PeachBlossomGoddess

Excellent tyvm, I will try this one then and if its good maybe I will go back to watch #2.

He actually gets a lot of. time. Just FF to all his parts if you know the story already.

Ok LOL thx - I was never able to watch the first one so I didn't bother with S2 either but there is nothing I want to watch right now.

Do I need to watch the first few to watch this?

Not to mention a ML strong enough to be ok with her strength.

I am ok with sad endings even though happy ones are better of course. To me, the journey is more important. I don't think this one will be tragic.

If its not cheesy with bad CGI it is not Investiture of the Gods! This one is not as cheesy as the previous one.

I don't watch trailers - it makes the anticipation worse. Ignorance is bliss.

Maybe they wanted to let us see Ren Jialun bawl his eyes out without killing Rong Hua.

Epmperor Wen's name was Liu Yilong whose brother Liu Yikang was Prince Pengcheng. The MDL source/link looks incorrect to me. In any case, he is clearly not the emperor in this show. IMHO if they intend to have Pengcheng become emperor in this show they would change his name to be a fictionalized name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Yikang
Weiyoung (like Shen Lige) was a fictionalized character that seems to be a combination of two of Touba Jun's wives. But Touba Jun's story the way it was told in Weiyoung was pretty much the way it happened in history. He died young and left one of his consorts as regent for his young son.

Bittersweet.

Yes he is sickly but his reign was quite long. It is not that easy to figure out when in his reign this story is set. Not sure if Liu Yikang is already prime minister or is just responsible for governing a very important province on his behalf. I suspect the latter because he doesn't seem to be that powerful and is deferential to some of the other aristocrats and some of his reforms are in the beginning stages. That is why Luyuan can still push him around. I hope they end the story before things become complicated between him and his brother. They don't seem to have cast anyone as Wen so hopefully that is the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Wen_of_Song

So nice to watch a canto drama again.

Hope so!

Killing Liu Yizhou was so not necessary.
Poor Rong Su - even the scriptwriters love Rong Hua more!

Oh wow ty so much!!! You are a SUPERSTAR!!!
You should definitely add this to this awesome drama's photo archive.

I am just looking for a better more subtle villain although I must admit Luyuan is quite menacing. This show has a very deja vu Weiyoung feel to it, especially with the women villains and even Luyuan to some extent. Even the two loyally pesty servants are so deja vu. I am hoping for more and I know in history someone he trusted called Liu Dan led to his downfall (maybe not maliciously).

My eyeballs are officially on strike now. They are disobeying impulses from my brain ordering them to roll. Yikang is such a love sick fool my nose is now balking from snorting so much! At some point I am gonna lose all facial muscle movement but I will try to hold on till the end. Dang this show is better than botox!!!

And the way he kept bumping into Luyuan to push him out of the way. It was so subtly mean I almost died!

LOL - Let's just call it a hybrid and split the difference! Doesn't matter whether its animal, vegetable, mineral, wuxia or political as long as its enjoyable.