spacecat99:

@RilakkumasBubbleTea  & @Taz-mania  

I am with you both. The longer short dramas are too much for me.  I find myself FF through and then I wonder what was missed - but really, much could have been trimmed down. 

I find I very much enjoy the dramas with great relationship development (and I admit heavy on the romance :)  But also, every once in a while, I also enjoy a totally ridiculous short with over-the-top drama. 

I keep getting some ridiculous over the top drama clips in my feeds - they are such train wrecks you can't look away - just watched one where the female lead and the white moonlight were kidnapped and the white moonlight raped (she really wasn't as she an the kidnapper were in on the kidnapping together). White moonlight and FL are both pregnant so ML tells everyone that the while moonlight's child is his and that his child with the FL is not his but the kidnappers. So FL divorces the ML, has an abortion and at a party gives him the divorce papers and his aborted child in a specimen jar. ML says he only loved the FL but the white moonlight's grandfather saved his grandfather and so he had to support her as she is to weak to face criticisms for having a child with the kidnapper. You can't get any crazier than this (although I'm sure I'm wrong and some crazier ones exist). Really, who comes up with these plots (which lack any logic) and why did I spend any time watching this train wreck???

I actually prefer to watch rom/coms, but sometimes I am in the mood for a nice angsty drama if it's done well.

Goodness, that does sound like a trainwreck. Some are just way too much you wonder what the scriptwriters were drinking. But some are bad in a classic way that I enjoy - where the ML plays the hero and rescues the FL from a tragic situation and love and romance ensue. "sigh"  lol

 Taz-mania:

Lots and I do mean lots of kiss scenes in Victory In Love...Drama opens with the leads already in a secret relationship...

This sounds interesting. Is there a link?

This sounds awful. Quote from Taz-mania:

"I keep getting some ridiculous over the top drama clips in my feeds - they are such train wrecks you can't look away - just watched one where the female lead and the white moonlight were kidnapped and the white moonlight raped (she really wasn't as she an the kidnapper were in on the kidnapping together). White moonlight and FL are both pregnant so ML tells everyone that the while moonlight's child is his and that his child with the FL is not his but the kidnappers. So FL divorces the ML, has an abortion and at a party gives him the divorce papers and his aborted child in a specimen jar. ML says he only loved the FL but the white moonlight's grandfather saved his grandfather and so he had to support her as she is to weak to face criticisms for having a child with the kidnapper. You can't get any crazier than this (although I'm sure I'm wrong and some crazier ones exist). Really, who comes up with these plots (which lack any logic) and why did I spend any time watching this train wreck???"

If this pops up, I will avoid it for sure. Is there a title?

 twinty:

This sounds interesting. Is there a link?

Victory in Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSo8gd88Qhg

@twinty 

The trainwreck is on the MoboReels app as "Find Myself After Losing Everything" -  it probably has other names that it goes by...

https://www.moboreels.com/drama/find-myself-after-losing-everything-34748322

 Taz-mania:

@twinty 

The trainwreck is on the MoboReels app as "Find Myself After Losing Everything" -  it probably has other names that it goes by...

https://www.moboreels.com/drama/find-myself-after-losing-everything-34748322

Thanks. I will avoid it. 

I also used to watch random drama that's made me mad. Something like ML already abandoned FL because he thought she had sugar daddy a few years earlier (while on college) then he met FL again due to FL cover for her friend to sign a collaboration paperwork or something, then he went to bully and rape her, and didn't believe her pregnancy has something to do with him because of the false medical report brought by SFL then she miscarried, but FL, who's actually a heiress and that 'sugar daddy' was in fact her super rich dad, saying "It's okay, there's no need to avenge me, I just want to have no further relation with him." What, was I being taught to let people bully me? Or that meeting a bad guy was inevitable, so when you met one, just flee? Because an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind? Now when I see weak FL, I automatically close the drama.

My preference is Tinghua Dao/ Heard Island's drama. Their dramas are generally safe. And on reelxia there's people giving out rating. Drama with rating over 4.5 with more than 5 people rated it is generally safe. On youtube, I read the comments. On iQIYI, I generally watch top or trending/ something from reelxia that's available on iQIYI. For other sites, I rarely watch random drama. But everything trending and have many viewers on Hongguo is a sure wonder. As long as the poster looks fun. Today I ptw https://reelxia.com/drama/Zn with 4.7 rating.

The ML in this drama has to take the prize for being one of the most obsessed over a FL. It's a dark Republican era rebirth/revenge drama, where in the FL's first life the ML kills those that murdered her and then commits suicide as he can't live without her. In the second life, having witnessed the ML devotion the FL attaches herself firmly to his side as she begins her quest for revenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZYFZaWri5s

There are apparently 2 other versions of this storyline but I haven't yet watched either of them.

Version with Yao Guan Yu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ZEnGcNgaE

Version with Shen Zi Yang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnVZofhwzDY