Big sigh was it really necessary to drag out the last few episodes with such a tropey "2nd male lead goes delulu obsessive" plotline? If they couldn't figure out what to do they should have just ended it with a nice wedding scene.
In this case I definitely prefer the ending in the novel, which though it involved the deaths of some side characters was acceptable as a commentary on war and its inevitable consequences. The Chu Zhao in the novel did not go off the bend and remained in cynical character. Bad bad decision to fall back on tired old plot of misplaced obsessive infatuation which added absolutely nothing to the story.
It's shallow when you have your horse riding on, and turned out to be so deep when you accidentally fell down…
Magic!
The most amazing feats of engineering are those ponds in the gardens - you have to wonder if they were digging their way to the centre of the earth or what
I was just thinking she has to do a drama with ZLH 😂
actually I think his upcoming drama Zhu Yu would have suited her to a tee..........hopefully the cdrama gods bestow a great script on the 2 of them at some point 🙏🙏
1. Yes they should have casted someone else as the brother2. ML doesn’t know her since childhood. They spent…
Yups in the novel she was short and scrawny and everyone was watiing for her to collapse, so in that sense ZY is portraying the character quite closely.
For the rest, well cdrama always demands a lot of suspension of disbelief lah.
What makes this adaptation enjoyable is the chemistry and the fun in their interactions. Also I think I like this version of the heroine better than in the novel, where I felt she actually took a long time to shed the burden of a dutiful daughter sacrificing herself without question for the clan - that really irritated me as otherwise she was a pretty strong strategic character. I like her sassiness here which is brought out brilliantly by ZY.
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In this case I definitely prefer the ending in the novel, which though it involved the deaths of some side characters was acceptable as a commentary on war and its inevitable consequences. The Chu Zhao in the novel did not go off the bend and remained in cynical character. Bad bad decision to fall back on tired old plot of misplaced obsessive infatuation which added absolutely nothing to the story.
The most amazing feats of engineering are those ponds in the gardens - you have to wonder if they were digging their way to the centre of the earth or what
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For the rest, well cdrama always demands a lot of suspension of disbelief lah.
What makes this adaptation enjoyable is the chemistry and the fun in their interactions. Also I think I like this version of the heroine better than in the novel, where I felt she actually took a long time to shed the burden of a dutiful daughter sacrificing herself without question for the clan - that really irritated me as otherwise she was a pretty strong strategic character. I like her sassiness here which is brought out brilliantly by ZY.