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Paternal cousins share a surname, which means they are effectively siblings and in casual family settings, they are just call each other brother and sister. So the translation may be confusing but it is correct. Maternal cousins are very different and usually call each other 表哥, 表弟, 表妹or 表姐。The character 表 denotes they are maternal or what I call "marrying cousins" or cousins of a different surname. Until the 1980s, it was common for maternal cousins to marry. Whereas paternal cousins cannot marry each other, they are siblings in that sense.

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They follow her bc of the token left to her by her late husband. This is something she revealed to everyone at the deer hunt so everyone should know that her "dowry" is 50k troops.

Even Wei Liang said kill her dead. I mean she tried starve his people. Even if bro were alive, he'd have to execute her!

Well concealing the tunnel was definitely not Manman's finest moment for sure. Not at all defending her BUT WS is also at fault here. He is the sentimental dumbass that let Lady Yulou go, knowing that she has 50k troops behind her. After uncovering her crimes, he should have executed her so that she can go join his bro, her one true love. Instead, he lets her go trotting off with emperor maker schemes. And even after she vowed to make him and Manman pay. He is at least equally responsible for their troubles now.

Oh you mean the costumes ZLS knocked off from Dong Jie and Wan Qian's costumes in Secret of Three Kingdoms? Or Liu Tao's in Advisor's Alliance??? Those costumes? OMG what ignorant fans she has they must think she was the first actor to act in a Western Han drama! Similar period, similar costumes, nothing to get worked up about.

As I have pointed out before, the dude lies.

As the host of the games, Wei provided an inferior spear to Qiao Ci that was so easily broken. To make up for it, he gave him a better weapon so that the victor is decided by the quality of the fight and not the quality of the weapon.

Lol - me too! Felt so great I forgot I was cheering for a villain!

Yes if he cut more, the mask would surely just slip off without the tip to hold it....

I really wanted to see a piece of nose go flying much much more than a finger. Director - how could you muck up so bad???

I am a terrible person

Usually you just need one really good strategist and that was Grandpa Qiao. Divination is a mysterious ancient art of reading omens but its probably less supernatural and more understanding what you already know deep in your own mind/heart. Bc the Qiaos are not strong on the battlefield, they tend to calculate their moves more carefully and a few steps ahead. Whereas the Weis tend take action more quickly. You can see this even in WS and Manman's interactions.

Yes I am sure a lot is lost in translation. The subbers often don't even get to see the visuals, they just get a text file so they may not get all the nuances. The platforms ask for the simplest and most direct translation bc English is wordy than Chinese. So if they do interpretation to capture all the nuances, the text will be longer and will need to be cut up and timed properly instead of just simply following the Chinese subs. This is very time consuming and then international audiences will complain that there are no English subs yet...😅

Ty for reading and your kind feedback😍. I will try to keep up but this year I haven't had as much time to watch many dramas.😅

Tyvm.😘

Happy to be helpful. Its a terrific map, I also have it bookmarked.

Its difficult to have a happy ending for anyone during that time. It was a good drama though not LYN's best work.

I wouldn't really call any of them kingdoms in the proper sense bc at the time, there was maybe one fallen "legitimate" successor kingdom to the Eastern Han dynasty - they were all warlords who seized power and called themselves different titles like governor (Yanzhou) or Warlord/Duke (诸侯, 公) in the case of WS. Chinese people were superstitious at the time and don't dare to simply declare themselves emperor. So even though Cao Cao was arguably the greatest conqueror from that time, he ruled over a puppet emperor, declining to name himself one. His son Cao Pi forced the puppet emperor to abdicate in his favor and made himself (and his father posthumously) emperor.

All of the states and the characters in the drama seem to borrow loosely from historical states and characters. The Qiao family looks a bit like Sun Wu and Shu Han but in history Xiao Qiao was married to Liu Bei of Wu for alliance. They kind of mixed and matched the characters in the novel/drama so I wouldn't really look too closely at what happened in history. That would also make it hard to have a good ending bc during that chaotic time, nothing lasted.

I was not impressed in Heroes 2024. He had no core strength and flopped around so much I cringed. He definitely did not come across as the World No 1 martial artist. His fight scenes were quite awful and looked a lot worse than it was bc his co-lead did have proper martial arts training. Not all the past criticism of his acting is undeserved. But he has been making progress which is good.

Well, to be honest he has an interesting face but he is definitely not the idol actor beauty standard. And he is kind of too tall its hard to fit him in the frame and he had a lot of bad acting habits like slouching or letting his jaw just drop when he thinks the camera is not on him. Sometimes he gives off a very lethargic energy which is really not good. But he fixed a lot of his issues in this drama and where he is strong is in his voice and his lines, they are much better than the average idol actor. He still needs to work on his emotional scenes. This is his best works so far IMHO. The supporting cast also is very important bc good actors elevate the acting all around- he is very well paired in this with SZE, LDD and the four funny generals.