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How did he go from main roles to support roles. I really liked him in his earlier dramas when he was the ML

ML and FL don’t seem to have a lot of chemistry. I’ll have to keep watching to see if it changes.

No wonder I loved POJ. I’ve loved almost all of this director’s previous projects! Absolutely loved Blossom, Butterflied Lovers, A Familiar Stranger, Provoke and Destined to Meet You. I’m definitely a fan of this guy. I’ll have to watch for his other works.

Me! I feel like I’m catching a lot of stuff that I didn’t notice before. In some parts I even turn off the subtitles so I can focus on the scene. I’ve not rewatched a drama so fully like this in a long time so it’s nice. Of course, I think the rewatch value drops significantly after Ep 30 but it’s still good and I just speed past the QM craziness.

This is random but I think her butcher knives that her dad called their family “heirloom” was forged from his sphere tip. That’s why Xie Zheng was looking at it so carefully because it seemed more like military grade than kitchen knife material. I also think he later melted both knives down to make the two swords for FCY so that she could keep her family heirloom after one of the knives broke during her fight with Shu Yue.

In the novel, he acts as Prince Regent for 4 years then they move back to Lin’an. Based on how they are dressed at the very end I think they are still living in the Capital and was visiting the Zhaos for New Years. That’s how I took it.

Yes, I recommend it so you can understand the emotional ties the characters have to each other

Love Song Mo but he wasn’t as cold and ruthless. He didn’t kill a named side character in a blink of an eye. But SM was badass yes

Yes, it’s uncle/aunt Zhao

His uncle basically led to the death of his own father and mother. So I think not.

I LOVED that XZ killed him like that. It was such a shock that I just laughed out loud! Marquis Wu’an is so ruthless I love it. Lol

I agree with your feelings for SYQ but I liked that they made him more human. Not all villains have to be black and white and I think it’s more realistic the way they depicted him.

I didn’t think they were a “couple.” It was actually pretty terrifying what she had to do to survive and keep her son safe. I agree we didn’t need as many scenes of Qi Min (we get it, he’s crazy) but it wasn’t like a romance story for me so it was ok

I agree, I love to see CY fight but our Xie Zheng is the feared Wu’an Hou, I would’ve loved to see his big battle scenes

By the way, is Qian Qian supposed to be from the future? In the later episodes when she says she from a “far far far away place” it seemed to hint that she wasn’t from that time. Also her knowledge of CPR and cavities make me think she’s from the future.

Random point but despite what the uncle says later about how the marriage is not legit because they didn’t have a matchmaker or exchanged betrothal gifts they had both! Mrs Zhao was the town’s matchmaker and they did exchange gifts: she got him the blue head ribbon and he got her the hairpin back. And they bowed to her parents memorial tablets so I think it counts.

I thought there would be some story to her mother’s hairpin but there wasn’t

Lesson learned from POJ: In this drama, you will always survive when you fall off anything, be it a 5000 meter cliff or up high on a stone fort and land directly on your skull. You will never die

Yes! And I LOVE that drum beat music they play whenever they depict him in his armor and being the Wu’an Hou. Talk about Aura!

I liked that you get his perspective. I mean we know he loves her but to hear his view on how he basically meted his cold heart was very sincere and touching