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I know that. I have read the novel! I am not saying they had a weird age gap! I am saying that because Chinese censorship rules doesn't consider the novel world or any fantasy world real, hence they might consider ML as a teenager, and FL as an adult, if the drama explicitly shows them returning as a teenager and adult respectively though in different timelines! Chinese censorship might not allow that because they would consider, that in the novel world though we know ML grew up, but the authorities would still consider him to be a kid!

Also I am not saying any of this! A person in X tweeted this, saying this might be the reason to avoid any complexities, the producers decided to take a safe route!

They always were! But that's their characters in the novel! So ML also proposes to her with a ring, modern style!
But yes since the first episode she was already his concubine, then noble consort, then eventually empress as well!

I read it before the drama airing!Due to time constraints, episodes cut and chinese censorship, they couldn't copy that exactly! Though our drama concluded everything very nicely, its just the transmigration part, I get it, its not in hands fully, that's why every drama have to come up with tricks to avoid the rules! Its okay I was satisfied!

100%, I know that, you know that! The person who said that, meant Chinese censorship might not agree to it! Hence they had to leave it to viewer's imagination!

Also honestly, they got a very happy ending in the novel world, and a very beautiful start in the real world, with memories intact, hence that is already very satisfying for me!

Someone said in X, I don't know if its true or not but-
Said if they exactly copied novel's ending, it might not have passed Chinese censorship, because if ML returned to his teenage body and it was shown in the drama, it would be considered that an adult FL was dating a kid. So they did not go that route, and kept it for viewer's imagination!

This is something feared by the leads. But in the novel something of this sort doesn't happen! They live together for a long time. They do not even mention Duan after he is imprisoned!
In the drama, when they transmigrated was not shown! So we are free to assume anything, but because we are not told anything, I would like to assume the novel ending as well!

Honestly dying would be way easier for him! Such a proud man, being crippled, without sanity, alone, miserable would be so torturous for him! Like to live like that everyday knowing he lost to Dan, is the most pathetic ending for him!
Dying would have erased all his pain! Plus leads also feared that him dying suddenly might erase or stop the novel world, because SML is actually the ML of the novel world! So yeah!

He was imprisoned, became crippled, lost sanity! They ended his story there! His death wasn't mentioned if I remember correctly.

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Watch Legend of the Female General, that was my first drama of him! Many people said he was too good in My Journey to you, but he was the second lead there, so I did not watch, but he really looks good in the videos I saw!

Very happy and satisfying ending!

When I read the novel, I felt bad for him! I felt he had same fate like his father. They both were miserable! He did throw the poison, but he was a kid, he just thought his grandmother was being murdered, it did not harm the leads as such! The last plotting at least in the drama was not done by him! Hence I forgive him for that!
He has no one to tell him what is right what is wrong! From my perspective he deserves the same sympathy as ML.
The drama did give an open ending for him, so its okay! You are free to think he is disposed off! I just hope he becomes a good man though, gets the right guidance in his life, and finds someone who truly likes him, after all just a kid!

Concluded really well!

You will get used to it after 5-6 episodes! Dubbing was the only initial issue many people had! But it gets better!
To answer your second question- Yes, he is!

They are dating, we know it, they know it, they are just not going the typical "I like you" way!

He is too good!

He does that in all his roles, last time he was great in LOFG, but here he got a lot of scope to do it as well! It was a complex character!

To say Wang Churan was pretty in the drama, is an understatement! She looked ethereal! She ate her role!

Cheng Lei Appreciation Post- The way he acts with his eyes! Made me have a laugh riot with comedy scenes, felt scarry in tyrant scenes, cried in his emotional scenes! Every aspect of Dan was so perfectly done by him!
Give Leizi all the awards now! I miss him already!!