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I saw she did a minor role in Being a Hero since The Romance of Hua Rong which were memorable. I just feel a little weird since her chemistry with Yuan Hou was amazing and now she’s paired up with Wang You Shuo, I haven’t even gotten over the Young Blood days with this guy lol.

There’s a scene in which she miscarries?

The end of 157 and whole chapter of 158.

I was really hoping that post was fake news, was it officially announced on Weibo or something? I was super excited to see Liu Yu Ning finally doing an arrange marriage genre but wasted potential because of shelving. I might as well go and read the novel to self sooth.

There was an epilogue in the novel about Jiang He’s incarnation into another timeline. He picked up Luo Zi Shang and raised him to be the best person. Essentially, these two cousins have a great relationship in that life.

lol. Jiusi had a certain bottom line, he wouldn’t cross no matter if it was the bad guys or not. Mentioned in the novel.

I remember when I was watching that arc, everything felt so rushed I was whiplashed and then, I read the novel. That Yellow River arc was one of the most important scenes but they condensed it and turned into a whole 3 year montage with LYR dying. I liked this arc a lot in the novel but was a little disappointed that they didn’t include much of what the novel has, especially the scene about those two friends (Fu and Qin?) who was silenced and waited 20 years just for GJS to show up, SM development going rogue to protect Mr Qin entrustment of his family and LYR blood, sweat and tears fixing the Yellow River at the end. I think it would’ve made this arc a lot more enjoyable but they were too focused on the first two arcs leaving the major one with holes and rushed towards the ending.

It’s been 3 months since your comment, have you read the novel yet? GLH was meant to be brought back during the time LYR went to Yangzhou to collect grains, with an injured leg not dead forever, I think this was to create the start of GJS’s maturity as everyone else also lost their family. Towards the ending of the novel, GJS had a dispute with YSA, ZY and ZGL because everyone died and grieving so they wanted to plunder the capital for 3 days 3 nights without caring for the millions of civilians, GJS didn’t agree, he had a plan made with the best possible outcome, there’s no way around it. They locked him up, and it wasn’t until LYR was feeling off about this situation that she showed up, got told about it and she said she knows that everyone think GJS isn’t seeing their perspective because he hasn’t lost anyone yet like them but when he found out about his father’s death back then, at the worst moment of their lives, he was still able to get up and make sound decisions. She asked them what is the difference between what they wanted to do vs what LZS was doing?

The thing about GLH reacting strangely to LZS name was actually because he was aware of what was going on. It wasn’t mentioned in the drama, the novel had set out GLH as being a playboy, in his early years of marriage to JR I think, he had affairs. When JH had a thing for LZS mum, he promised to marry her but found out about her identity. Actually, the Luo family killed JH’s brother, JH never really wanted to hold a position in the palace but he decided to after his brother was killed unjustly. He didn’t fulfil his promise, nor knew she was pregnant. He used GLH identity and made LZS mum misunderstood he was GLH who had a wife at home and couldn’t marry her. Thus why LZS thought GLH was his father and came for the Gu family. GLH knew about LZS but was never on guard because JH said he wouldn’t pose a threat.

I don’t remember much about that food scene. Everyone was starving so they fought each and every newcomer there was. I don’t think it would’ve matter if she stuffed them under her stomach anyway, they wouldn’t have let them go in the first place. They did collect rainwater, they even ate tree barks, leaves and grass at some point. Not sure why they didn’t include that, too sad, to make the blood scene the main point? Once I reread it, I’ll check back up on this scene.

I agree with that no mask part. This scene was another I don’t quite remember either, the novel had originally did something a little different. SM was introduced the same way though but he was very stubborn and took a while to convince to join our side. YY character differed a lot to the drama, she admired JH and even wanted to marry him, rejected SM advances and didn’t become a doctor. The Liu family was never mentioned again implying they were either dead or did not want to contact LYR after fleeing Yangzhou. There’s no drama of the stepmum or step siblings thus anything not specified is all up to your imagination to how they end up.

FY character was originally never a good person, he was not appreciative during the time GJS saved him, he cursed at him and ran off. He wasn’t manipulated with drugs, all the decisions he made were influenced by LZS and in the end, he knew LZS was ultimately using him so he stopped trusting him eventually. This guy was an undeveloped child whom no one took care off, everyone just lets him be.

Why LZS became his tutor was because there was originally 3 issues created in the novel. LZS had taken power over Yangzhou, another guy had taken over another few states, and there was the internal palace corruption. FX wanted to unite everything but he needed to deal with the most important one first, which was the enemy who took over several states and is causing war right now, since LZS took Yangzhou, and wasn’t really going to war yet, he striked a deal saying Yangzhou should not move for 3 years, LZS said only on one condition, to make him FY tutor. They used the excuse of him showing his loyalty in court even though they all knew why he was there. YSA was decreed to also tutor FY to persuade him from having bold ideas but I guess the screenwriter wanted to make LZS as cunning as possible without anyone really blocking him and deleting that out as it didn’t work in the end. LZS in the novel was actually a lot more subtle yet cruel? There’s no tragic backstory of him accidentally causing the Luo’s family fire. He hated everyone for abandoning him so when he was young, LZS had happened to be in front of the Luo family’s home, met JH, exchanged a few details about the jade and JH killed the Luo family. His sworn brother had said LZS was like GJS, each have ambitions but grew up in different environments, LZS was forced into the villain role in order to survive, he saved his sworn brother from a bad situation and changed his life.

The queen dowager had many people under her power. It was not shown how she had almost all of the imperial officers and GJS would drive out 200 a day. Her role being there was one part of importance to eradicate the courts but they deleted that.

QWZ wasn’t supposed to die protecting the Zhou family. She and ZY was actually married, they had a child but ZY had to stay behind in Youzhao leaving his wife and kid as collateral because even though FX and ZGL had great brotherhood, he would never trust him not to rebel, and ZY would be the only way out. QWZ stayed with ZY mother leaving her servant to flee with her son to find GJS. QWZ was held as hostages and no one could really save her. In the end, she died because they hang her up on a tower with Zhou Ping’er, and by the time everyone wanted to rescue her, she jumped off the tower protecting Ping’er with her body.

There was a plothole here with the no erdict controlling the soldiers. There was one. It was faked by GJS.

The ending was ok, they made it sentimental by adding in a son years later. LYR actually was pregnant during the Yellow River arc and gave birth before everything was even solved to a girl whom we get to read about in the epilogue.

The novel had a lot more things going on lol, extra people dying, getting hurt. It was never meant to be light, the novel foreshadowed from the beginning. I like to think this CP is one of the best example in cdramas these days of a couple vs the world rather than a split relationship of woman vs man vs the world as they progress into the relationship.

I actually thought the pacing was alright, probably almost too fast but they were limited to 40 eps. That’s coming from someone who watched the drama before reading the novel as a lot of things happened. Everything was ‘slow’ because almost everyone was involved in corruption, both within and outside the palace everywhere, the ones that fought to fight it, had no energy left as they were silenced and there were few people within power to help Jiusi, Yuru and the team. It’s really as realistic as timing can be during those ancient times. But yeah, everyone has different taste, this one just isn’t one you can make fast paced at all.

Whatever the ending is, I’m over it. I just want it done and dusted, they really could have written this script much better. :(

Censorship sucks. There’s dramas that have decent amount of skinship these days that they passed. It’s annoying we got robbed.

I was thinking this too but like that scene, she was hurt? He wouldn’t have touched her knowing her knees hurt?

I can’t tell whether my eyes are playing tricks on me, and we’ve just sort off missed the consummation que, if they edited it in the wrong order, mistranslated something or it’s an actual plot hole.

It’s all about the fine print. The app says non VIP gets 2 episodes Friday and Saturday. VIP gets 2 daily, fast tracked. I literally was about to pay for standard, but there was this table down the bottom with ticks and crosses comparing the membership. You have to click on Premium. There’s a box that says Standard gets Episodic Release (normal releasing schedule) and Premium gets Binge-Watch (fast tracked).

I’m scared for tomorrow’s ep 17 revelation. That’s gonna cause way too much angst even for me.

I think people are associating age gap with grooming nor can they differentiate and is imposing their beliefs of today’s society trends. We hear and see men doing so much wrong from eons ago and causes women to have retreated and gone into protection mode. As such, dramas reflect negative feedback often when men are much much older as there’s always some stigma or unfortunate events that happens in society relating to older men/younger women relationships and not always the other way around thus men are judged harsher. Of course, it’s important to understand and point out the signs of grooming but I feel a lot of people are associating grooming with age gap when there’s no red flags at all. Everyone has a subjective perception of something and they all vary person to person but that doesn’t mean every relationship is bad within an age gap. There are many relationships without a wide age gap that still has many red flags. These guys are actors and actresses. They act out a character. It’s their job. I’ve seen other dramas, most often than not made before 2010, with actors who look older compared to their counterpart actresses and can really pass off as a father but they don’t have a wide age gap. I’m sure people would still complain about it either way. These days dramas aren’t made like dramas back in the olden days, the casts has to look fitting, youthful for their character and now that everyone has the privilege of social media, everyone has become too critical. I concur, Dylan doesn’t even look that old, I didn’t even know his real age at first and thought he looks youthful but in a manly way passing off as a character in his 30s, I’ll say it’s fitting enough.

They range from 30mins to 45mins but most of the episodes so far sit at 32-35 mins.

If I can see the healthy relationship and growth Gu Jiusi and Liu Yuru had in the couples of other dramas, I would die happy but I concur, not many would make such a drama. A lot of people seem to focus so much on the fl crying? Am I blocking it or? Everything she did since she was a child was plan to be a perfect housewife and live an ordinary life like many other women. Ye Shi An just happened to be that person who matched her fantasy and she did everything in her power to make herself the likely candidate to be his wife for years. Then, Gu Jiusi came along, a person who always bring trouble, she knew being with him wasn’t going to be easy at all (in the novel, Yuru had a dream, she dreamt about the Gu family’s downfall, the Wang family confrontation and Fan Xuan involvement before they even formally met, this was changed in the drama to Yuru finding Jiusi because someone sold him her coat encounter), and everything was all ruined because he simply said something out of jest. He was a man who was dubbed a playboy but she was a woman who could have her reputation damaged at anytime. She didn’t want to spend a life like her mother, a man favouring his concubine over the wife. Where is Liu Yuru excessively crying? The 3 day depression after marriage? The first day hearing your husband try to convince you this marriage wasn’t going to work, he wanted to be free and travel the world, meet someone he loves and he’ll divorce you because it’s only fair to devote to one person and having to try to convince yourself after he almost failed to show up to the ceremony. The second day trying to digest everything and then finding out your husband went to a brothel and hired all these women. The third day resigning yourself to the future you didn’t want despite trying everything in your effects to avoid it. She’s uprooted from her dwelling in days, Jiusi couldn’t help and now she’s living in a space she’s not familiar to. Sometimes, all it takes is a final something for you to explode. She is indeed a strong person, her cries was heard by Jiang Rou and she was able to push Yuru into a role she knew Yuru could be and handle. Yuru and Jiusi communicated and understood each other’s positions. Showing emotions is human, and because of it, their marriage life evolved for the better.

Actually, Zhou Ye had already married Qin Wanzhi and they had a son in the novel, but he still passed the throne to his stepbrother, he was alone in the sense that he lost his lover but he still had his son. I felt it was bittersweet rather than sad. The drama just erased that plot line though. I remember reading a few dialogue from Lou Zi Shang. He asked himself once, if he had went to Gu Langhua and told him his identity, would Gu Langhua took him in? In the end, he chose not to do it. There was another scene where his sworn brother had said Luo Zi Shang was just like Gu Jiusi. Smart, ambitious yet loyal and kind but each grew up in very different environments. Luo Zi Shang had no choice but to become ruthless for his goals and can sacrifice people except those he’s closest to because everyone sacrificed him. Gu Jiusi had everything, but he chose to become a playboy. It was a disguise but his heart had always been with the civilians so he’ll always protect them in some way. He chose himself to be the knife driven towards the bad guys because no one else was willing to and Fan Xuan knew that, each did everything they thought was right.

In terms of your observing the protagonists not showing how they solved the scheme, I think it’s because, the screenwriter had mixed and match different scenes out due to having a limit of 40 episodes, 40 minutes. The novel had a lot more things going on especially the middle towards the ending arcs and there was some things that the novel were vague about in the first place. Like your other comment down below how Ye Shi An wasn’t shown rescuing Su Wan. He wasn’t meant to rescue her. Su Wan actually made it on the boat that time and he was meant to have rescued Gu Langhua. Gu Jiusi had entrusted Ye Shi An to look for his father while they were stuck in the forest hiding from the Wang family and got the news he died. It was not known how Ye Shi An rescued Gu Langhua or how he chanced upon him, at least I don’t remember, I’m going to have to read it again. The Liu family wasn’t made a big deal either, after they left Yangzhou, Yuru never heard from them again. There was a scene in which she was asked if she missed her family. She said it would be a lie if she said she hadn’t thought about it, now that she’s made a name for herself, it would be easy for them to look for her as opposed to her trying to look for them instead so there was only two possibilities; either the Liu family is dead or they chose not to contact Yuru after fleeing. Everything with the Liu family after the Wang family rebelled were all added scenes in the drama, it was like to insinuate if the Liu family was with Yuru, how would it look like? Whether the stepmother was exiled, or jailed in the end, we don’t know, it’s all up to your interpretation.

There were also important scenes that wasn’t included in the drama, especially that whole 3 year gap of Yuru’s death. She drank the wine but she woke up a while later, there was no fake death scene, Ye Shi An didn’t solve the treasury case on his own taking 3 years to collect evidence, Zhou Ye and Qin Wanzhi weren’t fighting at the border, and Shen Ming never went out to fight on the battlefield that early nor was Ye Yun a medical doctor. Luo Zi Shang had came up with a proposal to fix the Yellow River but Fan Xuan ended up giving it to Jiusi instead. The Yellow River project was his grand scheme, Jiusi was able to fix parts of it after overcoming many hardships but we didn’t know until the very end why Zi Shang wanted to fix the Yellow River for. In the end, Yuru and Jiusi parted ways so that he could stop Zhou Gaolang from entering the capital whilst Yuru went to prevent a disaster from happening with the Yellow River on her hands and knees.

This whole entire arc towards the last few ones was the most important, Shen Ming’s character developed during this time along with the others, however, the drama had it cut down and montaged it to suit their version better. Yuru killed off Zi Shang’s sworn brother and took over control of Yangzhou before fixing the yellow river which cut off a big chunk of Luo Zi Shang’s grand scheme that ultimately lead him to bomb the palace. I’ve left out some details of the grand scheme incase people wanted to read the novel and didn’t want to get too spoiled as it was also left out in the drama.

No breakup if we’re talking about Gu Jiusi and Liu Yuru.