Johanna Linnea Karlsson

I don't know, I've thought about this, and I'd like to think they have. They otherwise pay homage to her.
I hope the success will drive the company holding Chang Ge Xing in litigation hell, to release the manhua to it's creator, so she can finish.

OK, so isn't this related to possibly to that lady who hangs with the Khan?
She instigates that little boy to make contact with the spoiled little prince, this is their 'in' to the new dynasty.
Can't decide if she's more in league with Khan, or the third faction from the manhua.

Personally I'd just have Raba and Leo gazing at each other, for another 20 eps, or finding reasons for them to touch, gaze, maybe some dancing in that harem dress.
Where are the fanfics at?

Think she would've ended up with him, by political marriage, had life not happened. Childhood friends, probably childhood crushes. There is never any love triangle however.
Alen Fang is SML btw, not Yu Ning.
Yu Ning is SML in the sense, that he's the man paired with the other Princess, the second lead couple.

Only a handful of dramas per year seem allowed to get closer to sixty. I'm watching Court Lady and it was filmed in before 2020, so it's gone through intense scrutiny, possibly some different rules too.

What changed the most, was that they met a few times, incognito, in chang'an, during Sun's diplomatic engagement, also some run in's after her family has been wiped out. They're not complete strangers, they just have no idea who each other is.
They like each others character. But it's very superficial.
There is no 'love at first sight' trope, just two men finding each other 'pretty ok human beings'.
Sun is already largely a 'good man', so they didn't need to drag out his development.

IRL when promoting, few days ago. So no spoilers, just natural chemistry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC9zlKEsvZU&ab_channel=%E4%B8%80%E5%BF%83EE

They couldn't stop smiling and giggling, when they started filming, so they had to do retakes. It's that kind of level.

Yes, Khutan is the third 'force' in the manhua, and she has women who do her bidding, assassins etc. But they didn't get to feature her much, before the manhua was trapped in legal battle.
Mimi dies early in source material, she kills herself in shame. I don't wanna divulge much, but Mimi was dead very quickly, before Temple arch.

It's not been updated for many years now. It's stuck in legal hell, because her company mistreated her, so they've taken the manhua hostage. Sun and CG were just about to start something, as the company stopped the artist.

I wanted to talk a little about Dilraba's casting as FL here.
She's even of the same ethnicity as Chang Ge, has the same mole - in the manhua her mother had the same mole as her, that's how she's identified by her kin.
This is a heavily marginalized ethnicity, so this 'coincidence' sure is something.
They share the same facial features, to the point where people have been certain the character was based upon Dilraba.
I cannot think of anyone else who could portray her, truly.

Only from the manhua. The arch of his real origins comes soon after this Temple arch of Chang Ge's, if they include it.

My fellow fans, there is a ban on 'too long dramas' in China right now, along with time travel. To get past this, her next drama with Allen Ren, is gonna be 30ep x 2.
This ban came into effect just as they rolled out Royal Nirvana, last year?

To get around the ban on 'too long dramas', one new coming Dilraba drama will have two 30 ep seasons, instead of 1 sixty ep drama.
She plays a monster tamer of some sort, and is hired to tame a Merman, Allen Ren.
This is why they have such odd numbers of eps now.

The manhua doesn't have the chance to feature her very much, just a few pages.
I want to make it clear, the manhua is short, and the next installment in the drama is the final completed installment of the manhua, so not long after the current arch, there is no more source material.
About half of the arch, coming after the temple arch, was completed.
If there are more forces involved, they were never really introduced in the manhua.

In the manhua, she's the third 'force'.
Tang, Khaganate and Khutan.
The manhua was shelved before it dug into this deeply, but she holds people's lives in her hands and she does have assassin type of insidious women at her beck and call.
She very well could be the 'final boss fight'.
We got the impression she's very dangerous, in the manhua, but also has a seemingly benevolent side. She possibly took in women marginalized by the way of the world, this was never confirmed, but implied. The fact that Sun's stepmom was mute, yet intelligent, feeds this idea. If the woman with the Khan is involved, then she's likely her 'right hand'. Another girl, she's taken in and 'fostered' for her network.
The manhua had no mute stepmom, we know very little about Sun, until the next story arch.

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It's as they say, love is a miracle.
This mystery, or miracle if you may, is pulling them in.
These are fairly rational individuals, who pull on logic and 'doing the right thing' first.
They have strength of character, even if their character isn't matured.

''Character itself is a nebulous term referring to one’s personality, ideals, and behavior. To me, by this measure, “strength of character” is the confidence to be confronted, the self-assuredness to know what is important to you, and the logic to do the right thing even at one’s own expense. Lacking any of those three results in flimsy mentality, baseless stubbornness, or closed-minded bigotry. '' - This is a quote I enjoy.

Many leading men and women suffer from flimsy mentality, baseless stubbornness and close minded bigotry, which is why we most often find them very frustrating, more often than not.

They are of the same kind of character, which is also why Sun knows when to back off and just support from the sidelines.
They recognized each other's strength of character, first, this is what drew them both in, as complete strangers in Chang'an, with their own agendas. It's their strength of character, which was so evident, to them, which extended the line of trust, between virtual strangers.

Yes, it's obvious the manhua artist is a woman, isn't it. She knows how to write a good man, and good women.

People complaining about slow romance.
The OST literally gives it to you.
'Heart GRADUALLY responds'
'Gradually wakes up'
'Slowly swimming towards you'
It's about longing, the slow burn that drives you mad.
The UST, the tension.
The build-up.

In the source material, this Manhua was trapped in legalities, JUST AS Sun admits he wants her.
So, it has no romance, other than the UST, Unresolved Sexual Tension.
It's not typical romance shizzle, because there's no 'i like you' or 'i love you' silliness.
He's having a bad day, and suddenly admits he's going to have her, if she will have him.
He never makes anything about himself, he makes it very clear, it's IF SHE WILL HAVE HIM.
He's not a fluffy individual, she's not either.
'CG, if you cannot stay in Tang anymore, will you come to me?'
'If you come to me, let me deal with obstacles'

He wants to always be with her, and cement that somehow.
She's never said she is his, and he's the type to not try anything, unless she tells him outright.

He's the only man in the manhua that doesn't bend women to his will.
You can tell the artist is a woman, because she's written a good man, just a good man.

You also should know, her manhua was halted, indefinitely, due to legal litigations. This manhua may never be finished as a result. This is why people are especially happy to see the manhua nods, because the artist deserves it.
We hope the pressure will be immense to give her back her creation, so she can finish it.
The bastards trying to keep this manhua in legal litigation forever, deserve some shit.
First they mistreat their artist, then they hold her 'baby' captive.