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I have no words. Okay, I have a few: what an amazing drama.

Holy macaroni I am at the edge of my seat. The build up alone in this drama is outstanding. This went from an 8.5 to an absolute 10 for me. While the romance had me at the beginning, I am now fully absorbed in the political plots and action (honestly the romance is frustrating as hell... but I don't even care all that much). My god, it's amazing. I don't think I've ever been this insanely intrigued by the non-romantic part of a drama. The PLOT TWISTS! I am going to have SEVERE trust issues. Literally every character in this dang drama has made my head spin *at least* twice. Phenomenal. And this boy's ACTING--scratch that, everyone's acting. But especially ML... and his character is absolutely d i v i n e. Find you a man that embraces femininity without any embarrassment, and you will have the best kind of masculine man ever, i swear. This literally proves it. I'm in love. Seriously, if you haven't picked this one up yet and you enjoy historical dramas, watch it. I thought it was going to be some silly, fluffy rom-com. I've never been so glad to be so wrong. (It's still fluffy and funny, but it's intense, its heartbreaking, it's --for lack of a better word-- badass, and it's hella~ unpredictable.)

I'm so hoping this drama keeps it up all the way to the end.

My worry is when ML finds out, what he'll do. I'm so so hoping he'll be strong and stick with her though.

I'm beyond impressed with how they've still managed to give me butterflies even 15 episodes later. Normally by now someone's being unreasonably cold to their partner due to them feeling the need to protect them. But here we have these two giving me ALL the butterflies. My Atlanta, I love this drama to the moon and back and then some (even though it makes me nervous as heck to watch an ongoing show). 1000/10

I would so watch it too! Regulations suck imo :(

I swear this is the only drama I can wait for and not lose interest. It's incredible and I hope it keeps the same energy until the end.

have mercy, that trailer just plot twisted me about 10 times. First normal empire stuff. oh some ninja flying, that's nothing that crazy. romance, well of course. waaait girl on girl action? is that twins fighting it out? dragons? more dragons? magic? oh my good heavens, SEX?! Am lost. It's like they threw clips in from other dramas to make one huge controversial drama.

Excuse me while I go off

I didn't realize I had high expectations for this drama until I felt majorly let down by it. I'm not even halfway and the FL is giving me a headache. I don't normally get annoyed by FLs easily either, but maybe it's how (despite how it appears in a lot of scenes with woman characters) they've kept the traditional gender roles pretty unchanging.

I'm pretty sure if someone (man or woman) is trained to be soldier, they wouldn't completely break down in the middle of a fight. I mean, sure, great heroic scene for our ML but c'mon. Soldiers are trained to act first during combat. How many times does she just watch bad things happen and only react based on her emotions instead of her of her training? And you definitely don't just sit there and grieve over a few deaths until AFTER the fight is done, my god. (how long did she sit there and just dissociate while the officers were literally on the other side of the car?). Ugh, Idk, I just expected a strong FL and got a stereotypical FL instead. (Also frustrating to watch her interact with the ML when they aren't play fighting, arguing, or scheming together. It's obvious she has emotions since she's always acting on them stupidly, but apparently all that goes out the window whenever he even tries to do something nice for her. Like dang, how many times did she point the finger at him? Shouldn't soldiers base their findings on... idk... evidence?)

Okay, rant done. Still worth it for now because the ML and 2nd ML make up for FLs faults. Also, maybe unpopular opinion, but the chemistry between ML and 2nd FL is off the charts. Hoping I see development in the FL though. Besides that, it's absolutely beautiful. The settings and aesthetics are just phenomenal. I want men to wear suits for casual wear again.

Oh wow, I learned of this right in time for its airing. Forever Love actor dude is in this and I'm so excited to see what kind of character he plays this time. He made me absolutely fall head over heels for all of his characters I've seen so far. (Although I love him best in Forever Love and think the two leads had beyond perfect chemistry.)

I love this guy. Absolutely fell for him in Forever Love, and once again in The Heiress. About to go watch all his dramas now, just to see what characters he can pull off. Such a cutie.

I understand completely! I write books and that's how I feel when I finish the story... the world is just like.. POOF gone. The characters can't move on from that moment, or at least we can't see them moving on and its sad as fck when you love them. Letting go is so hard even with fictional characters lol

As per everyone's recommendation, I watched until episode 21 and stopped. I feel content enough to let this one go at this point after having read the spoilers. Honestly I'm not even tempted to keep watching. So thanks to everyone for telling watchers to stop there. :)

Okay but the interactions between ML & FL were sooo cute and pretty dang healthy (treating your partner with equality is a beautiful thing). Low budget but I honestly didn't care because I was too enthralled by the love story. The acting was pretty convincing as well. I find Chinese dramas are normally very fluffy, but I really didn't mind it in this as it balanced the heavier topics with the sweetness. Normally I'm used to 4-5 episodes driving me crazy from frustration, but I don't think I was ever frustrated past one episode during the entire series.

Give it a shot if you're hesitant.

I will say, I get a bad taste in my mouth when dramas do the whole 'FL firmly says no and ML takes it upon himself to tell her what she really means'. So I do get where you're coming from. Like the lady said no; it doesn't matter what the reasons are its a firm no.

I just feel like the CP takes a very... day to day kind of approach with everything lol. Like, slay the demon today and worry about the devil tomorrow sorta idea. (so, get married today, worry about the rest tomorrow lol).

I would agree if it was any other historical drama, but this one they are very lenient on the 'eyes are everywhere' idea. But I'd absolutely 110% agree if the show was more realistic to that time. In the case of this show, however, it's very light in a way. I mean if it was real, the CP would have been discovered immediately due to all the customs alone. Like... the palace has a whole dang house and land that's unattended and unguarded--that alone is indication that in that world, a secret relationship would be doable. Risky as hell, but how many times has the CP slipped out of guards watch? She even disrobed during a royal hunt haha. As for the marriage, I'm guessing the logic there is she could just get married and refuse to sleep with the wife. Once again, logic for this world seems to be different than other more 'accurate' historical dramas. Maybe the writers themselves didn't feel the need to have answers since the plot is obviously avoiding that route lol.

But I agree, her getting her title revoked is perfect for her to live her own life. But yes, grandpa is definitely going to take that away from her too. :(

Creating rape scenes for a certain demographic (like gay men) imo is absolutely messed up if you yourself are not a gay man.

I'm going to assume that the woman that wrote the book had no clue how gay relationships worked and completely disregarded reality. If this is what she assumed a BL relationship is like, it's safe to say she was absolutely uneducated and following gross stereotypes and deserves those labels. It's a shame, a lot of BL dramas follow the same trope (like men have to be drunk and unconsenting in order to recognize their feelings??).

this... this drama... besides all the obviously offensive and over the top crap, wtf is up with those long pauses every five seconds? What were they going for with that? A 'i forgot my line let me just--OH' feeling? because that's the feeling they're giving. I just finished ep 1 and I just don't know if I can do this.

I'm over here about to start it from the beginning so the wait doesn't feel so long. Seriously one of the best drama'a i've seen in a longgg while. If you're wondering whether you should watch it or not, you absolutely should.

If not, this is great incentive to get on that hahah

I do see your point, but I didn't see it that way. The way I saw it was he wanted the CP to know his feelings and wanted to know if he was crazy or not for having them (like, 'is there something between us or am I insane' lol) but I don't think he had expectations--he just wanted to be with him/her in whatever way he could (like sitting on the deck of that hidden house together). I really think he just wasn't sure if it was mutual or not and he was trying to understand his own feelings at the same time.

I think he left because he still felt uncertain about whether the feelings were mutual. He came back because he finally decided to trust what he felt--trust that it wasn't one sided and trust that the CP was unhappy unless with him. So he's all like, 'i'm not leaving your side regardless of what you say--because I know you're lying for my sake and you feel the same way'. He's not asking to marry her or even for her not to marry anyone else or anything, I think it's just about being there together.

And finally: She's been so concerned with just surviving until they met again. It's a very: living over survival sort of show imo. Like, what's the point to anything if you aren't really living? It's a mutual thing: she's been trying to save him, but he's basically saying 'screw that, I don't want to be saved if I'm not with you'. So choosing love over death seems to be where its heading. I'm hoping for a happy ending, but who knows.

Anyways, that's my thoughts on it. I might have rose coloured glasses on, but a rose tint on everything is pretty nice so I'll keep them on hahah