Name: The Emperor's Strategy
Genre: Adventure, Ancient China, Based on a Novel, Chinese Animation, Royalty
Rating: 3.442
Cast: Su Shangqing

Born into the royal family, every move that Chu Yuan makes is cautious, constantly afraid that one moment of carelessness will cause him to lose everything. After ascending to the throne at 18, not half a year passes before civil strife erupts in Yun Nan. Although the motives of the old guard at the royal court are not exactly unanimous, all of them are waiting to see how the new emperor will resolve this situation...

Source: NU

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Might contain spoilers. The animation is very bad, and it could have been overlooked if it actually had a good pace & story. Some parts clearly aren't being shown, for example why did Chu Yuan thought Duan Baiyue was not going to try to overthrow him so suddenly, without any evidence? There was not any connection between the two events, everything felt so sudden and unconnected. The politics and other characters in the show weren't even interesting enough to watch 8 episodes without seeing the two leads interacting (except the flashbacks). I don't know if it's novels fault or the animation studios' but it was extremely boring, wouldn't recommend watching.

The animation is not the best, but the plot is very nice. Although it's a BL, China's laws make it a normal "bromance." There are 20 episodes and each is about 20 minutes. The story stops with an open end and leaves some mysteries unsolved because the story continues in the novel. There is also a manhua adaptation, but it's currently behind the donghua (they have more BL scenes in the manhua). All the 20 episodes are available with English subs online for free ..... but whether or not you can find them depends on where you search.........

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I love this anime a lot! I hope there comes a season 2 <3 of course, it has a chance to come, it's still 2020. Anyways best light-shounen-ai anime ever. Together with Mo Dao Zu Shi, this is a masterpiece. The story, animation, art was perfect. Just that it didn't get much hard work than compared to Mo dao zu shi. However, I really loved this series, God bless the author/creater! Really china's historical animes are creative and a bit hard at the start. I recommend this anime to all light-BL fans. I wanted to see more Yuan x Duan. Chinese anime are better than japanese.. idk what to write more T^T so sad to say goddbye~~!

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