Draco

Some dramas does take longer to draws you in than others. This is opposite for me since I like how much screen times the leads get and how they're working together as well as working against each other. It kind of like getting to know each other through fighting ^^

Some people do die from being pierced, others survived and just gotten injuries. I don't know how badly ml injuries is, but that's just normal in cdramas when it comes to action dramas they can take lots of damages.

Yes she does. In ep 25, he asked her if she loves him and she told him she never loved anyone before, but she knew right away after she kicked him into the well that she loves him. So her definition of love is very different from other girls lol ^^

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Yeah that what I like about lini. I feel the author switched the personality of the ml and fl. Because lini is written with characteristics of a female, while fl is written with characteristics of a male. These two as a result complement each other. I think him being unambitious has a lot to do with not wanting to be tie down and want to be free to travel around compare to being tie to the court and have to fight his own relatives because he's not ruthless enough. While cuilin written as ruthless and always thinking for the good of the country rather than her own feeling. Both are good actor and actress who can portray their characters well enough to carry across to the audience ^^

They haven't declared their feelings for each other and I'm not sure what make you say trust is an issue here. Your thinking is why many times men said women are emotional creatures, men think rationally while women think in term of feeling, fl is written as someone who is rational and often can be ruthless because she's raised in a military family as we've seen when she drugged him when they were surrounded in the early ep when that old couple died protecting them. Ml is a member of the royal family, but he is not verse in the royal court since he was banished to the border since he was young. To think a guy who doesn't like a docile woman, but rather like a woman who can be his equal, who thinks in term of win or loss is consider a doormat just because he likes a challenge. If ml was like other men, he would like someone like miss gu, who was always polite and deferred to him, but he's not like most men and what he said to general pei is exactly why he likes cuilin beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, no matter how gentle miss gu is, she could not catch lini's heart because he never has eyes for her in the first place. Also cuilin might be devious but she's honest, we don't know what's behind miss gu's facade whether she's hiding an uglier face even though she's showing her gentle side to him on the surface.

That's fine if their characters are not the type of characters you like. I'm always liking characters who are written different than the normal ml and fl, this drama has an unusual ml who doesn't have any ambition even though he has all the talents to lead, I want to see if he can stay the same, or if something will happen that will force him to change his thought process. Or the fl being just as smart and talented as any man, who reminded me of another strong fl character I seen in a really old drama I watched when I was younger, she also used needles and also always challenges the ml and they were always at odd with each other due to their different priorities.

Lots of characters in this drama were able to survive being pierced by arrows or spears so it's not just the ml lol ^^

Was this drama trying to compare to those two dramas, it was your choice to make that comparison since you only watch to 8 eps and you already made up your mind, this is an entertaining dramas with two opposing leads and not too heavy on politics as of the eps I'm watching, but could change in the future as ml is force to make a choice. I haven't seen those other two dramas, but I seen the blood of youth and many other historical dramas and I won't say i'm well verse in what makes a good strategy, but i don't think it was bad either. Were they playing on war and politics, both of them are commanders of an army, so they're better at commanding army rather than in court politics. Ml has no ambition or want anything to do with the court and only want to go back to his station to guard the border, fl is different and wants to help her father and to bring peace to the country, since she thinks the current ruling power is weak, so she thinks only her army is able to do that until she met the ml.

The emperor wanted to use the knowledge that cuiyi has a daughter to take his army away by marrying his daughter to his son. His second son wanted to volunteer to marry her knowing his third brother feeling for cuilin, however that emperor is so stupid to think it's a suffering for him when being cuiyi's son-in-law would help him in the fight for the crown prince's title. Cuilin wants to use that command against the emperor by refusing the marriage to the second prince and instead demands the emperor to give her the choice of who she wants to marry. The one she will marry will be the most likely to get support to be the crown prince. The one she wants to marry is lini who doesn't want the crown prince title, but cuilin wants to show him how ruthless his brothers can be in the fight for the crown prince title. She's honest with him by saying she wants him to be the crown prince, and she truly loves him and doesn't care about his title. But unlike lini who's thinking only on what he thinks is the best scenario, cuilin is a realist, and she predicted his brothers will not go easy on him if he's not the crown prince. Sure it might looks like she's manipulating him to get him to become crown prince, but she's just showing him what he wanted will not be as easy as he wanted to believe. Even if lini wants to marry cuilin and didn't want the crown prince title, his brothers will not let him marry her, and would do anything even murder to get the chance to marry her instead. That older brother is such a cruel man to burn his own wife just so he could be consider eligible.

Under the power is wuxia so there's no magic involved if I remember correctly. This drama will have supernatural elements which means magic and demons and humans, but not xanxia type that involves god/goddesses or deities.

You're not wrong, both of them were acting and playing off each other in the beginning. She was using a fake identity as commander ho and hiding her real identity, while he's also acting and pretending to be someone else to fool his enemies to relax their guard. They were both playing a game to see who will win and get the advantage for their army, it's kind of fun seeing how both of them can read each other thoughts because they were anticipating each other's moves.

I'm not on weibo so I wouldn't know. I only know an actor/actress will lose fans after a scandal or something big that hurt their reputation I think they can lose fans from that.

Don't underestimated the both of them, you should watch more to see the bigger picture. Ml to me is nonchalant because he's not ambitious, he only wants to oust the rebels which means he will needs the cuilin army's help. Fl is the daughter of a general but she was raised as a man so her thinking is very like a man getting advantages for her army as well as fighting to bring the country to peace. Both of them will clash because they both have strong feelings and different priorities, but they both want the same thing for the country just they have different ways of seeing how things are done.

I don't think that was the original novel, he was just summarizes how the author usually writes her storyline. But for wol the author written it as happy ending compares to her usual writing style which is typically tragic.

I think this is a very good drama to watch, for those who like romance and strong ml and fl who like to compete with each other in every possible ways ^^

Why do you skip so much, I think the proper way to watch a drama and to enjoy it is to watch every ep and not skipping. This drama is so worth it, I spent a long time watching one ep because I keep repeating the scenes so I don't miss any big moments lol 😆

I'm also looking forward to Abay and his other dramas. I like all the actresses he paired, so I'm sure I like his future one too ^^

Thanks for sharing, this looks interesting and mysterious. Can't wait to find out more about the plot ^^

She was that way when she met him where have you been. He even called her devious and mean, always using trick to win against him. Also you're looking at her as a normal woman being in a relationship with a man, I see her as a commander who happens to be a woman, who won't let herself lose to any man even the man she happens to like. Also they just met, why would you think she would let feeling play into any deals they made, she even try to used his feelings for her to trick him to get the upper hand. Lini falls for cuilin knowing all her tricks and even admire her for it. He tried to return the hairpin so why didn't he. She's a clever woman who wants to test the guy she likes to see what kind of man he's, also she is hiding her identity from him because it's a big secret and her family doesn't want the world to know. Lini wasn't fooled by her and found out anyway.

When was cuilin a damsel in distress, I'll have to find out myself. I agree it was big betrayal by her brother, but she has nothing to do with it, lini blew into a rage and injured her and accused her of planning with the fake cuilin. Should she apologize for something she wasn't even there to witness. Later on he chose to stand on the side and didn't come to help for revenge and her whole army got attacked and her brother died, she was also put in danger, sure if they didn't have feeling for each other she would treat it as normal business, but it's not just anyone but lini who chose to wait it out while she was in danger, why wouldn't she get mad that he chose revenge over her safety. She blew into a rage because she was hurt just like how he did. I see both of them react very strongly because of their feelings for each other. I do see the crown princess and fl are very similar to each other, who would looks at the big picture and do what is necessary for the greater good.

When was she a damsel in distress, she didn't wait for her father to rescue her, but planned with her servant friend to escape. Also she didn't hide her anger for being made a hostage by lini. She said a lot of mean things to lini while she was angry because of grief, most of it are lies that were meant to hurt, but she didn't mean any of it. I think lini being understanding and patience made her able to cope with her grief and guilt over the death of her brother. Also she has already forgiven him, just as he forgiven her for the death of their men that's why they were able to settle their differences.