Deirdre19

Oh dear, I'm watching both and didn't even realise it's the same FL!! 😳 What is wrong with my eyes??? 😵‍💫 😵‍💫 😵‍💫
Either the make-up and styling is out of this world or I was too distracted by the eye-candy next to her...

I see. I haven't read the novel, but I can say from experience, that the complexity of novel characters, especially if they have a slightly "grey" side, hardly ever make it into the drama version.
Sadly, C-dramas like their MLs whiter than white. I still remember one ruthless and imposing Xiao Duo who ended up as a puppy dog in Unchained love.
But I hope against reason that you are right and for once we get to see a great scheming ML.

It's quite clear that he is not as simple as he appears to be. Whether he has the teeth to follow up on his ambitions remains to be seen...
As for the "BEST male lead character" - that sounds very much like the exaggeration of a die-hard fan, especially before we've even seen a third of the drama. While tastes are different, quite a few iconic figures come my mind... for instance Ning Yi of TROP is one tough cookie to beat.

Aaargh, why can't we get any proper kissing scene in a bit drama anymore??
Please don't tell me GJ also claims to be married (to Zhou Zishou?) 😂😂😂

OMG that princess is soooo dumb, I want to scream every time she opens her mouth! And they trusted her with the biggest secret of the show? This will not end well..
Loved the double-entendre with the spying eunuch, though. It's quite impressive that they got away with this!

I just read the synopsis of the novel - sounds like an interesting story and a role tailor-made for Jeremy Tsui. He seems to be playing a lot of prime ministers lately...

There is a beautiful woman in Zhao State, with a rough fate. She went to Wei State far away to find a marriage as she wanted to keep her life and climb up. There is a handsome prime minister in the state of Wei, who is ruthless, merciless and with a sharp tongue. He only wants to achieve his own goals, and he doesn't care about anyone's life. Taohua thinks that everyone has a heart for beauty, so no matter what, saying that you kill her, doesn't mean you can kill her! Shen Zaye smiled and showed her with practical actions - he is not human. "You have the ability to shoot an arrow and let me kill two people!" Taohua yelled, scratching her neck. "Okay, go all the way." Shen Zaiye waved his hands calmly and gave the order. Feather arrows slid past her ears, and a cold feeling hit her whole body. Only then did Jiang Taohua realize that Shen Zaye was really not joking. He would literally kill her. "Your life is mine. I can take it whenever I want." Shen Zaye said slowly, his eyes fell behind her, and he suddenly became sharp: "But I can only take it!"····· · This is a wonderful story of the hero and heroine fighting each other with great joy and passion (gou) and love (xue). Shen Zaiye has a hundred ways to kill Jiang Taohua, and Jiang Taohua has a hundred and one ways to make him let her go. The old fox may not necessarily win, and the little white rabbit isn't certain to lose. The mountains and rivers are beautiful in spring, who will win the battle of the thousands of miles of mountains and rivers?
(This is a machine translation - I didn't get the bit about shooting the arrows...)

I hope he has learned a bit about what to avoid... namely, bad writing and cotton-ball-type co-actresses.

I hope Gong Jun has been practising his jaw-dropping routine 😂 because when he finally sees the light it will hit the floor!!! Outch! 😂😂😂😂

I think the fan was a nod to Wen Kexing...

Yes, that was absolutely brilliant. I especially liked how totally unpredictable everything was. That was quite a wonderful change from the usual romance-heavy dramas.

Yes, it started great, that's why the rather cliched flash-back with the sweetness overload felt so jarring. I hope this was just a temporary fluke in an otherwise thrilling drama.

The subs for the introduction story are quite garbled, but if my interpretation is correct, it tells the story of some ancient fox king who sacrificed himself to banish some great evil under a mountain and this mountain still contains great magic today.

Watched it and found it incredibly boring, only made it to the end because of ZYC. The story is very predictable and cliched, the editing is bad and the acting of the two main leads was mediocre to say the least . The ending (I think it was an open one) was so shitty that I have completely forgotten about the details.

I didn't know any of the original material and still found the drama boring as hell, filled with bad acting. Zheng Yecheng was the only saving grace in this and the only reason that I made it to the shitty ending.

I'm not saying that they shouldn't have done the flashback, but they could have condensed it a bit more. The tone and the pace of the flashback was such a contrast to the first three episodes that it felt boring and no matter the length of each episode, 4/22 is definitely too much.

The first three or four episodes are free for everyone on Viki, no need to subscribe. For the following ones you just have to wait a bit longer than the subscribers. They usually unlock another episode once new episodes are available.

It started with a bang, but after 3 episodes 4 we're back in conventional drama-land with all the boring worn-out romance cliches. Four episodes of flash-back in a 22-episode drama is definitely too much. The little that happened in this flashback could easily have been condensed into 2 episodes.
Let's hope that there will be a bit more action now that we're back in the present.

Wooh! That was quite an explosive first episode!
I hope they can keep up the pace and the unexpected twists and turns...

I would prefer that, too! The world is still complicated enough without these artificial problems, but the script-writers seem to be lacking in imagination so it's always same old same old....

Not even Douban seems to know... Judging by the photos, it seems to be. about some actors playing together in a historical or wuxia drama-