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????? where are you getting this from? i don't think so?

It's not! don't worry.

english names for cdramas can be facepalmy generic, I forget the names of cdramas a lot since they blur together after awhile. I don't have vip for this so I'll be behind, but I have magical powers from reading the novel! which I only remember bits of, and not sure if they'll change much but we'll see.

yeah their characters are fairly straightforward, but it's more his looks? his aura doesn't fit what i think his role should be. I think he fits his role in my best friend's story lot better. oh well.

I don't know if it is! It's just not what most people would translate the title as (I think it's the novel title 帝王业?) It could be a very cleverly translated title which I can appreciate, since it fits the story rather well. Emperor Phoenix is from 帝凰业, then changed it to 江山故人 then Ode to Shangyang is 上阳赋.

I'm not overly bothered by the age if the plot doesn't keep mentioning it. Even if they do, she looks better than Qin Dynasty Epic's protag so i'll live.

I kind of wish Yang You Ning (the actor's name) wasn't here.....He really doesn't fit the role here omg.... and I think his acting is only okay. He has three drama airing at the moment so it's a lot.

hahahah you are so right, she's Leia, I want this crossover. every other name is better than this one.

rebel princess just sounds really weird and generic to me lol. oh well i don't know what i'm expecting from cdramas english title. where it's all "love this' "princess that". Monarch Industry would have worked too, even if it's technically kind of machine translated, but it sticks out!

she has the skin filter on lol, but it's not always on. i'm not sure why she picked this book since she's not within age range of the character at all, but it's fine, dramas do this all the time. The novel is fairly decent, but definitely doesn't last 68 ep, so i'm curious how they'll expand it, drama this long usually suffer from pacing issue so hope it'll do ok there.

wait wait what's with this new name, what's wrong with ode to shangyang? she's not a rebel princess XD

no i haven't but i got so many spoilers thrown at me lol.

I'm not really liking the last couple of ep tbh, i think the writing tanked and I think the editing is all over the place, but there's a lot of drama coming up so hope it rounds off well. As for the rating lol, i don't think it ever helped me much, there's too little people rating it anyways.

You might want the spoiler the comment.

YY is working hard by herself and she'll come to terms with herself. I don't think she needs SS's help, and I don't think SS like her much, considering the whole situation, it's nothing personal but that's how circumstances goes.

NS doesn't have a trust fund and her trip to italy, aside from trying to start a new chapter of her life + working through her grief, is her goodbye trip with her mum, her aunt specifically asked her. She will be back working to repay debts soon?

ZAR lied time and time again and he always puts himself first. He lied to make himself look better with the booklet thing (WYZ put JNS' name there, not him, JNS knew and brushed it off because she didn't want to make a fuss). He didn't come clean about his ex. JNS specifically told him that she doesn't think it's a good idea for YY to stay over, he agreed and then he turns around and put her on the spot so she'd say yes, what the fuck? Could have argued about it? Or you know, could have actually pony up and find her a hotel? Also note that he repeatedly say he does all these things for JNS when she never asked for it and told him to ignore her dad being hella rude, he's doing a lot of things because he feels he's never good enough, that's a him issue, not her issue. This is all background stuff.

When the debt thing blew up, he didn't want them coming over, that's fair. In fact, most of his actions make sense. But he didn't want them going to the place HER MUM rented, it has nothing to do with him. So when she asked if he can loan some money, it's because he was specifically worried about himself, how he'd look, what other people would say. She was sorely disappointed that he wouldn't just say "i can't possibly shoulder that massive debt", but he used the "we have to think about us" excuse. Nobody actually expect him to shoulder the debt. You can contrast it with Suosuo, I mean normal people wouldn't try to shoulder the debt, but she considered renting a big place, she thought up excuse for them to move in with her. When shit goes down, you take care of people actually in trouble, not just yourself, yknow? and you definitely don't use "i'm doing this for you", which makes it extra gross.

All the characters are pretty flawed but they have their shining moments too.

lss does get a lot of criticism, but she got them before as well. she actually got fair amount of praise for this drama because I think she fits the character. her character def was meant to be trying to hold everything together till someone else could come and handle things (she had that crying under the sheet scene). Ni Ni excel in crying scene and suosuo tends to show her emotion much more, so it's a big contrast.

she's been sheltered all her life and she's still in school. I actually like nansun more than suosuo, because the scriptwriter didn't smooth out suosuo's part, so her part have all these issues even though her personality is more my type. I like the way Nansun handled the Yuan yuan situation. While she has been disappointed time and time again by ZAR, she didn't make a big deal out of things, she brushed off the little lies he said to make himself look better. Then after Yuan yuan, she tried to have pretty calm talk with him, and ended things pretty swiftly once she felt she had enough.

no no, he doesn't deserve her, she could do so much better, I rather like her.

The one they played when Ying Zheng and dad was checking out their armies? 赳赳老秦，共赴国难

I'm so excited we are at major turning point of the story. also BYE ZHANG ANREN, good god i hate his character. I know a lot of his actions make sense, and I'm happy the writer didn't make him one dimensional but I still really really dislike him.

It's a terrible mock up of another photoshoot, Wu Junmei and Chen Chong's figaro cover shoot. I think the initial poster for this drama look better than this one tbh.