MadelineMaureen

Ep 40 Jin Zhao's taken by Chen Yan Yun's mentor to lure CYY to the mansion. Mentor suspects Yan Yun is still alive. He plans to burn the whole estate down and sends his wife off with a servant after drugging her tea. She(the wife) comes back right when Yan Yun is confronting his mentor. Jin Zhao is released but caught by the wife who holds a sword or knife up to her neck as the courtyard has already started to burn. Yan Yun throws a sword through the wife's chest, jumps over fire and is reunited with Jin Zhao. The mentor holds his wife as she dies. Chen Yan Yun picks up his mentor's collected works, hands the books to Jin Zhao and carries her out of the burning mansion, leaving his mentor to burn to death with his now deceased wife. The mentor planned to die this way.
When they get to the gate he puts her down and hand in hand they walk away from the burning buildings as a voice over talks of a new age and getting ride of that religious cult the mentor's wife was apart of. I'm not even joking they walk toward the camera with the gate and the burning mansion behind them and then it just cuts to the credits.

Ep 41 has cut/extended scenes with voice over from Chen Yan Yun's POV. More about him falling in love with her. Cut scene of him going to her restaurant for the first time with an assassination attempt that he evades in the same manner he killed the prince's son.
They extend the New Years scene prior to her falling into the water, this one is cute. They also extend him rescuing her in the mountains post whistle....what i'm calling "scruffy make-out".
There is a voice over at the end that either sounds like the director talking directly to the audience that wasn't happy with the way the show ended or it was planned all along. I personally think the voice actor got notes hours after the release and they slapped it together. I didn't hate the ending personally. I've honestly seen worse. It would have been a 10 for me had the ending not been so abrupt.

is it 30 or 36 episodes for this one. im hearing 36 but 30 is still listed here. anyone have a sourced final episode count?

based on what im hearing there were a lot more scenes shot than what is needed for a 40 episode runtime. it's shows and casts like this that make me miss those 50 to 70 episode shows.

I'll try and remember to come back & let you know.

I just checked...im so mad at myself for not jist double checking daily.

The editing of the show had me checking for a damn temperature because I thought I was missing time and was actually sick. NOPE, just really really bad edited that got worse as the show went on.

there's a special episode?

All I can say is, thank goodness Li Yun Rui had this air so soon after his last one. Praying to the writing and editing gods they dont do us dirty. (looking at you Speed and Love, looking.at.you.)

We arent starting in their adulthood with flashback like Lighter & Princess. This is much more linear timeline wise. There are small flashbacks about ML's life prior to FL arriving on the island.
ML is 2 years older than FL but was pulled from his senior year of high school to support the family. Starts in summer time before FL's senior year starts. ML will go back to finish high school with FL so he can take the college entrance exams like he had previously planned to.
Based on trailer/opening credits looks like there will be a separation at some point post high school, but im not seeing anything that screams "college years" so it may skip over that time frame straight into the workplace/adult life.

episode 39 definitely got a lot of attention by production...very well done imo.

Very good last few episodes but with no epilogue it feels somewhat unfinished...as so much of the story was centered around their love and relationship it felt more like a footnote than the end game. The political side of things were handled well, but it definitely is in need of a 5 to 15 minute special episode to tie the love story up in a bow.
So happy ending, yet still open ended. like if this was a western show, amazing season finale...but as a full stop ending...I want to end a show like this smiling and kicking my feet not still wiping tears. ya know what i mean?

episode 39 is a masterpiece...bring a box of tissues.

youre an idiot 🙄

when I first say him in Forever and Ever I was like "Well damn. Heeelllooo there." Then I found out he was only in his early twenties and it was his FIRST role and thought, oh he's going to go places.(has potential)

No first wife was an arrangement & he just didnt want to be forced into a faction by having to marry again. he was always very country first, well the people of the country first THEN the crown, then his career, then his family/personal life.

the only reason he should feel guilty is for letting Jin Zhao believe Chen Xuan Qing was the one to save her from the water the first time. She only became interested in CXQ in the first place because he had done her such a service and was so humble about it. She didnt find out until after CXQ ghosted her and was again rescued by Chen Yan Yun that CYY was her savior everytime she was in danger and NOT CXQ.
So from JZ's POV it could seem like CXQ might not have been interested in her at all and it was all in HER head 4 years ago. Which is why she needed even more clarification and communication with CYY before she agreed to marrying him. Because of how she was treated by both her family and CXQ she doubled down on her insecurities and doubts about love and marriage. Chen YanYun put Chen Xuan Qing in Gu Jin Zhao's path, and even with all of his political maneuvering he didnt see the consequences of his actions that night when he saved her life and lied about it.

well looks like i won't be staying at work late to watch Mandalorian tomorrow, but getting my butt home so I can binge watch the last 6 episodes before bed. I need to put some spoons in the freezer based on the previews...😭😭😭😭😭

it's working for me and tencent and iqiyi both have it.

I won't be able to get to tonight's episodes until I get home from work but....I really thought that Chen Yan Yun was aware of Chen Xuan Qing's interest in Gu Jin Zhao and was also aware of her previous crush on CZQ. But I think looking back he wasnt present for those moments even when they were all in the same space, because she always acted differently when CYY came into a room. I dont think he put two and two together at least on HER side. Like he might have figured out his nephew had feelings at one point but all 3 of them are private people so...

idk it just seems like something CYY would have discovered 4 years ago.

This is like their 3rd or 4th project together.