PeachBlossomGoddess

It is there, you just have to search for it.

Hehehe... I just discovered it yesterday and binged 7 episodes... I was gonna message you but I was thinking I bet she knows about it already... It is indeed really fun, the humour really does hit me in all the right places..

Re JOL bgm I seriously never got into the drama so I am on already "not in" the drama so to speak... But @Becky sent it to me, I am gonna go check it out...

Who would expect to learn new English words in a Chinese drama???

Heh, well if I try it again I will ignore the bgm...

Hihi - Yeah.... finally found something I want to watch! You are right it has a JOL feel but it is different. I dropped JOL after 5 episodes, the humor did not at all work for me. This one I like a lot better, to the point I may have to think about revisiting JOL. Idk re the bgm I don't remember what it was in JOL...

This really makes the case for non-idol dramas where the leads can actually act and the story is really fresh.

This is hilarious - they recycled some of the costumes from Qing Qing Zi Jin and possibly even from In A Class of Her Own.

They are advertising for Pinduoduo within the storyline! That is brilliant and hilarious!!!

Finally... a much more balanced first impression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-rKKMNcmt0&t=197s

LMAO - "fanfic written by a 10 years old" - that's insulting to 10 year olds... :)

I don't like it either. The FL is like some crazy-ass energizer rabbit on steroids. But I am passing time with this waiting for other stuff to air.

I am surprised he hasn’t already....

He still has Xie clan and other ambitious allies behind him and that was always the risk of keeping him alive. He snuck away from the mausoleum to plot not only with Helen Zhen.

I don’t need subs but I see that YouTube China Zone channel is subbing it quite fast.

Its all good except she often out-dresses the empress and the dowager... And poor Xiao Qi he looks so spartan and impoverished by comparison... A few yards less will feed Xiao Qi's army and make it easier for her to escape these dicey situations she finds herself in... just saying...

That was a very cold conversation between A'wu and Helan Zhen. I think she suspects he killed/tried to kill Xiao Qi.

I wish you would disappear forever. Ouch.

That was a great conversation but it was complicated. At that moment Huaien thinks that Xiao Qi is dead already and one of his conditions for helping Wang Su is that they investigate and clear the names of Xiao Qi and the Ningshou army. And the second condition is that they find Wang Xuan. And you can see from the calculating look on Wang Su's face that he knows Huaien has the hots for his sister. So it is hard to exactly say he has betrayed Xiao Qi and Awu. It was just that he had an epiphany then and there that for all the righteous principles they fought for, they were all chess pieces and they serve at the mercy of fickle and ungrateful masters. In the end Xiao Qi could not protect him and his Ningshou army. So I think that is when he decides to be ruthless and throw his lot with someone with the ultimate power to protect him.

So brilliantly cast.... they look increasingly alike.

Zilv is Jian Ning wang's illegitimate son. They are allied with the Huan family, another aristocrat family - Wang Su's wife's family.