PeachBlossomGoddess

Ikr - overthrowing your best general and wiping out your top battalion - that's how you get enslaved by a rival country.

Well hopefully I am wrong but I just can't see either of them pulling off those characters. You need someone like a Wang Dou for the ML role. And I really don't like ZJY in ancient dramas - her look is so modern and so square she just doesn't look like she belongs in the watermelon seed face era.

And let the whole Zhuang clan get exactly what schemed, killed and manipulated everyone for? That would make it a super bad ending for me.

Its not a treat for the eyes kind of story. Its very dark and twisted. If you watched Novoland Pearl Eclipse you'd have seen enough of it to know what I mean.

They both lack complexity.

I just can't believe he waited all those years to get revenge. I mean he could have just killed Zhen Shuang then and there for killing his empress. And in front of so many witnesses too, he should have just indicted him and had him beheaded. The whole alienating his own son, the waiting and passive aggressive torture and scheming is just bat shit crazy.

I think the best way is just for FYX to kill MY.

Probably not outright castrated but I do think the poison may have made him impotent.

2nd prince is no longer fit - he is tainted by the fact his mother committed matricide and regicide. The two Murongs almost killed a prince. That leaves FSG as last man standing that is fit to rule. But his army has been slaughtered there is no one left even to protect the kingdom against an attack by Jinxiu. What an ancient train wreck.

Seems to me like they are setting up for the kingdom to just fall

I just can't believe the arrogance and stupidity of the emperor. I would never have let the empress get within a mile of me after he let his son killed her dear old dad.

Welp, when the FL got amnesia, she fell in love with someone else. Luckily there is no one else standing around for the ML to fall for.

Idk - I read the book some time back. I honestly can't see either of them in the lead roles. But maybe they changed it a lot.

In the case of Zhuang Shen, I don't fully blame the emperor - the guy knew the emperor was in love with his empress but pushed his daughter on him as a concubine anyway and then killed the emperor's beloved wife bc of his own ambition. Both father and daughter refuse to own their own culpability in what happened next.

Chasing Dreams should Ti Lan's story from Novoland Pearl Eclipse. It is a very dark and angsty story, though I think some of it will be too dark and will have to be changed for drama adaptation.

There should be some romance but it should be mostly a wuxia. Don’t quote me though bc I don’t really know the story.

It will be explained later but in brief he figured out that the battle was a trap and there was a traitor on his side as well. That person must be trying to kill Yixiao bc she must know something. He needs her to lure out that traitor who is their common enemy.

Well... Blood River is coming in about a week so you may find yourself moving on quite quickly...

Maybe the empire is just meant to fall.🤷‍♂️

Xiyang would be terrifying!