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Same here.

He's my favourite ml this year and by far.

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Jinxed :'D

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes X'D

Yes. So far he's not in all the episodes but episode 4 mostly features him and you hear him talking a lot :D

Watch episode 4, it's the funniest :))

The budget was 264M yuan, about 65% went into actors salaries, 17% into promotion, 18% into the rest.

You can ignore meng qiqi's opinion and just check the data in there btw.

This explains the budget and viewer retention rate:
https://ent.sina.cn/2026-07-20/detail-iniimkkq4997308.d.html?vt=4
Interested people can translate and read if they want.

¡Feliz cumpleaños🥳 🎉 Xiao Ding, mi querido! Te amo😭💘 Eres un tierno y tienes corazón de hámster, hay ke protejer🥺 ¡Eres el mejor!

Thank god for freewill🥲😓

I'm still sitting in a state of shock from the disappointment tbh. The reuters weren't half as bad as the actual drama is. Idk if it will get better later on, hope it does. All that hype, budget, casts and visuals and this is what we get.

I don't know T_T My poor queen churan is stuck with this director for another drama after this, I'm scared.

To be watching this mediocre parody of a republican drama after watching Archives just a couple of weeks ago is truly an experience. If ZLH and WCR visuals weren't so good together I doubt many would've bothered with this.

I feel sorry for you that this is what you started republican dramas with. I hear it becomes okay after 3 episodes. Maybe you will have a better time from tomorrow.

Haha if there's something to brag, why not brag :)) I can see how much you guys love him, always good to know more about the casts. At least you are staying respectful and informative.

If I remember right, even back in 2023 it was mostly the deng wei fans hyping here along with some excited source fans. The others were few or not even formed yet XD I didn't see him on screen before so this will be the first, looking forward to seeing him act!

Yes, it was very sad for both of them. It's realistic in that despite not getting a happy ending, they managed to leave a better world and life for the next generation. The daughter didn't get the curse and she was also able to become the ruler of the country. So the barriers her mom had worked so hard to break had been broken and her dad's sacrifice was also given meaning. He probably did blame himself even though it wasn't his fault. Shurei chose how she'd spend the rest of her life and they were able to leave a legacy behind. And yes they didn't leave out the other characters too.

Same here, I actually found Ryuki very tragic in his personal relationships. Shurei seemed a bit aro coded but idk if that was a thing when it was written. He was only able to have a very brief married life with her before she died at childbirth. He isolated himself somewhat in the later years after his daughter grew up. It by no means is a fluffy shoujo story that people would normally expect. They'd never have adapted that anyway but I thought they'd keep the tone and characters consistent after seeing the first trailer ages ago. Not sure about now.

Saiunkoku had a lot going on, the segment with the 2ml is only a small part of it. It was more a political, historical fantasy focusing on the characters journeys. It has a great cast of supporting characters too.

Shurei's only love interest had always been ryuki and to an extent, sakujun due to the impact he left. And it was mostly one sided on both their parts for the majority of the story. She was simply in civil service and worked in fields that were almost entirely male dominated and considered beyond women's abilities and interests. Thus the abundance of male characters.

It doesn't mean everyone is in love with her or that she was choosing lover from a harem of men. Riley's character is mistaken to be a love interest in the original by some too even though his affection towards her was more mutually familial and protective instead of turning romantic. She earned the respect and admiration of the characters in her vicinity both male and female, due to her talent and efforts; which in a shoujo series full of handsome men was easy to label as sth else.

Shurei was very caring but her affection, attention and appreciation to others were of different kinds- familial or friendly or aesthatic but never really of the romantic kind. Sakujun's aggressive romantic pursuit of her, his actions and his subsequent death were what had first given her a glimpse of what this love can entail. It opened her eyes to some sides and thoughts of people she was previously not very conscious of. It also caused her to re-evaluate ryuki's words and actions and see them in a different light. Even if she wasn't feeling the same at that point, it let her be aware of it and understand his feelings better, instead of being dismissive or ignorant of it.

It's actually a very mature and unconventional portrayal of a fml in a historical fantasy shoujo series, specially in those days.

Ps. If you are worried fans of the og will keep annoying everyone else, don't be lmao.

At this point a remake is more likely than a continuation tbh. Yona of the Dawn got announced for a 2nd season after 11 years so good to have hopes I guess XD

Omg this. Love triangle this, love triangle that, when the original wasn't even a love angle. It was far more realistic and political than just some reverse harem romance fantasy. Shurei was far ahead of her time. She was an ambitious, independent young girl with so much at stakes and never really showed interest in having a romantic relationship. She was brilliant, hardworking and so focused on breaking barriers for women of that era, that any sort of chasing were more troublesome and threatening for her. Seiran was never her love candidate either despite what people think or ship.

She had chosen Ryuki in the end because she could see how respectful and understanding of her he was and how much he sacrificed for her sake despite his position as king. Even then Ryuki had to wait over a whole decade for her to say yes to him and that too was near the end of her life. She always had her career in focus and wanted to do better for the country and it's people. I'd hate it if she got reduced to some funny prize in a love triangle. I'm trying not to expect much, but we'll see how it goes.