Deirdre19

There's s ton of webnovels with more or less the same plot (re-born, change things, former enemies fall in love) out there. I just hope and pray that they won't all make it to our screens. This whole re-birth/transmigration thing is such a lame trope and it doesn't get any better by repeating it...

Searching for the evil bone... that's a new excuse to feel someone up 🤣🤣🤣

Compare this to, just as an example, Legend of YunXi (wooden acting, plotholes the size of a small country, obsessive pointless characters, bad ending - still 8.1) or Blooms at Ruyi Pavillion (bad writing, unbelievable premise, fillers, plotholes - still 8.2) and you will see that 8 isn't a fair rating for a drama that had good acting, a decent script, no annoying characters and close to no plot holes. Even the recently aired Warm on a Cold Night, which was fun but nothing to write home about managed to get a 8.2 rating.
I just feel whenever there are some pretty boys in a drama the rating is inflated for no reason, while dramas with grown-up actors get an overly critical assessment.

I assume the "dude in white" you mean is Yun Han. In the drama version the CP rescued Yun Han ten years ago during some big conflict (which will be explained later in the drama) since then Yun Han has been working for him to gather intelligence and do secret missions. Being a musician is his cover.
The CP trusts him because he believes that his assessment of the person he saved was right, so he has faith in him despite all the warning signs.
In the novel they don't know each other and the CP just has Yun Han shipped off to the prison/quarry out of jealousy.

He is very smart (and therefore quickly annoyed by dumb people), if hard working, I cannot say, I'm still reading and so far the novel doesn't say anything about that.
In he novel the FL is slightly different: she wants to be remembered as a sickly beauty and has no intention of marrying but instead she is looking for a kind of beautiful toyboy to keep her amused (hence the interest in Yun Han). She has inherited the love of beauties from her father (in the novel her mother was known to have been the most beautiful woman in the capital when she was young).
Her relationship with the Crown Prince is initially only a "cheering up a sad beauty" because whenever he is in a bad mood she thinks he is missing his dead loved-one (she doesn't know that the dead person is his mother) and she imagines a tragic love-story because she read some romantic books.
In the novel she is only 15 years old, so her ideas are sometimes still a bit naive. I've read about a third of the book so far and she still hasn't realised that the CP giving her all these gifts and taking every occasion to spend time with her means he could be interested in her...

I've observed this already reading through some of the comments... a few negative Nellys are out to ruin this.

I'm planning on watching it all over again once I finish reading the novel... It will be funny to see all the quirky little details from the novel that they used, sometimes with a slight twist.

Absolutely! There are many a lot less cleverly done dramas that score higher than that! The nice thing is that this drama remains rounded all the way through to the end, there's no drop in quality in the 2nd half, nor a rushed ending. It deserves much better than 8.1!

It's one of those point that they have taken over from the novel, but without letting us see any situations that would justify it.

In the novel, the Crown Prince is similar to Hua Liuli in that he also pretends a lot. He pretends to be lazy and uninterested in governing the country. Many officials permanently criticise him for that.
He cannot stand dumb or ugly people, so the staff in his Eastern Palace life in permanent fear of being transferred somewhere else if they behave too stupidly.
He has a poisonous tongue aiming for a person's weakest spot in no time (and that includes family members...)
Once he starts having feelings for Hua Liuli he becomes outright ruthless towards anyone who dares upset her (or get in his way). Just because Hua Liuli seems to be interested in pretty boy Yun Han he has him arrested and sent to a quarry for hard labour.

He knows his father will always back him up, so he doesn't care about all the gossip about him.

Do some people actually count that kind of stuff???

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Love the new poster! This was a classic pose for 19th/early 20th century couple photos, only here, the roles are reversed to make the FL the head of the family 😂😂😂

So the cast director is really trying to make up believe that the ML is 22 years old???
C'mon, pull you own leg!

It's worse than time-travel, it's transmigration!!!!. I really hate this trope!!
Considering the flood of webnovels where the synopsis starts with "I transmigrated into a novel..." it was only a question of time for this b*llsh*t to be adapted to drama.
One can only hope this "fashion* ends soon...

Sounds good...

It was done on purpose... there seems to be a high sensitivity towards "fat-shaming" and zero awareness for thin-shaming. And you have just proven my point.

Do we already know who will sing the OST???

Some people are just thin like that naturally, no matter how much they eat. I should know, I'm one of them. It is also no indication of being weak. Thoroughbreds have the thinnest legs of all horses, but they still run the fastest.
And, as a nutritionist I cannot stress this enough, there far fewer health risks related to being underweight than to being overweight, so all this "concern for his health" sounds a bit fake to me. In most cases (maybe not in your case) it is just used as a pretext to discredit him or as a means for overweight people to vent their frustration after yet another failed diet. So I really wish we could stop making this an issue and concentrate on his performance as an actor.

LOTR was a work of love by the whole NZ team. They paid attention to every single detail. The same goes for the actors. Although man were unknown to a wider audience they had many years of quality theatre (Royal Shakespeare company, etc.) under their belt.
Hollywood is all about making a quick buck, how could they beat this?

It seems your cursing was efficient!