Draco

Court lady is a good court drama with some of the yanxi palace casts, and xukai and li yi tong are the leads ^^

You're saying they're living under a dictatorship, but that's westerners thinking. These people are very loyal to their own government, and this is a time of change where lots of westerns influence are taking place that's why we're seeing places that sell coffee, foreigners walking the street. But there are people who are loyal to their custom and refuses to wear anything foreigners made, this is their choice and has nothing to do with the government. Compare to other Chinese women, she's even more shelter because she didn't have an education, she is an orphan who was taken in by her master and was train as a martial artist, so she only knew about her sect business and nothing else.

You talking about manting, I think the reason she's so determined in her feeling for him is she thinks he's gay and want to set him straight. It could explains many instances where she trying to introduce girls to fl because she thinks ml and fl are gay for each other. I didn't find her annoying, and just pity her because she and ml are very similar in their personality when it comes to love. They give their love wholeheartedly, with no maliciousness compare to other sfl in cdramas.

I'm sad to hear that because the censorship are ruining so many good dramas, or making them impossible to be air. The time the actors/actresses spend on filming these dramas as well as those behind the scenes staffs who put so much hard work in making good dramas for viewers to enjoy, and they might never air because the Chinese censorship is becoming stricter and we won't know what they're censoring next. All originality and creativity are going to be ruin by these censorship.

In ep 5, and I'm thinking if a guy willing to eat the food you cook knowing he's allergic to it, then he must have feeling for you. He also wears the charm she gave him and refuses to give it back to her, he definitely has feeling for her ^^ His refusal about the engagement thing has nothing to do with her, and everything to do with not wanting to follow the pentasect stupid rule.

Don't blame it all on her, all she knows is her sect and she think her master word is always right. He was the one who told her she's engage to ml. She's very stubborn, but I think it's because she likes him and don't mind being engage to him. Girls in those days are very innocent, once they settle on a guy, they stay true to him and never looks at another guy.

Was watching ep 5, and there's a conversation fl has with ml leads me to think she's very shelter. She doesn't know what a violin or a phone is, that just means she is not very knowledgeable about those things that foreigners brought in, and from the way all the people in pentasect dress, lead me to think they're old-fashion, and don't like anything western influence. She only knows about her sect business like training in martial art, farming, etc.

Is that so? I haven't gotten to that ep yet. I think her reason for getting the dragon bone before has to do with what her teacher told her that according to pentasect rule by giving her the dragon bone he's engage to her. She seems to be okay with that arrangement, so I have always suspected her wanting to be engage to him has to do with her feeling for him, but she just doesn't realizes yet. I'm glad to hear she finally figure out her feeling in ep 12 ^^

They were childhood friends. I like their relationship, she can be who she is when she is around him without having to hide her real self. He also can say anything to her without her being offended. They're so comfortable with each other, her being childish is a way to get his attention since she seems very innocent, I don't think she realizes she has feeling for him yet.

That depends on whether it's in the script. Both court lady and ancient love poetry follow novels very well, that's why both of them are good, and I like most of the characters there. What I don't like about adaptation is when unnecessary romance is added in to make the drama longer like a love triangle that wasn't there in the novel for example the legend and dance of the sky empire. I feel the romance is dragged out, and the CP is nowhere to be seen, just dragging out the love triangle even though it's clearly showed the fl doesn't have any feeling for the sml.

From watching up to ep 4, I can tell ding yunqi is a really nice guy. He never hit girls, and he gotten taken by luo yunsong because he went easy on those girls who were fighting him. Also I find it interesting that he took out the bullets from the gun and use it as a weapon, that's really interesting, is it because he doesn't like to use gun?

Agree 💯%

Whether it has a good or bad cinematography is not as important to me as whether it has a good plot. I trust xukai in picking a good script because I enjoyed most of the dramas he in. It's not the script that is bad, but he can't control whether his dramas get edited or him being sideline by the support characters in his own dramas. I love plot and characters the most, so those dramas I enjoy usually don't have many viewers, xukai doesn't do idol dramas and that's why I enjoy watching his dramas.

Yes being an actor need dedication and hard work, and I like that xukai doesn't think of himself as an idol but an actor, and he's constantly learning in each of his drama. He's not just a pretty face, he has both look and acting.

Yeah, I feel the same about ancient love poetry. Lots of people were complaining about it being boring in the beginning, but after finishing the drama, they start to appreciate the beginning since that was baijue and shanggu's happiest time ^^

I don't want him to die though, but yeah I hope he stay devoted because their relationship of master and servant I really like, and it seems ml also care a lot about him ^^

No I don't need 36 eps to judge it, but it's too early for me to say anything yet since I only watched 4 eps. I like watching drama to find out about plot and characters, so being 11 eps, it's too early to say anything about the characters. I'm not afraid of long dramas just as I love reading when it's a long book, so characterization is important to me as well as understanding the plot.

What I like about the pairing is how familiar they act toward each other even after being apart for so long, so I'm intrigued by that relationship since I feel they both care for the other more than they're letting on.

Some of the comments I read on here about the actress, they were saying she was being typecasted in other dramas with other actors so this has nothing to do with xukai fans. Most xukai fans are mature and we respect his costars. I don't like when actresses are attack for their look or age either, some of bailu fans attack him and the actresses he worked with before saying they were too old for him, or they can't act etc. If you're truly fans of xukai you would know most of his dramas are with older actresses, and we love him and each of his pairing.

It's not even a third of the way, what do you expect the drama to give you everything in the beginning. Then to be boring the last two third. Unlike you when I watched a drama I see it as 36 eps, so I guess the pacing is the problem for you. If I watch something, I usually finish it, so I can see what's going on first before judging it.