Dextran77

Anyone know what verified/stars rating is? When you click the drama rating and it shows a "breakdown", that's one of the ratings shown and it's almost always much lower for every cdrama I see

imo all these villains are just evil for the sake of it, the sad/tragic histories are just excuses they give themselves to justify their villainous acts. ML and FL also have sad histories but they don't go around murdering and plotting against the innocent. Even if ml went back for Murong Yao and his dad, Yao would probably find another excuse in the future to justify betraying ml. He's just ambitious and jealous.

Suige going through it. The conversation with Yixao was really heartbreaking. He now only has Yixiao. His sister left, father is dying, his brother has been turned against him and his other brother is a traitor

Is it said/confirmed anywhere that he lost his memory or are you guessing that?

Agreed but considering we already saw the super peaceful house in the middle of nowhere, it's most likely that's where they will end up. First and foremost I want them alive even if it's away from the palace or the battlefield lol, but I'd prefer they are alive as rulers or generals

Prime minister Zhuang and/or Murong Yao will probably be the midpoint bosses then XJS as the final boss as he tries to get his so called great ambition/plan.

Pretty much just names and their titles. Almost all the characters' personalities are very different, motivations and plot are also very different. The big standout that is still similar is the relationship between the princess and sml(princess being obsessed with him) but based on trailers, intro and outro, that won't go the same way as the novel either. imo it's for the better

The scenes of them understanding each other from far away were so good. When FSG finds out she didn't leave and when FYX realizes FSG's people are helping her and she does a little smirk. Now this is a power couple!

The way he broke her jaw...She brought it upon herself but damn

She grew up sheltered because she's a princess that's loved by the emperor her father, empress (step mother who seems to genuinely care for her) not because of the ml's "overprotectiveness". Thibking about it, he was most likely in the army as she was growing up.

He's asking her not to marry an enemy prince, she refuted and he took a step back and allowed her to marry him. He's now asking her not to go to the enemy prince's nation. Even ignoring all the evil shit sml did, there is no explanation needed for why he doesn't want that. In fact we see early on that ml is actually supportive of her having "freedom" when he takes her out before the marriage fiasco. None of the "sniffling" love you accuse him off.

Nah. Perhaps your argument would make more sense if the guy actually loved her back. Stealing an important token from the emperor, eloping, threatening to kill yourself, being a human shield, not listening to your brother and father who have shown you nothing but love and adoration, betraying both of them, betraying her kingdom..All because he didn't kill her. He didn't even save her, he just didn't kill her. All for someone who has told her that they will never love her. That's delusion. There's no way to excuse her after he told her that

Even if ml told her, she would have just said he was lying to try and stop the marriage/eloping and you know it. She is beyond obsessed with the idea of love. At best it's extreme naivety due to her sheltered upbringing and at worst just outright delusion. I don't outright hate her but her actions are inexcusable. I can only hope for redemption for her.

👍I'm honestly just hoping there's some redemption arc for her instead of it just being a lesson for the viewers from seeing the consequences she will obviously suffer. I also wouldn't dig too deep for plot holes lol. It's a cdrama adapted from a webnovel, the drama isn't winning any oscar neither is the novel winning any noteworthy award. Although, it is still fun to discuss and find possible explanations for potential plotholes.

And his biggest contender for that award is his wife🤣🤣

No, from his pov she will survive based on the peace treaty. Even fl says that they wouldn't harm her because of it.

Im guessing before the escape, his logic is that telling her will just lead to her alienating him like she did when he tried to dissuade her from the marriage. He also thinks it's fine since they are in his backyard. He spoilt and sheltered her from when she was young so this is probably him doing the same for her happiness.

After he catches them, all he's trying to do is bring her back. Even after she threatens to end her own life he tries to physically restrain her and bring her back. She then acts like a human shield for sml and ml seems extremely hurt. He may perceive it as another betrayal from someone close to him hence the "broken" state he's in as they leave. There's no time or chance to tell her and even if he did, she wouldn't believe him. Those are the reasons I see why he doesn't tell her before and after the escape

Oh, my bad. I thought you were caught up. It's just that ml already already tried to dissuade her from the marriage and was met with very extreme resistance. If he suddenly came up and started telling her that sml is some mega villain, the princess would just think he's once again trying to stop the marriage and push ml away again. It would probably have the opposite result and push her towards sml

Seems like both Ning Fei and Yixiao weren't informed. XJS definitely knew that Yixiao would object so that's probably why he didn't tell her. Ning Fei would probably snitch to Yixiao lol

He's a manipulative psychopath who believes in his " great ambition". I assume he really thinks he's a good person and will do "righteous" things but also won't bet an eye at evil(killing 300k people, death camps, manipulating FYX and her brothers). He probably has actual orphanages built up, feeds the poor, supports peasants, but will also send orphans to death camps, ridiculously tax the poor in times of personal need and sacrifice countless lives for his own goals.

Even in this scenario, he could easily dump the princess after escaping the palace/border and that would be the truly good thing to do since he won't love her. It's probably not the director's intent but XJS taking the princess to his kingdom just looks like more manipulation to me. Even though I don't like her, I also hope she won't die or suffer roo much for FSG's sake

She stole a very important token, betraying her father and brother who have been the 2 closest people to her. She threatened to end her own life. She has yet to listen to any advice given to her by the ml about the sml. She guilt tripped ml when he didn't agree to her marriage. All for someone she met once and fell in love with because he didn't kill her. Do you really think she would listen if the ml told her that the sml is bad?

Ignoring all that, the ml thought the sml would stay in their kingdom so even if she got what she wanted she shouldn't be in immediate danger. Telling her after chasing them in that high intense scenario would just make her think he's lying. With how obsessed she is, even telling her in a normal scenario would just make her claim ml is lying to stop the marriage.

Its probably 21/22 with the heartbreak. The trailer shows ml getting buried so one of those symbols probably represent that scene. It's probably ep22 based on the story so far

This!! I really hope they keep it this way. It's the same reason I loved Coroner's diary and Who rules the world. After both those dramas I tried so hard to find another costume drama where it doesn't feel like the relationship is paper thin but almost all the suggestions are disappointing. I really hope there's no breakup especially not due to noble idiocy