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These rules are the reason I was surprised The Princess Royal could get away with time travel (going back into their earlier bodies). But someone in the comments pointed out there were some hints it was a dream that creators put in there to appease regulators. I don’t remember anything like that, so it must’ve been very subtle — just enough to point out to regulators and make them happy 😁😉

Whatever you do, avoid “Ear Run Love” (with Arthur Chen). It had a good cast, but screenplay was quite bad, like a less interesting version of Lighter & Princess (a very good drama with him). For Wang Yi Lu, she just had a new drama come out a few days ago (only 12 episodes and all are out) — it’s called Twelve Letters. Much more emotionally heavy though based on what someone said in the comments here (still very good drama apparently).

To cover both novels, it’d take 9-10 seasons (they are super long, about 3800-3900 chapters combined). There are rumors 🍉 of YY potentially signing on for two more seasons to finish a certain part of the story. But nothing is official yet. Animated version (donghua) is ahead of drama but will still take until 2039-2040 to finish (at the current pace). Novel fans supposedly love NGW more, donghua fans supposedly like another character more (would be introduced in drama’s season 2) and there’s an important third female character too (not sure if she’d be in season 2 or season 3; I didn’t dig that deep). Same team is making both versions so maybe they will change things up. The novel has a bit of a harem situation but one female companion probably can claim a slight edge (due to very spoiler-ish reasons from the second novel).

No 😳🫣 I don’t mind long dramas when it’s worth it for the story (so it’s like multiple “seasons”). But don’t you think that too often C-dramas are guilty of making dramas too long by having writers add unnecessary misunderstandings, tired tropes, or other ways of just adding additional episodes for the sake of achieving high episode count? 😳🥺

Thanks!

Yes, very few dramas manage to get around that. in recent memory, The Princess Royal did it by throwing some very subtle hints it may be a dream (which are very easy to miss but it was enough to satisfy censorship).

There was no modern world for sure (was added due to censorship). I believe they stay in the mortal realm in the novel.

Can’t speak for MR and SOOY (still watching them), but in what universe is this not a happy ending? It’s not mega-happy ending, but it’s clearly a happy open ending 🤔

Thanks! I don’t need to watch any other shows before/after ELOD, right? I think comments says “Eternal Love” didn’t have right to ELOD book so the story isn’t the same.

Does it have a good ending? I really wouldn’t be able to handle investing so much time into a story with unsatisfying conclusion. P.S. I guess, if you think about it, the two seasons of Peony are 56 episodes combined (32 for Flourished Peony and 24 for In the Name of Blossom). But almost everyone agrees it should have been one 40-episode season because writers kept inserting artificial obstacles for most of season 2 🥺😳

It’s a bit weird that two dramas from the same other author (this and Moonlit Reunion) were released at almost the same time. MR is more high-profile and based on a more popular novel, I think. But, either way, this drama has been a pleasant surprise 🥰

Continuing Moonlit Reunion. Probably will start Shadow Love.

ELoD is 56 episodes 😳🥺

Thanks for the recommendation :)

Let’s be honest, there’s no romance in the novel (or donghua, or live action). And I believe NGW wouldn’t show up until Season 3. HL went to a very remote place and all the characters will be different.

Isn’t Part 2 (Immortal Realm) kind of necessary to conclude the story? I read up on its content and it ties together or explains many things.

I suppose if we get to, say, Season 3 of The Immortal Ascencion, we will also see ML having a cultivation partner (based on the novel), but there’s a long time to wait for that 😳

What about Moonlight? It’s a modern drama that stars 3 of the leads from LGIEF.
For purely historical drama (no fantasy elements), I love the chemistry between the leads in Are You the One although it’s not as full of kisses as this drama 😁

Love Between Fairy and Devil has a similar vibe (based on what commenters here said and my feeling). It stars Esther Yu just liked Love Game in Eastern Fantasy recommended by another person.

For purposes of censorship, it was all a dream FL had (and appearance of 3 mountains, etc. were because of the project she was working on).
For purposes of fans, this is a fourth lifetime that FL remembered while unconscious, but ML already had memories of 😉🥰