AleksandraSucur

Oh, I was wondering if it was Kurosawa's autobiography I've read not long time ago in Italian translation (Un'autobiografia o quasi) but forgot to check...
Omg, it was such an interesting book, his world is such an eye-opener, or better, all senses - opener, I recomend it to everybody. No wonder the author wanted to homage the Great Master
Thank you so much

not yet, from the trailers, it will pop up in ep 8

absolutely, lets' wait a few more eps and we'll open a new discussion topic

Oh, thank you so much for this clarification... I've actually had a feeling the creators were making reference to some popular older show (strange hairdos and melodramatic vibe of the song), for the purposes of parody.
Without knowing, I "knew" the reference/homage must have been a xianxia, the progression 10 years, 100 years, 1000 years, typical in xianxias... were clearly years of cultivation/tribulation couples need to suffer in order to be with each other, that's why I've clicked immediately with it, almost chocked on laughter.

And reflecting on the verses (one person wrote the original verses in a comment under this video which I've copied on google translate), the song is actually beautiful, very emotional, what makes it funny is the excess of emotion (in the execution, too) and addictiveness, so characteristic for old songs (and generally, music in old movies and dramas).

Now, this video is on my repeat mode 😂😂😂 Thank you again

Hearing the song, I've choked on laughter. Twice. 😂😂😂
"Ahaha-ha, ahaha-ha
The beauty of the West Lake in March
the mellow spring rain and smoky willows
fate brings couples from their way
and drives the strangers away
It took us 10 years to be on the same boat
and 100 years to share the same pillow.
If there's a fate for 1000 years
we'll fall in love and together grow old
Lala-la, lalala-la..." So gross & melo and yet so good and addictive. All bgm and osts are well chosen but this song stands out, it's terrific!
And how his neck ached in a dream while fictional Su Miao was pressing him because in reality he was knocked out being hit on the neck... and later, the scene on the boat with this song in bg.... Can't stop rewatching them 😂😂😂

unexpected yet very fit

Finally an engaging and entertaining drama from the very start, even the trailers for the next two eps look promising, it's reasonable to presume we'll have a lot of fun watching it. ML is hilarious, the actor's microexpressions are so on point, Li Landi is also a great choice for the FL's role and the side characters are far from disturbing, on the contrary, I'm so positively surprised by the actress playing FL's alias Su Miao, she mimics well SCC's gross behaviour.
Here, one of the best C- scriptwriters/original creators, Tong Hua, drags the audience into a romantic comedy genre, exploring an unchartered territory: stronger FL (at least, physically) liking a guy who percieves her as a bully, a person who scared the sh*t out of him when they were in the school, who makes him shiver, out of fright, even disgust, not certainly desire to be with her... and being the ML a romantic person who awaits his "one and only" in life, this relationship cannot develop without certain "filters" helping them to understand each other better. That's why FL's shape-shifting via magic object (bracelet) is such a logical and plotwise breakthrough, which can also add some complements (critics to general social perception of beauty, relationships etc.). As far as I can remember, rare C-dramas I've seen with strong(er) female lead and weak(er) ML were Oh My General (I loved a lot Ma Si Chun in the role of a general, one of her best performances) and Starry Love (with Li Landi as well, so she's certainly a great casting choice here).
The only flow I've noticed till now is directing, while I found brilliant the opening scene (in the bus), its lenght and how it was shot, the tennis scene was too long and not that well shot (it was too long, and for those who play tennis is too obvious Tan Jianci is not a tennis player, his moves were not in the direction of the ball).
Finally, I feel we'll have some great music choices, too.
This drama will definitely score very high, I'm lookin' forward

I've seen the trailer and half of the 1st ep. Flatmate with ML, admiring abs, clumsiness which is supposed to be cute... it looked like a copycat of My Boss, I've dropped very fast last year. And I didn't sat she can't play at all, I've said she always plays the same characters which is annoying

Well, if you think I should still watch it, I'll put a bit more effort, but I still think BJT's talent is wasted in dramas of this genre

BJT coupled with an actress who can only play dumb and clumsy characters in the same copycat dramas (is this drama a replica of last year's My Boss?) is such an unbelievable waste of (his) talent, money, time and energy.

Thank you both.
It looks like it is her/his first drama play, I haven't found any other screenplays.
That's probably why dialogues and plot suffer, salvaged only by the experienced directing

Does anybody know who is the scriptwriter of this drama?

yes, you are right about that friendship with QJY's dad, he has certain experience in dealings with patriarchal ways of life. Lets hope this friendship will help Chen Mo's dad to turn around on his authoritative ways, he can't continue to live in his own parallel universe

I'm sooo invested in this drama.
Can people who read the novel spoil me, will Chen Mo's parents divorce? Idk how long I can stand her egocentric father... although just 8 eps left, that character invokes harsh slaps...

I've never thought I'd like a drama with such a heavy "youth genre" in it, but the dialogues are spotless, the story simply flows and keeps me engaged all the time. All the actors are delivering their roles, incredible.
It deserves higher rating

lets' hope you are right. Any plotline - not necessarily business - is welcome at this point, I've reached my limits of bearing with useless and illogical misunderstandings and overacting

they've finally married in ep. 10

I've endured 10 messy, often illogical (even dumb, the scriptwriter seems not to age well, the plotline and dialogues are far below Yunxi Palace) episodes, only out of curiousity: will their businesses continue to compete or cooperate once the Third is married into Chai's family?
I am proud of my patience but still have some prejudice towards the script.

my pleasure

"What he did would have caused his family and supporters to be executed. " - so true, I agree with you

You're lucky to have travelled from Europe to China and returned to Australia (where my son lives currently and loves it a lot, so I suppose, I'll be "forced" to visit your country once he settles there for sure). Travelling, people learn a great deal, grow up, make new friends, in a way, Xu Qi'an "travelled" to fictional Dafeng and made a name for himself there.
I don't know whether I am "a perfect person to answer your question" or not, but imho, we should stick to the fact Dafeng emulates many traits of Chinese history and culture. The death penalty is abhorred in most Western-culture states, including Australia (where it was abolished in 1985) but it is also due to the fact terrible mass-murders don't happen in our states any more and probably it is the reason why it still exists in 27 federal US states (although it is applied only in 15 of them). Death penalty doesn't exist in any EU country and it is abolished in almost all 47 countries of the Council of Europe (the last country, Kazakhstan, abolished the death penalty in 2021), with the exception of Belarus and Russian Federation (in the latter, it has not been applied in the last 25 ys), the first was only a candidate to join while Russia has been excluded from the CE since 2022 (that's why the actual number of members is 46, with no death penalty in any of them) - and the death penalty existence was mentioned among the "lack of the respect of human rights" motivations. The existence of death penalty somehow goes against our Western sensibility, but we should not forget that it existed in our countries, too, not many years ago. I am old enough to remember the (live-broadcasted) execution of Romanian autocrat Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, charged and found guilty for mass-murder (well, the charge exaggerated the mass-murder of 100 people killed in Timișoara 1989 protest to a "genocide") and "starvation of Romanian citizens" (due to his wrong economic policies) - I admit, it was quite a shock for me, even then and despite the fact I had no sympathy for that couple at all.
The death penalty exists in China, even today and there's a death penalty for certain crimes we would certainly label as "minor" or "subject to set-ups" like... the corruption of public officials. The difference in punishment from convicts for corruption and those for mass-murder is the lethal injection for the first, and "thanks" to them, the more brutal execution by firing squad for mass-murderers is (gradually) replaced by lethal injection. But although China is making its effort to decrease the harshness and even to decriminalise certain penalties, the death penalty will not cease to exist in China any time soon. Therefore, the justice implemented by Xu Qi'an on two officials (one responsible for a genocide, because 380K killed people is not a simple mass murder, it is a genocide) and the second covering for it will not offend the sensibility of Chinese audience. Honestly, his actions didn't offend my sensibility either, although I'm against death penalty in real life, Xu Qi'an's actions made perfectly sense because - as Ruxi said - if the law can't provide justice (bc. of the emperor's scheme), it is justified for ANYONE to take care of it, espc. in a fiction, espc. because the emperor betrayed and lost "the heaven's mandate" to provide justice, and espc. because XQ is a Guardian, loyal to the motto "do no wrong and fear no Guardian"