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They definitely chose a hairstyle to make him stand out from the rest.

Roughly around 3-4 years (if not more). If you want the detailed math I can do for you

Flustered, but not sure why she was feeling that way. At that point, in her mind, AS still thought that she was a he. No romantic response yet.

Even after she knew that AS knew that she was a girl, giving her that beautiful luminous stone and bringing her to see those fireflies did not have much of an impact on her, romantically speaking. She was just constantly in motion. No time to reflect and think. Not enough anyway.

I think her time at Liuyun temple did the trick. It gave her lots of time to reflect. Sitting in front of that giant "No Action" calligragraphy, she probably realised that AS was in love with her. All those actions that he did, they were to save her and protect her, because he loved her. And she was starting to have romantic feelings toward him. Her gender identity started to emerge after being surpressed by years of tomboy behaviour and urges.

After that, she would looked at AS differently. You can see the change, starting from E31. The look in her eyes toward AS was one of affection. "I am proud to have a boyfriend like that. He would leave the grasslands to come searching for me. He would forgive me, for indirectly causing his mother's death."

My goodness, I like the way you described it. We really are like a customer help desk, trying to sell this drama all new comers!

He himself did see Changge going to the grassland as a slave. And his spy did witness what looked like a scene which shows Changge was killed. At that stage, he had no idea that AS had spared CG. At the Taoist temple, we did not see any scene that actually show how Hao Du helped GeSun to escape. We are left with a subsequent scene when Shuyu explained to Leyan that it was Hao Du who helped GeSun to escape.

We need to bear in mind, this is how the screenwriters wanted to tell the story. The temple scene occured after Leyan had slapped Hao Du. So, they wanted to show that Hao Du was changed after that. It was when Leyan was touched by this action, her feeling toward Hao Du started to change. Likewise for Du Ruhui. When Changge was willing to take that stab for him, his attitude toward her also changed after that.

I think they do not want to show Hao Du and Du Ruhui going after Changge the entire drama. It would have been very boring. The temple incident was about right. The temple scene was E32. They started chasing after her from E3. That mean Hao Du/Du Ruhui have been chasing chasing Changge for 30 episodes. This show has 49 episodes. So, while not all the 30 scenes show the actually chasing, but for 60% of the drama, in theory, they were still after her.

That really is way more than enough, for a drama. If you read the comments in this forum, many already find this somewhat boring.

If you were to go into the comments section of other dramas, you will know that viewers do not really like repetitive stuff. Many screenwriters overuse misunderstanding as a trope to prolong a drama series. Those dramas have very poor ratings.

This was a critical scene in the drama. Not sure how many takes it took in the filming before they finally got it perfect. Just venturing a guess here. They were just trying to make sure Reba does not get hurt walking barefoot in the field. We know that the snow was fake. But the field was real. If it required 10 takes to make this scene perfect, you can imagine how many times she would have had to walk, barefooted. This conjecture can be easily disputed though. Some parts of the walk could have been done by a body double (those that only show the feet but not her upper body).

Having Reba walk in a fake field was not possible. Director or producer or both, mentioned in an interview that all the filming took place in real fields and real houses. They did not shoot this in a studio, and then used CGI to recreate those those props.

They could make Reba walk out with her feet covered with some transparent plastic, and then in the post production stage, used CGI to remove those plastic to give the impression that she walked out barefooted. Why didn''t they do this? The production team is very experienced. I doubt they did not consider this option. Perhaps, while it can be done, it might have taken too much time and they had so many things after the filming (like dubbing and so).

In the end, I think the sreenwriters/director felt that if Xia Da was trying to convey a sense of vulnerbility on the part of Changge, with or without shoes, having her walk out all alone, unarmed, with thousands of Ashile troops in front of her, that very sight alone would have been sufficient to give us the impression that there was no way those troops would have felt threatened by her.

And having her walk out in shoes does have one tremendous advantage. No need for body double. And Reba can concentrate totally on the way she walked while holding that box that was of considerable size (almost the whole top half of her body), and her facial expressions, and not worry about being poked by a stone here or a stick there.

Next year, when the producer submits sscenes for drama competitions, for the best actress category, we can be sure, this snow walk scene will surely be one of scenes she will use.

When the walk started the snow fell, the opening OST dropped along with the lyrics on the right, and Changge walking alone, unarmed, into a snow shrouded mist of countless fully armed enemy soldiers, nothing best symbolised her fearlessness. She was fully prepared to die. Given what she had done to kill hundreds of Ashile troops prior to the surrender, killing her would have been a fair response. For dramatic effect, this scene is arguably the best.

Very much so. This drama was extremely well written. Not just the separation between GeSun, the separation between Leyan and Hao Du also. Lots of interesting stuff must be placed in between, and not just endless and meaningless round of "Oh, I just missed seeing you and you just missed seeing me" That will have made this drama really draggy, and the story look very repetitive or shallow or both.

I read in the comments section of another drama, and viewers just simply hate that drama, because it was just endless round of misunderstanding between the ML and FL.

There was a BTS showing how he caressed and stroke those braided locks and Reba was just laughing away

Yes, this is not a drama for 'shallow' viewers who wanted everything to be served on a plate. Lots of stuff will be missed, if they do not look at those micro gestures, those look in the face, the eyes, etc. etc.

Maybe this why viewership is not as high as it should be. Many viewers simply do not want to invest in the time watching a drama like this. They see a few scenes they cannot understand. And then, they dropped it.

Yes, this is the impression I had too. Someone did tell me that, that Sun only found out that Changge was a girl at the temple. So, you see, if the drama had followed the manhua, they would not have sufficient time to show their romance. In the drama, they found each other's gender identity much earlier. Well, CG already know Sun's gender by E1, and Sun knew hers by E5. Thereafter, the screenwriters wrote many nice scenes between the 2 of them, scenes that help make their romance believeable and sweet.

If they follow the manhua, they will be left with very very few episodes to play out the romance. Viewers will be very disappointed. Manhua, no romance is ok. Drama, no romance? That is suicidal

Changge made a lot of trips here and there. From the grasslands to the desert. Then back to Chang'an. Then to Ding Xiang. Lots of travelling here and there. Some of those places were quite far apart. Just not possible for entire drama to take place over a time frame of just 12 months.

The drama just dicpict the major events. Does not tell us all the time taken up just with all those travelling from place to place.

Oh, you are referring to the same scene I had in mind, just saying they should showed more details? There was more details in E28, toward the end. The fight scene continued to the beginning of E29.

There was quite a bit of kicking around end of E28
But yes, no full fight.

That was deliberate. To arouse more angst in us

We are all. Their separation was much shorter than episodes showing Leyan was lost. And there were interesting things that did happen during those times they were separated. Some of those scenes were quite important.

In one of his off screen parting messages for TLB, he was seen with the grassland headgear. I suspect the production people let him keep that. Maybe it has certain size and will not fit another actor. Anyway, many costume designers would have seen TLB. And using it again is a no no. But the long braided hair. I suspect, if he likes it, he must buy. TLB crew can easily keep for another historical drama.

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I see. If this was what was written in the manhua, I must say, the drama version is far superior and far more complex. Just reading what you wrote, the manhua version did not convey any romantic connection between the two. It does not have the portion where CG are supposed to reciprocate, in response to what she wanted Sun to do.

The drama version does, as we all know by now. The first two wishes show the closeness of their relationship. And many viewers felt, from the way he looked at her at the tree trunk scene, the third wish, he wants her to be willing to make babies with him.

Many people felt that this was only a matter of time, that they will eventually make babies.

But Changge is a very sly woman. I got the feeling, she is very good in using delay tactics. She would often rely on memory lost and hope that Sun will forget about those 3 promises. And when he did not forget, she would often say something like, now is the right time to talk about this or that.

So, making babies? I think our poor Sun will have to wait a while. She is going to make use of her intelligence to delay that. She wants to have more advertures. In the grasslands.

Some events and characters are indeed historical events and real people in history. But our main characters, Li Changge and AS are totally fictional characters created by Xia Da, author of the manhua from which this drama was adapted.

Xuanwu gate was a real historical event, when Li Si Min killed Li Jiancheng (Changge's dad in the drama). Wikipedia placed the incident around July 626. July would still have been summer time and they could kick the cuju ball around.

When the drama ended, Tang and the Eastern Turkic Khaganate was at peace. In history, Tang only fought against Ashile in winter of 629.

So, the events in the drama would have taken at least 3 years, from E1 to E49

And, that would make sense. Because Changge's character needs to grow over time.

Great drama, very satisfying ending. Nobody died, who should not have died. Good characters who died, died for a good cause.

If you like a drama with deep plot, complex characters, great music, great cinematography, this is it.