Chinese Empress

because you don't need to smile for this kind of plot...

give it a try, it's way better

it's psychological. She said to him that she seems already defeated, like trapped in a cage waiting for his own end. She needs some more time to understand he cares about her and what she had gone through. Yu'An is not defeated, she is still struggling since you, and just recently she knew that Jiang Jiaqi's life is not as perfect as it seems from the outside. She said they are similar but the attitude is totally different.
Yu'An is someone that won't sell only themselved and the ones she cares about, for money. Strangers doesn't matter.
At the momet he is still someone she does not know so well, she is starting to know him through the hidden recordings.
Give her some times and you will see

i rated 3 the original one because it does not suit my tastes, at least not out of competition- Preferences are ok, but this is ridiculous

can you blame her? she has grown too fast for her age, she took everything on her own without losing the willing to love or to fight....

Chinese is better in conveying emotions and sorrow which i could not see in the original. And the actual scene is even shifted later, not at the beginning. It fulfills the original purpose because the attitude of the leads is different while adding a better way to understand them, and the slad was a chief kiss in execution way better than the original.

i watched more than 5K cdramas since 2014 to the point i have almost finished everything ( i did not use MDL first, so i have to put them here). I watch cdramas to be filled with Asian values and ideals, not for watching USa colonies. I don't want anything from the west coming from a drama, from values to fornitures. Modern setting should be modeled and created in Asia only.
In tons of kdramas the way of putting the furniture in the house and even the material is not from Korea, and sorry, i watch dramas for this exactly.
And then well if you find valuable cringe series like crash landing on you with a completely immoral and ridiculous ending, even more irrealistic, feel free to watch them.
I mind Asian values and realism. Chinese shows have a bit of comedy but i have never seen people pooping in pants like in lovely runner. Does korea have no bathrooms? what's the deep meaning of the scene? and more, in a drama that should be sorrowful like Shining for one thing?
Yes, i'm stuck with moral values and i'm too old to fangirling like a 11yo, more since i deeply criticise the OG actor here. Moral values and teaching are the main aim of the drama, not fangirling or actors.
Actors work and we should respect their work, but the drama has a message to MANDATORY convey. That's what kdramas never do.
crash landing on you, what's the message? that a war is nothing and people can live on hearts and romance? bu***lshit since the drama is over north and south korea, not a romance without any chemistry.
if kdramas are like this, i'm sorry, stick with them.
I will stick to the far superior Cdramas seriousness in which for sure they won't reduce a war to romance. No need to force others.

i will wait then

antis and kdramas su***kers are rating it low out of envy

for me it's exactly the opposite... the big NO was the kdramas, too much useless comedy

thank youuuuu
but for me in europe it's not available, let's wait

because of IU's acting, she needed it to be polished but she was the one not making me drop it because of the cringe comedy. this plot should have no place for comedy

i watched my mister but yes, for kdramas su***ks, always, and Chinese dramas are far superior. I find very vicious and malicious trying to lightheart things. Attorney woo, it's autism, so why the cringe love story? i watched my mister, and why the cringe comedy thing? it's nonsense for me, and unless kdramas can stop with this attitude, for me they will always su***k and i'm not the only one thinking it.
the plot of this drama should ONLY be dramatic, always dramatic, no breath for comedy, that's why i did not like my mister. i had the same problem with lovely runner. kdramas can't do serious things at all. they can't go in depressed mode.
same reason why I agree with you about 步步惊心 and i despise moon lovers.

I tried everything, but Kdrama and Thai ones are not my cup of tea lol so i watch them only for remakes purpose, because I like to compare. I was not satisfied ( like for moon lovers which is the one I'm the most anti for). Giving everything an opportunity is healthy because you don't know you like or dislike something unless you don't try it, but I stick to Cdramas because they are so much my cup of tea that my lowest rating is 9.5 😂

i'm an anti kdrama lol, I watch cdramas only because they suited me more, but if people like kdramas it's ok for me unless they don't force it on me.

she's 24... but according to the plot she should be a lot younger than him

The OG is very worth watching even for people not watching dramas usually, at least because of its meaningful plot. Someone too much sensitive can stick to it, and I can understand if some people prefers some things downtoned. But personally I'm loving this remake more exactly because it's not downtoned at all. I don't watch kdramas anymore because they are too lighthearted for me, even this kind of plots they can't convey in the right way for me. I was glad to watch it for IU, But this remake brings everything to higher levels, each detail is meaningful and carries a deep meaning, and that's what I was looking for in a drama of this kind.
Chinese are the ones never disappointing in this drama, they are closely sticking to the original while adding their own way

Episode 7 and probably Chen has a double attitude towards You'An. He is caring for her in an obsessive way, both out of some obsessive "good feelings" and because of her debt.
Zifeng was majestic in that scene, because her eyes can act and she showed her resolution and her emotion with the tears. Kudos to her.
Episode 8... what a mess. But i think it's what the drama should convey. Crying, but after you will never give up. Fall but then you need to stand up again. Zhao Youting was majestic here, with Zifeng and her tears again. I love how their characters show a lot about themselves in micro expressions and subtle gestures.

it's mostly 98% faithful to the plot, luckily

I appreciate OG in the whole plot, but not in the execution of it nor in the actors' way of acting. I watched it because I was expecting the most cruelest, heavy, depressing, sorrow, grief drama in the whole world. But i was disappointed a lot. OG gives more credit to the anticlimatic comedy schemes which made me totally disgusted... i felt like Ji-An because i could not feel the pressure of sorrow at all, those scene deleting the whole plot for me. And i'm not the only one in this page expressing this thing.
This drama is looking for depression, looking for depression with a few rays of sunshine. And as much as I liked the plot, the remake's execution is way far superior than the whole OG comparing acting, development, introspection and message. And this is not denying the OG value, it's acting in a comparative perspective as it should be with every kind of remake.
Comparing is normal and unavoidable, and I wholeheartedly support it. But here is only a fight even expressing condolences to someone not related here...