MadelineMaureen

Ep 22 Cinematographer and fight choreographer showed up and showed OUT...left zero crumbs. Whole fight team deservers a resounding round of applause. Great attention to detail with the camera work and utilized the spaces & numbers well.

She's honestly a great 2FL. Strong and independent. Even though she loved the ML and wanted to marry him she never did anything to harm the FL. She kept her issues with the ML between her and the ML. She cares deeply for her country & knows right from wrong. Yes, she can fall into manipulations, but some of those manipulations were actually sincere(the temple thing with the CP). I just like that her character has dimension and feels like an actual human with flaws and emotions. She isn't comic book evil out to get the ML at any cost. So, slay girl slay! I just don't like all the Luo Mei slander in the comments calling her stupid...girly has a game plan.

It's not even the correct undertone for him so he just looks sickly. I just need people to have their natural melanin in these shows for once. As a pale bitch who practically glows in the dark, please just let people not look like a vampire has taken over their body when they normally look sun-kissed.

The Duke is actually so fucking adorable....🤣🤭He's like I'm a girl dad, bitches...time to baby girl by baby girl!

(please don't become toxic like the other father figure in her life, amen)

Imma need his make-up artist to get the correct shade of foundation for him though

Everyone is talking about how dumb LuoMei is, but I think there is more...in spoiler tag below.

Liu Zhong knew that if he died he would be able to save JingHe and thus save the Emperor as well. I don't think he was necessarily asking LuoMei to give the Emperor the antidote herself. She is playing the long game. She now knows that the CP has been disloyal to not only his family, but the people of the country she's sword to protect with her life. She can't "turn on him" just yet. Her sister, thus her entire family, are in the CP's control.
I believe she is trusting JingHe to be able to get the antidote to the Emperor in another way. Even if the Emperor dies I believe only then will she take matters into her own hands with the CP.
I think she truly did start to fall for the CP and knows that she will have to be the one to possibly kill him.

I like to pretend that he sees her as the daughter he could never have, and that he is the father that she always wanted.

Disclaimer: I have no clue if there are princesses running around with his DNA as we haven't met any on screen. This is me rewriting as I watch so that I can still love their story. Let me live in my delulu bubble. If production wanted to, they could have designed the lighting, music, and shots to show a more paternal love, but alas they did the slow-mo fuzzy light while he looked at her...

Ep 27 just aired today. A character who has been trying to harm FL accused FL's mother of being "fickle" or "loose" calling into question FL's birth. She talks to ML after this scene but she is still in shock over other things and he comforts her but the interaction is cut short when FL is called in to talk with the "adults" about something alone. That something turns out to be 2 witnesses to her birth. So only now is she coming to grips that it might not just be slander but fact that she isn't her father's child.
28 and 29 will dive deeper into finding out the truth. So we as an audience haven't seen the shift of their relationship just yet.

It's any country real or fictionalized that has titles and royalty that get extremely confusing if you aren't paying attention. Also the fact that sometimes subbers will use the name instead of title of someone or viscera makes it even more difficult to keep up.

Honestly, this one is kind of for the romance girlies. As the ML navigates his feelings for someone who believes he is their sibling....it's giving Darcy hand flex. The family politics are the center of the show, but the slow burn wont disappoint if you are good with Jane Austen levels of romance...which lets face it...most of her novels were family drama romance.

The production does a good job at not "lingering" in moments of affection that would be considered weird imo. When they both think they are blood related there is only affection coming from sympathy and interest in knowing someone else who has suffered under the same roof/family.
When he finds out that she isn't his sister his protectiveness switches from brotherly to that of a man protecting a woman he cares deeply for.
Her eyes don't rest on him like ML's rest on her. (It's all about how long a shot of someone lasts and the lighting/music used) FL is trying to find him a suitable wife & he barely looks at them and watches her.
I think there is maybe 1 moment that I can think of off hand that there was a definite "pause" on her side, but again the production didn't linger on the moment.
I think both the lead actress and actor are doing an amazing job at showing care and love at the varying stages of their relationship so far.
Ep 27 is the first time anyone but the ML is hearing that she isn't the biological daughter of the Second Master of the Luo family. So we haven't seen her with the ML since she's confirmed this information as fact and not slander.

Pretty sure we already saw this, no?

Oh, I thought both of their styling was really well done. Just enough sharp and soft. Natural textures/fabrics well other than 2 of her looks. But the overall vibe was well captured.

Thank you for this, cause my brain was struggling with the dates cause I was like surely the time difference doesn't matter that much to shift a whole day number....So this explanation finally clears everything up.

Bless!

Okay then I was misunderstanding how the express schedule differs. Because I was reading it as episodes 27-28 were to air together.

The schedule that the production releases themselves not being correct is starting to drive me up the walls. This is not the first nor even the only current drama with this issue.

The Harper's Bazaar photo shoot is sooo good. Love the photos. I need to try and look up the photographer who took them.

Okay, so you're going to start with downloading the MDL app onto your phone.
Login to your account
The 'Explore' page will have recommendations and the usual
Next to the 'Explore' tab at the bottom of the page is 'Lists'
'Lists' will have a few sections 'Watching' 'Completed' 'Plan to Watch' 'On Hold' 'Dropped' and finally 'Not Interested'

On each show page in the bottom right corner is a little pencil/pen icon it's blue in color, that is the 'Edit' button.
Click the 'Edit' button to add shows to your lists. A pop-up will display with two pages 'General' and 'Advanced'
Under 'General' there is a 'Status' with a drop down menu. Click the drop down and select which of the six previously mentioned lists you want to place the drama/movie in.
If you are currently watching the show you can hit the (+) button to indicate up to what episode you have completed.
If you what to keep track of what specific day you start and finish a drama go to the 'Advanced' tab and log the dates.
Hit 'Save Changes' at the bottom of the pop-up to save any new information you've added.
You can add personal notes (little square that looks like a post-it note icon to the left of the 'Save Changes' button.) So maybe why you want to watch a show or maybe something to remind you about what was in the show. That sort of thing.


Okay bonus stuff.
Once you add a show to your lists if it is currently airing or not yet aired it will appear in the 'Calendar' section of the app. Upper left three parallel lines is a dropdown menu. You can switch your app to dark mode(highly recommend), inbox, friends, leaderboard, custom lists(for if you want to group many similar dramas for what ever reason), Calendar, Free coins(honestly have never clicked this one myself)

Click 'Calendar'. In the upper right there is a button that looks like two outlines of people. This is 'My List' aka what you have on your lists instead of every drama on MDL airing that day it will show ONLY what you are interested in. It has 7 days of what is currently airing and a quarterly section that will show 3 months worth of releases.
Heads up Cdramas will start out of nowhere so I highly recommend you follow 'Marcus Here' on youtube if you have an active interest in Cdramas in particular. He has the latest updates on productions and at what point of the production they are in. Seriously the man is a God send to all international Cdrama watchers.

If you have any more questions feel free to continue to comment here or message me through my page. Happy watching!