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Nice article, thanks! It's always great to know about the real History that inspires awesome series like this one, even though some of the events are clearly very loosely adapted (e.g. the battle between the FL and that big general). ;-)
Nevertheless, I am enjoying this series a lot and hope there will be more like it on the way.

Could not keep going on this trainwreck and dropped it. The story is promising, but the screenwriter did a very poor job, let alone the mediocre acting that seemed to only rely on the ML getting semi-naked in order to attract a certain audience. So, all in all, this series was a big waste of budget and resources. 4/10 is being very generous.

I wonder why they removed the time travel portion. It would have made this story even more interesting.

This series is really excellent. It's not easy to get some good ones like this. I broke my own rule of only watching complete seasons because I like to binge watch. Now I have to ration how many episodes I watch per day so I can get at least three.

Season 2 is definitely not as good as season 1. The story was very toned down, some actors replacements were not up to par with the originals, and so on. So, it's not bad, but not so good, and definitely not so good as Pursuit of Jade.

Yep, Youtube. And it's a really silly thing, since they blur knives and knife wounds but give full pass to swords and sword wounds. Big discrimination against knives. 🤣🤣

Pursuit of Jade is undeniably really good. However, still not as good as Joy of Life (season 1). Season 2, one can make a case.

This is indeed a great series. I started watching and it's hard to stop, but I have to control the number of episodes I watch per day, so it does not run out before Netflix streams the last one.

https://www.iq.com/album/the-fatal-bloom-2026-k1b7jog24x?lang=en_us

It's on iQiyi with title The Fatal Bloom

Just started it. Why do they blur the knife? Is this some special censorship thing? It's funny and weird watching that blurring filter over the knife's blade.
And now an episode with swords, and no blurring filter, even though they also stabbed each other.
What kind of censorship rule is that?
🤔

Thanks! It's common for viki to have some of the upcoming content buried and not even showing in the Coming Soon list. Sometimes they even pop-up in the Just Added list out of the blue. Viki isn't very organized in that aspect. 😉

Do you know where Viki will stream it?

Quite interesting drama that plays with time-travel paradoxes (e.g. two instances of the FL of two different times alive in the same time period and interacting with each other). That made the story intriguing. The main plot itself was the usual of this type of drama. It was also funny watching the ML talking with the FL about "their past" when it was actually the future. Most of the acting was just passable, but the story made the series binge watchable.

Just started this one. I'm in Ep 3 and it's as crazy as it can possibly be. Bao Bao is out of this world.

Yes. I guess this is also possible. By the way, who's CL?

What's a shipper? ❓

Very entertaining series. Despite its (very) sugarcoated easygoing story, it did its job well and was an easy bingewatch. It's a lighthearted romance where the ML and FL do a good job in chemistry and triangle-proof script. Anyway, if you are looking for an easy watch, this is for you.

I read somewhere that they are a couple in real life, so, if true, not a surprise. 😉

Some were not that bad, and both ML and FL end well. It's also interesting that they transposed the same modern mindset of not marrying, just living together to the ancient times.