pig was eaten by a bigger tiger]. As a result, both of these places were deleted completely. It's very rare to see such a sentimental heroine in domestic dramas. I really can't just describe this sense of loss with regret, it will probably be a lifetime of regret.”
Explanation from a Chinese fan over how Yezi was edited and what the second edit did to the character. Apologies…
“The plot of the heroine being deleted/tampered by the scissorhands is not completely counted.
Anyway, the show is over, the cast has also withdrawn, and the dust has settled. Then it's not inappropriate for me to come out and open a microphone, right? Writing this is just to make it clear that some of the heroine's misunderstood performances have nothing to do with her. Everything is a masterpiece of great editorial masterwork. As for whether it is for the purpose of passing the trial, or something else, we can't get to the bottom of it and don't bother to ask.
The following is only part, only part. The show party still put some tidbits very thoughtfully, that's why they can come up with such a little bit.
Completely deleted the big emotional scene in the previous plot where she heard the news of A Rui's death in the barracks, called A Rui's name and collapsed and fainted from crying. Later, she witnessed the process of A Rui falling off the cliff through the moiré spell, because she could not make a sound in the magic circle, and she only knew that A Rui was dead when she covered her mouth in pain, tampered with replacement + changed the lines to this scene. The audience who didn't know the truth scolded her for being too calm.
The scene where she attempted to assassinate Emperor Ming in the sky prison was completely deleted. The core of her love-hate entanglement with Emperor Ming has always been the death of A Rui. Earlier, she dealt with Emperor Ming slickly on the bright side, pretending to be an obedient minister, while wrapping her hatred tightly and carefully in her heart. But in the scene of the Heavenly Prison, she probably couldn't fake her feelings anymore, so there was such a dramatic scene. Now she has nothing to cut, and the audience scolded her for not avenging BLALA for her best friend.
Because she fell in love with Emperor Ming and couldn't kill Emperor Ming again, and her belief collapsed (before she used revenge as the driving force for survival), the scene of her emotional outburst and collapse was cut and tampered into the penultimate episode. She died because she misunderstood Emperor Ming. guilt. The original soundtrack in the tidbits clearly stated, "Why do you always give me reasons not to kill you".
In the same way, the drunk scene is also because of the fierce tearing between this belief in revenge and her true emotions, so she asked the little maid "Am I ridiculous?" In the end, she was married to the most popular part of the old saying "misunderstood the hero". Can the emotions in these two states of mind be the same? The consequence of Zhang Guan Li Dai is that the audience scolded the heroine for acting too much and being hypocritical.
Completely cut out the middle of the part about unsealing the seal, and replaced it with the spellcasting scene cut from an unknown episode, then woke up and got angry at Emperor Ming because of the death of Qi Hailian, and was scolded by the audience for being inexplicable and hypocritical. It was originally here that she went out to find the second male lead to unblock her. Maybe she heard about the death of Qi Hailian when she was out, and then when she confronted Emperor Ming, the new hatred (the death of Qi Hailian) and the old hatred (the death of Qi Hairui) came to her heart together. Did not control my emotions. After the collage, only inexplicable impressions remain.
And these big emotional dramas are almost all in the middle and late stages, during the wavering stage of her relationship. Now all of them have been cut and grafted to the last three episodes, and then the marriage is 800 times faster. Can the audience feel that her emotions change too quickly? Originally, her feelings for Emperor Ming had undergone a drastic and natural transformation, from pure hatred to wavering to acceptance, the process was long and painful. As for Arui, from desperately avenging her, to falling in love with Emperor Ming and wanting to go back to the past to revive Arui to find an outlet for her and Emperor Ming's love, to trying everything possible but failing, and finally realizing that she has to pity the person in front of her and let go. This is the original logic.
The scene where she listened to Yi Wuyou's last words and then cried bitterly in the main hall was deleted. Most of the rivalry scenes between the heroine and the male lead are gone, but I don't understand why even the tenderness she gave at the last point has to be cut? Sure enough, he was scolded for being cold-blooded.
There was also a fan story before. Because she foresaw the disaster of the ice lake, she presented a memorial to Emperor Ming, but Fan Ruhui deliberately obstructed it, causing Emperor Ming to not deal with it in time, which made her disappointed and angry with Emperor Ming. Emperor Ming came to explain with her memorial. After being edited and grafted with a line, she asked Emperor Ming to resign and then she refused to go to court for no reason. Emperor Ming came to coax her, and she suddenly became an unreasonable little wife.
Then from TG, the deletion can only be described as "massive". I'll just talk about two points that I care about. One is that she and the second male are not looking for a free purchasing agent relationship. The two of them have a partnership to do business and make money in order to make up for the ice. Bai Lu handed over the Chi Yuezhu, a gift given to her by Emperor Ming, to the second male lead to exchange for money. It was not like the second male lead wasted money for her like he was being taken advantage of. I asked if the editing was good. One knife turned her into a fishing girl, ha ha. The second is that her predictive ability is not a decoration at all. It is an important help for her to start her career line. With this ability, she counts it as a gold mine and a disaster. While helping Emperor Ming solve many problems, she also obtained information from Emperor Ming To Qihai Lianyi Wuyou and the others, who leaked information and swindled money. Emperor Ming said that she was "a wolf-hearted dog", and there was nothing wrong with that. What is it cut now? Only the flexible lips remain.
It can be seen that the heroine's highlight scenes, emotional scenes, or parts related to her career are all deleted without exception. Therefore, her character design has changed from a girl with a clear distinction between love and hate, who has her own will and ideas to take revenge scripts, into a silly, sweet tool that most of the time sets off the hero's affection, wisdom, and martial arts. Even if I am a queen, I have to say that the original relationship line is not a hundred times better than it is now? Fans don't think that every scene can be broadcast. It is normal for a drama to be deleted in the later stage. But what is more terrifying than deletion is tampering! What a flesh-and-blood character Ye Lingshuang was originally, but because of the deletion of the entire line of revenge, and because of these double-creation operations, she not only lost her original brilliance, but also suffered too much harshness that she shouldn't have to bear. The audience didn't know that this story was a second creation with the original plot broken, and they would only stare at these unreasonable places and make complaints about it. As a result, we were paid by the heroine with the most severely deleted characters and the worst cuts.
But as a fan, I can only speak out for her like this. I just hope that Xiaoran's next role will not have such an encounter.”
Explanation from a Chinese fan over how Yezi was edited and what the second edit did to the character. Apologies if the English is awkward, it is auto translated. I’ll also put a link to the original post in the discussion thread.
while the show does not flow smoothly in many places, personally, i don’t feel like it’s that complicated.…
I didn’t think the plot was that complicated either but I think a lot of Cdrama viewers are used to much slower pacing. Understanding character motivations seemed more difficult because the cuts ruined the context tho. All in all though I think the story gave a reasonable explanation for why the main couple get together and since they’re biggest draw, I’m satisfied. The main leads chemistry is really good. I was skeptical at first but the trailers sent me straight into the pit and I haven’t looked back. Acting ability really makes all the difference and this combined with the quality of their relationship makes this my No.1 pairing. I can’t stop rewatching them and hope we can get all the cut scenes especially the ones in the opening. I’m not sure the about age difference either but I guess it’s because most people don’t seem to know the FML’s real age and think she’s really young. She also often stars with much younger costars. FSF is one of the few MLs she’s played against that is older than her. Yan Yikuan was the other I think but that show never aired. In the show she’s most famous for, a lot of people thought her co-star was older but in fact he was like 6 years younger.
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https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4851349499414929
The first three episodes are the roughest but it gets better after that. The acting between the two leads is the biggest draw for most. They have a really good dynamic.
I don’t think it’s the script. Apparently it took years to polish. Fans are also trying to get ahold of it because the show has been redubbed from the original lines. I also doubt it’s the director since he has some classics.
Most domestic opinion feels that the fault is 100% with the editors. I think that’s partially why the crew put out the tidbits and BTS so early, so fans could understand/see the contrast between what was shot and what was the end result. As viewers have probably learned with SJFY, the difference between a good movie and a bad movie is often in the editing. That’s why some of the bigger names make some serious bucks.
As for PXR, her fans are really disappointed in this show. I’ve been reading the clarification posts and watching BTS and it seems like for whatever reason, the later editors gutted PXR’s character. Her growth line was essentially the acceptance of love but through the delivery of a revenge plot. By cutting out the revenge part entirely, the show cut out Yezi’s transformation from revenge on behalf of A’Rui, wavering because YXM is good to her, wanting go back to the past to save A’Rui (which in turn will allow her to love YXM guilt free), to the final stage of mourning A’Rui but moving on with her own life. This story basically only gave us the middle part of Yezi’s growth although I’d argue that Yezi in episode 21 is far more savvy than in episode 1.
Yezi will probably never compare to Xiao Feng to viewers in performance because she isn’t given enough time. GMP is 55 episodes to SJFY’s 25. That’s 30 more episodes plus 3 Easter egg specials for Xiao Feng’s story to unfold. In fact, I’d argue the first ten episodes or so of GMP exist mostly to ensure the audience realises Xiao Feng as a full blooded character before the “romance” kicks in. This helps the audience understand just how drastic her transformation is during the drama. And even tho ppl complain about GMP’s editors, they did take care to give us shots that showcased PXR’s acting. The same can’t be said for SJFY. Its editors basically either cut, shortened, rearranged out of place , or redubbed inappropriately any super emotional scene of Yezi and it’s absolutely mind boggling when PXR’s acting skills were one of the shows draws. I mean in this tidbit, her skills are no worse than GMP:
https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4849903807243975
But the scene in the aired episode has less than a fraction of the emotion. It’s really a pity because Yezi is the first character PXR has played that actually has a clear line of growth and a deeper complexity. Xiao Feng stays sweet until the last scene and doesn’t grow up until the very end and that’s part of what leads to her tragedy. Jun Jiu Ling learns a little from her initial mistake but her setup is too much the perfect heroine. Li Binghe is sweet like Xiao Feng but has growth but unfortunately her part ends before she realises it.
https://youtu.be/JkRkd5FHD70
“Ye Lingshuang/Bai Lu's daring to love and dare to hate has never been just talking about it orally, but thinking about it in her heart.
When she hated to the extreme, she could stab Ming Emperor, who came to visit her, regardless of the situation where she was about to be killed by Ga [be heading].
When she loves to the extreme, she can reverse time and space and go back to the past to earn herself a chance to love frankly, and sleep [with] the male lead without saying a word (although she only realized when she woke up the next day that she was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger instead of being killed by a tiger) eat) [that she who was a tiger pretending to be a pig was eaten by a bigger tiger].
As a result, both of these places were deleted completely.
It's very rare to see such a sentimental heroine in domestic dramas. I really can't just describe this sense of loss with regret, it will probably be a lifetime of regret.”
Anyway, the show is over, the cast has also withdrawn, and the dust has settled. Then it's not inappropriate for me to come out and open a microphone, right? Writing this is just to make it clear that some of the heroine's misunderstood performances have nothing to do with her. Everything is a masterpiece of great editorial masterwork. As for whether it is for the purpose of passing the trial, or something else, we can't get to the bottom of it and don't bother to ask.
The following is only part, only part. The show party still put some tidbits very thoughtfully, that's why they can come up with such a little bit.
Completely deleted the big emotional scene in the previous plot where she heard the news of A Rui's death in the barracks, called A Rui's name and collapsed and fainted from crying. Later, she witnessed the process of A Rui falling off the cliff through the moiré spell, because she could not make a sound in the magic circle, and she only knew that A Rui was dead when she covered her mouth in pain, tampered with replacement + changed the lines to this scene. The audience who didn't know the truth scolded her for being too calm.
The scene where she attempted to assassinate Emperor Ming in the sky prison was completely deleted. The core of her love-hate entanglement with Emperor Ming has always been the death of A Rui. Earlier, she dealt with Emperor Ming slickly on the bright side, pretending to be an obedient minister, while wrapping her hatred tightly and carefully in her heart. But in the scene of the Heavenly Prison, she probably couldn't fake her feelings anymore, so there was such a dramatic scene. Now she has nothing to cut, and the audience scolded her for not avenging BLALA for her best friend.
Because she fell in love with Emperor Ming and couldn't kill Emperor Ming again, and her belief collapsed (before she used revenge as the driving force for survival), the scene of her emotional outburst and collapse was cut and tampered into the penultimate episode. She died because she misunderstood Emperor Ming. guilt. The original soundtrack in the tidbits clearly stated, "Why do you always give me reasons not to kill you".
In the same way, the drunk scene is also because of the fierce tearing between this belief in revenge and her true emotions, so she asked the little maid "Am I ridiculous?" In the end, she was married to the most popular part of the old saying "misunderstood the hero". Can the emotions in these two states of mind be the same? The consequence of Zhang Guan Li Dai is that the audience scolded the heroine for acting too much and being hypocritical.
Completely cut out the middle of the part about unsealing the seal, and replaced it with the spellcasting scene cut from an unknown episode, then woke up and got angry at Emperor Ming because of the death of Qi Hailian, and was scolded by the audience for being inexplicable and hypocritical. It was originally here that she went out to find the second male lead to unblock her. Maybe she heard about the death of Qi Hailian when she was out, and then when she confronted Emperor Ming, the new hatred (the death of Qi Hailian) and the old hatred (the death of Qi Hairui) came to her heart together. Did not control my emotions. After the collage, only inexplicable impressions remain.
And these big emotional dramas are almost all in the middle and late stages, during the wavering stage of her relationship. Now all of them have been cut and grafted to the last three episodes, and then the marriage is 800 times faster. Can the audience feel that her emotions change too quickly? Originally, her feelings for Emperor Ming had undergone a drastic and natural transformation, from pure hatred to wavering to acceptance, the process was long and painful. As for Arui, from desperately avenging her, to falling in love with Emperor Ming and wanting to go back to the past to revive Arui to find an outlet for her and Emperor Ming's love, to trying everything possible but failing, and finally realizing that she has to pity the person in front of her and let go. This is the original logic.
The scene where she listened to Yi Wuyou's last words and then cried bitterly in the main hall was deleted. Most of the rivalry scenes between the heroine and the male lead are gone, but I don't understand why even the tenderness she gave at the last point has to be cut? Sure enough, he was scolded for being cold-blooded.
There was also a fan story before. Because she foresaw the disaster of the ice lake, she presented a memorial to Emperor Ming, but Fan Ruhui deliberately obstructed it, causing Emperor Ming to not deal with it in time, which made her disappointed and angry with Emperor Ming. Emperor Ming came to explain with her memorial. After being edited and grafted with a line, she asked Emperor Ming to resign and then she refused to go to court for no reason. Emperor Ming came to coax her, and she suddenly became an unreasonable little wife.
Then from TG, the deletion can only be described as "massive".
I'll just talk about two points that I care about. One is that she and the second male are not looking for a free purchasing agent relationship. The two of them have a partnership to do business and make money in order to make up for the ice. Bai Lu handed over the Chi Yuezhu, a gift given to her by Emperor Ming, to the second male lead to exchange for money. It was not like the second male lead wasted money for her like he was being taken advantage of. I asked if the editing was good. One knife turned her into a fishing girl, ha ha.
The second is that her predictive ability is not a decoration at all. It is an important help for her to start her career line. With this ability, she counts it as a gold mine and a disaster. While helping Emperor Ming solve many problems, she also obtained information from Emperor Ming To Qihai Lianyi Wuyou and the others, who leaked information and swindled money. Emperor Ming said that she was "a wolf-hearted dog", and there was nothing wrong with that. What is it cut now? Only the flexible lips remain.
It can be seen that the heroine's highlight scenes, emotional scenes, or parts related to her career are all deleted without exception. Therefore, her character design has changed from a girl with a clear distinction between love and hate, who has her own will and ideas to take revenge scripts, into a silly, sweet tool that most of the time sets off the hero's affection, wisdom, and martial arts. Even if I am a queen, I have to say that the original relationship line is not a hundred times better than it is now?
Fans don't think that every scene can be broadcast. It is normal for a drama to be deleted in the later stage. But what is more terrifying than deletion is tampering! What a flesh-and-blood character Ye Lingshuang was originally, but because of the deletion of the entire line of revenge, and because of these double-creation operations, she not only lost her original brilliance, but also suffered too much harshness that she shouldn't have to bear. The audience didn't know that this story was a second creation with the original plot broken, and they would only stare at these unreasonable places and make complaints about it. As a result, we were paid by the heroine with the most severely deleted characters and the worst cuts.
But as a fan, I can only speak out for her like this. I just hope that Xiaoran's next role will not have such an encounter.”
The main leads chemistry is really good. I was skeptical at first but the trailers sent me straight into the pit and I haven’t looked back. Acting ability really makes all the difference and this combined with the quality of their relationship makes this my No.1 pairing. I can’t stop rewatching them and hope we can get all the cut scenes especially the ones in the opening.
I’m not sure the about age difference either but I guess it’s because most people don’t seem to know the FML’s real age and think she’s really young. She also often stars with much younger costars. FSF is one of the few MLs she’s played against that is older than her. Yan Yikuan was the other I think but that show never aired. In the show she’s most famous for, a lot of people thought her co-star was older but in fact he was like 6 years younger.