Luminous Lotus

Lol. Maybe if this project gets enough attention, some director somewhere will be inspired to ask them to be in another drama together

They were in the 2019 drama Touch Your Heart which you can watch on viki or prime video

Dimpled riri gave a very clear explanation. Just wanted to add that City A is a classic example of Chinese webnovels. Probably censorship so they're not allowed to use real city names for some reason or other. So Xie Yong'er or rather Ma Chunchun being from City A is a dead giveaway she is actually a novel character who's character setting is a transmigrator (but not a real transmigrator).

If you watch all the flashbacks carefully, the only one who bullied him was the empress. The teacher only punish him at the Empress's request. He's the one that let his inferiority complex inspire him to bully Dan. He had enough power to use the eunuchs and maids at his disposal to bully Dan when he framed him for insulting all the princes with pig slop and getting the maid to leave him a note. And he grew up and had plenty of political suaviness. He wasn’t stupid but he wanted to continue on this road because he thought Dan was easy to bully and there was little risk.

Mr. Bei was my favorite too!
I found the timeline to be most confusing. They kept switching up how many years it has been during a flashback scene.

Two things i love about this drama. Brain cells were not sacrificed for comedic effect and the villains didn’t get a quick death. Too often, the evil character causes so much suffering but they got to laugh all the way until the last 5 minutes where they get a quick almost painless death. They really got their just desserts in this one.
Ps. Minimal physical torture, mainly mental torture in case physical torture is a turn off.

Sang Mo was poisoned by his father when he went home and was gien a severe beating. The paddles used to punish him were laced with a special poison that will make him more prone to anger and each time he gets angry, his body gets weaker and closer to death. His dad wanted a legitimate reason to skip him and pass his duke title to the younger brother.

Depends what you want in a drama. Definitely a lot of bad things happen to the male lead but I like how there's no unnecessary misunderstandings (so overused and frustrating) between the leads. They're actually a very calm and sedate couple in general which may not be your cup of tea. I like level headed characters. Also, not a lot of skinship, ie. Kissing etc.

The first time I watched it just after it finished airing and there was a comment about Sang Mo being a muscle head or something which is explained if you pay attention. Explanation posted under spolier

Just finished rewatching it since there's not a lot of current shows I'm interested in. It's an easy rewatch since there were no moments where I feel like the leads frustrate the hell out of me which you can't say about a lot of dramas.

and thank god it had a happy ending after the rollercoaster of emotions

Glad I watched it even though I cried a lot

you and me both

FL is kinda stupid but very funny. Good thing it's only 26 episodes. I can watch bumbling idiot for 26 episodes but not if it's going to be 40. Thank god she's no longer acting like she got poisoned stupid in ep 12.

Just finished watching it. Here's my synopsis:

FL transmigrated to the favored princess Wu Shuangyue who tortures the ML, hostage prince of Chu, Chu Shiqing. She's going to have a bad end at the end of the book which she wants to avoid by being nice to the ML. There's a system that insists she follows the plot to torture him. Watch what happens when she tries to have it both ways.

Everything is average with this 2 hour mini/vertical drama except Chu Shiqing can hear her funny thoughts.

yes, I thought of Macau & Hong Kong too while I was watching. It felt very natural in the parts that they spoke Cantonese (when they're in private vs official police matter and pedestrians in the streets) vs Mandarin. An Lan spoke Cantonese with her bestie and spoke Mandarin when at work or talking to Ding Qi.

Thanks, i got that it happened in "the original" but I didn't catch the reasoning behind it. However it happened in the original, the current rendering is pretty silly.

i think it's a poison that just stimulates the spiritual veins so you can grow them in the case you don't already have them. The latest 2-3 episodes seems to imply that Ming Yi can have stronger spiritual power if she survives it because her master and others have mentioned how once she's better she can dominate the inter-realm competition (like more than before).

the 4 righteous shaolin and wudang folks are fighting with the 4 people rivaling for the ultimate twin swords title who work for the power group and the river group. they want to give them their power to finish the kill since both groups are too beat up to fight properly anymore. "kill him" is referring to the other four people. As for how all 8 people ended up passing him their power, I can only guess it's another rivalry thing trying to prove that they passed on the highest power and techniques. It illustrates why people complain that it is poorly written.

i need to take another break after his brothers' stupidity and distrust have reached new heights in episode 28. To top it off they were being so fake nice I wanted to beat them up.

thanks, i was finally able to finish it after being stuck on ep 4