Phantomfiend

If I'm not mistaken, it was for Netflix Taiwan only.
But I might be wrong about this.

This https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:5167804010135616?from=old_pc_videoshow
After seeing it, I realize they were both made by Director Deng Ke.

It's okay. If there something confuses you in the show, you can asks it here. I'm sure many will try to help you out. People here are quite nice. Also, enjoy your watching!

I think that part like a testing the water by Wei Yan. He just try to see what a simple discord can do to their relationship.
So, it solved easily. Wei Yan hide it in A vase, Qiao Man's panic and decide to be honest with her husband. Wei Shao decide to calm his wife, and beg Wei Yan to give me the rough jade.
Next day, Wei Yan decide to end his prank. Give the Bracelet Jade back to Qiao Man.
Qiao Man then share the good news without knowing Wei Shao already made a new one with Wei Yan's jade. (Qiao Man will know later about this.)

If I'm not mistaken, My Heroic Husband 2021? The one with Gou Qilin. I forgot which scene it was.

She suggested it might not be urgent. But the suggestion itself already showed urgency. If it wasn’t as urgent as you said, why did she bother to bring this up in the first place? She could have brought this up later after Wei Qu returned, right? Wouldn’t that have been a better move? Why bother raising the Qiao flag while Wei Qu was there? If it wasn’t urgent, she could have done it later. Dragging it out.

But no. She didn’t bother to drag it out, and made the suggestion in front of Wei Qu. This was to justify why the Qiao flag was raised on the basis that Wei Qu, the representative of Wei, had given the authority.

Also, there was no indication that General Bianzhou immediately returned to Bianzhou. He only stated or gave the order to retreat. In war, retreating a few steps was always the thing to do unless it was certain that it was impossible to advance. In this context, the Flag perched on Boya would be the one deciding their expedition.

War and Military are not as easy as you think. You only think right or wrong. In the military, that doesn’t apply. All that applies is orders and objectives.

Now, let me ask the important question.
In which episode did the incident of Boya being marked with the Qiao flag occur? And in which episode was it shown that the General returned to Bianzhou?

This detail shows that the Bianzhou General did not immediately retreat even though he knew there were Wei soldiers there. So the flag issue is indeed important, even though the conversation seemed casual.

Besides that, I said it before, this Wei Qu didn't have order by Wei Shao to act according to the situation. He just being ordered to sent the supply in friendly manner and probe the situation. Therefore, any other action is probihited. This is the military rule.
Using flying communication take time longer than you think, because they didn't assemble commucation line between the garrison. Why? Because their purpose is not taking Boya in the first place. It's friendly visit initially after all.

No. You got it wrong here.
First, Wei Qu know well the implication raising the banner. It mean that, Boya will belong to whoever banner being put there.
He should capable to catch the gist of it. The reason he didn't stop them it's because time.
You said he need to stall time to ask his lord, but you forgot, Boya can't be unowned more than a day. Any single minute is precious.
Because if they stall time, the defeated General of Bianzhu will coming and try to subjugate Boya instead, after suspicious why there's no banner raised after they retreat.
if that happen, Boya will fall apart even when they have Bi Zhi and Wei Qu in there. They army just a friction compared to that Binzhu's General, which I predict must have thousands.
That's why Wei Qu let Qiao Fan raise Qiao's Flag in speechless and hopeless manner.

I dissagree. Boya's incident instead show how Wei Qu's loyalty and strict military trait make Wei Shao loss the wits battle.
Before, Wei Shao order Wei Qu to just sent supply and came to Boya as friendly visit and probe, not to make suspicious act or doing anything that indicate Wei want to attack or attack Boya. Wei Shao didn't say to act according the situation, leading Wei Qu holding the order until the end.
Thus, If Wei Qu allow Wei's flag used in Boya, this complicate his military order. As someone at the level of him, making decision alone in that situation is a big no. No matter how much he know it's not good to allow the Qiao flag stood on there.
Wei Qu already being showcased as the loyal vassal that always follow the order of Wei Shao, no matter how dumb it is.
Remember the scene where XiaoTao begging and pleading to lead Qiao Man enter the city? How those 4 behave until the last minute?
Unless Wei Shao order something, they wouldn't budge.
This kind of character is inflexible, yes. But it's normal in the army, specially in warfare.

Military order from superior is not just a mere display. Even if the order is to cut his arm or kill himself, a subordinate need to heed the order.
This is the reality of Military.

Again, I need to emphasize, in that situation, a mere soldier like him, below Wei Shao, can't just change order and disobey it as he wish for the benefit alone, especially he got direct order from Wei Shao, the more he can't as he think is right.
Unless it's critical situation, where death and life of his homeland Wei or his Commander-in-chief on the line, Wei Qu can't act as he wish.

1) How can you sure they paid upfront? What if the contract is different? Are you they legal team/management company that handle the artists?
2) Show earn money from subscription, making those platform have the budget to produce another dramas. If those platform not earning any money, what will happen? They goes bankrupt and closed the service. When that happen? CAN YOU EVEN WATCH DRAMAS ANYMORE? YOU CAN"T! Even if you want piracy it, you can't since they no longer making dramas, because it no longer bring profit.
3) I SAID IT BEFORE, if they not get profit, DO YOU THINK THEY WILL MAKE DRAMAS IN THE FUTURE? There many case out there, where platform that bring convinience for us got shutdown because didn't bring any profit. DO YOU KNOW WHY? Because Piracy!
4) Advertising, sponsorships, and merchandise, Really? How much did you think those 3 aspects can bring revenue for the platform? When watching the dramas itself needed piracy for it?
ALSO, not all drama can have merchandise, since it require money to produce it.
Sponsoship? How can they track their sponsorship is effective or not, when you people watch by pirating it?
Advertising? They look at the official viewershipt on the OFFICIAL PLATFORM. NOT FROM ILLEGAL SITE.
Jesus christ, didn't expect I need this much time to educate dumb people.

Yeah, that why you want piracy those dramas, then act like Robinhood? Hahaha. Like I said before, if this sector not getting profit, do you think they still make a drama? They make drama for profit. Then for us? We pay for our entertainment.
I hate people act like they in the right while stealing.
I think I said clear enough to you.
Tsk, I'm still amazed by the current age. How can there are uneducated peoplel think that doing piracy and making production team that making entertainment a loss, thinking they are SUPERHEROES, DOING A GOOD DEEDS! ROFL
Piracy, doing a good deeds? Really?
A begger because they lazy to work, to earn money, claim that stealing is righteous act.
What an insult toward my education!

Are you proud of stealing? Drama made by effort of production and the actors in it. Do you think they get paid with leaves and cabbages? Are words 'Thank you' enough to cover their hardwork?
If all people think like this, did you think those platform will have the budget/money to create new drama? I can assure you, if they can't earn money from making these drama, you wouldn't able to see anymore dramas.
Don't just be selfish and think, 'I can get free why bother pay?' That's not different with people that hungry but don't have money and then they declaring 'Stealing is legal'. ROFL
Think wisely, how these dramas being made, and where they got such money. Investment alone only work for the initial production, for the long term, if this sector keep making lose, do you think investor want pour their money? No!
Try making a product and selling it on the market, then someone stealing that product and selling it at chepaer price, are you good with it? You spent time and effort to make it, to earn money with it. But in the end, you got nothing? What do you think?

I'm glad I bought the express and watch EP13, if not, I might think the story went downhill.
For me, Ep 11 and 12 is tasteless compared the first 10 eps we watch so far.
Luckly, the story able to maintance that quality in Ep 13. This ep is so good and expand the story wider and more complex than the earlier.

Yeah, there's no option for Top comments and New comments feature. Making it hard to track some good comments.

I want to say it's good to discuss here but then seeing your comment about 'comments gets lose here' make me realize reddit is better for this stuff. 😅

That's possible, at least I saw the clip Wei Shao kiss Qiao Man's forehead. The hug also happen. But for the kiss that you wanted, it seems not visibile so far. Specially Ning-ge said on livestream before that there's no kissing in TPOB. 😭😭

If they went full adaptation from the novel, it will not became broadcast friendly. 😂😂 They even wouldn't pass the cencorship review 😭

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Up until now, Ep1, Ep5, and Ep8 was the best and the ones I dare to rate 9.
Ep1, Wei Shao open the curtain truly capturing my interest toward this series and live up to my expectation. His subtle expression of shock is just good. He really capture the essence of someone that got mesmerizing upon seing the beauty for the first time.
Ep5, OMG! That sequence/scene where the Xiao Tao, the maid, begging and pleading around the soldiers to let Qiao Man enter the city is just heart-wrenching. I didn't expect that from a support character to be able to make it felt alive and resonance with me.
Ep8, What an twisting and revealing ep we had. I thought at first, love-seed and romance start to bloom within them. But no! I didn't expect the scheming and mutual suspicion are the one that sticking out between Wei Shao and Qiao Man, intensifying that the tension of conflict is still strong between the two.

Alright, let's calm down. We can't satisty everyone need. Just let them be. No need to engage. We here to enjoy this, after all, this wouldn't last for long. After it ended, we might regret spending time over something so useless as minded those people. 😅
Ignoring them is the best courtesy we can offer for them. 😊

I'm considering getting Express full package, but it only allow App watching. Up until now, I always watch VIP Eps on PC, access it with browser and watching it from wetv website.
Watching on phone it's just.... not satisfiying.
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