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Job openings upcoming... LOL

He needs to weed out the bad employees for Master Yan. The writer got rid of the accountant, but the Sales and HR managers should be terminated next.

I don't like Master Cui whenever she is in frame. She might be more interesting if she was the mistress or wife of Envoy Xu.

She must have the biggest 👀 in the cast. 😳

As a successful pirate merchant, Yan has the worst hiring skills. The three managers are disloyal and unscrupulous. One is the accountant, the other is sales manager, and the other is the human resources manager. One has dead, and the other two are not even paranoid for their job security. I hope they are terminated sooner than later. I haven't caught up yet. I finished episode 9.

Jing He was all over the place with emotions. I didn't like his depressive, morose, mopey state.

I start a drama at 7.5, and adjust it as I watch more episodes. Once the drama is done, I decide the final rating.

She would be a great character in a costume drama.

So very true! Asking questions when we won't know the answer until we see it on screen. Only fortune tellers or the production staff would have the answers in advance. As we have seen continually, the drama plot and the ending vary from the original book.

Are you watching The Story of Pearl Girl? Eight episodes are available.

That really clarifies he scene. Thanks.

Sorry! I didn't realize you were discussing Yue Qin and Mei Lan.

I think Jing He had a flashback later in the drama when he and Mei Lan were eagerly waiting to meet each other in the street. Was I imagining the timeline?

When that flashback popped up, I wondered if he was having a fantasy dream. It was odd that he had previously inflicted injury and poisoned her, and set her up as a decoy. The forgiveness of her crime was so OTP.

I saw that interview. I knew something was up... or down... with the ending.

I wanted to drop this drama in the first week, but kept going because of (1) Liu Xue Yi and (2) Wu Jin Yan. I made it to the end, but the last five episodes were a hurdle to watch. I think it is because they were ready to view on the same day, and I wanted to get to the end, to see the story conclusion.

LOL it wasn't really a bad ending, if you compare it to Journey to Love. I would call it a lukewarm ending. HAHA

I am not the expert on costume dramas, but I may have watched a dozen dramas in the last two years. I don't recall 90% of them. There are times when drama inertia sets in. It might be with the subplots (Emperor & Zigu, Xiyan tribe, CP and Lou Mei), and sometimes with Jing He or Mei Lan. Also the repetitive singing takes up screen time. I watched the entire KMLM drama, fast forwarding a few scenes. I liked the two main leads. The other characters were secondary to the plot, so I kept a cursory view of them. Their contribution to the plot could be paraphrased in a few sentences only. LOL

Endings in costume dramas might be sad, tragic, bittersweet, bad, mediocre, happy, open, per my observation. If I like the drama overall, I keep going to the end. I am extremely glad this was only 32 episodes.

Episode 28

Her assistant and Qingyan could have become a couple, if he had lived.

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