MadelineMaureen

Su Mu Yang really about to cut off his nose to spite his face. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Nolatoo summed everything up really well, but I do recommend watching some edits of the show from either youtube or even the trailer from iQiYi to see it's it's something you would want to continue. 38 episodes is a lot if you're not actually enjoying the show. So yeah, check out some fan made MVs or shorts/reel/tiktoks and see if what comes later interests you.

I mean he was called by his real name and title by the assassin. And he already read the bio of the Prince of Yao in a previous episode. So he might be assessing if the people Li Chung is protecting are worth betraying his former identity. I don't think he has his memories back just yet, but I think he's realized that he's more important than he previously realized.

I could have sworn I blocked that user before...similar name & profile pic. hummm...think I might do a preemptive block. cause anyone who takes time out of their day to make that comment will surely be back for attention when this actually starts airing. Protect your peace girlie pops...use that block button.

does anyone know if they will just be doing the period storyline or will they include the modern day storyline as well?

based on the first time we see him, he was normally masked when around lower ranking military personnel/& ministers. So the minister only vaguely recognizes him as potentially the prince, but since the prince has been announced as dead he doesn't really look further into it. He was most likely promoted after his brother & himself were announced as dead.
The only people that believe he's still alive are his own personal army & only like a handful survived the massacre that the empress dowager ordered on those loyal to the Prince & former Emporer.

On episode 4...sound design and editing could be smoother, but so far so good. I'm enjoying the different dynamics with all the characters. Wish it wasn't so exposition dumpy, but it's an understandable situation to have with needing to set up certain connections.

If no one wants to do the minutes math...that means this version has 14 extra Korean length episodes. So almost twice as long as the OG...so I guess they dive deeper into their childhood? or maybe they spend more time with the patients at the hospital?

Korean version episodes are about 80minutes each.

My rating is purely based on the action scenes and the chemistry between the leads. Logic who? We don't know her in this house today. I'll most likely lower my rating later, but I had too much fun watching it to care at the moment.

Seriously though, if you like either of the two leads you will enjoy the drama purely on their performances. But if you are only lukewarm about them just watch the highlights on youtube. It doesn't hold up to other dramas with similar plots writing/editing wise. It's a whole situation with an actor getting government zapped and needing to be AI replaced by another actor(Character is Cheng Lisu). Don't know how much story was cut because of that, but it's one piece to explain some of the narrative disconnect. Also that would have thrown some of the editing budget off as well. Having to digitally go in and edit him out or replace the face...yeah...it seems like that would put up some challenges for post production.
Unless we get a filmed script leak, there really is no way of knowing exactly how much got reworked in post.

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Does anyone know the actual airdate for Disney+ US? It still only just has the trailer, and all the other sites don't even have a show page.
If anyone is able to watch it legally and can you tell me the platform and what country you are in I can use my VPN to work around it? Seriously, SOS yall.


EDIT: YALL.....click the link for VIKI on this page the site says "Available in 725 DAYS!!!!" i'm dead.

We get spoiled with confession scenes. I have to name them differently in my journal(i keep a drama/media journal to keep track of the the things I watch) because there were so many.
He confesses in front of the EMPEROR and then doubles down on said confession in front of the WHOLE DAMN COURT. Be still, my beating heart.

Well Dudu will have a new drama out on Sunday....no seriously...his next drama, Shadow Love, starts on iQIYI on Sunday.

I can't help think about He Yan as the Sun and Xiao Jue as the Moon. She brings such warmth to those around her and anytime Xiao Jue faces her, he radiates such love and devotion....he literally glows around her. XJ is unwavering in his love for her throughout the entire show.
The only time they actually fight in the entire show was to prove to her identity for himself. Only one other person knows his family's fighting style and that's her. He supports her every move. Ready and willing to let her lead. Never afraid to let her shine...because when she shines he glows.

VPNs only work when you know which region has the license. if not you're bouncing around the globe reloading every few seconds to see if THIS is the one.

Anyone know when the Disney+ US release dates are? Tencent and Viki don't even have pages for it in the US region. I might have to use my "other" sites, but I try my best to watch shows I actually like on a platform that tracks viewer metrics.

I think about it more as fleshing out his character before all the pieces need to come together on the board for the final arc. And doing it after the leads confess to one another would be even more annoying to viewers.
This is nowhere near as annoy as 'The Princess Royal' was...literally taking scenes in the novel from the ML to give to the 2ML...

I'm not seeing it as too much screen time. The episodes are much shorter because of all the things they had to cut out. But at least we are getting at least one other character fleshed out a bit. I feel like without the context they are showing us he would feel like a stickman.

At the very least I'm pleased most of his scenes are with He Yan all the time. That is one of my bigger pet peeves with some other dramas. As long as they bring all the foreshadowing back around in later episodes I'll be happy. I'm trusting the process at the moment. But my opinion is subject to change if they don't land it in the last 8 episodes.

Is she the concubine of Li Kuang?

Possibly. I would hope he did, because lying to the Emperor is a whole family wipeout kind of offense. He might have gone so far as to tell him everything he knew or suspected at the time of that meeting.