NaughtyBaby

I'm all in for romance but I cretainly had to read "Mother TF team" twice to process that correctly 😁

It's strange but it's all those extra behind the scenes that ruined the drama for me. I got to see how playful (and somewhat childish) the ML was when he and the FL were rehearsing their lines and that made their romantic scenes less convincing even though they had good chemistry.

All good, glad you found the song. You must really like the song to comb through your Spotify account history just to locate it 😄

Not sure if this is the song you were looking for but from memory the entire song was sung in English. It's a track from one of Bai Lu's drama "Love Is Sweet" titled "Things I Do For Love" by Sunnee.

As this may be considered off topic I'll send you a PM later on to let you know my thoughts on "She would never know" ok?

Oh you've finished S2? It would have been so fun to watch S2 together with you though...Just thought I should let you know that romance isn't the main theme of S1 but the set up is quite similar to S2 so if you like S2 that much chances are you'll also like S1.

Agreed, I reckon S1 deserves a higher rating than where it's currently sitting. It's 8/10 for me :) Me too, I like couples who can stay grounded when challenged by temptations and find their way back to each other even if they get derailed along the way....

Have you finished S2? I'm currently watching "she would never know" (korean drama) and still have a few more episodes to go so I'll start S2 straight after and hopefully meet you in the middle :)

No problems at all :)

Before I replied to you, I actually laughed at your comment because I did a similar thing - I took a sneak peek at the first two episodes of S2 at random intervals of each video after I completed S1, to see if the story will draw me in, while you watched the last two episodes of S1 in full as introductory to S2. Initially, I was a tad hesitant to start S2 because of its high episode count but today you've convinced me to watch S2 so thank you!

Yes, the main couple has a lot of screen time together in S1. If you enjoy watching this couple in S2 then I think it's worth watching S1. They "encountered" one another at a very young age, with child actors playing their younger counterparts.

Kudi Liu Li/Xiao Dou Zi suffered a lot of hardships since young so she had to submit to a lot of trickeries in order to survive in and outside of the palace. You'll get to see how her character evolves and eventually meets and falls in love with the ML who is very protective of her. The FL is a very intelligent, stubborn, loyal, outspoken and righteous person so she often gets into trouble because of these personality traits.

For the romance part - there's going to be a brief love triangle between the ML, FL & SML but that dissolves fairly quickly. The FL & ML loved each other tenaciously so it was almost impossible for the SML to penetrate that bond but you'll see him resorting to all sorts to keep the main couple apart. I also love Wu Mei Niang - she's such a gentle and kind being - I'm so glad she got the ending she deserved 🥰

I have to be very honest though - I did fast-forward a lot throughout the series but to answer your question - yes, it's woth watching for the romance.

I can't fault this drama except for the ending which I found was a bit random to throw in the extra characters. Maybe it was an effort to extend the length of the series to a full 40-episodes or to set the direction for S2 which I haven't seen, still it was odd and unnecessary. I would rather the writers/director showed us what happened to Prince Cao after he was pardoned by Prince Li Zhi. Oh and what happened to Consort Yang? Was she sentenced to death, exiled or ??

Another thing I really appreciated was the elaborate details of their wedding and the lantern festival. A lot of these traditional customs have been lost in societal evolution so it was really nice to see them (even if some were just pseudo-folklore) being played out in a drama.

Props to actual tailors, dressmakers and designers who worked tirelessly on this drama - all the costumes were so pretty 🥰

She's a great child actor and absolutely adorable. So cute and gorgeous she looks like a mini version of Dilraba Dilmurat 🥰 I hope she will have a successful career if she's serious about acting 😊

I'm not sure what I've just watched. Everyone was so morally bankrupt, foolish yet vulnerable at the same time it made the story sickeningly twisted. I could not bring myself to like nor sympathise with any of the characters in this drama.

I just completed the series and it had me bawling my eyes out. This has to be one of the best tragic love stories in a period drama, for me at least. Their love story was compellingly pure, unconditional and yet heartbreaking - you could feel they truly love each other but could not explicitly say or commit to one another because of various constraints. It is indeed exhausting, when your love is constantly under scrutiny, bound and set by traditions, rules, customs and expectations.

I usually avoid watching melancholic dramas because it takes me days to recover and the last three I watched feeling completely drained of emotions were "Ashes of Love", "Eternal Love" & "Love & Redemption" However, if you could emotionally connect with those three dramas, you must not miss "One & Only".

Oh yeah, that's right! I completely forgot about that! Then it's blessing her father was not successful in possessing her. Thanks for clarifying though, I wouldn't have remembered it if it weren't for you 😊

I was glued to my sit throughout S1-2 and that was because the story was engaging and I watched them back to back but by the time S3 was released, I have almost forgotten most of the characters except the main ones, hence I had to pause multiple times to check out their names/roles on MDL to jog my memory whenever they were reintroduced again in S3. There were playback scenes in S3 from S1-2, but majority of times there were none so I highly recommend viewers to watch them in the order of sequence so that the story is easier to follow.

The happy ending is perhaps what they had hoped for but to me, it felt like Sang Uk/Sang Won's character was killed off too easily before it even had a chance to reach climax! Least to say, the ending also left me confused with a lot of questions (listed as below)....maybe they are aiming to produce S4 to fill in the gaps when Song Kang and Jin Young are discharged 😁

1. Hyun Soo took a long time to "awaken" Yi Kyung from her monster domination, yet in the end he could just "revert" hundreds of monsterised survivors back to being humans so easily and quickly that they come back to the camp in truckloads?

2. Sang Uk knows Yi Kyung & Jin Ok ahjumma (Yeung Su's adoptive mum) from S1, yet the entire time his body was possessed, he did not resist Sang Won, yet in the end, he managed to control Sang Won almost effortlessly hence they both perished in the fire...if his willpower was that strong, why didn't he try to stop Sang Won when Sang Won attacked Yi Kyung and Jin Ok?

3. Towards the end of the show, Yeung Su was with a long-haired girl. I suspect she is Yi Su?? (based on the mark shown on her hand) but how was she resurrected??...and if resurrecting the dead was possible, why can't that happen for others?

4. It was a lame attempt by the writer/creators/director to try and slot in a romantic storyline between the priest and Sun Hwa. What was their background story? Without any explanation, this couple failed to make an impact and their scenes were unnecessary.... and wasn't Sun Hwa symptomatic? If she was and yet she ran away with the priest, wouldn't she transform into a monster eventually?

Despite the above comments, I would still say it's a decent watch but there is a great deal of gory scenes so please be prepared for those....

Overall, solid performance - I would rate this 8/10.

I have never been this excited over a movie, crazily counting down to its premiere. I hope it will live up to its hype. Just few more sleeps to go 😊

I like the premise of the story so far and I know it's a little too early to comment since I'm only on Ep03 but honestly, I feel like like I'm watching a musical more than a drama - the background music is annoying me. While I can understand basic Mandarin, I'm not a native speaker so I try to pick up the language by watching Chinese dramas but the loud background music is competing with the actors' voices I can barely hear them and the subtitles disappear quicker than I could catch it so it's taking me longer to finish an episode 😒
With good dialogues, subtitles and facial expressions I'm sure we are able to judge whether a scene is meant to be comical or not without the assistance of these extra background music. In my opinion, it detracts more than it attracts. Is there another version out there without these annoying music or is this how the original drama was released?

I don't usually watch BL dramas but this drama's title crack me up - i can relate to it if it was long distance, but long beans???

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Thanks for pointing that out. I interpreted it the same way too, that Wallace would be her most unforgettable love seeing how she labels him as his soulmate but I was initially a tad confused how his character could be of such significance if he was just playing a guest role.

I'm drawn to this because I enjoyed watching "My Best Friend's Story" in which there were two very strong FLs narrating their own stories as they unfold and this drama gives off the same vibes so I hope it would be worth watching 😊

That makes absolute sense, thank you! Still, I had hoped the cast list (if it had a ML) would give us a clue as to who will be her most endearing love in this drama.