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Haha. Even through I know this is true in Chinese, it still creeps me out a bit lol. It just comes across as a bit incestuous. Like, why would you have sex with someone you call a sibling? Haha so weird to Western ears.

No worries, I was also confused when I first started watching C dramas, but since then I've learned some Chinese. :-)

Just spotted a typo in my 2nd sentence! I meant non-related individuals, not family. face/palm

That's a part of Chinese language culture. They refer to non-related individuals with family titles. Friends will use sibling terms, but you might refer to an older lady or gentleman as Aunt or Uncle.

哥哥 (gēge) is actually an older brother
弟弟 (dìdi) younger brother
姐姐 (jiějie) older sister
妹妹 (mèimei) younger sister

If it is non-related person like a friend then they will say the name and then gē for example Si Cheng Gege. From what I can tell, blood related siblings will just say Ge/Jie/Meimei/Didi without the name attached.

But yeah, it sounds strange if that isn't a practice in your own language/culture! Totally agree. Still creeps me out a bit lol.

I wonder how many would turn their nose up at Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Hugh Jackman, Ryan Gosling, Heath Ledger and the like when they were the same sort of age... 🤣 Can you imagine? "Ugh he's too old!" 🤣

Hahaha... I do have a tendency to do that! 😅 Don't get me started on the cliche C drama FLs... Then I really will end up painting a target on myself. 🤣

Anyone else longing for another Xianxia NiNi drama? Sigh...

Yeah, I also find it shocking. It's amazing for its genre. I think it breaks some cliches though, especially Chang Chen. There is such a rigid idea of what a FL and ML should look like in C dramas, and wow are C drama audiences biased when it comes to age... I prefer a more mature lead over a little flower boy, especially for a role like the God of War... Surely, he should be a bit more ruggedly handsome.

They also had major issues with Zhang Ziyi in Rebel Princess because of her age, but imo that is also an absolutely amazing drama and she was epic in it.

This drama is in my top 5, but I love the xianxia genre.
Imo, it's wonderful, all the highs and lows. Give it another chance and come back to it with fresh eyes. :-)

Because they're used to flower boys as MLs... Chang Chen is hot af. He's a man, not a boy. ;-)

No, but I really recommend Eternal Love. It is a wonderful drama. I've rewatched it too many times now lol.

When I rewatch it, I tend to skip the first few episodes, but if you're watching it for the first time, watch it from the beginning for context. :-)

Eternal Love was a mishmash of the first and second books. It also has a different vibe from this drama, but they are of a similar calibre. Feng Jiu and Dong Hua Dijun in this drama are much more likeable and the story is quite different. I think the costumes and styling, especially for Dijun is better in Eternal Love through. He looks far more aloof and majestic. I would say watch Eternal Love first, and then watch this. The story of Bai Qian and Ye Hua happens earlier. Feng Jiu is born during Eternal Love.

I love Dilraba too. She has a great balance between strong, clever, cute and quirky. I never find her cuteness annoying like I do with a lot of C drama FLs.

In retrospect, it's a shame we never got to see Gun Gun meeting the rest of the Bai family and Ali... I would have liked to see those interactions.

Wow. That was a hard drama to finish, and I'm usually quite patient. It starts off with promise and the storyline is good, but the vibe is so flat somehow, the highs and lows don't pack that big a punch. This storyline had major comedy potential but it really just didn't deliver. A lot of the "funny scenes" just weren't that funny in the end... It's strange because as a drama it had a lot of great building blocks, an interesting theme, some potentially hilarious interactions and events, a high production value, but somehow it just made me go "meh". Shame...

Whaaaat? I haven't heard of this. What scandal?

I've been looking forward to seeing Tony Yang in something after Rebel Princess.

Totally. I think he should have got to stay in the body of the Queen. It was his soul that the King fell in love with.

This drama is legit hilarious, but did anyone else think the ending wasn't that great? For one, the King fell in love with the soul of Jang Bong Hwan. He should have got to stay in the body of the Queen.