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Ep 10: Oh my budget!

>how He Yan and his master met

This was actually mentioned in the drama in episode 1 albeit only a single line mentioning how her master saved her from a pile of corpses before.

I bet many viewers will miss this because the initial episodes were so chaotic. Without having read the novel before, I would definitely miss this as well.

In the novel, while He Yan was still a foot soldier during her first life, she was on the verge of death after a battle. Liu Bu Wang is a wandering master, and happened to pass by that area and saved He Yan by chance. Afterwards, he taught her martial arts, formation art, etc, which helped He Yan tremendously in her rise to General Feihong. Hence, Liu Bu Wang was like a master as well as a father figure for He Yan.

The most proactive people in MDL are often haters lol

I've seen in other drama pages as well, like on day 1 of airing, some ppl already rated 1.0 all the way to the final episode.

She is older than both of them. She's 24 or something in the drama?

Bascially the same undertone. Less interference to the leads relationship, but being selfish is all the same. But, he never went ape shit for romantic feelings because he was always clear headed and prioritizes his benefits and survival.

I really dig the drama version. That whole scene was so beautifully done imo. Wu Zhen aurafarming and MZY's lingering stare.

Viewed as a standalone drama, it's alright despite its flaws.

Compared to the novel, not at all. Too many character details and nuances were lost during the adaptation process. Just take He Yan for example. What we saw in the drama about her capabilities and moments as a general were not even half of what was in the novel.

Also, drama basically skim through many of the events without giving the details or building proper background. The drama wanted to fit all the major plots from the novel but seems to not have enough space at all.

I held out my hope until they zoomed in on the arrowhead lmao 😂😂😂

And who the f would bring his pregnant wife who is already several months along to the freaking frontline. They were like going on a picinic. There are a lot of things if we really want to nitpick. lol

1. HE
2. A couple minutes of angst in their relationship
3. You mean marriage? Then, final episode.

ikr... Yan He's death in the novel hit me so hard. His dying process was so gradual and heartbreaking that it was like being chocked slowly. And Xia Chengxiu's extra story left me with snot and tears. Yan He was such a bro and he was written so well despite the limited appearance.

In the drama, it was like the death of a no name foot soilder. If you are not going to do it well, why not let him live... I was even thinking that Yan He might live in the drama given the direction of the script, and yet they just had to cram this one in.

For me, massive frustration toward the script. I loved everything else aside from that.

That Chu Zhao's crap was soooo unnecessary. Why not allocate that screen time to the final military campaign or something more relevant to the story... what we got was so rushed that there was no angst at all with the final battle. There was no build up to the side characters so there was no sense of loss either when it happens.. I was like "oh, this one bite the dust"... and that's it.

The amount of frustration towards the script was palpable. I'm not even comparing with the source material for this comment. This drama could have been so much more, but alas it is what it is.

Visually very gorgeous, one of the best productions in recent dramas. Story is light and enjoyable so far. The whole drama gives off ghostly and eerie vibe, and personally like it a lot.

ML is serious and upright with a tint of innocent personality. FL is flirtatious, carefree, and domineering noona type. I'm sold on their dynamics. We don't see these very often.

So far, there's not much angst, but the main plot seems to be picking up in pace with tomorrow's episodes. So, there may be some angst there I guess. For me, this drama is a no skip, no fastforward one, and each episode was over in the blink of an eye.

Haters at work as usual. Also, due to region restrictions, many international viewers who actually want to watch this couldn't watch it yet.

Shuang Jiang: Foxes are smelly and ugly!
Hu Zhu: "grumbling fox noises"

lmao.. I'm loving the side characters as well 🤣🤣🤣

I read initial few chapters, it looks like the universe is the same with demons and everything. Seems just the plot is changed for the drama.

On the other end of the spectrum, there are groups of people who want the leads to get together in ep2 and have a baby by ep5. Joke aside, at the least what I see most often is comments of a drama being 'not fast enough', not 'not slow enough'... I like both kinds as long as the story is solid though.

This is the first drama I pick up for a day among the airing dramas I'm following. I'm just having too much of a blast with it lol 😆

They are already onto each other so it's soon I guess. The probings and the tension though, loving it!

I'm ignoring the MDL rating for this drama for now. I know this drama is legit good, and I love it as well. I'm on the ride till the end.

Of course, would love to see the rating it deserves here as well, so did my part and rated it accordingly, but can just hope as more viewers come in, they can overcome the haters.