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Just to clarify Time raiders don't replace Lost Tomb 2 - only the first 8 ep. And Explore with the Note should be before Ultimate Note or it will spoil some things for you.

My recommended watch list for the main Wu Xie adventure:
Time Raiders 2025
The Lost Tomb 2 (2019) - ep 8-35
The Lost Tomb 2: Explore with the Note (2021)
Ultimate Note (2020)
Adventure behind the Bronze Door (2024)
Tomb of the Sea (2018)

I didn’t feel attacked by any means but it sounded like one of those comments that dislikes any romance toxicity/red flags etc. but still watch drama about exactly that and then complain about lack of healthy relatioships. And exactly as you say it’s just your opinion that yaoi toxicity must be mutual. I don’t agree. That’s all.

No toxic just means toxic. But I definitely understand that this is not everybody's cup of tea. There is lot of toxicity and violence and it's mostly one sided. But it doesn't make it bad watch. Some of us actually like this in our fiction - it's not a real life relationship! Just like I can watch a tv show about a crazy murderer for example. Just don't watch things you don't like.

Did you also watched Adventure behind the Bronze Door? It's before Tomb of the sea. But the gap is right after Ultimate note sadly.

Ultimate note
(Missing adaptation)
Adventure behind the Bronze Door (2024)
Tomb of the Sea (2018)

It's true. One book adaptation is still missing unfortunately.

But there are more seasons. Just with the different cast.
Next are:
Adventure behind the Bronze Door (2024)
Tomb of the Sea (2018)

There are also prequels (also with different cast):
Time Raiders 2025
The Lost Tomb 2 (2019) ep 8-35
The Lost Tomb 2: Explore with the Note (2021)

This is enemies to lovers in a fun and cute way. Totally worth watching!

I didn't like this nearly as much as To my shore but it had similar toxic vibe.

I felt like here the insanity in Lu feng was too disjointed. I guess it was mainly because of all those time skips but it was just weird and hard to follow for me.

Also I didn't like how Yi Chen had always that spaced out look in his eyes. It felt like he is not present 90% of his screen time lol.

Yep I understand, I have similar issues with some other high rated dramas. Subjective view points are relevant too.

Thanks to you I just watched To my shore and wow what a ride! It was so good. Payback and Revenged love are not even close to this masterpiece.

Exactly. I came from To my shore and oh boy what a difference. This is like light young adult bl romance. Not bad but very mediocre.

Oh my god this was so frigging good I can’t even believe it! Usually I don’t watch dramas without good plot because I tend to get bored easily but with this I was hooked the whole time! Such a good characters, romance and so much angst but with really nice ending. Just wow.

Ok but how is Joseph Zeng so damn cute here? 😍

Yes but she doesn't know any of this. She is young and naive.

True but if you consider how important good marriage was for a woman in those times and she also has big crush on him...like it's actually really understandable why she did it even if she might not be bad person per say.

Only reason I am going to try this. 😆

Ep 16 Zhang Qi Shan performing mortal kombat move - fatality! lol :D

It’s very different but also good.

It's complicated. In the last ep ML stabs 2ML and it looks like he dies. But then there is epilogue and other person that looked dead is now alive and ML gets message that seems to be from 2ML. In the source material he was supposed to die but the show was popular and they wanted to do more seasons to this so they used better ending (they had like 3 prepared before hand) so they could bring him back.

What Archives doesn't have sad ending! Like sure it looks that way but in the end it is heavily implied that everyone survived so what more people want?