Amarina

Stories plot details and adaptations comparison value are weak but intimacy was higher in this one with multiple chest shots and kiss scenes 😅. You definitely have to overlook the oddness of MLs wig, the VERY bad "swimming under water" effects, and the magical hair that never gets wet though 🤣. Not bad but I definitely sped through parts even with it being less than 2 hours.

Most of his dramas aren't actually listed on MDL 😅 and a bunch don't have subtitles like his recent Imperial Power Grants You that was taken down, or Invite You To Share My Remaining Years at least has a dailymotion video but again no subtitles... 😅

-> 5 Vertical Dramas
🌸 Hua Qian Xi Shi - Zhang Chu Xuan / Garvy Jin (A "marry in place of sister; 1st infatuation regrets it" story with a better quality script and higher production value)
🌸 Huan Qin Hou Wo Shun Bian Huan Le Jiang Shan, Hen He Li Ba - Zhi Chun He / Li Shi Yao (FL Transmigration leads to her getting her husband-to-be's family ready to be exiled "in style" - multi-part)
🌸 Mou Qing Gu - Shi Xue Jing / Li Shi Yao (semi-dark, Tongue-in-cheek comedy)
🌸 Hong Luan Yin - Wang Yunyun / Hyde / Lan Bo / Yi Hang / Liu Zi Heng (REVERSE Harem; FL plays with a kisses all 4 men; trope is General ex-husband, Didi 'not brother', Crippled Prince, Foolish/easily tricked Childhood Frenemy)
🌸 Imu's Three Knives - Wang Gege / Cai Xin Yang (Dark anti-Japanese house drama about a slave who kills the kin of one of the Japanese weapons dealers with whom her house is carrying favor)

-> 5 "I'll Watch Every Version Past, Present, Future" Novel Adaptations
🔥 Di Hou Mei Tian Hu Ou, Kan Shei Xian Si - The Emperor and Empress Beat Each Other Up Daily, To See Who Dies First (5 adaptations - comedy) - technically a harem but also.... 🤣 Not Your 'Usual' type
🔥 Hu Shuo, Ta Cai Bu Shi Huai Nv Ren! - Nonsense, She's Not A Bad Woman! (4 adaptations - FL is an unrepentant villian)
🔥 Da Zhu Mu, Cai Shi Zi, E Nv Ya Huan Shang Qing Yun - Beating the Mistress, Stomping the Prince, and the Evil Maid Rising to Power (5 official, 1 unofficial MDL adaptations - revenge for 1st life)
🔥 Chong Sheng Zai Long Ta, Chong Fei Bao Zhe Bi Xia Ku - Reborn On The Dragon Throne, The Favored Concubine Wept in The Emperor's Arms (4 subbed, 1 unsubbed adaptations - "choose your kink" type of adaptation differences; brat, babygirl etc...) - technically has harem but barely present
🔥 Bi Wo Jia She Zheng Wang, Wo You Yun Ni You Forced Me To Marry the Regent;
Now That I'm Pregnant, Why Are You Crying? - (3 adaptations - FL in love with adoptive brother for 10 years is forced to marry his friend, the Prince Regent, who is obsessed with her)

Funny enough I don't specifically remember the ones where he DOES kiss but more the ones where he DOESN'T 😅 - Like for instance Chong Guan Jing Hua made me VERY annoyed because they kept tilting the camero offscreen or ending the episode at the barest lip brush peck. It was almost like why bother even TRYING to pretend if that's what you're handing out?
Hou Fu Er Ye Chao Chong De also doesn't have kissing but that one made sense at least as it was a story about the ML being the FLs dead husband's brother and she was pregnant and grieving for most of the drama as they were slowing growing closer... 😅 Getting hot and heavy would have been against morals.
I suggest watching ALL his dramas (even the 'bad' ones) and falling in love with him regardless of kissing but then again I'm EXTREMELY bias 🤣🤣🤣😻

While the 1st version doesn't quite have the same level of 'pretty faces' it just screams seduction and power.

For anyone interested:
Version 1 - Every one gets a kiss / true 'choose your own kink' harem
General
Childhood Friend
Didi
Prince
Gege
Prime Minister

Version 2 - General focused
General
Childhood Friend
Didi
Prince

Version 3 - Drifts away the most and has a story end
General
Prime Minister
Didi

replied below

https://youtu.be/yWO26pSQK1Q

This version was different and despite showing 4 guys on the cover was essentially only 3: General; Prime Minister; Didi
This version solved the issue the other two raised and never again brought up which was Didi storyline of him eventually being richest man somehow and her knowing where his mother is (plots 1 and 2 he just stops asking about his mother and his future is never mentioned again 😅)
It also had the most "complete" ending as she stays in the book world in this plot
Negatives: Like version 2 she is able to gain the General's interest because he sees that she is still a virgin based on her mark on her arm. She only truly kisses the General and plays with the other two. The conversations still lean towards a preference with General on top and playing with other two's affections for gain rather than equally liking everyone for different reasons.
While 3rd version has a very good story overall, the 1st version so far is still the clearest TRUE harem with multiple characteristics she pulls out of and personalities she adopts for each male. She does not shy away from intimacy with these men and while there are not overt bed scenes of full out sleeping together, there are scenes implying she has slept in the same bed with two of them which leaves your imagination to fill in blanks.

3rd version is 《朱阙长歌》/ Long Song of the Vermilion Palace - Xu Liang / 徐良 ＆ Du Yize / 杜昱泽
(Spoiler message below with link and my notes from that version)

Any sort of 'complete' story here would need to be made up right now as the novel is still ongoing. There's definitely room for a part 2 with what they already have written though.

This was a lot of fun. Hope there's a part 2 at some point; I'd absolutely watch more.
Mi Qi's character is reborn, choosing to forgo the pain she had with the Immortal sect and instead begs help with the passing Demon gege that kept her company in her final hours in her first life (Wang Yuwei).
Thus begins a cute found family, sect, cultivation and revenge drama.... where she can read the minds of her Master and sect "geges" who REALLY like her calling them "gege" 🤣.
Favorite line: (internal thought) "This little girl is calling me big brother; she's so cute. I really want to pet her little ears... ...Such a cute lite fox shouldn't be wandering. I'll build her a golden cage and lock her up so that when the little fox see me, she'll wag her tail wildly."

You're right to be wary. This site uses AI to create many of their articles and reviews. I clicked through one of their 'reviews' that explained the ending of a show saying things that never happened and another that gave a rating of 5.5/7 💀

Done with getting random messages of people attacking me so same. Almost makes me want to STOP the current rewatch of this that I'm doing but then that would be letting your hateful ass win against MY enjoyment of this show and her acting.

The story is about a woman who rates men on a scale. Her goal is to find someone to marry. Of course there is other plot surrounding this 'need' with being an illigitimate and apparently adopted daughter but the basics is she's trying to find a way to a 'better life' and needs a backer. She manipulates and lies to Wushuang, stringing this 'boy' along because he's illegitimate so would be able to theoretically choose his own wife AND rich. It's also easy to feel sorry for him because he confides in his brother how much he likes this girl whos using him... and his brother (the legitimate son who she didn't even consider originally) goes and becomes the ML in the end...

At the same time she is having an antagonistic 'thing' with Jiang Cheng. This man has an adverse reaction to being around women but for an unknown reason SHE doesn't trigger the fear in him. This guy has a role that I wasn't 100% clear about with the subtitles I was watching with but it 'seemed' like her family wanted her legitimate cousin to marry him because he's crazy rich but the guy goes crazy around women so they try and have HER seduce him as a substitute. (I could really be wrong about THAT plot, the subs were 'tolerable' but it's also been a while since I've watched this.

There's the 3rd guy also Qingluan but he's actually sort of scum because while it's true that SHE is using and lying to HIM, he's doing the same thing with her as he can't actually marry her as a main wife as he's already engaged, a fact he doesn't tell her.

🤣 Wang Yuwei is my krypronite. I will watch literally anything he's in 100% fully though even if it feels like my brain is melting with how little the story makes sense. 🙈

This one.... no 🤣 - Liu Fang Hou, yes. I recommend THAT one to another person and they cracked up at just HOW much of a repeater it was saying at one point "I'm afraid for them to leave this doorway, this doorway is my home now and them insisting that this child can't be hers because she loves her Ex and 1st son too much to remarry and have another child is peak clownery.

Idk about this one though because I pull up mainland Iqiyi and I see the original poster with the green background

Started this thinking it was done not paying attention. Binged in one session. Hit the wall... 🥲 Bye-bye money, it was nice knowing you but ultimately 🤷‍♀️ I haven't flat out enjoyed a show this much in a while.

ABSOLUTELY. He might inwardly NOT want her to do something but it's because he's worried about her and the long-term goal, not that he doesn't think she 'could' do it. My favorite example of this was when they sat on the carpet after he bandaged her arm and he noticed the lack of pain... but then he strapped on that mini-arrow shooter to her leg.

If the other comment could 'possibly' be considered vague and not a full out spoiler there is absolutely zero way this one is. Please Remember that just because someone isn't commenting in the comment section doesn't mean they aren't coming to the page to look at the comments. I know lurkers (who arent always caught up but use the comment section to guage viewer reaction) and there are pages that I myself have lurked on without commenting. If I would be sad coming on this page and seeing major plot points out in the open before I've ever decided to begin I'm sure other viewers would as well.

Would it be possible for you to spoiler tag your comments that spoil major plot points in the future?