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In general it's true that hostilities are due to their having different masters rather than duking it over a girl . But as we've seen in the Snow Demon storyline, SF is not past using XS' feelings for RY to shake him into making errors.
Let's have this conversation again after you've seen Episodes 19-20. :D Tag me!
But my comment was about how well the love triangle is integrated into the big storyline. Unlike a lot of other dramas when the love triangle is just an optional extra.

Yes, I've seen that. It's on my list.

That's the problem with hereditary positions in general. Not always but more often than not.

This promising drama is somewhat ruined by what appears to be marketing material for spin-off films in the second half.
The first half however, is a fascinating twist on the hard-boiled, film noir style detective genre of the 1940s and 50s. Evokes resonances of Polanski's Chinatown.

Fantastic drama so far. Keeps you on your toes and guessing. Came for Lee Jun-hyuk and stayed for the Hitchcock-style suspense. Acting is great all round. Nam Ji Hyun is great as the webtoonist and LJH is just ridiculously adorable as the simple-minded cop finding his detective legs.

It's a love triangle that actually has significance for the big storyline.

Yeah. I know exactly how you feel. :D I adore Xiao Song as well.

It ain't over till the fat lady sings!

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I have indeed. Twice as a matter of fact. Enjoyed it very much. Also nicely old school.

Have no fear. All will be revealed. Remember who Xiao Song is. ;)

Not so easy. Tried that. But I will be watching Reborn soon enough.

Can someone please tell me how I should move on from this drama because I just can't. I'm watching a couple of excellent K dramas and I still keep coming back to this in my spare time.

I really like Yan Shifan and the actor that plays him. He's another saving grace of the show.

I am told that this was a low budget drama. But I have no idea what that means. :D I too am surprised by its popularity considering how pedestrian the storytelling is. Perhaps it's the melodrama and the leads that the local audiences dig. ;)

Don't you think it's obvious what the endgame is two-thirds of the way through? Would someone who watched the show the whole way through not be clear even before the finale how the love triangle is slated to pan out?

As a police procedural, this show delivered the goods. Nice team dynamic and the cases interesting. But I'm not sure why anyone thought that romance was absolutely necessary especially when the chemistry was just not there for that kind of relationship. I wonder if the showrunners had second thoughts because their colleagues and friends are constantly trying to push them together with comments and gossip. Nie Yuan looked liked he was just as enthused about the romance as I was.

I guess my views of this show are quite different from most. To me this show is decent but doesn't quite hit greatness largely due to a rather thin plot that's stretched beyond its capacity. It has flashes of brilliance but its parts are better than the whole. I started the show liking Jin Xia more than Lu Yi. I found him obnoxious and humourless and it took a while to warm up to him which I did some time around Episode 10. I really enjoyed the first 20 plus episodes when it behaved like a detective drama. Then it got frustratingly tropey and the political stuff was pretty standard fare. The middle was saggy and fillery. The melodrama between Da Yang and Shangguang Xi was very uninteresting and went on longer than it needed to.

I also didn't dislike Xie Xiao that much. I loved that he made LY jealous which made me chuckle and laugh along the way. He was pretty harmless for the most part and I never thought he was a serious contender. Yeah, I can see how he was annoying but he didn't annoy me that much because he did genuinely care about JX.

The thing that saved the second half of this show for me were the leads and their dynamic. It was funny, sweet and deeply moving at times. I really liked the change in LY. It wasn't extreme but palpable. JX amused me all the way through especially with regards to her love of money and food. One of my favourite scenes was JX's mother wondering why LY would want to marry JX. That exchange never fails to crack me up.

I am also rather tired of the Romeo and Juliet trope as well even if it ends well. It's usually just used to separate the leads before the end. Which is exactly how it was used here.

I don't think she looked more beautiful than when when Xiao Song comes to visit her in prison. She was so happy to see him. The way she looked at him and said, "You haven't thrown away my fox's lair, right?" I don't know how he could have not completely broken down at that moment. But I guess he averted his eyes to that end.

My feeling is that if by the 10th episode, you still haven't taken to it then it's probably not your cup of tea. :D
I loved it from the first episode. Never bored once. But I grew up on old school detective dramas/fiction. I have the opposite opinion of you. I think the investigations actually move quite quickly. The pacing of this drama is much better and more consistent throughout than most C dramas I've watched.