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FL's been great here, both how the character is written and actress acting. ML needs to stop playing the brooding dudu from LOTFG eventually xD

Hopefully, but they can't drag this Lishan mountain mystery for 40 episodes straight, it'll get boring eventually. I hope there's more to the plot than that and it won't devolve into a typical political circus they often have in historical cdramas.

As good a guess as we can have atm.

She has exactly 2 guys so far. The initial helper (unclear whether graduate or perma mountain dweller) and accountant/manager (graduate). I already wrote about them above. What are you trying to add here?
Also, that grandpa actor may be famous, but there are dramas with him where he's just a guest character who gets killed fast, like, for example, The Wanted Detective.

Not always, there were some disappointing ones.

I dunno, tropey baby boy general aside, I didn't like that FL was a total Mary Sue there and the plot started to go down the drain after around episode 20. Visually pretty, but couldn't go the distance in the end, imho. At least it wasn't as s*itty as Legend of the Female General, boy, was that some hot trash. I still remember the "dudu" xD

It's unclear who was burned, graduates or those who stayed, but judging by the stone grave there are only 7 people laying there. The mountain clearly had more.

The first guy who is helping her is unclear whether he's from the mountain proper or a persecuted graduate. The accountant she hired later was a graduate who went off the mountain before s*it hit the fan. So only the first guy knows what happened on the mountain. And I think if there are other survivors, it's only the scattered graduates.

You're not alone xD

Is this part of that hate campaign on the actress? Lots of dululu crazies out there with nothing better to do...

Imho, it's not her perforamances, she's fine. It's the questionable plots and characters of some of her recent dramas. Though she's on a roll this year, I fkn loved Unveil: Jadewind, the plot was great and she had a very cool badass character to play there, completely different from Mo Li.

Yea, personally I love me some mystery. It'd have been boring if she had nothing interesting in her backstory other than being just some poor unloved heiress. And good riddance to that reincarnation trope, at least I hope they got rid of that. Would have been super lame, I hate that trope.

Yea, exactly. It's a different media, you gotta adapt the plot to it. Though from what I've gathered, that Lishan mountain plot and FL's schizo tendencies are all made up for the drama and weren't in the novel. Though I can't say it's a bad thing either, def intriguing.

I dunno, to me it looks that, except for the guy who helps her, everyone else on the mountain are dead. Nobody went up the mountain to check on them, so nobody has a clue. She lies about them to comfort other people or to diffuse suspicions, but it all looks like some kind of sad sh*t happened up there. So she's on a mission to kill the villains who represent those straw dolls and to fullfill final wishes of the dead people, like with that tree cutting. She also has stacks of unsent letters for people on the mountain, she's been writing them to cope.
It's all hard unhinged cope and clever scheming for revenge.

I think it's enough to read a lengthy summary written here in discussions to get a general idea. But even that one, imho, is way too long and showing that the novel had too much boring politics. No way to fit all of that stuff in the drama, even with 40 episodes, so good on them to make changes.

What's even the point of reading it if the plot is different...

She clearly has...something.

Those who were burned looks like are 7 under the stone grave. That's not all people on the mountain. I assumed those were the persecuted court officials who graduated from the mountain.

Maybe a bad mistranslation, but it's both legs been mentioned at one point?
Though in that battle it looked like only one leg. But in prison it looked like both. And he was hitting one and the other, I dunno.

Maybe they all died of hunger or illness because of the blockade? Clearly nobody went to check up on them all those years.
Also, FL could have been biting herself, she clearly has "big bats in the belfry".