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No, the bratty of emperor doesn't deserve to be Cheng Xu son. My blood already boiled watching his antics.

Finally catch up to episode 36. Also took a peek to episode 40-42 raw.
I shall pronounce it now:
I hate Helan Ming Yu.

Stupid, self-righteous woman!! So she thought that the end justify the means all along. All her chummy acts toward the emperor now make sense.
Watching the raw, I even calling her an inept mother now. Spoiled rotten as child. Is is a wonder that he is so rebellious even after growing up?! Double-faced father, self-righteous mother, what an apt recipe for a disaster of son!

Will certainly do ^_^

Hahahahahaha!! I want to see Ming Yu progressing from woman in love to bitch who manipulates and uses her lover for her own gain. So that I can hate her justly, haha. So I need to watch the entire series ...

I also want to see Cheng Yi interpretation when he finally realizes that all his sacrifice all these years is all for vain. Based on clips I have watched, this drama will deviate from the original regarding that scene. In the original, it was the ML own initiative to sacrifice himself.
In my opinion that scene and then his death, will be the pinnacle of ML in this drama.

In a way I already give up on FL character and acting.

It is so funny that most of us here wishing ML early death, hahahahaha. I, too, hope him to just leave Ming Yu and her son alone. Just let them mess up. No need to care. Just live for himself for once.

I admit that I lost my interest at episode 22 because of boring harem story. I just continue watching today (up to episode 29 now). Too many harem scenes, not enough political scenes.

Ming Yu by episode 29 has not grated on my nerves yet. But based on comments here, I will rant against her soon enough. Currently she is only annoyed me by her neither cold nor warm attitude toward the emperor. Any normal man will think she was playing hard to get. What did she wish to achieve with that kind of attitude anyway?!
I already hate all other woman though, including Ming Yu maid Zhen Er.

Ooooo, that would be interesting to watch indeed!

I agree with you regarding the difference character development trajectory between ML and FL. But, I have to say that it more or less is correspond with what happen in real life. Male usually get stronger after fall in love because he has this urge of protecting his love. Female on the other hand, once she falls in love, feels that she has someone to depend on so she subconsciously lowering her "defense".

FL that have my praise in all my years of drama watching is not that big in number, hahahaha. There are only two that I have no complain at all regarding their character from start to the end. Others, either annoyed me in some part or I just dislike their character development.
1. Mu Ni Huang from Nirvana in Fire
2. Ru Yi from Ruyi Love in Royal Palace

Xuan Ji, I agree that she is one of the better group in my list. But, the acting made me biased toward this character ...... Moreover, the way she was led by nose by her father and Hao Chen (after Si Feng identity revealed) didn't sit well with me.

You spoke my mind. I watched Bu Bu Jing Xin when I was in my teenager (or early 20s). I remember that I rooted for RuoXi at that time. And felt sad for her predicament in the end. But now, I find myself criticize her for her selfishness and her predicament in the end, partly is her own undoing.

It is because as I grow up, I learn that both man and woman should uphold their own integrity within the society and being a woman (as weaker side in physical mean) does not exempt us from taking responsibility of our deed. That's why I hate FL character that only know how to become damsel in distress and let the ML shouldering her mess. There is time when FL needs to stand up for herself.

These years, I have my own share of raving toward FL character in lots of drama. I find today's drama like to make their FL badass from outside but damsel in distress within. So annoying.

What? Variety? I don't like it when an actor has too much activity beside acting in the middle of filming. Because it might affecting their concentration.

Hopefully his company will not make this into a habit.

Are the cast confirmed for this drama? I got news from twitter that Zhang Yu Xi will be the FL?

I have suspicion that he really goes back to filming after today event. His clothes truly rather plain today, hahahaha. Pretty sure I saw pictures of Li Yan with much better clothes than today.

The cast list above has not listed Han Cheng Yu role. But judging from his clothes, perhaps he is of royal blood. Some Wang Ye perhaps.

Ah Ruoxi .... This is a FL that I thought only love ML in her mind and fantasy and not the real ML. Also I don't like how she used her 21th century mindset to judge her lover way of conduct.

In this drama, I cannot root the kind of FL that seems so flimsy in her love. All her raving about move on grated on my nerves sometimes because we all can see that her heart still hanging on Cheng Xu. But she was sooo chummy with the Emperor. It was not until Xi Qi that she was finally woken up by cold water.

He has one already finished filming: Deep Lurk. Should be released soon. Hopefully early next year or even better, this year .....

Now that you mentioned it, indeed his costume is most luxurious among others. And Cheng Yi character supposed to be the King , hahahaha.

Lots of happy faces of fans. Seems the event could be deemed as success.

I am glad that the event went well. Any news from the event regarding the drama airing date? Cannot be happier if they decide to air it earlier

I am about half and half. I am an "A" which mean that I do love this kind of tragic story full of pain kind of thing. But I also hate the FL character (usually will stay away from this kind of drama), so that where "B" comes into play. Hahahahah!

Exactly! I only have watched a couple of episodes plus clips of Xiaozhuang Mishi. I don't like the FL character, period. Even when her son tarnished the dead ML reputation, she was mostly cool about it even though I understand her reason. But her expression was too cold.

The Promise of Chang An will give more weight to the ML, I think. Because nowdays most people don't like it when one of the lead is only acted as decoration. I still remember like 10 years ago lots of drama actually very FL centric. No depth of ML whatsoever. But, ever since Ten Miles Peach Blossom which gave a certain portion to ML, everything change I think.

Time to wake up from our dream to reality .....

The only way for the audience to be able to bear this frustration is rooting for the FL. If we root for her become empress dowager in the end, then ML pain would not depress us this much because he will only "tool" in her journey to power. But if we root for ML (like most of us do here ... including me), then this will be a painful journey for us.

It is clear that there is no happy ending for him. Currently, I want to see how much pain FL will give to ML and how FL reaction and live after ML died. If she just move on without any remorse (like how she moved on from her love after her marriage), then I might end up hating this character.

I am here to see how "bad" he can do it. The episode 10-11 were very powerful already though. Let see whether there are scenes top that in the future episodes.

Last time I cried a lot was in Nirvana in Fire 2 when the ML father died. I want to see a devastated scene acted perfectly to capture my emotion

Hahahahahah!!! I come to this drama with full expectation of knife driven to my heart. I want to see how painful Cheng Yi acting could be. Because this will be worse than L&R. But, his acting is shining in this kind of drama exactly.