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But he’s the only ML here!!! Instead of being the SML…. His character in Shen Li really made my heart ache…. To some extent I wanted Shen Li to pick him…. 🤣

Me too! And I’m far away from being 17 yrs old!! LOL. 🤣🤣🤣

Haha, Si Jin is in the minority for Cdramas…. so that is the opposite… I have a hard time getting past the first 10-20 episodes, so I left it and watched like the eps after that and it’s so much better!! I tried going back again to start it properly but failed…. So it starts slow (and personally I find it quite boring) and then gets better in mid and towards the end. I’m curious how the last few episodes will turn out…

Haha, same…. That’s perhaps the only bit of the plot which I think is illogical so far, but then after I gave it some thought... It kinda makes sense for someone who is only 17 yrs old…. I think it’s curiosity and also a sense of belonging…. It probably is also related to her character, I think she wants to have her name cleared and instead of being abandoned, she is the kinda person that would want to decide her own fate and walk out of the main door of her own accord…

Oh yes! Speaking of that! I hated the synopsis for revealing that. It’s a MAJOR spoiler, I totally had 0 suspicions towards the father coz too many Cdramas have this sort of biased fatherly character….. shouldn’t MDL edit it??

Yes!! This has surprisingly been a great so far, I think there were a lot of releases the past 12 months that ended up being good productions with some budget, started off strongly but just ended up being average or like an easy but forgettable watch…..

I think she actually had no explicit intentions or plans to return to the manor because honestly with Chai Jing she could have easily achieved it at any time…. So I think it wasn’t for any pressing reason, but because she already murdered her aunt and uncle and she just genuinely wanted to return home since she just lost her “home” albeit a cruel one….. I mean I personally wouldn’t have returned and I would have left with Chai Jing, but episode 6 (or was it 5) just reminded me that she is only 17 yrs old…. More than anything I think she was curious who her blood family really is….

Yea! I’m definitely impressed that she isn’t scared of her mother. lol. I mean if I was 17 and had never met my so-called mother, I would be super scared meeting her for the first time if she did wot she did in Ep 1…. 🤣🤣🤣

I think the revenge plot stems from the mother, I think that’s wot her mother has been trying to do/investigate….. It probably is related to the demise of her own Ruan family, but this is probably only a side plot….. I think everything will converge with the ML’s investigation to form a major arc for the TV drama towards the end….

I actually don’t think so…. I think she will be involved in the mystery and investigation part of the drama, basically wot the ML is investigating…. She didn’t really return to the manor for revenge….

Yessss!!

But I actually think she does think about consequences a lot….. she is shrewd, astute, scheming… countryside life was simple, with nothing but poverty and abuse for her, but it definitely wasn’t straightforward because of her aunt and uncle…. And don’t forget the drama hasn’t revealed how she and Chai Jing met…. I think her life in the countryside is probably just as complicated as her life in the Zhuang manor…

I mean the situation with her uncle and aunt, I get it…. Even I myself, I don’t know, I think it’s very very difficult for anyone to accurately say how they’d react unless he/she is in the exact same situation… nobody can fully guarantee the final outcome, esp when it could be survival instinct….

But the ML basically did nothing to her….. yet….. at that point in time…. Damns… she was ruthless man…. 🤣🤣🤣 it’s a totally different scenario altogether… I mean if she goes around assassinating every person that gets on her nerve she might as well be an antagonist…. lol…. I think wot she really meant by her silence is “well, I don’t mind him dying…….. though I wouldn’t do anything to him myself” which makes her a very grey character…..

Sighs, me too…. I’m contemplating on reading the novel…. But it has way too many chaptersssssss…… 😱

I jaw-dropped when she tacitly agreed to kill the ML….. 😮 I was like “wow……”

Damn, the storyline is so interesting and refreshing…. Finally NOT a revenge themed plot… yay!!
am so glad the cast and the production crew managed to adapt and execute this properly….

The plot has been so smart, some of the dialogue is very memorable and thought provoking…. Most unique thing about the plot is nobody is a nice person and nobody is a pure protagonist…. lol, I love it…. For the first time I think the FL has a really grey character, like an anti-hero…

Let”s hope that this gets better and better as the plot progresses…..

Oh yes! I loved the monologue too! I thought the voiceover was very natural and very fitting….

I’m not really a big fan of revenge themed dramas mostly because it doesn’t apply to the modern day real life, I find it difficult to relate to, and neither do I find it that entertaining to watch….. I mean I totally understand the whole revenge mentality, I believe it’s part of human nature…. But most people are too consumed by other things in life now than to be bothered to actually carry out some over-the-top revenge plan…. 🤣 extreme revenge does happen in real life but it will be carried out in a day. Or like a week… not like something which you’d spend your entire life on….

Ah really? But it seems like they excluded the reborn element of this in the TV adaptation…. Interesting…. But tbh I thought The Double didn’t progress as well as I expected….. I felt it started with a strong premise and sort of became an okay drama as it went along, mostly because there were just too many revenge dramas released over the past 2 yrs…. It kinda just became another one….

I just figured out why a second ago…. Both have the same author of the novel it is adapted from….

I thought it reminded me of The Double too, but I didn’t find The Double’s first episode that intense, coz the FL was too….. innocent? Like she was an outright protagonist just like in most dramas, and the typical super pure innocent dude seeking for revenge….. but in this one, in the first episode…. Everyone did something “evil” including the FL, like I still find her role in this very grey…. I love this one a lot more, like nobody is purely“good”…… and thank goodness, the whole revenge trope is very subtle, almost non-existent…. It’s actually a lot more realistic, hence the intensity….

I actually don’t think her face is that innocent, I feel it’s pretty versatile…. It lies in her makeup and her attire….

Super intense….. I don’t think I’ve ever watched a romance themed historical Cdrama which starts off so intense and so dark…. It’s also because of Chen Du Ling’s eyes… her gaze makes her fall right in the grey area, like “is she a protagonist, is she an antagonist?” kinda role….

MINO is really very artistically talented…. His art…. Wow…. Does anyone know where I can buy his art??