MadelineMaureen

Okay once again, not stripping traitors of their access to the palace grounds is fucking wild to me and bad writing. It's not a thing. There is NO reason for certain characters to be not only able to entire the palace walls but make their way aaaaallllll the way through the imperial palace into an inner courtyard without being stopped. Even more so if they have already been stripped of their power over the imperial guard. Take their tokens, put a ban on entering the palace..etc....hell, most rulers had a fucking curfew for the palace for a reason. But nope in this world people just get to plot and kill and stroll around like they own the place after commenting regicide.

Don't know if I'll eat my words but I'm loving sassy Lady An. Like what an entrance. So funny. I don't know what she felt in Yi Xiao's pulse, but so far sassy queen is amazing.

I can't stop laughing with the Princess & Lin Yan. Li Yun Rui played her late husband in Perfect Match. & not sure what their on screen relationship was for Reopen My Journals as I have gotten a chance to watch that one. but I just giggle & cackle with glee anytime they are on screen together.

does the audience know yet? I know in the first episode they say assumed or something along those lines to indicate he isn't but has more information been given?

oh no...i can already tell my rating is going to be lower than it originally was going to be.😐🙃 writers really need to pull from a different well. for the love of all that is holy open up a history book & plot out your royal palace/court politics better. & i thought for once we wouldnt have a double amnesia situation. but alas...🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

okay they have slowmo smiled too many of ML's men in the beginning of this episode(27). I think ive seen this film before, and I didnt like the ending. shit shit shit shit shit....I dont think I have it in me to cry hard right now. I just....nope. I know what it means to celebrate with more than 10episodes to go. too many smiley happy faces...if this goes the way of Story of Pearl Girl imma be 😫😭😭😭😭

once again, there is a reason people whose family commit treason & are killed for it either are imprisoned, banished, enslaved or killed themselves. Never trust a person who watched their own family member die in front of them by your own hands/making. also no way in hell would an Emperor as ruthless to his own child, would have actually let a traitor into his chambers alone. this is quite literally the stupidest most make the plot work at any cost, contrived bs. neither of the people outside the Emperor's study would have even been allowed in that courtyard. the man wouldnt have even been able to get into the palace. the Empress should have already been locked in the cold palace with no one to attend her.
writers...stop making your characters stupid just to further your plot.

sort of, but not able to go very deep because they had a lot of things to tie up at the end. being young & it being taken out of his control by his parents etc. its complicated and the show could have been another 10 episodes in dealing with the emotional fallout. but the adults know they were wrong & do try to mend things & create a new normal. there is more that makes it even MORE complicated & tragic.

This show is really emphasizing the reason it was customary to kill the ENTIRE clan of a traitor or someone accused of treason. I think my count is 4 separate people failing the spare no one fuck around & find out method.
There is a reason even most infants weren't spared the fate of their family. All it takes is one person who perceives that they or their family have been wronged by you, next thing you know YOUR hole family line is on the chopping block.

episode 29&30 will have the consequences of their actions coming back tenfold.

Right now based off of others I've seen recently I get the rating tbh. There is also the fact this one really leans into the sound effects. The little noises for every look or blink. I've only just started episode 5 and although I'm enjoying it, it's still kind of meh for me. The story feels like we're still taxing on the runway, no real movement. So an 8 seems like a good place at the moment based on pacing, editing, and overall story.

ps there is still someone close to SuiGe that I do not fully trust. the camera lingers on him too long a certain times. one of his men. not one of the main 3, but the 4th or 5th guy can't remember his name though so can't write it. not the young hot head, not the stoic pale one, & not the one who keeps catching SuiGe & YiXiao in compromising positions 😉. the one im thinking of isn't around all the time he gave a weird look to the tracker like he was worried the tracker would do his job too well. can't remember how he is connected to SuiGe, like rank & if he is military or home guard. he just looks sus every time the camera lingers on him.

I freaking knew it! I will never trust certain types of characters. Too many times has the same character type actually been more than what meets the eye/rumor mill.

never mind...it hasn't aired yet & looks like I'll have to use my vip for tencent/wetv unless I want to wait for viki. (I try not to be a pirate when possible)

is it not on the US wetv app? its still not showing up for me

wow the leave of stupid the princess is really hasn't been seen in a while. also maybe bro could disclose the whole child murder camps that her husband has so she could potentially snap out of it. he face card isn't that good honey. touch some grass & smell the roses.

im wondering with the story introducing a place that can save people from death, but they can't ever leave...could the old empress still be alive? They never let her son see her body. He & the Emperor know the doctor who sent the FL's sidekick off...& the old Empress seems to have known that doctor as well. Seems like that place will come back up again.
I realize that the Emperor might have his hands tied when trying to get justice for his former wife, but to what appears to the views as turning a blind eye to multiple assassination attempts against ML...never going to win father of the year. I refuse to believe he is ignorant to what the prime minister & new empress have been plotting.

Anyone know why they've decided to release one episode a day this week instead of the 2 episodes a day it was the first week of airing? With only 10 episodes left are they trying to drag it out? Are they allowing all those currently on break to catch up? I am confusion. Or maybe the programing is busier because of Mid-Autumn festival. I was thinking that by Wednesday the show would have had the express out.

Can someone please make an edit with Zhou Yi Ran and Bian TianYang with the Boss Baby "I'll be there" sound cause what is the count now, 3rd or 4th drama co-lab?

The most obvious would be Zhuang Ming(Prime minister's nephew), but I fee like the philandering friend of ML aka Murong Yao has been MIA a bit too long for how high up on the character list he is. Also, never trust the ones who openly flaunt their debauchery. They can easily overhear information and go unnoticed/disregarded by others. And with him supposedly up north at the boarder....idk. His eyes also look like they could belong to the person under the mask.
The most out there and potentially heartbreaking option is the second prince, Feng Cheng Yang(again the eyes are similar). I think this train of thought mainly stems from the fact a 30 year old actor is playing a teenager and so I could see a duality in his future. Also ever since *redacted* (realized I would accidently spoil another drama) I'm not trusting any younger siblings that look-up to their brother and are described as sweet.

So unless we haven't met him yet I have some speculation on masked man. I obviously haven't read the source material so I'm shooting in the dark here. In Spoiler tag below.