@Evamaren

Thanks for your summary and for confirming my thoughts on this. I have started reading the novel and I like that Prince  Xuan Qing (YX) is not married. The drama is good as well just different as you mentioned, two separate stories. 

I’m defo super surprised, this is almost like 2 independent stories, it’s only borrowed names that are the same, almost everything else is different. Actually come to think of it, if the screenwriter had changed the names, it wouldn’t even be considered plagiarism… it would have just been an independent script altogether….

But I just realised the screenwriter is the one who wrote Love between Fairy and Devil, but I think that one followed quite closely to the novel. 

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I’m defo super surprised, this is almost like 2 independent stories, it’s only borrowed names that are the same, almost everything else is different. Actually come to think of it, if the screenwriter had changed the names, it wouldn’t even be considered plagiarism… it would have just been an independent script altogether….

But I just realised the screenwriter is the one who wrote Love between Fairy and Devil, but I think that one followed quite closely to the novel. 

Really?? Is the screenwriter really the same who wrote "Love between Fairy and Devil "? Now i understand many things...

To respond you, i liked the drama "Love between Fairy and Devil", but the novel and drama are totally different. Maybe not different as this case, but very different

Yea it is, and not only that, the screenwriter is a guy and he‘s very young. I noticed most screenwriters for Cdramas are women.

You can tell many aspects of the plot is written from a very masculine point of view… like the FL is probably the most masculine-like character I’ve came across for a female in Cdramaland. lol, and the way the whole marriage/romance comes about is also very much from an average male’s perspective. of course not all men are like that, am generalising, like for one, I know my brother and my father thinks like that… 

ah so LbFD also differs from the novel quite a bit…? I guess that’s fine…. But I’m just baffled why they actually spend the money to buy the rights to the novel and then spend the equal amount of resources to come up with something so different altogether. I mean for this drama they could have technically produced two separate dramas.… 

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