Eleison

Is this similar you My Journey To You? And if so, in what way is it similar?

I'd also like to know if it has a similar ending... 😬

I still cannot get myself to finish My Journey To You even though I've tried several times and I keep losing steam or getting hung up on stuff that bothers me. The visuals are stunning, but so far it's not been enough to get me to the end.

Sort of, but it never creates much angst and the 2ML never causes any harm to the main relationship or acts petty. He gives up once he knows she likes someone else (you know, like a normal human would! 😅).

Yes, he is adorable in this. I could watch another 24 episodes of all his many facial expressions. 😅 He sold the smart, playful, smitten, cheeky, and pseudo-narcissist to a "T."

Whelp, I basically had to wait until the end. 😅

I'm confused by why Wen Bing is so fake smiley and sweet with Meng Na when he clearly doesn't like her. He has no trouble being brusk with everyone else, even the girls he likes, so why not with her?

To repurpose a quote from Elizabeth Bennet: "I hear such different accounts of [this] as puzzle me exceedingly." 😅😅😅

How does he die? In battle?

I think The Legend of Shen Li was happy, if I remember correctly?

They did this with the Double, too! 🤦‍♀️

It reminds me of people upset with Naksu in season 2 Alchemy of Souls who wanted her back as the amazing, kick-butt assassin when that was never who she wanted to be. That version of the ML that culminated in Episode 8 was more interesting, though, I think?

A good point, though, and it makes sense, but I'm still not liking what I'm hearing about the ending... 🫤

So, xianxhuan always have open endings where leads don't explicitly end up together in a concrete, tangible way or they have open endings?

When does she find out that the ML knows she's a girl? Hopefully not the second to last episode! 😅

Yes, because of the weepy eyes but also, what were they doing to the onions?!? They were showing they had NO idea what they were doing. 🤣

I'm at Episode 14 and ready for the FL to find out that the ML found out she's a girl. In what Episode does she officially figure out that he knows? Cause until then it seems they'll keep this cat and mouse cringey awkwardness and I'm beginning to be ready for a reveal. May the agony not be prolonged much longer... 😅

This is next-level rom-com cringe and... I'm kind of loving it. 😅

For the first few episodes I was almost literally covering my eyes and curling my fingers at the cringe and then after I got to Episode 3 or 4, I was thoroughly invested in this ridiculous premise and story (the closest thing to it is I'm Not A Robot, but while that premise is fantastical, they go to more pains to sell the premise and make it believable than this drama--the FL in this literally has mascara and eyeliner on every day AS A BOY; if she was a kpop member, maybe, but not as a hockey star). 😅

It's dorky overall, but the beginning was especially so, and calibrated my expectations and made the rest more manageable once I got into it a bit more (it also doesn't take itself too seriously). The FL is just okay and has GIRL written all over her mannerisms, but Wen Bing has great expressions and boy does he know how to flirt and craft--as Flynn Ryder says--the "smoulder." 😅

Side Note: Does he play the 2ML who loves the FL in Meteor Garden (aka BOFs)?

I do have a question, though, for those who've seen this:

But you now what, I'm on my laptop right now (don't usually use my laptop as I'm rarely on it), and it DOES have ads in the comments. Yuck.

It's why I prefer the app because the ads are much less annoying on there than on a browser.

I can see how that would be frustrating. I just reached the parts where he left the Void so I haven't seen him back in the mortal realm yet for long. I was responding more to the power imbalance, but after you explained further I see what you're saying. I'm starting to wonder if drama scripts get pitched and funded by releasing only the first 1/3 of the drama because that's often when they shine the most (Cdrama or Kdrama). It's always the danger of watching something currently airing, and recently I keep getting burned when I try; I am kind of waiting on this one to see how it ends as I lost a bit of steam in the Void.

Oh yes, they just get someone who's white and can "speak" English. 😅 I guess nonEnglish speakers can't pick up on the accents?

I had someone explain to me (from Ireland) how they did this with The Quiet Man (with Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne) where the Irish characters speak in English but with Irish grammar structure (he said that in Irish/Gaelic, you'd speak that flowery, but not when Irish people speak in English). 😅

I'm quite proud of the fact that I can pick up on accents in Kdramas now. Know pretty quickly if a character is from Busan or somewhere other than Seoul. 😅

Worse than Heirs and The King 2 Hearts? Those dramas had terrible English-speaking actors in them. 😅

I think watching this means signing up for the leads to be on an unequal footing, to some extent. No amount of writing (as long as you have this premise) could really change this reality (maybe unless having the deliverance sword magically makes the bearer have the power of an immortal?)

The ML will never rival the FL's power, so he will always be relying on her in a way that she doesn't rely on him (except for when he gives her his senses, of course).