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It is! Both of them look amazing there.

Xiao Zhan has this feeling of nobility here, they way he carries himself as Shi Ying that really does it for me 😂

Spoilers, don't forget to hide them.

Yes, it really was. Actually I am still not sure if we were rooting for the right side or if there even is a right side. I am looking forward to that part too especially as some of Shi Ying's choices are interesting. Of course it is possible they made the drama way more straightforward.

I also wonder how far they will go when it comes to how KS actually treated mermaids because that stuff was pretty out there.

Take a look at that Yuri account a few posts below yours that says not impressed. Click on it and their watchlist. They have rated only one drama, this one, and they gave it 1 star. This is the usual method of XZ anti to lower the scores of his dramas.

Ah yes. An anti account with one single rating which is 1 star for this drama is not impressed.

Imagine that!

Lower scores are normal but once antis start giving it 1 star it is over. Almost impossible to ever balance it out and they have sock accounts to do this multiple times.

It's because Shi Ying was so powerful and talented. It was a sacrifice to make sure he can't reach the throne because then the country would have stabilised. As it is, it leaves it in chaos with an already bad Emperor who can't handle it. Result is corruption and infighting.

Listen how Zhu Yan describes him when she was on that roof. That's what made him the target.

Shi Ying is first with 9.31 which means only Xiao Chunsheng has gone higher this year.

No, antis are giving it a 1 star rating which is bringing it down severely.

It's a personal opinion but after six episodes I think it is really good. It's logical in plot, beautiful in filming, good CGI and all around good acting.

I am not surprised because they are especially pressed about this one. I have seen several sock accounts even posting which means they are pulling out everything they have. Bitter people are bitter.

Guys, please remember to rate each individual episode because as usual, we are getting downvoted by antis!

Under the title of the show, click on episode guide. Thanks.

It's because the puppet is not fully functional I think, it cannot absolutely mimic the original apart from the visual. You saw how it had to imitate movement, even for bowing during the ceremony because it didn't know what to do. So if she had left the puppet in her place, it would have been discovered.

Extremes spoil it for everyone.

When I say TC wouldn't risk it, I mean because we know how the book ends. If they changed it to SE now that would cause unhappiness.

But generally speaking, actually XZ fans love to watch his characters suffer. He cries so prettily 😂 So if ever there is a script like that I am sure all normal people will simply cry a lot while eating chocolate and enjoying it all 😂

In the end, it is about personal perception. Whether objectively true or not, she thinks what happened when he saved her triggered an event where not only he died but his mother was disfigured, exiled and lost her only child. The amount of guilt a 10yo would feel would be massive.

That's trauma that would require long term professional help but she has no one to help her so she is stuck with that perceived guilt. There is a way out though, the revival spell so she is fixated on it as a way of undoing what happened and easing her guilt. A very common trauma response too.

We will see how it plays out from here on, because as you say there is a lot more at play. The book was changed by a lot but I think she will mature as time passes and we will see changes.

Yes, it is absolutely angst filled. The novel itself is, then we were told the drama actually made it worse. But in the end, it is a good one.
Tbh I don't think Tencent would risk the wrath of XZ fans 😂

Happy ending but not without consequences. I have to spoil it a little bit but in the book she gives him half of her life span in order for him to live. It is a HE in general but there is that little twist.

That's the thing - he does.

But above all Shi Ying is a moral character. He knows that once he was framed by the concubine, everyone but Zhu Yan suddenly changed their behaviour and started vilifying him. Zhu Yan though believed in him and even went against imperial orders. He also knows now she wants to revive him.

So though he knows she will bring him death, at the same time he cannot ignore her character and her actions. He lets her live because it is the right, moral thing to do, even knowing the consequences.

No, the same thing would have happened. Mermaids have been slaves for thousands of years. Her sacrifice to frame Shi Ying would be considered a great thing. And she targeted Shi Ying on purpose. She would have found a different way but she would have done it.

The drama uses Zhu Yan as a tool to tell you about him. He is supremely talented, intelligent, etc. So mermaids need to take him out before he takes the throne because once he does, the country would stabilise. With him gone, and his father incompetent, you see the result - greater division, corruption and a collapsing country. Which is what mermaids want because they fight against it.

It's not, no, there is a lot after that.