Sorry, but seeing any kind of government research depending on how these 4 women behave while dating is hard to imagine even as a fiction. Overall it starts to look like literally anyone (who can draw a little) can write manga in Japan, literally about nothing at all. Result being more and more weird "dramas" like this. The whole "secret organization" setup is about as surplus in the drama as is the need to ruin a perfectly good toast with that gross thing called peanut butter which should be kept for all the americans.
To put this much tragedy stuff into romantic comedy is bad taste. But that's just to mention one dot in a huge screentime which is kinda filled with vague mixture of this and that, it doesn't have a distinct romance line to enjoy, I mean Godfrey Gao looks HOT in this I wish he would stop wearing the sparkling earring but apart from that I have no complaints about his looks which is rare but the whole story about him being a writer who needs to observe the ongoing romances only to write some book does not interest me and spoils my party while the whole thing is super long and going from nowhere to nowhere and there's nothing romantically enjoyable. Ookay after SEVENTEEN episodes of waiting, there's a nice kiss scene/bed scene LOL
Handsome and talented young man should not kill himself. It's a waste and further warning that depression is a deadly illness that needs to be taken seriously. Same like any other that can be terminal.
The original drama, 'Will Love Begin When Money Ends?' was problematic, also 4 episodes only, but there it was kinda understandable. This spin-off, 'Will Money Begin When Love Ends?' is also too short, and it's bad WITHOUT the excuse. Considering its lead did not die during production, and was actually better actor. If I got anything from this it's that my despise of everone livestreaming themselves on their little phones only deepened.
Well, regrettably the tragic death of the main cast DID have a negative effect on this show. No matter how I pitied the actor, the character he portrayed here was super annoying and the whole thingy culminated with him sharing a "kiss" with the main heroine which looked like a couple of 3-year olds. Still, the drama was watchable, it really sucked you in with the money theme. Unfortunatelly, the last episode, poor Miura Haruma could no longer film and he was LITERALLY replaced with a stupid toy (basically a waste of battery, but at least the first 3 epis we could ignore it) to a disservice both to him and to us. We then watched "events" like the main girl eating delicacies as ikameshi (a squid stuffed with sweet rice... actually rather gross) or dried horse mackerel (my stomach kinda hurt that episode) or meeting her estranged father which perhaps was a supposed to be a moving scene (yet sadly I'd say what's important is her father was not there all the years she needed him, not the money. Or that she is okay TODAY). Then it's all closed by a scene where the lead is sitting and talking to the TOY, which was really sad for the actress so in the end I pitied HER even more. Not sure that was what the writer intended. Not sure how to rate this, either. But I am not rating based on if the actor died, I'm just rating the product, the drama. And that was good 3 epis out of 4.
Okay, after reading your review I did go watch the bedscene at the end of epi 13. After all, I wanted to know what was so great about this drama that seemed so average to me, and lost my interest after mere 5 episodes. It's not a bad bedscene at all. I'm just not into this couple. And I am STILL not interested to watch them for such a long screentime, I won't go back to this drama (even this scene did not tempt me back;-) And he has a HORRIBLE haircut.
This is watchable only till you see the bedscene of Shan Cai & Dao Ming Si. After that, I strongly advise to DROP this because I remember to this day that nothing can completely RUIN your favorite show for you than something like THIS. I even use this show as a reference drama, a bad example when I want to discourage someone, LOL. Basically, it looks like the creators of this decided to make some other girl than Shan Cai the lead (if you heard some people saying that they did like her, then it's because the creators really did treat HER as the lead girl), make Dao Ming Si lose his memory THEREFORE his feelings for her and his PERSONALITY, and kill it all.
Perhaps you're right. But I do like her:) Wish korean male actors would stop taking the Michael Jackson route, but do they listen? LOL Let's not forget Michael aimed to look like a white WOMAN. Might be why I no longer like Lee Dong, but I do like his fictional female version:)
Yes, I confirm dragonslairfansubteam dot wordpress completed subbing all the 20 episodes!! (20 for re-run version) CONGRATS!!! 20 Years later finally everyone can watch this lakorn, LOL I for one AM going to, because nobody can replace YOUNG TIK... We don't have men like him anymore. After 12 episodes of the 20 of the re-run, my enjoyment dropped as the romance practically ended but then it continues as a character study and personality development of a girl who wanted to live simple but ended up as a woman on the throne. Still watchable thanks to the talented Aom Phiyada. The ending is brutal, her coronation is montaged with his execution, which he literally made her sign, adamant on being honorable and prideful 1000%. Devoted subject indeed for her as a ruler, cruel and bitter for her as a woman.
Well, I'm afraid I must advise everyone that this show is sadly NOT worth watching 1) Everything exciting/controversial about the story relates to the novel and was NOT incomporated into the drama. We see glimpses of it, never resolved, mostly edited out: kisses, bedscenes (some stay in the opening/closing credits ONLY), any controversial details (like a kind lady selling food on the streets that gets her stall completely destroyed and we don't touch the theme further), possible assault scene(?), as a viewer you are not sure, because of the sharp edits that leave most of the stuff out. Considering only one of the boys is attractive enough to just look at (actually, the dad is more attractive than any of the boys in the drama) it's really a pitty there isn't anything more spicy in this 18+ rated show. 2) Runtime is filled with... Well, fillers. Every annoying side character we are NOT interested about, every mundane repetitive scene we'd like to skip, that's what we waste the most time on. People randomly appearing/disappearing, tiny "plots" abandoned halfway that never get any conclusion, such is the stuff which forms the base of this "drama". Majority of the show is boring as hell. 3) The form of a "happy end" also suck. We don't get nice bedscene (edited out), we don't have nice conversation or relationship development (we never actually hear one of the boys to talk about his feelings), what we get are "buying stuff scenes" which are the more pitiful as we are in china. You can imagine how their "luxury" looks like 4) There is no proper ending, episode 15 has a typical abrupt end like all the previous ones, with yet another side-character arriving to the scene (only good thing is we WON't get to bother with her) as apparently, the show got cancelled in the middle Overall it all very sadly illustrates the state of things and "quality" of production in china... Quite depressing drama aside And no, I won't sign on Viki or anywhere else to possibly see a "better" version of this drama, neither I wish to see another "season" because after what I have seen I am DONE with this thank you very much, I judge this based on what we can freely see, even here on MDL it lists 20 minutes runtime for an episode and THAT contains only what i depicted above. So no, I won't go into google frenzy searching for a "uncensored" version which might or might not exist.
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Overall it starts to look like literally anyone (who can draw a little) can write manga in Japan, literally about nothing at all. Result being more and more weird "dramas" like this.
The whole "secret organization" setup is about as surplus in the drama as is the need to ruin a perfectly good toast with that gross thing called peanut butter which should be kept for all the americans.
It's a waste and further warning that depression is a deadly illness that needs to be taken seriously. Same like any other that can be terminal.
This spin-off, 'Will Money Begin When Love Ends?' is also too short, and it's bad WITHOUT the excuse. Considering its lead did not die during production, and was actually better actor.
If I got anything from this it's that my despise of everone livestreaming themselves on their little phones only deepened.
CONGRATS!!!
20 Years later finally everyone can watch this lakorn, LOL
I for one AM going to, because nobody can replace YOUNG TIK... We don't have men like him anymore.
After 12 episodes of the 20 of the re-run, my enjoyment dropped as the romance practically ended but then it continues as a character study and personality development of a girl who wanted to live simple but ended up as a woman on the throne. Still watchable thanks to the talented Aom Phiyada.
The ending is brutal, her coronation is montaged with his execution, which he literally made her sign, adamant on being honorable and prideful 1000%. Devoted subject indeed for her as a ruler, cruel and bitter for her as a woman.
1) Everything exciting/controversial about the story relates to the novel and was NOT incomporated into the drama. We see glimpses of it, never resolved, mostly edited out: kisses, bedscenes (some stay in the opening/closing credits ONLY), any controversial details (like a kind lady selling food on the streets that gets her stall completely destroyed and we don't touch the theme further), possible assault scene(?), as a viewer you are not sure, because of the sharp edits that leave most of the stuff out. Considering only one of the boys is attractive enough to just look at (actually, the dad is more attractive than any of the boys in the drama) it's really a pitty there isn't anything more spicy in this 18+ rated show.
2) Runtime is filled with... Well, fillers. Every annoying side character we are NOT interested about, every mundane repetitive scene we'd like to skip, that's what we waste the most time on. People randomly appearing/disappearing, tiny "plots" abandoned halfway that never get any conclusion, such is the stuff which forms the base of this "drama". Majority of the show is boring as hell.
3) The form of a "happy end" also suck. We don't get nice bedscene (edited out), we don't have nice conversation or relationship development (we never actually hear one of the boys to talk about his feelings), what we get are "buying stuff scenes" which are the more pitiful as we are in china. You can imagine how their "luxury" looks like
4) There is no proper ending, episode 15 has a typical abrupt end like all the previous ones, with yet another side-character arriving to the scene (only good thing is we WON't get to bother with her) as apparently, the show got cancelled in the middle
Overall it all very sadly illustrates the state of things and "quality" of production in china... Quite depressing drama aside
And no, I won't sign on Viki or anywhere else to possibly see a "better" version of this drama, neither I wish to see another "season" because after what I have seen I am DONE with this thank you very much, I judge this based on what we can freely see, even here on MDL it lists 20 minutes runtime for an episode and THAT contains only what i depicted above. So no, I won't go into google frenzy searching for a "uncensored" version which might or might not exist.