Amarina

I suppose it's "technically" able to be viewed as either... but it's realistically a sad ending with ML dying and FL basically staying alone forever and dreaming of him coming back.

Just finished it and really enjoyed it. The entire thing watches like a stage-play art project and is unique among a saturated market of short mini dramas. Definitely benefits from multiple watchings to get all the "blink and miss it" details, especially in the first couple episodes and then again at the end.

This show is so cute! I was snorting with laughter several times watching today's episodes 🤣

Waited to finish this until the subs were better but yeah.... that actually didn't help 🤣 I mean it DID... but the story still made no sense with people doing illogical things "just because" and a romance cp that goes from zero to love in a span so fast you think you missed an episode 🤣. The ONLY saving grace is the cats in it.

They don't kiss until ep 32 when he forces her while under his "dementia" spell in the cave. I love that people can have opinions about what they view as good romance and no two people will be the same since I personally enjoyed the romance between the ML and FL in TPR and, while I liked the "chemistry" in The Double, I wasn't watching it for the romance and felt it was the weakest portion of the show personally. As for Kunning Palace, I felt the main couple was the strongest but we were SUPPOSED to also have feelings for her with ZZ and I personally never thought those feelings came through. 🤷‍♀️ Meanwhile OTHER people that watched the show thought she only had chemistry with him and didn't see the romance of her and XW. Different strokes for different folks. 🙃

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 You're such a troll

This is an unfair statement but it does demonstrate your bias against Cdramas so well done.

I'd like to quickly interject that technically, while yes, the FL gave the order to kill PWX once she died because she was under the impression he was the one to kill her; it was actually SRQ and SY that planned and order his death. It was talked about towards the end of the show how they knew LR was being poisoned and finally let her die and agreed that they would BOTH need to die in order for there to be a clean slate politically. This is further evidenced by him gettkng attacked in the beginning of the show BEFORE LR actually died.

So there aren't a "lot" of watchers of this show right now but it is getting a good review I see. I wonder if some of the disconnect comes from expectations of the synopsis vs what we're shown in episode 1. Personally I put it on hold at episode 1 because the show seemed slower and not as "thrilling" as the synopsis was making it sound. But then I just watched episode 2 just now with a bit of a different mind set and it started to become more interesting.

I saw that too and it's what pushed me to watch ep 2.

EXACTLY! And it flows into the trailer scenes pretty well too if you watched that.... his dad all "you can't leave til you can unsheath your sword on this mannequin".

I thought that was funny too! He's drunk out his mind and just goes "I know swordsmanship" and then BAM 🤣

According to BTS they filmed over 500 fighting scenes! That's mind boggling to me but I can't wait to see more of them.

I'm with you on this. I think this is something where the first couple eps will be more enjoyable as a rewatch once the story starts to establish itself 🤷‍♀️

I'd say you're definitely entitled to your opinion since even while I'm personally liking the CGI elements the EXTENT of them are taking me by suprise. I basically had to readjust my mindset on the fly while watching. As for the characters being 1-dimensional... so far everyone is only just now being introduced still so there hasn't really been time to establish much of the side characters but I'd say they have so far done an okay job with giving hints of depth for the 2 MLs.

You can like this show without dragging a non-related actor into it and bringing him down.

Spoiler not spoiler... you'll have to pay for the Special Episode too if you wanna see it on Youku.

yes

It depends on what you are looking for out of them. Just like longer shows there are ones that get bigger budgets and better names, plots and acting and ones that cast no names with bad plots and acting.

I haven't watched this one yet so can't say it's quality but if you want to try the "best of the best" based on ratings of short dramas like these you'd be looking at:
Night of Love with You
Butterflied Lovers
The Killer is Also Romantic
Familiar Stranger

Im sure this comment will get buried and or ignored but if anyone sees comments from me on this page and feels like responding to them, please don't. I'm done. I don't need essays telling me I'm wrong for liking a show and that how I interpreted the show was wrong.

Np. I haven't been back to this page for a while cause I got a "little" obsessed with this show so Idk how the comments may have changed (I only read this one to respond to it). When it first ended people were up in arms basically about it being not worth their time because of the last scene and that's why I made that (and many other lol) comment(s) because essentially I fully believe they did what they could with leaving the show as much of a sci-fi/time travel element as they could get away with. Hence last episode getting a little wonky with suddenly not saying what year someone is in and scenes sliced in the middle making you have to pay attention to what clothes are being worn to piece together what timeline you're watching when.