Jenna

this exactly. still such a refreshing take on a drama/characters and relationships. the actors killed it (haha) and I enjoyed it so so much but MAN... if only the last few episodes had been a bit more at the pace of the rest of the drama... it would have been something VERY special!! ❤️💕

some of my favs: https://kisskh.at/list/W19kJEe3 and some of my fav xianxias here: https://kisskh.at/list/10dJEvq1

sad

"how to kill off LITERALLY every single character in 6 episodes or less" as a race to THE END where... just for shit and giggles we'll throw in a scene to make yhou wonder wth does this mean?? a dream? daydream? did she die and meet everyone in the afterlife? or did she fake her death a THIRD(!?!) time somehow via a BOMB? Nah... don't care by that point. HA. ! I mean... my goodness. No one survived... oh, except, that ONE couple who were only "courteous" to each other for the good of their respective countries. ICKKK.

this drama wrote the book on... (MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW)

one of the worse things I've seen in a looooong time grrr

yeah... he legit acts like a villain 95% of the time and bullies/hurts/pressures FL. UGH.

kinda hard to watch... ML is kind of a douche.

made it to ep25 before putting on hold a long time back. restarted it at ep1 and made it to ep40 before dropping this time... honestly, besides a severe lack of chemistry (and not just the romantic kind) between the leads... the plot is just really not interesting/engaging enough to keep me watching for 51 episodes. Not even 30, tbh. Sad because I'm a huge fan of ZLY's other dramas!!

also the "romance" was not a good look in this drama and I would have been OK with that if the drama was cut in half and they didn't push the romance so hard when the drama clearly is NOT romantic at all. HOWEVER... I'd KILL to see the ML & FL in a historical romance together! A serious one. With a huge budget hehehe

I'm all for slow-burn... but this needed to be 15 episodes shorter!

MEH.

nevermind... wow. they threw a "past" moment in there and used same actor (ML) to play his own dad and I was soooo friggin confused.

1st time watching and I got to Ep5... wth is happening here? I feel like I missed an episode or something!?!

Kind of a jerk, aren’t you?

FL is such a villain in Sword & Brocade... it's hard for me to watch her as a FL 🙈

I have not laughed this hard in a LONG time. LOVING it so far.

I think so too.. this is prob the one I re-watch the most! NEVER gets old!! 😍

he plays TWINS here and both twins end up with feelings for the FL! His acting of the opposite personality twins is so superb!

so.. I usually only love LOTS of romance.. this one, there is "some" romance but not a lot.. and it's more about their relationships than a "love story".. not to mention he plays TWO roles (as twins) in this one (light spoiler below). It's subtle but decent imho. If you just watch this for Chen Kun's acting ALONE.. you won't be disappointed! I've watched it twice now!