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There are changes but the way as if the scenes given to him was treated "just enough" rather than a true focus makes the watching experience left unfulfilled. For example when he fell with wu Zhen they make the whole scenes after that as if he had just suffered a blow from the fire demon itself but after he was punished in Changxi the scenes after that goes straight to him going down the mountain. The feelings that audience supposed to feel fell flat both times. But when it comes to other characters scenes lingers so long on them that it almost felt too long.

Watching up until episode 26. I feel like everyone's character background and growth especially the book demon was fully fleshed out and concentrate on. Feels like the male lead role has no development. His scenes jumps right into "the purpose" of the scene and once the line delivered it went to other character which takes out the whole continuity of the male lead purpose in this drama. Give a very bad taste in watching experience.

I feel like the script is trying to achieve too much by adding this. In my opinion, they are humiliating Han Ting by doing that during a dinner with all parties involve. They seek to punish him for what he done but never address what their daughter did to him.

Am I the only one who has issues with how Ji Xing parents feels they have the right to punish Han Ting for "hurting" their daughter. It just rubbed me off the wrong way

I am not fazed at all by Cheng Huan mom, it may seem her character is unrealistic, but I have seen worst mom to my friends in real life. At least she seems to love her daughter in twisted way. My friend's mom outrightly said her daughter is stupid in front of the whole school.

Finally catch up with the latest episode. I like it that its quite different from most Chinese urban drama. Will reserve my opinion until I watch more episodes but two things that keep me wondering if there is any significant in these shots, when at the gym why does the director zoom in on Yao Zhiming massaging his biceps, and the other scenes is what was that painkiller Yao Zhiming took for? Is the shot deliberate or is there a significant meaning to these scenes.

Try to read Chinese dynasty history, you will find dumber emporer than what was portrayed here.

If one is a good critics, they don't need to justify their critic by making a comparison with another drama, because they should know what is the flaws and weaknesses they saw and feels from the criticized drama, when they feel the need to compare to another drama means their mindset already has that thoughts from the beginning of their watch journey.

It has a typical irrational plot just to get audience on their toes without reason. All the villains has no reasonable background stories to justify why they wanted to scheme other than its because it was written that way, so that the audience will feel frustration and anger, triggering a wave of "damn it I hope that villain get painful ending" and this drama already set up to fulfilled that needs because they know audience like that, and not due to the creative writings and ideas by the original creator.

Go and praise SOKP page, this is not a good drama not worthy of your precious time.

I have just finished watching the whole series. Tbh I did not expect such amazing ride. The storyline had its flaws but oh boy director and actors did such amazing job that I am emotionally impact by the time I finished the last episodes, especially the performance from the two main leads. I hope they can work together again.

P. S : SOKP has very weak acting and cliche "heart-gripping" plot, and I prefer WOL than SOKP but I don't feel the need to do it at the other drama page like some users here. Criticize the weakness, flaws of THIS drama, whats the point of bringing it for comparison here other than trying to get your poor judgement validified.

This obsession of comparing Kunning Palace with WOL is really annoyed me reading it over and over again more than you are annoyed with the ending. Go and glow your praises for Kunning Palace at their drama page, you can write all the terrible things about this drama here. Kunning Palace has weak and cringey acting if that's the level you are seeking for then go there.

No its not

This drama really has everything good in it. One of the thing that really won me is how usually contract marriage trope has the typical rich CEO domineering and poor girl with unique personality to capture his heart, there are rarely mention about financial worries, everything is just suddenly available. So it was very enlightening that this drama actually depict a real life financial situations of many families. Qin Shi's parents financial issues scenes is so realistic and I love that Qin Shi was calling Yang Hua to express her frustrations in a very "woops did not expect that with my family", kind of way. Also the way both of them interact about really makes it endearing how far and natural their relationship has progressed. Tao Junhui scene with Wu Fei about buying the expensive house is also good. Wu Fei has the financial capital behind her so she never thought of back up plan, while Tao Junhui came from normal family, he must have earn a lot but he was right that a mansion that cost millions is for millionaire, his capability is a three story house at most. The financial situation of the leads are also realistic. Yang Hua's family seems more well off than Qin Shi's family as that house in Shanghai market definitely cost millions and Yang Hua paid half for it. While individually Qin Shi is more financially stable than Yang Hua, although Yang Hua not bad himself with his stock trading. Love the variation condition of life surrounding the two leads and the leads themselves.

I never really consider haters are real... Until I saw this comment. Wow... Why do people wasted energy for something they hate?

Qin Shi and Yang Hua is so endearing. They are so natural and comfortable around each other that you just can't help to think they belong to each other.

The scene where Qin Shi's mom, SIL, step-mom gossiping asking about Yang Hua is so realistic haha

This is a solid drama so far. Each characters were built up very nicely and the plot are compact without many scenes wasted on useless storyline.

"Park their brain in a parallel universe to even begin to buy this shit"? It looks like you have not watched the drama at all. I don't think you have the intelligence capability to comprehend the little details that was presented in the drama considering you just skip over those so you were right to drop this drama. I would not have felt the need to insult your IQ should you not said those words above which is an insult to other viewers. If you are too stupid to understand then keep it to your self don't assume others should be on the same low IQ level as you are.

For once a good logical modern cdrama that don't have main leads admiring each others looks. The characterization of each characters so far are very good, one of the best I've seen so far. The characters in this drama are very mature and realistic. I particularly like how Qin Shi and Yang Hua did not argue because of stupid conflict just for the sake of creating a crisis before the reconciliation. Their argument is usually very well founded based on their personality and internal conflict, and the way they both deal with this contract marriage is very mature. I am not a fan of contract marriage because it's often for stupid reason. This drama actually gave a very good reason in a string of well thought out plot. Hope they keep up this pace as its hard to find this kind of good drama nowadays.

And this is my impression from just 4 episodes released which is impressive.

I put off watching this dramas because of the number of episodes but boy was I wrong. After finishing 70 episodes I was left with satisfaction. It's hard to keep audience engage for 70 episodes but this drama managed to make me at edge of my seat almost every scenes. However what makes this drama a rare kind of storytelling is how all the characters not to mentioned the villain, even the protagonists has flaws. Unlike other dramas that tried to rationalized and turn a flaws into something accidental and then made up for it. No this drama actually made the characters go through the consequences of their bad decisions they made and own up to it. A breath of fresh air in scriptwriting, rather than relying solely on tragic scenes to move from one plot to another, they made the plot move through the characters tendencies and behavior which leads to engaging scenes one after another. Highly recommended.