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Thanks for the explanation. That's what I've been thinking all along. Fu Chou is fundamentally a good and kind person. He doesn't simply kill in cold blood unless one commits an heinous crime against humanity. I think everything is orchestrated by the Dowager Empress. It's interesting to see how he deals with his own mother in the end. On one hand, he's a filial pious son, on the other, he would not allow indiscriminate killings.

Yes, yes, yes. You're such a romantic. I'd have myself, despite he's been portrayed as a bad boy.

So he's a bad guy after all? I wish it's not him doing all these bad things, but others that wouldn't come under his control, including his own mother, the Dowager Empress.

OMG! I've never thought I'd say this, but I'm saying it now: I love Fu Chou; he is fundamentally a good person; he's been undermined over and over again.

Thank you so much!

Where do you watch? I'm at ep. 44 and waiting for more episodes to release.

I'm not actually aware of any additional uncut scenes. I was at first angry at Li Chen Yin for his lack of remorse. Then after watching the uncut version, I began to see why he did what he did. With careful analysis from one of the viewers here (see discussion post), I began to empathize with him, and even love him.

Yep! Celebrities just portray an image to us, something we can fantasize. In real life, they are just like us, with flaws and stuff.

Leo Luo uses his own voice in this drama (also in Ashes of Love). So that's how he sounds: slow, seemingly weak, but with steel in every word he speaks. I like it.

Oh well, a lot. He's just too perfect for a real man. Kind, smart, devoted, upstanding, determined, good looking, powerful, wealthy, intelligent, good swordsman, good academics, good chess player, good taste in everything including tea, cultured, has all the finesse (I can include the whole dictionary with all the good terms to him, and he has them). So we're more or less talking about a man outside of this world. However, if you do ever come across such a man in your life, what would you do?

Too cordial like buddies, not like passionate lovers. Each is too considerate for the other. Come on.

hahaha!

Yes, but if you get a chance and time, you should re-watch the uncut version too, because you would have understood the Li Chen Yin character better and why he did what he did. The cut version makes us hate Li Chen Yin because we couldn't understand him.

If it makes you feel any better, I finished this drama almost three months ago, until today, my body is still trying to find my soul back, and make blood to nourish it. I have indulged myself in binge watching other dramas just to get my mind off this one (just like those who indulge in alcoholic drink to forget). The pain still lingers.

Maybe Rong Le ends up with Fu Chou, who knows!

Rong Qi doesn't give the impression like a 'real' brother to Rong Le; she is more like a lover to him. Fu Chou comes across to have more desire for Rong Le than Wu You does. The relationship between Rong Le and Wu You is just too cordial, like good friends, instead of lovers. Sigh! What a mess!

It is true that in almost all Chinese dramas, boys meet girls through girls falling and boys catching them, and they both stare into each other's eyes for eternity. Come on, can't the writers think of something new? Girls don't fall that easily.

Makes one's heart wrench.

I cried at the last scene when Zhong Ye Ye meets his lost love, all those lost years .... So heart-wrenching!

Absolutely! I concur.

Who is the actress playing Hao Mei Li? She is a wonderful actress! Despite her character initially, I come to like her a lot.