AleksandraSucur

ofc you are, who would expect a nerd having a love life? 😂

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We've seen a "dress-rehearsal" of that ceremony, it would suffice, lol

In Italian (sophisticated version, elaboration of "chi scava la fossa all'altro..."): “Il vilipendio e l'improperio genera odio contro coloro che l'usano, senza alcuna loro utilità" (N. Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy)
In Latin: "qui fodit foveam incidit in eam" (= Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein, Bible, Proverbs 26:27, in English)

I knew it would come close to JOL (34000).
It's such a serotonin booster, espc. when we get a double dose during weekends, lol 😂

I'm talking about ep 28, available on platforms on which all other eps aired.

I've loughed so much watching the spin-off episode titled "Lost lovers on the bridges of Dafeng". More serious a character is, more comical vibes he creates. Pure gold 10/10, I'm still loughing, hours later 😂😂😂👌

XQ has nothing to avenge, while poor HH... But I think Shenshu overeacts, he is a demon, in HH body, he even tried to kill n°4. while in XQ's body... he beated him, no?

Minister Sun (of Justice) can't balance anything, he can't keep in check his own people who arrest and torture people without reporting (remember the one who arrested XQ to ingratiate that Zhou (bul)Ly?), investigation leads get cut, the cooperation with Guardians' investigators suffers because he insists on the grip over cases his ministry is uncapable to handle and so on.
As for the Supervisor, you're right, he certainly has his own agenda and doesn't fear to invent excuses politely saying no to the Emperor. He doesn't trust the emperor and probably hides things from him because of this distrust (which may have smth to do with the "thing stolen 19 years ago" he can't figure out who was behind). His Bureau is not a political force, it reminds me of the enterprise established by Fan Xian's mother in JOL dedicated to invention and production of innovative artifacts, the difference is GOD's Bureau is more magical" and less "economic" compared to JOL.
The forces destined to allign are those sharing converging interests, like Guardians and Realm Sect, Bureau and the Dean of the Academy - people of talent with whom only the Grand Princess formed intrinsic relationship, and ofc. XQ, just in different way

and how they've forgotten the little one out in the beginning, when Xinnian hanged himself? The whole family suffers of an early alzheimer, lol

Wang is not a member of the royal family, but he is an aristocrat and, being a Minister of Personnel, he has a considerable influence on practically all other ministries (ministry of personnel employes or - figuratively speaking - "deployes" people throughout ministries) while royalties have their own power and familiar connection with the emperor and can always question ministers and officials in the court (therefore, many people would prefer being "backed" by a royalty than by a certain minister, who can always be removed in court conflicts and clashing of interests).
So, for the two evil sons of two aristocrats (who were also involved in abduction and trafficking of children and women), her eloping was a rare opportunity to destroy her father permanently, while being quite confident nothing could have happen to them: the girl was running away from a marriage arranged by the emperor (fact that angered the emperor ofc), naively asking for help from her father's foes, thus, they've felt they could have disposed of her as they wished.
Regarding your question "who's exactly part of Wang?", well, these factions aren't political parties, they are more "group of interests", people can easily shift according to a currently raised issue. Today, we've seen a conflict between minister Wang (and other civil affairs ministers) and the army deployed in the North, the first group wanting money and provisions to remain in prefectures, not given to the army.
Wei cut that dispute bringing up the info of a massacre of civilians in the North, while Army never provided such an information, so he asked the Emperor to check this info out first (sending an inspection to the North) and to decide later.
I don't know if the soldiers beaten today by n°2 and n°4 are connected with that specific army, but they were certainly very rude towards the innkeeper

tnx you very much, I've thought he was more special in the novel.
Thank you also for the links, but I trully can't force myself to read bad translations, barely stand subs of the drama which aren't perfect either

"this is one reason why the west is declining follow(ed) by Japan and Korea and now china is going that direction"

1. You are talking about things such as "population decline" (it's a technical demography term) having no idea about. If you had, you would know that this term can be applied only on a greater period of time, usually a century is taken as a reference, bc. the observation in shorter time can be misleading, due to various oscillation factors.

2. From antiquity until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the global population grew very slowly, at about 0.04% per year, but registering significant declines and growths depending on the century observed, despite incredible fertility rates of the time (due to deseases, epidemics, wars and general low life expectancy).
From 1950 and the 2050 forecast, instead, the world will register the highest demographic growth EVER in comparison to any other century of human history. The global population of 2.5 billion (in 1950) will rise to 9-10 billion in 2050, more than triple. Setting apart the crucial question how to find enough resources (food, energy, water etc) to sustain so many people (espc. if they continue to increase), we can observe it more than tipled while fertility rates continuously decreased in large part of the world (bc. of the longer life expectancy). The global population will rise inequally, depending on the continent we observe, the highest growth reserved for the continent with highest fertility rate and the lowest life expectancy, ie., Africa, counting numeruos countries in which women are treated exactly as Diana said (if not worse). This is the UN chart of gpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition#/media/File:World_population_(UN).svg

3. The "West" is vast and various. It is true that the fertility rate is low throughout the western countries, but that doesn't automatically imply population shrinking. In Scandinavian countries, where men are educated to share domestic burdens and care of children, there will be no decline at all. The population of Norway for istance will more than double its population since 1950 - 3,2 B to 7,2B - in 2050.
This won't happen in all those countries where the children's care is still perceived as "women's job" and/or are still too much subject to traditional patriarchal roles (as they are in Japan, Corea and parts of Europe).

Instead of making a loughingstock of yourself here, you should better go study a bit and later conclude which model is better

HH' was already dead and demonized by misterious witcher (?, I mean, a man with a black cloak) when ShSh entered his body, taking revenge on people who trafficked with children and women and are responsible for deaths of the princess and HH.
In that body he could have killed 3 golden gongs and the formation sorcerer but he didn't

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Bravo! 👌

I'm usually not this serious on social media, but in private, when I want to get an answer on smth I want to ask, or smth that bothers me, I always search for it in scientific papers. This one is beyond doubt, it isn't political, it's published in China, by Chinese telecommunication engineering scholars, which reminds us (after thousands of others on other topics) that we always must use a grain of salt when consulting statistics (before, now statistics largely integrate qualitative tools or at least mention the limits od the surveys) or these more recent AI computing tools: they mean nothing without qualitative analyses.

I'm curious about Janlin (the founder of the Realm Sect), how was he described in the novel?
And... did XQ "died" in the novel too, as in the latest ep?

yup.
1, Douban doesn't make any qualitative analysis of the ratings and reviewes
2. This is an early rating, means nothing "before a certain period of time passes after the drama completely aired"
3. Early ratings and reviewes (unless you rate a single episode you've watched) make no sense, it is equivalent to assign a vote to a student's test based on the first answer without checking how he/she answered the remaing 9. It isn't rating, it's pure injustice to a student.
4. Douban cannot only distinguish qualitative contents of reviews and rating, but it also can't track the real feeling about a drama or a movie, especially when the content of a review is different or contraddictory to the rating, as well as it can't distinguish between humans and bots when computes aggregate ratings
5. What you've just stated: why would so many people watch smth they don't like? Douban can't distinguish between a negative view on smth in particular (expressed in a given moment) and the real feeling of the user. That's why the heat index is better when it comes to measuring the interest (ie. feelings) of the audience, but even this index should be taken with the grain of salt, bc. the mere number can never tell anything about the quality (and what the audience treasure as quality)

I've linked above a scientific paper (written by Chinese telecommunication engineering scientists and published in China, so nobody can raise questions of political nature) which explains in detail why we should trust more ourselves than Douban

source https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8842672

"the rating mechanism of Douban movie simply calculates mean value of all users rating which does not take into account the emotional inconsistency between users rating and their comments. The mechanism fails to differentiate between the impacts on total scores and the movie reviews of different quality."
From the abstract to the scientific paper "Comprehensive Rating Model of Douban Movie Based on Sentiment Analysis" by Yi-Ran Gu and Yu-Yu Su from Nanjing Telecom. University published by IEEE, Shanghai, 2019
Furthermore, this "simple calculative method" makes no distinctions of the period of time (when the ratings and reviews concretely happen), very expected dramas receive early ratings as far as a year before they actually air, that's why it is suggested to take it seriously only after some time after it aired. If you check the Douban's official top list in English, you'll notice a strong prevalence of older (even very old) dramas compared to the recent ones, because they were seen by more people, broadcasted by tv stations and are also more mentioned in aggregated reviews (in which they serve as evaluation measures and comparison tools).
The low rating on Douban is therefore expected (and not only bc of the antis troops and - alas! today inevitable rival bots) but also bc. the mechanism doesn't make QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS, it's just an (aggregate) QUANTITATIVE analysis. Before airing or in early stages of drama's progress, users complained (and negatively rated the drama) about the lead actor's pronounciation, criticised him for advertising the drama during his concert, they were unsatisfied for instance with the female lead character (which was objectively not much likeable or relatable) in initial episodes and so on. But all of these should have nothing to do with the objective appreciation, the problem is the mechanism cannot distinguish between important and irrelevant. If I were to rate any drama based on the pronounciation of German, English, French, Italian, Spanish etc., I'd give an insufficiency to all C-dramas I've seen, including certain dramas listed very high on Douban (such as War of Faith), because not only the pronunciation (of both Chinese and foreign actors) was unlistenable, but the lines often made no sense at all. I know Mandarin is a tonal language (if you fail to deliver the correct tone, you may say a word with completely different meaning) and I know the actors are supposed to have impeccable pronounciation of their mother tongue, but Wang Hedi's Mandarin certainly doesn't sound that bad as the German spoken in The War of Faith and I would not even think to underrate that drama for such a reason: if the actors deliver other things (and in case of War of Faith, they didn't even bother to mimic the pronounciation), it's fine.
So, don't be discouraged bc of this rating, it's normal, believe your own taste and thought what is entertaining, interesting, well-crafted, well-written, well-directed and well-performed.