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I watched it on dramanice and downloaded episode 6 somewhere else since episode 5 was uploaded twice by mistake there. I will paste the link to where I downloaded episode 6 in the spoiler below.

P.S. - And yes, all episodes have english subtitles.

You know a drama is going to be draggy and boring when you are 4 episodes in and it is still the same day in the drama world. Yup, the day that we are shown in the first episode which is when the main leads first meet, it is still that same day when you get to the 4th episode yet not much had happened by then. Also, the cover picture and Romance tag are not to be trusted. The clothes they are dressed in relate only to their job and not really to their romantic relationship which is almost non existent, extremely slow paced and boring and with almost no physical contact. You go through 44 episodes of conversations and a few hugs and that is it.

What a waste of time! Glad I skipped as much as possible as I was almost falling asleep while watching it. I honestly gave this a chance and kept watching but other than watching the characters work there is not much to this drama.

I watched this 2 years ago so I am not sure but since I did not complain about the ending, it should be more or less satisfactory.

Honestly, I had no expectations when I started watching this and yet I was still disappointed. I felt that other than bringing to the present 3 handsome emperors, there was not much to the story. Even the romance between the female lead and her chosen emperor (whose name I am not revealing so not to spoil it) was not as good as it could have been.

I felt the drama was lacking in several departments and was overall not that good that it would stand out from other chinese dramas. I was quite bored while watching it, especially after the first few episodes, which were a little better than the rest of the drama.

The ending was as other people have stated, the typical chinese drama ending and I am sure most are not happy about that. I know a second season is supposed to happen but I am not sure if it is even worth to give it a try since the first season was not that impressive.

The definition of makjang IS ridiculous. If you search the meaning of it that is what it says. Ridiculous, over the top, frustrating, causing feelings and emotions in the viewer, be it good or bad ones but mostly bad. I have seen a few makjangs that I thought were good but I rarely watch dramas of this kind. Usually I watch dramas that make me feel good, and makjangs usually do the opposite.

And yes, you are right, this one exceeded all expectations when it comes to making people feel frustrated. It was a makjang, that was for sure. Both characters and story were intended to cause the viewers to feel strong emotions, mostly frustration. XD

I think they were not really going for the concept of logic. It is tagged as a makjang after all so over the top ridiculous things were expected.

Was it a good drama that I would re-watch? No. But as frustrating and ridiculous as it was I felt compelled to watch it until the end just so I could find out how much more frustrating it could get. XD

This is definitely not for everyone’s taste. Some people loved it, some people thought it was not that good but felt it was addictive so they watched until the end although they would not re-watch it (like me) and some people were expecting it to make sense and have a smart logical plot, which does not happen (I guess you would be part of this last group).

You should probably mark this as a spoiler. I also commented on the ending and have a similar opinion but you might have revealed too much about a particular character’s ending and that might spoil the fun for someone who has not watched it yet.

This was frustratingly addictive. Would I watch it again? I doubt it. But I could not drop it either. I had to take it until the end. I wanted to know what would happen next and how it would end and believe me when I say that although some things I was able to predict about the ending, there were still some things that caught me completely off guard.

I enjoyed it as much as I hated it and although this might not be for everyone’s taste and with all it’s obvious flaws, this was made in a way that if you are able to stand the first few episodes, then you will most likely find yourself watching all of it, even if you feel like you are forcing yourself.

I was not happy about the ending but I guess it went the same direction as most of it had gone so far - frustrating until the end. So I can’t really say I hated it since any other ending might have seemed out of place as much as I wished for it. Also, this has plenty of romance but it is not by any means the main focus and that becomes more obvious as you keep watching. Remember the title of the drama (The Last Empress) and you will understand what is the real focus of the drama and be able to accept the way it ends.

Empress So Hyun, the Emperor’s first wife. In the first episode they trick us into thinking it might be Sunny, but later, closer to the end, it his revealed it is the body of Empress So Hyun. I might be wrong since I watched it a while ago so don’t take my words too seriously. ^^

Yeah. I have finished watching it a while ago.

Oh ok. Thank you for replying. I asked because I did not want to go into a drama that had bad subs (mostly bad translations that are almost impossible to understand) or was only partially subbed.

To be honest, it does not make much of a difference if its an harem or 2 wives, from the moment the guy has more than one wife the marriage is doomed. If you look at history, most families, at least the richer ones which where the ones with usually more than 1 wife, were not happy. And you know that because family members would plan to kill each other, mostly the women ploting to kill the other wives and their children. Fathers would also kill their own children when they didnt trust them and sons would kill their fathers too, especially when the father was an Emperor. There are also several records of them killing their siblings to make sure no one steals their place.

Conclusion: marriages between more than 2 individuals have a high chance of going wrong, and by that I do not mean getting a divorce wrong, I mean someone is going to die wrong.

It looks pretty interesting but there are no eng subs as far as I know. You can find the raw episodes in several places tho like maplestage and youtube. Maybe someone will pick this up later.

That is because in the details there is no date for when it finished airing so the option completed is blocked because the system assumes the drama has not finished airing. I think that should be solved by editing the details and adding the date it finished airing. Let me try.

Zheng Shuang playing a robot? This might be the drama that will give her the award for best actress. She fits this role perfectly. Sorry, I am being kinda rude.

But I have only watched 2 dramas where she was the female lead and she decreased the value of both dramas to the point I almost dropped them. She is just so expressionless that you cannot feel any connection to her characters. Like she is simply memorising her lines and saying them out loud without actually acting them.

Since then I have stayed away from any drama where she is the lead even if the drama looks interesting. As soon as I see her in the cast (as a main character ofc) I give up on that drama right away.

The 2 dramas I mentioned above, actually now that I think...I watched 3 dramas with her as the female lead: The Cage of Love, Love Through a Millennium and Love O2O.

I almost dropped each and every of them at some point because of her. I have nothing against the actress as a person, I don’t know her. But my honest opinion is that her acting lacks so much in expressions and feelings that it is hard to watch.

Same. But I actually remember having it in my PTW list pretty much since I joined MDL 2 years ago. I am just not sure why I added it in the first place but looking at the trailer and summary this looks just like one of those chinese dramas with too many episodes and too many characters taking screen time with the main leads nowhere to be seen for a while. No, thanks. I guessed I added it since at the time there was no trailer, maybe not even a summary and I had not gone yet through the frustrating experience of watching a draggy chinese drama. Moved from PTW to NI.

Are you sure? I have not watched this larkorn but the trailer makes it look like the nightclub is not the only place where he is taking off his clothes. Unless the woman that is shown in the trailer is like his crazy ex-girlfriend that wants him back or something but it did not look like it.

It seems this is 28 episodes long? And so far, at least where I looked, there are 11 episodes subbed.

It could have been better. The female lead’s back and forth between the male leads and her indecisiveness made me unable to like her. I did not hate her, but I could not connect to her either since I would not make the same thoughtless decisions she made on several occasions.

And the script itself was not that interesting. There were a lot of skippable scenes.

Good. Not amazing but better than a lot of chinese dramas out there that give way too much screen time to supporting characters leaving the main leads to the side. It does still have a lot of skippable scenes but it is not as draggy as the average chinese drama. Although there is no mistake that this is a romance drama, it is more about how the main lead goes from an unemployed "disaster" to a person who gets lucky and enter the company by mistake but is able to keep his spot because although he lacks in background and experience, he is a talented person that is able to find solutions to problems that other deem impossible or too hard to solve. If it being so business focused is a pro or a con it depends on your personal preference.

Like I said, it was good but not amazing so I probably won’t re-watch it, at least not anytime soon.