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Me too - one of the few c-dramas where they have successfully pulled this off!

I really enjoyed how she summed up the three princes from the way they hunt in this episode. It was on the mark for No 1 and 3 and funny as hell.

She is just super competitive with him and they have been jousting for superiority for years. Just like she deems that Bai precedes Hei in jianghu lore about them. Naturally she takes exception to being called Xiao by him and it also probably implies a familiarity she is prickly about (I wonder why…😂😂)

Yeah - his face as HFX looks so narrow and long and as FLX it looks so much rounder and wider.

I loved Qiwu's assessment of him - goes after jackals so he is ambitious but of mediocre ability...

I love how they made Yang Yang look so different in his two personas they look like different people.

I love how they made Yang Yang look so different in his two personas they look like different people.

Now it matches the way the titles were subbed by Tencent.

Isn’t it bc she was granted the title and not by birth bc her father is only the emperors brother? That’s why her half sister is not a princess.

Yeah I can tell his storyline was extended probably for a reason. Looks like he is meant to light the lamp that will kill Shunde. All the body double stuff sounds messy this way looks cleaner.

I didn’t read the novel but in this Chang Yi almost destroys Zhu Yam but in the process gets frozen and Shunde absorbs the final bits and evolves into a mutated dark power. Xian Shi is basically talked down by his shifu in a dream and dies in remorse.

A friend got me the books bc the story is supposed to be a complex and intriguing female led NIF. I haven’t had time to read it but it sounds like it’s going to be heavier and very different from TBW. As for TBW it’s ending on a strong note and it looks like subs are coming any day now.

Indeed Qifeng was by far the most pointless villain.

The ML turns slowly into frozen fish after the wedding from clashing with Zhu Yan's profound dark frost. We don't know if he dies yet though he looks pretty icy and still but the novel allegedly has a happy ending...

Yes I remember that, what I am saying is they never convincingly explain how she became so wicked, just something along the lines of maybe she got bored with being good and Xian Shi spoiled her.

Can you imagine - it is gonna confuse the hell outta their kids... that was which time when who died when???

Yeah but it may be she chooses to accompany him. Just from what she said.

I am thinking that rumour may not play out bc it looks to me like Lishu the cat is gonna use up his 9 lives...

Lol - I am only at ep 9 but happy to share some initial thoughts. It has an interesting narrative style, which is to tell the story from a very personal, down-to earth family perspective. Like a fierce general is afraid of his daughter and affairs of state are solved around the dinner table. Of course that and many parts are highly fictionalised, so much so that apparently a lot of episodes (~35 out of 80) had to be cut because it went too far. So there are some time leaps but the transitions so far are not bad considering how much got cut. The acting and directing is very good and now that I am used to the storytelling style, I am quite enjoying it. I am watching very slowly though bc I had hoped for more historical detail so I am reading up on the politics and characters as I go along. Am at the point where they swapped out Cheng Yi for Feng Shaofeng, I don't have an opinion yet on how that change is going to work out.

As for where to watch, I don't need subs so I am on Youku but I think from the thread below Viki set to Germany has subs.

That was a nice touch how the tail was sewn into the bodice of her dress. So Chang Yi does get his tail back after all...