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Yes he has some strange dreams where he relives moments of his previous life. In the novel this knowledge of future events also helps him unravel the underlying conspiracy. He uses his knowledge to change events because his previous life the FL left him and he died alone at a young age.

Since there is a past life connection between them he feels a heartache whenever the FL cries and then he faints from the pain.

I think it is quite safe to assume that this one will have a happy ending. The novel does and I don’t think that they will change it in the drama version.

No, that first trailer with the slapstick was a clear misrepresentation. So far there have been no misplaced attempts at humour. The pace is good and the story looks interesting. The tone is serious, the FL is feisty and the ML faints a lot.
It seems that fainting is the new blood-spitting 😂

Only a few people who supposedly dropped it (or never even watched) rated so far and some weren’t ashamed to rate it very low.
Also, the ML can act but he isn’t a little idol-boy with a plastified face which seems to be the current favourite to drive up MDL ratings.

Yeah, that poster had me cringe as well. This light blue is so over- used in romance/xianxia dramas and it is so not Jeremy’s colour!

Hopeful or delusional… it’s only a question of degree 😂

LOL As I said before, if people were half as obsessed about acting skills as they seem to be about age, we would be getting much better dramas 😂

It’s entertaining!
Overall the acting is good (FL turns out better than expected…) and so far there are no annoying characters. Of course it could have been even better if a certain person had spent some time in the dubbing studio…
I like the way the FL’s character is written even though it is quite different from her character in the novel. I actually cheered when she hit that deputy minister Xu over the head with the bottle.
All the heart cramping and fainting feels a bit much, I hope they’ll tone it down in the coming episodes. I’m glad so far the drama turns out to be a lot more serious than the initial slapstick trailer suggested, even though ep. 3 had a few hysterical moments.
Did they have limited budget or why is Lu Shiyan wearing the same light-blue robe in every episode?
There are quite a few changes from the novel, most importantly, Shen Zhen has lost a sister and her little brother. I don’t care much about the brother but the sister would have been important for part of the plot.
The OST is quite pleasing, especially the ending theme.

After watching three episodes, here’s my first impression…

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Haha, 20 screenwriters and then they still just piece together the same lame old tropes as usual 😂😂😂
I’d rather one person writes something decent (for example the novel author) and they stick to that.

Yes, I’m annoyed by this because it is a recurring comment. It’s bad enough Jeremy gets cast with these newbies , only for people to complain about the age gap.

Saying he looks like her uncle implies he’s too old - saying she looks like his niece implies she’s too young. There is a difference.
Yes, I may be a tad overly sensitive to this because I’m getting sick and tired of the obsession with age that gets actors/actresses accused of being too old as soon as they’re past 25.
If people cared half as much about acting skills we might be getting better dramas.

You said he looks like her uncle. You could have said she looks like his niece 😂 There is clear ageism between the lines…

Yeah, ageism is rampant here on MDL. I get it that many viewers are very young, but why would they only want to see actors of their age group? WhennI was a teenager I had many favourite that were of my parent’s or even grandparent’s generation. There is no age in good acting.
I think his make-up here is much better than in some of the previous dramas. When I saw some early shots I feared the worst, but the face-smoothing/whitening is actually still quite bearable.
The fact that he looks much younger in a modern setting is probably due to the hairstyle…

Why blame the actor? I’m sure he would also prefer to be cast with an actress of his age and acting calibre instead of yet another starlet trainee…
In the novel the ML is 24 and the FL is 16 so both of them are cast outside of this age range.

No, not at all. This isn’t a revenge drama, more political intrigue with some past-life mystery thrown in.
The ML finds out that she married another guy in the past life, but he knows that it’s because he treated her badly, so in this life he is trying hard to win her over so she doesn’t leave him.
I don’t know why she stabs him in the first life, this bit wasn’t in the novel where he died of poisoning (and a broken heart) in the first life.

4 episodes are now out on kisskh…

The first four episodes are now out on kisskh (with subs 😀)