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They didn't film season 2. Cdramas are usually filmed one-off, if it's over 40 eps, will be separated into two parts, like Love like the galaxy, Lost you forever. For this novel, it's hard to shorten to 38 eps, 50 eps should be better, so a lot of plots are not in the drama, especially from the second half of the story.

Available on iQiYi chinese service, the comments and discussions on it decide the heat index. iqiyi has different calculation system from Tencent or Youku.

The S+ your said is the popularity level/rating. It came out after it's wrapped filming. It's apparently not S+ for the budget, based on the clothes, decorations and buildings. Usually, only serious historical dramas need S+, which require large scale war scenes and luxurious palace costumes, eg. Ruyi's Royal Love, Serenade of Peaceful Joy , Legend of Xiao Chuo. While Xianxia dramas need S+ for making CGI.

Probably coz of limited budget, it's a Level A budget drama, less than A+, S and S+. Also two seasons need more time and money for censorship.

The novel is long, should better adapted to about 50 episodes like LLTG, but every arc is necessary, clues are related, they will piece up together and advance the story and characters.

In the novel, author said Xie Wei is very intelligent. Later, he noticed JXN's fear to him is deep, he asked her. She said you killed me once before. He realized something. Probably he guessed she's reborn with memory, so he owed to her last life. So he asked her to kill him to pay the debt.

It has many twists. The FL thought she's transmigrated from modern time at first, later unlock her memory and found she's born in the ancient time, she has two souls separately fell to the modern and ancient world. Yes, No.1. The summary is always written to attract readers without any meaning. The story is totally different from others, it's a more grand world, with political intrigues, friendship, life thoughts. It's hard to explain it all. It's up to you anyway.

Wow, so good! 👍 If so, I recommend 纨绔世子妃, my favourite rebirth novel, it's the longest rebirth novel I've read so far. I spent nearly a month to finish it. You can ignore the drama adaptation, coz the novel is very famous, so copyright sold early in 2015, when it didn't sold to a large company. The novel has been No.1 in the largest female centric novel website for many years.

The discussion thread above have five youtube videos of novel recap, may help you with understanding the story.

Too many,it's pretty hard to rank them, different vibes of FL & ML...😂 I recommend some already adapted to dramas, so you can understand better. Upcoming ones next year: The Double 嫡嫁千金 (Wu jin Yan & Wang Xin Yue), The Rise of Ning 首辅养成手册 (Zhang Wan Yi & Ren Min). These two MLs have similar vibes to Xie Wei, all cold powerful officials. but slightly difference, FL are different vibes. very popular novels too.

Zhang Ling He is filming another rebirth drama The Grand Princess 长公主. FL and ML both reborn with memory. good novel too.

SOKP is a level A budget drama, but the same popular level with TTEOTM and LYF in China now. Hot trendings every day. Your novel was written earlier than SOKP, it's understandable it has more fans. I didn't compare SOKP to that one, ML and FL are different vibes, and different stories. I read your mentioned author's another novel which was adapted to the drama The Double, cast Wu Jin Yan and Wang Xin Yue. Though the vibe of ML is similar, but still has different personality (totally ruthless) and chemistry with FL. All good novels, but different vibes and stories.

You're welcome! Enjoy! ❤

Rebirth trope is commonly used in chinese novels. But, this novel is more famous, many novel readers can't find another alternative novel which has the same vibe of ML and FL, along with good intense story.

This drama is one of the few ones so far I've seen in costume dramas which keep the novel lines and respect the author. Btw, the novel of Story of Kunning Palace is one of the most famous rebirth novels in China. Many novel readers try to find another alternative novel with the same vibe of ML and FL, but they can't find. Yes, the Rebirth trope is commonly used, but good ones are rare.

Apparently, haters are jealous of this outstanding novel and drama, but they can't attack the story. So they diss the actors and voices. Or compare it to Scent of Time, saying it copied that one.

Fandoms of actors (competitors). It's common in Cent, coz good drama projects are limited, many actor agencies fight for their artists to get the lead roles. Fans work hard to influence public opinion in media.

It's not about the reincarnations. But a fandom war. Many fandoms are jealous of this drama, coz the novel is very famous and good cast. So they reported this drama for many ridiculous reasons. It happened to be in the period of tightened censorship. It had to come back for censorship again. Don't believe other rumors, they are made up by haters.

Due to the issue in May, iQiYi keep the releasing date of this drama as a secret, to avoid haters report it again. It's a business strategy of iQiYi I guess. Most chinese drama fans all aware of it, so remain low-key. Many fans on weibo were waiting for it on the rumoring date 11.7, kept refreshing the page.

It doesn't need any promotion in China, coz the reservation was already No.1 in iqiyi history before airing. Topics of this drama have always been trending on Weibo from the first day. Market share ranks first. It's the most expected drama this year.

Maybe drama will make ZZ dreaming about the first life I guess.

Zhang Zhe reborn too, but the drama probably changed it to pass the censorship.