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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.

I believe the whole censorship started with a really famous drama called Scarlet Heart (Bu Bu Jing Xin) that came out years ago. It was about a girl in modern time transmigrating back to historical times and spoiler is that she was able to come back to modern time. Which was revealed that she had an accident and was left in a coma. The thing about this drama is that the historical facts that the drama covered was based on real history. The main girl falls in love with a prince and they have a very tragic romance. It is implied that she affected history for real.

This drama was such a hit, it lead to people (mostly girls) committing suicide cause they wanted to back in time. Afterward this drama was taken down and any drama afterward should not contain any elements of travel back in time or rebirth/reincarnation. Of course though, it’s not like all drama that are banned from these elements, it’s mainly the mainstream ones that have stricter rules since it’s being broadcasted to a much larger audience. Also, since this drama was based on real history, there was some rules, where dramas can not deviate from real history if the characters are based on real historical people. If it is planning to deviate, the drama would have to change the character names.

Lol no the colors definitely do stand out. I was fine with it, but I watched some reviewers definitely say the colors gave them the headache. This director is known for his usage of Big lights and weird/headache inducing camera angles ( refer to kunning palace) which probably contributed to the headaches. In this drama he toned it down XD.

Should also add some other XianXia dramas
Till the end of the moon (Bai Lu main lead)
Immortal Samsara
Love and redemptions
Ashes of love
Ten miles of cherry blossom

To that list - it has the same setting which is xian xia. You could also watch the related drama to moonlight mystique.

Ancient Love Poetry (Parent)
The last immortal (related)

The main characters in this story are supporting/side characters in ancient love poetry. Each drama made their own changes and can be its own standalone. For this drama specifically they made a lot of changes so back story will not connect back to ancient love poetry. Though apparently someone spoke about the novel and it seems like the drama story plot is better than the novel in my opinions. Espically in terms of ending.

Ooof hopefully we’ll be able to see more of his works. I’m not sure how much Moonlight Mystique boosted his popularity, I’m hoping it boosted it enough to give him better scripts. His previous works, it’s not that his acting is bad, just didn’t get good scripts.

Anyone knows if he has anymore work lined up? As far as I know, all his current works are done filming and waiting to pass inspection or editing phase to be aired. They just wrapped up pull string last month. However, don’t really see any future works that he has planned for this year, maybe blood of youth 2?

Ikr, but this kind of hair style is pretty rare in xian xia, they mostly do hairtie up. Though he has an upcoming modern drama (Qi Gen Xin Jian) with shoulder length here and he looks cool there.

His singing voice is good, but he be ruining people idea of him singing well XD.

LOL especially when he was acting all cute. In the novel, he was crossdressing as girl, which made total sense. However a dude saying those lines to another dude, pretty sure the censorship team wasn't gonna let that go