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Lol, here I was thinking that I am liking the 2nd season as much if not more than the 1st one and wishing there was more of this, and then I find out there will be a 3rd season....except it will air a year from now. TT

No, me too. So far I have watched 12 episodes and I am not sure which season I like more. Usually the second season is not as good as the first one or even ruins the plot, but at the moment I think I might be liking the second season even more than the first one. Maybe it is too early to say this but these are just my current thoughts on the second season.

Please, check the spoiler box. I have only watched the first 12 episodes and only reading the first sentence of your comment already spoiled the next episodes for me.

What is the name of the fansub group? All pages seem to be down.

I have yet to find a drama based in this specific time of chinese history that does not leave me with a bitter after-taste. I can ignore the half bald men and the whole marrying many wives since that was how things were then, but seeing how women were treated like objects and had to lead an unhappy life having to share their husband with so many other women always makes me frustrated. And don’t try to say I think like this because I live in a different time. Even then women would not think that way of life was good, they just did not really have another choice.

Maybe she is the mother of his character as a child. Who knows! XD

I found the second half to be pretty boring and annoying. The political stuff just took over the plot as usual. The first half was decent so it’s a shame once again they ruined a drama in the second half. So in the end this was nothing special, just another chinese drama.

I am glad I realized after watching less than half of the drama that this was probably not going to be that good. I skipped to the last episode and I was right. What kind of ending was that? Had I watched it all I would have felt I wasted a lot of time.

I would not say 20 as many things that I liked would not be there but 40 would be the maximum for me, yet there were 25 more episodes. But it is true, the start of the drama was my favourite part and they kind of ruined it by dragging the story to be able to make 65 episodes.

I got hyped after watching the first few episodes, although at first I was not even going to give this a try because of the number of episodes. 65 episodes seemed a lot. And the truth is I liked the drama but around halfway I felt the plot was dragging and I kept skipping scenes. I will still tell you to give this a try as it would be a shame to skip it as I almost did, but yes, there was no need for so many episodes. 40 episodes would already be more than enough. I feel that the story would have been better and the drama would have a higher rating if they had made it shorter. Still, I think it deserves at least a 7. I would not re-watch it in it’s entirety as it is too long but for sure I would not mind re-watching the first half and watching my favourite scenes from the second half.

Sure. I already did. Enjoy!

I am sorry, but the link I have for episodes 1-8 is from the official channel, and you’re right, those are not subbed but I don’t think they are subbed anywhere else. I just had a look at those without subs then kept watching the other episodes.

To be honest this was pretty boring most of the time. I liked it in the beginning but then it felt like each episode was more of the same. And the ending, I know this is supposed to be based on some folklore or something and I did see the Tragedy tag before I started, but neither can justify that ending for me. It was bad, it was cruel and it was too fanciful for me to take it seriously. The rest of the drama is not even satisfying enough to compensate for that ending.

If you want to watch the full thing plus the second season with eng subs, I know the links and can send them to you in a message. Posting them here would most likely cause the videos/channel to be deleted.

I will start by saying this was NOT the best drama of 2018. BUT it definitely went to the GOOD dramas of this year list. True, there are many clichés and predictable plot devices, specially near the end of the drama. But I have seen many dramas using these and that I was not able to watch. This was corny and cliché but in a way that is enjoyable, I loved the main lead’s romance story and surprisingly I was not disappointed with the ending.

Of course this will not be everyone’s cup of tea since everyone likes different things and factors like the mood, expectations before getting into the drama and if you binge-watch it or take your time to watch it all influence how much you will like or dislike a drama. I was in the right mood, my expectations were in the middle since I had not heard about it before watching it and I started watching it while it was still airing and binge-watched the last 6 episodes and this resulted in me being pleased enough to rate this 8.5.

Yes, the ending was definitely not satisfying. I was expecting much more than what we got.

Agree, we all like different things. It is not that I don’t like political affairs in the palace and things like that, it is just that I have seen it so many times in so many historical dramas that I was glad this one was different and did not focus too much on that, but then it went in that direction and if it was at least done better, I might have liked it, but they made it quite boring for me. But yeah, I expected a lot more from the last episode too.

Am I the only one having trouble changing this from currently watching to completed? I have finished watching it and here it says this finished airing in 2016, but then it has the green "airing" thing near the title and does not allow me to change this to completed.

I liked the first half a lot more, that’s for sure. It felt so different from all the other historical dramas I have watched. Then, like you said, the focus went into the political affairs and that is when it got boring for me. I do not regret watching it, just wish they had done a better job with the second half and gave us an ending that was satisfying and not one that is there just to wrap up things.

I was really hoping this would not happen, at least not with this one since I was enjoying it so much, but once again it did. They gave us around 10 episodes of awesomeness and sweet romance, then took it all away and gave us 6 episodes of predictable events and the feeling that this ended up being just another historical drama. The ending was also not satisfying, at least not for me. I will give this a 8 considering the first 10 episodes and the overall enjoyment, but I was hoping to give this at least a 9. The other 6 episodes were a little disappointing.