I love Mark Chao but for me he's totally wasted if there is no romance. Saw the original Kdrama and found it frustrating,…
oh wow... i didnt realise this is a remake of Mr. Mister... i enjoyed that series very much... and am liking this one a lot, as well...dont care for romance much, this is a different kind of love story ..
ep7: i wonder why she stood like a guilty party when he questioned her! esp when asked if she would defend him if he werent an idol... she should have said why she became his fan... and her own personal story... since both are very deeply connected to her surviving that day when she wanted to take her life , and she survived that day because of his encouragement .. also given her own experience with her fathers case,,she would have still defended ...i dont think she sees law profession as money making machine or ladder to power ,.. she sees it as justice tool, that she wants to bring to people and she is a medium towards it,,, its her way of bringing justice to herself and others by fighting a murky judicial machine, albeight her contribution may be as small as a drop in an ocean...
Also, she comes across as a rational person..., and she is too old to be a teenager kind of fan.(which she is!!). ..i dont think she would have become his (big) fan , if not for his help. .(he caught her attention due to his kindness to her at her lowest! and followed his career since he is a nobody).... her best defence for herself is talking about herself.... i understand her privacy reasons, but he is the guy who is responsible for her being alive .....and making something of herself.... and this is her opportunity to return back the courtesy to save him , even if it means talking personal things to win back his confidence
Who is Ding'er or you mean Ye Zheng? Ye Zheng was in love with the seamtress girl who had a grudge with Liu Ziyan…
oh yes, i remember now. the seamstress girl..... it crossed my mind that the man in prison could be ML , and i wondered who could have imprisoned him? and why? could it be XIaos after securing their kingdom , worried he is too strategic for their own good? or Tiemos?
I had intended to watch just 15 mins to see if it is any good, am pleasantly surprised to find it really good, so FAR! .
I like the female lead, but male lead , i wasnt so sure .. 1st time watching him in a series... .. i didnt find him that impressive at first, i also thought he is a bit ugly ... okay, not ugly...but he gradually grows on you... after completing 2nd episodes, i founf him more than good......
it was good to see elder brother is still alive , and ruling as emperor! Also, good enough to offer to share power with younger brother, which he refused as he should, he doesnt qualify to be a co-king , page boy - yes , king -No...
Ding'er is love sick, who is in love with? dont recall anyone with whom he was in love with !!! Any hints ???
the ending is hinting at a season 2, who is the man in the cellar and what is the cen pickles cooking with him.... am always suspicious of cen pickles loyalty..thouugh he helped eliminate tiemo king...
No clue on fate of ML , is he really dead? what do you think?
The Rational life has been one of my fav dramas! I really loved Qin Lan and Dylan wang in that series (infact this was 1st series i actually enjoyed Dylan wangs acting !)... Great to see it remade with PMY , i like her a lot too , ....will wait for the series, and hope they dont merely copy but add their own flavor and make it better
Well, his reaction is understandable, because he has very bad experience with his stalkery fans.
he lived and interacted with her for so long, cant he make out she has sane head on her shoulders? more like his ego, that she hasnt owned up her fandom towards him,he felt betrayed .. wasnt he almost falling in love with her.. isnt it a best situation for him?
or is he thinking , she was a big fan , but now she is not one given she hid all his posters and paraphelnalia , and that she no longer trusts him, though she claims to trust him?
So not saying she is his ardent fan is betrayal ? should he not be thrilled she is his fan? didnt she say sometime back she doesnt like discussing personal stuff? what is he angry about?
being his fan, and being his lawyer are 2 different things? she has every right to protect her personal interests - and he is duumb to fire her..
It seems both were broken apart or had to breakup under unsavory circumstances and both seemed to have deeply…
delusional ,she definitely is!
This is how am reading it.. when they were together , he maintained a public stand that they weren't together ! Possible she is acting up, since he wasnt owing up to it! (we dont know what actually went on then, and sequence of events - was she cheating before or during their relationship or cheated when she saw he wasnt owing up to their relationship and acting up for a reaction , which he obviously wasnt giving her - hence she burst out in the way she did - throwing all hurt in his direction , said things she shouldnt have said or wouldnt have said if she had sanity intact)
seeing the lack of positive relationship with her family , it looks like she is acting up with them as well. she seems like someone who has seen a lot of hurt in her childhood and main lead may have been only one who was kind/good to her.. and hence almost obsessive level attachment to him. .. in the past at young age she didnt had power to act in any way she can for the relationship , she probably thinks (or has more power!) she has better chances of protecting their love now. Unfortunately , he moved on
Is Hye Joo delusional? After saying all those nasty things to Ra Ik, she can actually claim they never broke up???
It seems both were broken apart or had to breakup under unsavory circumstances and both seemed to have deeply loved the other , and hadnt moved on. Technically, what she is saying is true. ML signed an unfair contract to protect her in the past., and continuing to protect her even now. He is not hoping to get together with her but he still cares about her well being. In her mind, they are still together. But he had moved on, which her brain hasnt accepted yet
"you pick your target from the start" .. it sounds so chilly when a supposed leading light of prosecution says that! someone is delibrately setting a target on ML's back and wants him in jail. truth be damned!
i suspect ex - girl is definitely tied to the case , her family is in al probability behind the case! t to separate them , or more like punish him for daring to look at their daughter and have a relationship!. am curious what happened in the past.... and means used to separate them
Ep6 .... I havent seen a mother as exploitive and as shameless as ML's in this series. She doesnt get the sacredness of her relationship with her son, she doesnt understand "love" , she probably sees a walking , talking money tree when she sees her son, that she can shake without any thought towards him..
No matter how fiercely the darkness prevails, light will always triumph in the end. - this quote sums up this drama
Finished watching Vendetta of An., finally This is one of the best dramas that has come out in 2025 year-end. I enjoyed watching every bit of it, craving for more episodes. I had so much to vent while watching, about humans acting worse than animals, and also wondered if living is so important that one would kill to live. . ML's side answered my question, they killed too , so that others lived , not for greed , not for power , but to bring peace to the realm. they killed only the garbage parading in human skin . .. they have mostly forgiven or protected innocents (even if they have done mistakes , unknowingly) . I loved and hated the deposed king. it took so much death and destruction for him to grow a pair! On the contrary though I started off being suspicious of his brother, i ended up admiring him in the end. He came out as being more compassionate , politically matured and more deserving of the throne , and i felt bad that he died in the end. Some of the moments felt so helpless, and i was worried ML's side wouldnt be able to succeed . and only a miracle would help them succeed - and that miracle is ML himself - the ending was so intense and he indeed strategised the win so brilliantly , and convinsingly!
I immensely enjoyed the series, no doubt about it! And I will follow the original author's works more closely. I think the author is immensely talented.
The drama captured the essence and presented it powerfully and convincingly. I loved the fast pace .my only grouse was, it needed more episodes to do justice to all that content (choppy editing didnt help) - in the later episodes i sometimes struggled with names /characters /context , when some references made by various character , more episodes would have given us more context , breathing space to catch up. the fast pacing though i loved was so fast that i found myself racing (albeight not as fast )playing catchup.... Otherwise good content , acting , direction ..... will revisit this series again..
I think, it is valid that he feels threatened. Tiemo is going to invade the land and kill the people. Mean while…
still one dont go around opening the gate for the enemy with ones own hands(which he literally did!!!) , unless you have a plan to defend it somehow , may be with deception. it was pathetic seeing him walking around like a zombie . if somehow he doesnt have a plan , he is not eligible to sit on that throne which ML and others save from tiemo. royal lineage or not. am impressed by his brother, he has great fighting skills, political maturity , compassion (more than a rulerneeds) , and discretion .... he would have made a better ruler, i wonder how younger one ended up on throne when the there is such a competent elder one ... (asking the xiaobing to protect the old shop keeper, asking xiaobing to not walk into fight/war when he has a family to protect - he could have ruthlessly used every one of them .. he didnt! what more you need - more ethical than his younger brother (deposed emperor)!!!
Also, she comes across as a rational person..., and she is too old to be a teenager kind of fan.(which she is!!). ..i dont think she would have become his (big) fan , if not for his help. .(he caught her attention due to his kindness to her at her lowest! and followed his career since he is a nobody).... her best defence for herself is talking about herself.... i understand her privacy reasons, but he is the guy who is responsible for her being alive .....and making something of herself.... and this is her opportunity to return back the courtesy to save him , even if it means talking personal things to win back his confidence
it crossed my mind that the man in prison could be ML , and i wondered who could have imprisoned him? and why? could it be XIaos after securing their kingdom , worried he is too strategic for their own good? or Tiemos?
I like the female lead, but male lead , i wasnt so sure .. 1st time watching him in a series... .. i didnt find him that impressive at first, i also thought he is a bit ugly ... okay, not ugly...but he gradually grows on you... after completing 2nd episodes, i founf him more than good......
it was good to see elder brother is still alive , and ruling as emperor! Also, good enough to offer to share power with younger brother, which he refused as he should, he doesnt qualify to be a co-king , page boy - yes , king -No...
Ding'er is love sick, who is in love with? dont recall anyone with whom he was in love with !!! Any hints ???
the ending is hinting at a season 2, who is the man in the cellar and what is the cen pickles cooking with him.... am always suspicious of cen pickles loyalty..thouugh he helped eliminate tiemo king...
No clue on fate of ML , is he really dead? what do you think?
keeping fingers crossed for season 2!
or is he thinking , she was a big fan , but now she is not one given she hid all his posters and paraphelnalia , and that she no longer trusts him, though she claims to trust him?
So not saying she is his ardent fan is betrayal ? should he not be thrilled she is his fan? didnt she say sometime back she doesnt like discussing personal stuff? what is he angry about?
being his fan, and being his lawyer are 2 different things? she has every right to protect her personal interests - and he is duumb to fire her..
This is how am reading it..
when they were together , he maintained a public stand that they weren't together ! Possible she is acting up, since he wasnt owing up to it! (we dont know what actually went on then, and sequence of events - was she cheating before or during their relationship or cheated when she saw he wasnt owing up to their relationship and acting up for a reaction , which he obviously wasnt giving her - hence she burst out in the way she did - throwing all hurt in his direction , said things she shouldnt have said or wouldnt have said if she had sanity intact)
seeing the lack of positive relationship with her family , it looks like she is acting up with them as well. she seems like someone who has seen a lot of hurt in her childhood and main lead may have been only one who was kind/good to her.. and hence almost obsessive level attachment to him. .. in the past at young age she didnt had power to act in any way she can for the relationship , she probably thinks (or has more power!) she has better chances of protecting their love now. Unfortunately , he moved on
"you pick your target from the start" .. it sounds so chilly when a supposed leading light of prosecution says that! someone is delibrately setting a target on ML's back and wants him in jail. truth be damned!
i suspect ex - girl is definitely tied to the case , her family is in al probability behind the case! t to separate them , or more like punish him for daring to look at their daughter and have a relationship!. am curious what happened in the past.... and means used to separate them
I havent seen a mother as exploitive and as shameless as ML's in this series. She doesnt get the sacredness of her relationship with her son, she doesnt understand "love" , she probably sees a walking , talking money tree when she sees her son, that she can shake without any thought towards him..
Finished watching Vendetta of An., finally This is one of the best dramas that has come out in 2025 year-end. I enjoyed watching every bit of it, craving for more episodes. I had so much to vent while watching, about humans acting worse than animals, and also wondered if living is so important that one would kill to live. . ML's side answered my question, they killed too , so that others lived , not for greed , not for power , but to bring peace to the realm. they killed only the garbage parading in human skin . .. they have mostly forgiven or protected innocents (even if they have done mistakes , unknowingly) . I loved and hated the deposed king. it took so much death and destruction for him to grow a pair! On the contrary though I started off being suspicious of his brother, i ended up admiring him in the end. He came out as being more compassionate , politically matured and more deserving of the throne , and i felt bad that he died in the end. Some of the moments felt so helpless, and i was worried ML's side wouldnt be able to succeed . and only a miracle would help them succeed - and that miracle is ML himself - the ending was so intense and he indeed strategised the win so brilliantly , and convinsingly!
I immensely enjoyed the series, no doubt about it! And I will follow the original author's works more closely. I think the author is immensely talented.
The drama captured the essence and presented it powerfully and convincingly. I loved the fast pace .my only grouse was, it needed more episodes to do justice to all that content (choppy editing didnt help) - in the later episodes i sometimes struggled with names /characters /context , when some references made by various character , more episodes would have given us more context , breathing space to catch up. the fast pacing though i loved was so fast that i found myself racing (albeight not as fast )playing catchup.... Otherwise good content , acting , direction ..... will revisit this series again..