I'm loving this, hopefully somehow it gets popular and the actors get recognition! Loved Li Hongyi since Blood of Youth which was awesome and he was awesome there but he didn't seem to have many more dramas airing, was so surprised to see this is an adaptation of one of my favorite novels and that it stars him!
Wasn't that sure about the FL bc Ive never seen her before but she's lovely and doing a great job, somehow she reminds me of omega Hua Yong with her features and expressions.
I read the book a long time ago but it did seem to be a little different than this which I wish it wasn't but honestly this is still a good drama
I love Hua Yong and Wenlang's relationship, it's one of my favorite parts of the drama. I love how Wenlang has such a soft spot for his crazy friend despite everything and worries for him knowing he has no one else who would, and subconsciously thinks no one is good enough for his friend even if he thinks Hua Yong is crazy And although Hua Yong has limited ability to invest emotions in things unrelated to Sheng Shaoyou, he does try to get Wenlang a lover and also is the most himself when he's with Wenlang- he jokes, whines, shares all his plans with him and trusts him completely. And I think aside from Gao Tu who he cares a lot about but doesn't know that well yet, Hua Yong is the only person Wenlang has in his life. Wenlang says i't a pity Hua Yong has no family to care for him when injured but at least he is there! I'd love to see their relationship
Trust the negative reviews. I gave it a chance because of the positive ones, and I'm hating it so much. The story…
What script will she read properly? The one she had was not a finalized version and only her parts. Also she's not a veteran actress she's a low popularity actress who got into the profession bc she hated maths and science. AND if I read a book where the ml is torturing, cheating on and getting the ml killed I'll stay far away from him no matter how different he seems precisely bc I'm from the present and she's like that too Also she simply doesn't take the script world where she already died and revived a dozen times that seriously bc why should she..??
Best drama of 2k25 . Cinematography, romance , acting, sound effects and script all top notch. I was totally amazed…
Yes, and god forbid a female character isn't love focused and actively wants to avoid emotional entanglement with a potential red flag Loved all the characters and the overall storytelling, my favorite drama this year along with Filter!
who could be the one who gave chancellor gao that letter? from all the characters present until now, I don’t…
I think so too, he has the suspicious ability to say things exactly at the wrong time to get NH in trouble and seems more petty and selfish than he appeared at the beginning
Song Yimeng is so so pretty, the last drama of her that I watched was Bloody Romance ages ago and LYT was gorgeous there too and amazing at the role. She's killing this role too
Okay everyone our FL has finally chosen to stand by NH and now it will be them against the plot and CGH and that terrible uncle and whoever helped him escape.
As we more of script NH, we can see that he did go all out gaining script even staging assassinations so he could save her- and it makes a lot of sense why SYM took such a long time to trust him. That horrible uncle really went all out to gain enemies for NH even at the last moment.
SYM planning that trip to figure out how she feels about NH aaah I can't wait for her to tell him about the script and get married and perhaps throw CGH to jail after a beating.
The empress' assassination seems to have been done by uncle Gao, and framed on young NH for some reason just as he destroyed CGH's letter for help which lead to death of a lot of CGH's close people including his dad. He seems to want NH to absolutely no one left to trust or care about and then push him to throne, maybe to rule through him?
He seems to be powerful enough to still escape through that explosive feint and the emperor seems weary of him. I wish NH talked to and explained things to him mom instead of having her worry for her brother - they don't owe him anything most of NH's misery is from him and the rest from his nonsense dad.
Honestly I get really annoyed at CGH at many points but I can understand his blinding overconsuming hatred for NH. That uncle of NH's made sure to make it appear like he intentionally let thousands of soldiers die to get back at CGH. He has let this hatred for NH unfortunately overcome both his reason and his morals though, and has no qualms about dragging innocent ppl and also ppl he supposedly cares about into the mess as long as he can hurt NH.
The 18 prince seemed innocent at the beginning but has shown to be egotistical, dumb and selfish all in one if I was a king no matter how much I loved this son and hated the other I'd rather leave it to some nephew than a guy like him unless I wanted the whole country to crumble.
Just some random thoughts. I think the narrative often fails our FL. While Nan Heng is given an emotional arc…
This, also why do people forget in the original script, NH at the beginning saved SYM and appeared all good and nice to her so she believed him over the rumours and married him and THEN he betrayed her. If I went to such a script I wouldn't take the risk to believe NH either. It does seem like he is just more consistently trying to deceive her from her end. The drama focused on NH's suffering and shows Yimeng in a comedic light making her look heartless
Tbh there are beloved MLs who have gone around torturing, choking FLs destroying their self esteems and more and remained beloved so let's continue to be nice to our FL I don't think she yet matches any of those MLs level of terrible . Also plenty of script where FLs go through shit 100x worse than NH. He still has his mom. He was sent to the border but he had his army and power and wealth as a prince. The worst things he went through are terrible reputation and a terrible father who loves to humiliate him and break his spirit. It's very sad but could have been way worse
Wasn't that sure about the FL bc Ive never seen her before but she's lovely and doing a great job, somehow she reminds me of omega Hua Yong with her features and expressions.
I read the book a long time ago but it did seem to be a little different than this which I wish it wasn't but honestly this is still a good drama
And although Hua Yong has limited ability to invest emotions in things unrelated to Sheng Shaoyou, he does try to get Wenlang a lover and also is the most himself when he's with Wenlang- he jokes, whines, shares all his plans with him and trusts him completely. And I think aside from Gao Tu who he cares a lot about but doesn't know that well yet, Hua Yong is the only person Wenlang has in his life. Wenlang says i't a pity Hua Yong has no family to care for him when injured but at least he is there! I'd love to see their relationship
AND if I read a book where the ml is torturing, cheating on and getting the ml killed I'll stay far away from him no matter how different he seems precisely bc I'm from the present and she's like that too
Also she simply doesn't take the script world where she already died and revived a dozen times that seriously bc why should she..??
Loved all the characters and the overall storytelling, my favorite drama this year along with Filter!
As we more of script NH, we can see that he did go all out gaining script even staging assassinations so he could save her- and it makes a lot of sense why SYM took such a long time to trust him. That horrible uncle really went all out to gain enemies for NH even at the last moment.
SYM planning that trip to figure out how she feels about NH aaah I can't wait for her to tell him about the script and get married and perhaps throw CGH to jail after a beating.
The empress' assassination seems to have been done by uncle Gao, and framed on young NH for some reason just as he destroyed CGH's letter for help which lead to death of a lot of CGH's close people including his dad. He seems to want NH to absolutely no one left to trust or care about and then push him to throne, maybe to rule through him?
He seems to be powerful enough to still escape through that explosive feint and the emperor seems weary of him. I wish NH talked to and explained things to him mom instead of having her worry for her brother - they don't owe him anything most of NH's misery is from him and the rest from his nonsense dad.
Honestly I get really annoyed at CGH at many points but I can understand his blinding overconsuming hatred for NH. That uncle of NH's made sure to make it appear like he intentionally let thousands of soldiers die to get back at CGH. He has let this hatred for NH unfortunately overcome both his reason and his morals though, and has no qualms about dragging innocent ppl and also ppl he supposedly cares about into the mess as long as he can hurt NH.
The 18 prince seemed innocent at the beginning but has shown to be egotistical, dumb and selfish all in one if I was a king no matter how much I loved this son and hated the other I'd rather leave it to some nephew than a guy like him unless I wanted the whole country to crumble.
Also plenty of script where FLs go through shit 100x worse than NH. He still has his mom. He was sent to the border but he had his army and power and wealth as a prince. The worst things he went through are terrible reputation and a terrible father who loves to humiliate him and break his spirit. It's very sad but could have been way worse