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The main screenwriter is a rookie who wrote 2 drama including this one. Plus another 10 screenwriters who are unknown, possibly amateurs.

Meng Ziyi's upcoming drama to air will be Legend of Heroes and San Xian Mi Hui. Beautiful Lantern Festival might air soon since it has obtained license.

This drama didn't flop. In china the heat index reached 26000. It ranked 1st on the first week and maintained on top 3 several times. Liu Xueyi's character reached 100M popularity, while Meng Ziyi's reached 40M. This is an A level investment drama, but the broadcast impact exceeded expectations and went up to S level, which is rare for drama aired in this year. The douban rating is low bcos only 11k people voted and yk douban is mostly filled with idol haters and passersby.

You might not know. On the first day of airing, people on MDL thought this is a harem drama and they voted low scores. So this drama started with 6+ scores. But real viewers voted reasonably that it went up to 8+.

Just bcos the scores went from 8.3 to 8.1 doesn't mean the drama flopped bcos what matters is the data in china, not MDL.

She gains her memory of Zaiye on ep 23.

You can try reading it while waiting for the drama to air. It is 852 chapters and I finished it with difficulties 😅 The author wrote "the ML tries to marry FL in the first third, tries to get her heart in the middle third, and they complete their plans in the final third."

If you don't mind spoilers, you can read my characters introduction on the discussion thread above.

Tbh one reason why the novel is long is bcos the author spent too many chapters to show how the ML seduces FL with poems, cheesy words, etc. I had to skip a lot of chapters bcos of this. But the novel is good and popular in China. A lot of plot twists and engaging characters, especially both leads are the ultimate power couple.

Indeed. He faked his identity without even changing his appearance. Then the next episodes are just them keep crying in their dreams. The couple went from flirting - break up - flirting - break up - dating - break up - dating 😒 from 48 episodes, perhaps half portion is their break up. But at least they gave us dozens of sweet moments where they are glued together. Unlike in TPG. Viewers have been asking where is the kiss, hug, etc?

The villains are all dead. The good guys all alive. I'm so relieved though bcos in the novel Changjue died 😭

This drama has 11 screenwriters. That's what happened.

Dear, how could they learn from ADWAD when they were shot at different periods? 😅

Btw please use the spoiler button.

Bcos of this system, now the global app also do the same.

Hmm it is HE, but definitely not a satisfying one, but at least it's not like KMLM. I have wrote a long comment about it.

It's called express episodes. It is common in China for those who can't wait for the ending and to get more money from viewers.

The weibo is full of people complaining about the chaos this drama has.

Time to read the novel! 😘

To his mommy 🤮

Just click on the links I posted above. You can read it using Google translate. The writing isn't complicated so the translation is good, easy to understand. The novel isn't popular, so it is quite hard to find.

I asked the admin of mydramanovel to translate the novel, but they refused.

Now the drama has ended for the express buyers. I read comments on weibo and everyone agreed on:
1. Liu Xueyi and Meng Ziyi have great visuals, great acting, great chemistry, but they are wasted by the script.
2. Fans rolled their eyes after the cliff scene.
3. 11 scriptwriters made the drama became absurd and they changed the FL's personality significantly.
4. The creepy 2nd couple and mismatch 3rd couple took too much screentime from halfway, the leads became the supporting characters. Audience don't care about this 2nd and 3rd couples.
5. Empress Lv has a lot of screentime that fans said the title should be changed into Ah Hua Ying Jiang Shan.
6. They wasted a good novel. One post said that the author didn't sign the contract.
7. The leads lack romantic scenes, no proper kiss, no sweet moments after the reconciliation, spent 10 episodes being estranged.

Now I could understand why the drama lacks couple posters and stills. ATWIL and AYTO also have 10 episodes of break up, but they compensated it by giving dozens of sweet moments and couple stills that made you go "awww 😍". But not in this drama.

Chinese audience still like it and they give good ratings just for the leads.

My personal rant:

The english title is The Princess's Gambit. The FL should be the chess player, but the scriptwriters made her into the chess piece, weak, dumb and helpless, needs to be constantly being rescued by the ML.

They should've followed the novel. The plot is there, the surprise elements are there, the characters are there. Just needs a few touch up and at least keep Taohua, Wuyin and Wuxia the way they are.

For the ending. Tbh Zaiye doesn't need to be the test subject. Where is the mansion with peach blossom trees he promised her? Where is the life she has been dreaming of? "Bury me with my wife" is more fitting with his personality. Wuxia was born to be the emperor and Zaiye worked hard to pave the way, but Wuxia left. Only Changjue makes me happy.

Fans already expected this would not reach higher than 26000. This drama is intense the first few episodes, then it went down during the village episodes, then went up again, then it jumped down when the FL fell of a cliff and has partial amnesia. Chinese fans hate this troupe.

Other reasons:
-this drama has 11 scriptwriters.
-the break up was dragged for 10 eps
-the creepy 2nd couple and mismatch 3rd couple took too much screentime and made the leads became supporting characters.

She regains her memory on ep 23, but continues to lie to ML.
From ep 29, they start to join hands bcos everyone falls into a trap.
From ep 31 they finally reunite.
Only the bad guys died. All the good guys are alive 👍🏻
If you want to continue watching, just watch from ep 28 to the end.

It is creepy to the max...

Based on the emoji on calendars most likely it will be HE. On official one, there is a peach blossom forest, in the novel it is where they live as commoners. There is also a silhouette of them hugging. On Meng Ziyi's calendar, the emoji is her tattoo disappears. But Shen Zaiye will eat the poison first to test whether the antidote works or not.

Watching this made me realised that Luo Yutian's head is big. The size difference is so visible when she is with Chen Yunting (ML). Moreover her hairstyle didn't help. She still looks beautiful though.