Deirdre19

Hi Amy, you finally joined us... 🙋‍♀️

Yes, would love to see him in some more serious productions, too. He definitely has the acting prowess for it! Although, I have to admit that to me he looks much better in costume than (and preferably on a horse) than in modern stuff. I'm still waiting for one of his modern dramas "Trace" to finally get subtitles. I has been over two years and, as someone already commented, it may be faster to learn Chinese 😂😂😂

Well, to me he looks grown up (and incredibly hot...). unlike the teenage festival that we see in some other dramas. Some milk-bearded 21-year-old as cunning Crown Prince isn't very believable to me...

It's nice to see grown ups cast in romantic-action-costume dramas, because believe it or not, life doesn't end after 30. People can still do action stuff or be stupid in love.

Just in case you need some ideas for your work-out... the action starts approx. 5 min in.
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Funny detail from ep. 12: when Jiamin and Hua Liuli finally meet the Crown Prince again after their kidnapping, Jiamin sees CP embrace Liuli and says "how many secrets have I known" and then she presses her anti-fainting acupoint (under the nose) 😂
This woman is so funny!!!

Ah, I didn't notice. I'll have to re-watch this! There are so many details that I miss when concentrating on the subtitles.
I just re-watched ep. 12 because I wanted to see what was up with that horse that JT is riding - it seemed a bit overly keen, but I still can't tell whether it was intentional or not. It's quite a nice horse and looks a bit different from the usual film horses that they use...

I'm not too sure, but I think it was some sort of fermented milk-based drink. Many fermented drinks like kombucha or kwass contain a low level of alcohol (0.5-1.5%), so in the first scene I assumed that he had a low alcohol tolerance and therefore got drunk. There is, however, a later scene where we see the ML drink serious quantities of wine (which should have a much higher level of alcohol) until he is finally drunk. So this would contradict my theory of low alcohol tolerance...
While lactose intolerance is prevalent in most of Asia, I'm not aware that this would cause a state that would resemble being drunk.

There seem to be English subs now... just watched the 1st episodes, so I don't know how much of it is already subbed.

Seal of Love was quite fun to watch, but ended on a cliffhanger, waiting for season 2. Otherwise there is Jiang Hu Shao Nian Jue with a sizzling bromance and a little Word of Honor vibe.
If you understand Chinese, An Old Magic also looks interesting. I only watched one episode because I didn't understand anything...

Good! I guess when a lot of people block a user it raises a red flag somewhere...
Thank you for having shared how to do this.

According to the novel the Crown Prince is good at everything (both scholarly matters and martial arts). He studied martial arts from a young age. I think he mentions something about him studying martial arts when he was five years old in ep. 11 or 12.

Three days wait...
Time to review the previous episodes to see what I missed. There are so many quirky little details in this drama and trying to catch all the details and delicious facial expressions while reading the subtitles is a bit much sometimes 🤯

In the novel the Du daughter is initially meant to marry the Crown Prince (Emperor suggests it, CP rejects it). She doesn't like CP because he doesn't care for etiquette and dreams of the perfect gentleman, so it would make sense for her to get together with the "perfect gentleman" Yun Han, who then turns out to be a villain, hahaha.

Up to episode 12 now and I'm enjoying this so much!
Watching this should, however, come with a warning: don't watch this drama when hungry or trying to fast. They are eating all the time!!!

These flexible swords are quite common in wuxia. Zhou ZiShou uses one in Word of Honor.

I think what makes even the "villains" likeable, or at least not annoying, is that they all have some clear motivation for their behaviour. In my opinion it's one of the reasons why all the characters in CZ were so unlikeable: nobody was able to understand why they loved or hated CZ.

True, he is the type of guy that every woman should avoid. The actor portraying Prince Ying, however, is doing a brilliant job!

That seems to be the case for everything nowadays 🤬🤬

In processed foods, the packaging is worth more than the content and when it comes to medicine, the pharma industry spends more on marketing than on research...

To summarise:
- FL is clever and pleasant to watch (no stupid baby-voice, etc.)
- Acting is pretty decent
- Chemistry between main couple is 🔥
- Costumes are beautiful
- Story is funny and so far avoids most stupid clichés
- There are a lot of quirky details (the cat business, the FL grilling meat while ML worries about dressing up, etc.)

Yes, it is wonderful to finally see a clever and supportive maid!
The moronic maid is such a lame cliché... these girls didn't become maids because they we too stupid, but usually because they came from poor(er) families. In the case of noble ladies, they maids often also came from noble families so would have had some education.