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Yes true.
Honestly in the novel, Han Mingxi and Ye Ying had no interaction, but they made a cute interaction between them in the drama, so I don't know what is planned.

Empress Dowager is the mother of the current king. Both were initially concubines to the late Emperor. But the one whose son is the current ruler, has primary status, and is Empress Dowager.

Lin Muran is casted in the drama as third male lead. Same for the novel. In the novel, he liked Yeli only, the drama has made some changes, but we are not sure if there is a love story planned for him with Ye Ying.

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yup

Exactlyy, done nicely.

😍 They did not release pictures in the white t shirt and black dress. We have other materials as well. They are gatekeeping it.

It wasn't said they were sisters though.

This is so true. And I love Yeli for this so much. In most of the dramas, FLs refuse taking gifts except some which are cheap or just hold emotional value. Anything expensive, they are like I don't want that, what should I do with that. And I used to always think, you don't like money? So weird, that's your husband/bf why are you shy of taking gifts from him?
Yeli fulfilled my dream. She took 1 mili second to say yes. I love her.

Yes, even in teasers and trailers, they showed them in mountains. But it seems not very soon, as you said.

Mo Xiu Yao and Yeli in the modern world
https://x.com/BennyLwge/status/2066751819779543297?s=20
https://x.com/czhouye/status/2066756645154382010?s=20

It was shocking to us, even though they took us through the entire process. His bestie's reaction was😂😂, he finally knew why the shops were taken away from him.

Its not too fast, or too slow. I think it just has a natural pace. Like sometimes a lot is happening, but there is a lot of calmness to it. But if we see by episode count, a lot of things has already happened. So the pacing seems exact.

I really like the direction in the drama. Its nice, if you see closely, initially ML would limp while walking. Now the limping is a little reduced, but its still there.
I am so glad they did not show him running just after he could stand. They showed him falling down, again standing up, practicing. His entire cure is done really well, in "drama standards", but it was not draggy as well. Plus the best thing, he can stand up before the drama has reached its half. So we get a lot of episodes seeing him in activity as well.
I am a little scared about Yeli's healing, because this is much of a sensitive issue than physical healing. But they have started it well, taking a calm approach to it.

This, when Yeli came back home and was looking for him, and found him standing in front of the pond watching fishes, it was so weird for me at first. We all got used to him in the wheelchair, that it will take a little time for us to get used to the new variant of him.
Especially the scene, remember she was writing letters, he came via his wheelchair, and left it, walked and sat beside her??😂😂He is using it as a bicycle now, lol.

So true

The upcoming scenes with many teasers for next few episodes, seem to be very sweet. This scares me because angst would follow soon as well then.

yes

Cousins

I have just started watching cdramas since the last 2 years, so I do not have a lot of knowledge about it. But I don't want to deny, I really like idol dramas. In fact, I think @MariaB even pointed out in one of the replies, dramas like these are a lot of work, people are lazy, so its understandable. As I said target audience is different.
Surprisingly they took idol actors and made a drama like this. So many idol drama watchers thought the drama is for them, but eventually they realized its "boring", when its just not their taste.