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I just finished the drama. Overall, it’s a good watch, and if you haven’t read the novel, you can definitely enjoy it. But honestly, I’m a bit disappointed. As a novel reader, it fell way below my expectations. I fully blame the screenwriter and the director for this. I’ll probably avoid any future projects they’re involved in. How could they mess up such a great novel this badly? The romance was minimal, there were barely any emotional payoffs, the editing was choppy, and they added so many illogical plot points. Most importantly, the scriptwriting was terrible. Why did the screenwriter change the plot on her own instead of following the novel? Seriously? And about Cai Pingshu— I absolutely loved her at the beginning. Wan Peng was phenomenal early on. But mentioning her in every episode, showing her too much, and making everything revolve around her made me dislike her character by the end. That’s just bad writing and poor directing.

Still, there were things I genuinely liked about the drama. Even though the romance missed a lot of potential, I still enjoyed their relationship, and I absolutely loved Zhou Yi Ran in this role. Bao Shang En was great too. It’s just unfortunate that the screenwriter and director failed them so badly. I’ll definitely follow their future dramas—they have a lot of potential.

I still recommend this drama to new viewers. If you haven’t read the novel, you’ll enjoy it.

Haha, no I haven’t. I need to watch that. Heard good things about that drama.

Unspoken rule of C‑dramas: nobody ever dies from falling off a cliff. In this drama, we already saw Xie Zheng survive. Now it’s time for Sui Yuanqing to survive again.

Well, as long as they give us a happy ending, I'm good. Ngl, a little bit disappointed as the drama was below my expectation. But, it's fine. It's a good drama overall. Could have been better, but all good. Let's wait for tomorrow.

Well, I know what you mean. I’m not actually comparing them—I’m just disappointed. If you’ve read the novel, you’d understand how underwhelming the last two episodes were. They could have been great episodes. They changed parts of the story, and whatever did match the novel was executed terribly. They could have done so much better, sigh. On the other hand, Pursuit of Jade is actually doing better than the novel, in my opinion. Well, nothing we can do. Let's just hope they can end this drama on a good note.

Honestly, I’m a bit disappointed. Maybe because I’m watching it alongside Pursuit of Jade, I can’t ignore some of the drama’s weak points anymore. It had so much potential, but I don’t know what happened. The last 2–3 episodes were so underwhelming—maybe due to poor writing or poor execution. Sigh. Hopefully, they can at least close it well and give us a good happy ending.

It will reach 9.1 with the next rank update. It’s currently sitting at ranked #48, and the nearest 9.1‑rated drama is ranked at #44. No doubt it will get there sometime today.

Haha, I’d love that too, but it definitely won’t happen. And it would take at least two episodes to cover that.

It’s good to see they used those extra novel chapters for the Gongsun Yin × Princess storyline in the drama. I hope they use more of the extra chapters, but 40 episodes is too little to cover everything.

ep 33: marriage gift, book
ep 34: not sure
ep 35: sword (probably fight)
you can check the calendar (discussion section) for your own interpretation.

Thanks! 🎉🎉😍😍

From the calendar:
ep 31, 32: hearts
ep 36: crying
ep 37: celebration and happy ending? (am i correct?)

Could be correct, though. If it is, then it must include all the cheek kisses and forehead kisses too. We already have two or three of the kisses done.

I saw someone on X say that there are a total of 16 kisses in this drama. Is that true?

From the ep 34 preview, I really don’t like where the story is heading. Why did they have to change it from the novel? I just hope that with three more episodes left after ep 34, they still can fix the mess they’ve created

Haha, she’s normally a smart person, but for some reason the writer made her act dumb in this part. Some things were so obvious, yet the writer forced her into cluelessness regarding the identity issue for no real reason.

Well, the losers, as you call them, aren’t actually that important to the main story. They’ll wrap up all the village-related plotlines by around episodes 16–17, I believe. After that, they won’t return to the village. The story shifts to the battle fleet in different regions, and the final arc takes place in the capital. As for the village characters, FL’s uncle will die soon. FL’s ex‑fiance isn’t an important character at all. He later moved to the capital and failed the exam. In the end, he unknowingly applies for a house‑teacher position for FL’s sister, and that’s how they meet again. Honestly, he’s not significant to the plot and can be ignored. ML and FL both never really cared about him.

Well, all I can say is that it happened after they stayed in the tent together (episode 23 on the calendar). He was injured, and she took his armor to replace him on the battlefield. Later, ML followed her to the battlefield, and that’s when she found out

Yeah, it was a bit late, but that’s what happened. There were some misunderstandings going on. As for the fight, I don’t think they ever fought against each other—only sparring sessions and practice fights. Later, they were assigned to different regions of the fleet. Maybe they fought together once or twice in the final battle, or ML secretly saved FL a couple of times. I don’t remember clearly. From the trailers, there might be some changes. But for the identity reveal, you’ll have to wait until around episode 25.

I read the novel last year, so I can’t remember the exact details. From the calendar, i believe it happens somewhere around episode 25 or 26