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Have you noticed the Completed rating has jumped to 8.87? It takes time for this to settle so it will most likely go higher.

Ep 40.5, the extra episode, is confirmation they lived happily ever after.

I started to watch it and will finish it slowly. I love the whacky comedy. Hilarious. Didn't you find Go Princess Go to be super low budget with homemade scenes? In fact, there was a scene of the female lead in Go Princess Go in the same flowing bright red running and looking back, identical scene in The Double.

The director really made WJY character at end of ep 40 soft and delicate with her flowing lose hair and bangs and of course, he's into those bright color fabrics and he likes them to move with the wind.

I actually love the final scene. It is the kind of scene that captivates you and can be rewatched. it is full of beauty, awe, inspiration, and mystery. It is the kind of scene that hooked me in at the beginning. It's the kind of ending that fills you with emotions. I love how her hair is flowing upwards to the side in the background.

Who else but The Duke would be riding toward her with the jade pendant. He was the only one who survived the battle so of course it was him. Men like him defy death. Who else could be such a gallant knight on a white horse coming for his lady. The look on her face told me she saw him coming.

Calming Waves (2025) seems like a good role for WXY.

Li Meng (played Princess Wanning) has done mostly supporting roles in almost 30 movies and 9 dramas and she's only 31.
- 2013 participated in the 66th Cannes International Film Festival and she became the first 20-year-old mainland actress to step on the red carpet
- 2016 nominated for the best actress in the 23rd Beijing University Student Film Festival.
- 2018 won the 34th Sundance Film Festival "Collective Performance Award"

What's amazing is the newcomer actor Liang Yong Qi (played SYR). This is really his first role even though he's already 28. It's really his debut role. His next role is still a supporting role in another Yu Zheng drama that has WXY in a main role. I think LYQ was supposed to be a supporting actor in The Double but somehow ended up with a lot of screen time.

The producer, Yu Zheng did not expect The Double to be so popular, but he lucks out, collaborated with a new director never worked on his productions before. The Double has done wonders for Wu Jin Yan in her comeback after two years hiatus, breakthrough for WXY who was already on the rise, and most of all, an amazing debut for Liang Yong Qi and amazing performance for Li Meng. This director has only done three dramas in his career and in his first drama 9 yrs. ago, that drama shot a known main actress to fame and made the male lead prominent (and he's not even that good I think). Yu Zheng has an eye for talent but interested in making dramas not the actor's career.

the ML actor in Kill Me Love Me is the second male lead in Ancient Love Poetry. He's a good actor.

SYR blames everyone and everything. He never takes responsibility for his own actions. He even said that the only mistake he made in life was becoming a scholar because if he hadn't then none of this would have happened.

That was all due to the new director. If the producer, Yu Zheng did not collaborate with this director, so much of the simple artistic flair would not be there and get an entirely different mood for the main leads. It's amazing how the right outfits and hair styles, fan blowing, and various camera shots can create moods, as well as how they interact,

well they did a great job then

Oh I just realized that it was after XFF wished SYR that he will have a noble position in his next life that he then commits suicide. I guess he felt that was his only option left to advance himself. No wonder he was able to muster enough courage to jump off a building.

still lying to himself

I did. I was just wondering how they filmed so much so fast.

If you want to see the ML silly, watch him in Delicacies Destiny.

He's the one who said he would have lived a happy life with XFF if he hadn't become a scholar. He still doesn't know himself.

SYR was a coward, but in his final act he musters enough courage to jump off a building.

SYR says the only mistake he made in life was becoming a scholar. If he hadn't done that, then he could have lived a happy life with XFF. The irony of what he said is that XFF is the one who made it possible for him to become a scholar. She encouraged him and even sold her guqin and jade pendant, her most precious family possessions.

Will 40.5 help the ratings?

maybe one ending is she sits by the tree, and he never rides back to her (sad ending), then another ending is she sits by the tree, and he rides back to her but doesn't show that he ever reached her (open ended) so they made this extra episode 40.5 to prove he returned to her and chronicles at least 8 yrs. of their life afterwards including having a daughter (happy ending)