The synopsis for this drama on MDL is wrong on many fronts. The maidservant is not trying to kill the Crown Prince. Xiao Ding Tang is not an illegitimate son! How can it be edited?
Episodes stop (although listed as 90 completed episodes on some sites) at 62 -- the remaining episodes are repeats…
There are at least 3 versions out there. If each episode is 45-min long, then the last episode is 62. If each episode is 28-min (cut) or 33-min (uncut), then the last episode is 90.
I did not completely get the plots involving the scroll..but it was more understandable than the exam cheating…
Alibi is proof that the person is somewhere else when a crime is taking place so we cannot say the PM has an alibi. The change of the room number led to the discovery of the true accomplices who then confessed the “real” perpetuator. I believe Xu Chang Ping orchestrated the whole plan for the PM after being approached by the Crown Prince.
She kind of went lame towards the end. Wish she had been badassed all the way.
Regarding the comment on the ban, are you referring to what I wrote because that was not what I meant at all. The drama finished shooting and post-production and they submitted the finished product for approval as required in China. The Chinese censor approved it but not the ending. They cannot shoot new scenes because filming has already ended so they used what they have shot to come up with a new ending.
The last episode seemed spliced like wtf! The ending was even more wtf! I mean did you really have to write that…
"But I hear the whole show was rushed due to the urgency of finishing it before historical drama ban in China. " It had nothing to do with the ban on historical drama.
The last scene with the kids (siblings) playing pretend as husband and wife is ...... ridiculous. Why did the…
They had to change the ending after filming wrapped due to the censors' requirement. Since they didn't film some of the scenes needed for the new ending, they reshuffled the scenes they had filmed.