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Cui Lin does have this personality that annoys some audiences, don't know if it's the character or the actress. Cui Lin is not the type of girl who fawn over a man no matter how sweet he is to her. She is independent and self-reliant, and never wanted to marry any man. So, she may seem indifferent towards Li Ni and uncaring by not fawning over him the same way he fawns over her. But deep down in her heart, she has fallen for him, but does not easily show her feelings. Li Ni told her that he felt happiness when he realized that she does love him and cares about him. No matter what she does to him or how she acts around him, or seem indifferent toward his advances, or teases him in a merciless way, he knows her heart and her true feelings for him and that is enough for him, and she also knows his heart and true feelings for her especially since he is excessively outwardly loving; unlike her, she plays cool, but because they know each other true feelings, they are already connected to each other in an unspoken way. In ep 31, when they got back together again, he said to her "when did you ever hug me? It is always me who hugs you". Outsiders may think she's not nice to him, but Li Ni understands her personality. Some audiences may not like it and I wonder if it's the character or the actress portrayal that offends some audiences.

I was thinking of the scene where General Cui Yi had just won some key battles for the empire and boldly suggested to the emperor in his report that Prince Qin deserves to be the crown prince. This disturbed Li Ni so much that he quickly went to Cui Lin and demanded that she hand back his mother's beads and then he returned her hair pin as well. I took that to be a misunderstanding because it was not Cui Lin but her father who did this to Li Ni even though it was her who been trying to convince him. She tried to retrieve the report, but it was too late. She understood her father did it on her behalf knowing she would not push LI Ni any further (which is why I don't agree with the audiences that keep saying Cui Lin manipulates Li Ni. I feel she has always respected his decision and let it be after they argue about it). So indirectly, she may be at fault, but I still regard it as a misunderstanding. I don't' fault Li Ni for jumping to conclusion, just like I don't fault him for misjudging Cui Lin for betraying his army. The situations are not easy to discern so it is understandable, and Li Ni will always figure it out once he calms down. Making him crown prince seems to be the ultimatum for him to break it off with Cui Lin because giving back her hair pin is not something he would ever do. I supposed in his heart, she's still at fault even if it was her father who brought it upon him.

I can't help but wonder how events would have unfolded if Li Ni hadn't been stopped from killing his older brother, Prince Xin.

I'm guessing Li Ni is 20 or 21 years old or early 20's? In episode 10, he says "Ying in the past 2 decades, I've never been happy and serene like I was this afternoon." In episode 31, he says he was sent to the border at age of 13, which means he been guarding the border with Bao for at least 7 yrs.

I'm starting to new trailers and drama release videos for Yang Zi/Xu Kai modern drama Cheng Huan Ji. XK has another chance to experience his own voice in a movie.

I'm watching it on YoYo English Channel and YoYo Television Series Exclusive and I did not observe any English Subtitles issues.

whoever said in ep 30 & 31 , the bts was even better was right

I hope people give a balanced characterization of Cui Lin. I realized that everyone’s opinions are subjective but she's getting such a bad rap and some of the comments are rather harsh like calling her a b*tch. Actually, I was also influenced by these negative comments since I'm so behind.

throughout the movie, they have many chats and open up about their past feelings for each other.

I saw the interview. Xu kai said lemon because it started out sour. Then Jing tian said pineapple, much to Xu Kai's delight that she came up with a good example, because pineapple is very sweet on inside and has those prickly things on the outside that represents the way Cui Lin can be towards Li Ni. She said prickly because Cui Lin likes to tease Li Ni.

Oh afterthought. maybe Xu Kai was thinking of needles when jing Tian said "prickly". I kept wondering why he was so astonished by it.

I apologize if I offended you, but you gave so many clues that you won't enjoy WoL. 1. Xu kai has only had one movie SEL aired in 2023 prior to WoL, and you said all his movies are meh this year - does that include WoL? What does SEL have to do with WoL? 2. you don't care for Jing Tian acting and can't imagine her as a fl when she has been acting for a very long time as fl in many movies, your biased toward her may negatively impact you from enjoying WoL 3. you can't get into the love story, 4. the plot is boring 5 After four episodes, you stopped watching.
These clues you gave out are stacked against you already, so I thought you should not waste your time. It just felt like you have a pretty good idea yourself. I think most people watch a movie more than anything, the story is key to whether they will stick with a movie or not. If you already find the plot boring, I doubt you will want to stick with it. WoL the plot is pretty predictable for me anyway, right off the bat, because I can tell after the first episode what type of movie this will be and how it will go. I had hoped that it was serious movie, but it is rather light-hearted, perhaps a bit too light-hearted for me, but I still have motivations to watch.
Actually, I wonder how do you know the love story is boring? For me, it took many episodes to understand the characters, why they love each other, and I'm still learning as I'm not done with the movie yet. In fact, I had to watch ep 15/16 a few times to understand the complicated emotions in those scenes. Now they are one of my favorite scenes. The emotions were so raw and powerful to me.

I only mention it because you brought up AJTL. It was told to me not to compare movies but for some reason I've seen people come here to compare SOKP and now AJTL. I have seen comments some find the relationship dominant/subordinate but I think the comment is a bit harsh. , only because I love the actress, her quality of acting is way above everyone else, so she is able to make this character likable. The "mature" topic (baby out of wedlock, sexual relations before marriage) of AJTL relationship is different than WoL (traditional or old-fashioned relationship; however, I doubt Li Ni and Cui lin will abide by traditions. Li Ni will cook, sew, fix toys, change diapers, etc.). The SML in AJTL gives out a ton of advice on how to deal with women. I recall another scene, he told ML to pamper women so then they nicer to you (something like that). I definitely agree the relationship in AJTL is much more matured. But the characters are older and more experienced and lived a different life than in WoL, there was reference to them as "kids". I think they are supposed to be young people in 20's as opposed to 30's in AJTL, so you hope that characters in AJTL is more matured. Both of them have had other partners or relationships before, especially the FL she is a seductress. IN WoL, Lii Ni and Cui Lin is the first love for them. They are still learning and growing with each other, and they will never know any other love partner, unlike in AJTL, those two are experienced.

I finally found a great actress. LSS in AJTL. She is exceptional. Her eye expressions, face expressions, her depth of emotions, her beauty and grace, I don't see many that can compare to her. She is definitely a top tier actress, Her talent is award winning.

You should definitely not waste your time. Why bother to ask when you already know the answer?

Ep 30
Pei Yuan to Li Ni: "At the very beginning, I had an opinion of Lady Cui. But after observing, I realized that she is a good person. She's considerate and always plans for you. The most important thing is she never claimed credit for herself".

Unfortunately, there will be more misunderstandings. Li Ni will misunderstand her again, but hard to fault him. It's just that these conflicts they have sometimes are out of their control. I've seen comments that I think you may be disappointed in fl again in later scenes. However, they have a deep connection to each other that allows them to always reconcile back together. These tensions also allow for kiss and makeup scenes to release (sexual) tension between them.

In AJTL, Ruyi is seducing ML to have a baby out of wedlock. ML is very uncomfortable. ML has no idea how to court her and SML has to constantly give him advice. As one of many other examples throughout the movie he gives woman advice, he tells ML, "You have to make her jealous. She needs to be possessive of you. She asked you for help, you say you don't have time. If she gives you something, just pretend to mention it by accident. IF she ever approaches another man again, you just walk out the door, tell her you're upset, the deal to have a baby out of wedlock is off. She's met a lot of men but once a woman has a heart for him, that would be different, so these TRICKS will work on her." Ruyi is strong, independent, and mature. She is trying to seduce ML and is domineering, physical, and aggressive toward him and other men. Later she softens up when she sees his kindness and love. In AJTL, the women also are resourceful resorting to needles and powder too.

Also at this point in the movie, Cui Lin has no idea that LCF has evil intentions toward Li Ni. OK, so the betrayal can be seen as evil act but he made an excuse, so Cui Lin thinks he did a very bad thing, but that's not the same as intentionally trying to hurt Li Ni.

But she didn't care if he saves her life or not that day. She was willing to die that day and feels guilty that LCF died instead. By saving her, he created an emotional wreck for her. He needed to save her as a pawn to negotiate with her father so that was one reason (but I know deep down in his heart, he could never let her die).

You mean Taozi angry at Chang'er for not saving them? Well, she has a right to be angry, she did not do anything wrong, so in her mind, the right thing to do is to help her. Since that is how she thinks, then she would have done the same thing if it were her, to save a friend who did not wrong you.

The guy who is most rational and logical is Pei Yuan who has no love life. He told Li Ni not to see her anymore because he's a Li and she's a Cui and they could never marry each other.

The fact that people dislike fl shows how complex a character she is since she a heroine, not a villain.

they did give each time to calm down. they agreed to go their separate ways after the betrayal, that the next time they meet, they are enemies, and he would not hesitate to kill her next time. She met LCF on the way back and was angry with him for the betrayal and not consulting her first.

Even though she makes it sound like she's mad at him for not saving LCF, she doesn't mean it exactly that way. She has a personality that sometimes she says things she doesn't really mean literally. She knows that Li Ni doesn't owe her or anyone to save LCF or even her and Taozi. In her grief and guilt, she feels sad and guilty that he died for her, like so many times before, he put his life in danger for her. Logically, she knows better that there is no reason for Li Ni to save anyone that day after what happened to his army, she's not logical right now. She's having a breakdown. I don't know if he knew she and Taozi had nothing to do with the betrayal at the time of ambush or after the ambush, i tend to think he didn't know yet, because he was willing to let Taozi die out there. I think he was only trying to save her at that point to make a deal with General Cui.