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You never know with these dramas. I'll keep an eye out, for the butterflies and fire.

Great idea! It will be over in under six weeks. I hope that the subbers keep up, and don't lag, by two or three weeks.

The TV broadcast started January 3. Someone mentioned that they broadcast two episodes daily, Monday to Friday, and one episode on Saturday. We should be done with this drama in five weeks. Hooray!

I am watching all the actors for the first time. Angelababy's acting is similar to IU's acting in MLSHR. The only difference is that Ping Ting is resourceful, an independent thinker and war strategist. With 62 episodes in the drama, I suppose that the characters/actors have to keep their emotions lowkey, early in the game.

I am getting vibes of MLSHR and Princess Weiyoung. Bai Ping Ting is playing a ping pong game with Chu Bei Jie and He Xia (aka Princes #8 and #4 in MLSHR), and Chu Bei Jie is the hopeless fool in love (aka Tuoba Jun in PW). Ping Ting acts like a Princess, that she might really be. Her father might be a prince of this Bai Lan State kingdom, since he possessed the military manual. I feel sorry for Chi Bei Jie, sustaining injuries and being dumped many times in only eight episodes. Feng Nong's novel must be extremely long, to produce 62 episodes. So far, I like Wallace Chung's role as Chu Bei Jei.

Sadly, I watched every episode until #20, and I remember only 20%.

You could do what I did. I hurdled over every five episodes, and watched the final episode.

Not really! I only started watching it, because of Wang Kai, and watched the first twenty episodes half-heartedly. The two main characters' behavior is so erratic, that you wouldn't want to visit with them. Eventually, I skimmed the episodes, and watched the final episode today.

Yes! I had to step away from the drama, because I was not feeling empathy for Wei Wei and Yi Du. I decided to watch every five episodes, half-way in the drama. The last episode was okay. I was disappointed in Yi Du forgiving Mo Fan. Yi Du treated Wei Wei worse, but love is blind or stupid.

The only character that I would rate highly, is Leo. He was funny, cute and wise, despite some immature moments.

I thought that I was the only one who was feeling restless, watching some of the prior episodes. Ep 12 really changed my viewpoint. I stayed up, past midnight, to watch 12, that is the best episode in the drama, so far. I was crying throughout the episode.

I also had the same opinion on episode 11 and 12. The previous episodes seemed to dip, but 12 was perfect. The eunuch Park Joong-Won is the creepiest character.

Episode 12 was excellent. The episode was crafted brilliantly by the writer and PD.

Very true about the opening credits summarizing the plot! I was so looking forward to the Jun/Weiyoung marital union occurring around the 2/3 mark of the drama (around episode 35), but the writer and director kept us in suspense until the very end. I presumed that they would be Emperor and Empress for many episodes. Suddenly there was a son, at the very end. Once Jun married Changle, I realized that the Jun/Weiyoung romance had reached a stalemate or impasse. I was also very impressed with the beautiful costumes in the opening credits.

Changle was not very inventive, in that department.

Some times, the female voices sound familiar in the dramas. I wonder if the female voice actor gets many drama assignments. One of the female voice actors in Princess Weiyoung sounded like the female voice actor in Mystic Nine (Xin Yue).

A good suggestion!

Baidu Baike listed 21 episodes.

Drama Fever actually posted the final episodes five days before Christmas Day. Changle and Changru paid for their villainy in the final episode... hooray! The remainder was so sad.
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I agree with you. I was looking forward to the romance between Ji Bai and Xuxu and Zhao Han and Yao Meng. They presented it in that final scene.