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unpopular opinion but i loved zlh dearly in our generation. i was really impressed when both he andzjm said that the director really pushed them to go deeper with their acting, and touched when zlh thought it was an impoprtant moment for him.
i mean, he was an electrical engineering student! he is a bit of a nerd.

Same here. I didnt like either of them very much, but loved LBFaD to the core, and I liked GoD.

yup.

Yeah, nobody is a hero to their spouse.

He has been driven mad. She is sane.

You made me laugh, but also think maybe she wont need pig-but chering knives except for special occasions from now on.

Wow, I read the comments down to the break and when I come back up here another 1000 have dropped. Crazy stuff.

The editor doesnt choose the scene changes and flow. The scriptwriter writes them, the director executes them.

and at the end of familiar stranger

There are a couple more armies....Prince ChangXin, the rebel Prince who currently holds Chongzhou has the Chongzhou army, with the Heir Sui YuanQing and the remaining shi brother general in charge of that and also in charge of a 30k force that was beseiging Beigu Mountain. So those are the enemy forces.

The army of General He JingYuan in Jizhou province is controlled by Wei Yan the Chancellor. The army at Yanzhou is the Marquis' army. These are the imperial armies of Dayin, 'our' side.

my eyes watered too

It might be nice if the kiss-counters went off to watch something else and came back to binge next week?
Repetitive complaining makes it hard to read the comments. It would be nicer to use imagination for the s*x for now.
Like many other things not explicitly stated in the narrative, some things are probably going on behind the scenes.

cool!

No, it wasnt cut. The narrative picks up after the night of hickeying in front of the fire on the riverbank (more water!), to which no reference is made until later. He awakens on her shoulder, looks her in the eyes, says will you say that you like me, and she doesnt answer.

Yes, exactly. I was thinking of the winds, breezes and gusts of fate, too.
I think there is a parallel shorthand going on.

Nothing wrong with a little magic parallel to realism. I am not criticizing the plot. I love it. I just see the contrivances differently than perhaps others do. I like them. I like the shadow of magical instruments swimming alongside the realism.

Yeah, but I think this whole bit is an intentional sort of storytelling on ZQY's part. maybe it works, maybe it doesnt...but not choppy editing by mistake I dont hink.

I can see you! lol

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more cool magic -- ChangYu's whistle (she made it for Ning, who gave it to Bao-er) somehow brought YanZheng/the Marquis to Bao-er's rescue.

Yes, this fill-in-later tactic is distracting. We are supposed to be able to infer that something has happened -- love bite, gift of reforged blades, further martial arts tutoring - - fuss over it a bit and only get a flashback or confirmation an episode later. Is this a consequence of the 45-minute length ep structure?

I love a similiar but opposite technique in kdrama -- at the very end of an episode we hear a conversation with drastic imaginary consequences as a cliffhanger, only to find out with added footage of the same incident later in the next episode that OUR PERCEPTIONS WERE INCORRECT. But I take that as intellectual play.

This is different. Either it comes from short-form cdrama or from this new universe where everyone already has dis.cussed everything head of time, or people have spinoff universes they live in simultaneously with alternate endings, extra chapters, or as in games, other understandings and expectation of gifting which are powerful enough to carry expectations.

I think the latter is most likely. Games, like the hero-fantasy novels I have read for decades have simple clear structures which can carry expectations further than basic generic drama structures.