All the love stories, the family dynamics n everything else was all great...but i dunno y the whole haoyue thing…
Yep, I think if they could have brought in Haoyue earlier into the story with more to do it would have been a more satisfying climax. But I guess ran out of time lol
I have one more to go. I feel like this one could have used more episodes to really finesse the palace/Haoyue storyline. Too rushed. And I’m usually all for shortening dramas…
I'm guessing we are getting our ultimate villainess? I wonder if her story is somehow more deeply related to the overall story or if she is just ending arc of the show. I guess if there is any criticism I have of the story is the unevenness of it all. Some the best parts are the quiet, domestic scenes in the Hua family. The political story that the ML is mostly involved in has not really clicked thematically for me with the Hua family story (other than the paranoid Emperor who I guess ties it all together). I'll guess I'll have to wait and see, never read the novel.
The emperor was already seething inside but biding his time when he discovered GYX with HZ and it was killing…
Yep, I agree about SQ. His character has been consistently shown to be a genteel scholar-like upright dude but lacking in real-life experiences and street smarts. GYX has lacked a father in his life and has seen one in his Uncle. I think he knows on some level who his uncle is and what he’s capable of doing but I agree - he needs to make a full break with him to achieve any happiness for himself and to curb his uncles’ crazy harmful ways.