I usually endure at least to 1/3 of a drama I've started before making any judgement about it. But after seeing…
This is doubly sad because the source material is quite good.
And if that bath scene was supposed to be fan service, it failed miserably. Nothing to see there. Men in their late 20's/early 30s shouldn't look like teenage boys, someone, please, feed them!
My point was just to that in the drama it looked like it was a complete surprise to the FL that the ML was alive. In the novel the FL and the ML both knew that the only treatment available to him was to go beyond the frontier to try to get cured and that it would take some time, likely years. So they fake his death, she becomes Empress Dowager and waits for him and he comes back when the kid emperor is 7 or 8. I only read the ending when I was trying to decide whether to watch the drama. The novel has about 800 chapters, I wasn't that interested in it.
Just finished. The ML was good. The SML was fabulous. The FL ... not so much. I liked the OST. If I didn't read the ending of the novel the ending wouldn't have made sense to me.
All Minghao's characters are like this. At first, they tell you he won't survive, then in the middle they give…
My point is that from the character's POV some may consider this kind of a resolution a happy ending. Not me personally. I don't want it. In fact, I would hate it.
All Minghao's characters are like this. At first, they tell you he won't survive, then in the middle they give…
Just to play devil's advocate for a minute, did you watch Nirvana in Fire? Would you call that ending sad? You know pretty much throughout the drama that the ML is doomed, but he accomplished all his goals so the ending was satisfying. If he was cured at the last minute, it would have been a cop-out. But I don't want this kind of ending here.
All Minghao's characters are like this. At first, they tell you he won't survive, then in the middle they give…
Yeah, this is the version of a "happy ending" I am afraid of - you have done all you wanted to do, your good name is restored and your beloved is well. The Love of Nirvana-type "happy ending". Thanks but no thanks.
Emperor Wen Xi didn't frame Lu and An families. It was the Empress Dowager of Northern Qin's crime. She died,…
Both ML and FL get poisoned. There is only one antidote, so ML gives it to FL. ML becomes emperor, but does shortly afterwards. FL becomes Empress Dowager and their child becomes emperor. In other words, a very bittersweet ending.
Emperor Wen Xi didn't frame Lu and An families. It was the Empress Dowager of Northern Qin's crime. She died,…
Well, if he doesn't want the d*man title and Li Mao does, so be it. The title is a shackle. He has carried that burden long enough.I just want them happy and alive. We will see, I suppose.
I'm glad he actually has an interesting role here.
I kind of feel that he is playing Li Mao in the same wishy-washy and indecisive way as he did his character in Fate Chooses You. Except that in Fate Chooses You his character wasn't as essential to the plot so it wasn't as noticeable. I'm realizing that the only drama I really liked him in was A Dream Within A Dream, where his character was really well-written.
And if that bath scene was supposed to be fan service, it failed miserably. Nothing to see there. Men in their late 20's/early 30s shouldn't look like teenage boys, someone, please, feed them!