Brennnndda

The angsty parts are very heavy but also very fast paced. It starts around episode 37 and ends by the end of episode 47. It's a different kind of pain from Goodbye My Princess. In GMP, it was literally a rollercoaster heading towards the cliff but with L&R, you begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

In Goodbye My Princess, LCY massacred her entire maternal family, there was no way a happy ending would've been possible. Plus LCY became jealous, possessive, and psychotic. The damage he did was irreparable.

Maybe it would've been better if they did what The Legends did by using both Bai Lu and Xiao Yan to portray the different sides of Qin Zhi Yan so the viewers could differentiate between the two..hmm..curious

Same here. I'm not clicking with the female lead..I think it's because she reminds me of Ruo Xi of Scarlet Heart. She's a good person but her "sense of right" and her heart diverge. She loves and tries to help the ML but she stands in the middle when the inevitable brother-brother fight occurs...she won't leave her husband but also can't let go of the ML. I want to shout "Pick a damn side!" at her.

I'm fine with sad and happy endings as long as they make sense within the narrative. Sad endings, when done right are very beautiful. I think if she didn't have a child then they would've had a good chance of a HE

I belonged to group A when I watched Goodbye My Princess lol
That was a loooooooong ride...

While the cast is doing a good job with their characters I think one of many things the episode cut hurt was the transition from Eva Cheng's Mo Xin to Li Mo Zhi's Mo Wan/Mo Xin.

Maybe it's just me (and I do think the acting is fine) but I don't feel like Mo Wan is Mo Xin. It's like there's a disconnect between the two so it doesn't genuinely feel like Mo Xin is exacting her revenge from her sister's body. I don't really know how to explain it but it feels like two different actresses playing two different characters rather than two actresses' interpretation of the same person. It might just be because we weren't given a chance to get to know the original Mo Xin before the soul swap happened so result isn't as smooth...

The difference with Renascence is she won't be pregnant with the emperor's child (again). That's probably the main reason why it'll be a happy ending

I don't doubt the son will try to do bad things to CX..he might've inherited stupid from his father...I'm hoping she won't be cool about it but I wouldn't be surprised if she still sides with her son afterwards.

It's just such an unimaginable cruelty to wait until she was almost full term. We don't even do that in the present and for him to have done it...tsk tsk tsk

I don't think this drama would've done well if it was released before L&R. No one in the cast is a "household" name big enough to draw crowds and the storyline would only appeal to handfuls of people.

What do you mean? No lies were told in the story?

She's a mother..no matter how horrible her child is, a mother will always chose her child over her lover

Even if she gave herself to CX first, she'd still have to sleep with the emperor to be able to pass the child off as his so they don't get in trouble

This is one of those dramas where:
A. You're a masochist and love the pain that comes with these kinds of storylines
OR
B. You have a cast/crew member you love enough to stick with the story

Reason: There's no way this story could end with happily ever after. This story is an example where the ML and FL have NO luck/fortune in being together. As soon as they fall in love they are torn apart by war/family/cruel fate.

The ML literally has everything going against him:
After falling in love he loses his father then mother shortly after, goes off to fight only to come back and learn his cherished brother has married his beloved (yes, there were circumstances leading to that but the end result was the same). He finds out said cherished brother who basically raised him was responsible for his mother's death and for stealing away the throne that should rightfully be his. His beloved becomes pregnant with same scumbag brother's child and before he can seek revenge, traitorous brother dies and leaves the son as his heir while also making ML Prince Regent. Even if ML were to protect/teach new emperor and rekindle love with FL, when push comes to shove, FL will always prioritize her son over her lover because being a mother overpowers being a woman. In the end, ML's loyalty will only be rewarded with death.

The emperor is such a jerk! Even if he was going to force a miscarriage on the empress (which is already unforgivable), why would he wait until she's 6+ months pregnant to do so?

I would think he still was. He was so loyal to Mo Xin that, even after she chose his brother, he never even looked at another woman and still did everything for her. A man like that wouldn't just go sleeping around.

It's truly the editing. I read that this was originally suppose to be 70? episodes but they had to cut it down to 36 so nothing is coherent. From previews it looks like he's going to suffer a bit of memory loss and marry the other princess...bleh

I have such a weak spot for Luo Yun Xi so I know I have to check this out!!

LOVED Cheng Yi in L&R. Looks like he's got a busy year ahead of him. I hope he still finds time to relax and not flood his schedule with projects.