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🤣🤣🤣🤣 It was amusing that his assistant of many years turned out to be the Northern Liang snitch/spy.

I would love to see Jeremy Tsiu and Vengo Gao play twins or brothers in a drama. There was a third actor, but I have forgotten his face and his name.

Ok...I will have change my rating from 7.5 to 8. My earlier rating was 8.5 for Jeremy. I have to deduct points for Qiu Min, Yuan Lang, Eunuch Liu's confession story, the gullible Emperor, the Emperean Virgin Fairy, the dubious overlapping conspiracy theories, Old Madam Liang's death, QY's stupid confession that she killed Old Madam, 2nd Madam's death, and the social distancing ending.

I applauded when Emperor spit out the Anling poison pill, and when he grabbed the teacup with the poison, and drank it.

🤣🤣🤣 I saw your IG post. So funny! Most Kdramas and Cdramas I have watched over seventeen years, had stupid endings and stupid time jumps.

I was disappointed in that truth and consequence confession moment. Qiu Yan suddenly appeared, and told Old Madam, what she knew. The writer should have kept Old Madam out of the ludicrous conspiracy to delude the Emperor. She was the nicest parent in the drama.

I was thinking that LY looked more like Legolas with the long black hair, when you mentioned Faramir. I forgot that Faramir had red or blond hair, which was short. 🤣🤣🤣 I haven't watched LOTR in over a decade.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 They could have dropped Yuan Lang from the budget, and given Crown Prince facetime.

When they were young, Qiu Min wanted to be best sisters but Qiu Yan kept rejecting her. Eventually, jealousy developed, as her birth mother started to nuture Qiu Yan. I don't get why that happened...unless Mother remembered her own hardships as a child, and felt sorry for QY, who was treated like the black sheep. Qiu Min was introverted while QY was self-assertive, As usual, the loudest gets the attention.

I would have to skip YL scenes except when he is fired from the job. He was so annoying.in the drama. Karma owes him a visit.

Faramir was Boromir's brother? I loved the two actors. Sean Bean was my #1 ❤ back then.

The final scene is full of hope. At least, it did not end tragically. We have to grateful for small favors. I would have preferred some dialog between YL and QY, though. it reminds me of the wordless reunion ending between the ML and FL in Winter Sonata (K-drama) made twenty years ago.

LOL So true about the FL and 2FL! Even Mother Liang was a forward thinker... and QY's birth mother in the end, and Second Madam(Stepmother). I have a feeling that the scriptwriter is a woman.

Interesting point! If he had been searching for her for months, and they were living a few miles apart, they should have run into each other much earlier.

It was filmed during the COVID lockdown, so the producers probably said to minimize all close contact. The filming ended in October 2020. I remember that Chinese production studios shut down for a few months during the lockdown. I wonder if that was why the drama is short. Did they start out with 40 episodes in mind, but ended with 34?

I am not sure about the time jump of ten years. She would have taken ten years to write one book only. She was so book smart and brain smart, she would have written dozens of books in ten years, to rival Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventures.

When the Emperor drank the tea hurriedly, it was a sign that the episodes were going south...downhill. Karma backbite, Emperor!

I presumed that QY decided to leave LY because of that fool Yuan Lang still on his persecution campaign of LY. She made some deal with YL, but the director shut off the camera, so we wouldn't know what transpired.

It's annoying that the LY and YL have the same two initials. I think YL hated LY for years because the latter was better looking, and perhaps taller. LOL

The scriptwriter might have charted the plot, but as they approached the end of the production schedule, the director might have started deleting scenes. " Just keep the important dialogs, and throw out everything else. We have a deadline to finish the drama." LOL They spent too much time on Yuan Lang and his relentless persecution and his promotion. He's not even among the top supporting characters. I am really disappointed the way the last four episodes unfolded. Eunuch had his fifteen minutes of fame.

LOL If the boy was their son, which would have been nice, the time jump would be four or five years. LOL. He had the strangest hairstyle, btw.

I agree about the happy ending in our own imagination. It must be a small world for both Qiu Yan and Liang Yi to show up at the same bookshop on the same day, within the same hour or two. She went up that mountain in quick time. It would have taken me a day or two to walk that far.