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Very happy ending

I don't know how you would have wanted Li Ni to refuse Ms Gu any more than he already did. From the beginning, he made it clear to her that he was not interested and never would be. He never wavered from that.

In terms of her becoming one of his concubines, she sought that out by colluding with her father and his dad. Li Ni wasn't given a choice. He wasn't even around for it. He was away attending to other business matters and when he returned, it was like, "Congrats, we've brought Ms. Gu into the palace for you!" Stuck and nowhere to go with that, he nevertheless told her, that he'd let her live peacefully in the palace and would do his duty in visiting her from time to time to give her face. He also told her that if she did ever find someone else to marry, she should let him know and he would help arrange matters to make that happen. Honestly, he couldn't have treated her more fairly in that regard. It was she who nevertheless kept challenging his bottom line until he had no more room to give.

In short, Li Ni never led her on. It was Ms Gu who wouldn't give up.

At the time of her initial anger, she didn't know that LCF was responsible for the attack on the Zhenxi Army. Yes, the Zhenxi Army accused him directly in front of her, but she didn't believe it because up until that point, she had no reason to believe that LCF would do something like that. LCF was someone she viewed as an adoptive brother and someone she trusted. Unlike us, the viewers, who have the benefit of seeing everything from a 360 degree angle at all times, the FL didn't know that LCF had already turned devious and spiteful out of jealousy and feelings of rejection.

Eventually, she did learn of LCF's role in that attack and she was angry about that, but at the time it wasn't just the "blame" that she was upset about, but also the fact that the ML was accusing her and as she had nothing to do with the attack, she felt betrayed that he would think her capable of something like that.

In short, there were a lot of hot emotions going on in that time... nobody was really thinking or acting rationally. Even later the FL admitted she had no reason to be as mad as she was, but she couldn't help but still feel betrayed - and ultimately, we are all humans and we can't help feeling some of the feelings that we do, and that's what made these characters so real and genuine for me.

But if the drama's not working for you, it's not working for you, and that's fine. Personally, I loved it and found it well-written with the characters multi-faceted and consistent throughout.

Here’s a link for the Laolan Pass song: https://youtu.be/RCyKoD8fXe8?si=LX7o_3MdK9VNt5Ur

As for the remainder of the soundtrack, just search for Wonderland of Love OST playlist and you’ll get lots of hits.

Blame COVID for the CGI. Apparently they were going to film on location for the Wonderland plain, but when the second wave hit, they had to film in a warehouse instead.

It's not that the Chinese audience didn't like the gaming aspect. Gaming is a big industry in China. The Chinese audience didn't like FIYS because of all the controversies surrounding that book/drama (see below for my longer explanation).

FIYS is controversial because of the book it's based on. The author is believed to have plagiarized both from another piece of work and on real people/incidents. The Chinese audience didn't support the drama adaptation of the book, and the drama production itself was later hit with plagiarism allegations regarding logos used in the drama and whatnot. In short, it was a mess. For the international audience, who would be less familiar with these 'internal matters,' of course they watched without such concerns and for that reason, FIYS is more of an international success as compared to its domestic consumption.

All of which is to say, its low Douban rating is probably less about the drama per se and all the controversy that follows that drama.

https://dramapanda.com/2020/11/falling-into-your-smile-continues-to-be-dogged-by-talks-of-plagiarism-in-the-e-sports-world.html

He was already the Crown Prince, so what you saw was Li Ni getting crowned as the emperor after his father abdicated. About ten years later, consistent with Li Ni's long held desires, he abdicated the thrown in favor of his cousin - and the original Crown Grandson. He, Cui Lin, and their two kids then returned to guarding the border at Laolan Pass (along with Chang Er/Ear and TaoZi/Peach).

I don’t think it’s been released?

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Everyone lives (Cui Lin had been thought dead at one point). Li Ni's father steps down resulting in Li Ni becoming the emperor and Cui Lin his empress. She learns she's pregnant. Has her baby; it's a boy. And then after a passage of time, Li Ni hands the throne back over to his cousin (the crown grandson) and when the drama ends, Li Ni and Cui Lin are living at Laolan Pass with their TWO children (boy and girl) along with Taozi/Peach and ChangEr/Ear. :)

XK's dubber: https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Zhang_Fu_Zheng

This voice actor also dubbed XK in Snow Eagle Lord.

The former crown princess makes a similar observation later on about how the second brother has just enough smarts to cause trouble and be a thorn in the side. Fortunately, not so bright as the leads though so while he causes trouble, it's not anything they can't get out of!

A very happy ending!

Here's the Laolan Pass song: https://youtu.be/7SbDgxy_Bzg?si=0EH2Nydg9yAc0McT

And looks like they've released the BGM too as the information is up on the drama's Baidu page (scroll down to the section, "音乐原声"): https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B9%90%E6%B8%B8%E5%8E%9F/59821059

The lead characters share the same surname/character: 唐 (Tang).

According to Wikipedia:

Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently in use, but the great proportion of Han Chinese people use only a relatively small number of these surnames; 19 surnames are used by around half of the Han Chinese people, while 100 surnames are used by around 87% of the population. A report in 2019 gives the most common Chinese surnames as Wang and Li, each shared by over 100 million people in China. The remaining top ten most common Chinese surnames are Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu and Zhou.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_surname

It refers to her rank in the imperial harem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Chinese_harem_system

No love triangles. Other people may be into the leads, but the leads don’t reciprocate those feelings as they only have feelings for each other.

And no, no real break ups. They will fight over stuff (different visions/perspectives) but they always work through their issues.

Yes, it’s a HE. If you want specifics, you can check out my post in the Topics section above where I shared details from the last episode.

Tbh, the whole last ep seems like a fairytale ending. A little too perfect. That said, I’d rather that than an unhappy ending, so… I’ll take it.

Did you see my answer in reply Topics section?

I’ve only watched 40 and skimmed 39 (and am otherwise watching on Viki with its delayed schedule 😭) but based on your question, and what I observed from 40, sounds like LCY swapped the pills and actually saved her life.