Dula

normally, you dont send bad news letters to the military, coz soliders get distrated, hurry fights, make hasty fatal plans etc. Its basically asking for death. There are guards who read military letters to check if there's bad news or good news and they only forward the good ones to the recipient. Madam Hu sent the bad news to zhenglun by pulling strings. He started to rush home and fought badly hence died.

its mostly who killed concubine xia, coz we know the dad killed fl mom from ep 10. As for xia's death, why fl mom was not killed 19 years ago, why she was only kicked out, and why she was burned 9 years ago is a lot more complicated with everyone paying some part even court politics (i read the og script). so far up to ep 17, only the surface infor has been revealed with a few details under the water coming up now. The director is a suspense drama director hence the foreshadowing and flashbacks, which is normal pacing for regular suspense viewers but can feel super choppy, dragged or messed up for those not familiar

i think shen bros were grinding in the streets and military

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so the funeral is ep19-20 and the wedding should be ep 22-23 ish. Just guessing

not yet

i mean i know what happens to him but still 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Yan Rui at the pastry shop was so damn funny

big broooooooo 😭 that montage they showed when he left screams bad ending for him

not necessarily her lover. More like her sugar baby 😁

Can easily pose an a servant going out to get relief idk 🤷. That man is quite creative but dumb at the same time

if i remember correctly, in the original script, some fishermen from the village save them both. But Yan rui breaks his leg so he has to recover for a month or so. Dont know why they left it out. Maybe they will explain it later

her eldest son asked her to stop in todays episode but she lashed out at him. Guess she's too greedy.

that forest could be in a different side but within the city gates. Also things are much easier with the city pass as you can smoothly go out the door without much checking.

who said this?

i would say he's in the middle. He does not have that much traffic compared to traffic stars these days. But he has so much more traffic than serious actors. Basically in his transition period. Still a traffic star i guess since he has not fully transitioned.

that happens when fandoms decide on which platform to watch from. This time fans decided to watch on youku initially, and the heat also hit 8000, but the quality and bullet comments are much better on iqiyi and also its also the main platform with overseas promotions. So everyone started watching on iqiyi. Because of that youku heat did not rise beyond 8000. Now iqiyi heat does rise but its veeeryyyyy slow.

that was Mr. Pei (first sis boyfriend) not Mr. Li (the sml)

heat gets split between platforms so its normal. It got an S+ rating on yunhe jumping up from an A+ or S rating, which is the real deal

this drama's production rating was an A+ (cheap) OR S (normal). After the broadcast starts, based on the profits, they change the ratings. This one got an S+ (excellent) rating which means the money from the broadcast, investors and sponsers is solid (the fact that there is barely any marketing and other costs helps it too)

usually production ratings are
B+ is dirt cheap production
A+ is cheap
S is the norm
S+ is damn expensive

broadcast ratings whether they are good or bad depends on the prod ratings. If a drama with a
S+ prod rating becomes S during the broadcast = not good
S prod rating becomes S+ during the broadcast = good
A+ prod rating becomes S during the broadcast = good
S prod rating becomes A+ during the broadcast = not good

A drama with an S+ rating dropping to S or below could be because of the insane marketing costs + poor broadcast + poor ad revenue and investment.

the order is B+--> A+-->S-->S+