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I feel robbed. It’s fine that they replaced bite with the hug. But where was the slow mo, the stare down, the long hug, and him even kissing the daos head. Like I like how it flows, but I feel like we be robbed of like tension opportunities that were just turned into dialogues in a passing if you weren’t paying attention. It’s still good, because of the chemistry just want that extra kick. Their story should have been longer TT-TT

It depends on how the they plan to adapt the story. However phuwin plays the 13th prince which based on the original is one of the main allies for both FL and ML. He plays a key role for some major plots. In the Chinese version since it was like 36 episodes long, he was one of the characters that had long characterizations and side plots. He shows up as much times as the ML and FL since he was good to both. Looking forward to see how phuwin acts as him.

I hope they keep the tragic ending. Makes it more impactful, also the kdrama one actually toned it down quite a bit. The Chinese drama and the original novel is even more tragic and cruel. If they are following the original Chinese drama and novel, expect to cry buckets.

The kdrama version was good, but I pick the Chinese one over the kdrama, mostly because of how well they built up all the prince characters and delve deeper into their love interest. Hence making the tragedy even more tragic.

Honestly same, I vaguely remembers she gets pregnant pretty early in the story too, I’m watching the behind the scenes and I don’t see that. They might have changed it, or haven’t filmed it yet.

^yeah I think out of all the c novels I read, this had the most natural progression as a relationship for historical and transmigration. They were both adults (FL was adult mentally) and they acted appropriate for their age and experience. I like how there was no cheesy/cringe scenes or too much on the cutesy scenes. It was one of the reasons why I remember this novel so well. However though it’s also because it doesn’t have these kind as of scene that makes it kind of boring for some. Like there’s no like twist every so often, everything flow natural. All actions has reasons for it to happen, and our two main leads are no perfect people where things always go their way. Villains are not always dumb and are actually obstacles.

Drama most likely gonna be very heavy on plot and on the relationship between the two leads

OMG!?!?! How did I miss this?!?! I used to read this novel and loved it! I couldn’t finish it though cause the English translations were never completed and MTL just wasn’t good enough at the time. Glad it’s getting an adaption and I can finally get some sort of ending at least. It’s Bai Lu and Ryan Cheng, this is gonna be so good! Looks like China is adapting all the popular historical stories.

We could be waiting here for years depending on how censorship is gonna be 😩

I like how everyone is debating on who the main cast would be and really hopefully they choose someone that would do this novel justice. This and Star general is literally the top novels.

I originally had some thoughts on who would play XJX, cause like someone said he’s described as playful, handsome, yet beautiful. While I feel a lot of actors are handsome, not really a lot of them make me think they’re beautiful (my opinion ofc). Until I came across moonlight mystique Ao Rui Peng. Damn was soo beautiful yet so handsome. Think he could be added to the pool of potential male leads. In his other roles he acted in different playful characters too, though not really cool yet playful. So would be a sort of challenge for him.

Lol they made ARP looks so cool and handsome with his long hair. I thought he was acting someone that’s cool 😂. But he’s there for comedy

lol I think after you watch this, you won’t be able to even stand 1 ep of RMP.

The official never really clarified who her husband is. But some people in the comments are saying in the drama her pairing is with Zhao Yi Bo, I’m a guess they saw some behind the scenes pic. In the anime, DongFang Qin Lan was a kid, and not a whole teenager as shown in the drama lol.

Yeah everyone in the mask group dies, the him you see with some white hair and black hair is him after the whole group died. I won’t spoil too much, but it’s a story that meant to end in a tragedy, don’t start the story expecting it to be HE, cause it’s not. In Red Moon, they already talked about it being a tragedy and I don’t think they plan on changing it. The only one we know for certain survived was FL sister, who gave birth to the ML in Red Moon. Still up in the air how the drama might or might not change things.

The next drama to come out is sword and beloved, which is focused about their son and will have an older him in it. The older him does not seem to nice based on the trailer.

I believe their story is the shortest one out of the three since this basically served as the backstory for the other two. In fact if you read the manhua or watch the anime, I don’t believe it has much mini plots as the drama currently has (could be wrong), so the script writer definitely added extra bits which I am currently liking. Especially the interactions between the 2 leads.

No - this is actually the prequel by chronological order. If you watched the other drama you’ll get spoiled about the ending of this one. This drama is about the Aunt and mother of red moon pact’s ML.

Yeah this would technically be his first xian xia. Before BOY and Moonlight Mystique, it looked like they were experimenting different hairstyles that fit him 😂. This was filmed before BOY and MM, and those 2 got released before this one.

I also didn’t recognize him. Whoever his make up artist/stylist has some skills or his acting skills is that good. I watched quite a few of his drama and didn’t even realize it was him until I searched it up. In some dramas, he looks ok, in some dramas he looked heavenly, and then in some dramas he just looks good.

Yeah filming was done in 2021, but original FL actress was involved in some tax scandal which delayed the release of the drama (she was being investigated for tax evasion). Then she was officially blocked by the government, so she can’t appear on mainstream tv. So they hired another actress to reshoot the scenes with green screen.

I wouldn’t describe a happy ending, would consider it a bittersweet ending

Nah - it did happen pretty early on. There was a few instances. Almost every time ex mom interacted with Guem myeong, was straight up I don’t like you, your fam doesn’t match our class, I don’t want you in our house, and stay away from my son. Like the girl wasn’t even able to have a proper meal without her getting insulted by the ex mom.
She really did not bother hiding her dislike toward geum myeong at all.

I think the big difference is that her ex’s mom actively made sure that Geum Myeong knows that she despised her. Like regardless of whether she was dating her son or not, she looked down on her and her fam. While Gwan Sik though didn’t like Picasso, he had nothing against the guy. He just wary about any guy that’s dating his daughter especially after seeing his daughter go through a heart break before. If Picasso was not dating his daughter, they probably would have been able to have normal conversations, if he walked in as a customer or a stranger. Also, while gwan sik was making it hard for Picasso, cause he’s questioning whether this guy is capable to take care of his baby daughter. Her ex mom, straight told I don’t want you anywhere near my home and the biggest difference, guem young backed Picasso, while her ex only kept telling his mom to stop, but not actually doing anything to get her accepted or standing up to his mom.

I think this is a drama that really hit home with a lot of people that have been watching dramas for a long time. This is a slice of life, yet also tells the tale of a story of the most realistic and possible life someone would be living. When I first started watching kdrama or any drama, I used to fall into the story for the passionate love thinking this was the kind of love I wanted. However over the years, it became very prominent that those kind of love only exist within in drama and chances of it happening is near zero. What I really wanted was a bittersweet love where someone is by my side to go through this long road called life till we reach the end of the road. which this drama offers. It’s so realistic and I know ae sun and gwan sik story exist somewhere in the world. Not everyone can understand their story, since we didn't exactly live in those ages where woman had much more restrictions than now. When I watch this, I see my mom/dad in ae sun and Gwan sik, which makes me want to cry so badly because so many elements of my life relate to their life. I see myself in geum young, the bratty kid that would be annoyed with their parents, yet wanting to make them proud. I even relate to her brother who was neglected, due to favoritism and what choices he made.


This is the shining point of this drama, it tackles so many elements of life that you cant help but relating to bits of it. Especially people who have been at the lowest of the social class. Because this is just so realistic it makes it so controversial, because life itself is controversial. There is no such thing as right or wrong choices, they are just choices in life, what determines is right or wrong is society and what comes out your life from those choices. There no doubt that there will be discussions about the character decisions like wow why didn’t they do that, well while this drama is as realistic to life it can get. It still is a drama, ae sun and gwan sik, survived because they received a lot of help along the way. While it didn’t resolve all their issues, it alleviated a lot of the burden, this is not true for all of people, most people just have to struggle through it. Such as how guem young got accused of stealing, there’s no nanny that will be there to get justice for you or karma that gets back at these people that take shortcuts in life. It is these instants that bring me back to that ahh this is drama land. I’m not denying that are good people that do good to other people, but the chances are very slim. At least I haven’t encountered one that would help without ulterior purpose or using it as a bragging right. Maybe my life is just a lot sadder than other, who knows there are people who receive help and have help others. I just never encounter that.

This drama is gem and I really recommend people to watch it, it’s like watching a reflection to yourself. If you can relate to some aspect, it would make you think about your life and what is it that is important to you. Right from ep 1, I knew I would be crying, now that I watched vol 3, I already know I’m gonna be balling at vol 4.