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What a complete mess that was. The only people who got complete character arcs were Yan Xun, Yuan Song, and Chun'er. What. A. Mess.

Also, I love how everyone was so against the idea of a S2 and trying to debunk it when rumours came out, and now it's like.... lol.

Anyone wanna bet that CQ's magical ice kungfu is gonna deus ex machina its way to a happy ending?

@Viktormani You're literally the one who first came in here and said "You clearly have no idea what good acting is" and "i doubt anyone agrees with what you are saying" and talked about your opinion like it was fact so take your "everyone is allowed to have their opinion" and follow your own advice maybe.

Also, @rheabiel, I agree with you. For me, the acting stand-outs have been Dou Xiao, Li Qin and to some extent, Niu Junfeng.

Yeah I know that, but my point was that seeing as they introduced it, they should've properly integrated it into the plot and seen it through to the end instead of half-arsing it just because it wasn't in the novel.

Tbh, I feel like I've lost interest since the start of the return to Yanbei...

Yuwen family drama didn't interest me, Liang Princess wasn't interesting, Yuan Chun's arc after the red wedding (lol) was a little ill-conceived. Yan Xun is frustrating to watch, and his asshole general makes me want to fast forward past all the Yanbei army drama.

I'm pretty disappointed by the way this drama has played out, and I'm doubtful that they'll be able to wrap it up well. I wish that they had stuck to CQ's storyline much more strongly. They introduced the Luo He's daughter/Feng Yun Ling thing, and they should have stuck with it throughout instead of awkwardly shoehorning it in, then forgetting about it for the next 10 episodes. I wish we got a story about CQ growing and developing as a person, making decisions about being Luo He's daughter and what that means, taking power of her own, instead of half her decisions revolving around YWY and especially YX.

The rating is only a 5.5 on Douban so I think we're doing pretty good here :P
(For comparison, Eternal Love is 6.4, The Princess Wei Yang is 4.8, and General and I is 3.1 while Nirvana in Fire and Battle of Changsha are 9.1)

Haha I've followed the drama episode by episode until now because I don't need subs!

I'm kinda glad that I'm starting a new full-time job tomorrow... it means that I'll be too busy to watch every day which means I can binge the rest of the episodes at once after the drama ends B)

Aaaah, I hope we see more of Xiao Ce and CQ! Their banter is so cute ;-;

One of the coolest things about watching the opening after skipping it for a long time is being able to recognise where almost all the scenes come from!

Omg yes!! Niu Junfeng was one of the main reasons why I decided to pick this up!! I thought he was amazing in BoC, especially the way his character developed at the end ;-;

I wouldn't say there's a lot of "romance," but there's a lot of guys that like the main girl. If you're in it for the romance, I'd advise you to wait until it ends and read the reviews because there's a lot of rumours going around right now.

The comment was tongue-in-cheek, not serious.

Omg this comment from Youtube:

Yan Xun: A'Chu risked her life to save me!
Xiao Ce: Qiao Qiao risked her life to save me!
Shiyi (aka Liang Shaoqing): Xiao Chu risked her life to save me!
Yu Wenyue: I risked my life to get a massage from Xing'er!
Dumbstruck audience: ...Master Yue, we finally believe that you're the true male lead.

Lady Lan was loyal to Luo He, and I think she was the person who was looking after CQ when her mother went away.

In the next episodes preview (if you don't want to know stop reading): Lady Lan ends up blaming CQ for her son's death, and smashes the figure of Luo He on the ground. She probably thinks that if CQ hadn't killed YWH, then her son wouldn't have suffocated inside the box.

Speaking as someone who translates c-novels, if anyone decides to read this translation, remember to be patient, say thank you, and don't hurry the translator for the next chapter. It'll be up when it's done. What takes you 10mins to read might take over 1 hour to translate :)

Omfgggg that's got to be the most lacklustre major villain death I've ever seen

I'm still a little skeptical that he's really dead because of how anti-climatic it was, but hey, we don't have that many episodes left so...

Yeah...

I found it really weird how undramatic it was. Like, it reminded me of that time when YWY randomly killed off the Liang princess's tall servant with the fan? That was kinda unexpected because he had a lot of screen time and I expected something more dramatic like being impaled by a sword and intense stares and hateful last words LOL.

I'm also a little ??? at the significance of Liang. Like, how are they gonna wrap THAT up too...

Omg!! Hua Qiangu's Shiyi-shixiong has arrived in the next eps preview!! He's so cute haha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thIg0mtSHsE

Did you see that comment that was like, "This drama has stopped being "The Legend of Chu Qiao" and become "The Legend of Yan Xun" for the last 20 episodes" because... true.

Ugh, I hope they give us at least SOME closure at the end of this season...