ML spent some years studying with FL , and also seem to have fought alongside but still doesnt recognise her voice…
It’s explained much better in the novel. During school years, He Yan was much weaker. While the ML trained her somewhat, he didn’t witness her progress and skills that she gained after they went their separate ways. She was secluded from her peers and forced to keep to herself. They knew each other as children and met again as adults, essentially.
In the novel, how early does he realise she is a woman and 2. How long does she pretend to be a man?
Relatively early but because a huge part of the introduction (switching back with He Rufei + marriage), deception (poisoning + murder), rebirth (new family intro, training with her new brother, reason for joining army), military (training in a weaker body, gaining respect of peers, capture the flag) arcs were shortened, it seems even sooner in the drama. Chapter 100 to be exact, when Xiao Jue and He Yan aren’t at the army garracks. She pretends for others for a long until the emperor can be made aware. Her peers find out much later. About 3/5th into the novel? I hope somebody who read the novel recently can corroborate.
Couldn’t make much sense of the plot. Why was the FL’s sister married to the ML while he was still technically missing. Shouldn’t his safety have been priority? Did the FL’s parents not care that their daughter was a maid in the palace? Accepting the edict would’ve been a much better option than getting flogged and scolded every day. The FL never questions why people in the palace are bowing apparently to the guard’s jade token? I didn’t realise this amount of stupidity was possible to be exhibited by one character. Dropped at ep. 13.
One day to go still but I keep coming back here diligently to read comments. The grip this drama has on me. I hope it lives up to all of our expectations.
Not rivals, they’re both famous generals under the same regime and went to school together. But the ML is wary…
Yes, when her brother’s health got better, the family wanted to give him what they thought was rightfully his, FL’s military achievement. FL wore a mask for her entire life to act as her brother. So they swapped identities back, with her brother becoming the general and her taking back her original identity of daughter of the He family. She was then married off to somebody. When the brother was unable to live up to the general’s name, he got jealous and first made the FL blind by poisoning her and ultimately planned to kill her in cahoots with her husband. The entire family apart from the FL’s mother could be blamed. FL had misconceptions about the ML from her first life that were later cleared after they fell in love. As she lived with her brother’s identity throughout her childhood, she was not allowed to get close to anybody and kept mostly to herself. The ML found out about the identity swap and rebirth both, eventually.
Not rivals, they’re both famous generals under the same regime and went to school together. But the ML is wary…
The FL was born again, not the ML. Sorry if that wasn’t clear from my previous reply. In her first life, she lived with her brother’s name as he was sickly during childhood. During that life, she became a famous general. Her and the ML were known as twin generals for different directions and equal in status. That’s the life when they went to school together, though she was disguised as her brother and he wasn’t aware of her real identity. When she is reborn as another person (with the same name), she joins the ML’s army with that identity. The drama wouldn’t have rebirth like you said, we know because the second life’s He family isn’t a part of the cast. That’s when ML is wary of the FL for a while before they grow close.
I read the novel a LONG while ago, so if I recall something incorrectly, please don’t mind. Take what I say with a pinch of salt due to that.
Wait, are the main leads rivals? The new trailer makes it look like they have a difficult relationship. The older…
Not rivals, they’re both famous generals under the same regime and went to school together. But the ML is wary of the FL when she joins his army camp after re-birth in the novel for a bit. I don’t want to spoil too much by saying any more.
36 episodes flew by like nothing. I don’t think there can be a higher praise for a show than to say not a single moment was boring or worth skipping. Not a single character I wanted to fast forward on.
I keep trying to give up on this drama, been waiting for more than a year now. Still find myself on this page every few weeks in hopes of the airing date finally being announced. 🥲
The chemistry between the leads felt cute until the SML was introduced. You Jing Chu was so good, he could compete with Wu Bo Song from A Love So Beautiful in the second lead syndrome category, maybe even beat him. The FL and 2ML grew up together (a trope I’m a sucker for), cohabited, went through rough times together and even had multiple couple items. He did things for the FL without her ever having to articulate her thoughts, including giving up on his love. She was extremely comfortable with him and worried about him at times. He had practically woven his entire life around her. Compare that with a ML who went on a date with the SFL, had a lot of baggage with the girl but never fully explained their history to the FL. When the SFL attacked the FL, he lashed out at the FL in jealousy instead of consoling her about something she had already explained to him.
The other ML and FL, Wang Chu Nian and Chen Su Jie, were much cuter with proper conversations, including a formal question regarding getting in a relationship. I can’t even pinpoint when the leads got together because they were acting as a couple without resolving misunderstandings and same problems that kept cropping up again and again. Felt more like a fleeting young infatuation than a possible lifelong love.
I read the novel a LONG while ago, so if I recall something incorrectly, please don’t mind. Take what I say with a pinch of salt due to that.
The other ML and FL, Wang Chu Nian and Chen Su Jie, were much cuter with proper conversations, including a formal question regarding getting in a relationship. I can’t even pinpoint when the leads got together because they were acting as a couple without resolving misunderstandings and same problems that kept cropping up again and again. Felt more like a fleeting young infatuation than a possible lifelong love.