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Oh, this has Qiao Zhen Yu 8n it! I haven’t seen him in anything since Sword of Legends, so I will definitely check this out. The story doesn’t really sound like something that I would watch, but maybe, like so often, the drama is nothing like the synopsis 😂

Sort of… the SML likes the FL, but it is rather one-sided. Romance isn’t the main focus of the novel. I’m more than halfway through and so far there hasn’t been any. Definitely a very, very slow burn 🔥
I guess we will get a lot more awesome fight scenes than romantic scenes, which is fine by me.

It apppears that they’re filming the battle scenes at the moment. Even though it is no longer as hot as during summer, that’s still a lot of clothes to wear for this time of year…
I hope everyone stays safe!

I’m still reading the novel, so I don’t have the full picture yet…
Yes, they work together. But boys will be boys, so they first have to have a drink, a game of chess and then beat the sh*t out of each other before they form an alliance 😂

It’s wuxia with some slightly super-natural martial arts skills. I’m curious to see how they will be presented in the drama. I hope they keep it minimalist.
There should be some awesome fighting scenes in this, especially those between the two male leads.

He may not be as pretty as some of the idol-boys out there, but he has a none-negligible advantage for an actor: he can actually act!
Personally, I’d rather watch an average guy doing some great acting, than looking at some poster boy with the charisma of a cardboard cut-out for 40 long episodes.

Absolutely! There is something on MDL that I call the “pretty-boy factor”. No matter how idiotic the story or how shitty the acting, it will get the drama a rating above 8. Sadly, some really good dramas with grown up actors get down-rated by hysterical teens calling 30-something actors/actresses old and wrinkly.

Yes, making up stuff to make a story is literally the job description for every author or script-writer 😂
If you have a problem with that, go and watch a documentary.

That works for any drama, whether it finished airing or not. It’s one of the problems with the MDL website, things that shouldn’t be possible still are technically possible (and are abused by some people). Like rating episodes that haven’t aired yet, or marking a drama as ‘completed’ while it is still ongoing.

Strangely, this problem persists, no matter whether the drama has 24 or 40 or 60 episodes. Directors just seem to be so fond of romantic gazes set to music and overly complicated plot lines in the last third of the drama.

Someone posted a link to the book synopsis further down.

From what I’ve seen so far, the costumes for this drama are absolutely outstanding! I hope this is an indication of a high overall production quality. The story is so special, it deserves the best!

I do, I do, but at the moment I only manage to watch one episode a day before I fall asleep 😕 (cannot blame the drama, just tired).

And now it’s back to 8.3
It seems that nagging works 😂😂😂😂

Poor Pei Yan!! He carries the weight of the world on his shoulders and is not allowed one bit of happiness 😢

So what is going on with the rating? This morning it was 8.3, now back on 8.2…

Yes, but only at the very, very end.

Hahaha, Under the Power must have one of THE most annoyingly childish SMLs I’ve ever seen. It’s a good drama, though…

Legend of the Phoenix. Good plot, brilliant acting, two very moving love stories, only one annoying side character. One of the most underrated dramas around…

DoS was good in terms of acting and production, but that idiotic “misunderstanding” in the middle, something so silly that it could have been solved with one sentence if only people talked to each other, kind of spoilt it for me. This was such lazy scrip-writing.