DefyingDestiny

I had alot of predictions while I watched this and I'm going to laugh at myself below

Completed🌟🌟🌟💕💕💕💕
It was a good time: good intrigue, good performances, good story, good costumes, great fight scenes and fun characters. I absolutely love Shen Du: wonderfully written and perfectly portrayed character. Ding Yu Xi👏👏👏💐💐💐
My Official Rating is 8.5 (But till the page rating goes above 8.0, I'm rating it a 10)

I had a long list of people on my sus list and 😅😅. Like🙈 atleast I called Lai's birth secret

Ep36
Yun Que: I want a big wedding
PDnim: We don't have the budget for that😒

The problem with overturning the Shen case is that it's an open secret that it was an unjust case. And since so many powerful people's interests are intertwined in the injustice, how do "you wake up someone that is pretending to sleep"?
Unless they take the old trusted historical cdrama ending arc trope of "Palace Coup" to thoroughly expose who the villains are or more accurately, who the most villainous is? I don't think anyone would care even if Shen Du brings out all the evidence and proofs.

They have managed to maintain Shen Du's aura even though he is softer and sweeter. He's still looks scary and brutish but now more like a loveable bear 🐻.
My love for Yan Xing has been revived. She's adorable and precious 💖.
Chui Chui😐 I'm sorry I wished bad things on you. I hope you make it out safe😕
Also the intrigue is quite intriguing, I really don't know where this is heading, not because the storytelling is chaotic but because it's a real mystery being played out👏👏👏
With only 6 episodes to go colour me impressed 😁

The continuity person for this drama must be underpaid because they DGAF. The amount of snow on Shen Du's head kept changing from frame to frame. I was tickled silly🤭😅

In as many cdramas that I have watched, the Yan family is the most peaceful family I have ever seen. Husband, Wife, concubine and their children all at peace with each other and know their roles, stations and have their own lives and agency.
This family goes into the hall of fame that the Emperor from Love Like The Galaxy is in as the only non- toxic Emperor.

Did anyone notice the Yan Famly reunion scene in Ep 33 was patched together. I'm guessing Yan Xing and her mother where not available to shoot on the same day and they forget they shot the brother with the mother when her sisters where available😂😂😂. The whole scene is a mess😂😂

Ratings just entered 8.0💃💃💃💃🥳🥳🥳🥳

Lethal Man sort of falls into the incesty category 😅

ILMPTHIAP?

We need to make a list of red flag character / green flag lover ml cdramas:
- Story of Kunning Palace
- Well- Intended love
- Nothing But You
- Love like the galaxy
- Blue Whisper

What other shows can you add?

Only 4000 watchers and 500 raters. Most ratings per age group is between 7.9- 8.3. When more people watch and vote it would likely change.

I just started rewatching The Romance of Tiger and Rose and Han Shuo is like Shen Du as a young adult before he perfected his aura 😂😅🤭😂

She's a nepo baby. She's definitely not smart. And the heart wants what he hear wants, if your hearts wants her to die, please don't judge yourself too harshly😔; almost everyone agrees with you

They haven't explained enough. Too much time was spent in the Yinzhou arc that had almost nothing to do with anything. They introduced and killed multiple characters and plotlines that didn't matter before they went there and after they are back, hasn't changed much.
The plot progress from the Yinzhou arc-
1. The CP got closer
2. Princess marriage decree because Princess Ying needs security.
3. Uncovered truth about the Shen Grain charge
All of this seemed to happen in Ep 29-30; so it didn't need 8 episodes. They should have started fleshing out the final arc and laying ground work for the story resolution.
Unless Princess Yong'an is the ultimate villian, I think we veered into an unnecessary plot too late in the drama.

It is strange and cruel but the royal family tend to mix cruelty and love with duty, so Yan Xing is getting her first taste of it.
It might be the first time I'm seeing a granted marriage being saddled with a second granted marriage without a preluding scandal. They would work it out by giving Yan Xing and the princess equal status, both as equal wives or Yan Xing could be demoted to an exalted concubine. Depending on the egos of the parties involved, the wives mostly kill themselves or get killed to ease the awkwardness and shame.

I was surprised to see my rating was a 7.5 but after reading your comment I guess I was as annoyed as you sound when I finished and rated it😅. I just upped my rating to 8.0 since I have good feelings about it when I think back about it. And I really enjoyed Yang Cai Wei as a character, I enjoyed her portrayal by both actresses and this was my first time watching Jui Jing Yi and I also enjoyed her Cai Wei and Shangguan Zhi.

I doubt she'll die without taking someone we care about with her. But if we can still choose: the marshall and that guy that's in love with her, can go. They should leave the Shen and Yan Fu out of it.