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I think that you are right. I had felt that he let his lover do the deed as it would match Qi Min's end.

Reminds me of the FL closing the door in A Familiar Stranger. Ep. 6. She finally hugs him to let him know that she is the one. And then her hand closes the door to give them privacy. Same director.

Which episode are you commenting on? ep. 33? sp. 38?

It is not the first time that Deng Kai has played a compelling bad boy. He does it very well. I first noticed him in Destined and what he did to the woman's husband to get her to come to him. ugh. He started out like that in Butterflied Lover, Governor's Secret Love, Love of the Divine Tree, and The Wanted Detective but he wasn't so toxic. And they mostly ended well for his character. The first two have him in a nice romance. He reprised his toxic character in Follow Your Heart.

I would start with Dominion and Devotion. (2024) The Mirage (2025) might be worth a view next. Ensemble story. The others are also enjoyable. The Zheng Qing Jie, the director of this drama cut his teeth on mini-dramas and is known for elevating the performances of his actors. His A Familiar Stranger ( 2022) (with female Zhao Lin as screenwriter) is a favorite mentioned by cdrama watchers. Ryan Chen will be recognized from Legend of the Female General (2025) It's a sweet romance. Ke Yi and Kay Song are the female leads. You might like his The Killer is Also Romantic (2022) A Mr and Mrs Smith set in ancient China. Butterflied Lover (2023) Same director screenwriter duo, starts like a my wife is a vampire but is really a romance with two couples. Deng Kai is the second couple. Know that original Butterfly Lovers is a Romeo and Juliet story. Thank you.

Is is also an alternate time line when Chanyu comes back to Lin'an? I think that they show the people who had died including Mandi? It goes from a burning Lin'an to a pristine Lin'an.

Dominion and Devotion (2024) FL is very smart
Qingchuan's Veil of Vengeance (2025)

Are you full up on mini- dramas?
Strong FL
Dream in the Mirror (2024)
Moonlit Order (2025)
Kinda strong FLs
The Mirage (Where Illusion Meets Truth.) (2025)

In the last episode, after the main CP ride off to subdue the Northern Jue, we are shown an alternate time line betrayal never happened. 17 years ago.

Rest assured.

I think that storywise, it is to add in the contrasts between rustic butcher girl Fan Changyu and the urban educated Yan Zheng.

It's spiritual addition to the steel. To use your own blood is the highest sacrifice. Using blood when forging steel has a basis in old history and has been thought to add carbon to the steel. Animal blood usually. Blood is also used in quenching.
Google using blood to help forge steel weapons

Shades of Hitchcock. lol

Of the two young couples, Shi Dian Dian and Xu Tian are the main. But the second couple, Wen Xiaoyao and Zhou Tong have a more natural romance. Both couples meet in a blind date. Shi Dian Dian thought that Xu Tian had a second date because he liked her, but he really wanted to ask her for a favor. She is kind of determined (she first off tells him her life plan) and that scared him away. The path for them to end up together is rather bumpy.
If you want, I can tell you why after ep. 18 it became gripping for me.

The ML had a dream that he was in the Tang dynasty and the FL and apparently her family entered his dream. The family woke up after the fire,as if from a dream and like a dream forgot everything. But certain skills learned the dream were retained, subconsciously. .The ML lived the rest of his life alone but the FL was a silent observer and both suffered loneliness. The ending was to conform to regulations about not showing dramas changing the past. The ML discovered after the fire that Shen Family never existed, but he tried to recreate their restaurant and his manor so that in the future, the Shen Family would visit the manor to change their luck.

I think of He Yan as a younger sister type and Li Shuang as an older sister type. There are many types of generals. General Patton wasn't like the George C. Scott version and Bill Mauldin describes Patton's voice as a high pitch growl. Song Yi has that kind of voice.

Thank you, I was commenting on the sentence, "Kill them all." He said that the ML and FL knew too much. The same could be said to a lesser extent for Wuren disciplinary officer Palace Investigation Bureau and Prosecutor Gu who either investigated or accompanied one or the other. The other friends like the Physician are loose ends. I have no doubt that Peiyi and Huajin together could predict the Crown Prince's action and survive, but their friends might not.

Alas, no. He goes off on his own journey and she actually liked her brother but didn't know who he was until the end.

Are all of the people shown at the end also gonna be killed? He said kill them all.

Yes, it is. The smile on her face at the end.