Mailyn

Thanks for the response. I had understood most of what you say but wondered if it was an event in her past which we don't know about yet. Afterall, nobody (in the drama) has mentioned anything about her going over a cliff at some point in her life but the scriptwriters will have to find a way to explain the scenes that we have seen thus far.

I have been confused about the scenes where the FL had memory flashbacks and wondered what the story was. There is nothing in the drama to even hint at transmigration and I only discovered it when I was reading some of the comments about the novel. I have read also that the drama does not follow the transmigration story, so what is the point of the viewer seeing these scenes. In the drama, does FL herself know that she has 'lived before', so to speak?

Yes. In historical dramas it is an ID tag worn at the waist. Otherwise, it is a token of some sort - usually to do with Buddhism.

It is called a lingpai. 令牌

Who would bother to throw a bucket* of 'oil' on an already-raging fire? If this was just water, it is a gross wrongful assumption on her part; made because he was also masked and pushed her away? Hmm. I'll have to wait to see.
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My very first thoughts on watching the first two minutes of episode one.

Agreed; on all counts.

I did not watch TV dramas as such, but did watch kung fu and later, Chow Yun Fat movies.

I undererstand what you mean.

ender1979: You think that you have problems. I'm old enough to be your mother!

Yes, you are the first person here (whom I have seen) who gets it. She does not have a baby voice at all. As an analogy, she sounds like an American or Brit with a (putting it politely) certain type of regional accent trying to speak with an Oxford educated accent in a period drama. You also get this (to some extent) in Korean sageuks where the actors have to learn to modify their style of speaking. As I explained elsewhere, she sounds stilted.
Regardless, I don't care, I like her performance. That over a 'cute' baby voice (which makes me want to smash my laptop) any day.

I have already told one person this (the fact that incest would never pass censorship) but was told that I was being intolerant and that it was not my business! But some people here still view the relationship as being incestuous. What they don't realise is that the word 'incest' (both etymologically and biologically) is to do with blood not marriage.

Just for anybody about to watch this. Re comments below about messed up episodes after episodes 16-18. They are still messed up three years later. There are missing episodes on myasiantv and episodes do not correspond to those on youtube.

On the surface, yes. But either his mother was pregnant by someone else but claimed that it was the FL's father or the FL's mother was pregnant by someone else before/whilst she was married to ML's father. At the end of episode 5 there is a slight clue that leads me to think that it is the FL who is not related to the family. Also, someone else on MDL who has read the novel says that it is the FL who has a different father. Apparently they find out quite soon .

Thank you for replying. I did find one that I found a bit over the top. At my age, I find many of the comments on this site to be immature.

What am I 'intolerant of'? That is another assumption on your part. I would have said the same to any of my students. And, as you wrote on a public forum, you made it something to do with me.

Princess AB: She is not using a 'childish' voice but a 'stilted' one. How can you not tell the difference? She sounds like someone who is not using her own accent - as one might hear in British period dramas - especially when the actor is American. Whether or not she was directed to speak this way, I have no way of knowing, but it seems to me as if she is trying to sound more mature. Regardless, she is not using that highly annoying 'cutesy' voice that many of them use.

You capitalise the word 'the' but do not tell us why you think this way. Just WHAT is so bad about her. I find her to be quite adequate. She is neither very bad nor very good; she is average - like most of us. Not having a particular preference for something doesn't make it bad.

What is it with all these assumptions about incest? The fact that it specifically uses quote marks around the words 'third brother' (in the synopsis) gives it away. Also, in today's climate, Chinese dramas do not usually include incest. There is always a birth secret that tells you that there is no relation between specific characters.

I keep reading similar comments to yours, but when I look for these 'hate comments' just to read, I can not actually find many. Are you talking about MDL , much further down the page, or are you referring also to comments on other sites?
Since writing this, I have scrolled down (a liitle) and found two more comments similar to yours but STILL not found the offending posts! How far down are they?