Big_Red_1011

I was talking about all genres, not just here. Many modern or historical/costume dramas are like that.

There are definitely some impressive battles coming up for you in 10-13 (and previews & teasers also look promising). If you read recent comments, there articles that say a lot of this was shot on location with huge crews and gives budget numbers overall and for VFX.

That’s about $41.6 million USD. How does that rank budget wise in C-drama land?

Is this one of those articles which states some fact (people criticize, public dislikes, etc.) but then points to only a few random posts on social media? Let’s be honest, anything can be made into a story — even if the leads were on promotional tour together and doing live stream 32 hours a day, the news could claim “JC gives YY cold stare” or some other nonsense like that. 🙄

Your idea is actually better. Because then the characters can drop some lines like “the rest of our story will be covered in the following book(s) / chapter(s) / etc.” So a flash-forward while still staying in the same universe 😎

Maybe they will just have ML & FL wake up next to each other in a modern world with donghua playing on a TV 📺 and a baby crib next to their bed. Bam — happy ending! (Okay, okay, I know the creators won’t do it 😁)

But don’t you find it super strange how in so many dramas all it takes is one, ahem, “attempt” and boom 💥— there’s a baby on a way. They are really not doing much to help improve birth rates in Asian countries 😒

Even funnier, in the novel he’s described as “plain looking” but that doesn’t stop everyone from pining for him (except for FL who is already making plans for his tombstone 🪦, lol)

Apparently they actually changed some things from Wattpad to make it more appropriate to the modern audience. For example, his relationship with Katrina was real as I understand. Also, to be fair to the creators, we don’t know what ending they are going to do. Tripp seems like a nice guy and he’s now in the same college as Alys :)

You meant the LONG Distance Era, right? 🤣🤣🤣

Will he grow up? 🧐 So far he hasn’t had to suffer any consequences of his actions. He was “kicked out of the house” to live in a nice upscale condo, received a car as gift, and has an extremely patient & forgiving girlfriend who loves him to death.

Thank you for the link! FYI, if anyone else is going to read the article using auto-translate, please use Google Translate. Apple’s auto-translation of this article in Safari turned out to be very poor (at least on mobile Safari). I had to manually copy & paste each of the 10 points to understand it well :)

She would be in for a surprise in a few months when she felt a baby in her womb 😳 (okay, I know they won’t have a kid now, just speculating).

He starts showing it in Ep. 13. He’s kind of scheming and keeping things on the down low — like a bad version of the ML who is also trying to fly under the radar.

Sect covers a huge area. Maybe that guy went into a cave to meditate and work on his cultivation. No one liked him, so they didn’t ask any questions — ignorance is bliss! 🤣😉

She was a lead in “Towards the Truth” which was released in January 2025.

Well… for now I’d recommend finishing Season 1 of FP; then watching Youthful Glory (like less angsty version of Prisoner of Beauty), and then moving to Are You the One (in that order because AYtO is the best of all of them). BTW, I see you’ve watched Hidden Love and When I Fly Towards You, so hopefully you have time for The First Frost (all 3 have same author and, as you probably know, TFF is a story with characters from HL, but it restores original novel’s age gap between HL couple). TFF is not as light and fluffy as WIFTY and HL (but still a good mix of romance, comedy and drama) but it’s so, so good. The last two episodes are a master class on how to properly end a drama (which, seemingly, is a weakness of C-drama writers, lol). In K-drama land I’d highly recommend Love Scout if you enjoy adult romance (leads are in 30s, I think). After the first episode or two, it picks up steam and doesn’t stop. ML in Love Scout is one of the greenest flags ever and comments on Viki were going wild 😊

Haha… maybe make a good use of fast-forward button? But, to give you an idea, I’m on Ep. 17 and things are still angsty.

At the end of Ep. 13 she already regained most of her lost power and is at Core Formation stage (although Early tier). So she’s recovered but not fully.

People were looking forward to Season 2 because there was a good progression in the relationship between the leads (you haven’t seen everything yet). But for Season 2 instead of going forward, it’s sidetracks and backtracks. Honestly, they could’ve made this a 40-episode single-season drama by combining both seasons.