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That sounds like a very strange system…Don’t the production companies do a tax return that would give this info to the authorities?

We are all praying for this! His voice would fit the character 100%,

Don’t feed the trolls… 😂

In this case you will like his role in Love of Nirvana. Calculating and manipulative, yet secretly suffering of unrequited love…

Totally different type of drama aimed at a different audience…
Over here is the grown-up corner 😉

By negotiating the right to decide herself regarding her marriage she has already laid a good foundation. So it could still happen…

Yes, I so get his desire to withdraw from the world and live on a lonely island.

Yes, there are plenty of such dramas around which still score 7.5 or 8 due to some pretty boys (who usually can’t even act) in the cast.

They had a stupid birthday party, too….
And then there are these endless sequences of gazing at each other while the music plays. At least twice per episode! That’s the kind of pointless filler I would expect to see in some cheesy romance drama, not in one like this.

As a horse rider I pay special attention to these things (and I watch a lot of historical dramas) therefore I can confirm that in this drama the scenes of people violently yanking on the reins to steer the horse are far more frequent than in other dramas that show people on horses.
It feels as if the director wanted to express some special kind of urgency or determination through this gesture, completely ignoring the pain that this causes to the horses.

Sadly the drama director isn’t one of them. Otherwise why would they abuse horses in every single episode by violently yanking on the reins to stop or turn the horse around.
This isn’t normal horse riding but amateurish abuse. My horse would buck you off in no time.

I didn’t even manage to get that far into TTEOTM despite liking both main actors. These stories of people abusing each other in all sorts of ways and then calling it love are just not for me.
SOKP was quite different, at least they had a grown up relationship and didn’t manipulate or torture each other. The forehead kiss didn’t bother me because in the situation it was a genuine expression of affection, not an obsessive gesture.

Yes, I do the same. That’s why it’s so frustrating that those stupid script writers kill any fresh ideas that were in the novel to replace them with some worn-out tropes and even add love triangles that weren’t in the novel.

The parts when it is good, it is really good! Sadly, in between there are some really boring fillers.
Nonetheless, what makes this drama special is that the brought in some fresh ideas instead of the usual formulaic tropes and that the main couple have a grown up relationship.

So true! For me the worst, obsessive ML was the one in Ashes of Love. Any sane person would have shot the stalker of his brother’s fiancée, I couldn’t see how this was romantic at all!
However I get why the FL is cruel to LTG, she wants him to snap out of his craze by being disappointed with her, but this would only work on a sane person.

Hehe, I once had a car like that… it looked light green during the day and white at night.
The ideal getaway car 😂😂😂

Yeah, those script writers have a fixed set of elements that they just mix up and decorate with fresh faces for every new drama. I really love the xianxia genre but it would definitely need a few fresh ideas instead of the same old boring tropes like
- love triangle with obsessive, delusional third party
- misunderstandings due to not talking to each other
- antagonists with no motivation other than being evil/hating the FL or ML for no reason whatsoever.
…and many, many more.

I liked SOKP a lot. The two dramas are very different. SOKP had more focus on palace politics and was dialogue-heavy with a faster pace of the overall plot
This one is more action-oriented, but I found some parts of it more boring than than SOKP. There is more romance in it early on, but the endless sequences of the gazing at each other while the theme song plays feel like boring fillers to me.

He doesn’t seem to fit the current “pretty boy” standard for popular dramas. To me they all look a bit the same while his looks are unique.
C-netizens always need stuff to complain about. If his look is unique, they’ll complain and if he had plastic surgery (like so many actors) they would complain about that.
Tastes are different anyway and much more important than looks is the fact that he has charisma and he can act.

There is a third option, the dramas where they get an ML role are just shit productions with a shit script.