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I think he already regained his memory...

Its ok - its quite a dark story and could get messy.

I really hope you enjoy this as much as I have. It put me in a slump. ?

If you remember how Farewell My Concubine ended then you will see the similarities with respect to Chen Renxiang in episode 30-35. The actor for that role bears a certain resemblance to Leslie Cheung as well but I won't say more to avoid spoiling you.

iQiyi said this morning that this will air in Q2....

Yeah I find Chi Cheng and Jin Xiang a much better written relationship and so much more interesting. They should just kill off He Ying and spare us all the misery -no self respecting spy story allows such a low survival instinct character to make it so far! And I am sad and sorry to discover Ren Jialun only has about 8 facial expressions and at this point I have seen them all ad nauseaum. All I need is one or two more interesting dramas to air for me to abandon ship on this one.

Lol - fingers crossed.

Too true - it is why Jackie Chan failed spectacularly in Hollywood. Hollow, shallow, empty were some of the kinder comments. He has gotten better but not much. I still found it very entertaining and I have seen much worse (My Roomate is.....)

It is definitely possible but something really bad happens In the next few episodes that makes me think some of the main characters and maybe even one or both main leads won’t have a completely happy ending.

You are referring to the unfinished conversation between the scholar and Director He? I assumed that was Xu Bin but I guess you could take it as it was someone else as well. That would make it an open ending because there are not enough clues to substantiate who that could be.

It was just Xu Bin. Someone you would think is a nobody. This is a very patriotic drama - don't underestimate the common man. I didn't like the ultimate mastermind logic but it fits with the theme of the story.

First 8 are quite good but I suspect this is one where not everything works out well for everybody.

Don't worry about it... things will even out. LOL!!!

Double twins!!!

Indeed NIF2 was great but still not NIF. If they do S2 fast for this one I think it'd be pretty great but once too much time passes it'd be hard. But like you I mostlyt roll my eyes at S2 suggestions for pretty much everything bc I just think its too hard.

Mine too! If you like Dumas you can also consider Secret of the Three Kingdoms it is like something he would have written.

The language is very beautiful and if you understand mandarin your appreciation level is higher because some of the metaphors and double meanings are impossible to translate. If you don't I believe the best subtitles are on Dramacool.

According to Wiki it was set in Northern Qi state but the Xiao ruling family was actually Liang dynasty which both existed in similar time of Chinese history (around 550). I always suspected that the writer of Royal Nirvana tried to tell Prince Qi's story from Nirvana in Fire (which was set in Liang) - the story of a deposed Crown Prince who had a powerful military backer (Gu Silin in Royal Nirvana and Lin Xie in Nirvana in Fire) so powerful the emperor felt threatened by his son. I think the writer just changed some facts around the setting around to avoid copyright violation. Kind of wish the original Nirvana in Fire writer had written it instead, it would have been a much better though no less sad story.

Thanks for asking all the right questions @Minarii and for introducing me to so many wonderful reviewers. Really forward to reading more MDLers drama diaries!!! :)

I wouldn't mind a season 2 but I also kind of like that they left things as they are - ignorance is bliss. That said I can imagine all kinds of wicked twists they could do if there were a season 2 so that would be ok too...