Draco

Yeah there's so many interesting things to watch in this drama. But I notice some people just want to find fault to stop watching it. Just seeing a preview of the main leads pointing their swords at each other already makes me interested in watching to know what happens next and how did it gets to that point. It's been a very long time to see such an interesting female lead who will stay strong to the end and not betray her principles, same with the male lead. The ml in this drama is similar to the fl in who rule the world, who doesn't care about politics and only want to travel the word, but later on due to responsibility she was forced to become the ruler of her country, while fl in this drama share some similarities to the ml who has ambition and care about the country and its people. I was thinking the other drama has too much focus on ml and his family and neglected the fl and her family. I wonder how this drama will be towards the end.

He's a support character. Unless you're a fan of this actor then you wouldn't want to watch him in this drama, although being able to act delusional is still very lucky as we don't get many written delusional ml or villain ml in cdramas.

Because he doesn't care about politics, and want his children to live a carefree life like how he himself would've wanted with no power struggle. Being emperor is a great responsibility not everyone wanted for himself or his children.

What's jtl btw. I might check it out after I finished this drama.

Lots of dramas don't write good fl compare to ml, and fl always get hated on even though if ml was behaving the same way they don't get such hate. For this drama, I like how strong fl is, so let's see what people are talking about fl being annoying. I think fl having pride is because she's smart and is born in a military family. Her father also thought her to think like any males, so having so much pride could be a flaw and will probably cause many conflicts with ml who even though is royalty isn't love by his family. If two people have too much pride, then a relationship will not work, usually the female in the relationship will compromised, so it will be a change to see if ml is the one to compromised instead.

What's your criticism of this drama, fl is not heroic enough? In many dramas with long episodes, it's very good to have dramas with engaging plot lines and powerful fl and ml as well as good supports to make audiences interested to watch to the end. What makes you think it's overrated, since I agree some dramas with really high rating might be too high, this drama doesn't have such a high rating to be considered overrated in my opinion. I'm watching to ep 21 and thought it should get better rating than what it's getting.

I really like xukai's court attires. He looks so good in this drama with so many different outfits ^^

I don't think Lini's second brother is stupid, he seems to be very good at scheming. Also he wants to get their father's approval while at the same time wanting his older brother to be at odd with his younger brother. Lini's father and older brother are not very bright, they only care about power, but have not the brain to lead. How can you order men to battle and not giving them enough supplies, how stupid is that. This emperor wasn't train to be an emperor since he wasn't direct in line, he's just a prince who's a good for nothing. Sun jing is right about him he's incompetent and a coward, how is he father to such a talent like lini I wonder. Miss gu gifting lini with the picture of his mother, she's very shrew to know he wouldn't accept any other gifts besides that one. I'm glad to see cuilin comfort lini when he was down, that father refuses to give his mother a title really hurt him. Having a weak emperor will make those men who want power will not respect him and will wants to overthrown him. General cui yi already makes his moves, just due to a bad strategy, that weak emperor just loss a city. Now how can lini gets it back. Also beating a prince shows how little respect he has for the emperor, or to suggest lini married into his family showed even more how little he thought of the emperor. Lini doesn't care about politics, but he still understands the general is disrespecting his father by suggesting he married into his family. How will lini and cuilin relationship turn out if her father refuses their relationship.

I think it's very popular with audiences because I seen it in so many cdramas lol ^^

There was an emperor in Chinese history that killed his father and brother in order to get the throne. After he got the throne, he didn't care about the court, and only playing around very similar to the emperor depicted here, as a result he was betrayed by his confidants. He was the reason the long history of his dynasty was changed to a different dynasty. This is before emperor li shimin came to power.

Bailu wasn't popular when she was starting. She was more known after starting with xukai in the legend and arsenal military academy. Xukai has been starting with less popular actresses ever since he started. He only recently get to pair with more popular actresses. Also just wanting to play a character like a villain or a police officer has been his wish for a while now, but he still hasn't got any offer to play one. That's why cent is very competitive, and many times you see rumors badmouthing a certain actor or actress just to bring down their reputation, so they will not be considered for a certain role that other more popular actors are competing for. Only those who are considered popular get better choices in scripts, and have enough backing and fans to stay current and not afraid about their dramas not getting good ratings. As a fan of xukai, I'm glad he doesn't care about popularity and competition, and only care about improving himself as an actor. I'm sure he will get his time to shine and more opportunities as he gets better projects. Xukai has played many distinct personalities, and he said he like characters with multilayer, that's why he pick dramas with these characteristics.

What a stupid thing to say. If he was wooden and unable to express emotions how could he do comedy . And xukai has done so many comedic roles, and comedy is not easy. It requires more exaggerated acting so how can someone who they called wooden able to do comedy lol. His characters in several dramas were both funny and serious when required. That's real talent. He shows lots of range by being able to play both extroverted and introverted characters. It show he's thinking for his future and wanting to challenge himself rather than staying safe in his comfort zone. He's also trying many genres from historical to comedy to action to romance. Xukai also wants to try many professions like police/soldier/spy as well as playing villains. For such an actor who's not afraid to work hard, who through his own efforts able to get to work with many popular actresses rather than through shortcut. Someone must be really jealous of his works to keeps bringing him up when talking about other actors lol 😂

Xukai acting is anything but one dimensional. He has improved so much since story of yanxi palace and the legend. Besides ancient love poetry, also watch him in court lady, once upon a time in lingjian mountain, arsenal military academy and many of his other historical dramas. An actor who keeps challenges himself and not afraid to try new things. Who's not afraid to look ugly for a role. Just ignore those people, they probably didn't watch any of his dramas and is afraid of his popularity, that's why they're trying so hard to scare away future watchers. What is it with xukai that scare these people so much, xukai fans don't go around and badmouthing their favorites, but these same people don't mind their own business, and just keeps wanting to start a fight.

That Gu girl is kind of mysterious. I wonder if she will makes trouble for the main CP. She's not a simple girl at all. Her father also has a high position in government, otherwise how is he able to keeps his position even though he opposed sun jing. He also has a good reputation with the people so this father and daughter are not simple. They seem to be interested in lini right now. He also doesn't care for rewards, is he truly as he seems.

There was a drama I watched a long time ago that depicted li shimin as not being ambitious and caring about his father and brothers just like lini in this drama. His brothers were always jealous of him because of how much smarter he's to them, and it tried to explain why he took the throne kind of a way to excuse him for killing his brothers. Lini I think does have some similarities to li shimin in that drama, but he also resemble the ml in that drama who was also really smart and ambitious, but he was able to walk away from competing for the throne because of his friendship to li shimin. Both men have high regard for the others. I wonder if the writer of this drama mixed those two characters to make lini since he has both characteristics of the two main male characters in that drama.

That's why cuilin used to looks down on the li family before she met lini, and why the rebels were able to take over and sun jing killed almost all the li royal family. This makes me wonder if his grandfather was a capable ruler. If his family were capable ruler, then the rebels wouldn't be able to overthrown them so easily. In chinese history there've been bad emperors who loss their power over stupid reasons...

Xukai always get new project after he finished his shooting, and he said in an interview he will be shooting his new project in December. We never gets the heads up about what his new project going to be until close to the shooting of the drama. This time is the same, there was some rumors about his new project, but there's no announcement yet.

OMG what a bad father, I got a bit emotional seeing how badly lini was treated by his father and brothers since he was a child because of his mother's background. If it wasn't for lini his father wouldn't even be able to sit on the throne, and for him to look down on his mother by not giving her the title of empress. Lini chose to return his title given by his father because he was angry at how his father look down on his mother. I feel so bad for him, that father is the worst father of the year. He didn't get any rewards for outing the rebels and instead gotten punished for speaking up for his mother 😞

I don't disregard what you said but in my experience of watching dramas, fl always get hate on no matter how she's written. No she's not a paragon of virtue, she just reacted to things she experienced, I already written my views in past comments about her character. In regards to the fake cuilin decision to betrayed lini's men I don't see it as her fault since he also kept it from her, she gotten mad at him for going behind her back, but in her conversation with her servant friend she said she understood why he did it, his decision was because he was worried for their father, so he made a deal with their enemy. Yes it's a weak excuse, but she accepted it because he did it for their father. Also in that same conversation, she also understood lini because he was in pain when he accused her and injured her. In regards to her anger, she just loss a brother, and no matter what he has done, he was also someone who grew up with her and who has save her life multiple times. Lini knew about the attack but chose to stand on the side line while her life was in danger, he chose to get revenge over her safety and that's why she's angry at him since it's not just her brother but a lot of her men were also killed. She lashes out at him because she was in pain just like how he lashes out at her. Cuilin is not an emotional person like lini, but she can still feel emotion and anger when it comes to the people she loves. Also she's in grief and felt guilty for the death of her brother, so it's understandable for her to reacted in such a way. It's because it was lini that's why she reacted so strongly, if it was someone else she wouldn't react in such a way. Let say if they didn't have the kind of understanding like they do, she would treat him like an ally without getting her emotion involved. She has no appetite so she couldn't eat or take medicine, I don't see that as being spoiled, it was the servant friend who was thinking of way to get her to eat because she was worried for her, the fl didn't ask her to do anything for her. You said the servant friend was more mature, but she also angry at the guy she likes because he didn't come to help when she was in danger, they also had a lover spat because of it, so why do you only blame on the fl.

I can guess, it seems to me recent dramas have very high rating compare to dramas that are older. I think lots of these watchers are younger audiences who are into the mls or the couples rather than the plot. Xukai pair a lot with older actresses, so he will not attract these audiences, and his dramas more focus on plots rather than on romance. I think wonderland of love is an exception where we see the main couple and their romance is the focus of the plot. Also even though jing tian is older than xukai, they still makes a very good looking couple ^^