Ok I’m getting WZ and JC’s development, but PY is all over the place. Is it that whatever interest he has in JC has to be subsumed under his familial obligations and mother’s plans, whatever they are? He’s coming across rather flaky now.
It's become somewhat draggy and slow. Also descending into the farcical esp with the two stooges, CXZ and ZQ. They're going to compress and/or skip so much since it's almost down to the last 10 eps..........
Can anyone tell me, was FL really a concubine of SML Or was it just a cover to hide the leader, also why she decided…
Not really bandits, more like rebels trying to restore the rightful emperor. She joined them rather than get married to some fat guy picked by her deadbeat dad and probably cos she thought she was fighting the good fight. She doesn't have any official/formal relationship with the ML, it's all made up by him to draw out the rebel leader, Lu Wen.
Yeah the reveal took too long and it lost further momentum due to side couple sub-plots. I feel at this point…
Ya again it's the problem of diverging from the novel lah. There she's pissed and confused when her uncle turns up to tell her she's been missing for 2 years (she hasn't regained her memories) and they then find out CXZ's real identity.
But after a while, she just goes, ok, am pissed but she doesn't feel completely cheated or taken advantage of since she admits to herself she enjoyed bonking him as he's pretty good at it and also drop dead gorgeous - LOL - plus she recognises some of his other good points. (See they should not have skipped the sex at the hot springs scene lah - is it so wrong to have women enjoy sex? )
Because she doesn't remember her Lu Wen years, she doesn't have as much innate hostility. She still leaves cos he's not offering to make her his main wife at that point and she wants to get back to her family, but one feels that her actions are very much in keeping with her character.
Issues now cropping up with the drama's decision to diverge from the novel.
In the novel, the experiences of the leads are mirrored. There comes a time when LMT finds out that she is Lu Wen quite some time before she actually remembers she is Lu Wen, By then she's already happily married to CXZ and they have a son, so she's in a dilemma as to whether and how to tell him, just as he was in a dilemma during their fake marriage. There is a sense of balance and reciprocity in their experiences. We've now lost that since they've decided to give her back her Yangshan memories straightaway.
why did he make Yun'er his concubine ? doesn't he know that she was the one who order to kill Miantang ?Not sure…
In the novel, at the end after she finally regains her Yangshan memories, LMT squashes ZY's wishful thinking of a reunion and tells him she knows he deliberately let her catch him in flagrante delicto with SY. He knew she would leave immediately in disgust and he would thus succeed in neutralising her military power and although he didn't know that the others had already planned to ambush her, this is a man who views love and life as a game of Go.
Good trait for an emperor, really teruk for a husband/lover. Whereas CXZ once in, is in for better or worse.
Why would anyone hate LR? it has such a happy and wholesome story.
Exactly! I watched it when it was airing during an intensely stressful period at work. Mondays and Tuesdays became my favourite days of the week during that period because I knew that LR would make me laugh and feel all warm and fuzzy and restore my sanity. Plus who wouldn't like looking at BWS doing his air kisses? Or having a sudden shower of condoms? And the last episode should be the gold standard for rom coms - everything wrapped up nicely with a big big bow.
It's too bad they changed the garment LMT made for him to a cloak. In the novel it was his underwear - that would have been so much more intimate and funnier.
1 
But the subs are a mess…..looks like they haven’t had time to clean them up.
But after a while, she just goes, ok, am pissed but she doesn't feel completely cheated or taken advantage of since she admits to herself she enjoyed bonking him as he's pretty good at it and also drop dead gorgeous - LOL - plus she recognises some of his other good points. (See they should not have skipped the sex at the hot springs scene lah - is it so wrong to have women enjoy sex? )
Because she doesn't remember her Lu Wen years, she doesn't have as much innate hostility. She still leaves cos he's not offering to make her his main wife at that point and she wants to get back to her family, but one feels that her actions are very much in keeping with her character.
In the novel, the experiences of the leads are mirrored. There comes a time when LMT finds out that she is Lu Wen quite some time before she actually remembers she is Lu Wen, By then she's already happily married to CXZ and they have a son, so she's in a dilemma as to whether and how to tell him, just as he was in a dilemma during their fake marriage. There is a sense of balance and reciprocity in their experiences. We've now lost that since they've decided to give her back her Yangshan memories straightaway.
Good trait for an emperor, really teruk for a husband/lover. Whereas CXZ once in, is in for better or worse.