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In wuxia drama language " u are being too modest here. I am not that praiseworthy" 😂😂

But hey!!! Even I am learning. U can always start by writing even in broken statements eventually u will improve.

Hmm. Fair criticism. Actually what u said is true. This drama serve nothing new as in terms of tropes. But this drama tries to attempt to touch a lot of topics which each issue in itself can be told in 4-5 ep. But there is one thing this drama promised a strong FL embodying women empowerment and this drama serves that.One thing that is new here is emperor is pretending to be puppet waiting for opportunity to shackle from the clutch of these power hungry and controlling ministers who want nothing but the destruction of the empire and people. It tells the story in detail about that. It's struggle.I have never heard of this except in Imperial Coroner which is in my watchlist but there also kings have died throughout the generations in coup. Also i guess the whole concept of FL being a officer in Imperial court is new. We have not seen that. Maybe working as one in other dept but never as a direct minister or in the service of all hail majesty. We have always seen women to use her cleverness and brain to support ML cause or emperor from behind. This is first in front line and no i am not talking about LOFG( female generals). So fairly new concept to me.

This story has lots of branching plots which would be interesting to see as to how they merge it with main plot. I think romance here is just a part of whole plot. It is not the focus. Focus is FL.

Bathing scene idk what's the context here. In ep 1 😅😂 so no comments.

Despite everything i think still this drama if not spectacular then atleast its average. Because let's be honest this drama gives what one expect from wuxia drama. This year was so dry in terms of wuxia so this give me a fresh breath. Because I was bored in ZZA, in splendid match romance was the core and in TFJ aka Mo Li again romance with the FL who was first time in historical drama was shown a mental sickness. But that also was romance centric. I was waiting for Mo Li and I felt so sad that I was not able to get past from ep3 itself.

Maybe storytelling is fragmented I will not comment on that as I have watched only ep1 lol. But it would be interesting to see how they pull it together.

But hey!!! Ur opinion ur time . No comments. Just sharing my pov here. Happy weekend 😃

Just completed ep1, and i guess this drama did touched lots of topics and whether it can handle it nicely will be another ques. Till ep1, this is my thought of this drama.

This story is set up in a desert area. Which is far from the capital. This is a common and understood thing that when an empire is big in terms of geography then it's very difficult for a king to check what's happening in grassroots level. So kings generally gave this task to governor. Here it's also a fact that this desert area is also a garrison for military which gave birth to the corruption because military officials are causing ruckus by terrorising whom they should protect and running entire black market, prostitution, child trafficking and balantly causing deaths over nothing in the name of governor. But Governor himself is not aware what they are doing as they are just informing him what they did and just compensate by giving money. All black money. His family reeks of wealth and false power, when de facto power goes to military. Plus the arms which should be reserved for military is found everywhere. Means everyone has access to superior arms that can lead to emperor loosing his territory in case of coup. Plus since it's in deserted area the only way to go to capital is via camels and lots of hurdles of hot winds and harsh temp. ..making news travel slow. Plus since there is no proper system running people are poor, as traders also are killed. So people really can't thrive there. Not to mention they can't even grow vegetables they need to source it. Making people more poor. That's why for them even 10-30 taels are hard to afford. Girls are bound to become housewifes if not sold or forced to prostitution. In short whole area is in ruins.

The ML who just traveled to the desert area for another case of arms he understood how deep this chaos is. But the Chancellor and ministers want power to take decision in terms of politics and control emperor as he is young. Emperor feigns ignorance just so that people think he is stupid and not try to throw or kill him and behind the scenes he is smart enough to undercover truth and daring enough to take risk to make some changes by investigating. The ministers had they been wanted only power and has capability and will to make empire and it's people thrive it would have worked. But looks like ministers also don't care if people die. So in short country or empire's reign is a ticking bomb just one step behind to meet its tragedy. One war and people and empire will be gone.

Then we have Meng. She just want to be an official in order to seek justice and improve things in her hometown. As she has always seen injustice and dangers in her life throughout, she was bound to be mature and clever. Imagine it's a golden opportunity for her to go serve the capital.

But looks like Meng Ting Hui's fate has some diff plans. This whole exploration of life of her desert home and corruption in capital along with emperor's helplessness in order to deal with all these is the foundation of future ep. Encounter of ML and FL is not just fated romance encounter but a well played strategy written by author to show how these two are bound to be together and meet and work together in order to expose the web of corruption and fight it. One is calm and one is fierce. They complete each other the pieces that need in order to fight injustice sng corruption that has been shown in ep1.

Let's see how this story deals with these plots in coming ep.

End of episode diary.

Given that I have viki sub just because of this drama still I am behind. Just completed ep1. Looks like weekend bucket list is heavy. Adult life 🥲

Tip:- go to episodes section above and under each ep u will see scheduled air date. Hope this helps.

What does POJ has to do anything with this drama?

Stinks pediophillia to me.

What do u want me to say here? I will just add one point here if that person is not having any knowledge about history .

Harem existence came into the picture because in monarch times kings often need to marry daughter or princess from enemy province so as to maintain peace in the kingdom without any wars. Or worst case to have son who can rule the empire later. There was no love involved. Throughout history there has been lot of cases where kings never wanted to marry them and even if they built a harem their position in harem was so low. They used to always live in the fear when they will throw out if they don't deliever son. And some were so unfortunate that king never visited them. Their life was worst than hell. They were in cage. They can't go outside nor meet anyone nor actually fall in love with their own true love. Just for the sake of harem.

There have been instances where lots of king has actually fought to make their love as their queen but sometimes it was not possible because of diff socip economic and political bg. Afterall who can compare to the status of king? None. There have been a very rare case when emperor was actually in love with someone and that girl became queen or his one and only.

So if this drama is giving u one and only girl as his queen and he is capable enough to handle politics and tension with diplomacy and wars rather than having a harem then I don't see any problem here.

Afterall it's s stupid idea to me that love depends on beauty. Otherwise Princess Diana would be the happiest women to ever live. But was she? Just open the history book and learn. Or better idea do nothing just watch drama and if not able to understand just google it. Or just leave. Women are not identified solely because of her beauty. We women are more than that. I am here to enjoy strong FL with logical plot. Just give me that. These beauty.... remember lots of women died because of beauty since ancient times.

Edit:- By u means not u but those who said and compare women with beauty and harem concept.

Can't we just talk about plot? Acting and production. Why so many off topic comments are here? And let's focus on enjoying story.ratings will eventually go up of drama actually deserves it. It's on start phase so people eventually who are haters or people who are going to drop it because of either story or cast or acting will not impact the story or success of the drama. Because more than anything if i have understood is that international fans always have diff expectations than mainland China. So if this drama is doing good in mainland China means this drama is already successful. Rest who cares? Even ZZA and lots of good dramas has rating of less than 8 that doesn't impact anyone as long as story is actually good.

Why to ruin a drama? Why to come here and make us disgusted here by making this remarks? What's with beauty? Does a women's existence and an actress existence is limited to her beauty? These kind of comments make me vomit. Imagine being a girl I am loving chinese drama specially wuxia just to get a strong FL because in real history our women are forgotten with what they have contributed to us and not to mention lots of invention were stolen. These kind of drama makes me appreciate women more. Imagine a struggle of a women who finally got a chance to serve in Imperial court and we are reducing everything to an actress beauty? I understand on screen u want to see beautiful people. But she is already very beautiful. More these kind of comments and we all know what happened to zhao lu si. Seriously???? They should drop the drama if they think like this. It's unhealthy.

Edit:- do whatever they want. I specially subscribed to viki pass for this drama so as to get good subs earlier. I am not gonna bother by these.

Ewwww. Who thinks like this. What do they mean by she is not pretty? She is 35 yet she has maintained figure and she looks young. That's the reason why most of the actresss after touching 30s dont get bigger projects and they are bound to go under surgery and maintain harsh diet so as people can be more accepting towards them. Eg- Dilraba, Yangzi, Liying. Unrealistic beauty standards. Talk about plot, story, acting, makeup also i can take but not pretty seriously????

Actually this has happened in history. There are lots of instances where in actual history child has become am emperor to carry on the empire but was assisted by ministers and when that child started understanding politics or have voice and mind of his own, ministers or faction used to kill them so that they make a puppet emperor sit in the throne. And when the same rule got followed in colonial period that led to loosing the kingdom from local kings to colonial countries/ next ministers. Just ig in China, more than ministers enunchs were also powerful the same was depicted in Imperial Coroner. Ig only handful of kings got away from this mess with lots of internal struggle and massacre. Some were enough smart to take on the kingdom like in splendid match but I still think the emperor in splendid match was so small to understand and take far fetched decision when it comes to politics. I don't understand why there is very less acceptance regarding this matter in audience as if they are unaware that these kind of thing has happened

I think Ayden has potrayed lufeng's character so well. I really became soo attached to his smile. I felt sharp pain in my heart when i saw his half and grown painful smile at the end. It was not where near to the smile lufeng had in school and college days. That's one of the reason when I watched the finale even though according to story they got togetherness I was crying for days. My heart just can't accept that smile.

True

Be ready with tissue paper 🥲

And he didn't got as well. He got his peace of mind that he no longer has to chase yichen. But that's not happy. Togetherness is not happiness in itself. Lufeng lost himself, the carefree himself, he always have to live with the fact that he tortured yichen so much that he nearly lost him to death, he have to live with the pain that he was the reason yichen was in coma with no surity that he will come back that fear no one want to experience he caused himself, he has to live with the fact that he got scarred by time, people and society where homophobia is prevalent, he has to always bear the pain that he lost soo much time with yichen and so much happened between them, he has to live with the fact that he lost himself as a person who once was so hopeful and bright as sunshine who actually got converted into a monster for some time.

Similarly yichen has to live with the fact that he has never fought for his relationship and that led to all these , he have to live with his own rapist.

How can it be a happy ending?? Their start was beautiful but author has written in a way that no matter what u do they can never be fully happy. What they got is the best possible ending according to the author.

Oh my god i am still at ep17 and my chest feels heavy. I feel it so hard to continue to watch. Sometimes we ignore how much police informant goes through. They go through dangers, trauma just to get one info by putting their life on risk to save others. This has always been the nature of chen yi. Since ep1 he is like this.

I am crying so hard even when writing this..just how much he has went through? That boxing scene is no WWE level. It is a boxing ring hosted by the people who are involved deep into the organised crime and when these people host boxing matches let me tell u they don't care about the safety. People can actually die there while fighting. Whenever in counselling sessions he close his eyes, all he sees is that boxing fight. It must be the time when he thought that he can't come back alive and see miao jing. Miao jing is the only light and happiness in his life. That's why he fought for her so that if in future there is a chance to see her even from distance somewhere waiting for having breakfast together. His love is so simple no grand gesture just simple daily life with the one who truly cares and understand him. Make his life bearable. Give a purpose to live and go on. I feel like somewhere he grew up to take on the responsibility but inside he is still the innocent child who has seen only struggles in his life and just want protection and home like he gives to miao jing. Even till now he didn't wanted miao jing to know what he went through. Why he is so self sacrificing? It hurts me as a viewer.

I truly still feel that cop and his wife were a gem. I know he lost his wife and that's so nice of the police officer to still care for chen yi without any grudge. But looks like chen yi somewhere think that whatever happened in arson case and his wife's death is related to him. I can't be sure as till now show hasn't mentioned that. But he is in guilt thats why he can't face him.

Another thing is that chen yi still thinks miao jing deserves everything good while he suffers. It's so unhealthy. I hope miao jing's words can make him feel that he is not trash. He is her home. Atleast for her he needs to think about him. That kiss is very secondary to me here when these people are struggling this much.

I loved that miao jing never truly stopped sending the cop's fav tea even if she was not in teng city. After loss I think this is his family. Sense of comfort. But my heart breaks for him he lost his wife too early and he has live his life alone. That's painful.

PS- i am sooo behind. I started watching this drama on the day it started airing and am still at ep17. 🥲

Do i need to watch prequel before watching this? I have just watched nanyang mystery out of whole series.

Was those bg of open field green screen? It doesn't look well edited😅. I only care about plot but those bg make me out of the story little bit. Am I the only one who felt this?