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These battles are like placing chess pieces at the strategic places for his future conquests. So indeed, the unification war has started.

This drama is rated at 8.5 on Douban by 127,123 viewers, compared this with The Untamed at 7.7 by 1,468,333 viewers on the same platform (Douban).

Yes, some really bad dramas are given almost the same ratings as the really good ones. So, don't look at the ratings on MDL anymore. If you want ratings, maybe douban provides better ones though they're notorious for lower ratings which I don't mind because it is cross the board. Furthermore they have more people rating the dramas, so should be more accurate.

I have to stop watching AvenueX, can't agree with her on many points.

Watching dramas, talking shit, and getting paid, not a bad deal at all. Paid fans, please tell me how to get involved. I don't mind giving you a cut of my pay :D

True XD!

That's hilarious, but please don't remind me why I didn't watch Chinese dramas a few years back. These days, I just have to put my wits (not that I have any) down to enjoy watching something, anything XD

Hahaha! Actually I'm quite enjoying the Lao Ai arc, especially after your snippet about his manhood. Laugh the heck out of me XD

Yeah, I was so confused when I saw those "big and old" children. There must be plenty of intelligent 3 year old kids who can speak fluently in China. Also at the age of 13, it's hard to imagine he thinks like a 40 year old man. Even for a prodigy, their brains normally don't function so maturely like this. At 22 when he gains full power, he seems like the most intelligent man in the nation, if not in the world. Indeed, SMH.

together.

Don't miss this wonderful drama. The ending is up to interpretation. Most importantly, they are ....

unification begins.

Episode 53 -

I love that with the names of the characters appearing. Save the effort trying to figure out who is who because some of them look really alike with the facial hair and same clothing; their names are not easy to memorize too with my goldfish brain :)

I don't understand how the MDL's rating algorithm works, but more than 70% of the viewers rate this drama above 9.0, so something is wrong here with the rating.

That's why I love these comment pages; you get snippets like these making a dry drama interesting XD. I know, I know I'm gossipy XD

How's the Legend of Fei so far?

Hahaha, welcome to the bandwagon of the "complaint" of little boy in old man's body and voice. Yes, that's the only blemish I find in this drama. When he's grown to the age that fits the body, everything is awesome (actually apart from the misfit, everything is great from the beginning). You'll enjoy this drama tremendously I know, just as I have :)

Yes, there are simply so many inconsistencies and contradictions. Many readers don't even realize the writers' motives and philosophies which may be totally opposing to Ying Zheng's, hence disparage his actions and lead to the distortion of history we see in Sima Qian's Shi Ji. The non-Chinese may be more objective in this sense but, again, their information relies on other writers.

BTW, I love your review on Qin Empire 2. Bravo!

It is so true that written by non-Chinese enables us getting a different perspective, and I truly love the writings of all these sinologists. But to me, there are still certain innate elements that cannot be explained totally when one is not the race himself/herself. I just sigh that there's such a lack of Chinese writers who can be as objective as the non-Chinese in their writings of the Chinese history.