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With all the focus on other aspects of this drama, I just wanted say how good Baron Chen is here playing a really hateful, evil villain. I've seen him play the romantic ML, a heroic ML, etc. so it's always interesting to see actors stretch their range to play something so different. I'm not sure I can see him as a good guy again for a very long while, lol.

I say I'm ready, but I am probably not, since I'm enjoying it too much right now, lol. I know roughly what happens to key characters, but I did want to know, do we at least get the satisfaction of having the ML redeemed in everyone's eyes and that everyone finds out who really committed the massacre? (yes or no is fine :))

At ep 15 where the Crown Prince is trying to make everyone think that's Jinghe, and come on! He's not my childhood friend nor my son, but I do notice people's hands, and I would have known instantly it's not him. Especially with the ring on a thumb that looks completely different! lol

Just started this and loving it even more than S1. That showdown at the brothel was completely ridiculous in the best way --- truly phenomenal story telling and acting.

My only "complaint" so far is Wu Xingjian, the new Yan Bingyun. As much as I enjoyed his previous roles, he is no match for the caliber of acting around him, unfortunately. Xiao Zhan also set the tone and the bar for the character, and WXJ is unable to capture the character's aura of stoicism and high intelligence. Still, it does not detract at all from the overall drama, which is off to an excellent -- and surprisingly hilarious -- start. Let's just hope we don't have to wait another five years for S3!

I'm watching this with eyes wide open -- started after all the comments on the ending came out -- and so glad I did! LXY is so compelling here. The story is imperfect, but still interesting so far (almost halfway). I'm really enjoying the cinematography too.

I'm totally ready for whatever garbage ending is coming my way! 🤣

While it's true there are multiple writers in Western dramas and writers rooms, there is a lot of work put into make it cohesive across different writers. The way shows are done in China is very different, and not really comparable to Hollywood on many levels. Apples and oranges.

You totally dodged a bullet. Yes, normally I wait until a drama finishes as well, but all my friends were watching it and it was a basically a fluffy rom com that was just really nice - total comfort watch! So how bad could the ending be? Unsatisfying at most, right? Certainly they wouldn't actually murder the wonderful ML off screen in a random senseless crime in the second last episode and then mislead viewers with a wedding that turned out to be a dream! 😂 I knew about the novel for KMLM and given the premise and characters, a SE/BE here would not have been a complete surprise at least. In any case, I've started this one despite all warnings and will expect the worst! 😂

I think most viewers would agree that this may be the absolute worst drama ending ever among bad endings, lol. They randomly decided to murder the ML off-screen in the second last episode, tease viewers with a wedding that was only a dream, and then end with the suggestion that the FL becomes afflicted with the same mental illness that the ML struggled with and they were trying to fix (hallucinating a dead person).

The first 30 episodes of this series were really nice and enjoyable - a wonderful and heartwarming romcom/comfort healing drama. All the couples are interesting and likable, no one is really annoying, and all the kids are just freaking adorable. It starts going down hill in the last 6 episodes with a story arc that was completely unnecessary. Spoiler in next post.

If it makes you feel any better, I was really enjoying this other modern C- drama that was also airing around the same time, but the ending was so traumatic and enraging that it plunged down to 6.8 within hours of the finale! At least here, the drama is kind of set up to be potentially a SE and viewer opinions are divided on the show and the ending. For that other drama, it was completely unanimous that the ending was the worst people had ever watched. It was so shockingly awful that I decided to watch Kill Me Love Me anyway despite all the warnings about the ending, because this one sounded actually okay in comparison! 🤣

Good to know, thanks!

Yes, totally, lol. The beautiful lie, while about events in the story itself, is also extremely fitting for the viewer's reaction to the drama itself, which many are also ironically noting. So I may check out KMLM after all, because I do like LXY and BWJ and also like the FL, and nothing could ever be worse than what I just watched and had invested so much time in!

Not to get into another drama on this thread, but for comparison and why this sounds almost pleasant in comparison, people are pretty unanimously angry at the ending of A Beautiful Lie on MDL, Douban, everywhere. Viewers who have been watching dramas for decades can't recall the last time an ending was this egregious. Basically it was 30-31 episodes of a healing comfort romance drama that was lovely, fun, sweet, fluffy, building up towards a very happy ending. And the last 5-6 episodes became, how can be maximize viewer trust and then take a sledgehammer and smash everything we created into a trillion pieces and make it as completely illogical and traumatic as possible.

Yesterday, I asked if I'd be a masochist if I watched this anyway despite being warned in the comments, lol. That was before I completed A Beautiful Lie. Now, this drama sounds practically like a joyful palate cleanse!

if only that was the worst thing they did to this once-lovely show!

💯💯💯 This was never set up to be that kind of drama!!

YES, this may be the absolute worst ending I have ever encountered from an enjoyable show.

Yup. Just so unnecessarily beyond awful. The wedding was all a dream, basically.

short answer: no. If you really, really, really, really stretch your imagination, you can tell yourself it was a happy ending. Long, unnecessarily convoluted story short, basically it is implied that the ML was kidnapped and murdered off screen (for no good reason) in Suman seconds before he was about reunite with the FL. She clings to hope that he is alive, a lot of time passes (babies are born, awards seasons come and go, she is somehow guardian to her little brother, she finds out the ML gifted her his apartment, etc), and the show ends where they run into each others arms in a happy reunion (no explanation how he got there, he just shows up out of the blue), but it is quite heavily implied that she develops the same mental illness he had with the boy, where he is just a hallucination.

It was basically 31 episodes of a lovely, healing comfort drama (8+/10), and 5 episodes of, let's inflict all the damage we possibly can on the OTP and the viewers who love them! (5/10)💀