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@larius : I don't know what you are doing here, keeping commenting, since per your watchlist you dropped the drama "at episode 12" (I still don't think you even watched it honestly)
You even down rated it again from 5 to 1/10 ! That's typical haters behavior....
Jeez.

@larius : I don't know what you are doing here, keeping commenting, since per your watchlist you dropped the drama "at episode 12" (I still don't think you even watched it honestly)
You even down rated it again from 5 to 1/10 ! That's typical haters behavior....
Jeez.

Yes but although I thought I had heard QF say she was 26, I'm not so sure any longer, because now wasn't there her agent who asked the doctor if he was aware that she was older than XZZ ( if I am not mistaken).
But I am too lazy to go back and listen to sort out those details.
It is not that important ; they have not got around to check birth astrology compatibility, bazi etc, anyway.... lol

You are right, it was a rather short parenthesis though. Perhaps Yan Ze will go same way then, very soon. 🤗

You ought to change the name you put in your review.
The real author is indeed a woman, but her name is Isabel Ni / Ní Yì Shū 倪亦舒
You can read more about her and see a picture in the "companion piece" I penned at the time of airing : https://kisskh.at/discussions/the-story-of-rose/126207-the-story-of-the-rose-miscellaneous-details

since you have dropped, that's your problem. I don't think you really watched the drama before cutting at ep12 with a 5 rating, because it's clear you mistook Xiaoxiao with a less important starlet, from start.

I tried to set you straight in an earlier comment, but you insisted on your idea that Xiaoxiao was obnoxious and "unforgiving", which was a total mistake. Even reading through the episode guide notes, if you had no patience because you don't like the visuals, you could have avoided misunderstanding.

The "third couple" is by no means an exception in this type of dramas and does serve a purpose even if you misunderstood. Not "useless". I also appreciate that it stayed up till ep12 in support without hogging too much screen time as in, say, "A Romance of the Little Forest" where the secondary, very useless 2nd couple, hogged time to max. I reserve my opinion about ABL developments until ep.36.

But you are watching so many dramas simultaneously that it's understandable you could not identify who was who and what was what... sigh. And it is your privilege to drop, if a drama doesn't grab your attention. Although not very honest to shoot it down in rating, because of a misunderstanding on your part and telling it "fell apart" to justify yourself.

Personally, I'll wait till end to give my own rating, because even if this is certainly not the most thrilling item of the season or year, I find it decent, although not exceptionally original. But I admit to a bias for Chen Xingxu, one among many actors I appreciate and therefore watch more from : my list of interesting actors is getting long, but I know why I watch what I do, and why I'd say this season's top dramas are not in the sugar department.

I see you have tackled The Tale of Rose. That one is not the easiest, despite the flamboyant parts of unreasonable post adolescent virgin love there, which thrilled sugar-only addicts. You will probably stay on the surface, hating the manipulative fixated Fang Xiewen and clamoring to have Meigui get back with Zhuang Guodong or cry for Jiamin, and be frustrated at the end of the pilot's episodes. Maybe you'll like only the outfits, which are not true to period like the other details. It's a story that goes deep and is not fishing for shallow romance loving only audience who love to gush, blame, or hate without perspective. Crystal Liu, Lin Gengxin and the others in cast played their roles to perfection, and the cinematography was also very beautiful. Some "stranger" parts like the nightmare sequences reminded me of great directors movies, such as Guillermo Del Toro's fantasy or horror movies ; the role of these sequences in depicting Meigui's trauma are well woven in the drama.

For a change from sugar, you could if you dare, try to watch the most-lauded drama of the season: She and her Girls, although it is not easy to watch it on original wetv platform because of geo restriction. 9.4 Douban rating: totally exceptional, despite it is an apparently simple story.

you got her character totally wrong.

But in YAMG, Yu Tu did not chicken out once he got back in touch with Jingjing after the many years where he only could regret having rejected her and only admire her posters on billboards 🥰
It's true his position was not easy, as he did not earn huge salaries even as a leading engineer in top secret astronautical research, but he did have unexpected backing from government in his affair (remember the hilarious paparazzi scenes?) and this even helped keeping the actress safe from gossips mongers!

Here, I think despite the troubles in uneven standing, Xiaoxiao and Yanze will find a way back together 🤗

My answer of 3 days ago to same question which pops up repeatedly :
They both hide truths intentionally or not. The lies are not of the vicious sort intended to mislead for unwholesome purpose, but "beautiful" as in "merciful", to oil over the hidden wounds they hope will disappear with time.

The title of the drama and novel can be translated as "even your lies are beautiful" (lies as plural). The "new" English title both simplifies and misleads.

Qin Fei did not explain to Xing Zhizhi truthfully when he asked why she disappeared 18 years earlier. (by now she at last came clean about her sudden bereavement then)
As for the doctor, he was not sure why she disappeared before, so he was not forthcoming after having himself left her and not stayed close after the blast 5 years earlier, that forced her to change career from dancer to artist. (Even if he'd stayed, he could not have saved her from the damage done, and anyway, she was so groggy then that she did not recognize her brief rescuer, but he did not explain to her why he knew first hand about her physical vulnerability.)
Further lies: Qing Fei intentionally tried to push Xing Zhizhi away through cutting him off, appearing cold, fatalistic, unconcerned, wonder-woman strong and healthy (hiding her past injury to the show safety team and productions), unashamed of her bad reputation to the point of teasing XZZ about her (never true) past boyfriends. She lies to him and to herself that she just want to stay friends, because she's got a psychological condition called avoidant attachment :
"having an anxious/avoidant attachment style is linked to avoidant personality disorder. People with this attachment style tend to report that their parents didn't often express love or affection. Your parents might have been around physically, but felt distant when you reached out to them for closeness or support." (Qing Fei's mom was like that and especially hurtful when she broke the news to her daughter about her dad's death ; in fact, the little girl might even have thought that she caused his death through her wish for new ballet shoes!)

We are not there yet. Up till now, leads have a reasonable time slot. Secondary couples don't hog too much time and that's fine. There is one which appears to be an ex couple and not on the mend anyway (Xiaoxiao and the captain).

lol ; all series are at basis "soap operas" where brand awareness and product placement is required. Don't worry, just sit back and admire the glitzy parts ! 😂

"raining on their parade" 😂 ?

Well, we do know all series are at basis "soap operas": brand awareness and product placement is always a must there. Of course they cannot be shown trudging along in laymen's clothes from the market or counterfeit stalls there! Or looking too strapped for money either 😂

lol how we bridge the missing data with additional logic! 😂

In ep.9 QF didn't meet Jin Na. She met Luo Xiaoxiao the "big name actress", and XZZ met his sister.

Jin Na agreed to give an autographed picture to QF for Xixi, so she can't be total enemies with FL, but I think they still are not bosom friends but sure rivals :)

Qin Fei was accused of having had an affair with a lawyer in the beginning of the drama, so was fleeing from fans and paparazzi when she mistook XZZ's car for the one her assistant had booked for her.
It is said later that lots of rumors flew about her and other guys, but she appears to have been systematically slandered, her words and pictures distorted, like when she had replied to the awful and jealous Weiwei who ambushed her at the gala. Her prickly "hedgehog" attitude and the fact she took roles as villain in dramas did not help her image. Whatever she'd do, deny, come with other proof, take part in worthy causes... would be interpreted negatively anyway.

Rumors are like mud that sticks even when a court decision beats them down (as happened to some well known actors) . It can even happen if the event had nothing to do with actions from the person targeted. although some scandals are real and more or less direly serious (Kris Wu, Zheng Shuang, Zhao Wei, Fan Bingbing, Deng Lun...), many are just jealousy, over possessiveness by some fans, malicious slander, or mistakes.

C-ent is a special danger field full of traps and minefields that cannot be totally avoided by celebrities... Real life dramas are common, and gossips about them just fill the Net, so one cannot avoid hearing about them. As for taking sides, who knows what is true, what is hype, what is plain slander? Better stay neutral.

It's confusing yes, because at one time QF claims to be 26 and at another (in ep.11) XZZ says he is 27. But the childhood snippets show the girl looking taller than the chubby boy.

It's WeiWei who is shitty.

I see. I usually skip intros and outros until I've watched at least one episode: they can be misleading or spoilerish, don't you think ?
Anyway, I hope you like the show now that you've come further into it, despite you also chose to watch "too many dramas", lol :)
I am also enjoying The Rise of Ning, started on GBL and KMLM but was not hooked enough to go on then, will perhaps watch them later. :)