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It wasn't on Viki, it was on on iQIYI. Sometimes I wonder if the subs are either AI-generated or done by someone who does not appreciate the nuances of the language because ...yeah ;)

Does anyone know what the story is with the name Jiang Dashan and why JYC was complaining about it?

Ok, since we are asking questions:

I actually think that in some ways in the drama they made the LYC character worse. In the novel, he was scheming, but in some respects, outside of his relationship with the princess, he had more free will and eventually finally realized he needed to leave Mudan and JYC alone. The princes, OTOH, was beyond redemption horrible in the novel. Yeah, in the KMLM novel, the ML was horrendous, it was not love, it could only be full-on Stockholm syndrome, whoever wrote that must really hate women.

Hmm... It's hard to say. While I feel that this couple in the drama were sort of, to an extent, victims of their circumstances, I am ok with their ending - they kind of had it coming. But if they have gotten their cabin in the mountains, I would have been ok with it too because they have learned their lesson in the end. But it was very hard to see the SFL in the novel as a victim of her upbringing, she was just too selfish and cruel for no reason.

In the novel she has no redeeming qualities whatsoever while LYC sort of does.

It has nothing to do with the novel.

The SFL is much worse in the novel than she is in the drama. By the end of the novel LYC divorces her and her family pretends she is crazy and imprisons her in their home.

The novel is VERY different.

What a delightful drama! As a single piece with Flourished Peony, this is definitely one of my top three! And I am so glad I discovered it recently and didn't have to go through the wait!

The princess is actually worse in the novel believe it or not. LCY is actually somewhat better, not as evil. In the end, he divorced the princess and sort of grudgingly realizes that constantly trying to one-up JCY and Mudan gets him nowhere and he should just go off and live his own life and leave them alone.

Thanks!

Thanks, I understand the JCY killed the Pei guy, but Mr. Xu getting killed by Qian was a total WTF moment and it wasn't clear to me what happened to Qian. I don't have it in me to go rewatch Ep. 19 right now

I only watched once, it was the one that got top scholar, right? I thought he got killed anyway, or did he survive?

The whole thing looked like a dream sequence, not a happy ending.

Episode 19 was sad and tragic, but the acting was phenomenal. My hat is off to everyone, the good guys and the bad guys.

Actually I was wrong on age. Just read a chapter where JCY says he is 20.

The novel is VERY different from the drama. In the book she is married at 14 but Liu Chang doesn't like her and ignores her. Then at about 19 she gets very ill, dies and a modern girl of about the same age somehow wakes up in her time in her body (the novel glosses over as to how or why this happens, it happens in the first chapter). She decides she will not live like this and quickly finds grounds for divorce.

No, at least not so far.

The novel is much more Mudan-centric and JCY does not become an active participant until about 1/3 of the way through.