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36 is not THAT old and he looks younger than that. If you think he is old my guess is you are either very young or you are into younger guys. Although I agree there are a lot of actors that look better than him, I would not go as far as to say he looks average.

The tags say eccentric female and male leads but it is not only the characters that are eccentric, the drama itself is eccentric. It is definitely not my cup of tea but I have not decided yet if I like it or if I will feel like dropping it soon. Anyway, it is only 10 episodes so I might as well stick with it.

I had it on my plan to watch list for many months while waiting for subs and honestly I was expecting it to be a little different and that might have reduced my enjoyment while watching it.

EDIT: Now that I have finished it I am not confused anymore. I liked it but I didn’t love it. It took me about 3 episodes to get into the story, considering this only has 10 episodes, it took too long. It is not bad I guess, or I would have dropped it, but I doubt I will ever re-watch it.

I had to pause the first episode just to say something and I won’t mark this as a spoiler since it happens in the first 5 minutes of the 1st episode.

Why go to the trouble of setting the crime scene in a certain way (serving tea and everything) if you are going to blow up the place?? This criminal is not only a murderer but also dumb.

Yeah, I think it was a waste to not use the stalker plot for longer. But I guess it made sense he was caught so soon since he was pretty careless in his stalking and could not keep away from drugs, which only made him dumber.

But overall I really liked the drama. I have been recently watching a lot of historical chinese dramas with mostly a lot of deaths and tragic endings so I really needed a drama like this one.

I know what you mean and I kinda wanted them to get together too. But I think they were going for a more realistic ending. Having almost everyone at the firm become a couple would be too cliche and convenient. And the entire drama I was getting the vibe that this would happen. She gave off the impression that she was disappointed with her last relationship and did not want to get into another one anytime soon, just focusing on her daughter and job.

Still, the ending made it look like in the future they might get together so I was not really bothered by them not being together at the ending.

I kept not wanting to watch the last few episodes, not because I was forcing myself to finish but because I was enjoying it so much that I did not want it to end.

I have seen several law related dramas (lawyers, prosecutors, police officers, judges) yet I felt this one was still new somehow. The romance was just my cup of tea, not too rushed, not too slow, I liked the actors and the characters they played, there was definitely chemistry between them (and it has nothing to do with Goblin cause I dropped that one and still thought the actors had good chemistry here), I also liked the supporting characters at the law firm, most of all for the light comedy they provided.

Of course it is a matter of taste, but I personally found this to be one of the most entertaining kdramas of the past few months.

Yeah. It has been years since I last re-watched the anime but I still remember I smiled at the romantic scenes between the main leads, I smirked during the funny moments, I felt frustrated when certain things happened to the characters and even dropped a few tears here and there.

But the movie did not cause any emotion in me, I think I even yawned at some point. Other than the scene the actor playing Yuu cries near the end, everything was so bland. When that happened I remembered how in the anime they both suffered so much because of him misunderstanding and thinking they were half-siblings. TT

So true. I read the comments before watching but still watched it because I wanted to know for myself how bad this could be. XD

I read all the comments so I knew what to expect. But I still watched it just to see for myself how bad this is. The comments are completely true. This is rushed, lacks logic in several situations, even when it was trying to go for the dramatic/frustrating theme, you kind feel more like laughing because it is just that bad.

The characters are all trash aside from the female lead. This is not the fault of the actors, they played their role. It is the writing that is so bad that most people without any experience in writing could have done better than this. I feel like they did no research on blindness and how blind people perceive things and they have no idea what being in love is like. If they did, they would have not written such a dumb character to be the male lead of the story.

What if, just like in this drama, and in other dramas, a lot of the facts in history are actually not true but caused by rumours and fake accusations from people that will somehow benefit from them? Sure, she might have actually had affairs and other kids, but there is always the possibility that some things were not true or only half-truths, who knows? We have no way to know for sure. Gossip, rumours and schemes are very scary things and can ruin a person’s reputation forever.

Just a few days ago I finished watching Queen Dugu and now this one. Although completely different stories, a lot of frustrating moments were present in both, as expected from a chinese historical drama. I honestly don’t know why I keep doing this to myself. I have a love-hate relationship with chinese historical dramas. They frustrate me to no end for several reasons (usually the way most of them end) yet I cannot stop watching them. Sigh

By the way, some things in the plot kind of reminded me of Empress Ki, but I won’t really compare them since Empress Ki was one of my favourite korean historical dramas and this one will probably be forgotten once I watch a few more chinese historical dramas.

Hi Norah. Yeah, I have just finished it and although the drama itself is quite light, at the end they are in different worlds so it is not really a happy ending.

Yeah, at the end they are in different worlds, not together, so no, no happy ending.

One of the cringiest chinese idol dramas I have watched, which is not necessarily bad, sometimes I like cringy. That said, I think they could have explored the parallel worlds theme in a more exciting way. And the ending was not satisfying.
Overall it was an ok drama but far from being one of the best I have watched recently.

This needs a second season to make sense. It is not that I want a second season, the drama itself actually NEEDS it.

I do not get why this got so much hate. I mean, is it a masterpiece or a super good and memorable drama? Not really. But it is at least at the level of any other average Chinese historical drama out there. So why is it getting so much hate? I think there are several reasons, but the 3 main ones are:

1 - people who watched Legend of Dugu first created expectations and started comparing both dramas way before this even started airing. Having high expectations and comparing a drama to one that was good and came out first will most of the time result in disappointment.

2 - some thought this was more of a Palace drama and that the main leads would become Emperor and Empress early on and. They might have even chosen to watch it for that reason. I am sorry and I don't want to spoil it too much but that only happens later on and I personally liked it way more before it reached that point. From then on I felt mostly frustrated although I had read the history behind the drama.

3 - others might have not watched enough Chinese historical dramas so they were surprised by the turn of events OR they did not know this was based on history so as frustrating as it was, especially the later half, things had to happen in a certain way because that was what happened in history.

I spoiled it by reading the Wikipedia's pages on several characters so I knew what was going to happen. Yet I still felt frustrated and even cried at times.

Sure. This is a not a great drama. But this is also not as bad as a lot of people make it seem. And at the end, it makes you think, just like other Chinese historical dramas have done before.

Power, money, hate that is so strong that makes you want to take revenge at any cost, envy and jealousy (a lot of times caused by having more than one wife), these are only a few things that ALWAYS bring ruin to the people involved, guilty and innocent.

Be happy with what you have, value the people you love and never desire more than what you actually need.

Being rich and powerful does NOT bring happiness, it only brings you worries and frustrations and makes you lose the "little" happiness you had when you had less. Sometimes less is more.

And I could have said all this in one sentence: Living in the Palace sucks. XD

Yeah, it should be out some time next month.

Yeah, me neither. I dropped that drama. I did not like the female lead and I did not think the story was interesting enough for me to keep watching.

Ok I will send it to you right now.

Yes to what? I am confused. Lol
I asked if you wanted the link for the website or the link for the drama. Possible answers would be: website, drama or both.