She owns a tea house, yet the shop is always empty. The only customer is the grand master (ML). Did he rent the whole shop a year so no customer can come? As the grand master he is so IDLE! His one and only job is coming to the tea house to flirt with FL.
The plot is just going back and forth: FL breaks up with him, says they are strangers, yet she always accommodates him, then she threatens him, stabs him, cares for him, accepts him back, stabs him again, loves him, says they are strangers again, welcomes him to her house for the Nth times, loves him again, and this cycle continues until the end. He comes to her house every day and she always welcomes him. Does she even know what "strangers" mean? What she does in the whole drama is "I'm angry at you, I'm being sulky, don't poke me or I'll bite, but don't ignore me as well."
Also the 2ML is a hostage prince from Nanlu kingdom, yet the emperor casually let him stays in the teahouse for months. The emperor is so chill!
As a general, FL is weak. She keeps getting rescued by ML and there is barely any fight scenes, just like other Hu Yiyao's mini.
I watched this for Xin Yunlai. Also, veteran Wang Yan is here, as well as my lady Li Sheng 👍🏻 I missed seeing Li Sheng on screen! And she only appeared for 4 eps 😭😭😭
I like the story and cinematography. Acting is brilliant. However I can't fully like Zhuang Hanyan. She is so revenge driven, impulsive and blind. She attacks everyone, even venting her hatred and anger to Lingzhi 🤦♀️ No wonder she needs a strategist, bcos her way is "go straight and stab the enemy", Jason style 🤦♀️
Tbh romance is unnecessary for this drama. It could be a suspense, revenge, investigation drama, with both leads merely as allies. Fu Yunxi's feelings was one sided until the last 4 eps. Until then, Zhuang Hanyan's eyes towards him was full of hatred and disgust. So for me the romance wasn't convincing.
This is just my very personal preference: 1. Who did the makeup for Chen Duling? She looks like she is sweating all the time. I have seen countless dewy makeup on korean celebs, but this is not it. 2. What's with the last 2 eps? Suddenly it became Scream or Bloody Mary hanfu version. The only thing I like is when Hanyan closed the gate. 3. Zhuang Shiyang, he looks like he is drunk for 20 years. Eyes half closed, staggering when he walks, unsteady, spouting nonsense. Rather than timid, he looks pretentious and fake.
I am happy to see that most of the princes have made it into the cast. Very often the scriptwriters omit half…
Dammit, indeed 😑😑😑 all the princes are named Xiao ChangXX, so it is VERY easy to get confused. Perhaps I should share the character list I made on discussion thread?
Anyone know Jeremy Tsui’s character role in here and how he contributes to the story? I don’t mind spoilers.…
He plays as Xiao Changqing, the 5th prince. He married a noble lady, Gu Qingzhi, who committed suicide after her family was executed. He deeply loves her, but it was one sided.
He was the emperor's fav son who was trained to be the next emperor. When he fell for Gu Qingzhi, he begged the emperor to bestow a marriage. In return, he became the emperor's sword, doing dirty jobs for him, including supervising the execution 😭
After his wife died, he remains in mourning period and lives in seclusion, refuses to return to the court. He deeply hates the emperor and plans to get revenge. Xiao Changqing only loves his deceased wife and his little brother, Xiao Changying (9th prince). He returns to the court after finding out "someone" is targeting the emperor.
He is extremely smart, as smart as our couple. Xiao Huayong often threatens him to do dirty jobs, while Shen Xihe prefers to ally with him. Xiao Changqing doesn't mind, bcos their target is the same: the emperor dies. He often does things that actually helps the couple.
He doesn't remarry.
p.s: I LOVE HIM! Xiao Changqing is my no 1 fav character! ❤ Obviously he is the SML.
I am happy to see that most of the princes have made it into the cast. Very often the scriptwriters omit half…
We still have the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 8th princes. However between all the princes in the novel, the 3rd and 6th can be eliminated as their roles aren't as important 🤔 but there are about 6 male actors on the list (excluding 3 for fix characters), so I'm not sure...
Btw did you guys see the cast list???Xu Zhengxi as Xiao Changqing, the 5th prince.Fan Shuaiqi as Bu Shulin.Lai…
Now, there are 2 other girls in the novel: Shen Yingruo and Xue Jinqiao. Between Kong Xueer and Zhou Jingbo, I want Xueer as A'Ruo though, but Zhou Jingbo has the innocence of A'Ruo 🤔
Xu Zhengxi as Xiao Changqing, the 5th prince. Fan Shuaiqi as Bu Shulin. Lai Weiming as Xiao Changying, the 9th prince. Lin Ziye as Cao Tianyuan, the guard. Dong Zifan as Cui Jinbai.
Master Qiu Xinzhi (as the emperor?), lady Yumiko Cheng, and the queen Dai Chunrong (as empress dowager?)!!
Then we have a reunion with Kong Xueer, Ye Zuxin, Zhu Junlin (Blossom), as well as Tian Lei, Peter Ho and Gao Weiguang (TLoH)!!!
Chen Heyi, Zhang Yao, Zhang Junning, Zhao Zhiwei, Zhou Jingbo, Caoyang Mingzhu (as Zhenzhu, Xihe's maid), Cao Weiyu, Yang Tongshu.
WHAT A CAST!!! The novel has a huge list of characters, so I did expect a long list, but seeing those names made me WOW!
Filming has officially started! 🎉 I hope for safety filming and harmonious crew! I love that fans of Meng Ziyi and He Yu sent snacks to e/o fan supports 🤗❤ Supportive and respectful to e/o.
Now imma lurk into new reuters everyday like usual 😆
I rewatched it last month, this time with my mom. Then I realized I hate this drama more than I hate JoF. At least in JoF there are only 3 and half villains, but in PA, more than half characters are villains 😑 evil after evil appeared one after another. It was another level of exhaustion. Even my mom kept getting angry and tired 😅
Also, since I have watched Legend of Shen Li, then rewatched PA, I felt like their characters are exactly the same. As if Shen Li and Xing Zhi died and reincarnated as Chu Qiao and Yue. Or perhaps Chu Qiao and Yue are actually their kids 🤔
Tbh I really wanted to chop Yue down most of the time, esp when he calmly said "I gave you a hint" to Yan Xun when his family was in jeopardy. Seriously? A hint? Isn't he your friend or just a passerby? Also, being a stone type of tsundere, he was more annoying than the usual tsundere. At least usual tsundere are vocal and grumpy that we can argue all day. You can't have argument with Yue bcos he doesn't speak.
I like this spin off. It is like a travelog with old and new friends. However the staff seemed like they didn't know what to do and forced them to form a love line. It was good just as travelog though.
I missed s1 cast so much and I also love Dahye and Dongjin.
Finally finished watching this. Personally, I dislike s2. It was boring for me. Although both seasons have a LOT of talking, when watching s1, I couldn't help but being curious and watched next episode. For s2, I had to skip a few eps and even jumped to watch the last ep, then went back to where I was.
In s1, it took me 5 eps and I already had a long list of fav characters. But for s2, until the last eps, there is not one character that I like 😱 I couldn't connect with any of them. Perhaps only the first emperor. I do love the deep brotherhood between Pingzhang and Pingjing. But for others, i.e the subordinates have no personality, felt no different with the sword hanging on their waist. Unlike Fei Liu, Li Gang, Zhen Ping, Wei Zheng, even Xia Chun and Xia Qiu have real personalities.
What I hate the most: the good side is ALWAYS 1-2 steps behind 🤦♀️ they are so dumb, clueless and powerless, that it made the villains gained the upper hand and controlled everything. There is no situation where the good ones actually won and made the villains suffered a total defeat. Also, the empress and her Xun family is full of idiots on different levels. The empress is shortsighted and only cares about her own interests, the PM is an ungrateful and a jealous person, Anru is the most idiot and useless, while Feizhan is slow.
Sometimes I even wondered if Mei Changsu reincarnated as Puyang 😅
I also didn't care about the romance between Pingjing and Lin Xi that I ended up skipping all their scenes.
For me, the story finally picked up from ep 35. Man... took a LONG time! Ep 27 and 37 are the saddest episodes. It took 46 eps to get they realized they have been miscalculated everything 😒
Tbh I hate how her makeup stylist do her makeup. She looks pretty with normal makeup, yet they often give her fairy makeup with all the aegyossal line and glitter. In result, she looks different in every pictures.
Can someone submit a new profile pic for her? I tried to do it few times with different pictures yet they all got rejected in the name of "the current one is better". For God's sake that pic is like 5+ years ago! 🤦♀️
The plot is just going back and forth:
FL breaks up with him, says they are strangers, yet she always accommodates him, then she threatens him, stabs him, cares for him, accepts him back, stabs him again, loves him, says they are strangers again, welcomes him to her house for the Nth times, loves him again, and this cycle continues until the end. He comes to her house every day and she always welcomes him. Does she even know what "strangers" mean? What she does in the whole drama is "I'm angry at you, I'm being sulky, don't poke me or I'll bite, but don't ignore me as well."
Also the 2ML is a hostage prince from Nanlu kingdom, yet the emperor casually let him stays in the teahouse for months. The emperor is so chill!
As a general, FL is weak. She keeps getting rescued by ML and there is barely any fight scenes, just like other Hu Yiyao's mini.
Here's for another video:
https://x.com/ocean_catbit/status/1910668326252278015?s=19
I like the story and cinematography. Acting is brilliant. However I can't fully like Zhuang Hanyan. She is so revenge driven, impulsive and blind. She attacks everyone, even venting her hatred and anger to Lingzhi 🤦♀️ No wonder she needs a strategist, bcos her way is "go straight and stab the enemy", Jason style 🤦♀️
Tbh romance is unnecessary for this drama. It could be a suspense, revenge, investigation drama, with both leads merely as allies. Fu Yunxi's feelings was one sided until the last 4 eps. Until then, Zhuang Hanyan's eyes towards him was full of hatred and disgust. So for me the romance wasn't convincing.
1. Who did the makeup for Chen Duling? She looks like she is sweating all the time. I have seen countless dewy makeup on korean celebs, but this is not it.
2. What's with the last 2 eps? Suddenly it became Scream or Bloody Mary hanfu version. The only thing I like is when Hanyan closed the gate.
3. Zhuang Shiyang, he looks like he is drunk for 20 years. Eyes half closed, staggering when he walks, unsteady, spouting nonsense. Rather than timid, he looks pretentious and fake.
Xiao Changfeng is NOT the 12th prince. He is Prince Xun, a relative to the royal family.
He was the emperor's fav son who was trained to be the next emperor. When he fell for Gu Qingzhi, he begged the emperor to bestow a marriage. In return, he became the emperor's sword, doing dirty jobs for him, including supervising the execution 😭
After his wife died, he remains in mourning period and lives in seclusion, refuses to return to the court. He deeply hates the emperor and plans to get revenge. Xiao Changqing only loves his deceased wife and his little brother, Xiao Changying (9th prince). He returns to the court after finding out "someone" is targeting the emperor.
He is extremely smart, as smart as our couple. Xiao Huayong often threatens him to do dirty jobs, while Shen Xihe prefers to ally with him. Xiao Changqing doesn't mind, bcos their target is the same: the emperor dies. He often does things that actually helps the couple.
He doesn't remarry.
p.s:
I LOVE HIM! Xiao Changqing is my no 1 fav character! ❤ Obviously he is the SML.
Xu Zhengxi as Xiao Changqing, the 5th prince.
Fan Shuaiqi as Bu Shulin.
Lai Weiming as Xiao Changying, the 9th prince.
Lin Ziye as Cao Tianyuan, the guard.
Dong Zifan as Cui Jinbai.
Master Qiu Xinzhi (as the emperor?), lady Yumiko Cheng, and the queen Dai Chunrong (as empress dowager?)!!
Then we have a reunion with Kong Xueer, Ye Zuxin, Zhu Junlin (Blossom), as well as Tian Lei, Peter Ho and Gao Weiguang (TLoH)!!!
Chen Heyi, Zhang Yao, Zhang Junning, Zhao Zhiwei, Zhou Jingbo, Caoyang Mingzhu (as Zhenzhu, Xihe's maid), Cao Weiyu, Yang Tongshu.
WHAT A CAST!!! The novel has a huge list of characters, so I did expect a long list, but seeing those names made me WOW!
I hope for safety filming and harmonious crew!
I love that fans of Meng Ziyi and He Yu sent snacks to e/o fan supports 🤗❤ Supportive and respectful to e/o.
Now imma lurk into new reuters everyday like usual 😆
Also, since I have watched Legend of Shen Li, then rewatched PA, I felt like their characters are exactly the same. As if Shen Li and Xing Zhi died and reincarnated as Chu Qiao and Yue. Or perhaps Chu Qiao and Yue are actually their kids 🤔
Tbh I really wanted to chop Yue down most of the time, esp when he calmly said "I gave you a hint" to Yan Xun when his family was in jeopardy. Seriously? A hint? Isn't he your friend or just a passerby? Also, being a stone type of tsundere, he was more annoying than the usual tsundere. At least usual tsundere are vocal and grumpy that we can argue all day. You can't have argument with Yue bcos he doesn't speak.
I missed s1 cast so much and I also love Dahye and Dongjin.
In s1, it took me 5 eps and I already had a long list of fav characters. But for s2, until the last eps, there is not one character that I like 😱 I couldn't connect with any of them. Perhaps only the first emperor. I do love the deep brotherhood between Pingzhang and Pingjing. But for others, i.e the subordinates have no personality, felt no different with the sword hanging on their waist. Unlike Fei Liu, Li Gang, Zhen Ping, Wei Zheng, even Xia Chun and Xia Qiu have real personalities.
What I hate the most: the good side is ALWAYS 1-2 steps behind 🤦♀️ they are so dumb, clueless and powerless, that it made the villains gained the upper hand and controlled everything. There is no situation where the good ones actually won and made the villains suffered a total defeat. Also, the empress and her Xun family is full of idiots on different levels. The empress is shortsighted and only cares about her own interests, the PM is an ungrateful and a jealous person, Anru is the most idiot and useless, while Feizhan is slow.
Sometimes I even wondered if Mei Changsu reincarnated as Puyang 😅
I also didn't care about the romance between Pingjing and Lin Xi that I ended up skipping all their scenes.
For me, the story finally picked up from ep 35. Man... took a LONG time! Ep 27 and 37 are the saddest episodes. It took 46 eps to get they realized they have been miscalculated everything 😒