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This is a signature description of a female character that this director LOVES. He can't help himself. I am just relieved so far he hasn't done it to the FL but poor Leyan/Lusi got screwed. Actresses should just not agree to work with this dude.

Yes, that is my thinking as well. And I think Weiyu is suspicious of her in general, in addition to resenting her interference in their past life.

The emperor's involvement (if at all) is not clear and she knows she is going to cause trouble, that is her intent. It is all good that you think she could have been smarter but that comment begs the question how and so far, you don't have any idea. That is why you are getting so much pushback.

Wow... that was so big of him!

As the daughter of the former crown prince, if she needs stop to ask her uncle (the new crown prince) what happened to her family then she would be really stupid. She means to use the seal to rally forces still loyal to her father and destabilise her uncle's position. The emperor will surely be pissed that the new crown prince lost his seal so quickly. Even if there is no one left loyal to her father, it will cause no end of trouble for her uncle and undermine the emperor's confidence in his new crown prince. What do you think she should have done that is smarter than that given her limited resources at that time?

It was the best acted episode in the whole show. GX was stunning.

I believe it varied by dynasty and the family's social status and if the legal wife has children of her own. Ming Dynasty was known to be pretty atrocious in terms of treatment of concubines and differentiated the social status of their children, which is what this show tries to show. But I don't know exactly how accurate the depiction is.

Yeah that was true for a short period last year due to covid. But China has more or less beaten covid, many people go around freely without masks anymore nowadays and business and social activity there has returned to normal. Most actors actually consider the pay for dramas very low considering the long hours during filming but they do it to be popular and win ad campaigns, concerts etc.

Some extras from the Beauty and the Beast seem to have to wandered onto this set...

The hat is gone... faints

Was that a kiss?

Well she seems suspicious to me too.

Ikr... I actually feel they didn't have to do it, she doesn't look her age and he doesn't look so young anymore. But Chinese netizens are just trolls when it comes to ageism, some of the comments on Weibo/Douban on some recent shows were so off-putting I felt embarrassed for them and I had to restrain myself from writing hope you age 10 years faster than your real age you troll...

I tell you I was never able to look at Vengo without thinking what a big piece of flabby tofu after he made that comment.

I am sure like any red blooded 21 year old he is thrilled to death to lock lips with Dilraba.

Actually you are spot on, the drawings is mostly to save money. Also Tencent specifically targets a younger viewer base that tends to love manhua - two birds with one stone. So far, the scenes they used drawings for are not scenes that typically get censors all worked up, they are just costly to shoot. I hear they had a really huge budget for Immortality so maybe they won't do that there.

She gave me food poisoning in the Pillow Book. I couldn't watch her after that. But she is doing great here. But I am not a fan of this director at all he tends to like to make women look and act stupid. But also so far so good here...

She needs to eat more meat, she is so not too heavy for our Wu Lei! WOO HOO!!!

Agree completely. I am ok with sad endings as long as it makes sense and is not gratuitous.

I suspect its because of the age difference with Wu Lei. Agree its not necessary but I got used to it after 2 episodes.