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Well, I made it almost half way through, so I'm patting myself on the back for that, but Bai Lu's character giving people relationship advice was the final nail in the coffin for me. I get that it's fantasy, but someone just magically 'knowing' this shit is fucking hilarious and stupid at the same time.

Fingers crossed. I can't imagine anyone else playing the roles that these actors did. I really felt like everyone really owned their performances.

I'm glad they went that far as well. He was so committed, saying goodbye to his family, telling them to leave the capital, his rage and despair, it would have been sinful to have him stop at the last moment.

Same. With the right role and director he's really very good.

Ep 39 might be the penultimate episode, but it's seriously the ULTIMATE episode of the drama, and is one of my favourite episodes in any drama I've watched. It's was just fucking awesome.

Yang Yan is hot, and his ear cuff gives me heart palpitations 🤣

I gave it 9. Bloody loved it.

JoL did a very good job with that, but it also meant waiting years 😭

I loved thee completed poem he sent to LinAn with the line something like "It felt like a fleeting memory even while it was happening" and that got me in the feels, because I've had happy moments in my life, but you can almost feel them slipping away while they're happening. And it meant so much to him, writing that to her knowing that she did not remember him 😭

Can you remind me what it was?

I want to know what Lin An thought in that moment. It's one thing to know that your BF is a justice warrior, it's a very different thing to see him up on stage beheading two people he's tortured and then dragged through the streets.

There was an earlier episode where he wiped his fingers over a grey strand of his hair and it turned brown again, and the reveal to the Commissioner before he was murdered and then the end of ep 39 with the smokey arrow all imply that the emperor has been working with the Witcher sect. Also, the time line of his rule seems squiffy, because I thought they said he was the second emperor if the dynasty, but then they said the dynasty has been in rule for hundreds of years? (I could have the 2nd emperor bit wrong). So it looks like that when the Witcher Sect pulled the swifty they'd been planning, they removed the spell from the Emperor, so suddenly he's really old and no longer has their protection, meaning he's basically fucked and that's why the CP is now running things

Ep 39 is an absolute rip snorter. One of the best episodes of any drama I've watched. I'm jaded and rarely so invested.

When the Supervisor pushed him off the tower 🤣

Yes. Ep 39 had me in floods of tears and also screaming FUCK YEAH!!!!! Also, Lord Wei just being the best stand in Dad to XQA ever 😭

It was earned. I rated it 9/10 upon completion. LOVED IT.

I don't think he's great in everything, but I really liked his performance in this, and LBF&D. The roles give me a similar vibes, although they're obviously not the same. I think he lends himself well to characters with certain energy, that perhaps he finds easier to relate to. Also, having a director he can trust is vital. None of this is a criticism of him. He's not a classically trained actor, so he's at a disadvantage if held to that standard. He should be held to the standard of an idol actor, and I think he's improving. He does ruthless very well, he does sad very well, he does cute comedy very well. I think he has a lot of potential.

His role in this gave me similar vibes to LBF&D. I think it may be a similar passion that they share. I think Wang HeDi is good in these kinds of roles, and with the right kind of director. He's still young, and not an actor's actor, so I think he maybe needs to trust himself a little more. If he was just not a good actor, he'd be terrible in everything, and he's not. He's got more potential than we've seen so far, I think, so I really want to see him working more with directors that he trusts to help guide his performance as he increases his skill and confidence.

Ep 39 had me crying and screaming. So fucking good. I was INVESTED

I've heard NOTHING about S2, but they obviously want to do it as ep 1 said S1, so they were also letting us know that if there's no S2 it's not their fault 🤣