Lizzy

As someone who hates love triangles this one didn’t bother me a whole lot. We do have jealous / possessive SMLs, but the main romance outshines everything else imo.

Well this synopsis just sounds depressing 😭

I 😭am so 😭 excited you guys 😭😭

The trailer looks great 😭Did I hear they’re still filming or am I mixing up my dramas? How long do we have to wait 💀I can’t handle it it looks SO GOOD

It kinda looks from the trailer that he does recover and regain his ability to walk?

Ye Xian
The ML’s servant / bodyguard
Ye Xian’s servant
Chen Xuan Qing (and servant)
Hai Lian and wife

I think that’s everyone… lol

Abrupt, but HE for the leads.

I had no idea they were married when the drama aired! That explains a lot lol

Yeah. I’m still thinking about it because the story looks really good and in terms of types of dramas I enjoy this looks to check all of the boxes. I have both seen AiMi and HMH before and they’re talented. Maybe I am a bit jaded because in the US there have been a lot of allegations of sexual harassment from crew members to the actors / actresses in the drama (One Tree Hill) for example. I hope there is a lot of protection for AiMi, and I do really appreciate that the drama won’t do any kissing or intimacy scenes. I think it also just feels uncomfortable with AiMi being put in positions that perhaps she’s uncomfortable with. Does she have the freedom to set boundaries, or will she be implicitly or explicitly pressured to do something she doesn’t feel right about? Etc. Plus with the age gap of 11 years, there’s a natural power differential there with HMH and the adult crew members (NOT that I am worried about HMH being bad at all, but more how it may impact her comfortably in saying no or setting boundaries). So yeah. And then I also ask myself what the magical thing is about the age 18? I don’t have an answer for that either.

🙄I’m not afraid to use certain terms to describe your behavior if the shoe fits. You called me a hypocrite even though I don’t think that I am one. You made unfounded generalizations about me as a person, and chose to attack me personally over honest thoughts that I expressed, after glancing at a few numbers I added to dramas I watched over the past year. So to me, yes, you’re acting like a bitch and I will call you out on it. Threaten me all you want with a hatred tag 🙄Or here’s a thought- what about blocking me? *gasp* 🫢

Omg YES. IMO they’re one of the BEST OTPs of all time. It is a beast of a drama with the 76 episodes, and if you are primarily a romance watcher like me, they reaaaallllyyy make you wait for the romance to kick off. They painstakingly develop the ML and FL separately as individuals before bringing them together in marriage. So all of their weaknesses and insecurities that were developed over the course of the drama come together in a spectacular clash. MMM *chefs kiss* And on the flip side of that they are a freaking powerhouse of a couple, both of them are brilliant. And there’s a lot of skinship and emotional intimacy when they finally get together. But yes… it’s a looooooonnngggg road to get there. Long. Road.

Yeah I picked up this drama because I LOVED HIM in The Story of Minglan. Maybe I need to just do a rewatch of that one.

I’m on like episode 12 now and I don’t hate it yet, I’m just in a drama slump and can’t find another one that grabs me. The constant “wang ye” is distracting, though. (Already finished ASM, loved it 10/10).

I appreciate your perspective. I remember Indiana Jones 😂The Temple of Doom scared me a lot more as a kid than Raiders, but I like how you coped with that. I could always just watch HMH’s scenes, although it’s not quite the same if you pull his scenes out of the context of the greater story 😞

Wow you’re acting like a little bitch. First off, I had no idea. LitM was a drama I watched last year, ten years after it aired. Had I been around drama land when it was airing, my opinion would have probably changed. Realizing it now, it makes me feel icky even though the age gap in that one was significantly less.

Secondly, HMH is handsome and talented, but I have yet to find a story he stars in that I like. Didn’t like the lies and secret keeping in LitC, the CGI pulled me out of BftB and I had similar issues with TUS (which I dropped, didn’t rate). I can enjoy an actor without liking the drama they’re in. I had high hopes for this one until I found out about Ai Mi’s age.

Stop acting like a bitch. My initial post was respectful and expressed honest feelings about this drama and you’ve taken what I said and decided to personally attack me for it. What gives? Do I need to comment on how it feels gross that you’re attacking a stranger over the internet in order to defend a minor teenage girl acting in a romance drama with a man 11 years older? All I said in my initial post is that it makes me uncomfortable and I am torn by it because HMH’s fight scenes look amazing. I also thought that if I were a mother I would be very uncomfortable with my teenage daughter acting in a romance with a man 11 years older than her. I think that’s valid? Why personally attack me? Geez.

Exactly. I love HMH and he looks so talented. The trailer looks good! Ugh

Because the actors themselves are adults. If I was a mother, I would feel really uncomfortable with my teenage daughter acting in a romance drama with someone in their late 20s. It’s totally no hate towards HMH because I totally know it’s not his fault. But yeah that’s why. Even if there’s no kissing or intimacy scenes, it would give me the ick if my teenage daughter was acting romantic with an adult man with close physical proximity, hugs, princess carrying, etc.

Lol, making stuff up? Ok:

* https://youtube.com/shorts/gdOl-xPQ7FI?si=NGLJuHhGHC-BbbnH
* https://youtube.com/shorts/Yt5Oj9dKU8M?si=C9nQjRcEVdSztkZZ
*https://youtu.be/8NuZyEZiw5Q?si=XKpATrYnKZ3RUkRd
*https://youtube.com/shorts/kFHJ_DcRB0o?si=DtyWyfj7aIpoKR7s

Compared to other hateful comments on here about the casting I’d say that my post is pretty damn respectful and fair.

If you like this genre with the scheming and palace politics then:
*Coroner’s Diary
*Sword and Brocade
*The Story of Minglan
*Legend of Zhuohua
*Blossoms in Adversity
*Are You the One
*Blossom
*How Dare You!? (with Cheng Li)
*The Rebel Princess

General Cdramas with a different feel to them:
*The Prisoner of Beauty
*Shadow Love
*Legend of the Female General
*Legend of Shen Li
*Pursuit of Jade

I really HATE the moral dilemma that this drama is creating with me. On the one hand HMH’s stunts look AMAZING. The plot has ALL of my favorite tropes (arranged marriage, enemies to lovers). The poster is gorgeous, the trailers look WOW.But… Aimi was literally 16/17 years old when it was filmed, and HMH is a like 11 years older than her. So when she was 16/17 during the filming he was 27/28 years old. Scenes of them together feel gross with that knowledge that she’s literally a minor in a romance drama with a massive age gap, even if there are no on-screen kissing / intimacy scenes. The undertones of romance, with BTS footage of him carrying her, hugging her or her sitting on his lap… it all just feels incredibly uncomfortable to me. Even the thought of me getting the “shipper feels” about their characters feels uncomfortable. I dunno how y’all can separate that. This isn’t a hate post, per say, but it’s hard having such conflicting feelings about it because lbr, a lot of things about this drama look so great.