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I will have to correct you on one thing; there is a review that is bashing the ML not the actor but the character. It's from a person who dropped the show at episode 12 apparently without ever understanding why ML does what he does and who he is. So other than not caring about the rating, and if you love the drama to keep watching people should also delve into who the ML is and about the whole Judge Bao thing and how he's related to the ML professionally; and how ML's moral and ethical boundaries are completely different than those of the martial arts world vigilantes. I wish more people saw that and read the discussion thread above. I had asked the person who posted the discussion thread to put it into the comment section a little while ago, but doesn't seem like she wants to do it again because she had already done it once. But it explains everything anyone wants to know about the ML and why he does what he does. There's also some complaints about the script and how it's boring or lazy or something else. I also don't understand if people drop the show why they're still in the comment section bad mouthing it. If you dropped it, you should move onto something that you actually like.

Historical porn lol.

Spoiler tag please.

Nobody gets killed because they are being saved to testify in court. They are walking evidence. There's a massive conspiracy and a lot of people involved in order to uncover the entire conspiracy, you can't kill off the evidence. Besides ML is like a sergeant cop if you will, his job is to gather evidence so he can't kill people like those vigilante in the martial arts world. His moral and ethical judgment is a lot different than the rules of Jianghu. People have seen too many shows where the ML just offs people and they're happy. In this case cops don't just walk over and kill people; detectives investigate. They find clues, they find evidence, and then those people get shipped out to the imperial court to stand trial and then be executed for their crimes. If you want fast results, I don't know if this drama is for you. But if you want a storyline that builds and little bits and pieces of conspiracy, get uncovered and cases come up and slowly get solved then keep watching plus of course the awesome fight scenes. We get the background of SML and FL toward the middle of the show.

A viewer wrote context of the series because it's part of a bigger franchise. If you look in the discussion thread above, there's one post on why ML doesn't kill that gives you his history and goes more into the why of things. Also, the storyline is true blue to the genre so they will investigate cases to uncover this massive conspiracy, but obviously it's going to be back-and-forth because the bad guys are deeply rooted so you have to watch the episodes to see what is actually going on. And YY is actually the second actor to play this role so this series was very popular in the 90s with a different generation of actors. It all depends on whether or not you like this genre and also if you want story building or just quick results. This doesn't give you story building in the first five episodes you have to go along with the flow. The script follows a certain path just as the original apparently did.

I have never heard him say that fight scenes were the hardest of his career. He was asked about what the hardest thing was so he replied to it. That’s all I think of it. But actors should hype up their dramas. I mean it’s not like the platforms are doing much as usual so unfortunately, the actors have to also be part of the marketing team.

He didn’t say that this drama was the best. He said it was the hardest fighting scenes he’d ever done. Those were his words translated verbatim. That’s honesty. That’s not rainbow farting. When you practice a skill or a fighting sequence so much you can barely stand straight and you actually say that that’s honesty.

A little something to chew on for today’s episodes: https://weibo.com/7920288830/5301359244742928

THANK YOU! There’s a review up there that basically made me angry because of how the person rationalized dropping the drama. Without even really thinking or putting two and two together.

Your own opinion is the only one that really matters remember that for any drama.

Understandable. Thanks lol. When they fall off a cliff and survive, it’s no longer falling off a cliff 😆.

Oh, me too. One of those people dropped the show and wrote a crappy review about it in regards to them not liking the fact that ML supposedly “protected“ the main villain or one of the villains from being killed by the SML for keeping sex slaves. When they, number one, don’t know ML’s background, nor did they choose to figure it out and number two, don’t understand that he’s not protecting the person he’s fully expecting them to get their just desserts by the power of the law and be executed, but he’s protecting the evidence that they possess in order to bring down the entire conspiracy. If key people are killed and there’s no evidence, how are you going to bring down Lord what’s his face that’s threatening the imperial court and emperor with a rebellion? I mean people really have to read about the background of the person and not just go “well he did that so I hate him now and I’m going to drop the show and the script is crappy, etc.” Like he’s basically an imperial cop if you will, not a vigilante of the martial arts world. He’s not going to just kill for the sake of killing. He’s going to need evidence and then he needs to hand that person over to be judged in a court of law. That’s who he is. His moral and ethical judgment is different than those in the martial arts world where they can just chop each other’s heads off for kicks and giggles or if they see something wrong. Sadly, in the world today, people do just that without going through the proper motions. Yes, it takes time but criminal cases do eventually get to trial and people do get convicted and if need be, executed. That’s why I really wish that people would look and understand ML‘s actual nature and background before they make hasty and what I think unwise decisions.

Did you just start? I don’t call it falling off a cliff anymore. I call it cliff diving.

His character is totally different from a lot of the ones that I have seen. Here, he is a bad dude and an arrogant one at that. It’s a departure from his usual kind or good natured characters.

Agreed! I love the genre and this true to form is very rare nowadays. The intricacy in the fighting scenes is absolutely insane. I think YY spoke about his in several interviews and he said that out of all the shows he’s done where he’s had fighting scenes, this was the hardest and because there were so many movements and so many people that he was fighting against that had to all coordinate each move in a particular manner, so everything had to fit. He also apparently tried to film a lot of the fight scenes in one day as opposed to like three which it would usually take. But he said that he just spent so much time practicing the movements that his character would have to do for each scene that he felt like he could hardly stand up when he was taking a break afterwards. That says a lot about just how hard each real fight scene was. He also said he spent a lot of days flying around on wires.

Thank you!

Milestone clips: hers: https://weibo.com/7994692263/5301317721397866

His: https://weibo.com/7994692263/5301317970952592

That Jin dude is definitely some sort of villain he has to be. I don't know where he fits in the four villain below Prince of whatever but he fits in there somewhere. Quite obvious he is the one who created the poison. More of the investigation mode in today's episodes than fighting, but that's all right. Still want to see more good fights for our ML. It's good that we're getting the backstory of FL and SML as we go because everything seems to be connected to the overall large conspiracy.

Don't look at the rating. This is a fan site. It doesn't matter and besides anything that is a seven or above on the mainland would be celebrated with a poster. People need to watch the drama for a few episodes to decide for themselves.

No romance.