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It is not brilliant like The Double but the chemistry between ML and FL is very good. This is more a tragedy than a revenge drama, tbh, and if you start with that in mind, I think you'll really like the drama. The weakness is in the latter arc added in after the real story arc was done too soon and it made the ratings dropped from 8.9 to what you have now. But even so, I am very fond of the first 16 episodes and would rate those a high 9. WJY, the actress, really excelled in the action scenes (and this was her first wuxia type drama!) and LXY was so damn good when he was the slightly crazed prince. But I digress. Watch it and make up your mind. You can stop any time (before Episode 20)! LOL.

She was supposed to die, so he didn't bother to find one. But he also didn't anticipate that her constitution was so weakened from years of eating "spoilt food" that any antidote wouldn't work 100 percent. So started the whole stupid Dragon Whisker arc.

Voted!

We were joking here to make a recording of that for our phone msg. LOL.

He certainly has the voice of a man, heh heh.

Absolutely agree with you about the Ji Bros. Stupid director, trying to be artsy wuxia.

OK, but what has that got to do with the drama? If you don't like the drama just because you find the actress unattractive, then you're missing out on a pretty good script. I don't find a few Western actresses attractive (to my preference) either, but I certainly never review a movie or TV show from that angle. Either I like that particular show or not. There are many here who criticized the drama based on the fact that they didn't buy the actress' portrayal of the young age and they stated so, and I don't fault them, even though I disagree. But at least, they're critiquing in the context of the narrative.

But you ARE no one.

Ah well. They don't know the time they wasted can't be taken back. Life isn't all about convincing the other side about nothing.

But then the question is: what comes first? Fans or fame? Heh.

Oh, Ooops. I thought she was a genuine viewer of the drama. The whole thread has disappeared from my view now, so perhaps she blocked me too LOL. I was actually genuinely discussing the ending with her! Silly me.

It's a great number! I wish I have that many fans, LOL.

Yes, I felt your disappointment. There are many ways to interpret it but at the end of the day, I do feel, as a writer, that there was no emotional payoff by this kind of ending. Leaving it to the viewer, when the whole drama was solidly heading toward a tragic trajectory, was a cowardly way out.

I did like the drama a lot more than you because I understood where they were heading and was looking at all the various clues building it up and the last episode was disappointment because the crescendo petered out. I was MORE disappointed with the Cui girl arc/ending, TBH. Girl spent the whole 39 episodes being part of the problem and never really showed any shame or regret of what her family did and was just redeemed by someone else's (her lover's) death. Not enough for my Inner Mean Girl. :) Cheers to you and your chickens LOL

Wait, someone actually did that? And not trolling? Wow.

We can go state by state and say, hey, LYN's followers are a few million less than mine and ZLS's a few million more than mine! Bwahahaha. #letsPlayGeography

Ahhh! I didn't listen to it in Chinese, just read the above. Without the context, the meaning got lost in translation. Thank you! Love the viewers' joke!

LOLOLOL You just prove my point, Sweetie. Not just to me, but to everyone too.

They are but the songs of this drama are too sad for me LOL, esp. for the holiday season where I am, so I tend to avoid them for now.

I don't get the mouth smeared in toxic part LOL. But the rest, LYN explained Yan ZJ perfectly.

I think watching both is very enriching because what the adults did in AOL, the young uns had to deal with in HG, I mean, TLI. One sees how YQ is like his father and one also sees the aftermath of learning stuff from his father and mother's choices, LOL.