Deirdre19

Hahaha, why an exemption for Zhuo Hao? This annoying stalker should go first!

The bad writing and plot holes become more apparent as the drama progresses and many people are annoyed by this (especially since the source material was coherent and without these obvious plot holes).
It would, however, be unfair to punish the actors and the rest of the production team for the poor writing by giving an overall low rating.

It's maybe not a bad thing if they delay the rating until the drama is finished. There are too many people giving out hate-ratings after watching just one episode and they are spoiling it for everyone else.
The rating on MDL is pretty unreliable anyway, there are far too many bad dramas with 8+ rating just because there's some pretty idol-boy in them.

I think it's something to do with him being from the Qi royal family. The Qi tribes seem to all have very different characteristics.
Maybe her father was a dissident and cursed with something that only the royal family can heal... some sort of medical blackmail to keep him in line. It would explain his frequent trips to their territory.

Don't worry... it's not going to be long. So far the pacing of this drama is really good, no draggy bits!

If you need some help with editing let me know...

Aaah, pour JT looks like a bored adult visiting a kindergarden in this clip. This must be a tougher acting job than the actual drama...
The fact that the director/editor didn't keep a scene that the ML described as his favourite says a lot about the bad editing/directing decisions that plague this drama.

Screen-writers must be the only people on the planet that looooovvvve misunderstandings. It's such a lazy substitute for their lacking creativity

Don't blame YF, blame the script-writers that seem to have no sense of logic and coherence. See Amy's post with the differences btw novel and drama for details of how this should have been.

Thanks for pointing this out. So for the script-writers "adapting a novel" seems to mean replacing any original idea with the same old tropes (misunderstandings, wardobe failure, etc. etc.) that we've already seen a thousand times. And why do they feel the need to make all the characters look stupid? Isn't that clown make-up already bad enough?
It is normal that writing for the screen has to be different from a novel and if they toned down certain aspects of the novel it would be understandable, but they seem to take all the original material and turn it into something completely different!
The same happened with Unchained Love where they tried to turn a rather dark novel into a stupid comedy.
Forget about annoying SFLs, those screen-writers are at the top of my "must-be-sent-to-the- underworld list"!

I just stopped and watched that passage with the Qi court again. I couldn't read the subtitles as fast as they were flashing past 😅

I know, it's all part of the fun!! It would be boring if we could guess it all after a few episodes.

Either people complain the pace is slow or they complain that there's too much information thrown at them in a short time. You can't please them all...

I think he is only nice to his little brother because little bro has no interest/ambitions in politics. He's definitely up to something and I wouldn't be all astonished if he was even plotting with the opposition in Qi. The murder of those ambassadors was very suspicious!

Welcome to the dark side 😈

It seems that C-dramas still have a blind spot for the stalker-type obsessive guys.

Whenever there is a SFL obsessively chasing the ML everyone hates her, but guys with this kind of behaviour can even become ML (like that horrible one in Ashes of Love, who shamelessly chased his brother's fiancé even when there was zero interest from her).
There is a fine line between being eager and being a pest and some guys just miss it.

Well... nobody forces you to watch all available episode in one go 😉
In solidarity with YF, resist your urges! 😂😂😂

Ah, Tencent... it must be run by some evil old immortals...

Yes, it is a very good drama! When I look at the intense hatred that some of the supporting cast have generated, I have to conclude that the actors did a very good job in their roles.
Please just all remember to separate the actor from the role and appreciate their hard work making us hate their drama characters so much.

Am I the only one thinking that Wen Ying isn't as nice as he appears to be? I'm getting some serious duplicitous vibes from him... wouldn't be astonished if he was the one stirring up the Qian-Qi conflict behind the scenes.