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I am excited to see her do more range. My favorite modern drama of hers is Dating in the Kitchen and my favorite costume drama is The Long Ballad. I liked her in WRTW, she was really into her character and she did really well, but I think she was better in TLB.

I honestly have to say I did not enjoy the Blue Whisper and I usually like dramas like that. I really like Dilraba and Allen Ren, but I just couldn't get into it no matter how hard I tried. I fast forwarded a bunch and skipped a few, watched the ending and it still never grabbed my attention. Ancient Love Poetry was the same way and I love Xu Kai in ancient garb and Leon Lai, the female lead threw me off of that one, I couldn't get past her. I haven't watched A Dream of Splendor, but I have heard it is really good, so I will have to check it out. I have currently been rewatching dramas I love and watching modern day Korean dramas I have missed.

Thank you for letting me know. I was going by what MDL had posted above. So i guess i will binge the episodes this weekend.

Excited to start watching this. I am going to wait til Thursday and watch all the episodes for this week then. I am hoping this comment section will be as friendly as WRTW's was. I am so looking forward to Leo Wu and Zhao Lusi, love both their acting. Also, I have noticed a lot of people aren't using spoiler tags. Please, please, please remember to use your spoiler tags. Thank you and will be looking forward to adding more comments in the future.

I can see that. I know that he seemed to feel he was nothing unless he was a police, so he kept inserting himself into their missions, etc. I felt bad for him, but I felt there were several other ways the story could have gone. But that could be true with any story or drama. I guess it was in a way a fitting end for him, and at the same time I just didn't see the justification in his death. To me I felt like he didn't care that he could possibly leave his wife and daughter alone, that in a way he only cared about himself. I really feel bad for his wife and now she has to go on and raise their daughter alone.

I love this post. This is how I feel. I tell my husband all the time about how I love how the Chinese have so much knowledge and respect for their history and you can still see it today. They don't try to destroy it or ignore it. They acknowledge it and show it in their works.

I still didn't like the fact that they spent so much focusing on him. I felt his storyline was so overkill. I don't mean for this to sound bad, it just he wasn't really one of the main leads and it is like they spent almost the whole second half of the series all about him, granted there were other stories, etc, but I felt that there could have been so many more stories told and his should have just ended when he went to prison. I was sad about the way he died, I did like that it brought Yang Shu back at the end to the apartment with all of them. I actually thought Li Di Wei's master would have been the one to step in front of the bullet and die, I didn't really like that they had Jian Jun do it, it didn't make sense they allowed him to be at the scene, that honestly imo would never have happened. But I am not the storyteller and it still was a great series.

Ahhh yes, I have seen that (sort of), didn't know why I didn't put it together. Yeah I can see your point. I really like the actors in it, but I agree with your review. I found it slow and I fast forwarded and skipped episodes til the end. It was a good drama, but it wasn't for me.

I have seen that abbreviation before, but for some reason I can't figure it out, What is the show CLOY?

yeah, they really did have great chemistry in this drama, just no romance. I would love for them to have another series where they have a romance.

Nope, just really good friends and colleagues. It really is a good watch and doesn't need the romance aspect, imo.

Yeah I am thinking of starting A Dream of Splendor as well. I don't know if I want to try and catch up to the series or wait till it is done and binge it, same with Heroes. I usually prefer binging. Lately though, I have been watching series as they air, it is a different feeling watching as air than binging. I watched the first episode of Flames of War, mainly cause Leon Lai is in it, but I couldn't get into it. I am not a huge retro era drama watcher, although I did really like Arsenal Military Academy.

I love your review. Very concise and I find you did an excellent job of showcasing everything this wonderful drama has to offer.

Yang Shu got to come back in the last episode. What a good ending! This very well could be a great series to continue. The cast was phenomenal, the acting, and the stories. I have never been a fan of this type of genre or drama, but the acting made this very entertaining to watch. I loved it all. Sad to see it end.

Ahhh the teaser for episode 38!!! Also, nice to see Yang Shu again, but probably the last time, cause I saw on XKC's instagram page his farewell to his character. And, can we please stop having storylines about Jian Jun. I thought his story was over and yet they keep bringing him back.

The two new episodes were a little slow for me. I did like seeing how everyone (when I mean everyone, I mean even the people in the different areas they were at) in their own way celebrates the new year. It was nice to see the chief reach out to Jian Jun's family and invite them to the celebration at the police station. When Chief Gao was requesting 2 young men, I had a little hope they would be bringing Yang Shu back, but unfortunately not. I do hope we see him again. I can't believe they didn't invite him to their celebration.

they haven't shown any other than really close friends/colleagues, we might see some now that both their moms are becoming really good friends, but I don't know, there's only 6 episodes left so I guess we shall see

her mother seems to be better after that talk with xia jie's master, household register is probably a better fit for her, at first I thought she wasn't going to be at the same station, I didn't realize the household register was right there, so I feel better about her going there. I was afraid they were going to move her like they did Yang Shu.

XJ's mother is unreasonable. How can she demand her daughter be transferred? I am sorry if I was her daughter I would make her seek help. I understand she lost her husband, but it has been over 12 years. She really needs help if she is being this clingy and irrational still. She really doesn't care about her daughter, it is all about her feelings. If she did she would let her daughter live her life.

I wonder if Bai Lu and Zhang Ruo Yan were really laughing "BTS" when his "mom" was dragging her "mom" across the street to go eat. That was funny. I think my favorite character is LDW's mom.