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The novel had a lot more things going on lol, extra people dying, getting hurt. It was never meant to be light, the novel foreshadowed from the beginning. I like to think this CP is one of the best example in cdramas these days of a couple vs the world rather than a split relationship of woman vs man vs the world as they progress into the relationship.

I actually thought the pacing was alright, probably almost too fast but they were limited to 40 eps. That’s coming from someone who watched the drama before reading the novel as a lot of things happened. Everything was ‘slow’ because almost everyone was involved in corruption, both within and outside the palace everywhere, the ones that fought to fight it, had no energy left as they were silenced and there were few people within power to help Jiusi, Yuru and the team. It’s really as realistic as timing can be during those ancient times. But yeah, everyone has different taste, this one just isn’t one you can make fast paced at all.

Whatever the ending is, I’m over it. I just want it done and dusted, they really could have written this script much better. :(

Censorship sucks. There’s dramas that have decent amount of skinship these days that they passed. It’s annoying we got robbed.

I was thinking this too but like that scene, she was hurt? He wouldn’t have touched her knowing her knees hurt?

I can’t tell whether my eyes are playing tricks on me, and we’ve just sort off missed the consummation que, if they edited it in the wrong order, mistranslated something or it’s an actual plot hole.

It’s all about the fine print. The app says non VIP gets 2 episodes Friday and Saturday. VIP gets 2 daily, fast tracked. I literally was about to pay for standard, but there was this table down the bottom with ticks and crosses comparing the membership. You have to click on Premium. There’s a box that says Standard gets Episodic Release (normal releasing schedule) and Premium gets Binge-Watch (fast tracked).

I’m scared for tomorrow’s ep 17 revelation. That’s gonna cause way too much angst even for me.

I think people are associating age gap with grooming nor can they differentiate and is imposing their beliefs of today’s society trends. We hear and see men doing so much wrong from eons ago and causes women to have retreated and gone into protection mode. As such, dramas reflect negative feedback often when men are much much older as there’s always some stigma or unfortunate events that happens in society relating to older men/younger women relationships and not always the other way around thus men are judged harsher. Of course, it’s important to understand and point out the signs of grooming but I feel a lot of people are associating grooming with age gap when there’s no red flags at all. Everyone has a subjective perception of something and they all vary person to person but that doesn’t mean every relationship is bad within an age gap. There are many relationships without a wide age gap that still has many red flags. These guys are actors and actresses. They act out a character. It’s their job. I’ve seen other dramas, most often than not made before 2010, with actors who look older compared to their counterpart actresses and can really pass off as a father but they don’t have a wide age gap. I’m sure people would still complain about it either way. These days dramas aren’t made like dramas back in the olden days, the casts has to look fitting, youthful for their character and now that everyone has the privilege of social media, everyone has become too critical. I concur, Dylan doesn’t even look that old, I didn’t even know his real age at first and thought he looks youthful but in a manly way passing off as a character in his 30s, I’ll say it’s fitting enough.

They range from 30mins to 45mins but most of the episodes so far sit at 32-35 mins.

If I can see the healthy relationship and growth Gu Jiusi and Liu Yuru had in the couples of other dramas, I would die happy but I concur, not many would make such a drama. A lot of people seem to focus so much on the fl crying? Am I blocking it or? Everything she did since she was a child was plan to be a perfect housewife and live an ordinary life like many other women. Ye Shi An just happened to be that person who matched her fantasy and she did everything in her power to make herself the likely candidate to be his wife for years. Then, Gu Jiusi came along, a person who always bring trouble, she knew being with him wasn’t going to be easy at all (in the novel, Yuru had a dream, she dreamt about the Gu family’s downfall, the Wang family confrontation and Fan Xuan involvement before they even formally met, this was changed in the drama to Yuru finding Jiusi because someone sold him her coat encounter), and everything was all ruined because he simply said something out of jest. He was a man who was dubbed a playboy but she was a woman who could have her reputation damaged at anytime. She didn’t want to spend a life like her mother, a man favouring his concubine over the wife. Where is Liu Yuru excessively crying? The 3 day depression after marriage? The first day hearing your husband try to convince you this marriage wasn’t going to work, he wanted to be free and travel the world, meet someone he loves and he’ll divorce you because it’s only fair to devote to one person and having to try to convince yourself after he almost failed to show up to the ceremony. The second day trying to digest everything and then finding out your husband went to a brothel and hired all these women. The third day resigning yourself to the future you didn’t want despite trying everything in your effects to avoid it. She’s uprooted from her dwelling in days, Jiusi couldn’t help and now she’s living in a space she’s not familiar to. Sometimes, all it takes is a final something for you to explode. She is indeed a strong person, her cries was heard by Jiang Rou and she was able to push Yuru into a role she knew Yuru could be and handle. Yuru and Jiusi communicated and understood each other’s positions. Showing emotions is human, and because of it, their marriage life evolved for the better.

Actually, Zhou Ye had already married Qin Wanzhi and they had a son in the novel, but he still passed the throne to his stepbrother, he was alone in the sense that he lost his lover but he still had his son. I felt it was bittersweet rather than sad. The drama just erased that plot line though. I remember reading a few dialogue from Lou Zi Shang. He asked himself once, if he had went to Gu Langhua and told him his identity, would Gu Langhua took him in? In the end, he chose not to do it. There was another scene where his sworn brother had said Luo Zi Shang was just like Gu Jiusi. Smart, ambitious yet loyal and kind but each grew up in very different environments. Luo Zi Shang had no choice but to become ruthless for his goals and can sacrifice people except those he’s closest to because everyone sacrificed him. Gu Jiusi had everything, but he chose to become a playboy. It was a disguise but his heart had always been with the civilians so he’ll always protect them in some way. He chose himself to be the knife driven towards the bad guys because no one else was willing to and Fan Xuan knew that, each did everything they thought was right.

In terms of your observing the protagonists not showing how they solved the scheme, I think it’s because, the screenwriter had mixed and match different scenes out due to having a limit of 40 episodes, 40 minutes. The novel had a lot more things going on especially the middle towards the ending arcs and there was some things that the novel were vague about in the first place. Like your other comment down below how Ye Shi An wasn’t shown rescuing Su Wan. He wasn’t meant to rescue her. Su Wan actually made it on the boat that time and he was meant to have rescued Gu Langhua. Gu Jiusi had entrusted Ye Shi An to look for his father while they were stuck in the forest hiding from the Wang family and got the news he died. It was not known how Ye Shi An rescued Gu Langhua or how he chanced upon him, at least I don’t remember, I’m going to have to read it again. The Liu family wasn’t made a big deal either, after they left Yangzhou, Yuru never heard from them again. There was a scene in which she was asked if she missed her family. She said it would be a lie if she said she hadn’t thought about it, now that she’s made a name for herself, it would be easy for them to look for her as opposed to her trying to look for them instead so there was only two possibilities; either the Liu family is dead or they chose not to contact Yuru after fleeing. Everything with the Liu family after the Wang family rebelled were all added scenes in the drama, it was like to insinuate if the Liu family was with Yuru, how would it look like? Whether the stepmother was exiled, or jailed in the end, we don’t know, it’s all up to your interpretation.

There were also important scenes that wasn’t included in the drama, especially that whole 3 year gap of Yuru’s death. She drank the wine but she woke up a while later, there was no fake death scene, Ye Shi An didn’t solve the treasury case on his own taking 3 years to collect evidence, Zhou Ye and Qin Wanzhi weren’t fighting at the border, and Shen Ming never went out to fight on the battlefield that early nor was Ye Yun a medical doctor. Luo Zi Shang had came up with a proposal to fix the Yellow River but Fan Xuan ended up giving it to Jiusi instead. The Yellow River project was his grand scheme, Jiusi was able to fix parts of it after overcoming many hardships but we didn’t know until the very end why Zi Shang wanted to fix the Yellow River for. In the end, Yuru and Jiusi parted ways so that he could stop Zhou Gaolang from entering the capital whilst Yuru went to prevent a disaster from happening with the Yellow River on her hands and knees.

This whole entire arc towards the last few ones was the most important, Shen Ming’s character developed during this time along with the others, however, the drama had it cut down and montaged it to suit their version better. Yuru killed off Zi Shang’s sworn brother and took over control of Yangzhou before fixing the yellow river which cut off a big chunk of Luo Zi Shang’s grand scheme that ultimately lead him to bomb the palace. I’ve left out some details of the grand scheme incase people wanted to read the novel and didn’t want to get too spoiled as it was also left out in the drama.

No breakup if we’re talking about Gu Jiusi and Liu Yuru.

Yes, his father. They killed him off and didn’t bring him back. However, he was brought back in the novel.

There were 3 epilogues. The first is about Gu Jiusi and Liu Yuru’s child growing up and focuses heavily onto the child’s marriage life into the palace and what sort of dynasty they and the main characters were living in decades later into the future. Their first child was meant to be a girl but the drama changed it to a boy and she was a stutterer/not much of a talker so it also touched base into disability discrimination a bit being the first child of the power couple. It’ll only make more sense if you read the novel because Liu Yuru was actually pregnant and gave birth way before everything else was completely solved unlike the drama. The second goes into details about Ye Shi An and him finally finding a wife some decades later after getting kidnapped on one of his trips. The third epilogue ends with Jiang He getting incarnated back to his early years in another timeline, him deciding to right his wrong doings and raising the child correctly this time round with the Gu family. They all lived happily together, and it ends with Jiang He forcing Gu Jiusi to marry Liu Yuru, they all meet and everyone felt that feeling of ‘it was as if I’ve known you for a lifetime’ and ‘it was like meeting old friends after a long time’ quotes from the novel.

I implore people to read the novel. i finally got around to watching this and I’m glad i did. I got so excited after finishing and decided to read the novel because even though the adaptation was great, there was still this lingering feeling of vagueness i couldn’t explain. The novel had extra scenes and explanations which you get to understand each characters a lot more and why they chose to make the decisions they did. I think the drama has set the characters in a way where you know what role (hero/villian/good/bad) each person has whereas the novel makes you second guess on whose a friend or foe. The drama for the most part stayed true to the novel’s plot lines except the whole stepmother thing they added which I did not like and a particular scene in one of the final arcs involving Liu Yuru which didn’t exist in the novel. They borrowed some dialogues from different scenes and added them together, and pulled some scenes out to make them happen faster but overall, both has their own pros and cons and I liked them all the same. What I loved most was the novel having some epilogues of the future which ties the story up for a more complete experience of the ending of both the drama and the novel however will only make sense once you read the novel in full as opposed to watching the drama since they altered a bit of the ending.

i decided to buy it since it was only 1.49aud. there is no ep 21-27 despite it coming up on their binge watch list and saying all 27 episodes. dramacool has the raw 21-23. the vip gives early acess up to ep 20 like the YouTube membership except these ones have subs.

I saw on the app ‘all 27 episodes’. I can’t tell if one was going to buy VIP, it’ll show the last 7 episodes too or just the 20 episodes they listed VIP.

A lot of them focused too much on revenge and angst, I’m so tired of those lakorns. Hak Lai, My Lady this year took the cake. The unnecessary angst at the end was weird and I felt they resolved things way too quickly so as much as I love that lakorn, it could’ve done a little better. The comedy was fire though. Matalada is the icing on top. The clear, concise communication between Pennueng and Mata was how I wished Lin and Pi could be. But oh well, I loved them all the same.

I’m going to echo what the rest are saying. The relationship between Mata and Pennueng is one of the greatest green flag ever seen in the entire history of CH3 Thailand. It gave me joy to see that there is finally a representation of how a healthy relationship work in lakorn that isn’t based upon what ch3 likes to do mostly about revenge and angst. This couple is the highlight. I think this lakorn captures realistically what happens in society and to the ones given and not given the chance to express, and have the unconditional love we all deserve. Mata was bullied growing up, but to get to be the person she is today, she was given a psychologist and lots of love and learning opportunities from Daddy Grace and her family. How we all wished we were given this chance. Pennueng wasn’t given this chance. His life was filled with suppression like a lot of us were. It took me a long long time to realise the things my mum did was all so that I can be happy in a life where no one can look down on me because of my disability but it meant sacrificing my happiness to look superficially normal. It took me going to a psychologist for a while and self learning to finally have the courage to talk, express how I felt to her and what could’ve done better in day to day life and advocating my voice outside family relationships. What Tri and Pang family life looked like shaped how they grew up, who they became as a person and what type of people they attracted. Those were the worse cases of unloved families we see in society and it makes me sad because like Tri and Pang, we often search for that love elsewhere. It took 30+ years for grandpa Pao to accept and express how he felt about Daddy Grace coming out and we see it was a big feet for him to take for a Chinese man his age who grew up learning that being different is akin to being outcasted. We see how each of these factors can effect you and the people around you. I love that scene where Mata and Pennueng was being sweet in the hospital and it changed the vibe so much so that the nurses were pointing out that there seems to be a lot more couples and happy families coming into the hospital than usual. We attract what we release out into the world. Overall, we watch to enjoy a good lakorn but like what Daddy Grace has said, don’t forget about your magic shop, you have superpowers, and when in times of need, close your eyes and pick your powers. Know to be kind to others because hurt people, hurt people but don’t also forget to be kind to yourself. I love the many positive morals they included for character growth, I think if we reflect upon ourselves and turn some of them into practice, like Daddy Grace, we too can become a better version of ourselves like how we all wish to be.

I’m super excited and surprised this dropped, it’s been a while. if anyone is looking for the missing scene of the first episode said down in the threads here, it seems the mangotv APP, has it. (The YouTube channel now has it as ep. 0 recap).