marnie

OK, I'll continue with the drama afterall I do like Esther Yu and I don't understand all the 1 star reviews directed at her. She's a cutie and I like her acting and I don't have any problem with her voice.

Thank-you, I'll read it. I've only watched 2 episodes of the drama but I don't know if I'll continue since there are so many complaints about the ending.

Is the book good to read and does the drama follow the book?

LYN's personal maid, Qingqu, looks like a younger version of Hilary Swank who acted in Million Dollar Baby.

We are two thirds through the drama and despite all the flaws, inconsistencies and poor editing I still find this cdrama very watchable mainly because they didn't dumb down the heroine and portray her as needing a man to save her all the time. In fact she even saved MJH from death and I particularly enjoyed watching her fighting skills which are very well executed and rare in cdramas where heroines are constantly portrayed as damsels in distress even when the books stress that they are expert fighters.

You are so right about the bad edits as I watched everything and yet now I find out from you that ML is the saintess bride which is new to me. The end of ep.20 emphasized that MJH had lost all power because the emperor was in a coma and handed all power to CP so MJH did not want to risk ML's life, especially as she was already weakened by the momai poison and she had less than a year to live and needed to be treated soon. Now the cp's in prison and the risk was gone but all of a sudden ML became the saintess bride which was not even accentuated before.

In ep.23 ML woke up in YQ's carriage and rushed back on horseback by herself and so did she actually get to MRJH's bedside or was MRJH only hallucinating that he saw her as the maid informed him that no one came? I find this confusing as the next scene is of her and YQ all dressed up to return to Xiyan. If she really was by his bedside it's disappointing that she did not clear up past deeds and misunderstandings between them so it feels more like a hallucination to me.

Thanks for clarifying, I was a bit confused there.

I thought LM was sharing the poisoned wine with cp but then only cp died so I guess her love was not deep enough.

You mean those soldiers going up the steps were real living beings? I thought they were the departed souls of the slaughtered Weibei army at Qingzhou since they did not even salute the prince as he walked down the steps as required by imperial protocol.

I get lost in so many names so who is Cheng Rong at the beginning of ep.15 and why did the crown prince kill him?

So what happened in that scene as I don't quite get it? Did he pee on himself as all I can see is some wetness but didn't they just come out of the lake which could explain the wet patch?

I read the first chapter of the novel and the rape was described very plainly and after that I did not want to continue reading as I cannot tolerate abusive treatment of women by men. To be fair I did ask others here who have read the novel whether they would recommend reading it and they all said no. The previous poster obviously wants a more romantic version and the drama will deliver that later on, but on the night in question that you asked about he was already setting her up to be killed soon so do you think he would have any tender feelings for her at that point?

Spending the night together is putting it kindly. He's using her to satisfy his lust as she was disposable and nowadays we would call it rape.

How did I miss all these details? I have to re-watch the first 3 episodes. Thanks again!

Happy Ending. In the book ML, in anger and despair with her leaving him, kept whipping her supposed burial site based on the comments here and in the drama trailer you see him doing the same. Ofcourse the drama made some changes and have her really lying under a layer of flowers.

Thank-you so much! The first 3 episodes threw so much details at me at such a rapid pace that I had information overload and utter confusion. So how did she figure out he's not really her enemy?

I don't know if the drama will follow the novel closely but is the novel good?

Don't worry, in the book, ML also thought Meilin was dead and it's a HE.

Ii's all jumbled in my mind as well, in which episode did the FL try to kill ML before she started training as an assasin? I also don't understand how her trying to kill ML would expose the Crown Prince as the real culprit for the massacre.