Deirdre19

Still waiting for subs... arrgh!

It's not meant to be a BL... Some greedy marketing people may have tried to promote it as such to attract viewers, but the source material is definitely not BL.

Totally understand you... I put it on hold by ep. 9 and it has been sitting there ever since. The novel was definitely much more interesting because it didn't try to be fun ny.

I don't mind the small details that they changed, some things that work in a novel, just don't work in drama, so it's normal that not everything will be the same. I do, however, have a problem with scriptwriters who seem to think that they need to "improve" on the novel by adding love triangles where there were none in the novel, or strange additional characters that nobody needs. Most of the time these additional elements stick out like a sore thumb and BFTB is no exception.

I love humour, in stories that are naturally funny or have a slightly sarcastic undertone (like for example Royal Rumours). In this story, however, it feels out of place. Whenever the sciptwriters take liberties and try to change the overall tone of a novel (as they did for example in Unchained Love) it never ends well.
I quite like this drama and don't need any "incentives" of this style to keep watching.

The was no agency in the novel, so any purpose will be yet another made up gimmick....

On ep. 4 now and funnily enough, the elements I dislike the most are the bits invented by the scriptwriters. These stupid agency sequences (two already in just four episodes!) feel completely out of place and those "cute" monsters that look like something out of a children's animation are so ridiculous! Whenever I get into the story and just start enjoying it one of these stupid features comes up to knock me right out of the flow.
Did the scriptwriters feel that insecure about their work that they felt the need to use these misplaced attempts at humour to keep viewers engaged?
This beautiful novel certainly didn't need any of these stupid inventions.

Hahaha, that's how I got "tricked" into watching this 😂 I think it's a very clever marketing strategy...
Just wanted to watch one episode to check out this dorky hairstyle and then kind of got "hpynotised" into watching all the episodes.
And guess what, I'm absolutely loving it!

The FL always calling him Crown Prince is true to the novel. It irritated the hell out of me as well when reading it. I mean, he calls her Liuli all the time and she answers back with Crown Prince.

Yes, for greedy corporations attention = money. But that does not mean that we as fans have to fall for their manipulation.

I don't see why people permanently have to compare and rate things. It's like asking a mother which of her children she likes best 🥺
Why not enjoy each of these dragons (and all past and future dragons) for what they are?

Even the "bad subs" aren't finished yet... I'm currently stuck on ep. 20 waiting to watch the remaining episodes 😯

Watched three episodes now and this is quite nice. After the first episode with the strange attempt at comedy and those ridiculous orb-shaped creatures I feared for the worst.
I find the pacing ok, some things that come much later in the novel are already addressed now, but it doesn't seem too much out of place. There is still a lot of story to cover so it may be a good thing to speed up the storytelling in the early episodes and have more time for the more complex events that will come later.
Also, hoping for a non-rushed ending...

Heart blood is one of the mystical concepts in xianxia as blood directly taken from the heart of a living person is supposed to have special properties (don't try this at home... 😂).
It was the same concept in TMOPB when Bai Qian used her heart's blood to keep Mo Yuan's body from decaying and in the end she nearly died because of this.

The folks over at TTEOTM were quite good as well... A few antis in the beginning but they got quickly crowded out be the sheer volume of comments by genuine viewers.
And people were very disciplined about using the spoiler tag, too.

I don't know, there a no subtitles yet...
I just watched one episode (10 min) raw. It looked like pretty standard fare with the first encounter between the FL and the ML being him catching her to prevent a fall with the usual staring in each other's eyes, romantic music, slow motion, etc. By now this is such a cheesy old cliché, it made me laugh.
Personally I find the ML rather unattractive, so the story + acting had better make up for the missing eye-candy 😂😂😂😂

Have you seen the uncomfortable head-rests in most xianxia's or historicals???
Whenever they lie down it's not for sleeping, just resting immobile in a strange posture.

You know the rule: every xianxia needs a female psycho to bring out the murderous intent in the viewers. From the first episode to the last, no hero/heroine can match the stamina of these psychos 😂😂😂

She has his heart scale which in dragon-lore is the one most precious one of the dragon scales. When SuYing attacked him and dismembered his body he threw away the heart scale and it landed in Yan Hui.
And yes, as you correctly guessed, for him to gain his full dragon power (and stabilise it in his human form) he will need his heart scale... This is the central part of the angsty suspense in this drama: if he loves her, he will not take it - if she loves him, she will give it up...

I did not really like the patchwork of elements that they used for episode 20 because it doesn't really make any sense.
Ling Mingding is supposed to be a seasoned psychotherapist. So for him to be affected that deeply by the the death of one of his patients seems a bit far-fetched. He did not do anything wrong in the treatment and he knows it! Even if he had made a mistake, it's purely professional, not personal, so it should not affect him on this level.

Most of the dialogue during the industry conference sequence was taken directly from the novel, but since it appears to be simply an accusation raised by three people it looks a bit strange that Ling Mingding appears unable to defend himself. He already knows that hallucinogenic drugs were involved, so why would this suicide be his mistake?

The incident at the industry conference as described in the novel (vol.1, chapter 4) is much more touching and makes a lot more sense because the death of the patient (his wife) was personal and he felt guilty about this already because he knew that he had made a mistake. The mistake wasn't made during her treatment, but in a seemingly casual situation between the couple which resulted in the destruction of her "heart-bridge" and her subsequent suicide. This is the kind of trauma that would be much more believable for destabilising even an experienced therapist and since he feels guilty, he will indeed be unable to defend himself.