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I must say though, leaving the acting skills a part, just as a common costume C-Drama fan, right now I do enjoy seeing her face: She is one of few current lead actresses, that haven't gone crazy over improving her face through plastic surgeries. Many others (not all, but too many), specially in this year's recent costume C-Dramas with their Manga-like big eyes, perfectly formed lips, cheek bones and foreheads ... they look so perfect when filmed as a still, but they struggle to form a proper human expression cause the improvements they went through doesn't allow it anymore.

well I am generally surprised, how casually the emperor is constantly hanging out anywhere and anyhow he wants, also time and distance is no problem for him at all. hi might have bended time and other rules of physics in general, lol
but this is what I love in costume C-dramas: you have figure out because each of them has "built" its own rules what refers to gravity, time, human fighting and flying capabilities. I am also impressed how much stuff they carry invisibly in their sleeves and on their waists wile staying strong and slender. I want one of those magic clothes to take with me easily half of my household, and yes a lighter, a poison, some important papers, or whatever else is needed is never missing to come out of their sleeves
Thats why I love C-dramas: they are never worried nor bent about any rules as any other mortal in this world, specially if they are in a way of the story

IS IT AT LEAST AT THE NOVEL? Where can we get the answers to it??

yes, I also want to know, Its a kind of a mystery, what happened there, is there an explanation or story to it in the novel at least?

I also LOVE his character in The Legend oh ShenLI

yep, but it also remind me somehow of the "Nothing gold can stay"

great article!

I must say, Miles Wei had such a cool entrance!!

Thanks, Otherwise I thought i've missed parts from the previous episodes

Is this also where it is explained why he is so immediately completely devoted to the FL. I am on ep 7 and this is what i wondered about, why he is sooo into her from the very beginning? and not into 2nd FL at all at the same time?

How can i find the manhua and he donhua, do they have the same names as this drama?

Thanks for this, and I am still at ep 7, so my question is: how come the ML is immediately completely devoted and "in love# with the FL? IS it something that is later explained in the novel and in the drama? oOr is it something I just didn't notice during the first 7 episodes?

Is it recommendable to read the novel first?

thanks for sharing!

what ep. is it?

recommend some, please

Yes, absolutely with you on this point.
It is biased, however the real history is layed out from one side or another.

Nowadays since we do have access to so much information, we should be "a bit more" aware of how we build the story, more considerate.
I guess what strikes me about all of this is while we all as a world society became more polite and educated in the way we treat each other in the real life, everyone is "nice and understanding to each other", polite and perfectly tuned....
But at the same time, if the current behaviour of the netizens could be translated to the real life with all its suppressed frustrations, negative feelings, aggressive writings and so on, ... it would be a bloody street fights where everyone runs around with their knives looking wo to stick it in.

And here we are, at the drama world. Not politics, not economics. not diplomatic international relationships. At a place where we get to to relax and escape a bt from our daily reality.
Aren't there more peaceful ways to get to know and understand each other points (not talking about our conversation of course :-) but the general drama netizens world. I ended up writing in your thread just to reflect a bit )

Agree with your points: very valid and I see it the same way.
But also as far as I remember the portrayal of the "other" in both Chinese and Korean dramas has always been to fit the script and to underline the good side versus the "bad guys" or to underline any other kind of lacking of the "other". And not only in K- and C-dramas.

If you watch with the magnifying glass "Bon Appetit your Majesty" from this perspective (highly entertainment driven, little fact checking for any part of the background story) you can get offended about anything, about being an inventor, about the food, about the portrayal of the coking industries, about the knifes, how the palace functions, any kind of accuracy can be questioned.

Somehow most of us who dive into these dramas "agree" from the beginning that it is merely entertaining fictional story where things are done for fun and almost nothing fits.

So many minorities and not only minorities has been falsely portrayed in the representations because its representation didn't consider their own story but a comfortable klishee of the outsiders to fit their own narrative.

I guess we all should first look at thee mirror before judging the other

I also want to try all the dishes they were preparing in the competition !

Its funny, I discovered K-Dramas for me just few years ago, going through many of them, aired from 2014 or later.
Now that I go back to watch k-Dramas older than that, I really struggle to understand the logic and the story, event the mentality of the characters.

.... Its like landing in the airport of the country, you thought you know a bit about already, but in fact it appears to be a very different one

seems like someone altered it seriously ....