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Yup, that dialogue when they're playing go was really great. Now this is a drama addition to the story that actually works.

There are many but some that i can remember at the top of my head such as 'Yes, Her Majesty', 'My Lady General, 'My Jealous Husband', 'Destined to Meet You', and 'My Beloved Wife' are some of them. For longer drama (30 mins or more per ep) there are some like 'My Uncanny Destiny', 'General's Lady', or the very popular 'Hidden Love'.

10/40 so it's quarter of the way and as a novel reader, I'm in a constant dread of wondering if the drama will mess up the storytelling. There are so many grounds left to cover that I'm afraid it's going a bit too slow.

That being said, of course we know that the drama should be it's own entity, despite being an adaptation, it should be able to stand on it's own. So I'm glad that the receptions are pretty good so far and even non novel-reader are enjoying this as well.

I found this flirty male lead trope is more common in short dramas. If you're into that, I can mention a few

UGH I CAN NOT WAIT, like i already know what will happen, I JUST CAN NOT WAIT TO WATCH IT *laughs evilly*

Skimming over the comment and I just had to see some people still rage baiting by hating on Liu Yuning's looks. Meanwhile, I'm here not understanding how could anyone finds him unattractive??? Many actors struggle to pull off even half of the charisma that he has simply by just existing in his 190cm glory. All those period costume needs certain built to look good on camera, okay? And his posture has improved so much so he no longer slouches. Not to mention he's one of the rare actors that insists to use his own voice in his dramas.
I found out about him from AJTY and honestly, It's mindblowing to me that people really went that far about his looks during the drama airing period. It's disheartening considering everything he went through up to that point. Hopefully we will no longer see this type of responses when this drama airs.

An original script produced by linmon with Liu Yuning in it! How could I not be sold. And Riley Wang was a riot in BFTB, I hope his role would be as fun in here. Considering this hasn't even finished filming, it will be a while until this eventually goes on air. Well, at least it's not xianxia so post production shouldn't take too long... right?

Exactly! This truman show angle is what I dislike from the drama version compared to the novel version. At this point almost every offical in Lingquan Town already know about the scheme and it's so illogical how he expect to keep his double life in the down low this way.

Hmmm there's no mention of him spreading fake rumors i think. I said 'kinda', cause as far as I remember, there's no explicit flashback to the FL's interaction with Liu Yu during her bandit days. It was just implied that they liked each other during that time. Some misunderstanding caused him to momentarily lost trust on her, so they broke up. But later he realized that the FL did nothing wrong so he wants to find her back. Only later he finds out that she's moved on, and we'll see how the drama will depict that reunion.

The FL is Lu Wen. She's the bandit leader that actually shoot the ML with an arrow at the beginning.
In the novel, she was arranged to marry a merchant named Cui Jiu, but she doesn't like him so she fled to the mountain and joined the bandit group. But in the drama, it seems like the made her to be kidnapped by the bandit group before eventually joining, idk, it will be revealed later on I suppose.
In the bandit group, she's close with Liu Yu (the guy played by chang hua sen), they're kinda in relationship but not married. They had a fallout because of a misunderstanding plotted by Sun Yunniang (we saw her disguising as the maid during the banquet). Somehow the FL got hurt and then the ML found her floating unconsciously by the river, we know the rest of the story.
In case I wasn't being clear, the merchant Cui Jiu that she was supposed to marry is not the ML. They just happen to have the same surname, and because he's the ninth master of the family, his friend called him Cui Jiu. Hence the misunderstanding.

Do you mind spoiler? Cause the answer is going to be a huge spoiler

Yup, he really needs to grovel when she finds out cause here, he's actively lying to her instead of just letting her imagination runs wild. For once, I don't want them to just gloss over this groveling part. It's no wonder they made her stab him.

Commenting again after my migraine subsided. Few things i want to add about the different directions they took in drama compared to the novel

While I like (the character development of) novel-version CXZ, I think, drama-version CXZ is made for, you know, the drama. Novel version is pretty slow, like 179 chapters slow, and we have to deal with CXZ's narrow-view about what constitutes being a husband and a wife (not his fault, i know, it's a period thing) for about 150 chapters. And this made the final arc feels more satisfying. But, visually, it's very hard to avoid making him look like regular cold-overbearing-CEO type of guy. It also make sense that this goofy version of CXZ is more proactive in his lies, otherwise he would literally just be a dandy fool (it's how he describe himself lol). So, while I don't know yet whether I'd like this drama version of CXZ more or less than the novel version, I can understand why they're taking this approach.
It's pretty early, and they have a lot of things to cover if they're going to follow as close to the original source material as possible. It's inevitable they're going to change things. I just wish they're going to keep the essence and progression of the characters' relationship. I also hope they don't water down miantang's character too much. Novel version Liu Miantang is too awesome to be missed on.

Not quite. FL fled from her wedding 3 years ago and joined the bandit group in the mountain. So she's not currently married to anyone. ML also not fully knows who she is, he just assumed she's the bandit leader's concubine so he took her and paraded her like a bait to make the bandit leader show up.

If my wetv subscription did not come in a bundle with my prepaid phone data plan then I wouldn't be subscribing at all lol. I'm all for louis rosmann 'piracy is not theft if you don't own things that you paid for' 😁😁😁

I'm watching the first 4 eps while having a migraine so a few things came across a bit confusing to me. Such as, what was that go club lol, so random. They're also trying to introduce as much character in these first 4 episodes as they can. Fangxie and bicao, and cui xingdi was supposed to show up much later. And the beggar too, i suppose he's LMT's uncle who was also showing up early.
I also have anticipated this watered down version of CXZ from the teaser, but I didn't expect him to be so proactive. In the novel, he was more like passively letting things happen and his lies were more like omission of truths instead of deliberate act to make things happen.
That being said, so far the actors performance are decently watchable. I haven't watch Zhang Wan Yi in anything else so i have no expectation but he seems to have pretty good comedic timing. And Wang Chu Ran is sooo pretty and I think she fits the role quite well so far.

Not from the main couple dw

I think it has something to do with the streaming sites that used to drag episode numbers (adding more episodes by shortening the duration) so viewers have to pay more to watch. As to why certain topics got banned, cmiiw, but Chinese censorship usually tries to make sure that dramas/any type of publicly available media are inline with CCP ideology.

The ML was engaged with other person during the period of him faking his marriage with the FL. I'd say instead of the fiancee herself, her mother was one of the most annoying character tbh.