absurd

Well, you have to take average income into account. Idk, what it is in China's big cities, but if we judge by the drama: Gu Wei is an upper class (we know that watch was not fake) and he still thought it was expensive, so I'd say average person probably wouldn't be able to afford it.

Thank you!

Does anyone know which version is on Viki? The full Tencent one or TV?

I understand her point of view, but her behavior was also very childish. Sure, we can say that she is young and scared for her father, but I felt she went a bit too far there. Wanting to get a second opinion, because the bad news terrify you is one thing. Insulting someone's intelligence and character because of some overheard rumor and the fact that he did not help you when you accosted him in a bar (while drunk of your a**) is another thing entirely. That Gu Wei still took the time to talk to her and patiently explain, shows that he's a lot more mature than she is. Mind you, I agree that there's nothing to be annoyed about, people make mistakes and speak rashly, especially when they are scared. But she didn't just "not side with him", she actually insulted him behind his back and that was pretty bad. She also did not properly apologize for it.

Then, thank God there will be a full version available. Kindergarten hand holding romance between two adults always looks so silly.

WeTv posted that TV version might be censored more. 1st episode is probably the same because there was nothing to cut out, but later episodes might be different.

Wow, they are saying that TV version will actually have cuts in it. Didn't they already go through censorship? What more are they going to cut out, I wonder.
Good thing we're getting the full version.

The first episode exceeded expectations! I looove characters like Gu Wei, and Lin Zhixiao does not seem like a typical airhead, that c-dramas like to use as FL. The chemistry is not even worth talking about, we knew it would be trough the roof.

What he did by starting those rumors about them was really dangerous. I know it does not seem like it from our open minded 21st century point of view, but remember that it was the early 20th century China. Same sex relationships were considered a crime, that you can be arrested for, even outside of China at the time. Yes their friends are taking it lightly, but the fact is that if the situation escalated they would have been either arrested or she would have been exposed and kicked out of the academy. He just doesn't care about the consequences because he's a rich boy used to daddy bailing him out and also because he does not care if he's kicked out of the academy. But she actually does, if she thought Shen Jushan was so wrong, she would not have gone so easily. But Yanzhen didn't even consider that her changing rooms might mean that he went too far and she wanted to get attention off herself, he just went straight to throwing a temper tantrum. I don't dislike Gu Yanzhen, but he needs to grow the f up. There is nothing cute or romantic when a man acts like a spoiled child.

I know I'm like 3 years late to the party and no one's going to talk to me, but I just have to get this off my chest.
I do like this drama, it was slow going for me, but I still think it's very good. The story is interesting, acting is top notch and most importantly the way it manages to introduce a lot of characters and make them interesting, without overwhelming you is a standard a lot of newer dramas seem to ignore sadly. I also liked all of the leads (all of the characters really) and was actually rooting for Gu Yanzhen, even with all of his goofiness and arrogance. But ep 38 just killed his character for me. His man-child melodrama about her... Moving to a Different Room was so over the top ridiculous, I can't take him seriously anymore. He was acting like someone told him she's getting married and moving to another country. Wtf? She moved down the corridor after he did everything in his power to embarrass her in front of everyone and start nasty rumors, and now He's the one who's hurt? Wow. No words.

Yesss! Modern drama, well 70s, but still pretty close and not military. Looking forward to it. XZ and LQ make a good combo.

Well, I mean one where they actually interact. They don't have a single scene together in JOL and I dropped FBS after maybe 5 eps, but I think there's also not much there either.

More like once more, no? :) this is like their 3d project together LOL
It's good though, means they would definitely have a great chemistry

Or maybe you should just open weibo and see for yourself that all the performances were there and tencent actually posted ace troops cast performance, even thogh it's IQYI's drama and no one would expect tencent to promote it.

He also has other things he's nominated for this year, like DC and ADLAD, which is, imo, so much better than this whole king and queen thing. It's all still a popularity contest, mind you, but it's nicer when it's also about the work and not only popularity.

Chinese new year is on February the 1st this year. There are no Spring festival galas today

Yes, there is a big chunk of relationship development missing in the middle of the drama for basically everyone, that we'll just have to use our imagination for. And about that last show down, I totally agree with you, it looked like they took out all of their frustrations with each other in that fight. Maybe that was what they needed to finally become friends LOL

I agree, their friendship was a little underdeveloped and seemed more like rivalry. Especially in the beginning, where everyone constantly said "but aren't you friends?", and I kind of didn't really see how they could be. To me it was more, that they were friend-ly, but similar to how you can be friendly with your class mates, most of whom you will never see again after graduation. Lin Beihai (they guy who lost his leg and kind of disappeared after that) seemed to be more of a friend to Gu Yiye, but they didn't give him a lot of screen time.
With GL... have you finished the drama? I don't want to spoil. I think later on, when the whole JNZ situation has been resolved and as they got older, they became friends. But it seemed like it took a lot of time for that to happen. And they were still somewhat at each others throats by the end there

He won't get away from her! Lol

Them continuing with the drill because they wanted to see how it will pan out, I get, maybe. Maybe they should have made it a more controlled environment. The mess that it ended up being... whatever. The army in this drama is a mess. Maybe that's why CCTV ended up giving it away to another channel.