CasualCDfan

That's fair to like their new creative direction. I'm personally not a fan. But saying that they adapt it well is false. Because not only did they fundamentally changed the characters and their dynamics, their new creative direction is so far inferior to the novel.

They literally made up their own story. lol

"Writers don't make her arrogant, it's not cute."

That's the only way some writers know how to write a strong female lead. They need to make her vengeful, arrogant, and bloodthirsty. This version of LMT does not exist in the book. This is drama creation. Hopefully the writers can redeem this verion of LMT by humbling her at some point in the story. But I'm not too hopeful.

Well said! These Dramas know their audience very well. Thank God some of these novels are still raw and unfiltered.

Yup, they're impossible to make well due to censorship and directors who believe too much in their mediocre artistic visions.

I absolutely hate what they do to these men. What I love about CXZ from the novel is that while he's whipped for her, it's mutual and he's keeps his domineering edge. The drama glosses over the fact that LMT also lusts after CXZ very early.

You have some ways to go. LMT knows about her Lu Wen identify in chapter 89. She remembers her Lu Wen identity in chap 161, but forgets about her life with the CXZ. She gains all of her memories back in the very last chapter.

Thank God I watch The Story of Ming Lan before reading the novel. If I read the novel first, I would not have enjoyed the drama as much. lol

I tried watching My Journey To You, but I didn't like the ML for some reason. So, I dropped it. I tried picking it back up, but then I heard that it was an unfinished story.

It's a different story at this point. But i'm glad you're enjoying it. It's hard for us novel readers. lol

The simpification of strong male characters in CDramas will never cease to annoy me. I guess the majority of viewers love it.

Yea, it was during the engagement. I forgot.

She doesn't regain her Lu Wen memory until like chat 161, which is at the very end. But she does know about her true identity much earlier.

He literally saved her life and nursed her back to health and tried his best to do the right things despite the lies. Yet you want to see the man grovel? You guys are weird. Thank god the novel version (the real version) of CXZ is not the weak dude.

Don't forget that in the novel, she finally agrees to marry him because he made her submit in bed. And she couldn't resist because she lusted after that man. In return, even when CXZ finds out she is Lu Wen, he is so whipped for her, that he goes out to buy her street food during her revelation. lol The Drama destroyed an interesting and hot love story so they could have their badass FL revenge storyline.

Unless she went back to him to investigate him, the real LMT would've never gone back to Ziyu. Let's see what the drama does.

Ziyu tried to get her back. But CXZ had already married her and he was a lot more ruthless and powerful in the novel. So Ziyu never stood a chance despite his position.

Read the novel. It's much better.

Ironically, the novel version LMT/Lu Wen would absolute hate drama CXZ. Notice how the also drama skips over the fact that LMT was herself infatuated with CXZ's good looks? The drama is a total bastardization of a truly wonderful novel.

I have feeling that they were going that route base on how soft they made the ML in the drama. In the drama, the ML does fall in love deeply. But, he never resorted to following the FL around like a lost puppy after their break up. He had his military duties to attend to. But he did send his men to spy on her to prevent her from getting married. lol

In the novel, Ziyu was NEVER presented as a serious love rival to CXZ. FL didn't remember him for most of the novel and when she did remember him, she never went back to him. But in typical Cdrama fashion, seems like that's going to change. I hope I'm wrong.