There spoilers down in comments, that Qingkui will have happy end, but sad end for main couple, but who knows…
Indeed! I read the spoiler below and I feel contemplated. They might change it. For example Qingkui sacrifices herself for either Yetan or Chao Feng. At first I thought this would be a romantic happy drama, but people are commenting the novel is tragic with a lot of deaths???? Especially with Sa Dingding and Mao Buyi for the OST scares me... if you know, you know...
I'm interested in watching this bcs of the plot: two sisters, two couples. So there is no rivalry between sisters. However watching the newest trailer, makes me scared! Will the big sister Qingkui die? 😭 It's a drama released for valentine's day! Suddenly remembered this drama has Sa Dingding and Mao Buyi to sing the OST.... Yes, I can see why then...
Below is my summary of this drama, the good and bad points. ONLY read it if you are totally FINE with spoilers!!
Good points: 1. XYZ is the FL. 2. For XYZ-YQ shippers, this is your drama! 3. XYZ makes progress in study! She even gains a whip from XJ to protect herself and makes progress in martial arts. She then mastered other weapons too! 4. EK never mocks XYZ! He always supports and cheers XYZ when she is down and defends her when she's being bullied. 5. EK isn't the leader, XJ is bcs he is a traveler and knows everything. 6. Qing'er returns to the palace before ZW's identity gets revealed. She joins the group during the undercover travel and becomes best friends who knows the truth. She isn't ZW's love rival and falls in love with XJ during this travel. 7. Lao Fuoye is more reasonable and forgiving. She even tries to help XYZ. If she makes mistakes, she will regret it and apologize. 8. Consort Yu, YQ's mother is alive! She hates XYZ even before knowing her, hates her approaches and efforts, delusional, denial, possessive. She always accuses XYZ as witch and evil who possessed YQ into a rebellious son. She always plays victim to make YQ feels sorry and leaves XYZ. 9. YQ gets married to a sly bitch, Xin Rong. This bitch is manipulative, plays victim, always depicted the truth into false, liar, ambitious, greedy. She always tries to seduce YQ and manipulates Consort Yu to hate XYZ. 10. XJ's affection to XYZ is clearly shown as well as his love to QE. He takes QE away during the hijack and declares her as Mrs. Xiao. 11. It is weird to have a foreigner in the group, but during Qing dynasty, foreigners lived in the palace to study. Qiong Yao tried to show this. 12. Benjamin is an angel to XYZ. He loves her deeply, but never asks for a return. But he vows to take her away if YQ hurts her. 13. XYZ is shown as a more caring and hardworking girl. She tries to find a way to make her friends happy and does any work for living. She's still reckless, but less impulsive and always apologizes after making mistakes. 14. XYZ isn't addicted to gambling or chess. So there's no stupid story bcs of her gambling issues nor causing the blind ZW getting abducted. 15. XYZ's story is fully revealed. 16. Liu Hong gets her own story. 17. The ending is realistic and best suited the characters.
Bad points: 1. The actress playing ZW, Hai Lu, is too mellow and timid. As if she's going to cry every 5 seconds. She's not suitable as ZW. 2. Benjamin has more screentime than ZW. 3. TOO MANY FILLERS! Write lyrics and practice a song? A choir? Football competition? Ducks, geese, goats? And some other trivial things that are unnecessary. 4. The ending is realistic, but some might not like it.
Once I found out my beloved drama got a remake, I immediately checked it. I watched the remake until the end. My opinion? Thank God I did it bcs it's so good! Also, thanks to this drama, I found new favorite actresses: Li Sheng and Zhao Liying ❤
Many people dislike this drama bcs it is a remake of a mega hit drama. We can never forget how iconic the original one is, starting from the cast, the acting, the OST, the story. However after watching this drama, I feel like the original lacks a lot in story part!
This drama is more realistic, with a lot of rearrangements. It does make sense way more than the original. The original drama didn't tell anything about Xiao Yanzi's family, but the remake gives you everything you need to know about it and how it is beautifully solved. Xiao Jian and Qing'er get their own story which is also beautifully shown. They get what was left behind in season 2.
I really like it bcs it is so satisfying, complete and sensical. Don't compare the acting or cast, but compare the story.
You guys should know that this was NOT written by Qiong Yao. Hence all the mess. Plus, the original cast became mega stars back then, it was hard to get them back.
I'm a big fan of the series too. I tried to watch this and pitied the whole cast. They were a mismatch. No chemistry, the plot is all over the place.
It starts with Xiao Yanzi has a miscarriage. Oh yes, how could she not know she is pregnant? Doesn't she have morning sickness? She still the biggest dumb and lazy bump, acting like a kid. Then Xiao Jian and Qing'er are forbid to get married. Yong Qi has to marry another girl to save Xiao Jian and Xiao Yanzi from the mess. The emperor find a new beauty. Then the country gets into a war with Myanmar. Oh the same plot: the princess is in love with Er Kang 😒😒😒 So she kidnaps him and fakes his death. Er Kang is drugged, he loses his memory. The group find out Er Kang is alive and go to rescue him.
The good points of this drama: -the production, costumes, setting -Xiao Yanzi gets better in her martial arts. Her fighting scene with the Myanmar princess was good. -the ending
Know that Qiong Yao created season 2 in a hurry bcs she was afraid that the actors would be too busy doing another…
1. ZW is the FL. Every story evolves around her. 2. XYZ stays illiterate until the end. Still dumb, lazy, and hates study. Her kungfu is still the same, sloppy. 3. EK always belittles XYZ, mocks her for being dumb and impulsive. Sometimes he even acts as if he is above YQ. 4. EK is the oldest and acts like the leader of the group. 5. Qing'er is never be a part of the group, never bond with them. 6. XJ feels distant from XYZ instead of being attached to her. 7. XYZ's story is revealed in the remake. 8. Girls are always attracted to EK, even in season 3, a Myanmar princess kidnaps and drugs him to the point he is addicted. 9. XYZ is addicted to gambling and chess. Her addiction gets her into trouble countless times, even causing ZW gets abducted. 10. Lao Fuoye is unbelievably cruel, evil and delusional. Totally depicted from being a Buddhist. She purely hates the girls and is eager to get rid of them. 11. The actors did brilliantly, but sometimes Zhou Jie (Er Kang) is too theatrical in his expressions, overacting. 12. Liu Hong stays solo.
Know that Qiong Yao created season 2 in a hurry bcs she was afraid that the actors would be too busy doing another projects. So it's basically write, shoot, air. Also Zi Wei is the FL in season 2 bcs every story evolves around her. Xiao Yanzi is the SFL and her story remains mystery bcs Qiong Yao had no time to elaborate it.
I watched this drama when it was aired for Zhu Xudan bcs I was curious seeing her as a protagonist. The plot is good: 4 lifetime, 4 characters. Zhu Xudan did well playing 4 characters. It's just the story was awfully written.
First lifetime: the introduction. Feels sad and lonely. Second lifetime: boring, nothing really happens. It's just a filler. Third lifetime: the most interesting. A lady general with real villain, real story. Fourth lifetime: she finally finds out the truth about her previous souls and her relationship with the Dragon King.
The second couple, the underworld king and the bird, irritated me! She is stupid, noisy, loud, useless, keeps yapping like every other birds. I felt disgusted from the start. He binds her, forbids her to speak, locks her in his place, forces her to be his slave! Their relationship is TOXIC! It's SLAVERY! I felt like watching an S-M play. Idk why a lot of people adore this couple 🤷♀️ I would never want a man goes on yandere mode! I'd rather kill myself.
This is a B class drama so everything looks cheap. The story and characters were poorly written. The main couple suffers from the start. It's hard for the viewers to connect with them. The ONLY right thing the bird said which really summarized this drama "Which freak wrote the script?" 🤷♀️
The overall story is very weak. The main villain, which is very obvious who it is from the start, has no reason for his goal. He is bored with his work. Really? That's it? He "appears" in bad guy cloak at the last chapter with the grin "Oh yes I'm the bad guy. Mwahahahahahahahah!" 🙄 The extra ending doesn't give anything but makes us think "They are repeating the cycle???" It's her 5th lifetime and they're STILL in the cycle?
Peter Ho said he is friends with the producer for 10 years. When they went for a meal, the producer talked about the plan to film this drama and about Murong Gaogong. Peter casually said "Let me do it". And so he got the role 😂 I'm glad he did bcs Idk another actor suitable as Murong Gaogong.
I previously wrote about these 2 points weeks ago, but after watching his interview, I was like "Yes bro!" 🤣 1. Murong Gaogong is actually a very simple character. For him, Yinlou is the light in his life, his motivation to live. Also the reason he started making lanterns. It's clearly shown throughout the drama. When his only reason to live is gone, it's obvious what happens next. 2. Some people call him fat emperor. I think the opposite after I saw bts video of him. Wow! He actually has a nice body and defined muscles, just like other gym person. Peter said he intentionally made himself look fat by having the clothes fluffier, bending his back, even ate a lot to have chubbier cheeks. So he looks harmless and rounder. It's easy to do it since hanfu is layer after layer.
The Unchained Love weibo has been posting pictures of the supporting cast, this is the original post:https://weibo.com/7624795126/MqODy4K4q?This…
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!! ❤❤❤ I'm so happy I could collect my hubby Cao Chun'ang 😆 oh I could save his photo collections too from Wang Yuexin weibo! He's so cute 😆
Hello! May I know where did you get the pictures of Cao Chun'ang? I can't find them on Twitter and I don't have weibo. If you have the original link, could you kindly share it with me? I can open weibo just fine. I love Cao Chun'ang and I'm collecting his pictures 🤭 thank you!
Highly considering on starting this drama, but I do have a few questions! (I don't mind spoilers)1. Is it a Happy…
I'll give more details if you like. 1. It is happy ending, but you have to watch the extended ending and extra story to complete the ending in actual episode. You can watch those on the discussion post by Lan_Lan above the comment box. 2. The emperor is the love rival. He loves FL and wants to make her his empress. ML falls first in ep 5 and starts to feel jealous in ep 6. However there is no misunderstanding! It's only cute jealousy 🤭 3. Excuse me, but slow burn in general means a state of slowly mounting anger or annoyance 😅 but I know what you mean. ML falls first so his changes in feelings are visible. For FL once she suspects he likes her, she starts teasing him. Bcs of their status, they can't bluntly confess. Starting ep 10 their romance blooms and it only get sweeter from ep 14. 4. There are 2 other couples, but their stories don't interrupt the main couple. 5. The main couple is passionate, wild, flirty and bold in showing their love. Probably the wildest and lustful couple in historical drama 😂 The kiss... To tell you the truth, there is 17 kiss in this drama. However due to the censorship, only 4 kisses appear on actual episodes 😭 The intimate scenes have been deleted, however the staff and iqiyi uploaded them. Please do check the discussion post by Lan_Lan above.
Like I said, due to censorship this drama got heavily butchered especially the intimate scenes. However, it doesn't ruin the main couple's love and chemistry. There's a lot of skinship and flirting bcs they are definitely not shy!
The drama already spilled the truth in ep 2 that Xiao Duo has to take medication bcs he is a fake eunuch.
His brother was murdered so in order to get revenge he took his brother's identity. Bcs his brother was an eunuch, he has to take medication to prevent hormonal symptoms.
1) When do they get together? Any break up between the leads? Os there any misunderstanding between leads and…
1. Actually the leads were suspicious of each other since the start bcs of their personalities which don't trust people easily. However they don't have any misunderstanding bcs they know each other so well. Even when they get mad it doesn't last long. There is breakup bcs of the condition, but the next scene will be back to comedy as they still think of each other. The aftermath isn't painful and the breakup only lasts 1 ep 😂
2. The emperor/Murong Gaogong loves FL and keeps pursuing her to make her his empress. He doesn't know she loves another man or that she has no intention to be his empress. Don't worry, the main couple love each other deeply and their love doesn't sway.
K-Drama 
Oh the actress played Qing Yao and the actor played the creepy emperor Liu Xuan are here as Chong Zi's parents!
1. XYZ is the FL.
2. For XYZ-YQ shippers, this is your drama!
3. XYZ makes progress in study! She even gains a whip from XJ to protect herself and makes progress in martial arts. She then mastered other weapons too!
4. EK never mocks XYZ! He always supports and cheers XYZ when she is down and defends her when she's being bullied.
5. EK isn't the leader, XJ is bcs he is a traveler and knows everything.
6. Qing'er returns to the palace before ZW's identity gets revealed. She joins the group during the undercover travel and becomes best friends who knows the truth. She isn't ZW's love rival and falls in love with XJ during this travel.
7. Lao Fuoye is more reasonable and forgiving. She even tries to help XYZ. If she makes mistakes, she will regret it and apologize.
8. Consort Yu, YQ's mother is alive! She hates XYZ even before knowing her, hates her approaches and efforts, delusional, denial, possessive. She always accuses XYZ as witch and evil who possessed YQ into a rebellious son. She always plays victim to make YQ feels sorry and leaves XYZ.
9. YQ gets married to a sly bitch, Xin Rong. This bitch is manipulative, plays victim, always depicted the truth into false, liar, ambitious, greedy. She always tries to seduce YQ and manipulates Consort Yu to hate XYZ.
10. XJ's affection to XYZ is clearly shown as well as his love to QE. He takes QE away during the hijack and declares her as Mrs. Xiao.
11. It is weird to have a foreigner in the group, but during Qing dynasty, foreigners lived in the palace to study. Qiong Yao tried to show this.
12. Benjamin is an angel to XYZ. He loves her deeply, but never asks for a return. But he vows to take her away if YQ hurts her.
13. XYZ is shown as a more caring and hardworking girl. She tries to find a way to make her friends happy and does any work for living. She's still reckless, but less impulsive and always apologizes after making mistakes.
14. XYZ isn't addicted to gambling or chess. So there's no stupid story bcs of her gambling issues nor causing the blind ZW getting abducted.
15. XYZ's story is fully revealed.
16. Liu Hong gets her own story.
17. The ending is realistic and best suited the characters.
Bad points:
1. The actress playing ZW, Hai Lu, is too mellow and timid. As if she's going to cry every 5 seconds. She's not suitable as ZW.
2. Benjamin has more screentime than ZW.
3. TOO MANY FILLERS! Write lyrics and practice a song? A choir? Football competition? Ducks, geese, goats? And some other trivial things that are unnecessary.
4. The ending is realistic, but some might not like it.
Many people dislike this drama bcs it is a remake of a mega hit drama. We can never forget how iconic the original one is, starting from the cast, the acting, the OST, the story. However after watching this drama, I feel like the original lacks a lot in story part!
This drama is more realistic, with a lot of rearrangements. It does make sense way more than the original. The original drama didn't tell anything about Xiao Yanzi's family, but the remake gives you everything you need to know about it and how it is beautifully solved. Xiao Jian and Qing'er get their own story which is also beautifully shown. They get what was left behind in season 2.
I really like it bcs it is so satisfying, complete and sensical. Don't compare the acting or cast, but compare the story.
I'm a big fan of the series too. I tried to watch this and pitied the whole cast. They were a mismatch. No chemistry, the plot is all over the place.
It starts with Xiao Yanzi has a miscarriage. Oh yes, how could she not know she is pregnant? Doesn't she have morning sickness? She still the biggest dumb and lazy bump, acting like a kid. Then Xiao Jian and Qing'er are forbid to get married. Yong Qi has to marry another girl to save Xiao Jian and Xiao Yanzi from the mess. The emperor find a new beauty. Then the country gets into a war with Myanmar. Oh the same plot: the princess is in love with Er Kang 😒😒😒 So she kidnaps him and fakes his death. Er Kang is drugged, he loses his memory. The group find out Er Kang is alive and go to rescue him.
The good points of this drama:
-the production, costumes, setting
-Xiao Yanzi gets better in her martial arts. Her fighting scene with the Myanmar princess was good.
-the ending
Bad points:
-everything?
Tbh I prefer the remake of this drama.
2. XYZ stays illiterate until the end. Still dumb, lazy, and hates study. Her kungfu is still the same, sloppy.
3. EK always belittles XYZ, mocks her for being dumb and impulsive. Sometimes he even acts as if he is above YQ.
4. EK is the oldest and acts like the leader of the group.
5. Qing'er is never be a part of the group, never bond with them.
6. XJ feels distant from XYZ instead of being attached to her.
7. XYZ's story is revealed in the remake.
8. Girls are always attracted to EK, even in season 3, a Myanmar princess kidnaps and drugs him to the point he is addicted.
9. XYZ is addicted to gambling and chess. Her addiction gets her into trouble countless times, even causing ZW gets abducted.
10. Lao Fuoye is unbelievably cruel, evil and delusional. Totally depicted from being a Buddhist. She purely hates the girls and is eager to get rid of them.
11. The actors did brilliantly, but sometimes Zhou Jie (Er Kang) is too theatrical in his expressions, overacting.
12. Liu Hong stays solo.
Below is my summary of this drama.
First lifetime: the introduction. Feels sad and lonely.
Second lifetime: boring, nothing really happens. It's just a filler.
Third lifetime: the most interesting. A lady general with real villain, real story.
Fourth lifetime: she finally finds out the truth about her previous souls and her relationship with the Dragon King.
The second couple, the underworld king and the bird, irritated me! She is stupid, noisy, loud, useless, keeps yapping like every other birds. I felt disgusted from the start. He binds her, forbids her to speak, locks her in his place, forces her to be his slave! Their relationship is TOXIC! It's SLAVERY! I felt like watching an S-M play. Idk why a lot of people adore this couple 🤷♀️ I would never want a man goes on yandere mode! I'd rather kill myself.
This is a B class drama so everything looks cheap. The story and characters were poorly written. The main couple suffers from the start. It's hard for the viewers to connect with them. The ONLY right thing the bird said which really summarized this drama "Which freak wrote the script?" 🤷♀️
The overall story is very weak. The main villain, which is very obvious who it is from the start, has no reason for his goal. He is bored with his work. Really? That's it? He "appears" in bad guy cloak at the last chapter with the grin "Oh yes I'm the bad guy. Mwahahahahahahahah!" 🙄 The extra ending doesn't give anything but makes us think "They are repeating the cycle???" It's her 5th lifetime and they're STILL in the cycle?
I previously wrote about these 2 points weeks ago, but after watching his interview, I was like "Yes bro!" 🤣
1. Murong Gaogong is actually a very simple character. For him, Yinlou is the light in his life, his motivation to live. Also the reason he started making lanterns. It's clearly shown throughout the drama. When his only reason to live is gone, it's obvious what happens next.
2. Some people call him fat emperor. I think the opposite after I saw bts video of him. Wow! He actually has a nice body and defined muscles, just like other gym person. Peter said he intentionally made himself look fat by having the clothes fluffier, bending his back, even ate a lot to have chubbier cheeks. So he looks harmless and rounder. It's easy to do it since hanfu is layer after layer.
https://twitter.com/bluestar_tt/status/1620789690663305216?t=sc8QzxJweAQhU2POYacOKQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/bluestar_tt/status/1620789690663305216?t=sc8QzxJweAQhU2POYacOKQ&s=19
1. It is happy ending, but you have to watch the extended ending and extra story to complete the ending in actual episode. You can watch those on the discussion post by Lan_Lan above the comment box.
2. The emperor is the love rival. He loves FL and wants to make her his empress. ML falls first in ep 5 and starts to feel jealous in ep 6. However there is no misunderstanding! It's only cute jealousy 🤭
3. Excuse me, but slow burn in general means a state of slowly mounting anger or annoyance 😅 but I know what you mean. ML falls first so his changes in feelings are visible. For FL once she suspects he likes her, she starts teasing him. Bcs of their status, they can't bluntly confess. Starting ep 10 their romance blooms and it only get sweeter from ep 14.
4. There are 2 other couples, but their stories don't interrupt the main couple.
5. The main couple is passionate, wild, flirty and bold in showing their love. Probably the wildest and lustful couple in historical drama 😂 The kiss... To tell you the truth, there is 17 kiss in this drama. However due to the censorship, only 4 kisses appear on actual episodes 😭 The intimate scenes have been deleted, however the staff and iqiyi uploaded them. Please do check the discussion post by Lan_Lan above.
Like I said, due to censorship this drama got heavily butchered especially the intimate scenes. However, it doesn't ruin the main couple's love and chemistry. There's a lot of skinship and flirting bcs they are definitely not shy!
2. The emperor/Murong Gaogong loves FL and keeps pursuing her to make her his empress. He doesn't know she loves another man or that she has no intention to be his empress. Don't worry, the main couple love each other deeply and their love doesn't sway.
3. Yes Prince Rong died just like that.