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Yeah, he was married for a year or two back around 2013. Here’s a link to a video when he talked about it
https://youtu.be/p5tccZ3Ca8o?si=sWZNyJ80t7vXLLyR

He is a true gentleman and was trying to protect the privacy of his ex wife and her child with her new partner (the child is not LYN’s).

shhh! Don’t jinx it. I want this to be the one where no one in his squad dies.

He’s such an excellent actor. I find it hard to believe that he got so much hate back when AJTL was being filmed.

It’s a great drama. You will laugh, cry, and be frustrated while watching almost every episode. This drama is more complicated than many people realize. If you binge watch it you might loose some of the plot details and impact. This is a drama to be digested in small bites.

Long story short— try watching it as it airs and you can join in the discussion here. 🙂

So many people here misunderstand Yimeng and call her names. They’re so prejudiced against her that they’re ruining their own drama watching experience.

This drama is much more complex than many people realize. I hope the people attacking Yimeng read what the director wrote and take it to heart. This is a complicated drama that engages both your mind and emotions. The writing, directing, cinematography, and acting in ADWAD are all superb.

Yimeng is not dumb like some people have been complaining about her. She just has limited knowledge. The viewers are omniscient (all-knowing and all-seeing) but she only knows what she’s read in the original script and what she’s seen the few times she’s been around NH.

Yimeng trusts Li Shiliu so I hope that after her initial shock of finding out he’s actually NH that she starts trusting NH too. I hope she starts to work with him instead of against him.

I’m really curious about how we’re going to get from the heaviness of the original script in episodes 38 and 39 to the present day in episode 40 where the ML and FL actually enjoy each other. I hope it’s not going to be all conflict and tension up until the last few minutes of the final episode.

Up until episodes 21 and 22 this show was a good mixture of drama and comedy. When the mood got heavy there would be a comedic scene to lighten things up. All of that changed today.

I can’t remember anything funny happening in episodes 21 and 22. Or maybe I was just so triggered and traumatized by Yiting’s disgusting actions that nothing seemed to lighten my frame of mind.

To me morally gray means a mixture of good and evil. She became pure evil in my mind when she drugged someone and tried to rape him just to get her way.

She thinks she can do anything in order to get what she wants. She can’t possibly love Li Shiliu because she didn’t realize that NH was standing in for Shangguan He. But even if she did love him that doesn’t give her the right to rape anyone.

But can you call her morally gray when in episode 22 this time around she drugged and tried to rape Li Shiliu?

The title of the drama has been changed to About Love

Just a few questions: could the uncle be the one who ordered the killing of the favorite empress back when NH was young? And could he be the one who kept the message from NH when CGH led troops into battle and needed reinforcements? That’s when CGH’s father was killed and it made the rift between NH and him even bigger.

I feel that the uncle is trying to isolate NH so he would be an easier target. The uncle definitely doesn’t have NH’s best interests in mind.

SYM is not idiotic or dumb. Viewers get to see the whole story unfold from both NH and SYM’s perspective but SYM has very limited information about NH. She’s only been in his presence a few times. She doesn’t know his motives and is only going off of what she read in the script and what she’s personally witnessed the few times she’s been with him. Same goes for NH. He doesn’t have the same info about SYM that the viewers have.

And remember what the actor’s agent said back in episode 1? One of the demands was to make the ML in the drama sympathetic to the viewers. That’s exactly what’s happening in the drama. Many viewers are on the side of the ML and think the FL is dumb or idiotic. They’re forgetting this is a play within a play. The screenwriter is manipulating the viewers reaction. Of course that’s what screenwriters always do, but this time it’s more obvious because it’s a plot point.

I’m satisfied with the pacing in this drama. If everything was wrapped up neatly in the first half then the second half wouldn’t be needed.

Of course you’re entitled to your own opinions about this drama. I just wanted to mention things from a different perspective.

iqiyi releases 2 episodes per day until we reach episode 36, then episodes 37-40 are released 1 per day

Okay, I understand now what people have been talking about. Thank you for explaining it so clearly. 😊

I’m confused about which official actors list you’re talking about.

On the official cast list here on MDL Liu Yu Ning is listed as playing Nan Heng / Li Shi Liu / Nan Feng

Thanks for posting this. 😍😍😍

I saw this clip a while back before I started this drama. Now that I’m watching ADWAD I’m obsessed with trying to put the puzzle pieces together to figure out how this drama gets to that ending.

What do you mean the script changed ages ago?

Did you watch episode 17? The script forced her to break her engagement and tell her father that she wanted to marry NH. She tried to resist and even covered her mouth but the script took control of her words and actions. (You could hear the typewriter so there was no question that it was the script.) That’s the same scene that she read in episode 1 and she was forced to perform it again.

I’m trying to add a little clarity. The above info isn’t about the real life actor Liu Yuning and actress Li Yi Tong.

In episode 1 of ADWAD actor Nan Feng (played by LYN) was a popular actor who was hired for the lead role in the drama A Dream in the Past. The director and screenwriter catered to his every need during the meeting so it’s safe to say the drama was written for him. Former child actress Song Xiao Yu (played by Li Yi Tong) was picked by the director from a small pool of actresses. She’s not ambitious or assertive. The writer and director pretty much ignored her during the meeting because she’s much less important to the drama than the ML.

What’s the rush to have everything perfectly solved before the half way mark in a drama? For really good dramas it’s best to take the time to slowly experience them in order to fully appreciate and enjoy the story.

This drama isn’t fast food. It’s a complete feast. There’s no reason to hurry things along.