spooooky

Just watched the first 2 episodes on Youku - I think it is pretty good.

The novel ended with Qin Wan pregnant with Twins.

Yup on Youku that is

Just in time The Immortal Ascension just started - that should be a good one too

Overall I think this is quite well adapted from the novel (9.5/10), the villains (Yan Han, Yan Ze, Yan Qi, etc.) stayed the same and got their rightful endings. Novel ending would have taken a 2nd series to cover and I get the re-write might feel rushed but it actually turned out well.

It's to bad they killed off Yan Che/Qin Xiang/Empress in this ending but hey - I'm ok with that 😁

Figured that Prince Sui would be Emperor in re-write and Yan Chi would be regent as that was the best alternate ending from novel.

Nah, need my sleep 😜

Oh in the novel it is, but what makes it into the show is anyones guess

They shortened it to just the blade being gifted to Qin Wan...IIRC

Agree, never sure what those scriptwriters will do with the adaptation, what's for sure is there isn't enough episodes left to cover all that's left in the novel.

Although I'm sure they will get to the part where Empress/CP is dethroned by Emperor

Novel ending for cousins - Qin Xiang as you saw is the concubine to Yan Qi, she miscarries due to conflict with ChenBi. In the end, Yan Qi is killed and she leaves capital.

Qin Shuang marries the Imperial Guard, they are both happy and stay in the capital in the end.

ahh, it was covered in the novel. Qin Wan needed to remove septic bile fluid from Princess stomach. As for the blade "Han Yue" or cold moon, is the blade (used to make the incision for surgery) that belongs to Yan Chi who promised to gift the blade to Qin Wan if she can save his grand-aunt.

IIRC they could be referring to Qin Wan childhood arrangement, but was rejected (6:36 of Ep 1) by mother of groom.

Mother is Consort Jin - the one who was murdered. Father is Yan Huai

Guard

Yes, really bad

So here's my guess. Lin MuYun was Yan Ze's man, so Yan Chi & Qin Wan had known about Yan Ze's involvement in Qin Wan's father's demise and would never allow him to live (remember how Qin Wan kept telling Yue Ning that Yan Ze is not a good person?).

Also, Zhan Yang had taken over the case of Ning BuYi (the painter who murdered all those people), he discovered that Ning BuYi had a single visitor back in GuanYin town when ShenYi was investigating the murders. That was Yan Ze.

I think that man in the basement of Zhan Yang home with both legs broken is Yan Ze. They've allowed him to "live" as he helped prevent the suffering of residents in the capital if Yan Chi had to invaded with his 100k troops. So they used Zhan Yang (he is the new deputy chief justice) to keep Yan Ze in perpetual suffering for his sins.

Afraid the poor fella has been type casted as always playing a villain

With 8 Episodes left we'll soon see on Sunday 😊

If you are referring to what happens in the novel, Emperor confines Qin Wan to a remote corner of palace on their wedding night (bummer right). Yan Chi is already prepared, knowing the Emperor wants to kill him or use Qin Wan to control him.

In any case, he rescues Qin Wan from the palace and escapes to the NW back to his army.

There's a discussion panel above where the airing schedule is discussed. There's a "double happiness" symbol for episodes 33/34 - so I suppose that's when.