Deirdre19

Yes, starting episode 2 the subs are much better. So I guess they really were in a hurry to push out that first episode ready or not.
I will miss Auspicious, though 🥲

With so few episodes out down-rating this drama really makes no sense. I mean it's ok if someone watches 3 episodes and hates it. In that case simply drop it, but don't be so presumptuous as to give an overall rating something you've barely watched.

Yeah, that cousin of hers is such a useless idiot... whatever he touches turns into 💩
It's nice to see that for once the moron role hasn't been given to the maid (as usual) but to a guy-

We will probably get more flash-backs of this later. That's how they usually treat these traumatic experiences in C-dramas.
And yes, the focus on romance is a bit disappointing, but it is what draws the viewers, so they probably have a lot of romance in the first few episodes to draw people in and then gradually give more time to the political strategies/scheming. At least that's what I hope will happen...

No worries, just ask in case of doubt. I'm getting quite good at re-translating the Mango-subs in my head to make sense of it all. It definitely gets a lot easier with more practice 😅

Yeah, don't try to google it! 🤭🤭🤭

He had to retrieve this flower thingy which is the one remedy that can restore the FL's broken heart meridian. The heart meridian got fatally damaged when she suddenly used her spiritual power (which was restored probably due to his pearl that she "stole") and currently she is only hanging on by the aide of the medallion (called "the last soul", not sure what this is supposed to mean) that he gave her.

Hahaha, I thought the same thing 😂😂😂😂
That scene reminded me of the bathing scene with DongHua in ELOD. All that whiteness and no contours... 😢

According to Youku's Weibo feed we should get an episode tonight...

I don't know any Chinese (other than the snippets picked up from watching too many C-dramas), so I wouldn't be able to identify any dialect.
It's hard to describe the impression the voice had on me, it felt a bit insecure/hesitant and sounded somewhat nasally. The effect was particularly strong in his first scene. It got better once there was a bit more talking.

According to DramaWiki Dilreba is dubbed by Liu Xiao Yu. Of the main cast only Liu YuNing seems to be using his own voice.
I'm not a great fan of dubbing especially when the actors have better voices than what they are "given".

Not even close! The Mango subs are still on quite another level 😂😂😂

Dilreba's voice is horribly squeaky and doesn't fit her character at all. I'm surprised to read that Liu YuNing did his own dubbing because the voice sounds kind of strange, too.

Ok, thanks. I guess this will be revealed at a later stage then..

If Di Ziyuan was banished to live in a monastry, how come nobody has realised that she is no longer there????

There is something about the story that I don't understand, though...

First episode out, so far so good. It's engaging and nicely paced, but why did they give Dilreba such a stupid mickey-mouse-voice again? It really doesn't suit the character!
And to all the people complaining about the subs, if you had done your training watching MangoTV dramas you would consider these subs top-notch 🤣🤣🤣

Which episode was that? The mention of Japan?

Xianxia and historicals are generally much more difficult to translate than modern day dramas. I've reviewed a fair amount of machine translations for novels that I wanted to read and the formal speech used in these genres is an absolute killer!
Also, in xianxia and wuxia there are plenty of colourful terms for objects, skills, poisons, etc.
So even with the best translation software (which clearly isn't what Mango are using 😂) it still needs a human to individually translate/correct all the formal speech, titles and other special terms and reverse the translated personal names back to their original form.

FOMH = Fireworks of My Heart