I believe it was always YFS's plan to lure Bai Wan to the city and use her as a decoy. He triggered her memory…
Not only YFS, but the entire Huben army needed fake passes because at that time, Wuyang was the one still in control so he/they couldn't travel freely around Chang'an. The Huben army/YFS went into hiding after Wuyang took over, that's why they were in Hidden Soldier Valley.
At the check point, YFS used the fake pass to enter Chang'an, they even described the clothes he was wearing and how his head was covered, so they planned to ambush him(someone fitting his description), immediately when he entered the capital gates. But along the way there, he switched himself with Bai Wan and she even wore clothes similar to the ones YFS was said to be wearing. This makes me think that something more must have transpired between them, more than just him writing her that message with her original name. She already knew how dangerous YFS is(but probably didn't know what he looked like), having first hand experience after watching the two old men die because of him. A part of me thinks he forced her to go back, I don't know🤷♀️.
I think maybe Huai An thought since his sister doesn't know who she is, his enemies won't know either. And if she doesn't know, even if she's captured as someone associated with him, they would never get her to confess that she's his blood relative because she doesn't know she is.
I hope they will show us what happened to Gu Yu and Chancellor Gao. How did they end up in such a state after Gu Yu set out to help Wuyang? How did Gu Yu and his assistant get separated and she's now used by Huai'an to infiltrate the Tiemo army?
I'm also curious about how YFS knew that Bai Wan was going to come to the temple so he stationed himself there. Was it a temple she frequented that's why he knew she'll go there? How did he convince her to take the travel pass? (I'm starting to wonder if she knew she was going to her death. This is just a thought, but maybe at some point, YFS told her everything about her past and told her he'll kill Huai An, and in order to save him, he ordered her to go back to Chang'an using his travel pass. Even if she realised that Huai'an was her biological brother, she knew how dangerous it was to go back to Chang'an and also knew about the dangers faced by her brother in his quest for revenge. She left because it was dangerous, plus she missed her adoptive family, so it was very naive of her to choose to go back even if the goal was to be reconciled with her brother.)
I have to admit that so far, I think YFS has shown himself to be more cunning and a better strategist than Huai'an. He has dealt severe blows to Huai'an's team and plans. He downplays himself and uses his somewhat sweet and respectful old man image to his advantage, and that is where some of his strength lies.
I'm also still curious about YFS and Liu Ziwen's past and what caused the betrayal. Was it only just about power?
I hope the second half is as good as the first one and filled with even more suspense and action.
I thought the old man handling Huben business was the same gong gong giving bread to Right Chancellor!!! Oh dear,…
Me too😆. I also thought he was the eunich and wondered why he lied to Chancellor Gao about not being able to leave the palace when he was clearly freely walking around in the marketplace😅
I'm surprised Yan Feng Shan didn't kill Huai An when they met. I thought it was strange that YFS told his subordinates…
Oh my word, same. I ended feeling so sorry for the Marquis that I actually dropped Legend of Zang Hai because of him😭. I was touched by his trust in Zang Hai, and when he saved him from the fire and got hurt, I just couldn't continue to watch it anymore and pretend I hated him for what he did in the past. I couldn't bare the thought that in the future, he will find out his son and the guy he had come to trust wanted him dead all along. So I just dropped it, but maybe I'll go back and finish it one day😭.
I know he's the enemy, but I also don't hate YFS as of yet and feel like there's more going on, especially when it comes to the past.
Maybe they want to curb his popularity. Plus C-industry agencies are notorious for sabotaging artists from other agencies to prop up their own artists. And I read somewhere that nowadays, actors are associated, or partially/fully signed, with certain platforms, so maybe Youku/Tencent/iQiyi have their own signed actors they want to promote and don't want other actors like Cheng Yi overshadowing them, hence the suppression. I really feel like TVoA should be getting way more buzz than it's getting now, but I concluded that maybe it's because it's released during the busiest time of the year and people are on vacation as well.
I'm surprised Yan Feng Shan didn't kill Huai An when they met. I thought it was strange that YFS told his subordinates…
I also think there's more than meets the eye with regards to Huai An's father's death. Why did the whole Huben Army collectively choose to betray him if he was so good and had great vision for the Huben Army? Even the granny betrayed him. It seems like only a few people remained loyal to him and helped his son.
Another thing, since the series started, we've perceived Yan Feng Shan to be this evil and ruthless person, but his interactions with Wang Pu, his reaction to Bai Wan's grave, and the way he spoke to and about Huai An showed a somewhat softer/vulnerable side. I'm looking forward to finding out about the real history between him and Huai An's father, and what his true intentions are. In the trailer Yan Feng Shan said, 'if Huai An dies, then Chang'an will fall, but Huai An thinks if Gu Yu dies, then there's no hope for Chang'an. I find this interesting and wonder how Yan Feng Shan came to that conclusion.
I think there's going to be many more shocking plot twists in this drama.
I wonder what happened in the past, before Huai An came back to Chang'an, to make all these distinguished individuals trust, fear, and respect him so much. Yan Feng Shan himself seems to respect him and sees him as an opponent even he can't defeat easily. They must have seen him in action before.
Have you seen Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty 1, 2, 3 and soon to be 4? lol
It's a pity there seems to be less and less fighting as the seasons progressed. I really enjoyed Lu Lingfeng's fight scenes, Yang Xuwen did an excellent job. But I haven't watched the 3rd season yet.
I was confused too. The dethroned emperor didn't seem like a bad person. But he killed the guy. I think it's bad…
I think you're just nitpicking at this point, desperately trying to find something wrong with the drama/actors/everyone. Compared to the drama that you said was the best this year, this one is actually darker, with darker characters.
Even though the deposed emperor was wrong for killing Zhang Mo, we can deduce that he killed him out of jealousy/anger/frustration that he was free to go home to his family while he was still "held prisoner" by Huai'an. Another thing is that earlier, Huai'an also said that he knew the young emperor had his own ways of survival.
My suggestion is that, please watch the series to enjoy it, without any prior prejudice, or consciously comparing it to other dramas you think are the best just for the sole purpose of trying to find fault with TVoA. If you don't like it, you can just drop. We all have different tastes.
The uncle story doesn't make sense. Maybe they didn't do a good job of explaining or depicting it. The uncle is…
It's a bit long comment. As the uncle said, him and his brother's ways/views were different and there were some things his brother didn't tolerate. His brother believed in killing people to save other people while Ziyan killed people to save himself(killed those who were a threat to him).
My take on why he didn't just kill Huai An immediately when he saw him with his father is, 1. He planned to kill them both in a secluded area and was pretending to help Huai An and his father knew this that's why he threw him out of the carriage. The uncle killed Huai An's father right then and there in anger and frustration when he realised he had let his son escape. 2. Maybe he still had a soft spot for his brother and loved his nephew so he was still processing the fact that they were still alive and was planning how he was going to kill them when Huai An escaped. In any case, in both these scenarios, he made mistakes. Maybe it was not as easy to kill family than strangers, no matter how cold-hearted he was.
As for both siblings escaping, we learned that after Huai An was thrown off the carriage, he said he went to fetch his sister from the Grand Preceptors house where she was staying and fled with her.
In the scene where Uncle stabbed Huai An, we saw that Huai An's people came in as he was stabbing him and attacked him so he fled without taking the knife out and also left Qingyi to be captured.
And another thing to remember is that, yes, he does have the reputation of being the best assassin, but he's an old man now, no longer a youth so not as sharp as before. Compare him to the newly introduced character of Wang Pu, who is still young and ambitious and seems to be sharper and even more cunning than Liu Ziyan.
How'd the rating drop by 0.3 in the span of less than an hour?? Considering the quality of this drama and the…
It doesn't make sense at all. It's probably haters giving a low rating, same as they are doing over at IMDb. They want people to see the "low ratings" and not check it out because they would think it's not a good series. I really don't understand why some people invest their time hating/sabotaging others when they could just focus on loving/enjoying their faves.
Let's use the spoiler tag good people to avoid spoiling it for those who haven't watched any of the available episodes yet and for those who are looking for a new drama to watch and don't want to come across spoilers in the comments.
Anyways, Cheng Yi is on another level here as Xie Huai An🔥.
At the check point, YFS used the fake pass to enter Chang'an, they even described the clothes he was wearing and how his head was covered, so they planned to ambush him(someone fitting his description), immediately when he entered the capital gates. But along the way there, he switched himself with Bai Wan and she even wore clothes similar to the ones YFS was said to be wearing. This makes me think that something more must have transpired between them, more than just him writing her that message with her original name. She already knew how dangerous YFS is(but probably didn't know what he looked like), having first hand experience after watching the two old men die because of him. A part of me thinks he forced her to go back, I don't know🤷♀️.
I think maybe Huai An thought since his sister doesn't know who she is, his enemies won't know either. And if she doesn't know, even if she's captured as someone associated with him, they would never get her to confess that she's his blood relative because she doesn't know she is.
I'm also curious about how YFS knew that Bai Wan was going to come to the temple so he stationed himself there. Was it a temple she frequented that's why he knew she'll go there? How did he convince her to take the travel pass? (I'm starting to wonder if she knew she was going to her death. This is just a thought, but maybe at some point, YFS told her everything about her past and told her he'll kill Huai An, and in order to save him, he ordered her to go back to Chang'an using his travel pass. Even if she realised that Huai'an was her biological brother, she knew how dangerous it was to go back to Chang'an and also knew about the dangers faced by her brother in his quest for revenge. She left because it was dangerous, plus she missed her adoptive family, so it was very naive of her to choose to go back even if the goal was to be reconciled with her brother.)
I have to admit that so far, I think YFS has shown himself to be more cunning and a better strategist than Huai'an. He has dealt severe blows to Huai'an's team and plans. He downplays himself and uses his somewhat sweet and respectful old man image to his advantage, and that is where some of his strength lies.
I'm also still curious about YFS and Liu Ziwen's past and what caused the betrayal. Was it only just about power?
I hope the second half is as good as the first one and filled with even more suspense and action.
I know he's the enemy, but I also don't hate YFS as of yet and feel like there's more going on, especially when it comes to the past.
I really feel like TVoA should be getting way more buzz than it's getting now, but I concluded that maybe it's because it's released during the busiest time of the year and people are on vacation as well.
Another thing, since the series started, we've perceived Yan Feng Shan to be this evil and ruthless person, but his interactions with Wang Pu, his reaction to Bai Wan's grave, and the way he spoke to and about Huai An showed a somewhat softer/vulnerable side. I'm looking forward to finding out about the real history between him and Huai An's father, and what his true intentions are. In the trailer Yan Feng Shan said, 'if Huai An dies, then Chang'an will fall, but Huai An thinks if Gu Yu dies, then there's no hope for Chang'an. I find this interesting and wonder how Yan Feng Shan came to that conclusion.
I think there's going to be many more shocking plot twists in this drama.
to be less and less fighting as the seasons progressed. I really enjoyed Lu Lingfeng's fight scenes, Yang Xuwen did an excellent job. But I haven't watched the 3rd season yet.
Even though the deposed emperor was wrong for killing Zhang Mo, we can deduce that he killed him out of jealousy/anger/frustration that he was free to go home to his family while he was still "held prisoner" by Huai'an. Another thing is that earlier, Huai'an also said that he knew the young emperor had his own ways of survival.
My suggestion is that, please watch the series to enjoy it, without any prior prejudice, or consciously comparing it to other dramas you think are the best just for the sole purpose of trying to find fault with TVoA. If you don't like it, you can just drop. We all have different tastes.
As the uncle said, him and his brother's ways/views were different and there were some things his brother didn't tolerate. His brother believed in killing people to save other people while Ziyan killed people to save himself(killed those who were a threat to him).
My take on why he didn't just kill Huai An immediately when he saw him with his father is, 1. He planned to kill them both in a secluded area and was pretending to help Huai An
and his father knew this that's why he threw him out of the carriage. The uncle killed Huai An's father right then and there in anger and frustration when he realised he had let his son escape. 2. Maybe he still had a soft spot for his brother and loved his nephew so he was still processing the fact that they were still alive and was planning how he was going to kill them when Huai An escaped. In any case, in both these scenarios, he made mistakes. Maybe it was not as easy to kill family than strangers, no matter how cold-hearted he was.
As for both siblings escaping, we learned that after Huai An was thrown off the carriage, he said he went to fetch his sister from the Grand Preceptors house where she was staying and fled with her.
In the scene where Uncle stabbed Huai An, we saw that Huai An's people came in as he was stabbing him and attacked him so he fled without taking the knife out and also left Qingyi to be captured.
And another thing to remember is that, yes, he does have the reputation of being the best assassin, but he's an old man now, no longer a youth so not as sharp as before. Compare him to the newly introduced character of Wang Pu, who is still young and ambitious and seems to be sharper and even more cunning than Liu Ziyan.
Anyways, Cheng Yi is on another level here as Xie Huai An🔥.