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Agree. This is my first drama with Aarif. I think he does a pretty good job playing the Wu You character. He is very good looking.

Yep, they are soul mate. Just that as it is, the way both actors are portraying it, it is overly cordial. They are so considerate for each other. I can't feel their passion and desire for each other. Maybe they have bigger and more important things on their minds (rightfully so).

Wow! Thanks for your analysis, especially on BuBuJinXin. I watched a few episodes in, and gave up because, like you, I didn't like those pig tails. But I think I'm going to return to that drama after this drama unless there are new good dramas that catch my attention.

Haha, women power. What can men do but love them? XD

Oh, no, no, no! My poor Fu Chou! I'm going to bleed out for him!

OMG! I read this after I wrote to @ayume in the previous thread. It's really the Empress (I guess the wrong one though)! Poor Fu Chou. He's captured my heart more than Wu You has.

Rong Le has formed a prejudiced view against Fu Chou when she thinks he undermines her and takes her from Wu You in marriage. Then on, everything Fu Chou does seems to be bad. She blames him for everything from head to toe. But then again, Fu Chou doesn't seem to know Rong Le as well as Wu You does. He couldn't even recognize her when he sleeps with the wrong woman, and forces poison down the wrong woman's throat. Wu You on the other hand, can communicate with Rong Le in silence, knows what she is thinking by looking at her despite he also doesn't understand women that well and shuns away from them in the beginning.

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.