Amarina

Synopsis:
The Gu family is wrongly accused. Gu Mingzhao fakes her death to escape and enters the palace in her sister's place. The emperor Situ Yuan, her husband, is both an enemy and a pawn. Her childhood sweetheart Shen Jue has changed his appearance and is now devotedly protecting her. Hidden dangers lurk in their eyes, and sincerity clashes with deceit.

Emperor: Zhao Haoshan 周昊杉

For anyone looking to watch this thinking Akilyar has significant scenes, the Emperor is the true 'screen time' ML and Akilyar has a few support scenes sprinkled in.

I liked the 'idea' of this story but the actual execution left me with a feeling of lack. I can suspend disbelief so the ML waking up from a coma and immediately being able to do everything didn't bother me, but where I had issues was the lack if details such as the 2ML's change from liking FL to 'hating' her (yes its given the barest answer but it was basically a non-answer that made me go 'what???').

The best way our group who's watching it came up with is that the subtitles state she loses her '5 senses' but it's more like she doesn't have the '5 pleasures'. So she can hear but music is a pleasure so it's denied her. She can see but it's in black and white so nothing to 'feast her eyes on'. She can eat but without being able to taste anything there's no pleasure in eating and she doesn't really 'need' to, smell is the same just a denied feature, and touch - she can technically 'feel' things that allow her to be able to pick items up and walk around normally... but the 'pleasure' of contact with another person is denied.

Most comments seem to praise this but I was disappointed.
Normally I like Yi Hang (haven't seen anything from FL) but personally to me I felt the pacing was inconsistent and the editing could have been better. On the positive though, the story emotions of the MLs character were really good. I couldn't connect as well to the FLs though, perhaps because there was no internal monologue to help understand what's going on in her mind?
Finally, the ending was abrupt with its editing and I was dissapointed in getting a lack of answers on what happened the rest of the night... 😮‍💨

It's honestly not worth it to try and explain the entire "how" because it was so full of plotholes that writing it out would sound ridiculous. But in "the end" she goes to kill herself with a character destroying knife but he takes it and kills himself. This wipes every instance of himself out of the story (think what happened after the glitch with the sachet writing her out but MORE). This happens at their house (which itself is a plothole never adressed but whatever 🤣) and she passes out as shes forgetting him. Then we see FIVE YEARS LATER and a bunch of scenes about where people are now and she gets to walk to the house this time after that healer talks to her and she looks at the paper and despite it being canon that SHE was the one that was given the ability to make changes to the world by the Author... he had drawn himself on that paper and her looking at it had him come back to life as if he'd never left and yet knowing what she'd done 🤦‍♀️😆.
Personally I saw it and was like "okay this took you FIVE YEARS? How did you wake up in a strange place (assumably) you've never been or seen before and not look around and find the paper immediately?"
Other points were that Luo Li was also a character (duh) and Zhou Nanzhi knew about the loops from the beginning and somehow never lost HIS memory during any reset and was always awake during every loop and was forced to kill her on their wedding night each loop because he loved her and wanted her to stay HER and knew that if he didn't kill her she would dissappear and become someone ELSE who was the same character but not HER.
And yeah... that was another thing... he revealed that it was IMPOSSIBLE for her to live past the end of that wedding night when she was supposed to die in the comic because that's when her story ended. If she DIDN'T die she would be erased because there was no more plot for her... So ALL of the first loop where she is fighting to stay alive and manages for several days? Yup... that's a MAJOR plothole the same as the fact that in that first loop they went to the palace and did the sachet and Emperor/Empress plot AFTER the wedding but then after the reset this apparently is a plot point that happens BEFORE the wedding... 🤦‍♀️
And I'm going to stop here because the beginning was fun and then they made it a mess and I get angry again.

they are really good actually. zero issue

In case you were curious why you couldn't find it I answered below how they can see it. It's one of the Kuaishou daily upload dramas.

If you are talking about his BL it started airing 3/20 on the Kuaishou app (no subtitles) it updates daily. To watch you would need to download the app through an app and then search with the name you already have and the series will pop up. Kuaishou dramas 'generally' don't end up on public Youtube and usually require fansubbers.

https://youtu.be/Z64DscdWyFU

Found a YouTube version that had good subtitles (even if they DID overlap with the original Mandarin ones...) but they do cut out and then come back delayed a few minutes later near the end (It's rather easy to figure out what was said in those last minutes though since it was rather obvious based on what's shown on the screen).

🤣 He's already made several vertical dramas and was just filming another

https://youtu.be/MdTOnpclCKU

💀 I've completed this. I'm sure some people will be very happy with the last episodes... Personally 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ I don't know why I was expecting they were going to somehow plug all the massive plotholes and not just make MORE in the last 2 episodes... 😮‍💨

Doppelganger was 100% better 🤣 - I still stand by that show being best watched going into it blind - this one was so bland the "middle" part twist couldn't even be obvious because it felt like they made it up just to make SOMETHING happen... and FBS well I've predicted almost everything that happened before it happened.

I finished it and can't even use my brain to choose something new to watch so I'm reading a book instead as a palate cleanser... Cough... I also binged 24 episodes of Fate Beyond Script and am waiting for the last 4 episodes of that... hint: Not impressed there either 😅🤦‍♀️

Well I finished it so I'm counting this as a win as this is the first mini I've actually finished this year (even if it was through sheer will power alone).

Not yet because Part 2 is only available on Dailymotion in 4 parts because of length... But some kind soul left a comment about how one of the parts was MISSING so there's an entire almost 2 hour segment that you'd have to switch over to the raw version for and 🤣 I don't have time for trying to cobble together what's going on for an entire 2 hours 🤣🤡.

I'd have to rewatch it with the Iqiyi subs to see if I somehow missed a detail about being an interim head of state but generally an Emperess wouldn't just suddenly know how to run court since she runs the harem. But even if for some reason she did take over briefly until one of the sons became Emperor the guideline of whoever marries the daughter becomes Emperor and there's two daughters and two sons is... 🤡. At what point do you call it which son has married the 'correct' daughter and name him Emperor? (Assuming of course that none of this extra drama details ever happened and it was just 2 sons marrying 2 daughters 😆)

https://youtu.be/cNQKJfJ19NQ

He has clips up on Douyin about being the Crown Prince and then once I found his name I found him through Baidu and Douban listed for those projects above