Reviews

Kinda a lame ending to an otherwise great series.

On one hand, the revelations from Wei Yan about what really happened were very moving and added a ton of depth to the story. Really makes you disgusted by the actions of the late former emperor. But otherwise, it felt like the episode short-shifted on the real fates of the various characters in order to provide a weird alternative universe short story. I'm not sure what the point of that was. Some sort of fan service? I would much, MUCH rather they spent more time on the fates of the actual characters in the main story. For example, it would have been cool to see an actual formal wedding for Changyu and Zheng. It would have been cool to see their two kids (and by that time, both Bao and Ning growing up to be a young adults). It would have been nice to see a bit about the fate of Gongsun and Qi Shu. All that would have been far, far more interesting than the weird alternate universe thing. Oh well, I still liked the series overall.

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Truths and lies revealed

The guy spying was from the company but not for the boss. He was a prior manager sent to the village and he did not want a repeat of what happened with him. He has a very detailed board of events that I wish he would share with Seong and village chief so they could get a bead on what’s going on. Village chief and Mr Seong stake out the cabbage field and discover who was there and what happened. This turned into a poignant scene as a mother suffering dementia was digging up the area where they had buried her youngest child’s clothes. They were trying to break her out of her mourning for her lost son. Mr Seong was seen as Mak Dung by the mother and she cuddled him for quite awhile basking in what she believed was her son’s embrace. While all this was happening the mom was looking for her boys and found eldest just ready to kiss a girl. This led to a series of events where mom learned the truth about him dropping out of school and after a rather violent reaction they learned she was taking meds for panic attacks. In a sweet scene eldest son and Bo Mi were cutting radishes and he was getting over his fear of knives and cutting. So she helped him work through some of his surgery trauma. The villagers came with baby plants to replace the ones Ms Mak destroyed digging for baby clothes. Right when things seemed to be settling down Seong’s shady boss shows up. He gives a fake reports about all the pesticides and hard metals found in the samples. Seong knew this was a total crock but proving it is key. It seems rather than paying the villagers to produce cabbage, they want to force the villagers out of their homes and take the land. This episode keyed in on understanding, sympathy and coming to terms with children making unexpected choices.

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Very exciting climax but ... a couple of flaws

So all the threads came together with both the revelations about what happened 17 years ago and also Qi Min's attempt to take the throne. Within this we had some exciting moments such as Xie Zheng's duel with Wei Yan and some dramatic moments such as Wei Xuan sacrificing himself to save Zheng from an assassination attempt by Wei Yan's man. But a couple of things just came up a little flat. For one thing, Qi Min's long-planned rebellion felt ... small and feeble and doomed to fail as soon as it started. Feels like the ML & FL barely had to flex to shut this down, esp once the Wei Yan nuisance was dealt with. And really, FL didn't flex at all since we surprisingly got zero combat scenes with her during all this. Finally, it seemed odd that, given her many amazing feats of super-strength, that Changyu would have had any trouble whatsoever pulling both Qian and Qi Min back up the wall. Feels like the writers have forgotten all about Changyu's amazing abilities of late.

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OMG the 2nd hand embarrassment i got when…

OMG the 2nd hand embarrassment i got when we heard why she ended up in the ER - lol & the fact he told his friends OMO like talk about wanting the earth to open up.... bummer her bff is misunderstanding, thinking Eui Ju developed a crush on Dong Ju. i don't want her doing anything to sabotage Eui Ju cause of jealousy - not to mention losing a friend. heck i thought if any girl would cause problems for Eui Ju it would be Choi Go Ya. ***********************************************************************in the library i was confused for a sec & thought she was debating between writing for the project Yun Dong Ju assigned her & her BL web novel & thought that, that's how he will mistakenly get her BL yada yada yada.. not the case -

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