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Free fall from grace!

I just watched the ending 6 episodes in 3 hours. And I watched SY and DL scenes twice.
I am so disappointed in this show.
S1 was good untill the uprising and the rest was mediocre.
S2 had a few excellent episodes and the rest was a farce.
Uniting a war stricken land with clowning is so ridiculous. I liked Xiu in S1 but in S2 he became a not-funny-at-all clown.
But that clan elder, Zichuan the elder, was a cunning weasel whose only aim was controlling his subordinates by making them doubt and hate and fight each other like what he did to Di Lin and Lou Ming Hai. He ordered DL to kill all the rebels with their families but didn't tell him that LMH was a spy he had planned beside the YMH the rebel leader. He waited for DL to kill LMH's family and then purposely sent LMH to check on his family so he could see their bloody corpses to make DL and LM enemies so in the future neither could gain enough power to turn against him. So appalling. He kept playing with everyone, manipulating them into doing the dirty work without getting dirt on his own hands.
And it seems that Xiu is not planning on going back to Zichuan. He called himself the king of Yuanjou which means he wants to stablish his own empire. And poor DL thought he'd be coming back home.

And I absolutely hate Ning. I hope Xiu would not marry her. She is so stupid she imagines herself to be wise and clever. After 18 years of slacking, she thinks she has become a politician by reading a few books. Childish!

I highly doubt I'd watch S3 if it gets produced. I have a bad feeling about how DL' and SY's destiny will turn out. I think they will both get killed by some evil plan drawn by the clan elder and that fox Ma Wei.

Acting wise, the show is on a high level. But the overall credit I give it is a 4!

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Excellent beginning, horrible ending!

The show started strong, interesting, visually thrilling and attractive ... but the writer failed to keep up with the speed and the logic of the story somewhere in the middle of the show.
As the characters moved to YJ and settled down, everything got lost, even FL's hairstyle!
I loved Duan Woo, but Su Mu Je lost my interest and love untill a few ending episodes when KJ brought a badly injured YZJ to The Clear Mind.
We saw very little of the male leads in the second half of the show as the focus moved towards a businesswoman's world.
I liked both male leads very much all thought the show.
I wished for that nasty Chui girl who cared nothing about drowning all the little boats in front of her big ship to be punished severely and lose everything at the end. Seeing her safe and sound and rich and a friend to SMJ at the end made me hate her even more.
And that horrible ambiguous ending ... why do writers think that if they leave characters in an abyss they become professionals?
An open ambiguous ending only shows an indecisive weak frightened writer who doesn't dare write a proper ending and fears giving their characters a full life.
I watched this to find a new version of Hao Do/Leyan couple whom i adored in The Long Ballad but the ending killed all my joy.
Still I'd rewatch this for YZJ and DW.

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Heng ar! Why so loveable?!

Ah, Nan Hang! Nan Heng! A misunderstood undervalued pure-hearted wronged constantly chewed m-by-his-father trapped-between-a-sadistic-father-evil-uncle-and-a-silent-mother prince and general who meets a passive aggressive violent self-centered foolish woman as if he needs more drama and more troubles and more violnt behaviour in his life.
Poor Heng!
Poor poor Heng!
And what is with all the passive aggressive female leads in most chinese dramas?
Can someone be more scheming and cruel and ruthless and violent than SYM?
She calims to trust and love LShL but thteatens him into her assassination scheme!
She has no sympathy for anyone, she doesn't care about anyone but herself, and she treats everyone as if they are her toys.
But I managed to watch to end despite hating SYM beacuse of all the other charcters and the story.
I'd definitely liked it beter if NH would have stopped chasing after SYM around episode 23 when she trampled on his heart.
She never really appreciated NH's feelings or thanked him properly for his help or tried to understand his feelings or looked at the situation from his eyes.
So the positive points of this series is good acting, funny characetrs, excellent costumes and make up, very nice music, and Nan Heng's strong attractive sad character! 😉
I enjoyed FG and NR very much as well.
I wished the emperor to die in all the endings but NH was too protective of the father who had mistreted him most cruelly all his life. The only thing I didnt like about NH's character was that it seemed to me he was addicted to being mistreated and looked for a woman who was a mixture of his abusive father and ignoring mother.
Still I'd rewatch ADWD anytime.

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Seriously?!!!!!

Well!
If you see an evil ruthless cruel seductive passive aggressive woman playing with a faithful man's heart and soul, beyraying his trust, meeting his best friend behind his back and scheming against everyone who might expose her reality, you are wrong.
That evil seductress is actually a pure woman and that faithful man is a satan in disgiuse who has to chase after that woman and try his best to make her be free of the misunderstandings she has about him.
All the false is with him and all the right is with her.
Even if she leaves him despite knowing his phobia of being left alone after his mother left him when he was a kid, all because of her insecurities and a load of illogical misunderstandings, it is still him who has to wait and crawl back to beg her for forgiveness.
Seriously?!
If it wasn't for Liu Yuning who was the ML but we saw him less that any other character on the screen, i would have stopped watching after a few episodes. I hate it when they try to force the viewers to accept an evil woman as a pure angel.

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