battleaxe

consort jing was a deposed empress. wan, at the height of her rule was more powerful than her. fl, who schemed successfully against wan and her powerful family from ep 1-23 suddenly couldn't do anything about jing and the new one.

ml bent over backwards for jing, compromised himself badly and got his loyal supporter killed to help the fl with her half assed revenge plan, this was someone the whole harem feared in ep 1, someone who was powerful enough to be this same jing's secret protector at the start.
made no sense

this didn't really make a whole lot of sense overall i can't even be bothered to leave a review.
the revenge part was straight forward, but after like ep 23 everything fell apart, too many inconsistencies to mention.
no romance fl didn't like either men
i'll give it 5/10 for the nostalgia, and the eps are very short too so its a light watch eitherway

at the start ml is strong and smart, formidable enough to go toe to toe with the most powerful consort, by the middle of the drama he's the weakest and stupidest in the entire story, bowing and scraping to everyone and just utterly muddleheaded. the fl too, once she got her revenge her brain stopped working & she decided to lay down and let other people torture her to death

she has to be the most disrespected empress dowager ever, all the men treat her like she's some servant, or a teenage girl. speaking of, why does she act like a giddy teenager? spiritually she's a woman who just had a difficult birth (even if she forgot), physically she's a stately monarch, there's no room between those two things for whatever the actress is doing. there are many more illogical things but this one really gets my goat

this drama had some budget you can tell by the wigs (not the fls!) and the costumes. hm or maybe they just found a really talented up and coming hairdresser
btw its totally hilarious that literally two day old baby is being tutored, when the ml gave him the first lesson and the baby slept off 💀

aww now this is a good cp! great job to our mini drama overlords, whoever they are

i'm really happy with the writing so far, esp su mu yu's character. you know these cdramas really don't like to muddy their mls, but its also a story about assassins sooo yah i was really skeptical. but they are laying it out so well, keeping him as the drama's moral center w/o damaging the story's integrity. fingers crossed for the remaining 29 eps
wish they'd give yumo the same treatment though

😂😂can you imagine su mu yu beating the absolute crap out of you and on top of that lecturing you about how your 'sword aura is incorrect.' 😭🤣 no wonder that buxie kid crashed out

so su mu yu means a gentle steady rain, that is so apt! bc he really is isn't he

you are right, and neither was helpful to her majority of the time lol

i've been staring at the xie buxie actor, wondering why he looks so familiar...turns out its the former teenage actor Huang Yi, teen no more!! 😭

😂😂we don't speak enough on how much martial artists love gossiping in general, its like their 2nd favourite thing to do after fighting heheehe

the spider shadow unit could be stronger, without kui and mao tou they're like a pack of cards

that's one of the reasons he's such a great choice as ml, to others his morality is too costly, but he doesn't see it that way, and he doesn't give af. anyway i'm only a few eps in let me not start singing his praises too soon lmao

i like how su mu yu does whatever he wants whenever tf he wants to (so far), he's a great choice to anchor a tale about assassins

he kept accusing her of using a bewitching spell 😂 you just like her bro

Geng Le so fine, sigh. i've had a lil crush since the long ballad

"those who are strong enough have the right to be naive." 🔊🔊
iktr su muyu!!!

🤣😂🤣 this so funny bc any of them could be the father! it could also be none of them bc i'm still not 100% convinced she birthed that baby!

i remember this drama fondly for having a ml who was truly useless to the fl in so many ways lmao