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If people communicated these stories would be wrapped up in 10 episodes.

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I don’t view Qi Min and Qian Qian as a couple or in a relationship so their screen time doesn’t bother me at all. I see a woman being victimized by a villain she loathes. How can you be a couple or in a relationship if it’s one-sided. If that’s the case then Changyu and Li Huaian are a couple in a relationship. I think people are just antsy because XJ and FCY have been apart for so long. Had they been together this whole time, they wouldn’t mind QM and QQ. I’d get bored if the whole story was just about the main couple. It’s good to make people want more. Now everyone is anticipating their reunion.

Good point. I think people have to understand there is more to these stories than romance. Like you said, we spent a long time with the ML/FL establishing them as a family with Ning. That was the whole point of staying in the town. We established the family, friends and importance of the towns people. We all knew that would go away at some point. I was dreading it but knew it was necessary for the story. Soon they will be back together and I expect they will finish out the series together.

Nothing will redeem him and he really doesn’t qualify as a bad boy. Liu Xue Yu from Kill Me Love Me is more of your prototypical bad boy. He’s a bad boy but turns out he was doing good all along.

I was anticipating LotFG so much. But the editing and pace was terrible in that. Zhou Ye and Ryan Cheng were good but I wanted the same development for He Yan that we are getting from Changyu here.

That’s a miss on the writers in my opinion. I wonder if they meant to call back to that but forgot it.

He seems to be thinking from a commander’s standpoint and not a good husband. He last saw her with Li Huaian and his army. He also killed the assassins and destroyed the entire base of enemy that attacked the town. He didn’t know Ning was missing till later. I agree he should have posted some guards to watch her in secret.

My only thought was that he thought she was with Li Huaian and his army. That is where he last saw her. At the time he left her, he didn’t know Ning was missing. He gets mad at her for being reckless as we see in upcoming previews but he should have known she’s not one to sit still.

Do people not get that she has no love for him? This is not a love story for her. So she will not have any desire to meet him in the present or the future. There is that and I’m not sure we have confirmation that she has transmigrated in this series as in the book.

There is no tragedy here. A tragedy makes it sound like if for not fate, they would be romantically in love with each other. But fate is keeping their love story from flourishing. She saved him like she would have saved anyone. He’s just an obsessed nut job who is stalking her and terrorizing her child. Just because people look good doesn’t mean they should be together. QQ shouldn’t be in relationship with a rapist and murderer that she doesn’t love.

He definitely has another hit on his hands. Blossom and The Double were my favorite shows of 2024. In fact both are two of my all time favorites. So finding out this is the same director behind Blossom is encouraging. The story and direction of LLTG was good but I couldn’t get into it mainly because of the FL. I’m just not a big fan of Zhou Lusi’s acting. It kinda ruined LLTG for me.

I guess we will find out. It’s very risky using an important figure like that as a bargaining piece. We have seen XJ chastise FCY for being reckless in the past. This might be one of those moments.

I was thinking this might be the reason for the flogging scene. She broke military protocol and did her own thing outside her rank. She went against Marquis Wuan’s plans. She’s a great fighter but needs to learn military discipline.

I just hope they don’t spend too much time with her being angry with him and not wanting to be together until the last episode.

I haven’t read the novel but the fact that they decided to spend a great deal of time in the village, I knew they were going to have to make deep cuts somewhere.

Right. That’s the problem with forcing shows to have fewer episodes than past series. Each show should be allowed to tell their story with the amount of time needed. If you need 16 episodes, fine. If the story requires 70 episodes then that’s fine. The length should be organic to the narrative. We need to have enough time to wrap up the battlefield storyline, Qi Min/Qian Qian storyline, the Wei family storyline concerning Xie Zheng, the Fan siblings mystery and the reconciliation between Changyu and Xie Zheng. And that’s not even including the stuff with grand princess, Qi Shu and Gongsun. And of course we have to demolish poor Li Huaian’s hopes of ever being with Changyu. Lol. So there is a lot to do with so few episodes. I trust this director to give us a good ending, but I’m sure he would have loved more episodes to play with.

Have they confirmed the transmigration will get used in series?

She’s showing no love for this guy. It’s a one sided obsession. I personally think the director is brilliantly using Cdrama romance tropes with them to show how dark and twisted Qi Min’s mind is. You can clearly see that Qian Qian hates him and is repulsed by his touch. But in his mind, it’s romantic play. If you view this couple from the lens of Qi Min, you see a tropey bad guy/good girl Cdrama romance. But if you view it through Qian Qian’s lens you see a woman who has been raped and traumatized. I think the director is trusting the audience to recognize to true nature of this relationship.

The sad part though is there will only be 13 episodes left after that. So much to resolve in such a small amount of time.