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I don't think there's anything wrong with either his face or physique and he suits his youthful character. He might have a slighter frame, but good things come in all kinds of sizes. But more importantly, he's a better actor than a number of other popular leading idol actors that come to mind who are clearly just a pretty face and otherwise about as expressive as a lump of coal...

We're all free to critique what we like and don't like, but there's no need to be unkind.

I just started this because all my friends are really enjoying it -- more than the more popular releases out right now -- and quite liking it so far. I'm mostly neutral on Victoria Song overall (I don't mind her), but her extensive dance training really shows in the dance/fighting/martial arts sequences, which are spectacular to watch and so much better than a lot of MLs in historicals.

As an aside/warning, my friends have said the drama reminded them of the Yang Family TVB mini-series from the 1980s with Andy Lau and Tony Leung. https://kisskh.at/6624-the-yangs-saga

Unfortunately you would need likely need to watch it on an official platform like iQiyi to get the original edit, sound, background music, etc. The YouTube versions will always have the sound edited out at the very least.

The iQiyi title got changed today to "From Hate to Love in Flames", lol. They can't make up their minds...

I didn't think they included animation on MDL either, just stumbled across it by accident.

This is such a difficult watch, but Zhang Bin bin and Mao Xiao Tong are just so so good here and this drama is equally so. It is especially great at capturing the excruciating aftermath that so often gets glossed over. Qin Nan may be the greenest flag ML of the hundreds of drama I've watched not just for being supportive and kind, but to do so and be so patient and understanding under the absolute most challenging of circumstances.

A part of me is so mad at the FL for not cutting off her horrible mother after what she did at her big city company, but filial piety can be such a strong force, so I totally get it too. But OMG, her mother is truly the worst.

I thought they did a good job explaining how she became that way though, so her portrayal at the beginning made sense.

YES!!!!

Just started this and the mother is enraging me so much, I want to reach into the screen and scream at her, omg. She is worse than those evil rich MILs in your typical cdrama romances, because unlike those escapist dramas, this story is grounded in reality and real everyday people and the way she treats her daughter is absolutely appalling, even more so because she probably feels she is doing what's best for her.

Yeah, different user tastes on different platforms for sure. I usually adjust what those ratings mean depending on the platform, type of drama etc. since their relative scale is still pretty consistent. 😂

Wow, 7.3 is pretty solid for Douban! By comparison, 7.7 is a bit low for MDL, though granted it's from less than 100 raters at this time, so not statistically significant enough, imho. I was going to pass, but will probably check it out now based on the strong Douban rating and everyone's comments here. Thanks!

Yes, exactly! And imagine if she had just asked him about the book, or heard him out when he tried to explain later on! Communication can do wonders! 🤪😂

Still a pretty decent vertical, and WHZ did a great job with the gut-wrenching, emotional angst. And with the way things were going, I was genuinely expecting a super tragic ending, but even before the very end scene, things went better than I expected. 😅

I think it should be the same day because he reset back to the water where he was going to take the serum, and when everyone went out to eat, that also reset, if I recall. So I think the lake scene was just after midnight, they were at the station at 3am, and then the goofy happy dinner scene was later that evening. So some 20 hours later.

If I understood the ending correctly in the show, it's strongly implied that he does take the serum, but because he took it on a loop day, when the day resets, he hasn't taken it yet, so he is still aware of the loop.

Yes, some of the characters speak Cantonese or they switch back and forth. Some speak accented mandarin, and BJT speaks atrocious Cantonese, probably for comedic effect. If you look at the various signs, and which side the driver's side is on, the setting is basically a stand-in for Macau or Hong Kong. (And it was filmed primarily in those locations, if I recall.)

The fictional names of the cities mentioned have similarities to the real cities: Hua'Ao = Ao'men (in Mandarin pinyin) = Macau
Xing Gang = Xiang Gang (in Mandarin pinyin) = Hong Kong

I would totally buy the king's recipe book if that existed 🤤🤤

Like the other link posted in the comments, this one also starts differently, with the opening in this YouTube version also from a later episode. I guess they do that to entice viewers. 😂 The actual beginning starts when they first meet. I don't know if the YouTube version has the same soundtrack, which really adds to the vibe and mood of the drama. I absolutely loved the version I saw on iQiyi, easily the best vertical I've ever watched. (This is the brother's story, I mean, I haven't watched this one yet)

Oh good to know! I was about to create and entry for it!

To be fair, MDL exists because of users who **volunteer** their time to help update the site. Having worked in an actual newsroom and seen the number of times we can't cover a story because we do not have the staffing capacity to do so (so we might end up only covering a follow-up story later on) and having done enough volunteer work to know we make time when we can, I would never expect a site built on volunteers to be on top of every headline all the time. Not to mention, the vast majority of MDL news is about the Korean entertainment industry (and they've missed some Korean celebrity news in the past), which probably means they have fewer writers who cover Chinese entertainment news. For all we know, nobody was available to write something earlier. I am just saying give people some grace.

As for Yu Menglong's death, whatever happened, I don't think the authorities are helping the situation by clamping down so hard, it only fuels more conspiracies, (but why are their actions a surprise to anyone familiar with how things work there?). At the same time, from what I understand, many of the video and audio have also been debunked as coming from other unrelated sources.