PeachBlossomGoddess

Yeah on Ai I agree, I think it was an opportunity missed. On Douban etc there was a lot of similar speculation re which one of the boys.

Hmmmm... well I am not a good at watching mindless fluff but I keep hearing Tiger and Rose is good? I am watching The Eight to past time - the characters are cool and the ML is my kind of hot but the plot is only so-so. Lots of eye candy and action though....

Yeah its just his descent into darkness is a bit cliche with all the jilted lover/struggling with inner demons tropes. Not saying its bad but up until this point, this story has avoided a lot of common tropes.

I think Love a Lifetime is quite fun. I ended up binge-ing The Bad Kids. Once I started I just couldn't stop but it is kind of dark, definitely not fluffy.

I generally find less good looking actors try harder and act much better. Many of the idols just cruise on the back of their good looks.

Apparently Ai was even more malleable. The current emperor tries to fight back. Made zero progress this weekend, got sucked into watching something else.

LMAO - I didn't like the whole arc - seems like a long winded and pointless digression.

Wow - everything make much more sense to me if he had deliberately pushed her - that's just murder. I know they probably toned it down for the censors but I actually think this makes him so much more evil, the fact that he did all these terrible things to cover up what wasn't even a crime to begin with. Especially when it is not a foregone conclusion that even if he had tried, he would have been able to save her.

Indeed but also how is not trying to save someone the same as murder ot even a crime in any sense? It is a crime of conscience but not technically a crime. But of course she is his half sister how can he ever look his father in the eye again after admitting he didn't even try to save her. I must say I personally think the real evil person is the second wife. Her daughter was so bratty and uncaring for her brother I don't blame him for not caring enough to save her. And if she had not irrationally sent her rabid bull dog brother to pretty much torture/kill her stepson, many bad things would not have happened. Her death was the only sense of cosmic justice I got out of this otherwie dark drama.

Triangle. Sadly, I don't root for either girl. This is to me, not a romance.

Ah... ok - sent you a friend request, hopefully that fixes it. Its right after my ROP review post on my feed, @Skibbies initiated the chat.

Re the voice recorder - I had a more simplistic read on it. He basically distrusted his son and recorded him. When he realized. ZCY discovered the recorder, he felt guilty and ashamed of himself for hurting ZCY like that. That is why he was very cold and dismissive to his wife when he ran into her in the hallway and he resolved to treat his son better going forward. By the time he was dying in the factory ZDS already told his father his son had done bad things and that is why he told him to start over. I don't think he ever really suspected him of being involved in Jingjing's death.

Thanks so much for this, saves me a world of trouble of searching online. I never felt that not saving Jingjing is a "crime" worth covering up. He could have just admitted it and said he was so shocked he was paralyzed into inaction. To me it is the most glaring story logic hole but I suppose his father would never forgive him if he admitted that so I can go with it. I also think both other kids are dead. It seems quite clear when Pupu died but Yan Liang is very unclear. On the one hand, I doubt he even made it to the boat but if that were the case, I also fail to see the point of ZCY confronting ZDS by himself on the boat. I swear they are intentionally out to drive me crazy!

Yeah, I often get Dracula vibes - pasty white foundation and red lip stick.

Why indeed?!? Seems the current emperor is a bit of a puppet as well so the power structure seems very unstable.

Ah... oops it is on @skibbies feed:

https://mydramalist.com/profile/Skibblu/feeds

We also chatted in a lot of detail when @Skibbies posted to my feed 5 months ago. You have to scroll down a bit, we were chatting about some other shows as well.
https://mydramalist.com/profile/ywwan/feeds

I am enjoying both but maybe this one is just not for you - the Zhuyan arc in the other show was so long and a big yawn to be honest not to mention blatant GOT knock off characters. They both have some minor plot holes but not too bad in the grand scheme of things, much better than most other things out there.

Actually that was my plan, to watch till 50-ies but I didn't feel like stopping there and I am glad I finished. I think if you go to my feed I chatted with @skibbies extensively about the book story. The drama ending is not incompatible with it. I wouldn't mind an alternate end too but its been so long I think its not likely...

Ah... that would make sense to stash him in a monastry. He hasn't emerged yet then....

LOL - the older I get the more I feel that life is all about expectations.... FZW is one of my favorite FLs but by the time I watched I already knew they character assassinated her. I probably would have felt the same as you did if I watched it with no idea what was gonna happen so I am grateful for all the rant reviews along the way... Chen Kun did encourage fans to send the director a razor blade in the mail if they didn't like how it ended so imagine how the cast feels. Funnily, some of the unhappy reviewers were the ones who pushed me to actually watch it anyway. That spoke volumes to me because for shows that are THAT bad, I tell people to skip it.