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Your welcome. I hope you get to the brilliant ending. it's a drama which is great to rewatch because small insignificant scenes ( like the lady getting abducted during the lantern festival) have massive consequences in later episodes.

I was a seasoned cdrama watcher when I first watched it and I was confused. it wasn't clear at first that Minglan and her mother were living in the same household as her father. it is an epic drama with a massive cast and at times it seems that nothing is going on, but things can take a long time to work out. when I rewatched it I realised that when I thought nothing was happening, everything was happening. stick with it, it has episodes we're lots of things tie together and it suddenly becomes clear.

Absolutly stole the show in AMA but didn't get the plaudits others did.

It is a happy if unexpected ending. Once together Awu and the general are commited but events see them seperated several times.

Slightly on Awu's part. She has to recuperate at a monestry and when returning she suspects the general....but is in for a very pleasant surprise.

Helen! I fellt so sorry for her boyfriend who scrimped snd saved to get them out of that situation and she treated him like he was nothing.

About episode 25 after a visit to the lantetn festival.

The Marquis is badly damaged by having to take over responsibility for his family at a young age after his father and elder brother were killed by the rival family, and he hates his home life because of the concubines forced on him by his toxic mother. He doesnt know how to communicate with Shiyi because women have always fawned over him, and he has never experienced a woman who has challenged him and given him solutions to problems he had never even considered.

https://mydramalist.com/15338-the-princess-wei-young

Princess WieYoung is pretty much the same story, in fact when I read the Synopsis for the Double, I thought it was a remake of Princess WieYoung, but there are some differences.

Not in the Aviation industry but it's fairly accurate apart from a couple of things. Tan SongYun's character would be physically too small to fly a commercial airliner (Her feet wouldn't reach the rudder pedals). The part about the Airport being closed would be easy to prove in a few minutes on the internet.

it's a really under rated drama, I really enjoyed it.

You should watch WJY in the Story of Yanxi Palace. she is scared of no one, even the emperor as she tries to get revenge for the death of her sister in the forbidden city.

WJY starred in The Story of Yanxi Palace which is one of the most watched cdramas in recent years. she is also a very talented dancer, she was accepted into the prestigious Chinese National Ballet but had to retire due to a persistent foot injury at 19 and then persued a career in acting.

fantastic peice of acting, Minglan only has one line in that whole scene " I never intended to marry into the house of Liang" but madam Lin visably collapses from desperatly clinging to her prestige to crawling after Minglan as she left the room.

Wait until episode 33. Are you in for a ride!

it's slow burn. As the saying goes 'The course of love does not run smooth' so there are a few misunderstandings but the side chracters make up for it. Their back stories are surprising and sometimes shocking.

I believe there was a cook book released with it, but unfortunately it is in Mandarin and has not been translated.

Why is Sevens stock low? I thought she was pretty much in demand.

If you have not seen it The Sword and the Brocade is almost the same story but much lighter. I watched it before Minglan and it doesnt have the same depth and richness of writing but Shiyi is so like Minglan

You missed the demise of Madam Lin in episode 33! The whole drama turns on that, the first time Minglan shows her claws.