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This is so good! Regretted not waiting for more episodes to drop before I start 😭 waiting daily for new episodes is painful.

Watched all 6 episodes. Solid start so far! Love that the FL is a badass who can fight! Hope the plot stays good till the end.

Precisely! I really wanna know what were the producer, director, scriptwriter thinking when they made and approved the drama…… the drama obviously has a decently big budget with the filming onsite etc and they used it to ruin such a beautifully written novel?? The plot is literally there in the novel and they intentionally changed so much of it, especially the ending. I know no drama can be exactly like the novel but this drama deviates so much, and the changes they made are for the worse. I’m not surprised the douban rating is the lowest I have seen ever. Sad for fans of princess agents and the novel.

At ep 32, I don’t understand why would Simu punished herself to uphold the decree and losing her powers at this time, knowing full well that Yan Ke is up to no good?!! Without her powers, Yan Ke could easily rebel now and also kill Duan Xu… Simu could have just taken the punishment AFTER getting rid with Yan Ke no?? Very frustrated with the plot now, making little sense just to move things along.

Exactly, I’m quite upset. Haven’t watched the ending yet but I can already guess based on all the comments below. The drama is so good, but the ending just gotta ruin it.

Question for novel readers - is the plot heavy on angst? I love fantasy dramas which tend to be more angst like Till the end of the moon, Ten miles of peach blossom etc, so wondering if this will be something similar. TIA!

Loving the drama so far! Great acting from Dilraba, especially the real vs fake Xiaoxiao!

Thank you! I was watching from the official channel and didn’t realised there’s more to that scene!

Yea, really illogical writing in this middle arc. Sad that the drama degraded so much from the first arc. Such wasted potential.

Precisely, he’s like a 2D character at this point. Just there to simp for FL. What a wasted potential.

Agreed. The ML feels kinda 2D at this point. Limited character development, barely any action scenes for a supposedly great general, and where’s his fleshed out backstory?! His backstory just seemed conveniently forgotten at this point.

And don’t get me started on the FL in the last few eps. So reckless and somehow she miraculously gets away with breaking military rules, knocking her commander out cold, getting distracted in the middle of war with prince changxin, finding time to group cry for Mandi with the ragtag crew in the heat of fighting, etc etc. so much plot holes and illogical writing in this middle arc.

I think the first village arc until ep 18 or so was the best part of this drama. I think it actually went downhill after the village massacre. ML barely had any action battle scenes - we audience were just being told that he’s a great general but barely shown any of his fight scenes in battle. If u don’t like it up till ep 18, u will probably not like it even more in the subsequent episodes. I watched up till ep 32 and will finish this drama when all the episodes come out, but I’m definitely not as excited as when the show was in the first arc.

I rated this show 9.5 in the beginning but it will probably go down to 8.5 or 8 for me, unless the final arc really improves tremendously compared to this middle arc.

Agreed, Exactly my sentiments!

Yea agreed! except for that random girl cousin of Sui yuanqing who took up unnecessary screen time. her appearance was so random, and doesn’t move the story at all.

Precisely! She wanted others to respect her decisions, but here she’s not respecting Li Huaian’s decision to continue fighting in the war and imposed what she thinks is best for him by knocking him out. I love changyu’s character in the drama but she should have respected his choice in this instance.

Precisely! She wanted others to respect her decisions, but here she’s not respecting Li Huaian’s decision to continue fighting in the war and imposed what she thinks is best for him by knocking him out. I love changyu’s character in the drama but thought she should have respected his choice in this instance.

This drama is so good! I binged it all in 2 days! Why is the MDL rating so low with so few watchers.. honestly I didn’t even know abt this drama until my dad (who’s super picky with dramas) told me that the plot is really good, a very very rare compliment from someone picky like my dad. Pls watch it everyone! The first 2 eps may be a little boring but it gets soooo much better after that.

Great pacing and plot twists, amazing character development for the leads and well fleshed out villains, good acting all around and a good ending!

The summary above promises complex bizarre cases, with the drama genre categorised as thriller and mystery.. but why do the cases have such limited screen time?? The drama seems to focus more on their personal lives, which I felt wasn’t well integrated into the drama either. I can’t seem to connect with the characters, and honestly don’t care abt their personal lives. The drama is like half baked - limited focus on cases which wasn’t intense enough, and their personal lives were not engaging at all. The drama can’t seem to decide what genre it wants to be... I was expecting a good thriller with more focus on cases like Under the Skin, or the more recent The Truth Within, but this is not it.

Luo Yunxi is gorgeous in fantasy costume dramas! He needs to act in more of these!

Watch Love and Redemption. Very satisfying happy ending. It’s my favourite cheng yi’s drama.