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NEVER EVER expect the drama to cover the novel's details and plots. it will be hard to enjoy the drama if you have expectations of how the characters and plot will uncover. The Double is an example where the drama took out a lot of details and added unnecessary side stories to stupid villain characters.

You will like the drama less after reading the novel

The real jiang li would be devoured by the jiang family.

Wang Xing Yue breath life into Xiao Heng. base on the novel, he did awesome playing XH!

the drama gave too much importance to this princess villain. the princess is spoiled, cruel, arrogant and spoiled b/c she is the prince (her full brother from the same mother)'s sister and the grand consort's favorite and only daughter. due to her upbringing and spoilage, she fears no one but still in the name royalty title, she knows better than not offend or act out of line with the king. she's also not as nutty and sadistic in the novel to treat/humiliate SYR. She loves him in a selfish way but she loves him enough to not treat him like a slave.

due to censorship, they can't do anything supernatural. the real jiang li did died in the novel. JL committed suicide and XFF's soul took over her body. i rather the drama follow the novel's story line to give the fake JL a mysterious side. as for the rest, maybe to add more 'drama' to the storyline.

you mean the villains?

it's a cute epilogue to a rushed drama.

love like the galaxy...drama version is very close to the novel.

he was a villain gets under your blood but a great actor to get that emotion out of the audience. super glad he was given more lead roles.

XH's sidekicks did not died in the novel...don't know why they have to kill them off in the drama.

the novel was a very good read in the characters development and how everything unfolded. the drama storyline is not that satisfying...esp for the villian's end, if any. the actors are good acting out what they were given. the novel is for story telling, the drama is for entertainment.

it's weird to buy a copyright to some characters and some plots. if it's complicated, producers would drop the project. censorship is strict and restricting in what they allow drama to depict and include. dramas can't have scenes where violence is intentional....which is why a lot of these needs to be changed to environmental factors or pressures. JSR being show a pity person who became who she is b/c of her abusive restrictive dad, but in the novel, she's just pure evil, greedy and selfish.

Shao Zhao ---- big change from the novel.

SZ did not died in the novel. His death was faked by the princess and he was kept as her prisoner in her secret prison. By the time he was found, his legs were no longer functioning. over the years he was tortured near death, only to be saved and go through more torture. SZ's determination to live was super strong b/c he wants to see his sister and father. He does not know what happen to them in captivity.

XH saved SZ on a whim b/c SZ crawled to XH asking to be saved. XH was in there to clean out and stage the prison before exposing it to the public.

SZ stayed at XH's manor for awhile being treated by JiuYue. He was heart broken after hearing of XFF and his father's fates. It was after XH confessed his love to JL, on the way out bumped into SZ sitting in his wheelchair. JL howled/cried like an injured animal after realizing her brother was right in front of her --- alive. Due to XXF being in JL's body, SZ was in shock why she reacted this way.

JL convinced SZ by sharing their childhood upbringing together. JL is 16 and SZ is 21. SZ still call JL big sister throughout the novel despite their age and status.

that part of the novel brought me to tears.
The novel paired SZ and JiuYue together. they have a side story in the novel.

it's a pity the drama excluded all this.

if they follow closely to the book it will be more than 40 episodes (more time, money, etc). if they bought the copyright to adapt it in the novel, they don't have to alter characters like that. besides the main story arc of the main ML and FL, everyone's roles were altered.

i don't think the drama has any more episodes to waste on if JRS is crazy or faking it. it's the end of JRS' character as is. she lives the remaining life as a mad woman like that of concubine hu.

lol, one thing i'm not fond of in chinese dramas. it's not as juicy as the novels.

in the novel, the only time they kissed was when XH admitted his feelings for JL. that was pretty much the only kissing interaction in the novel. haha.

a few years at most...but not 10-20 years difference.

a few years at most...but not 10-20 years difference.