ShortCircuit

She's alive but gone to the army to defend the borders (not the same border war he goes to - he's in the north, she's in the east IIRC). In the drama, she gets the news of his death and is grieving. In the novel, she gets married to one of his subordinates (even in the drama that character even mentions briefly that he doesn't know how to feel about MCS coming back from the dead because he has feelings for her. But in the novel, he gets to marry her in the end, so it's kind of not totally hopeless for her).

In NiF or TU? :D

There's no possible salvation for the ML in NiF, but there's a chance for redemption and revenging his fallen comrades and family. So don't expect a HEA for the both of them in any way (this is not a romance). But it's a glorious ending, totally earned and fitting to the tale.

Try it out, it's a very slow burn, awesome story.

WAIT WAIT WAIT this is already out?! BRB, have to go watch :D

Thank you! They're pretty cute together, but I won't read anything other than good friends in it :D And I'm grateful for it - I think that's where that amazing chemistry comes from.

I don't have twtr, and won't make an account. Looks I'm out of luck with future links on it, since yesterday's (yet another one) stupid decision of its owner ;(

It was the late Emperor. Liang used to be a highly placed minister, but fell from power and decided to rebel. Both the former Emperor and the Liang uncle/traitor are bad guys. So was the Crown Prince.

Commissioner Fan and General Zhou (the stupid one, not the younger one) mentioned there are only the Empress and "the orphan" now. As long as there's no more princes to be called orphans, they might have meant the princess who was to marry GJS if the Gu family had wanted to.

In the very first few moments after the wedding, her righteous husband left her alone in a room to go fend off the demonic crows. How little protection she truly had is immediately apparent when TTJ just waltzes right in and CHOOSES not to harm her.

So yeah, her husband - whom she suspects does not really love her but is compelled (for reasons explained in the next few eps from where you're in now) - is not her go-to saviour.

As for why go to TTJ - she thinks he likes her (from the first eps, when he stood up for her causing the few freezing nights etc), she knows he has power now, and she sees him as someone similar to her. A nobody no one wanted, rejected by his family, who now found his (superior) place in the kingdom and is not afraid to use any means to win. She wants to marry him - or be his concubine or whatever - because he CAN protect her and he just might, under the right persuasion.

15-20 eps in, and it'll turn into a lifetime addiction. You've been warned. Also, it's a great story to get addicted to, so it's worth it anyway :D

Yeah but where the heck does all that hair go?! Everybody had long hair, and there's not a lot of space under those helmets. It just struck my curiosity nerve to find out where does the topknot go when they put the helmet on.

It had been a year since they got to YouZhou, a few more months after the bandits episode, maybe another month for the gathering of grains, coming back and having dear traitor uncle come to pay a visit, lay a siege, something or other.

My current peeve is what the heck happened to the store(s). Is anybody still buying rouge when the city is under siege? What if they save the city but go broke!! We can't have that!! :D

1-those fools were pathetically hilarious though. One moment they're like, "the sky is falling, woe on you, children of WangDu!" and the next they're like, "This guy seems to be right. We should probably try to actually resist a bit. Oh well then, nevermind, let's go back to work" LOL.

3-I'd say, he persuades her to get out by the way he CAN'T play that leaf well, LOL.

4-He's so passionate he could care less he could just... keep her. She won't be persuaded by his offer or help or his coolness (well, I am, but he's not after me so I'm safe :D)

He called him "xiong" (tl-ed as brother) as a term of respect. If they would have been really close, he'd have called him "ge" (older familial brother) or "didi" (younger familial brother). The term "da" (great, big) added in front of any of these words - except for didi - would imply the one who is so addressed is older, too, or more important (da-ge, da-xiong).

Inside families, younger brothers and sisters would call the older ones "gege" as an endearment term (jiejie for older sister, meimei for younger ones).

And then you get to wuxia and everybody's a brother, sister, aunt, uncle, elder, etc - either familial, adopted, or martial, LOL.

Maybe the description is meant to mention weiqi (the game of go), not chess. The rules are different and it's more dynamic, more abstract, and generally, more complex than chess. I could see LZS trying to play a board of weiqi and moving in the shadows behind everything - including the death of the emperor and his Crown Prince.

It does not compute. He's the son of a concubine so less worthy than the official son(s) but at the same time he's trustworthy enough to send for immensely important supplies (in YangZhou). He is good enough to make General, and to be left in charge of the city and the Commissioner's son, but still not important enough to have a real father-son discussion into the whys and wherefores of things at the time when the provincial capital is under siege.

Zhou dad got either book or script stupid. He's also Fan's best friend and supporter, how come Fan didn't ever set him right?!

WTF is General Zhou's problem? And particularly with Ye. I mean, the older (unnamed) son realizes YouZhou is important, and Commissioner Fan also does, but G-ral Zhou is like, "oh well, nothing we can do about it, moving on, hey cuz Fan, maybe you wannabe the next Emp, whaddayasay?"

I seriously hope he gets a much improved attitude or dies soonest.

When Zhou Ye left the city to GJS though... I get it, it's fiction everything, and it doesn't even matter if he wins and the siege fails BUT what the heck is Ye thinking?! I mean, GJS didn't set out to buy himself a provincial capital, did he? Why leave him in charge of the ARMY, I bet there's anywhere between 1 and 100 people AT LEAST that have a better military knowledge and experience to lead the soldiers. GJS has new ideas and so far (one day or two) he managed to keep the city and all, but when the push will come to shove, he doesn't have any miliary experience. AT ALL. Being good at martial arts doesn't mean he can always make a smart choice and win.

Ah whatever. Anyway, looks like Mr. Zhao the other traitor is being left out by that idiot who got old and never learned anything in his life, so there's someone to go open a gate or inform the enemy that there are just a few thousand soldiers in the city and they could take it in one big push. We'll have to see how that one gets solved.

And all hail people who actually aren't bent on doing good for good's sake forever. LYR's mom finally got a spine. I guess it took being left for dead in order for that to happen.

Now we only just need dad to come back from the dead,...

So many things to say this ep...

But seriously, does General Zhou the father want to become the most useless villain at this time? If so, I foresee a quick and heroic exit on the left of the stage (probably pursued by a bear).

And highlights:

Traitor uncle Liang: And who the farc are YOU?!
GJS: I'm your very distant grandfather!!

I LOLed at that. I mean, that's such a Chinese insult hahaha. Though they usually stick with "I'm your father". When Star Wars came to China they must've been SO mystified LOL.

Also GJS saying (the equivalent of): I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION! YOUR FATHER WAS A HAMSTER AND YOUR MOTHER SMELT OF ELDERBERRIES. Just because they want to make the other army snap hehe.

How on Earth did such a wimpy traitor come to betray the emperor though? Did he start with a much larger bag of courage and it got spilled on the way to WangDu?

He's pretty assertive, LOL, he took her as his sworn sister whether she even knew about it or not (I was actually laughing when he called GJS "brother-in-law" hahaha!)

He's being a shy virgin. Give him some slack, he never talked to women before LOL unless they were gambling together.

So, based on the preview for next eps, he's from around 27 years back - supported by use of the cassette player, the diskettes (OMG has it only been 27 years?! I would have sworn there were no more of those since at least 30 years back...) and the way the novel pages were tied together.

No wonder he has no idea about modern phones yet. Great detail he DOES remember the tools of his own time.

I sure hope the ending isn't sending him back to his own time, particularly if he becomes a part of this time's motley crew LOL.

Are they saying the lightning strike is the reason for the telepathy and telekinesis, though? And why would his eyes change colour? What is that rock - looked like a meteor of some kind - is this guy an amnesiac Superman who just got pushed forward through time?

I'd love to say I like it more than I do, but it's moving a bit hiccupy yet, what with the serial salvations of random people (I could live with less of those) and the mysterious pocky-handed man who how the hell did he find where DongJoo is staying?

What I LOVE about it though, is how DongJoo got so IMMEDIATELY focused on playing with the superpowers LOL. That's such a nerdy writer thing to do. ....I'd do the same and I'm not even a writer hahaha.

Not a bad start. Let's hope it moves a bit better from next week.

Ep2... Definitely time traveler.

Why does this drama have 80% of the ep with no BGM? I find it a good change from the usual, but pretty unexpected. And the cinematographer likes to play with angles and different spaces for shots, LOL.