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This series has three leading couples - three men and three women.
I will never understand this lead and second lead and supporting stuff.
I watched it and Ding Yuxi is one of the main actors. Would be a shame not to watch it, because he delivers a fantastic performance...

It's a term here in Germany to describe a person 'to be reckoned with'.

Wei Bing Hua as the gorgeous Demon Messenger left me all broken hearted when he cried knowing he had given everything for that princess who never loved him but just her greed for power and when he died still loving her that deeply...

I'm also still impressed that this surely low budget and, of course, extremely green-screen based series still had better fight and martial arts scenes than many of the so called and self-declared medicore wuxia series that aired and air in dozens, at the moment.

You're welcome. :)

His name is Yang Zhen:
https://movie.douban.com/celebrity/1422411/

The stories woven around the guest stars are fairly nice and, gladly, not as overacted and overly hysterically comical like the story forming the frame for this series.

But, who the heck chose Jin Shi Jia to play leading man He Lan Jun???
The character itself is already annoying to the core, but where he could have been at least witty, Jin Shi Jia made him look bored and not interested at all in what is going on around him...

This series could have been a nice one - without its male lead character!!!
It's a classical example of a series where a miscast leading character ruins the whole work and effort the whole rest of the cast invested to make the concept work.
Cut him out, turn comedy into witty humour and you have a way better result...

The cast seems nice. <3
I just wonder how that should work: "Chu Jiuling returns with a new identity - Jun Zhenzhen, the orphan daughter of a eunuch"...
A EUNUCH??? Good luck with that...
Do the writers actually know what they are writing about???

We'll find out, soon. And, gladly, writing novels and drama scripts always leaves some space for "free interpretation". lol

As for Xie Hao:
It depends on after whom his character got modelled/created.
At first, I thought, the historical inspiration might have come from Xie Hui, but considering the way Xie Hao is written, it wouldn't fit.
Xie Hui was a general, Xie Hao is a court official. So, I think, they made him a fictional son of Xie Hui, which would fit as one of Xie Hui's daughters (in this case Xie Hao's sister) married Liu Yikang.
However, the story of the Xie family will be interesting till the end...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xie_Hui

Nothing wrong with it, I'd say. ;)

Same for me.
It's to me like garlic, holy water and the cross to vampires. lol
With one exception:
There was a 4-episodes-series/3-hour-movie titled "Harem" from 1986, starring Omar Sharif, Ava Gardner, Nancy Travis and Art Malik.
Not sure, if I'd still like it, today, but at that point of time, I loved it, because the guy I liked got the girl in the end.
Yesss!!!

I watched the movie from 2006 with Jet Li and the old series from 2007 starring Ekin Cheng.
I think, I'll put it on my 'to-be-watched'-list. Maybe a good occasion, to re-watch the older ones, too.

The one that got renamed "Heroes" from original "Fearless"?
As I know, some of my fave actors will at least co- or guest star in it, I already had a look.
I'm just not a big fan of anything Qing Dynasty and the pig-tail-style, so, I might save it for later when I found out, who of my fave lads got involved in this series. ;)

She won me over somewhen during the bygone two or three years. At least she makes a try to keep Europe going without ruining Germany, which is not an easy task. But I fear, she's tired after so many years at the frontline.

Hehe, I'm just not sure, if the world would be a better place, if women would rule it. The bitching, scheming and killing each other in the harems was real.
And in then end, if you look at Hatschepsut, Elizabeth I, Wu Zetian, the great female rulers had to be tougher than men and were very often more than unhappy in private life...

He, Li Sheng Yu, is one of the many excellent, yet underrated actors, one has to always search for in the co-starring range.
I fell in love with him when he played Zhu Gui, one of the Liang Shan heroes, in "Water Margin" and I try to follow his performances ever since (like I do with most of his fellow WM cast members, too).

Haha! Yes! She's definitely not afraid of him. But she has a hard time not to say what she really thinks about him. She felt/feels much more comfortable with Obama or Macron.
She'd make a great Empress Dowager.
There would be no bitching in the harem. No way!

Personally, I hope, they'll keep Xie Hao alive till the end.
I really love Li Sheng Yu in this role. He has this kind of handsome, innocent face - hard to read and hard to look through.

I never thought, I'd say this, but I really started to like our chancellor over the bygone months. I'm sure, she'd have a good laugh over this. :D

Totally agree! And I confess, sometimes, not even my most beloved actors are able to keep me from dropping a series. Life's too short to waste time on certain things.

Depending on of how many episodes a drama series consists off, I have a habit of watching between 2 and 12 episodes before I'll drop a story. Normally, it works well for me and also for leaving "first impression" comments/posts.

If the series stars, co-stars or guest-stars actors or/and actresses, I like, but the story is lame, I tend to thumbing through it, means: skipping the scenes, my fave cast members don't show up in and taking screencaps of my fave cast members until they make their last appearance.
It works perfectly for me and I always have nice photos in stock, no one else will come up with.