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I finished Love Story in the 1970s for Arthur Chen in time to watch this one. Dilraba is in an interesting role that I haven't seen her in. Looks promising - can definitely see the high quality production of this drama.

Everyone else is a subordinate to him except for Changyu - his wife :)

I think part of that is him trying to win her back which is going to have another level of sweetness. After all, she's been doing the chasing. Time for him to chase a bit.

Poor XZ- he's too preoccupied trying to keep his men safe from a clearly outnumbered and defensive position. Throw in the responsibility of protecting elder princess and also trying to hide his identity from FL, being injured and worried for FL's safe and all. Talk about stress!

Deng Kai - I've seen him in numerous dramas - often portrays a villain (with one exception for a short drama series he was actually good). We can hate his character but Deng Kai is killing it with his portrayal of this brand of psycho. So good that I am literally looking for a sliver of goodness or kindness from his character. I'm actually struggling. There is nothing redeemable about his character. I expect the storyline to shed more into his back story so as to garner some sympathy from the viewers. but the only hints are his narration of it and that flashback scene. It's like it doesn't matter - he's despicable and is to be judged by his current actions. It's interesting to showcase a villain this way.

I understand why. So the burden he carries being a marquis is one he wants to carry alone. If you recall the discussion he had with his friend, GSY he said that there are a lot of burdens in his marquis household that will only serve as bindings on FL's carefree spirit. He said he love that about her - being carefree and being herself. Should he reveal his identity, he thinks that she would be forced to compromise herself in order to be with him - in that sense, he's not letting her choose (because she doesn't know so how can he decide for her).

Him and his brother have a twisted concept of love. The more the women hate them, the more that peaks their interest in them. Which suggests to me neither of them had mothers growing up, or the genuine love from a parent. They seem to associate cruelty as a display of love.

It is but once you start, you yearn for more. If you can wait, I suggest you do or you binge it and join the crew of the painful 1x episode a day for 5 straight days next week

Raise your hand if you would also be one of those women showing up at the butcher shop for ZLH? Whether for the meat or his hand drawn logos. I go first :)

He does sound very similar to ZLH. I actually thought it was his own voice but then I had to find him in interviews to hear that his voice doesn't have that softness that the dubber has - similar, but not the same. Which isn't a complaint - I get put off when the actors use the same dubbers that sound so not like them - Ryan Ding is the perfect example.

Part of me thinks it's not that he likes getting stabbed by her - he feels guilty that she got whipped. So if getting stabbed is his way of being punished by her- then so be it.

I admit that I'm not a huge ZLH - I've watched My Journey to You predominantly for Esther Yu and the storyline, wasn't really because of him. When I heard this drama was airing, I said I would try the 1st episode because I really like Tian Xia Wei - she hasn't disappointed me. I was hooked in right away - the cinematography is amazing - the styling for ZLH makes him look very attractive.
I'm very invested in this drama- eager for each episode, yearning for more. I like the softness of his character here and when moments allow his dominant personality to shine, it's like a tug pulling you deeper into the storyline.

Ancient Chinese version of The Bachelorette. 😂

This is a period of decline in the Qing Dynasty which gave rise to the rebellion. But the corrupt officials was just one aspect of its decline, there was also a serious lack of developed technology that the rest of the world had but China didn't.

Absolutely! He was having a wonderful wedding and yet, trouble showed up

It's so rare to see the future father in law so head over heels to future son in law that he cries at a wedding proposal for parental permission. He was so happy. He was like waiting along with his daughter for him to show up.

I love the entire wedding proposal to the double wedding ceremonies. It's comparable to the extended wedding sequence in Ming Lan. I genuinely forgot this is a drama wedding and not a real one but still feel the CP's chemistry and love.

She's royally angry at him throwing a wrench into her one time opportunity in the assassination so throwing him back up north with the one person who equally wants to see him dead and tortured is her way of punishing him.

I'm at episode 9, I'm really struggling. I'm finding the story very disjointed and it's not flowing well from one plot to another. I really like Leo Luo but I'm finding it hard to understand the storyline and where its going. I'm close to dropping it as there are many dramas I am waiting to watch but I'm at a point where I can drop it and not feel the need to keep going for closure given it's 40 episodes long. Can someone tell me if it gets better and where it does?

Having now completed the drama- I still say that Victoria Song was greatly miscast for this role. When I learned about it, I was already skeptical having seen her in Ice Fantasy and with Leo Luo (period and modern drama). In contrast for finding FL annoying - she wasn't annoying - she was just meh. I felt nothing from her character. My fave scenes which no one can take away are her dancing with the sword, but beyond that, her portrayal of a strong female character felt flat for me. I stayed for Ryan Ding. Honestly, everyone else seem to have done better with their character but her.