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About the "drunken kiss", in episode 8 (mid episode) I stumbled onto a funny exchange of comments on another discussion board, that may get a smile too from you all, 各位!
"BJT was finally paid enough to do a Kiss scene"-
answer from shiningrainbow333 2022-11-12 - "It's one of his famous lines from the variety show Who's The Murderer. Last episode of season 2 I believe. His character in the variety show was shown behaving intimately with the show's director, so he defended himself by saying the director pushed herself on him, and he immediately refused and told her "This is an extra fee!" (这是另外的价钱! )" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Even Marcus and Peggy T did not get me long forewarning! But I bet with myself on "one month after they had to abruptly postpone it from the initial 13 October planned airing)" so I checked again on WeTV and there it was, too... 😁

fresh hair ??? 😶

WeTV (VIP from episode #2) official platform, while having fun with New Life Begins on iQiyi 😁

Thanks. Let's just enjoy it for the fun then !😁

Hi again 😊 Question for you who read it all already.
You wrote somewhere that this was set in Qing dynasty? China's last Manchu-led imperial dynasty, reigning from 1644 to 1911? Someone else though "fictional Song". What's your final views on that?
And do you plan more companion videos around this funny one?

You'll likely find me only on the c-drama or c-movies track. 😁
I do/did watch other (countries') ones + anime & donghua, but will not log them or discuss them here. My reasons, my choices 😉

["this kind of lecture"/ the s is not needed 😁 Am I nitpicking? yes]
[a "way to make how the story works" sounds awkward, but ok, (although this explanation was unnecessary). I missed the "how" when I read that sentence first, because the sentence would have worked better if you had been content with "way to make the story work", or reworked the whole thing starting with "The story works because of the cliché etc etc". Yes, I am nitpicking 😛. ]
You did read enough of my "semi private" messages to you, so now,, I'll delete them in order not to ruffle more feathers (sorry for yours, haha!).
I am sure I will read your future comments on dramas with interest. Really, sincerely.
I think MDL is a great source for easy information and reactions to C-dramas, since I stumbled on it in 2020. The watch-list feature (designed to keep track of past watching) was what attracted me first, next the comments sections and finally the discussion where I interact rarely but got useful answers to my few queries (esp. about LLTG which was my favorite drama watching for a long while this summer).
Anyway I use MDL mostly for private log use. Although I did commit a few reviews for the dramas I got interested about.
I have no opinion about Chen Feiyu, although I was an admirer of the movies his father directed in the past.
I will probably not go on watching the 2 dramas Winter and Lighter, "coz" actually, I have too little time these days. Car trouble to take care of. 😥
Anyway,, thank you for your answers and for your dedication to write for those who read in English.

Reset was released in January 2022.
Umm. Your mentions about troupes had me confused 😉 I think you meant "tropes" ?
I liked both Reset and Love In Time a lot, btw.

But I think episode 32 has some subbing "holes" or is it another one that has subs not correctly tied to speech and lacking parts ? anyway, I sped through, since I could "not depend" on subs, just like to have them, for various reasons. Preferably double set with Chinese and English.
Btw, I was amused by the karaoke scene in ep32 with the pics from Go Go Squid and the song Nameless Generation by Chen Xue Ran 陈雪燃 which I like to sing 😁 Here is a lyrics video for those who'd like to practice it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=155l_qyKNp8

I seem to remember a moment with his secretary when they hinted he had recovered from some leg trauma, which could explain his using the wheelchair ploy. Was I too bored so I dreamed that up in a half daze ?
Some people with artificial leg(s) can still run, climb, do sports, as was demonstrated in the Paralympics and I have seen some like that in mountains or visiting the Great wall, where the steps are daunting sometimes even for fit people (there's even a Chinese expression about that to imply that you are not admirable or a hero unless you've tackled the Great wall). But from the cdrama Lie to Love (Luo Yunxi as ML), we can also see the danger of over-exerting with artificial legs.
Nevertheless, I found this CEO entrapment of SFL very feeble plot-wise, and the guy is not my type of handsome. I prefer the likes of Zhang Binbin, Yang Yang, Wu Lei, Steven Zhang, Joseph Zeng, Timmy Xu, Luo Yunxi, and even Z.Tao with his strange hairstyles, lol , and now also Dai Gaozheng who would have killed it if he'd taken that SML role. Maybe with a different SFL (although "Tiantian" has a cute face and could be funny), + of course, a better script for their part, and not "hogging time from the leads".

I would like to give a shoutout to Love in Time which I very much liked for its several twists in the story, so I did not feel it ever dragged, contrary to AROTLF which I stayed with mostly because I'm a vicious completist, and for ZBB much more than for Esthet Yu.
Quick quick, I'm fleeing over to A Familiar Stranger to get a better fix of palatable sugar, before heading back to second half of Light Chaser Rescue, and perhaps for dessert, the new Almost Lover drama that's started yesterday with two somewhat complex episodes which I need to rewatch to understand, perhaps (at least, it is not too long a drama, so I hope it will not turnout to be a "weighty pudding"). Almost Lover also seems to be based on the "lies and deceit" + vengeance trope.

Besides, Zhang Yu mentioned that the heads of their respective departments were acquainted, and he was very close to his own head of department, so would have seen through her and, we can assume, since he was much more powerful than he looked like, just kept a low profile and played along, until the rival tried to step in and he had to be more assertive.

Lots of ads for Fotile kitchen equipment. So that's going to be the title for my heavily spoilerish review. I did watch it till the end, without feeling discomfort from the heavy dose of sugar. Maybe I needed that sort of standardized fluff for a change ?

Well, the time loop or time overlap did not change History, which remains more or less the same, as in RESET (Love in Time/secret roommate is the second 2022 time-loop story that had me enthuse) and it does go about things that should be outlawed in the acceptable way : culprits end up in prison or in mental wards ; the fundamentals of society, law and order, are not questioned. Thus, no fear of censoring even while airing during National Congress : it is quite acceptable.
Science fiction (科幻) is very appreciated by the young in China, and OK in particular when it furthers scientific concepts. In this one, for instance: awareness of entropy. The next SFF Worldcon, usually hosted in the USA or other anglophone countries (except Finland and Japan once, respectively) has been elected to be held in Chengdu in August 2023, with a virtual program streaming to those who can't travel to it. It will be an interesting innovation : not just doing the world convention hybrid with virtual streaming, but making two worlds of SFF in different languages and cultures meet, check how hi tech and AI can help and showcase for progress.
Despite the daunting numbers of Chinese fans, the hurdle of language and customs that must be respected, the possible conflicts and drastic health measures, the skyrocketing cost of travel. I still hope to land my starship there to meet and retie with kindred mind aliens 😁 in person if feasible, virtually if not.
Waiting to see what was made of the 3 Body Problem.
Meanwhile, checking on news from the Congress reshuffle and Xi'an and other city covid "flares" and lockdowns! They are hard to live through for my friends there, who were used to a rather wide freedom, I know. Those who like watching dramas or reading can do so, more intensively perhaps: one advised that I watch Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty and read more Ma Boyong stories (this SFF prize winning author also has upcoming adaptations to c-dramas from his novels. )

Can be rewatched 😁

Agree ! It's one remake that's better than original !

The ex future HZY of the time lap has died, so no he can't be present : only one past+future HZY exists at that point and this one cannot be killed, so it's a happy end for all that had been threatened, except the agent who is in prison repenting, and the rival lawyer who is discredited and presumably in medical ward for insanity. From now on, it's a new 2022.

I agree. Although because of the undeserved possible deterrent value of these guys' relatively low rating, I strayed and offered a 9.5 as a candy to help with its finding its audience after watching through the first 5 episodes. But now I just noticed that Luo Yunxi and Janice Wu's Light Chaser Rescue are on release, so it may be I'll really need to grow another head to follow with all these goodies and trundle on with some other ones incl. boring AROLF (unless I end up dropping that one). Listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAAUIuyFFKQ to go through those high winds and beating autum rains... Nice song, totally un drama related.

Ratings are bizarre : on iQiyi, 191 Earthlings already generously awarded 9.6 to the remake vs 9.4 for 219 who rated the original since it was released.

Well why not?
219 Earthlings rated Meet Me 9.4, and 191 already rated the new Love in Time 9.6 on iQiyi.
This alien may grow another head to watch both now for comparison as well as enjoyment.
I had not watched MM before and liked the beginning of "LIT secret roommate" 😁