Amarina

While I personally thought he did very well in all aspects I can understand why some people wouldn't be fully on board with his 'charisma and screen presence' because I think I initially felt that in the beginning episodes also but by the time I was drawn in I was so hooked that it felt like he DID have a presence... not sure I'm making sense 😅
Meanwhile, your comment about the storytelling of the parts after the 1st arc are 💯 with mortal being even weaker than the demon... It and the fact that the support characters didn't have strong characterization and scenes as I would have preferred to support the storline more, I could only give it a 9.5 because my brain KEPT comparing it to the the balanced arcs and support character stories of LBFD (which yes is unfair but I have to choose my rating gradient SOMEHOW 😅)

yup! 3hrs 17 mins 🎉

The ML HAS to take the other Concubine so he goes at night and pretends to sleep with her after being drunk so she doesn't lose face but then she flaunts herself in front of FL which causes her to be called into the courtyard and be reprimanded but both FL and ML gave her no fuck during the entire e change....
When it came time for the Main Consort they didn't even care and just left her alone completely...
By the end they've destroyed all their obstacles so there was never any abuse or angst. 🤣Even his mother when he wants to marry her loved her

That's hard to say as I don't know what your scale is... it's not a comedy if that makes sense but also the leads are very devoted towards being together rather than having issues get between them... for instance:

😅 Watch on the official platforms instead of YouTube is all I can suggest... If you get an Iqiyi subscription all of theirs are free once your subscribed to the platform rather than having to unlock each drama episode by episode or pay for each one

"Generic" Repeater drama made up of everything standing around talking and making wild unsubstantiated claims like that the Emperor isn't really the Emperor 🤣 - Truly the bottom of the barrel but somehow I can never stop watching the laughable idiocy. It's best feature is that it's short but even then it still manages to feel just a "bit" too long with the last few scenes with the 2FL being rather unneeded. The fate of the son is the absolute picture of stupidity for an Emperor/Empress but 🤷‍♀️ You don't watch these expecting ANY logic 😅.

Title: 《前夫君登基为帝我被迫和离》- The Ex-Husband Who Became Emperor Forced Me To Divorce Again
ML: Lan Bo
FL: Tian Jiu Luo
https://youtu.be/ZFqE7bnOB6c

The Iqiyi description expands on this to say he has "a heart condition" and something about "what starts as a dying man's" - so while I'm not sure that it'll be a sad ending there's a possibility that it's something where he doesn't have a will to seek treatment for a new heart or something and she gives him that extra push and VOILA happy ending 🤷‍♀️ - The title card is all pastel pink and a cutesy song so leans towards a happy ending imo.

🤣 I just saw this pop up on my feed when I looked today and was shocked 🤣 I didn't even know they were doing a season 2! And this one's even longer at 4 hrs 🤣🤡

Oh I don't go off the MDL info 😅 - the 2 min is generic for all verticals but some obviously will have slightly longer or shorter episodes.
A good example of the disparity is 与白月光重逢 vs 遥相思. Both are 117 episodes but the 1st is just over 2 hours (2:13 @ 1.13 min per episode) while the second is just over 5 hours (5:03 @ 2.58 min per episode).

It's only 50 episodes too? Unless they bump the episodes up to 3 minutes it might not even be 2 hours long.

Just finished this and I've LITERALLY already forgotten half of what happened in the show. It was enjoyable while I was watching it but if you've watched any sister husband-swap - rebirth dramas this is basically it just with extra padding and a few more characters.

THE TRUTH 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣

😭 I made a mistake in starting this... I just binged 14 episodes and now I have to wait

I get where you're coming from with this assessment and I honestly agree with you as I had EXACTLY the same experience watching it. Where the writer dropped the ball was that we had absolutely NO backstory on why there was even a blood Feud between the two families aside from that mention of the Feud and a prior mention about his biological father being a traitor.
During this time of collateral punishment he WAS seen as being guilty because of something his family he'd never known he was associated with had done. Likewise, if they had been adults when the punishment came down and he wasn't a baby, not only would he have died but as his wife SHE would have died. This is a SECOND reason even beyond the blood Feud for her to be mad. By Marrying, if he was discovered, SHE would have died too. This is also why, when she accepted him he suggested they not get married and he see the Emperor, so that she wouldn't be killed. When she still wanted to be married that why the Emperor made the comment about them coming to him without fear of death, because they BOTH came to him.

So while I 1,000% believe the writer should have given us more to.work with so that WE understood the stakes, the actual emotions did make sense.

She is not is twin sister. He was adopted into the family as a baby. At the beginning of the show you find out that HE knows this and found out at some unknown point. Later in the story it is reveled that she also knew they weren't blood related when their father told HER. Neither of them spoke about not being blood related to the other prior to her death and rebirth with no memories when he begins pursuing her.

Brief Synopsis: Twelve years ago the Dugu Army was convicted of treason and their entire camp was burned, leaving no survivors. In present day, a woman named Song Yao is saved from a mass grave by the mysterious medical healer Yun Fuyi after failing to bring charges against the Duke of Zhenguo's daughter in the unjust killing of her father. Yun Fuyi; secretly Xiao Sichen, the 4th Prince; agrees to help Song Yao enter the Prince's mansion with the goal of becoming his Consort. As both identities, he and Song Yao work to bring down the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion and clear the names of those wrongly named treasonous years prior.
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For a 5 hour vertical drama this wasn't bad at all. Most of it was engaging and the story "mostly" made sense. Everything here was "nice" but nothing "wow'd". If there is actually a true complaint it is that everything WAS so middle of the road.

If you're one looking for spicy intimacy this one isn't for you as there is one kiss and fall across the bed "end scene" type bed scene and that's it for physical intimacy.

Do I recommend this? If you have nothing else to do it won't hurt to watch it as it's not BAD. But also, it's 5 hours long and it's not AMAZING.

I'll be honest, I haven't actually finished the whole thing at the time of writing this comment but what it seems like is a version of the "Get rid of the lover, hook up with the Emperor" plot (just currently unacknowledged as such on here). In that plot there's a storyline that is "sometimes" included where the story being watched is just the "final" version and that she's gone through the loop MANY times in the past trying to change things. 'Nan Pin Di Wang Tai Wu Qing, Ke Wo Shi Ta Bai Yue Guang' for instance has the story being her 3rd attempt; while 'Hei Lian Hua Gong Xin Ji' has he being reborn 9 times.
So that scene is basically saying that each time she died her blood spilled onto the book of fate and recorded her need to go back again. (Again, I'm only a few episodes into the beginning and then I skipped to the end to confirm it WAS the same story (and see how this version ends 🤣🤡) so there might be something I missed that gets told IN the drama but that's basically it.

This was an interesting drama and is different from what is "normally" put out in mass quantities. If you're looking for romance it has the barest hint, but what it REALLY is about is a story of women trapped in servitude trying to better their lives through any means. The house these women serve provides weapons to the Japanese who will kill at the slightestprovocation. This drama is VERY anti-Japanese.
I personally felt torn rating this because on one hand it felt REALLY well done and innovative. It had a message and has some elements of 'art' to it... BUT, it was also VERY slow and I was honestly bored for most of the drama, almost giving up entirely the first 30 minutes before just pushing through.

I guess "Red Beans of Longing" didn't sound good enough so they went with "Love and Longing".
This was... not "bad" but also not "good". The best thing about it I thought was CFT as FL continuously insisting that she did indeed want a divorce and she wasn't playing coy, she was fine with her 'husband' taking a new wife 😅.
Things that were frustrating though are basically everything else... 2FL gets let off the hook EVERY TIME until the end no matter what her crime is and I couldn't even figure out if 2ML loved 2FL or just lusted after her with the amount of mental gymnastics this guy was doing...
As for the Emperor, he's out running around town and to mansions like it's as simple as walking out the door, which I suppose makes the ending semi in line with the entire production even if HIGHLY unrealistic.

Even with the premise of there being a "cute kid" you're let down when he shows up in barely any scenes and is more a plot device to move the story along than a character.

2nd vertical of Chen Fang Tong I've seen and 2nd one I've been disappointed in after watching.