no it's insane..I'm still looking litteraly skimming through historical cdramas trying to find a chemistry similar…
He’s very similar in Amidst a snowstorm of love, tho even less romance and somewhat meeker in Story of Kunming Palace (little did we know he was a wolf in sheep’s clothing then!)
I recall watching a video on Douyin in which the cast and director were talking about how they changed the romance…
From other comments on the novel, it seems the duke didn’t appear until quite late. So the drama actually changed it from no interaction to gradually progressing?