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Now this looks like it's far in the future. How the world turns in between is unpredictable, but I doubt it would be the same. Trying to imagine it in light of the Back To The Future movies, 😂

He had described Princess as someone with a tender and fragile heart, so was unsure at the time how she could handle being thrown in the limelight as the lover of a convict. For many unpredictable years.
Pushing her away was surely a heartache, but logical, in the hope she was not too rooted in him and could grow again as a transplant abroad, together with not stopping her professional development. He could get back on his feet because he was so bright (even made a prison management program while he was behind bars, lol!) but she needed a framework to study and get certificates and experience. Causing her to stay would have meant stopping that, so he chose the painful way for her best interests.
Getting back together before he had completed his rebound was also a risk for her, in addition to his jealousy when he was told she was coming back to get married to Tian (but meeting and talking to the painter in hospital dispelled those suspicions).

yes that was quite an Art of War swift and efficient move, come to think about her boldness there.

I hope I can, and be thrilled by their future work too ! 🥰

That's a lovely thread.

while waiting

She said she WAS Zhu Yun, and in a different interview, CFY said the same.
Both really got into character.
Or acknowledge they really have similar ways of thinking and reacting irl ?
But according to both and their companies, it did not go as far as falling in love when working together: they just became very good friends. They did do an excellent job.
It would be a good thing if they are driven, persistent, and goal oriented too, able to dismiss threats and slander, in real life, because they have to take in stride jealousy and bias from a fringe of haters too (those who start without even having watched their work, branding the stories this or that, and Li Xun s "toxic", and go on with personal attacks about their looks, family or connections). It looks like this has become very common in c-dramaland, so that was probably what CFY dad [Chen Kaige} meant when he said he did not wish for his second born to enter that industry.
But it does look like CFY handles it well, despite his not viewing himself anything like Li Xun, personally, in real life. Respect ,💖 to both CFY and ZJY here, and kudos for the thrills and deeper thoughts they brought to us with L&P;

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"post drama depression" syndrome. Am with you at the moment. Fourth or fifth time I experience it: first must have been AoL ; last one was LLTG. - Got advised Wild Bloom was not bad, so will check what's out there already while waiting for Wednesday return to normal in scheduling.

Recommending The Brightest Star In The Sky; also Negotiator, to start on Z.Tao filmography. I loved LR too and was amused by the recurring appearance of some things that link the three together, almost Hitchcock cameos style.

salute to fellow 海浪 🌊😁 I love ALL the songs of Z.Tao...

That was my impression too: "novel version isnt very good". From excerpts I found, the story and main protagonist seemed (let's say it mildly) "harsher", so if the drama had followed slavishly, I think it would not have passed censorship or viewers' first five minutes. As some ones said, this is a case where scriptwriters did a very good job in streamlining and adding depth in a more believable way, filling plot holes too.
Perhaps it helped that there's a donghua version which also makes the story sweeter than the novel (you can find it on YouTube, with English subtitles, looking for "Lighter and Princess Dress").
Overall, this is a case where the drama version is better than original (and better than the donghua).
I don't feel the urge to read more of the novel, despite there being more to the story, perhaps enough for more drama adaptation, for a continuation.

I would agree with you that the Li Xun in the novel is toxic, while in the drama Li Xun got to be goal-driven, practical-minded (not losing sight of money-making, since he came from poverty), and repelling those he judged not worth of his attention. But keeping a human touch through his not too obvious support of some friends like Fu YiZhuo, Ren Di, his sister Li Lan ; his respect for his teacher Mr Lin and Lin's wife ; his appreciation of the colorful employees of the Flying company ; and letting Zhu Yun grow and bloom at his side despite the hurdles and "icy cataracts" they were both subjected to. Still cold-blooded, but warm-hearted, as Chen Feiyu defined his view of the character.

I shall be looking forward to January then ! I was cheering for the project since the first reports, being a fan of both toothy Bai Lu and graceful Luo Yunxi from their various dramas, including their common "Love is Sweet" where Bai Lu expressed in interview her desire to do another project with LYX !

Suggestion : Perhaps a special glossary should be added to MDL, to let newcomers not be scared away by all those English title acronyms : AoL, TMOPB, TBSITS, OAO+FAE, NPE, LR, TOOL, TBW, WRTW, LLTG, LBFAD, TYFY, IS, TROTLF, SSOFV, NLB, SAHPH, TTEOTM , ... that are now commonly used in comments for reference to iconic dramas.
Or someone could make a game for that in the new game section of MDL?

Actually this "episode 365' is a Making Of, ending tongue-in-cheek on some images containing 'to be continued". Maybe to be continued in our imaginations.

1/No although there is a "third wheel" from college who will be driven by professional jealousy and hopeless competitiveness despite being less farsighted than ML
2/ Yes although it is complicated since FL never lets go, and ML still secretly cares
3/ After graduation, prison and expatriation (3 years total for all that).
The college story starts in 2012 and lasts till 2015 ; the second, professional, part starts in end 2018, mostly happening in early 2019, before 2020.

Well, it would be fun to get the other BTS organized and incorporated in a longer Making Of, but 36.5 is already following this concept, actually, starting with booting scenes and first meetings of cast and ending with wrap scenes. The choice was conservative as regards the tickling scenes : I seem to remember more BTS like that. And we get different angles for the kiss scenes.

Agree this looked cryptic ! But despite the snippets with CFY and ZJY apparently on a beach, and elsewhere lighting sparklers, I am not sure they saved footage for another episode.

She already had had the light meal promised by Tian XiuZhu, and the invitation to the Lin-Zhao house was likely later, next day at the earliest. So I would lean to Justine's explanation, unless Zhu Yun had something that made porridge sad for her (after all it is often considered as food for recovering sick people). The deep-fried dough sticks on the table, typical breakfast food to be dipped in soy milk or porridge, seem to point to a morning meal, so perhaps she had already had breakfast before coming to the University, and was already full so not wanting to force more into her mouth ?

Well if you are satisfied that they had a fucking chemistry and happy they end up together in a toxic relationship, good for you.

Gao was paranoid enough to suspect it, I assume, so I was puzzled that he nonetheless intended to use it. But we know that Gao never was a really bright one, despite having scored "6th place in the provincial exams' and apparently being successful in cheating Li Xun out of his shares in L&P. The brain tumor probably muddled his thoughts.