Keshein

The story is true to their characters. If you read the novel it's more obvious, why it's so hard for them to be open and honest. Both because of their traumas and how life was in the court with all the plotting, I mean what happened in the first life really just proved that most people cannot be trusted. Also she liked being in control, she grabbed the "power" as a baby for her destiny. Not everybody has to be one of those people who just want a simple and peaceful life, even if it's the most common type of ending these days. I found it refreshing that the FL was not a naive girl looking for simple life.

How much romance in this one?

Thank you Pursuit of Jade! After watching more than 200 Asian dramas it's getting more and more difficult to find something I can truly enjoy from beginning to end. Are there parts that could have been better? Of course there are. But watching these 40 eps I never once felt the urge to fast forward or put this on hold. I was genuinely excited to start watching every time and enjoying every episode.

It took me a couple of years too :D This was a good drama so I wanted to finish it, but it was so heavy that I had to take breaks.

Is this better than the earlier adaptation? Which one should I watch?

Eternal Love (=Ten Miles of Peach Blossom) but you have to hang in there or fast forward because the main couple doesn't really meet until ep 13/58.

You are probably talking about the "can't do it anymore" scene and yes, they cut it out :( You can only see it in the leaked episodes.

I gave it 9. At that time I had not seen that many dramas so maybe I was more generous with my ratings than these days, but there's a reason I came back to this page once again :) I remember that at some point the plot got a bit draggy, concentrating too much on SML, but there were many excellent scenes with the ML that I still remember oh so clearly, even though it's been a few years. If you can appreciate a shameless ML who is villain type but not really toxic, always treating the FL right, looks good and knows how to kiss, go for it!

When Song Yan saw Xie Zheng and did not yet know he was the marquis, he said something like: "She did not abandon you, she took you with her to the riches. How are you better than me." And while of course I understand he had to find out Xie Zheng's real identity, I think it would have been a better lesson for him if he didn't. Because now he probably thinks FL stayed with ML because he was a marquis and good enough for her that way. But she would not have cared if he was just a normal guy. So it would have been good for Song Yan to understand that ML was not better because he was a marquis, but because he was loyal and treated her well. And for that she would have taken him with her to riches, had it been necessary.

Some thoughts about when ML and the ex-BF meet towards the end, under spoiler tag in comments. What do you guys think?

Did you end up watching this? The ratings tend to go down over the years so 8.0 is excellent rating for a drama from seven years ago. I thought this one was good and chemistry was good too, some excellent kissing scenes. Just some boring side plots and you should know that it's a comedy, even though it's not mentioned in the genres for some reason.

There is very much romance

My Secret Bride

Is there any place where I could watch this with reasonable quality? This is from 2020 so there should be HD versio around, right?

Did you find better quality somewhere?

Thank you, I started reading it now :)

So where are you guys reading the original novel? Is there a good translation around?

Oh no, I don't know if I can take it

Thank you! I'm watching ep 15 now

Someone tell me how many episodes are they going to spend apart so that I can mentally prepare