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I was happy to see lai yi get a lead role but the story just failed to engage me, there was nothing interesting at all. it's like the script writer just aimed to have some material to make up for the episodes. I dropped after like 9-10 episodes. May be I'll pick it up again in future just for the lead cast if I ever have the free time.

I'm so in love with the ost and background scoring of this show. The songs are just so beautiful.

Oh for sure. I think this was his best I saw so far in the drama. The end of ep 15 and then ep 16, him just lost and in sorrow after shanggu's death like when zhiyang came to talk to him and he was carving the doll and it looked like he was not all there, just lost in his head, in his pain. He portrayed that well.

Oh yeah this drama definitely picked up with ep 14 and ep 15-16 the best so far and I can't believe but I actually cried in both. It really feels like now the drama starts kind of feel. The first important stop of the drama. Also, I have come to realize this that with a lot of dramas that are like over 40 episodes, unless the drama is really really terrible, you usually need to hold on and reserve judgement after 12-13 episodes and if it still doesn't work for you even after that then to each their own taste

I'm seeing not so very satisfied comments here but personally I have been liking this quite a lot. The simplicity of the plot does it for me, it's an easy watch. The leads are gorgeous. The acting is satisfactory too with obviously room for improvement. I do wish episodes could've been longer though. But overall this puts a smile on my face so it is a win.

Finally seeing someone who sees the familiarity. Have been thinking the same since ep 1

I have watched all the available trailers several times to sort of put together a timeline and what might happen after the whole shanggu sacrificing herself I think in the upcoming few episodes but I still ended up confused how it's all gonna go. I mean we still got more than half the drama left to air. Looks like there are a lot of twists and turns in plot waiting for us. And judging by the trailer, there is the whole I have to be cold and aloof to the female lead for her safety resulting in misunderstandings between the CP and I hope they don't stretch it over for like half of the second half of the drama coz I'm gonna scream if that happens.

Losing my mind..is this cast confirmed??

I was between dramas and gave this a chance coz you know sometimes you just need something light. It's short, it's sweet, lots of fluff, just simply cute light watch. Yes the storyline was a bit cliched or not anything revolutionary but it works just fine. It was a happy watch for me.

Yeah that makes sense and considering it has so many ancient poetry and literature refrences as you said, it gets even more difficult for someone not very fluent or who is not used to translating and it is indeed very time consuming work.

Yes I like keep seeing spoilers for the vip episodes and I feel so behind and I'm so eager to watch further

Yeah no fan has picked it up yet to sub the vip episode raws like you usually can find them on websites like dramacool. And yes, by Thursday, we will have subbed till 12 while for VIPs it'll already be at episode 22 :(
And then from next week, for us it's only gonna air from Monday to wednesday so we'll get only 3 episodes a week while VIPs will still get 7.

Signing up won't be the most difficult part even then but episodes won't be subbed so even watching vip episodes then, you'll just get spoilers visually while still not understanding so there is that.

The wait for episodes is killing me. I wish there was a way for vip episodes to be made available for international viewers too like honestly I don't mind paying for something I like and if I can afford it. After new week of airing episodes, we'll be 10 episodes behind vip, then week after 14. It will finish airing for vip while leaving half of the show and over a month left for the episodes to air for non VIPs. Have not seen this kind of airing schedule for any c-drama I have watched while it was airing. Hope youku can work out something.

The production definitely is not high. I have seen way way better. And I'm talking in terms of production design, CGI and costumes. I got no issues with the fighting scenes, they are choreographed well and yes cinematography in some of the scenes I really liked. But yeah I still stand by my former point, that's just how I feel and I still do appreciate their work despite all the constraints they might have had.

Just finished watching ep 5 and saw the preview for ep 6 and honestly despite the low budget and flaws aside I'm surprisingly enjoying watching the show and it seems like it's really tryna see how far it can push with displaying chemistry between the leads despite the censorship so I am just hoping and praying for it to safely fly under the radar and complete it's airing without any issues.

Oh wait didn't realize this was gonna be 20 episodes. Well the writers sure got their work cut out to keep the interest and attention and also that it doesn't get draggy. I really want this drama to do well so good luck to the team.

Done watching the first episode. I'm intrigued but ofcourse since it's only the first episode they still got lot of build up to do but it has got my interest. It seems like the drama where people might need a few episodes to get into. Anyway things got fun towards the end of episode one so yeah I'm looking forward to see how this develops.

Exactly. He absolutely had no affinity with so yong. Throughout the series bong hwan was the one beside him helping him and the one who he grew to love and now in the end so yong comes back and gets the reward of it all I don't know how to feel about it. This ending is more like you get some you lose some.

Yeah same. I would have liked to see him atleast acknowledge the fact that the person he fell in love with was someone else. With this ending I didn't get the closure I wanted. So I'm also just gonna make up my own alternative ending to believe in.