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But there are dramas that are slightly more explicit (both modern and historical/fantasy), so that’s what makes it even more confusing. For instance, When Destiny Brings the Demon had a lot of kissing and, ahem, “dual cultivation”, but then Love in the Clouds had some scene(s) cut in the final edit.

In one of interviews, leads mentioned 108 lashes so that’s still happening for sure.

Only Twinkling Watermelon 🍉 (9.2) and When Live Gives You Tangerines 🍊 (9.3; was 9.4 for the longest time) are higher rated dramas. Even if this settles at 9.1 eventually, it will be an amazing rating. Not that MDL ratings matter, of course. But even back in China it’s doing very well — became the first ever C-drama to surpass 10,000 Heat Index on iQIYI and 30,000 Heat Index on Tencent/WeTV.

Ugh… what the heck — why would they get divorced 😳. I’m sure it made sense in the novel but at the current pacing there’s probably just enough time for the (second) grand wedding.

We will find out in ep. 26, but I think they have to hit him for real. She’d notice if they were faking it.

Yeah, I can understand why they took that out.
But I do have to roll my eyes at how many intimate scenes gets removed even from modern dramas. There was one modern drama that had a pregnancy scare even though they never hinted/showed bedroom activities (only kissing) 🤣🙄

I have a little over an episode to watch, but it’s better than average I’d say (8.1 MDL seems fair). Lots of eye candy for female audience but main theme is dealing with aftermath of longterm relationship that ended (basically, finding courage to put yourself out there and try again).

“Can This Love Be Translated” was definitely better though (in my opinion). Go Youn Jung deserves an award for all the roles she played in the drama 🥰

Ohhh… that’s logical. Thanks for the info.

Fun aside: apparently in AYtO novel the couple had a child while they were fake-married and before FL regained her memories! I guess novel ML wasn’t as skilled at coming up with excuses for not sleeping with his “wife” 😁

TXW is great in this drama for sure. And the novel is named after FL (“Jade” = FL), so it’s a bit more FL-centric probably.

Thanks! I figured out they will remarry after she gets a higher status, but was genuinely wondering how that worked back in those days. The only similar plot in a drama I’ve watched was in “Are You the One”, but that couple wasn’t really married (ML just lied to FL who was gravely injured & lost some memories).

Only Jisoo harem drama 🤣 beat PoJ!
(It’s really crazy how many popular actors are in the Jisoo drama; kudos to casting director.)

Most other countries: how do we get more than 1 episode per WEEK?

(Japan, Philippines, and Thailand… and U.S./Canada too)

Our poor FL is so innocent and completely oblivious to all the shenanigans going on 🤣

Swrious question: are they even really married if he used a fake name? I’m sure an official wedding will happen eventually, but validity of current marriage is questionable 🤨

We demand a spinoff focused on Ning Ning and The Falcon 🥰

Yes, a legitimate love triangle that goes on for too long.

We can dream! :)
But, yes, at this point I just want the drama to come out and to do well. Then we can officially crown WCR the queen of fireworks dramas 😁

I wasn’t watching TDHR for the guy, but it was a great drama with some fresh anti-trope-y things in the script… until the last two episodes kind of ruined everything. It’s like for the first 34 episodes they had a happy-ish ending in mind, did multiple things to set it up… only to change their mind at the last second and frantically spent last two episodes to shoehorn an ending that didn’t even feel sad/bad/open. It was a whimper not a bang, so to speak.

The only ending that’s more absurd was in a modern drama A Beautiful Lie (it now has 6.4 MDL rating because of that 🤯🫣).

Sigh… we have two weeks until final episode is out 🥺😩
Netflix has Episode 40 coming out on March 30 ⏰

I try to not watch dramas where I know the ending is going to be tragic/sad. A hopeful/open ending like, say, Hotel Del Luna or Moon in the Day is fine, but it has to be logical.

I’m still very disappointed at how The Demon Hunter’s Romance ended. We knew happy ending wasn’t a guarantee, but the last two episodes felt like they were written by a totally different person and took a 180-degree turn to arrive at a blah ending that felt rushed/illogical given prior 30+ episodes. It’s now one of my top examples of how a great drama can be ruined by a sloppy ending.

/rant over 😞