Lovely

The reason Situ Ling makes me so angry is that his character is by far the only realistic thing about this drama. Somehow, he got it into his head that this pretty fairy has to fall in love with him if he sacrifices just enough, even though she doesn't know him. He becomes her friend, but only because he wants more. "I'm her friend, but why is she treating me as just a friend? She is friendly to me, that basically means she doesn't care for me." Why won't she fall in love with him even though she's already in a relationship? She can't really love Ji Bo Zai because he's a bad boy, and he's a nice guy. "Nobody loves me because I'm weak, and Ming Yi would definitely fall in love with me because only my weakness is stopping her. "
Incel behaviour.

Only them and the universe know

Somehow, Lin Yi is always being pursued in the beginning of his dramas :D

Situ Ling really has too much screen time. His level of delusion is so irritating, OMG.
Meeting once as a child and then forming this life altering and undoable crush for someone who doesn't care for you is really one of my least favourite trope. It's right there with surprise pregnancy and mid-story amnesia.

This is actually better than I thought. The first three eps were kinda weird, but it really picks up after that. Also, I realized how much I love having children be part of the family cast and not only a plot device to show how nice and caring the leads are.

I don't understand how the magic works. There's people with spirit veins and those without, but the one's without can still do some magic? But then what's the limit?

I think it's just his personal mind palace but manifested into a real physical space that exist outside his body and thus can be entered and store objects

It's gonna hurt so bad

I ship the dragon and the kitty

she looks like a baby because she is one

lol I remember three small kisses but yeah their chemistry was so amazing, what I really remember is the rain scene where I was aching for them to kiss because it was so good.

haha had the same thought

Throughout episode 24, I'm thinking that the plot is feeling new and fresh. Usually with this type of Cdrama, the ML is crown prince already and has to prove himself not to be rebellious in front of the maniac king, but here Suige has no desire for power, only for righteousness and is condemned for his lack of desire for power and rebelliousness. However, while he does not covet the throne, everyone else who does is either incompetent or too power hungry and vengeful. In other dramas, the MLs mostly don't think about becoming emperor because of other ambitions, but they never do not want it, here Suige really is refusing it.
I also like that he unknowingly fell for a woman who shares his mother's ethics and morals, and that it ties in with the conflict of the emperor who let the mother be killed to remove her influence, only for Suige to be drawn to someone similar anyway.

I'm thinking the same but about the ML. I didn't like any of the dramas I've watched with him, and his teeth are too white for my taste (though I just watched the trailer and his teeth look normal, they were just too blinding in A Beautiful Lie).

I'm okay with no kissing scenes if they don't try to fake angle them. They should just do it like in Bollywood movies. When I was younger, I didn't even notice that they never kissed because they never tried to show me a kissing scene, instead they would just hug and embrace each other.

That said, in my personal humble opinion, I still think it should be avoided to cast minors in romance projects and actors that don't want to kiss may go for other genres.

I'm only at ep 15 and I just gotta say the only person I dislike is the princess, because even though the villains are bad at least their actions have understandable reasoning and motivations.... the princess legit saw that XJS once when he was like "I don't kill women", and now she's ready to sacrifice her relationship with her brother and other things for a marriage with him despite him clearly being in love with someone else. You think your brother made this guy his nemesis just for fun? FSG is suddenly the bad guy in her eyes when he was legit almost killed by them a few weeks ago. It makes just no sense that she would be ready to leave everything and everyone willingly behind, even though she knows NOTHING about him. And it's not like he showed her any kind of mentionable attention.... I really hate how they wrote her with no brain.
As much as I like the drama, the writing of women is not their strong suit. Even FYX is just repeating the same pattern she did with XJYS. A man saved your life, and now you vow to protect him no matter what .... again (I support her decision, but it's still a pattern for her now). Then the female doctor is so talented, but also very childish and often doesn't think before she speaks. The Empress would be nothing without her evil prime minister father.

I legit just saw an edit of this and wanted to add it to my ptw list, just to realise I already watched it and rated it low also... I really remember nothing.

The only reason I'm rooting for him is that I want Xu Yan to be happy. I want her to have what she wants, and I want her to have the satisfaction that the only man she ever loved, loves her more.

I feel like their month is like at least half a year in my time haha

omg I came to say the same