Here’s the offical page of the correct link. Unfortunately, you have to google translate as there’s no English…
People were warned not to post unofficial sites since we try to support the direct author which is why I only listed the official novel page. If you copy and paste the raw title and author, the writing in the middle above the table, on google, it’ll show some sites, you just got to find the right one that’s free.
Doea this drama have a second female lead who is evil and in love with the male lead like tries to ruin the leads…
The plot and personalities of the characters are at this point not indicating of such thing. Don’t worry, it won’t look like The Substitute Princess Love style. This one however has a brother who’s clingy towards the fl and quite active in inserting himself between the couple.
Haven't seen the leading actress for a while since The Romance of Hua Rong!
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.
this ain't coming. ever. same for the demon hunters romance n other song zu ers dramas.
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.
I truly believe in another life, Gu Jiu Si and Luo Zi Sheng would have been the best of friends. this was an epic…
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.
They compressed a ton of arcs from the book into those 13 episodes. Alot of stuff changed, was skipped etc. thats…
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.
What I found strange was in the episode where GJS mentions LZS's name to his parents and how he was from the Luo…
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.
I'm on episode 15 and there's so much going on! The drama was light on early episodes and then boooom! everyone…
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 respect everyone's opinion. But I got bored after ep 20, trying to skip forward and complete 40 episodes. But…
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.
what ! she got pregnanti know in ep 16 last scene he carry her to bed but ep 17 she complain he never sleep with…
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.
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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.