Krish728

XYX is actually in two novels written by the author. One is this, the other is the novel Fireworks In My Heart adapted from. He's in that drama too.

There's no romantic interest for him in either novels.

Well, it's the writers you are disagreeing with more than LL. They decide who she ends up with.

XYX messed up big time. LL can't wait for a man, who doesn't want to marry her, to realise his feelings and change his mind about marrying her.
We also haven't seen any further development between the two after the 6 months time jump. SZZ and LL on the other hand had great development. LL is finally seeing SZZ as a man, from my view, and it looks like they will be the end game. For XYX to swoop in and steal her back, I don't think it's going to be very simple. He literally needs to fall to his knees and beg her, even then, I don't see how convincing it can be. From the looks of it, he didn't make any efforts to win her back during the 6 months time jump. If he does that now, I can only see him as a selfish scum who can't stand to see his candy be taken away by someone else.

31-32 are must watch. I personally did not like 33. 34-35 should be a must, as it brings leads on a road to reconciliation, sprinkled with sweet scenes between them.

Note: We are only at episode 34 now. Assumptions about 35 and 36 are made based on previews and schedule calendar.

She's the best character in the whole drama.

Episode 31 is the break up. Episode 34-35 they are on road to making up. Episode 36 will be when they are officially back together.

Yeah, but I don't see how the drama will redeem XYX for LL to get back with him. Looks like SZZ will be the end game for LL.

Me, too. At this point, complaints like "40 episodes is too long for a modern drama" are invalid.

Although I'm not a fan of love triangles and third party love interests, I can appreciate Ao Ruipeng's charm. He needs to do more modern romance dramas. His looks and styling in this drama are too good for him to not do more modern romance dramas!!!

I'll watch it later.

I still don't like it. But it's not as bad as I imagined it to be. Thank god!! (even though I don't believe in god).

They did???? How?

I don't it's think XK fans. They are cp specific fans, normal fans do not mind them, and they don't get into normal fans business.

No idea.

No, original belongs to WeTV/Tencent. Mango/Hunan stepped in later. IQIYI event later.

Viki can't decide much, they have to follow the schedule they are given by the ones who sold copyrights to them.

Let's hope for the best.

C-drama writers need to learn from the c-novel writers.

C-novels are breaking free from the tropes, they are even mocking some of the romance tropes (highly recommend you to read Sinister Ex-Girlfriend novel which deals with this specifically). As Beautiful As Beijing is a novel that avoids almost all romance tropes, exception being the kidnapping scene. And it was very refreshing. I had hoped the drama would be just as refreshing if they followed the novel, but it wasn't meant to be. I still enjoyed the drama very much, despite the changes, up until now. Episode 33 greatly disappointed me for the reasons you mentioned above.

Kisskh will have the fast-track uploaded. We just have to see if they will have machine-translated subs or proper subs.

Ep 35 shouldn't be a sad episode, there have been promos with them warming up to each other again in ep 35.

Viki will have to follow normal VIP schedule, I'm afraid. They can't drop fast-track.