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For me, I don't really care where the story is going now, everywhere or whatever, all I'm concerned is seeing Chen Yu together with Bu Qi. Their relationship and love for each other really warms me up.

Yes, I like the Qin style too but it's darker. I'm a light color person, so I still prefer Zhao color palette over Qin. How about you?

Episode 41, what an ugly looking Lian Yi Ke :D

How is this drama? Is it worth to watch? I have so many dramas on my 'Plan to watch' list that I have to be selective. Please let me know your comments, good or bad. I'd love to read them.

Everything is in good hand :D

Never mind about what others say about this drama. The important thing is, we enjoy it. We like Ariel Lin because she is a good actress and she comes across as authentic. Beauty is a very subjective thing, not everybody agree to the same standard. For us, Ariel is our angel, that's good enough.

No doubt about those episodes, just watched them, make my heart warm. BTW, I'm taking back what I said about Dong Fang Shi. He is getting very annoying again. How dare he tries to hurt our hero, Lian Yi Ke!

Episodes 34, 35 are so far the funniest, sweetest episodes in this drama. Dong Fang Shi is beginning to be less annoying; in fact he can be quite cute and endearing. Really enjoy this drama.

Love the color scheme of the Zhao palace - clothing, interior design, gardens - so beautiful and tranquil. Acting is fabulous. Story is exciting. Don't watch if you don't want to risk binge watching :D. It's actually very good. So happy the rating has gone up since the drama started.

After watching 20 or so episodes, I find the acting in this drama to be very good and authentic. However, I'm getting rather tired with the various scheming and backstabbing within the palace. Despite of that, I'm still rather hooked on to it and tend to binge watch one episode after another - I'm hopeless :(

Yes, that's very true. Initially I thought I was missing something, then I realized it's a prelude to what was going to happen in that episode. However, I don't really like them revealing the story; I don't like spoilers.

Hahaha! Love your description. Exactly how I felt!

Totally agree. I have to drop this drama. Don't know why I couldn't click with the female lead. She is very beautiful but not my taste.

Bai Lu is an excellent actress. One caveat – the fighting scenes are not as realistic as I’d have liked them to be – they used too much stun/stop motion that rendered the whole scenes unauthentic. Also, there are too many scenes that jumped forward, and then reveal what actually had happened at later scenes. This may confuse many viewers, especially those who don’t understand Chinese. So far, CGI is ok, but dubbing is pretty bad.

What am I watching? I know it's a comedy, but it's so hard to watch. All the actions are so pretentious and overdone. I can't even laugh! It's a waste of time. I'm giving this up.

8.2 as of now, from 7.9

Thanks for the head up.

The score has improved!

Honestly speaking, I haven't watched The Empress of China, so I can't compare. There are so many dramas to watch these days that I have to be pretty selective. So I tend to skip anything before 2015. I find the recent acting, make-up, costumes, scripts, sounds, effects etc from the mainland China movie industry to have improved greatly in the recent years. So I'd prefer later dramas. Of course there are exceptions.

That's what I thought. Hey! I find someone sharing something with me here! :D