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Agree
Although sometimes I wish the 'lingering' expressions can be bit shorter .. It would be more impactful if it had short - long - quick - drawn out rhythm depending on the importance or weight of the emotion .. When each plot point has the SAME length of 'lingering' it looses the tautness and spring ..

JUST a little minus of the drama .. LOL .. not that I am not able to flick away .. but I wish I DIDN'T have to flick AT ALL .. tee hee

EP 26

(am putting the Ep number so that a reader is warned that it will have spoilers and should stop if they don't want to know more)


FABULOUS comment @Kate

YESSS I was thinking the same .. Lan Xiang gets no say in her future life .. she plans to LIVE and WIN and work as amiably as possible with the people that come her way ..

Until now what is interesting about this drama is that the WRONGED FL isn't bent out of shape by REVENGE .. her entire life has been a fight to stay alive; to not be executed, not be sold into slavery or a brothel.

MOST RECENT DRAMAS are ALL ABOUT REVENGE when the FL (or ML) family is slaughtered as ruthlessly and wrongly as the Shen Family and the surviving member grows up with ONLY REVENGE on their minds ... this one is focusing on something bit different ..

ROFL .. you are sooooo funny
I think the same way .. but cant help losing daily and hold out my tongue to feel the 2 drops fall from the sky

niiiice

ROFL

You are HILARIOUS.. "what else is he supposed to do" - such a brat, he must have had that up his sleeve ALL along .. save the Crown Prince so he can get this favour ..
Ha ha ha ha

It is what is making this DRAMA so exciting and full of stress and tension and I am gulping every twist with such pleasure.

CAVEAT : reminds me of the time that a prince desperately wanted the hand of his beloved as an Emperor's Decree SIGH .. a whole different drama and whole different heartbreak that LED to (ROYAL NIRVANA - salute to that diamond of a drama)

it's a torture to not be able to BINGE-GLUG this episode after episode .. I keep checking how much is left .. and and get that sinking feeling of the wait ahead for 2 more measly drops

I thought it looked that way too

LOL

Not hung up on that itsy bitsy bump .. the drama sped forward fast enough towards more interesting stuff .. for example our ML at the Xu doorstep with that delectable expression of "DARN!!! I missed again!!"

Yeah this part was a bit clumsy compared to the taut care the drama has been taking to keep it steady and rock solid (mostly).

Although my suspension of disbelief is is beginning to creak and wobble more frequently for a few recent eps - I am working harder to keep it suspended

hee hee hee

It is STILL BY FAR one of the BEST period dramas in a LOOOONG time ..

SLURP!!

The fact that I am SO thirsty for glug glugging a large jar of episodes that measly 2 drops each day is making me go nuts ..

Started REWATCHING it ..
Havent done something like that in EONS
LOL

LOL
Ditto!!

(hi 5)

EP 23

going to ignore details like "how did she find and change into commoner clothes so quickly" and exit the Qingyin House?

sometimes instead of lengthening lingering looks and goodbyes .. speeding up the drama during stress moments and showing how the escape is taking place works far better .. the time at that point need to be filled with frenetic cuts and movements .. before slowing down when she reaches the city gates ..

JUST a small gripe .. but I worry when drama begins to accumulate too many such 'lazy - or budget cutting' modes when things are going so well.

Scholar Han .. it's such a sweet little side romance ..
Heartbreaking .. curious how the writer handles this character ..

🥳
Yesssss!!
Without losing her dignity and taking charity.

It’s not real life (unless it’s a a lucky life) - it’s scripted -
AND we will lap it up … it goes with the flow 🤪🩷

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Good one

ditto for me

these are currently the only two .. I have MY FLIGHT TO YOU on the list as on of her well played roles also .. nit finished it

I couldn't get behind Ming Lang (although I deeply craved it) ONLY because the ML left me completely bored - disinterested .. I'd have given anything for the drama to have had a more charismatic (age suitable - at least in appearance if not real age) actor ..

I still haven't figured out his appeal .. I mean I'd have dropped this drama too if the show had miscast JLQ with that actor ... OOOOOO SHUDDER ..

AMITABHA!! BODDHISATVA .. Liu Xue Yi .. You being in it SAVED me losing out of a CLASS ACT

(Ming Lang would have been so for me had the ML been played by a more suitable actor - but that's JUST ME and my lens :-(

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the EXACT same thought came to me watching that - what is fantastic is that the trope changed .. Lanxiang found her own house and the trope failed - YAYAY!!