Shreya

I mean she doesn't really need to marry for the romance to work. Also she vowed to never marry or have children while she still held the title so if she wanted to marry, she could just not be the grand princess.

Ikr, loving their dynamic so far tooo

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Mu Long is the great-granddaughter of Su Jian (same face) the girl who Han Ba used to love. He was trying to help Mu Long complete her story.

I get it, I really wish they showed more of him. I'm just saying they probably only wanted to outline the main theme of the drama in the first trailer or maybe keep Yan An's character mysterious or something.

OR maybe they wanted his fans to repeat the trailer multiple times to look for Yan An crumbs 😭 (I know I did).

This drama kind of reminded me of The Double and if you see there, the first teaser mostly only featured the FL too, but the final trailer had more of the ML so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Just watched the first two eps, this drama is off to a great start!

This is a female centric drama, and the story is told from the FL's pov so the first trailer mostly focused on TXW's characters. The next trailer (if there's one) will probably feature the romance and/or ML's pov.

I don't really remember the costumes and exact scene, but I think isn't as much a coincidence as it was a foreshadowing of the ending for us viewers. Like it's to show that LWY imagined a normal life, they got a normal life at the end but them having the same costumes is not important or relevant to the story.

Not a dream. Whether they were in an alternate timeline or in the same one is up for interpretation, but they were real.

I love Zhan Zhao so much for giving Bai Yutang that kite 😭 That man is so precious, like what do you mean on top of everything he was going through, he still thought to do these little things like giving BYT that eagle kite and bringing back sweets for Ming Zhu'er 😭😭

Guo Jingming, he is one of the directors of Hidden Shadow as well as the director and screenwriter of VoS.

I think the recommendations are due to GJM being the director for most of them and not particularly because the stories are similar.

In the novel, they both reincarnated in the real world.

I think blank backgrounds are the standard(?)

Yes please, I miss April 😭

Indian daily serial style is real😂 And I agree they kind of overused some of the sounds and osts despite the sheer amount of osts that VoS had but personally, I got so used to that one particular bgm by the end that I still randomly look it up to listen to it 😭

I get it and it's a fair point, especially if you look at isolated incidents. But no one has really died in his presence (except his friend ig) and the people he could kill were mostly pawns who are easily replaceable. So even if he did kill some people at the ground level, it doesn't mean he'd be able to protect everyone unless the mastermind is taken out which he could only do by gathering evidence and keeping the witnesses alive.

I'm not saying you are wrong or that his is the absolute right way, I'm just trying to explain where he is coming from.

You are comparing the principles of an assassin with that of a high-ranking government official. Su Muyu was an outlaw and Blood River operated even outside the rules of Jianghu, much less the government. He could kill anyone he wanted without facing much direct consequences and did in fact kill many people. His strict principles did nothing but provide him with some peace of mind since the cases he refused to take were carried out by Su Changhe and others.

Zhan Zhao is quite the opposite. He is a government official. Even if we ignore the fact that he would be directly held responsible if he killed someone, him personally killing anyone would go against his principles. Making sure everyone is tried in court and judged accordingly is his whole thing. It's not that he doesn't consider the difficulty of the situation but that it's not an excuse to take law into his own hand. What he's doing is trying to gather evidence to take down the whole syndicate and not just a part of it. The moment he starts killing people according to his morals, he'd become just another person in the Jianghu who can only protect people in his immediate reach.

You're right with the prison analogy, he is extremely restricted. He can't kill people even when he really wants to. But they already explained why he doesn't kill when he told the story of Yaksha. No one is above the law and no one person has the right to kill someone based on their own morals.

If you are familiar with GJM dramas, then VoS has the happiest ending among them. Personally, it's somewhere between bittersweet and happy.

If you are interested, you should definitely check this out because overall VoS is really good if you can keep up with it.

Hey, good to see you too! I agree that some people are too quick to judge or refuse to see that different dramas have different focus and every story can't be written in a way that personally suits them. I just try to appreciate whatever I'm watching since most dramas do have their own charm and I enjoy the variety even if I do have my favourites.