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I am new to this drama world so I am trying to keep some sense of what I am watching. It's a good place to take notes in one place for now, will eventually take it to my own site.


actually turned out to be not a very good place, shows go missing or merged into another one. fsake.

ra111ster Oct 1, 2023
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  • My Rich Little Brother

    101. My Rich Little Brother

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 25 episodes

    101) Micro. Came across it coz I thought it was highlight clips, but it turned out to be a micro. An 8 year old kid stopped growing due to PTSD then quickly grew up. 

    I think it's a parody just not a very funny one. Anyway his god brother was the one who killed his sister, etc. 

    If it's not a parody I can only think it was a director improv-challenge of sorts.

  • Her Fantastic Adventures

    102. Her Fantastic Adventures

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 36 episodes

    9.5

    102) Iriene Song transmigrating again. She is supposed to be professional discus thrower.
    Show kicks off with her being at her own funeral and getting out of coffin.
    Transpires she is in a coma, but according to the story she is time travelling and has to collect 4 treasures
    to come back. Treasures are a skewer sword, her watch, necklace with her photo and a gold medal.
    There are 4 lads which look like people from her world but they don't remember her, each got a treasure.
    Turns out she is a "Star of Rebellion" who supposed to cause havoc in this world and cause downfall of Duan family.
    The main guy of Duan family looks like the guy she has a crash on in real life.
    Another guy who is friends with her in real life is a third wheeling "bad guy".
    Based on IS's physique her being discus thrower probably the most unbelievable thing in the show.
    Also, IS has really cute expression when she smiles but it that was overused like sometimes that exuberance seemed out of place.
    Good twists and turns in general and overall a pretty good show.

  • The Glory

    103. The Glory

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 30 episodes

    8.5

    103) Good show. Unexpected "romance", a bit unplanned kinda way darker version of Love Like the Galaxy. 

    Mofo was alright his wooden appearance mattered well.
    Chen Du Ling was excellent.
    A Zi great.

    It has a happy end but it is a revenge plot of a damaged persons something that I tend to avoid.

  • The Relic Keeper

    104. The Relic Keeper

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 15 episodes

    9.5

    104) Mini. Came across by accident. It's the one where a maid from the past entered through time portal (the painting in ancient times) bumped into FL's mother their bodies swapped.

    Mother in the body of 18 yo maid was dragged back by the guard while the maid in mother's body stayed in the present. 

    Eventually the two of them travel to the past the key to body swap was the bracelet which they had. All the bodies return to normal and FL and Mom figured out how portal works and go back.

    Very simple, but really beautiful and mom was excellent I thought she was ML's mom in you're my lover friend but she's actually was in Liu Jui Overlord and SOKP.

    Lu Zhao Hua again great. 

    But FL Wang Bing Bing looked amazing, there's no way I could tell she is 35, and it's like her first role coz she is supposed to be a reporter not an actor, nice: https://weibo.com/u/6512991534 

  • Little Mad Doctor

    105. Little Mad Doctor

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 26 episodes

    9.0

    105) Micro. It was an alright story some medical student fell asleep in class and dreamt transcending into another world.
    There was a mission to cure x number of people and acumulate credits as a doctor.
    She was able to pull out various medical items nothing too sophisticated but good enough.
    Similar to another story.
    Done very well, but had a bit of uncomfortable vibe somewhere.
    There was a bit of weirdness with face swaps and princess intrigues not too much violence which is nice.
    The dude she was after looked like her lecturer.

  • Ancient Workplace, Love Handbook

    106. Ancient Workplace, Love Handbook

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 30 episodes

    10

    106) Mini. Some girl at a new workplace fell asleep and a hairpin appeared. The hairpin belonged to assassin. ML died first and came back before the assassination attempt so he attacked the assassin kicking her soul to some dark place while FL took on the body of the assassin.

    When they kissed she recalled some of assassin's memory, while the dude as getting images from her normal time, like in the future. I kinda didn't notice it at first.

    The modern girl got the hang of ancient living obviously they feel in love. There was a tiny bit of angst with the maid but generally the show was very light and easy going.

    The soul of the assassin was slowly regaining control, and FL was falling asleep for longer periods of time and getting amnesia but it didn't drag out much she was able to recall a lot. On the wedding night Xinglan realised if she falls asleep she will lose her body. So she decides to poison herself. ML found her and killed himself. When Xinglang came back to her world the pin didn't disappear and realised it was ML who placed it there.

    A Yi Xia the princess from The Girl Inside me was playing a princess here as well. She was good actually all girls were good. Well Enjoyed it.

  • Princess's Venture

    107. Princess's Venture

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 20 episodes

    9.0

    107) Mini. It was alright. Checking it out for Jin Lu Ying, her look is very interesting in it.

    Someone entered a game where she needed to figure out some mystery. Talking animal props etc., In the end it turns out that ML is also an outsider. Cast was alright, 2ML was the lead from "The Girl Inside Me". Princess Changping looked very very familiar but she is not in the cast.

    I had to FF a few times but didn't skip. I'd say it's a 9.

  • I Have a Smart Doctor Wife

    108. I Have a Smart Doctor Wife

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 22 episodes

    9.5

    108) It's a micro of 3 seasons. A doctor and a driver due to some electric mishap end up in the past with a mission to save people (she needs to treat 10K people to go back). She has access to some modern medical equipment provided she has a balance with a system.

    She ends up in a body of supposedly ugly wife and marries some god of war with another girl.

    Driver ends up in the body of FL's maid and turns up with guy's brain after having a drink.

    The story is alright, she saved a few people a few cheesy turn outs with an oxygen tank appearing.

    ML & FL fall in love the system allows 2 people to return but it doesn't matter who so the driver (now in a relationship with ML's bodyguard) decides to stay back in the past and let ML go instead. 

    When she comes back a dude in a  purple robe waves back. Given the set up that they are making a costume film at the scene he should fit in alright but obviously it's an open ending.

    In fairness twists and turns were a bit unusual and it was engaging.

  • Love in Numbers

    109. Love in Numbers

    Chinese Movie - 2015

    109) It's a tiny 15 minute video. No subs but it's a teen drama so it was easy enough to follow. She goes on a few dates and in bubble rank appears when she rates and in some cases she's being reated. Eventually the lad turns out to be 100 she realises it too late but not really. 

    Anyway Sweet enough.

  • You Jian Ken Ze

    110. You Jian Ken Ze

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes

    8.5

    110) Micro. No subs, synopsis, etc.

    Looks like a student project, camera feels similar to Magic Star. Probably an alright fantasy for kids. I'll just FF and skip, might get wrong the detail due to missing subs but it's probably more fun that way.

    Kicks off with a girl approaching an Inn.
    Some dude with a shining moon crescent on his arm on appearing out of the void and is trying to drag her in. Turns out the girl was dreaming and got some leaves in her hair. On the way to work she helps out some granny which mysteriously disappears. Granny turns up later at the Inn to I guess explain the setup to FL, although no idea what she said bottom line FL pops in and out between two worlds.

    Later it transpires that the dude looks exactly like ML in the present and has a moon shaped scar on his hand. She ends up at the Inn multiple times and looks like some of her colleges are there as well, though ML has short hair but occasionally doesn't. ML is probably dreaming too.  

    The group manages the restaurant and  FL drags some items from modern world. Funny scene is when some client dressed in black is coming in an slapping everyone out of the way (it's actually in the intro, facial expression is unusual).

    Finally she decides to take a group selfie (in e20) and it looks like she is in modern clothes sitting near some building. Granny takes ML down to the Inn wearing modern clothes.

    All 6 people got matched up at the Inn and their matching modern versions.

  • Rewriting Destiny

    111. Rewriting Destiny

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes

    9.5

    111) Interesting story. A Comic books writer created a story but secondary character which happened to not die off soon becomes a protagonist. I guess the writer was just riffing the story.There wasn't a lot of extra knowledge added so it was very interesting. Throughout the story FL was suffering from an illness. At the very end writer returned her back into the world healthy and 2 kids.

    Smile Hu was excellent.
    Xia Lan aka Thea Lin ( aka Lin Qi Yu) very good.
    Father of ML was actually Marco Chen from TLOSL, not the Wu Qi Hao's father from My heroic husband (where it's actually Guo Jun).

    Different bit about the premise was absence of writers privilege I suppose.

    Overall a very good show, but I think I'm unlikely to watch it soon.

  • Secrets of the Shadow Sect

    112. Secrets of the Shadow Sect

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes

    9.0

    112) Mini. moved fast but alright. An assassin graduated and moved close to his target. Objective was to steal some secret technique.
    In fact he was not an adept of the sect but took on the identity of another guy when they were kids. The other kid and his sister were actually saved by the girl who was the leader.
    The twists and turns were around that her mother passed on the technique to the FL and hid this fact. Father forced her mother to kill herself to hide this technique. The lads were controlled by blood eland eventually it transpired that the 2ML isn't her brother and the stepmother was planted by another sect. Anyway it was pretty bizarre like a mexican drama I suppose.
    Didn't hate it,FF or skip but the acting from the guys was not good. FL too was alright.

  • Under the Microscope

    113. Under the Microscope

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 14 episodes

    10

    113) Finally got back to finish it. ZRY is a savant trying to figure out discrepancies/unfariness with tax. Shows really well how machine works, a few backdrops but really the focus in on how the things worked at the time.

    Lot's of crew from JoL, SSS, SOKP (Fang Yin), BTTH & I think one of the officials is an accountant from "Man comes from tang dynasty".

    Unusual set up and is very good.

    Very good intro and outro. check it out.

  • Phoenix Lands in the World

    114. Phoenix Lands in the World

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes

    8.5

    114) Well, Ke Ying is excellent. The lad is alright.

    Writer lands in the world. Female protagonist is being called a devil and the story is where all sects are looking for some booklet.Similar to "May your heart be like mine"?

    Stupid thing number one is that dude also looks for the booklet but he wants to give the book to his master so the master could destroy it. The premise has insurmountable level of stupidity. But it she told him how the story would go and how his master would disown him etc. She just avoided telling him that she stabbed him with a pin. Obviously his master was the baddie and made his disciples nick other sect's techniques. 

    Anyway, they got together, the guy Shen Yi or whatever was deformed by poison and was able to take on others' form (like a shapeshifter) and for some reason the writer felt guilty about it: another major stupid point.

    So, the Shen Yi finally takes on the form of FL and takes a fast one on Shen Ye. When Yi tries to stab ML she blocks the sword and says "it's my story and not for you to decide how it ends". Not sure how Yi knew about the plot to begin with.

    ML & FL go on with the wedding and ML puts a knife in her hands and stabs himself. Similar set up was in another drama from that time (Princess's Venture or the Queen System not sure).

    When she wakes up her clientlooks like Shen Yu, the film is made and he proposes to her. I suppose the ending wasn't bad.

    Good outro design.

  • My Sassy Princess

    115. My Sassy Princess

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 22 episodes

    9.0

    115) Not sure why some commenters were so negative about ML So far she's alright.

    Anyway I gather the FL is a least liked daughter, seems alright in context. She is really coming on strong to some General Shen and some fun times they had. There a a dude Lu Mensheng whho intends to marry her as part of arranged marriage but doesn't love her.

    It's the one where she had a piglet as a gift.

    Anyway there were plenty of twists and turns looking for missing silver, a separation with an arranged "Peace marriage", most couples got together but in the end"truelove knot" on the ground as Shi Jin and Shen Yu (secondary couple) are walking away? Really annoying.

    In the end they how a little rascal of a son hanging on the roof so kinda alright.

    Main sidekicks Ling Bi and Luo Fan got together. Nice scene.

    Overall yeah it was alright. Cast is pretty solid. Big armies shown well in terms of plan kinda does suggest a crowd. Old folks excellent.

    Some commenters found FL annoying. But it's a heuristic now that if girls find FL annoying when ML is some heartthrob then I'll like that FL :D

  • The Strange Princess

    116. The Strange Princess

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes

    8.5

    116) Bandit and princess switched bodies. Pretty decent mini.

    I was wondering how they were going to remove current love interests. Hongsu  went out in style but I'm sorry for her, I thought they might match her up with someone else. Tiangxin is still in the game when some weird looking western priest is drawing the lightning to strike them.

    4th wall break: those in front of screens do not imitate. Screens? They are from another world you wouldn't understand.

    End is a tad flat, like they are just smiling to each other even though at this stage there's already something between them. Anyway just alright.

  • Ruyi

    117. Ruyi

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 20 episodes

    8.5

    117) Mini. An Illustrator drops into a comic book which was plagiarized by her boss. The boss character keeps trying to end the story with him becoming an emperor and marrying a princess. Ruyi keeps waking them up and follow the original story. A lot of skip scenes and abrupt switches happening, in the end Wei Ma erases all of them but she breaks out by firing the arrow at the break wall.

    In the real world she meets up with all the characters which are actually original participants in the comic book and they kinda match up. 3rd wheeling SML is a waiter.

    A bit too convoluted for me and a tad bland a lot of my experience was just me sitting witha  blank stare trying to figure out what's going on.

    Cast was good. Great to see Xiang Hao again. Ma Hao Dong was good (he was an assassin in "My Bossy Wife" Not sure who was Phoenix (ivleyn ?) 

    Liu Yi Xin ( 刘奕心 ) was there for a tad not known here yet but she got a very harsh/good look hopefully she'll eventually gets some traction. 

    Anyway, just alright.

  • Marry Me, My Evil Lord

    118. Marry Me, My Evil Lord

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 20 episodes

    8.5

    118) Mini. Same guy from my bossy wife and here he is again impersonating someone. 

    The story is really about some alternative force knocking together two departments for someone else to usurp the throne. White haired son of a rebel general or something. Anyway not great plot don't care bout it. It's the one where it kicks off with a case where a princess committed suicide but was found next to a bed in bruises from 100 different techniques.

    Other than the princess at the start I think everyone survived to the end. Overall very light an easy viewing. Good cat and mouse.

    Girl (Wang Xin Ting) and Ma Hao Dong were very good for the couple scenes. 

    In one of the episodes he had a massive zit on his chin and she was slapping his mouth I thought it was going to burst.... make up artist failure...yack.

  • Crush the Village Husband

    119. Crush the Village Husband

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 65 episodes

    9.5

    119) merged micro. very good. Someone from modern times traveled back in a place of someone to be drowned. Very slow burn romance with some crown prince. Entertaining 2.5 hours.

    Girl very good, village head looks extremely familiar. It's not the old huang, could it be the butler from SSS?

  • Mr. Queen

    120. Mr. Queen

    Korean Drama - 2020, 20 episodes

    10

    120) Brilliant. Wanted to watch it for a while since Hard Noble Lady... very engaging.

    Some Super Chef Fell of a balcony whatever backstory not important, Ends up in a body of a queen to be. So a body is sharing a soul so to speak. Did involve a lot of cooking to go through the ranks, but yeah just charming.

    There were draggy parts but importantly happy end, no unnecessary angst or deaths even when it felt like it was needed. Redemption of crazy SML. Plenty of humour.

    FL (Shin Hye Sun) is simply  awesome in her every "role" here.

  • I Am the Queen

    121. I Am the Queen

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 78 episodes

    121) micro merged. Time-travelling raveling chemistry student who makes own soda (to raise cash to leave the palace, dresses as a eunuch) is stuck in a cold palace. Chance encounter with emperor followed up with another where she is plastered. Anyway. that's the one where she offered a box of money to the emperor  to spend a night with her and when they ended up in the bed she gets a nose bleed.

    Girl (Yu Yin) is such an explosive little package and pure joy to watch but honestly there's no saving it, really the level of some village drama club.

  • Invincible Stepmother

    122. Invincible Stepmother

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes

    9.0

    122) Micro. Actually it was pretty good. A dream sequence from some action film actress. Kicked off with multiple takes of her slapping another actress. Then she falls asleep. Like deals with her in-laws. Starts a business etc., Eventually it transpires that her husband was killed by another in-law's sister.
    She meets those chlid actors again in the end but prior to that she shoots all the bad guys which was made by the scholar guy. Last scenes looked good particularly the death of the baddie.

    Well, the only thing I suppose is that Jin Mei Chen looks so young that I couldn't see her in the role of a stepmom particularly when she woke up in the car and looked about 15.
    JMC is also in "Hello There" so I guess I'll see her again.

  • Go Princess, Go!

    123. Go Princess, Go!

    Chinese Drama - 2015, 35 episodes

    10

    123)This one is precursor to Mr Queen so the plot is similar. Although Mr Queen had way higher budget and they kinda explained away a lot of attraction by hormones. This none is done on fraction of the budget. I'm a total sucker for this type of cheap productions look & feel is similar to "Man Comes to Tang Dynasty " and the costumes which probably fit no real dynasty. But it was fun, sexy, a lot of 4th wall breaks. 

    It does descend into scheming politics business eventually where this charm is lost a little, but they keep to the point that she does what she has to not co she's falling in love with him. I think at this point in MQ he was like already having odd feelings and then kinda slides gradually. Here it's done explicitly in e27.

    Saw some comments about weird ending but I thought it was alright. In the finale they went off traveling, both get assassinated. Then they showed the guy waking up in modern world but going off to the pool, jumps in and visits places in the world that should be dissolved at this point.

    Girls are excellent, I'll need to do "where are they now?"  because there there are so many familiar faces.
    The princess is Nangong Pu She from SSS, I was wondering why she looks like I've known her for a century.
    Yang Yan prince? Was later in "Her fantastic adventures" as ML.

  • The Expect Love

    124. The Expect Love

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 36 episodes

    8.5

    124)  Mini, a chemical student ends up in the world of a novel. Though it was some comic book really. I'm not sure how she ended up there might need to watch earlier episodes again, but for some reason she needs him to say "I love you" to get back. 

    By E15  he looked like he was going to say it but said sorry instead. And she goes like "do you know how many people are watching us at double speed..." I'm like" lol, yeah, me" well at 1.25 anyway. The next annoying part was dragging out incident where she thought he was gay for like 3 episodes.

    A lot of it is around taking custody of the child which another couple wants because the husband is too stupid to make their own. Eventually she gave the vote to the other girl coz ...she;s going away etc. Child issue quickly withered away and we haven't seen him since. By the looks of it they eventually became all friends and helped FL out when a princess popped up out of nowhere. The princess was helping the ningji dude to help who framed his family for embezzlement.

    So they are solving a mystery behind the death of ML's brother who took some psychedelic drug which was mixed in his asthma medicine and burned his house down. Mystery was that some mansion was supposed to be confiscated and the money were supposed to be used to cover disaster relief. Obviously that didn't happen.

    ML is from "Her Fantastic Adventures", initial setup is like in Different Princess and a character similar to coroner Lin Xi Yao turns up.

    I think the madam of the house (ML's mom) is FL's step mother in Fateful Love.... and I just realized the mom is actually Tan Li Min my favourite Abbess Sheng Yin. Got to say she aged fast if she's only 41 (yob '83)

    Winnie Zhang has very sharp features kinda alright. Beautiful huge eyes, she kinda reminds me of "Sandra", but she had a few weird angle shots which made her look freaky.

    Everyone was just about tolerable.

  • Don't Mess with Her

    125. Don't Mess with Her

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 64 episodes

    125) Micro. mmm, some chef FL ends up in a body of a concubine after a lantern fell on her head at some cooking competition. arrives on a wedding night and straight away is sent to some wing of a palace. Usual bitch hostess story. Finale is a cooking competition (making same dish) and her becoming a chef in some restaurant. They didn't cover her return to real world just getting together with that prince person. 

    I have a vague recollection of watching it before and just regressing it.

  • Quan Neng Wang Fei Sha Feng Le

    126. Quan Neng Wang Fei Sha Feng Le

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 89 episodes

    126) Micro. Similiar to "I am the Queen" some concubine or whatever dresses up as a eunuch in to raise cash to leave the palace ... not sure what's the story there and why cash is involved. Kicks off with her sitting on a roof eating popcorn and looking at the emperor who cant put it up with a concubine (or it's over in a minute) turned out it wasn't the emperor. The emperor was the dude she told him about the hole and all of the above.

    Then she attempts to give him the money to spend the night with her; and gets nosebleed. It's actually another version of "I am the Queen" and there's another one "Quan Neng Wang Fei Sha Feng Le 2024" which is supposed to be another adaptation. DIdn't realize the story was so popular.

    Not good.

  • Raise Hell

    127. Raise Hell

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 82 episodes

    127) Micro. Initially confused it with "Quan Neng Wang Fei Sha Feng Le", but this one is not so much better. Here the time-traveling reader FL is in a wheel chair. Although the synopsis says she is able to travel through time & space I havent seen it being done explicitly. The girl is kinda alright. Actually the empress is able to do better. No idea show she is though.

    Ended with phrase along the lines of I'm vicious support character did I f'up again and looking at wrong show. From poster seems to be correct. Anyway, I'm not grading it.

  • Take My Wife Away

    128. Take My Wife Away

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 40 episodes

    8.5

    128) merged micro. There's a second season as well. First one was alright. It took a while for it to grow on me. FL not very likable. Some economist landed into a body of some wife whose husband likes some prostitute. Family runs body guard agency and is on its last legs. She takes over it and tries to bring it back up. 

    Some prince by the look of it is planning rebellion. There's an S2 as well but I'm not sure about it.

    Ruia from Shen Li is the prostitute. Also some familiar faces there need to check who the fat guy is I'm pretty sure another one is from MHH.

  • Zhang Gong Zhu Chuan Cheng Hao Men Xiao Jiao Qi

    129. Zhang Gong Zhu Chuan Cheng Hao Men Xiao Jiao Qi

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 64 episodes

    8.5

    129) Micro. Alternative name is The Princess Becomes A Little Wife Of A Wealthy Family. A princess and her husband were killed by an emperor by her brother. She reincarnates 1000 years later and everyone looks like the original people. eventually they all remember stuff.

    Good scene with her acting out her death scene as part of audition for the movie. Fake pearl auction. For 1.5 hours it's alright.

    According to stats it's my 200th show.

  • Princess at Large

    130. Princess at Large

    Chinese Drama - 2018, 12 episodes

    9.5

    130) Mini. I have a vague recollection of watching it and this being on this list already but some how 126 got shifted and being lost again.
    There are 3 seasons. S1 is a 9.5, S2 & S3 are 9.

    Another medical intern travels back to a body of some mistreated girl.
    The princess she is supposed to marry has large stomach and pains.
    She diagnosed him as pregnant, well, his twin is supposed to be living inside his body.
    So, they did a surgery.
    After he's recovered he is slim etc., and becomes object of affection from a few SFLs.
    Usual conflicts and she is healing everyone around her.
    After some time he ends up in a coma.
    It turns out he is poisoned by a poison similar to the one by which the emperor was poisoned.
    So they try to draw out the culprits and the queen and her son were behind poisonings.
    The doctor turned out to be prince of Nanyan.
    Ending was done weirdly as and of he ends up in the modern world.
    The reader narrated that she didn't like the ending and decided to change it a little bit.
    It was alright.

    S2 kicks off with new FL, as her reincarnation in some assassin's body from Nanyan.
    Original FL was poisoned.
    Shennanigans happen with SML.
    The Queen turned out to be controlled by a maid using some puppet technique.
    That maid was working for the princess whom ML rejected in S1.
    In the end it turned out that FL was also being controlled.
    SML died protecting FL in some collapsing cave.

    In the end the surgery was done on the queen & FL.
    Shaved heads etc. Ends with a view to next season.

    These were good:
    Su Mo & General Pei from ROTR.
    FL's: Yang An Qi & Lu Yi Xuan.
    Sisters of *MLs: Deng Shi Yun & Chen Shuo.

  • The Little Wife of the General

    131. The Little Wife of the General

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes

    9.0

    131) FL is the daughter of general from Romance of Tiger and Rose.
    She is some super chef and gets hit by a car while running away from her mother who was forcing her to go on a blind date with someone.
    Gets into a body of a bullied 3rd daughter which must've died on her wedding.
    ML is some very hairy dude, but loses all of it after she hits him with a vase.
    Although he is a general he is broke because he uses all  his money to support families of fallen soldiers.
    SML is a crown prince who helps her to setup a restaurant.
    So we got a bullying older sister, as well as a White Lotus who together with her father and the Second Prince and his mom plot a rebellion.
    She wakes up in the hospital and her close people in the dream were actually doctors and nurses.

    good:
    FL, I've seen the plotter queen somewhere before I think it was in "princess at large" not a lot of scenes here.
    General's sidekick good.
    Ying Ying (Qian Si Yi) the maid is also in what's supposed to be S2 called Culinary Vendetta.
    Glanced at CV doesn't look like it's a transmigration story, so can't really be something like that.

  • Culinary Vendetta

    132. Culinary Vendetta

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 24 episodes

    8.5

    132) Mini. Not sure how they decided that it should be treated as S2. Like the names are the same and cast is close enough. but the story is completely different and no relation to each other. It's definitely not transmigration business.

    Pretty brutal start with massacre of FL's family & her torture by some evil princess. Pretty dark and story is a tad slow. Hardly any cooking, overlaps with previous since like starting up the restaurant.

    FL is from "The Girl Inside Me", ML is from "Stick to the Script". One of FL's family (Xiaojuan) is almost certainly FL from princess at large s2 & s3... Lu Yi Xuan.. Or it could be "the one from take my wife away" but I have a little doubt... I'll check it out eventually, in any case she looks extremely familiar. Here Ziteng is with Xiaojuan. And they get killed on their wedding day... what??

    Anyway, finally they got over the evil princess, similar trap to the last one. Then the emperor grants him another princess, with four eps to go. evil princess divorced his brother before dying, he gets the news, kidnaps the new princess and FL and he's like i got antidote just for one. ML obviously chooses FL and the princess goes like i set you up to test you. 

    In the end she's pregnant and the rest are happy.

    Well, although there was nothing that I hate with a passion but there was nothing thrilling either. Stuck through it purely for the cast and to just compare with the other story.

  • The Substitute Princess's Love

    133. The Substitute Princess's Love

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes

    9.5

    133) FL (Zhang Miao Yi from Please Don't Spoil Me) is an illegitimate prime minster's daughter. There was supposed to be a marriage between his "main" daughter and general ML. There was a false report that he died but wedding still had to be carried out and bride would automatically become a widow. So, FL got the spot instead. ML obviously didn't die so FL was instructed to still a jade pendant which was "death save" token from the late emperor. They kept nany as a hostage. By E10, I felt like she really had to just say f'it and move on. But she kinda liked him. Eventually they resolved their differences, Nanny was avenged (they flogged her step mother), and SML went into shadows for a bit.

    The female assassin that works with PM was actually saved by ML way back when she was a kid. She arranged to become ML's concubine to get close to him. As it happened it transpired that FL is pregnant. Dowager instructed Yi-helper to poison FL to abort child. He does, gets killed by 2nd wife. But FL gets rescued by her Zhuo admirer and baby is kept. 

    FL divorces ML & lives with SML.

    ML's sister leaves Zhang family and gets together with guard Gan.

    FL's admirer & ML go off to war.

    SFL ... who is princess, also a child saved by ML goes kinda insane with some edict and want to be killed by ML. Anyway it happens. The ending they are getting together and child runs in says she wants to sleep in the middle..

    Feels a tad draggy, but ZMY is a real kitten here but not as funny as in PDSM. Dark, high body count, but gripping nonetheless.

  • Eternal Rebirths

    134. Eternal Rebirths

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes

    9.0

    134) Modern. The dude traveled back but there's another guy who traveled also. Seems like drama isn't what advertised... I kinda assumed similar type story like man travels to dynasty tang only in reverse 

    Goddaughter of chairman Feng is actually very familiar I saw her recently in another mini.Actually the rest of the girls looked familiar too.
    Anyway so he used some info to bring down the family via police. The other time travelling dude was using a talent show to abuse girls.
    Bad guy escaped from police kidnapped ML's parents and tried to force him to jump of the roof. All the girls rushed with Meng Fang. Bad guy was distracted by his sister and they both fell off.
    ML wakes up in 2023 and his mother says something along the lines of you silly thing why are you crying. He says mom dad and ... they stare into the distance. So f knows what happened.
    In fairness it was a great mini show but yeah the presence of another time traveler was throwing a bit of a curve ball.

  • Fake Princess

    135. Fake Princess

    Chinese Drama - 2020, 27 episodes

    8.5

    135) Eh, it was a very strong start. Unfortunately watching on youtube sound is all bad. E09 has some music for a few minutes at start.

    Some bandit lady is asked to marry a prince. Prince is kinda on a weak side mentally so she well impresses him overall but he is trying to get rid of her because he knows she is there to spy on him.  Real princesses' mother is a bit funny in the head so she doesn't recognize her (while the dad is one of the people involved in the conspiracy)

    That's the one where she is checked if she is still pure at the wedding ceremony. Also everything kicked off with telescope being stolen. Excellent gambling scene where she won a ton of money. Forgot if she is supposed to steal something as well.

    2 secondary couples looked very well. But I don't see the point of one of them Lady Zhu's marriage escape is just running on completely unconnected line at the moment. Eventually she gets marries emperor but they make a promise to wait for each other. Eventually 5th rose up and tried to set up the dude. everything got sorted out in the last episode.

    Lady Zhu (Sun Xue Ning looks very familiar probably due to prelimiary PTW) & Fifth Prince

    Old dude was in a drama I've seen recently where he was testing medicines on his disciple and making puppets (was it Love & Sword?)

    Quite a few familiar faces too but  in the case of Nong Yin I must've seen her in a quite a few shows but looking at her roster she doesn't look like in the other shows that I've seen (shrug)

    But lads are a bit on a weird side. Kept being pushed back by some other shows a lot of ff so even though it was alright I definitely wasn't glued to it. 2nd couple does get married but NM died right after their wows. So overall it was too much unnecessary angst and not enough humour. It could've been a fantastic comedy premise itself is brilliant and the whole set up was but those unnecessary tidbits f'ed it all up. But it was still good enough.

  • Debit Queen

    136. Debit Queen

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes

    9.5

    136) Very good. Cast is simply fantastic (i think one of the main characters is the dumb guy from MHH). No serious angst. The only thing that annoyed me that there was way too much of this keeping secrets for someone's good.

    It's the one where a girl is getting a shop & became fake wife for some guy Xu from a family of  incense makers  so he could compete for imperial provider status (or whatever).  She got on very well with his mother and generally all those interactions were done very well.

    Plenty of shenanigans while they got married eventually the road led to the bad guy who was the prince smuggling weapons with Qing state.

    Happy end for all.

  • The Princess Royal

    137. The Princess Royal

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 40 episodes

    10

    137)A couple after 20 years of loveless marriage gets killed due to a conspiracy wakes up 20 years prior their marriage. Quickly figure out that bothe younger selves have the memories.Initially ML decided to leave and not get entagled with her again but accidentally saves her and they end up getting married again. Third wheeling SML (who got castrated in the previous life and the person who killed both of them) is also reborn version of himself.

    Synopsis was misleading. I really thought it would be like their second chance to mend their relationship and yes it is true to a point but they get entangled in unravelling something else which really had nothing to do with their past mistakes towards each other.

    ML does try, FL is like a closed hearted version still but he tries to see it her way. Unfortunately it was taking too long. Heartbreaking scene in episode 20 (27min) after he shown her that he does know her preferences and set up romantic scene but she walked into that thinking he was just helping her out to set up an ambush. He finally comes clean about his feelings eventally she says she needs more time. BUt I guess her heart starts to thaw a little.

    The rest of the second half should be about SML being a rat and showing that he was never good. Well he didn't get as much screen as people were saying. Annoying part e33&e34 when SML talks shit and she believes him. Slight annoyance in e36 coz princess should've been aware of a lot of stories.
    All couples got happy end. No weird separation triangles.
    For Zhang Li He it certainly should be like S2 of SOKP.
    First time seeing FL (Zhao Jin Mai) good. All girls are good.
    Great to see Karina Zhao, Yang Ming Na, "Fu Sheng", "Guo Bao Kun".
    Excellent.

  • Ms. Fantastic Miracle Doctor

    138. Ms. Fantastic Miracle Doctor

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes

    9.0

    138) Mini. Pan Yue (hidden princess Ping'Er from Debit Queen) is a doctor which traveled back in time into a body of some killed noble girl. Noble girl had makeup to make her ugly & a fake birthmark. When she recovered she helped third prince to recover from arrow wounds. Then she came back she joined some sect of doctors and eventually established her clinic (disguised as a man).

    3rd prince recognized her and pretended to be homo started to pursue her. They start to unraavel conspiracy where one of the families (Bai) were poisoning the rest of the palace dwellers in order to control everyone. Dude in the wheelchair as well. I'm not sure what that poison was but apparently people could become immune to it. Only quib  overall is how quickly she become so close to 3rd prince. Instead of A to B it was like A to Z. In any case it's a mini can't hold this against it.

    Pan Yue is so gorgeous in the two that I've seen just real eye candy.

  • Threading Mom's Wings

    139. Threading Mom's Wings

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 24 episodes

    9.5

    139) Mini. Binged first 8 episodes. Very good. I love this idea and I really hope the rest of it will be great. Xuan Lu (Love & Sword) is in it and she really grew on me. The costumes are weird. The customs are weird for 1999. But I can't judge the accuracy. So far feels great. 

    They did a futuristic fashion show which was sold off to the city. The new director is her old pen-pal flame. Old family turns up again causing trouble. "Da-ge" treats the girl like an immortal deity and helps out a lot.

    Waited out until all the episodes are out. It turns out that she's also reborn. They obviously got together with the new director who was pen-pal. Twist that she was also a real daughter to the step mother of her rival. Weird stuff started to happen when she realized that fate can't be changed. The trio went to Shanghai at some point Xuanwu's dad turned out and met her on the day he died in her previous life. She fed him noodles and had forgiving attitude but the moment he said he'll quit drinking (thus avoiding his previous death rolling drunk down a hill ) a flower pot fell on him and killed him. So Xuanwu motivated ML to make the proposal as soon as possible. 

    But it turns out that mom went back to the day of her wedding when she had a choice to start over but in this case she would not have Xiowu. She told ML her truth. And eventually FL had a call with her child where she told her that she knew that XW is reborn as well and she made this choice willingly.

    In the end instead of dying ML is taking care of her as she lies in hospital.

    Too angsty for me but the premise is so good so despite it being modern I'll give it 9.5. But the finale was a definite 10. 

  • I Became a Vicious Supporting Actress

    140. I Became a Vicious Supporting Actress

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes

    9.5

    140) Mini. I sped through it first time around at a very poor quality. And thought it would be rubbish. When I got back to the first episode and watched it again more carefully some things started to fall into place.

    Anyway, Xia YouYou is a writer who by popular demand killed off some villain character. That Situ Cha Cha came to her in real life and demanded to be brought back. The writer herself materialized in the novel as Cha Cha and I'm guessing how it's going to go is that the original good character will become villain while herself will become good. But I'm not sure yet. 

    A few twists and turns with poisonings. The original FL of the story became a villain and set her up (Even though FL saved her from being buried alive). Well original FL was looking for her sister. It transpired that Eldest's mother buried her somewhere. The "eldest brother" believes her and they kinda become friends as well. 

    In the end E Mei dude had them tied up a big pottery thing and gives ML choice which one did he want to live. The original FL killed herself on the blade but it turned out that she disappeared soon after. So the new FL waking up in the novel world while the other original disappeared. And they show writer waking up and later bookshop where people are buying the novel.
    So, the suggestion is that a different person came back.

    Pretty good show.

  • The Resilient Dr. Ling

    141. The Resilient Dr. Ling

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 27 episodes

    9.5

    141) Mini. Pretty good show. A doctor is watching some drama on the phone while waiting for a blind date.
    After passing remark about FL who tries to kill herself because she can't get close to her arranged husband.
    She gets transported into the show in her place and gets out of the noose.
    Becomes bossy towards the lad, sets up her clinic and they solve a few conspiracies.
    One green-tea gets married to another prince and tries to push him to take over the throne.
    FL figures out her tricks and saves people, empress and a few other things.
    In the end she wakes up at her blind date and about to leave and it turns out ML is the guy.

    It was alright, and fairly engaging.
    Making a comment after some time passed so emotion died out a little thinking back about size of a needle which she used to stitch up his wound :D

    Anyway.

  • Chef Fang

    142. Chef Fang

    Chinese Drama - 2017, 36 episodes

    9.5

    142) Surprisingly I enjoyed a lot. Some father got provoked into abducting some girl and getting her to marry some rascal instead of his daughter. She turned out to be pretty good cook and she motivated her husband to study & do martial arts. Lot's of cooking scenes. Plenty of investigations like kidnapped kids, burned out village because of revenge. Side track stories about original daughter's attempts to win back ML. Then there are some twists and turns about her mother being emperors consort who ran away with royal chef. Crown prince attempting to rebel (but finally redeems himself).

    Annoying part they got close only at e31 after grand wedding.But in the finale he first ended up with twins and later when emperor came back he had another pair.

    His brother married Yao (the original bride) and she was expecting as well.

    Yeah overall it was alright, scene changes were weird like straight to cooking but it definitely promoted cuisine but at the time the little stories were pretty interesting.

    Cast wise I liked them all. ML was in "full retard" mode for most of the show only towards the end he stopped acting like a crackhead and became tolerable.

  • The Great Lin Qian Jin

    143. The Great Lin Qian Jin

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 24 episodes

    9.5

    143) Mini. was watching it while on air so it was a bit split up. Everything was great up until episode 21 where she to save his life decides to marry city lord. Like just tell the boy it's fake we'll sort it out. nah. if it was not a transmigration story i'd say yeah f'it but really in this context it's not great.

    Story where perfume seller is playing some game on her phone a bit of short cut & lightning and she is in the game she is playing. A general suspects her of poisoning a princess of luyan then they team up to try to clear her name.  through some rouse they get princess to confess that she accidentally poisoned herself. daughter of city lord fucked up their love story but then just about as FL was to marry city lord she brought news of his near death in time and FL ran off the wedding.

    In the end FL is back in her shop and ML wants to buy something for people allergic to pollen. Casting was very good. Strange to see Yang Xu Wen in a mini so it's great I'm glad that he is not above that.

  • Be Yourself

    144. Be Yourself

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 24 episodes

    10

    144) Mini. Some deity gets killed by tribulation thunder and ends up in a corpse of some loser. Host body had 3 older brothers who were fairly successful died in a battle but helped him escape but he still succumbed to his injuries. So, when deity came to life his brother's fiancees came to fulfill engagement but under condition that he has to defeat them in some tournament (which is impossible for that body). Deity has stored the power of thunder tribulation and his power kinda came with him, but he doesn't have Dantian in this body so he is not as strong. 

    So he goes on putting people back in their place, up to the point of bringing down the Haotian Lord a few notches. The end is to be continued.

    Good story line, snappy and to the point. The part where he is just about to show his power and someone interferes is done a few time so as a binge it might feel overdone but not bad.

    Casting is very good and really overall great vibe. Well enjoyed it.

  • Feud

    145. Feud

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 32 episodes

    10

    145) Bailu & Joseph are primordial gods being tricked by someone to be against each other.

    Joseph sealed her powers and banished to mortal world because she was helping people using her powers .. unaware that she's pregnant. Then she went through some hardcore stuff and seeing her child die. Spent ages to bring her child back all for Bai Juisi righteous self killing his own child. Then she started planning to kill him. E11 & E21 kinda have weird turns. By E24 Jo figures out that there's someone else playing them both. Trailer gave away that one of those lads is the cultivator who was guarding gate with her.

    The Zhang Suan on the way to heaven's ladder encountered the dude in the desert (Xiao Jingshan) who not only passed on all the cultivation to him but also latched on to destroy the Infinite Stelle. So he needed swords which belonged to FL&ML.

    Someone killed her "drunk" master and hang outside the gates and framing one of his disciples.  CP together cook up a plan to draw him out. Invited her over in wedding attire where he gets her to stab himself. SZ stabs FL in the back and steals ML's sword and goes off to destroy Infinite Stelle. Transpires it's a ruse and they get their swords back.

    There were some people knocking Lord Fan for destroying (i think he just stashed it) 200 years of cultivation of his daughter... Given that he marries every month and probably has 1000s of kids now fact that he even knows her name shows she's an apple of her eye but even Silin said oh you don't show respect to your daughter ... funny.

    There was a choice to kill the villain but he used some spell to bind his life to SZ and managed to escape. Main man ends up in a coma everyone is upset. When main guy is out of it he acts like a child. Good move really helped to ease the tension.

    Sect's SSFL pretended to make a deal with a villain and pretended to poison SFL but it was a trick so that he'll destroy the artifact and release the other lot (overflow in email)

  • Legend of the Undercover Chef

    146. Legend of the Undercover Chef

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 40 episodes

    9.5

    146) An aging chef lands in place of his "hero" twin brother. Majority of it is about many many little stories with his disciples and taking down a Eunuch Cao. 

    Cast is ancient & overall it's not an eye candy, but they are excellent. Slow pace, funny. NOt for young people. I loved it though parts were not easily bingeable. Visually has L&F of "Man comes to tang dynasty". In any case I enjoyed it though it's pretty niche.

    There's an S2, I'll get though it eventually. If it's done similar to S1 then I'd say it won't be an easy binge.

  • Mr. Bad

    147. Mr. Bad

    Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes

    9.5

    147) Modern drama. FL wished for unforgettable love and dropped a coin into a well and ML appeared. Turned out the coin was given by a fairy to her first love. That Mao made a wish that FL would always be protected. So ML was imagined by Mao. When Mao died in the fire FL developed some psychological issues and fear of fire.ML helped her out. There are a few secondary couples.Director & assistant of publishing house had a good story. 

    Overall enjoyable show. Hard watch for first few episodes. Character being able to meld in to modern society so fast irritated at first when I thought he time traveled but if he is "magic" that's fine.

    Good casting.. Very happy end with kids and stuff, 2 episodes. until the very end which confused me.

    She is finishing a promo of her book and in the end she says that time travel is impossible and those tragic stories didn't happen to her. And it's her friend Mao is alive and the youngest professor  but he looks like ML.

    When I read comments about happy ending with sad story I wasn't sure when could it happen/. So I feel like they gave me a middle finger in literally in the last 2 seconds of the film.

  • The Fallen Lady Returns

    148. The Fallen Lady Returns

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 21 episodes

    9.0

    148) Micro. Well the set up is some guy picked up a girl and brought her as a second wife. That girl is is a switcherooed by an empress because she needed the prince. Anyway, FL is reincarnated after her inlaws killed her. Set up like "her revenge" just way way more positive.

    Good show overall, production is good. story is not as good as the "Stunning the world" "After losing her marriage, the female general surprises the world"  but done very well. Like the choice at the moment is between 9 & 9.5, coz no ff * no skipping. micros really fuck up my ranking scheme.

  • Guardians of the Dafeng

    149. Guardians of the Dafeng

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 40 episodes

    10

    149) I have no idea how it ended up on hold, probably because of too many short stories. "Prince Duan" great to see you again. ML's uncle is uncle of FL from my heroic husband, so many familiar faces but i can't place them anywhere at the time. 

    Anyway, some office worker went to murder mystery arcade and ended up in some magical place. So first case was figuring out that silver was switched with sodium. Has Go West vibe mixed with JoL mixed with Fateful Love.

    In the end the memory of him was erased by the witcher who turned out to be his father. Everyone forgot him but the memory still lingers, like particularly the princess actually is getting visual flashbacks, which is interesting. I guess similar situation to sidekick of winged lady who still remembers her father.

    Great show, again the cast is from all over the place, great acting and story. At least it wasn't a cliffhanger. Like, if they come back with an S2 with all the cast different and re-imagined story-line it could be safely ignored. As far as this season yeah the end is good but not exactly "happy".

    Eeee, read the comments and one post said don't miss the scene after credits. Fsake, I missed it. He turns out to be back in modern world and leaving that role playing game with the rest of them. But the organizer is actually Prince Duan, here Supervisor, asking him if he knew what was the last sentence uttered by man in black meant. And then says I'll tell you next time.

    Great show.

  • To Get Master

    150. To Get Master

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 20 episodes

    9.0

    150) It was hard to get into at the start first time.A princess was reading a novel and traveled into it. Different twist is that they are both from similar times just from different towns so she has a bit of external knowledge but same time awareness. So the villain is the guy who is trying to get revenge for some sects killing his family because of the book. The story revolves around them. It's the one where the dude kept burying people up the neck in the ground. Similar set up as Irene Song & another one like that to the point.

    Both guys from main couples die in the book but they re-unite in the "real world" in the end so I guess the ending is as as good as it gets. 

    Baili the illegitimate son from SOKP is also here, but he kinda went full retard with his portrayal of a dummy.

    ML was actually in Magic Star way back. He's pretty good.

    Bao Shang En was in new condor hero legends, she's tiny.

    Anyway it was alright.

  • The Princess's Gambit

    151. The Princess's Gambit

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 36 episodes

    8.5

    151) People in comment section are bitching, me, well I didn't hate it. A show where one has to have a pen and paper to keep track of all the players. Misunderstanding .. check,amsnesia ... check. I have no idea why I picked it up. I blame poor recommendations,. LCF (aka Gao Han) was alright, Meng Zi Yi was good too. LXY fuck him I didn't care much for him anyway. 

    Bunch of players sent their spy's to the main lad, .. anyway ends wtih them standing under the tree. Hard binge. E31 where she directs soldier to use fire to drive away wolves, i was like wtf. thanks for your input.

    Meh, i got through it.

  • A Dream within a Dream

    152. A Dream within a Dream

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 40 episodes

    10

    152) Satire (maybe parody) of cdrama and is troupes. Maybe. But it's done so well. E01 is simply brilliant. Didn't have time to binge it and had to make do with watching it bit by bit. Still it was simply wow. Unlike normal transmigration business of actress falling into the script kinda happens that it's a dream of character in the novel inside of the future. kind off i don't care. And really it's just fantastic ride.

    Li Yi Tong simply amazing. She's much older now since the legend of ch, but wow stunner.
    Zhu Xu Dan, brilliant.
    Liu Yu Ning, dont know. Here his face looked very odd.
    The maid Zhi Xia (Wang Li Na) was in my heroic husband as TanEr's maid very good here too.

    e1 (lo). e2 frames all messed up.

  • Ancient Detective

    153. Ancient Detective

    Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes

    10

    153) Very good show. Has  visuals of Demi gods, so all the lads are kinda in role. 

    Theme song "Liu Qin - See You" is brilliant.

    One of the theme song s from JoL and really a lot like MLC as far as detective story goes., I guess 2020 rage. Basically some dude is on the road to recover memories of some battle where a bunch of people were killed by some good fighter. So wherever he goes people die and he solves cases. Falls in love with some assassin who tried to escape. Next they went to puppet island, to recover something his sidekick falls in love with daughter of that assassin sect. Then she appears. 

    Very good flow in fairness not boring, lots of cheesy characters, Goddess used word archetypal yeah kinda accurate, in any case all of them are intereting. Quality I'm watching from is youtube and really washed again some sounds were muted. But still watchable.

    Well it was kinda obvious for a long time than ML is Wan Hua. Anyway he, got cured  Ming Yue e was found out but kept the bangle. The ending was complete for this chapter, but with a view to a sequel. In any case very good. All the mysteries were kinda predictable up to a point there was always bits just a little off.

    Cast was excellent throughout and most were very familiar. Great show.

    The scene where they are in the forest and theme playing is in E17 @ 30:56.

  • The Imperial Coroner

    154. The Imperial Coroner

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 36 episodes

    10

    154) Excellent. Plot was a bit predictable but intriguing and execution was well done. Cast excellent: main eunuch proper evil guy, Chu chu was good, actually everyone was very good.

    In two words, a girl from some backwater town arrives to the city for a coroner's test. She's from a family of coroners and was spotted by the main guy's friend who saw her uncovering some trickster with fake injury. She passed test with flying colours. Main guy spotted a jade pendant that was his father's love token to his mother.  Then a few murder cases, eventually they go to her town to look for his father (his father was seriously injured and was helped out by fl & family) . Secondary was sorted, rebellion, happy end.

    There were a few silly things. And the first time around I did skip a few scenes where the politics was discussed mainly because it didn't really affect my understanding of the plot. But, once it finished I've immediately picked it up and watched it again. At first marked it as 9, but after 2nd watch yeah, let it be 9.5. I don't think I'm done with it yet.

    Yeah. Have to give it a 10.It really became a comfort drama.

    Eunuch looks familiar.

    Han Ji was FL's father in Fateful Love.

  • Hold On, My Lady

    155. Hold On, My Lady

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 12 episodes

    8.5

    155) Mini. Start similar to "Fake Princess" a silly bandit woman (and her gang) got captured during an unsuccessful raid and was coerced to marry an official's son. Fat sidekick guy is pretending to be her maid. Watching from Mago at 720p, subs are a bit out of sync.

    FL (Yakisa) was the princess of Dongling in Fateful Love. Here it's almost her debut and she really nicely creates this mischievous character.

    There was a competing 2FL. Secondary couple of older brother and his wife (who became friends with FL). Most of the humour was from the Fat Guy. But it was alright. Bandits were released. then some weren't let go. But at this stage it didn't matter. Subs being out of sync f'ed it up majorly. But it's alright.

    Yakisa as very good in that role. The lad looks familiar as well but he's not. The 2FL was in "expect love"

  • Super Star Academy

    156. Super Star Academy

    Chinese Drama - 2016, 30 episodes

    8.5

    156) Yeah I'm skipping it like mad. Well, yeah. But it looks great. Kind of Cheesy and all that but Wang Yu Wen is awesome, lol really does something for me. That all constellation business I don't get. Like, it's not Chinese concept, but fair enough it's the same boy band that was in Oh My Emperor (turned out it was their first drama). A thought did come in that WYW is in the same space as Zhao Lusi.

    Clingy couple is brilliant too.

    Great scene is where his mother gets a box and tells him to take a pill in case of emergency. He opens a wooden box and the pill is massive. "How am I supposed to swallow such a big pill?" his mom shows him the spoon.

    Another one is the "sweet couple" "let's get out of here before we get infected by these fools"

    Weird thing they blurred out guys without shirts in e25.

    In the end she is goddess "Mary Sue Angelina Bloody Sakura J" :D

    Open ending with a view to S2, but it's alright. There are like at least 7 mins of bts's at the end of each episode. It was alright.

    Wan Shi Cun (Bai Shu) is Duan Yu from Demi Gods, he's good.

    WYW is just awesome. There are a a lot of funny scenes where her expressions just brings the scene to complutely different level of cuteness.

    Outros contain a lot of BTS's and after outros they have little tidbits as well. As promotional film for a boy band it was done very well, product placements etc, everyone is having fun filming it. As a project of this nature it's done very well.

  • Love and Strife

    157. Love and Strife

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 24 episodes

    10

    157) Mini. Honestly, I thought it was going to be some junk to burn through at 2x speed. But wow, what a show. Anyway a girl's family was secretly annihilated by the emperor coz he was afraid they are going to rebel. She set up a situation to marry crown prince. Crown prince was pretending to be weak wheelchair-bound dude.  Main antagonists were Consort & her son. Consort also killed crown prince's mother. Anyway couple worked together to bring them all down. In the end consort poisoned emperor. FL had the only portion of antidote left. So the emperor died. Christ. The acting was great. Like everything was pure gold. At 10 mins per episode brilliant.

    In e11, 1.36, wtf was that rectangle appearing around his ear?

  • Royal Upstart

    158. Royal Upstart

    Chinese Special - 2025, 26 episodes

    10

    158) Mini. Brilliant. Zhu Rong Jun, the coroner from "The Different Princess" is the FL.She was so much better in a role like that. Was surprised she is 32. 

    Anyway a modern salesman ends up in ancient times. Became matrilocal husband, then divorces her. First starts a milk tea shop great scenes there. Joins an incognito princess in running a business. Then distillery, then took on noble families. Ending bits were kinda alright, but a lovely happy end. There was a vibe of MHH. And I actually thought that Ling Luo was in MHH too  but she wasn't.

    Anyway, it was nice easy watch.,

  • Love in the Crossfire

    159. Love in the Crossfire

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 20 episodes

    9.0

    159) Mini. Just started it but based on comments I'm not very hopeful. Although, ML is ML from Stick to the script and SFL is Chen Lu Xi (Rou Ya from Shen Li)

    Here FL was killed on the way to arranged marriage and her maid is impersonating her to steal a map. ML is trying to uncover truth behind the death of his mother. Kinda common theme lately.

    On the wedding night, SFL's maid added sleeping potion, but instead of wine put "horse aphrodisiac" in wedding wine. In any case she got aphrodisiac, he got sleeping pill, she added something else as well. But in E1 when they were escaping she actually had a boyfriend (a guard who took princess' mantle and led away assassins. Yep he's back. Turned out they grew up together and swore loyalty to the princess so. whatever. Anyway there was only a brief misunderstanding about who killed the princess. The evil psycho cousin was sent away for alliance marriage when they did a drugged woman switcheroo. SFL repented and helped him out. It was crown prince who was killing everyone and colluding with foreign states to usurp the throne. His motivation was that hi smother fell out of favour and died from depression.

    All in all not a bad show.

  • Deliciously Lost

    160. Deliciously Lost

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes

    8.5

    160) Mini. A girl who wants to be a chef is given out by her father about her not wanting to study. Some game loads on her computer and she ends up in a body of some chef's daughter. Her host gambled away money and she lost her restaurant to competitor. The go to a different town and start a restaurant using some modern foods. One of the guys is also from modern times and he has a different mission. He is investigating theft & embezzlement of military salaries. They overcome all adversities and all in love. When she completes her mission her father concedes that she can do what she wants. 

    Someone calls her and sets up a meeting. That restaurant looked like the one in "The Little Wife of a general" which also had a blind date set up. Anyway she runs & hugs ML.

  • Heavenly Secrets Bureau

    161. Heavenly Secrets Bureau

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 23 episodes

    8.5

    161) Mini. Again ML from "Stick to the script". Actually it was better than the last one. Here a a princess with a sidekick goes off on adventure. The conspiracy is that a pair of siblings from previous dynasty are planning to stage a rebellion. A lot of cases were predictable (particularly how illegal forging of weapons was not immediately considered as plan for rebellion) but I liked how it progressed. FL was good, watching her now in "She is the phoenix" good mix of naivete and being strong. FL's maid mom was killed by a person who she thought was her mother. 

    Anyway it was alright.

  • Like Dust with Light

    162. Like Dust with Light

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 20 episodes

    8.5

    162) I'm alright with a story being the way it was. Like a couple had a tiff and FL got access to ML's website where he was writing a novel. And they ended up writing it jointly. So it had kinda bizarre plot and scene changes etc. But fucking hell it was harsh to watch the princes. Alright FL looks a bit older for her age, but holly shit ML looks like harry potter in first movie. If I watched it without subtitles I'd swear it's a kid cracking on to his aunt.  Even black-bean sprout from flashback looked more mature.

    And holy shit FL is actually Zhong Qi, aka, Tiffany Zhong, 

  • Lingering in Mind

    163. Lingering in Mind

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 92 episodes

    9.5

    163) Micro. Modern. It wasn't immediately apparent that she dropped into a novel. so i was like word wth. So I thought she had amnesia or something. That's a dude who has PTSD and didn't speak. Eventually she obviously got him out. Her real identity is an orphan student.

    Nice line after he adjusted shower-head height she decided to give him luminous watch saying when she bought the scooter she got 2 luminous watches but was greedy and wanted to keep both. Cute.

    Lost my shit when she was coding C live to fix memory corruption of the file.Nice sweet fluffy show, but there were moments where FL looked 12ish and I felt like yeew.

    Kinda became my little short comfort drama, watched it a few times now, so bumping it up to 9.5.

  • Popeyete & Cute Master

    164. Popeyete & Cute Master

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 20 episodes

    9.0

    164) Mini. Popeyete is referring to Cpt Popeye. At least she didn't down spinach, but it must've been chili sauce. Anyway the 3rd wheeling plot dragged a bit too long given that it was obvious from the start who the fat kid was. FL was alright, ML was very good supporting cast very good as well. Didn't hate it.

  • Quan Yuan Du Xin, Wo Cheng Le Huang Di Shou Zhong Yi Ba Dao

    165. Quan Yuan Du Xin, Wo Cheng Le Huang Di Shou Zhong Yi Ba Dao

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 80 episodes

    9.0

    165) Micro. Bizarre twist. Anyway, FL from modern times dies from overwork and travels into a book. "Melon System" had to look it up, but it's the inner voice that knows the plot hence little secrets. Twist is that everyone can hear her dialogues with the melon. 

    Generally it was sweet.Yang Mie Mie was very good. At this stage I saw her other two stories which are not on MDL. Cuteness factor here would compete with Irene Song. 

    One to keep in mind for image stills. There are some beautiful costumes and her mannerisms are amazing. I think there were some gifs floating around which I'm sure are from this drama.

    Cutest scene is her rapping after archery competition (01:22:52 01:23:04)

    Alright overall.

  • Cat and Dog

    166. Cat and Dog

    Chinese Drama - 2021, 26 episodes

    8.5

    168) 166 & 167 is placeholder for 2 unlisted Yang Mie Mie shows in comments. 

    Short drama about a half-demon that fell into some purgatory city populated by outcast humans and demons. She will eventually become a phoenix/Peng bit for most of the show her superpower is to summon a bunch of feathers out of her arse,acutal power make people remember happiest moments. On her arrival an owner of a restaurant (Tutu) handed over management to her and buggered off. She needed a chef so announced vacancy. Two lads turned up. One was a dog-demon (Mu Bai) and a cat-demon (Jiang Ye). They were her old buddies but she didn't remember them. Anyway love triangle ensues.

    Her main enemy in the story was her younger sister who actually was adapted but family preferred her. A lot of small stories like her brother marrying a demon. For some reason translation of their couple is shemales & ladyboys, not entirely sure if that's the case. Anyway FL's sister brought in a group of demon catchers to kill her. Eh, just as I was starting to get annoyed at how catchers were able to tolerate her attitude for so long it turned out they had a hidden agenda. There was a deal in place between demons & demon catchers that they can't be doing their business there unless they are contracted by some outsider. So they were there to kill off demons and collect their spirit orbs.

    Tutu turned out to be some powerful demon, community united against him. FL summoned a phoenix and looks like with a little help from her friends defeated Tutu in some dreamworld anyway. He was lying on a seashore but then it came to reality she was falling from the sky. And died. Tutu took her orb created half orb and gave it to the 2 lads. Ended with a street dance.

    Slow pace, but managed to binge through half out easily. I don't mind grainy quality. Production wise it's like a step up from Magic Star, so it's innocent enough. 

    FL Wang Pei Han looks and mannerisms reminded me of Xuan Lu.

  • Advanced Manual for Water-Carrying Maidservants

    167. Advanced Manual for Water-Carrying Maidservants

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 83 episodes

    8.5

    169) Micro. It was pretty good. There was just a bit about her previous life, but she ended up in the mansion. She was literally ordered by main guy's wife to sleep with her husband because she was pregnant. There were twists and turns along the way, like poisoning substitute dish, etc, generally thwarted all attempts by members of household to get rid of her. Eventually she became a shopkeeper, a princess recognized her by birthmark at this stage she already had a box of evidence on her to convict the family of killing her father. It was alright. FL is very good looking but in some scenes she was grinning, although she looked sultry, it would've been a dead give away to those around. It was alright.

  • Xiao Shi Mei You Kong Jian

    168. Xiao Shi Mei You Kong Jian

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 94 episodes

    170) Micro with that cute little girl. No idea how special agent featured in it. But a 5 year old knew advanced medicine and introduced some future tech. potatoes, feather jackets. unraveled conspiracy behind her mothers death, obviously it was concubine and her son. I think I was looking for a different drama and came across that one. Anyway didn't hate it and the lil girl was alright. 

  • Chuan Xing He Po Chong Sheng Ju

    169. Chuan Xing He Po Chong Sheng Ju

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 82 episodes

    8.5

    171) placeholder for Test Subject Reborn as a Little Girl  see comments.

    172) Micro. Supporting character in a novel didn't die, later planned ahead for the rebirth of the main character. So when the main character woke up and started on her path of revenge plot the supporting character already planned out a different plot. The differences and character are pointed out by the "villain" via 4th wall break. Excellent example is the lantern riddle game, when she slipped in an extra question which wasn't in original plot and said that in rebirth plots protagonist cheats by knowing previous answers; and it would be interesting to see how one would react when presented with an alternative.

    In the end she became an empress and when confronted by original protagonist said something along the lines of since you came back i was kind to you so whatever happened in the previous life since you came back you were unhappy just because it wasn't to your liking. 

    Eh,interesting but tough premise. Failed revenge would mean evil wins? 


    173) was referred to as shine for the departed. see comment.

  • Oops, I Gave Birth to the Emperor's Twins!

    170. Oops, I Gave Birth to the Emperor's Twins!

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 60 episodes

    8.5

    174) Micro. Christ it took so much effort to find it so it definitely brought the stars down. The girl is some phd character transmigrating in to a role of a body of a woman who gave birth to emperor's twins. obvious frame up a bit of rebellion and extra knowledge. ending s definitely set up for s2. didnt hate it,

  • Duel on Mount Hua: Nine Yin True Sutra

    171. Duel on Mount Hua: Nine Yin True Sutra

    Chinese Special - 2025, 8 episodes

    9.5

    175) Story of Mei Chao Feng & Chen Xuan Feng. Kicks of With young MCF witnessing her family being murdered and follows up with her being in the brothel and the murder and some lads wanted to have a laugh with her. She kills one of them and runs away, eventually they catch up with her but Huang Yaoshi saves her. HY is injured but helps her out with some moves and power. She goes back, gets her arse kicked, HY's wife helps her out and eventually she ends up on the island. Where she meets the other disciples among which fabulous Lord Furong and "Wu Qi Hao" from MHH. Anyway, they went of on some Labia island to get the flower. She went off to take revenge, got crippled and took ages to recover using sutra manual which Lady Feng memorized after reading once and our CP nicked it after poisoning everyone. While they are off practicing at cemeteries the bad guy came down. Lady Feng died during childbirth. 

    Eventually they defeat Yun manner but at this stage she's already pretty fucked up on her road to greatness. She turned up on Peach island while she was hidden behind Lady Feng's tomb HY warned her to not appear again. CP fight against five masters, and she blinded Master Fei from JoL. They buggered off to a desert and stayed together. She had a good line, I lost my parents, then I made a lot if mistakes and lost my family on Peach Island. You are all I have left. The 5 masters turn up again and kill ML.

    Well, even thought yeah the story wasn't going to get a happy end, but I would've still loved to see it. Christ. At this stage the story is known backwards... but I still hoped for a happy end :D

    Lord Furong was awesome. MZY not so much, I felt like CDL was better as a psycho.

  • Duel on Mount Hua: Eastern Heretic and Western Venom

    172. Duel on Mount Hua: Eastern Heretic and Western Venom

    Chinese Special - 2025, 8 episodes

    9.5

    176) E01 was very good. As far as character intro. But Lady Feng falling off one cliff after another was a pisstake. Like they should've at least suggested that some branches broke her fall or something. Nah flat on her back on a ledge followed by another fall. Fsake. Really hard to suspend disbelief. BUt anyway yeah he saved her with nine rev pill. Chen Du Ling was awesome. Simply insanely good. GWG brilliant. Yeah obviously CDL was poisoned and Hu was playing everyone off. Oh shit I think the Da Min was in Romance of tiger and rose. Turned out shi wasn't but she was the actress Sheng Ni Na in "You're my lover friend". Mr Hu is the prime minister from JoL. Again great show. But 9.5 because it's so heavy, I don't see myself watching it for a long time.

    One thing though, it really made me realize OY' tragedy and why he was so obsessed with learning martial arts.

  • Duel on Mount Hua: Southern Emperor and Northern Beggar

    173. Duel on Mount Hua: Southern Emperor and Northern Beggar

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 8 episodes

    9.0

    177) ML's bodyguard from "Please don't spoil me" is one of the gamblers in E01, great to see "wei is eating for nothing" here. And Vinnie Yao is a bad guy. Ming Dao completely miscast, like he is 45 and he fucking looks it. For someone on the road to revenge, with a dad still alive. But just the bulky frame... come on now. Outro is excellent sounds Soviet. "Fu Sheng" is excellent.Ends with OY meeting the prince(now emperor) when he's trying to touch his snake.

    It was alright. A lot of it was barely passable but that theme was always weird to me.  

  • Duel on Mount Hua: The Five

    174. Duel on Mount Hua: The Five

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 6 episodes

    9.0

    178) Episode kicks off with a family that knows the whereabouts of NYT Sutra. Yaoshi saves the girl Jianlin who is the last person to know its whereabouts. Lady Feng is on the island poisoned and he is trying to get it to cure her.Turns out HY is having mental issues like schizophrenia. HY is OY's brother sent letter to HY to trap him. Because he wanted to surrender to Ming clan. OY was saved by HY and took over brother's position. The bad guys came along and killed some people he cared about. So after Yaoshi drove off bad guys. OY poisoned HY with a snake and took off with Jianlin. OY & JIL eventually got tracked by the crew of now emperor Duan. She drank poison but OY has the antidote so emperor dueled him. Really poor OY doesn't seem to fight against any proper master.

    Emperor brought Jianlin to some sect. Beggar chief pulled up there as well an fought 7 masters. One guy in his ranks is a traitor and killed one of the elders. So they meet up. Eventually the duel is arranged for all involved, whoever wins will get the sutra. Emperor defeated the beggar. Yaoshi & OY 's fight was weird they were playing Go, then fought. OY used knockout powder but it didn't work, like his psychotic self woke up instead.

    Anyway eventually they all ended up on the peak. Btw Central Divinity master is Lord Zhen from JoL. Leader Ming popped up  and together they defeated him. Jianlin told them that she just wants to lead normal life. OY took his nephew and went home through some snowy mountains. (Nephew will eventually grow up and will be poisoned by Huang Rong).

    Yaoshi went back to the island and CDL said she wanted to travel the world.

    Looks very dark and dreary. the whole set is actually like that.

  • May All Your Wishes Come True

    175. May All Your Wishes Come True

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 22 episodes

    9.0

    179) Bandit woman takes place of some other bride plot. Her brother has similar plot to My Uncanny Destiny blinded assassin teased by the princess. He regains sight in the end. The plot of Zhao family to speculate on rice is uncovered and both couples get married. The older bandit guy unfortunately dies. ML's mother was drugged and hence she was convicted of adultery although the actress didn't fit that part. The plot was uncovered when FL pretended to kill ML and that surrogate prince basically told the whole story. It looked cute, if the other guy didn't die would've been nice & fluffy.

    Emperor was emperor elsewhere.

  • Princess Deformation Meter

    176. Princess Deformation Meter

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 18 episodes

    8.5

    180) Kicked off with everyone at the market panicking that princess is coming. She is dragging some guy in a  wedding dress as a punishment for delivering it. Emperor arranged marriage with some guy. At emperor's birthday she displays fireworks and sets the place on fire. Emperor sends her to countryside. When consort found out about she told her son to prevent her from going to this place because there's some plan in play in that place.

    She gave all her money to robbers. In the place she destroyed some snow robe. The set up a nursing home. Then to raise money started to sell mil tea and eventually opened a stall with half-dressed lads. Meanwhile 3rd wheeling SFL is making things hard for her. 

    People didn't like her because this town was supporting her lifestyle through taxes. An old woman said that this place was famous for making clothes but youngsters dont want to learn it anymore. So FL recruits some apprentices. Anyway twists and turns.

    Funny scene where princess of Jinshan (Empress from Emperor's Love Swap) was eating carrots in a competition. I thought she was just going to swallow them whole.

    Anyway, the dress they had to make got destroyed and she turned it in to a modern mini dress with little wings in the back. Eventually emperor came down and they caught all the bad guys.

    But she still was a platinum blond at the end.

    It was fairly easy viewing, characters were likable, an alright kid's show.

  • She Is the Phoenix

    177. She Is the Phoenix

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 28 episodes

    8.5

    181) Seems like it was a century since I've started it, they were showing it 1 ep a day and even then they expressed it out. It kicked off with some girl assaulted in the brothel like a game for everyone watching.  Later her friend (who she saved year ago) sets her on fire in the shed next scene she is in a forest and it's snowing. Realizing she didn't die in the fire. And off we go. First she set up the one who burned her with sadist "master tao" who beat the shit out of her.

    Then she played ronger her friend who set fire ablaze, the one moved in as instigator is the princess who was also at that gambling den. FL saved her sister from same place. The main guy was crown prince who eventually rebelled. Psycho sister who was pimped out by her father 100s of times kills her father & herself.

    Overall, pretty heavy watch with sadists everywhere.

  • Hail to the Princess

    178. Hail to the Princess

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 20 episodes

    9.5

    182) Micro. To be continued ending. It was pretty good. Three childhood friends in a women led environment got married. So the girl pretending to be a man and they are trying to put the princess on a throne. Nice cheesy humour, 4th wall beaks, cartoon narration. Laughing at low budget.  Pretty watchable storyline. Enjoyed it but don't feel like picking up from the start at the moment, but I have a  feeling I watch it again soonish. 

  • Hello Dear Ancestors

    179. Hello Dear Ancestors

    Chinese Drama - 2018, 24 episodes

    9.5

    183) Modern. Well the poster is complete mismatch for the show. Kicked off as a promising light time travel show. New anchor got trapped on the roof. Slowly descending into seriously angsty show where Wu Chi Hao from MHH is an alien looking after another lad keeping the promise to a woman he loved 1800 years ago. The woman had to ditch him to become empress but asked him to look after her nephew. In the modern day a woman is obsessed with him kills off someone who is going to expose him but actually f'ed him over. He kills himself she goes crazy and imagines him in the psych ward. ML has 8 months to live and because of the situation with the pod being destroyed yeah. Saddest wedding where he is in a wheelchair and she gives a speech. When ML died blue lights spiraled andhe disappeared. 

    Turned out it was the alien friends which came to take him away coz he spent so much time in the pod he got a beacon now as well. They show her 5 years later oblivious as to sends her flowers. But hints are thrown in the dream and eventually she remembers ML and goes to the chamber. Wuqi alien is hanging around there and explained the whole story to her. Aliens reconfigured everyones memories so that ML and WuQi would be forgotten. 

    They showed her dating and some guy proposing but mostly they show her at home eating single servings. Show Ends with ML walking down the corridor with flowers and an old lady is in hospice. So he came to take her away. Blue lights flew out of the window. So only the 3rd couple got a happy end.

    ML was MrBad in MrBAD

    Fucking hell, the last 5 eps I was just glued to the show. Way way too angsty. Completely unexpected.

  • The Girl From Future

    180. The Girl From Future

    Chinese Movie - 2018

    9.5

    184) This list is not for movies really. But i'll make it an exception.

    Modern setting. Very nice and fluffy. Very good. A girl lost her time-travelling-passport which was hidden in a pencil so she kept approaching the same guy who she met first. And they kept coming up with different plans to find it. The guy found the pencil was completely unrelated to who they thought it could be. So in the nick of time they trapped him. She tried to leave a pencil to him so he wouldn't forget her this time. But it was her last rebirth so he forced it back to her. On the day he kept feeling that something is missing and swam over to the lighthouse. Someone tapped him on the shoulder and said their code word. So she came back.

  • Got Old Recently Season 3

    181. Got Old Recently Season 3

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 18 episodes

    9.0

    185) Mini.Modern. Well, office environment of a marketing environment. It was alright for most part. Plenty of cheesy little moments. Aunt Wang was brilliant, I wish she was more on screen. Giving it a 9 just to average it because although I've initially skipped some bits, but then ended up rewatching parts including stuff that I missed There are s1 & s2 with different people maybe i'll watch some as well. Casting was pretty good.

  • Exclusive Fairytale

    182. Exclusive Fairytale

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes

    9.5

    186) Modern.. Very good show. Fluffy and charming. Great cast, very likable. Idea is similar to You're my lover friend only less dramatic. Great groupd so the story spans from leaving cert year to the time they graduate. Just a tad of nastiness from some narcissist student union guy and 3rd wheeler galore at some point. And during a binge her repeated bewilderment started to get on my nerves. Also, time and space was a tad confusing, probably because they were dating for 3years and weren't sleeping yet, but whatever.

    A lot of the cast felt familiar. 

    Just checked stats , it's my  200th show completed (together with movies)

  • High School Return of a Gangster

    183. High School Return of a Gangster

    Korean Drama - 2024, 8 episodes

    10

    187) Modern Korean. A gangster with a wish to got back to school tried to catch a suicidal teen jumping from an overpass. Gets hit by a truck and his soul travels into the body of a teenager. Goes back to school in his place, sorts out bullies. The teen is an illegitimate child of some business tycoon and their family is being curated by tycoon's secretary. Teens mother is an actress who with the help of secretary is now addicted to drugs and alcohol. Anyway, they successfully get through it. He properly says byes to his crew. Had a few happy moments. 

    In the end teens soul came back but didn't want to stay. So, the gangster stayed and eventually went to college. Good enough show. I wish there was less bullying involved, because, well, I don't really care. Watched fun scenes a few times. Again I wish there were more of them.

  • Daddy You, Daughter Me

    184. Daddy You, Daughter Me

    Korean Movie - 2017

    9.5

    188) Korean movie. A father and a daughter swapped bodies and he had to go to school while she had to attend work. There were a few kind of predictable father& daughter situations but done very well. Naksu is FL -  she is brilliant. In the end they swapped back and sitting by that wishing tree ... now it's the turn to swap his shoes with his wife.

  • My Little Lover

    185. My Little Lover

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 74 episodes

    8.5

    189) Modern Micro. A girl is reading a novel and then realizes she is losing money. Apparently she is obsessed with love and neglected business. When she prayed to god of wealth the statue fell on her head, knocked her out and she ended up in the novel as a spoiled rich girl obsessed with some muppet. The girl of the muppet drugged her with aphrodisiac and she hooked up with a stranger who is obviously a tycoon with a  ruthless reputation. So eventually they started dating. A few usual tropes so their families set up are kind more akin to a costume drama. In any case it was alright. Unusually it was fairly explicit with more realistic adult vibe.

  • The Reborn Girlfriend Is a Big Shot

    186. The Reborn Girlfriend Is a Big Shot

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 88 episodes

    8.5

    190) Micro. Modern. Bizarre little micro kicked off well. An Assassin came to life in a body of a bullied schoolgirl. And really took off into a right direction she saved a guy who was stabbed. But then it turned very wrong. Like he was coming into school to help her out etc, and the story line again to do with some rich & powerful guy. But it's a  fucking school setting and yeah all those people somehow intermingle and yeah it's not alchemy of souls. 

    It's the one where girl had acne and scar intermittently and in the end she threw the bomb at another love rival ... who was also a school girl. oh lord.

  • Best Choice Ever

    187. Best Choice Ever

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 37 episodes

    10

    191) Modern. Fantastic show. Normal family conflict sacrifices & worth of those sacrifices when kids grow up. The one with Xu Kai & Yang Zi. Anyway whole cast was awesome. Binged the shit out of it. Excellent.

  • Fangs of Fortune

    188. Fangs of Fortune

    Chinese Drama - 2024, 34 episodes

    9.0

    192) Oh lord. finally finished it. Looks gorgeous. Cast amazing. But it was a very very heavy binge. So many flashbacks, So much posing, rivers of tears and an absolutely insufferable level of apologies and dialogues. Maybe if there was like 2 eps a week it might've been alright. But yeah.

    Hard to split them up. Again cast is gorgeous I can't say if those eyes are real. Castwise Jia ftw. CDL is again fantastic, but I just can't shake off the feeling that I was watching the same scene over and over just with main characters swapping places.

    That said story was alright.

  • Hilarious Family

    189. Hilarious Family

    Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes

    9.0

    193) Old Huang from SSS, You Lan from Shen Li and a few more. Anyway a widow is raising 4 daughters and various shenanigans they got into. It was alright, 0 angst. very funny and light. Peilan gets married in the end, but Ke Ling didn't marry the prince. In any case it petered out a bit towards the end, still not bad.

  • The Immortal Ascension

    190. The Immortal Ascension

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 30 episodes

    9.5

    194) Arbaz gave heads up about this cultivation drama. I actually had a quick look at the comments section about it and thought it would be another cliffhanger like in FBS. Well it's kinda hanging alright but not as drastic. That said I do expect it to return like FBS  in about 5 years as a remake with different cast and continuing from some place in the middle. 

    It was good, fairly easy binge for most of it there are a few vectors which annoyed me like that Xuan'er quickly accepting her father. Cast was very good. Too much CGI for my liking but it didn't look terrible for most of it. 

    Soundtrack was very good, particularly outro.

    Got account with Youku to watch it. Quality even in 2K was not great and looks pretty washed out.

  • When Destiny Brings the Demon

    191. When Destiny Brings the Demon

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 33 episodes

    10

    195) Heads up from Arbaz. It was still on air. Some office slacker is having a car accident.She transmigrates into a body of a difficult disciple of a small sect in a magic world (who is a transfigured frozen-soul-assassin-fish). Comes with 100 girls to serve a grandmaster sealed in a tower. Anyway his blood supposed to feed the flame which nourishes energy veins which in turn helps everyone else to cultivate. Due to her super cold nature shes able to cool down the grandmaster.
    E19, They defeated foes uncover plots of palace heads and he gets his revenge. After the showdown she disappears for 18 years it transpires that she was pushed into demon realm by the villain, her memory is erased and she thinks that villain is her father and she kills people. Now in e21 the past of her body-host comes into picture.

    Amnesia is getting half of resolve in E24. Like she traveled to their castle. Her aunt was captured and they entered her memories but they were falsified. Then she entered her "Soul Manor". and saw that her memories don't match up, and she figured that it was her time-traveling self was involved with SJ. They fought the buddies and he kinda died but reincarnated in mortal world and became an emperor. The Bian girl got possessed by remnants of the bad guy's soul and wanted to unseal demons.Fish went to mortal realm found SJ, eventually he recovered his memories and is came to a close she started to get flashbacks from modern world. Which is good coz I started to think that she forgotten that she is time traveler.

    They sealed the bad guy,she woke up in the modern world and had to pitch another idea and made it to the office of the company. CEO is of course our main lad Sima Sweetie and they met again.

    Nicely done. The Marquis was actually the bad guy from SOKP, hehe here he is doing rebellion again. Good show. Loved. I already saw earlier episodes a few times need to cut a mash so as not to re-watch it from start.


  • Great God Monkey

    192. Great God Monkey

    Chinese Drama - 2020, 12 episodes

    8.5

    196) Picked it up for a laugh. Very much a  kid show special effects people breaking into dance terrible furry costumes. Nan Sheng is awesome.

  • Moonlit Reunion

    193. Moonlit Reunion

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 38 episodes

    197) Made a start on it earlier, looks excellent. Kind of jumped into e6 i think, then got distracted so want to restart. Xu Kai & Tian Xi Wei as mains but tones of others as well "Wu Qi Hao", ZiSu from Magic Star, of course Prince Duan and many more. 

    FL's brother made friends with rain-dragon demon also figured out lady Lu is a demon and saw FL as cat demon. Didn't say shit. ML because some dream demon possessed FL on wedding night vowed to get rid of all demons and brought in his demon-slaying buddies. 3rd-wheeling demon cunt is trying to turn FL into a full demon. eh, i see so much of him i'd kill him myself. ML suspects that his missus isn't simple.

  • Shadow Love

    194. Shadow Love

    Chinese Drama - 2025, 38 episodes

    198) Resisted making a start for long enough. Well I knew Song Yi is in it. The I saw "Fu Sheng" I said yeah let's make a start. It kicks off with Some dark forces led by Son Yi then switches over to her and her man sitting on a tree being all lovey dovey then switches back to that man's origin. Here he is implanted with some magic device which is supposed to make him a superman, forget all his memories and essentially a puppet to his master. Anyway, the lad is actually an opposing general who tried to rescue his brother from Fusheng's grasp but fell into the lake of blood got super human and then escaped and helped FL who was just about to be captured by his army. Buuut he is in a body of a child. He grew very quickly while she was sleeping with him in bed. Eventually his power as grown up appeared and he started to turn in 80s rocker when fighting. Beat the army etc. Some minister came down to check on troops, then crown prince aka FLs ex, then CP's brother also tried to crack on. He should be realizing that he is prince anan soon.

    I don't want to go too fast either especially with WDBYAD and Moonlit Reunion on the cards, it might help me to batch episodes on those 2.

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