moodygirl

I've always wondered, how in these dramas every pond, lake, stream, river happens to be as deep as the Mariana Trench and inevitably someone special descends to help with the ascension, while locking eyes/lips/arms, to the surFACE.

Another battle, another win! Is it the sword, is it the whip, or maybe the mask. She's downright invincible. Men will follow her unquestionable into battle (even straw men), or swoon over her from the sidelines. Are there any enemies she can't vanquish?

It is acceptable/watchabler although these later episodes drag a bit and could have used some editing.

How does it differ on Douban?

I'm trying to get to the finish line as quickly as possible on fast forward. I'm surprised the rating is holding up considering the critical comments.

Ep. 19 Masters can be bastards when they decide who their disciples can and cannot marry. The Princess and her long-ago suitor do not know that their devotion was crushed by others and have lived two decades in sorrow. War is imminent and Ye Han gets to strut her stuff. There is no sugar-coating it, Mr. Chu is in love and will wear her garment close to his chest. His maid is not impressed.

Ep. 10 Merchants' daughters have turned into corpses. Ye Han is outraged about the lack of response from the men who only seem to care about what the ledgers can do to advance their plans. Luckily these particular daughters have some value so the Commander gets provisions for his troops. Mr. Chu is also able to impress the guy who pulls his strings, but meanwhile he can't help but be impressed with 'Mr. Cheng' and secretly thanks him for the pleasure he got watching the sword dance. What's happening to the father/son duo of murdering scum?

Ep. 9 Perfect ending for a fiend. He Yan got revenge.The ledgers are still not revealed and Mr. Chu is just biding his time What won't He Yan do to get into the Batallion? Even tell all about the red mole. Horrors! One chapter is done another opens on the corpses of women barely covered up.

Ep 4 "I just want to feel your sword" This cross-dressing business can all get a bit silly. He must have very sensitive nerve endings in his back muscles as she is hardly well endowed. Hugging a dead wolf for warmth is funny. While pulling her out of the wolf pit, he didn't really put his back into it only the occasional frown. This acting could have used better direction.

Ep. 3 Playing footsie and getting the benefit of private training. Weight training and endurance are the basis for winning competitions. There are no sore losers as they acknowledge who's boss.

Ep 2 Blowing bubbles while the general shows off his abs in the hot spring. This should loosen them up. She's got what it takes to handle horses and blades. Her snoring (and probably farting) roommates are in for a surprise.

Rest easy, love conquers all.

Just started this as I was finishing The Wanted Detective (good). Great start to this saga of another woman wronged in Cdrama land. She is a worthy lead and will, no doubt, take on her foes.

Ep. 27 Descent into hell by elevator while holding hands. There's a guy carrying a princely load who likes to break wind. Our lovey-dovey couple manage to convince him to give them a map to a non-existent place where no one dares to go but the road looks well-travelled and the fauna is impressive.

Ep. 25 is explosive. In hot pursuit our heroes head for the mountain. On the way there they are confronted by fog which is very confusing because one minute they are going through a regular forest the next minute they are going through a bamboo forest. Tong is rescued just before he is forced to swallow something and the disciple with the mole under his eye takes a flying leap into a rockface, What a prat.

Arguments and reminicenses take up most of episode 22, but will they get us out of this dilemma? Zhong is being made a scapegoat and the father and son team are taking a victory lap. With the feckless majesty giving them cart blanche so by way of some jade token she is headed for a beheading. Beiming seems incapable of mounting an exit strategy even though he promised when he was barely a todler (cute) to always protect her. Here he decides to show up at the execution site and offer himself up instead. Then proceeds to take more poison. What a bright idea (sarcasm).

Ep. 21 As someone who regularly gets acupuncture, the Golden Needle treatment was pretty scary but if it gets Beiming his mojo back I'm all for it. Zhong is left speechless when the Old Bug threatens her lover and then again when she's accused of having burned him into cinder. Does anyone really believe Old Bug is dead?

Ep. 20 Zhong and Zhuge are in competition. just like he was with Beiming. They need to find Old Bug and get the cult leader back to find out who is the guy really calling the shots here and doing all that string theory to the victims. Besides who besides Old Bug might be capable of curing our hero. I'm truly tired of seeing a pale, totally sucked of all vitality Beiming and on top of that now he's disappeared.

Ep. 19 Blood letting can only go on so long and then it's curtains. They are on the trail but it's a long way to get to the abattoir and all the people in vats. Feng is so pale but his mouth is still constantly moving. The masked master is eventually subdued but hung up and being interogated he knows from nothing. Beiming dove for the pill which looked a little hard to swallow, Is this his miracle cure?

Ep. 17 is full of forboding - From corpse oil to ghost escort wagons; it all gets explained but it's still creepy. Luckily there's a bit of comedy relief when they make giant pills to extract confessions. Hothead Tong nearly gets Feng decapitated. Beiming is still suffering from frostbit. How long can he carry on?