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Yes. The FL always liked Chen An more than the male lead.

It never gets all that much better, even after school, they are like two parallel rails that only converge when the woman runs out of track.

I’m afraid I have to echo the sentiments of the last post. This was a story that never satisfied for even a minute. Right up to the very end, it seemed as if the female lead didn’t like the make lead. For me the relationship between Mi Qiao as no Ben Ben outshined the main couple every time they were on screen. I can’t recommend this because it was all just some poor sweet guy chasing a girl who wanted as little contact with him as possible.

Loved the drama. It had truly epic moments on a level you don’t often see. It has the usual stuff for a romance, times when the characters don’t get along and even a period of separation, but the way it was done and how so much other stuff was going on at the same time resulted in much less angst than usual. The plot was smooth and well crafted and the bad guy had a Caligula level vibe to him that was downright disturbing. I have to agree with other reviewers. The romance was superbly written, directed and acted. An all around exceptional drama.

The ratio of men to women has always bend about .50/50. So what I want to know is if this guy had six wives, where’s the story about the six pheasant saps that had no wife :)

She drinks and has numerous meals alone with the 2ML. He buys her gifts which she gratefully accepts. That looks like they had dates to me, even if she never called them that. However, when she moves into a house he arranges where she has meals everyday with him, and goes on strolls and has long talks with him. That’s more than mere dating.

Not that heavy? She goes well beyond see simply dating the 2ML.

I think it’s more disgusting that the female lead, who seems to be empathetic to everyone else, not only doesn’t seem to care a shred how this might make the male lead feel, and. goes out of her way to antagonize him and teach him a lesson over it.

At some point you just want the male lead to tell the female lead “I get it. You don’t want me to care that your seeing this guy. You don’t care how it looks that my wife is staying at another man’s house and you don’t want it to upset me that your with him. You don’t want me to care when you go on dates with him, what you do on those dates, or how late you stay up with him. I get the message loud and clear, and I’m trying my best not to care. So just do your thing and let me be to come to terms with the kind of relationship you want from me..’

Despite flaws in the show you could drive a semi through, I liked this show a lot. The first problem was that it was 20 minutes into the show when I turned to the person next to me and asked “she not supposed to be posing as a man, is she?”,I know it’s hard to hide the narrowness of the waist and wide hips, the larger chest with narrow arms and legs, the lack of an Adam’s apple, dainty facial features and female voice. Yet other shows like “Bromance” and “Moonlight Drawn By Clouds” or even make a passable attempt where this show barely tries to hide her gender.

Beyond that, the character are erratic. Situations that should cause a major rift are sometimes dismissed with an overly casual ease while and others create exaggerated problems, creating a jarring contrast and making the characters seem inconsistent. It strains credibility when a character has heard the same voice for weeks and weeks and suddenly one day recognizes it with unerring certainty.

What made the show work despite its drawback, is that all of its flaws are superficial. They were problems with execution rather than fundamental flaws in the plot. If they would have included scenes at the start that stressed it was a woman playing a man, it would have been far easier to accept. If they would have had the characters agonize a little more over some revelations and less over others it would have worked better. If what was said had led to the certainty that the voice was recognized it would have worked. So, in the end the problems were all easily written off because the plot was otherwise solid and made sense.

In fact, it did something many far better constructed and produced shows such as “100 days my prince” and “King: The Eternal Monarch” never managed.to do. It, like “Imperial Coroner” solved the problem of a prince falling in love with a commoner. In si doing it gave a much more satisfying ending. We weren’t left with the feeling that the two romantic leads could never really be together as they had been during the show. In he end, thwt meant I liked it better than those high production shows.

This show easily made my short list of favorite Asian dramas. The two main characters were both quirky in a way that itself was kind of quirky. Neither seemed particularly suited to romance, much less suited to one another. So much so they for half the show I kept thinking: there not really going to bring these two together, are they? All the supporting cast were great too snd a bit unique in their own ways

Beyond that, it wasn’t your typical mystery. The focus wasn’t alway on solving crimes, but on figuring out what the heck really happened in the past and what the heck was going on now. Cases seemed disconnected but came together in a complicated way that was sometimes confusing, but also refreshing in its intricacy. It was not your run-of-the-mill storytelling, and I found it entertaining from beginning to end.

I haven’t watched this really, but I always have the same reaction to the actress playing the female lead. I can never put my finger on what it is, but she always seem “off” to me somehow. It was an attribute that worked perfectly for her when she played a vampire, where being too animated can be a problem, but here as a normal person her reactions just don’t come off as genuine.

I liked this drama overall. It was slow and steady and absent many of the annoying things shows sometimes do (at least I find them annoying.) my one complaint was that it felt as if the male lead dragged the female lead kinging and screaming into each development of the relationship, right to the end. It never felt as if she was truly all in on the relationship. Other than that, I truly enjoyed this drama.

Sorry for not responding sooner. To call it a fake relationship doesn’t really capture the nuances of the situation, to her it’s very real. The second male lead is using her to get together with another woman he really loves. The ML was suspicious of him, but kept it to himself. It didn’t go on for many episodes, but, of course, he is around the entire show.

Good for you. Tragedy is classic. The overwhelming majority of Greek classics are tragedies. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. For my part, I don’t care for them. There’s enough tragedy in real life for me, but it’s nice to meet people who appreciate them and are willing to say so.

This was a reasonably good drama, with a couple of really annoying kinks. Like so many dramas, this one depended far too much on people not saying the few simple words that would have made the entire situation go away. If you’re afraid the male lead is making a mistake in his efforts to protecting you, then how about you ask him if that’s what he’s doing instead of just acting unilaterally. So what if the male lead is in a situation where he can’t talk to his girlfriend. He has friends, pass messages through them. Or if your afraid the press will hound your girlfriend, how about let her decide if she can handle it.

What perhaps bothered me most, was the total inconsistency, Like the female lead being lied to by a guy in a life shattering way, then being totally pals with him afterward while she’s furious with the male lead for not revealing the guy was lying. Then later the second male lead lies to her in a much bigger way and she’s never even angry with him. Or how she never took the male leads jealousy seriously (she’d go hang out or have dinner with other guys) until suddenly some woman was hanging around her boyfriend. Or perhaps worst of all, the female lead lying to the male lead and leaving him to “help” him after he said a dozen times to trust him. Then at the end we get a big speech from the female lead on how he didn’t trust her. Sometimes the niggles are just too many and too annoying to overlook.

Well, she follows the man she believes to be her husband to the big city, but then as she pines for him, waiting for him to come to her, she goes in a movie date with another man. It’s hard not to be yelling at the screen saying “what are you doing dating someone who is not your husband you waited for for 699 years.” I don’t know what in at situation would make any viewer think the man she was meant to be with was not her husband she waited for for 699 years.

The rating is because mama fairy liked her deceased husband, not either of the leads. It’s a receipt for disaster. How can you invest yourself emotionally in either male lead when neither is who she wants. And if you do, at some point, you feel like she is cheating on the one she really loves.

Because they led you to believe she was meant to be with one character then the other. The only way to make that work is for ehr to jot care about either.

Depends on who you thought she should end up with.