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I just finished ep 4. I haven't seen the CP plot yet. 😏

Grandma, Aunt, Uncle are spineless sycophants. Grandma is one of the worst I have seen in C-dramas. There was another drama with a spineless grandma... I don't remember the name,

The Si Jin drama is something else.... Jiang Si's family are spineless sycophants: grandma, aunt, uncle. Story is moving slowly, after four episodes. The ML and FL are good. The rebirth backtracks ten years, then moves forward, to alter the destiny. The villain Marquis is a sadistic womanizer. This drama should not be 40 episodes. 32 at best.

So sad to read this tragic news. Rest in peace, Kim Sae Ron. 🙏🌠

I watched the Tencent full version (1 hr plus length). The conversion from 15 minutes episodes into one full version produced a very choppy plotline. It might have been better if the writer and director had streamlined the timeline. Hong Yao was very good as Third Master Yin Heng. He resembled Hyun Bin... you might not be able tell them apart if they were in the same room. 😁😁 Jiang Peng Yu was convincing in the role of Songstress Wanwan.

It's taking a while to get on air. 🤣🤣🤣 I watched Signal back in 2016. I loved the leads.

I agree. I came to check the comments if others thought so, too. He's Hyun Bin's little brother. Hyun Bin is my most favorite K-actor.

The final minute of the drama was blah. I was waiting for her to wake up in the final episode.

I was thinking the same thing when I started watching the drama two days ago. He's Hyun Bin's little brother. In the final episode, he is the spitting image of Hyun Bin. I loved his role in League of Nobleman.

I binge watched this drama in four days. Overall, it has high production values in directing, acting, writing editing, costume design, set design and music. The hallucinations were OTP. Some of the acting was OTP, and some of the writing was UTP (... under the top). Favorite characters were Zhang Ping, Wang Yan, Gu Qing Zhang, Emperor, Old Master. Least favorite character was Old Empress. I presume that she died in the scarlet mist. (... insert applause here). I am glad this was only 29 episodes. Any more episodes would have been more filler and hallucinations. I would zone out a few times when the plot dragged. I had to rewatch the episode, to catch up on the plot.

The pacing is comparable to Nirvana in Fire. I didn't recognize Wang Duo. I remember his role as Duke in Bloody Romance.

Writing and acting went downhill in the final three episodes.

As soon as she reached the cliff, I said to myself, "Oh, it's cliff jumping and survival time". LOL It was ludicrous that she would survive the fall, and that Qing Min's boat was there to pick her up.

You forgot to mention the "jumping off the cliff and surviving" scene. 🤣🤣🤣

Nice review! I could not begin write a review because I didn't bother to retain the plotlines. The characters and the plot were predictable. It felt like a novice young writer wrote the story. The BGM engulfed the scenes.

I agree with your assessments. King Xuan was also into glare acting.

Splitting up the twins would eventually develop into jealousy and resentment between the two adult sons. The Yannan twin would think that his parents abandoned him in favor of the Beixian twin, who inherited the Xuan clan, the most feared clan in the kingdom.

I liked the quality of the songs and BGM, but the music was overkill. It felt like the BGM was dominating the scenes. The music director kept throwing songs into the scenes, at random moments.

I lost respect for Xuan Lie when he became a lovesick puppy. The scenes were overkill. He did better as the overlord Wolf Lord. That was his ambition for so long, but once he achieved the status, he then threw it away. He should have appointed his replacement for the Xuan clan when he decided to remain in Yannan as Mr Jun. (LOL)

The only positive thing she possessed, was her knowledge of poisons and antidotes. She could have become an entrepreneur in Bexuan and Yannan.

He acted like an excited bridegroom, thinking Qiluo was behind the veil. It was a marriage of convenience. She wasn't going to cuddle with him.