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Its already implied in the drama that the emperor will have a hard time ever loving Tilan - she looks so much like Zizan he can't help but be drawn towards her but is tortured when he finds she is an entirely different person in all the ways that matter. He is attracted to Haishi bc she is so different from Zizan he is not constantly reminded of her. Also the emperor has good instincts and he rightly can tell Tilan has an agenda. Finally Tilan does not love the emperor, she loves the general and hopes to flee into his arms after they accomplish their mission. The general and Jianming are similar - they both send the woman they love into the arms of the emperor.

Online leaked "spoilers" suggests that this tragic triangle does not change meaningfully.

Yang Mi is just using her usual voice in this, she is not trying to make it different at all and there is no sense of a woman trying to be a man. But its overall decent but far from great and I didn't expect that much from her out of the box since she rarely does it herself. I think the emperor is supposed to have a good chemistry with shifu that doesn't come across well at all and it is fair to say there is probably some issue with line delivery on both actors parts. Jianming castrated himself later in life, well after adulthood and his voice already changed by then.

Jianming is the last surviving member of the Fang family. So if he dies, there is no more baixi for the emperor. Besides many people who want to kill him, the emperor himself doesn't wish to continue to live anyway, he only goes on because he can't bear to kill Jianming his 挚友 or bosom friend in the process. This story is a very tortured triangle and as I have pointed out before, Jianming is at the center of the triangle. Haishi misunderstands Jianming up to the very end because she doesn't fully know the extent of the history between the two men or of the simbiotic baixi relationship until the emperor finally tells her.

Chen Weiting's voice dubber here is I believe the voice dubber for Zhe Yan in TMOPB. It is not Ye Hua's voice dubber for sure. I stopped watching AvenueX a long time ago but idk why she has such hate for voice dubbers its completely illogical. Although I respect YM doing her own voice work in this, her usual voice dubber would have done a better job IMHO. She has infused the voice with too much girly sweetness and it does not match the way Haishi is described in the novel. I don't have a problem with Chen Weithing's dubbing, in fact it makes his shifu a lot less cold and aloof as he comes across in the novel.

She just meant since she is your sweetheart its better you save her than I.

I understand Jianmong’s reason for pushing her to the emperor is to keep her safe. It ties back to the choice he gives her at the start - to be safe as his daughter or to have glory and adventure as his son. But an emperor with a death wish and one he will end up giving his life to protect is unlikely to live long enough afterwards to keep her safe for long. So it’s a giant logic flaw in the original source material itself.

I just hope he takes her advice and seizes this new opportunity he has with Tilan. I don't want her to end up with this deeply disturbed person. If she can't have shifu then she is better off with the new eye candy that is entering the stage soon....

Yeah let's see if Haishi of the drama can tempt him to break his vow.

In the book, he is already a eunuch when meets Haishi. He castrated himself to prevent the baixi legacy being passed on to his offspring. In the drama he just vows not to marry or have children for that same reason.

She dubbed herself.

I would join you but then we would only be hitting Jianming...

Exactly. History is written by the victors. If the American revolution had not been successful they would all be terrorists instead of freedom fighters.

😂😂😂.

He also sent Jianming to remove all six generals who helped him quell the Prince Yi rebellion. General Su was the last remaining one, whom JIanming begged him to spare.

Or he is just plotting to remove a tyrant from the throne.

Nope. Or at least if it can be, no one knows how bc in the novel he dies from it. They could make up something different for the drama but I doubt.

So the emperor is a mad, bad tyrant who resents being forced to sit on the throne anyway and Ji Chang is trying depose him. Why is Ji Chang the bad guy here?

In the novel shifu says how he feels doesn't matter as long as Haishi is safe and happy.

It is true that the rating in China is not great but it is unambiguously a commercial success which is what Tencent cares about most.