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@MiMo
Ooooooh, I am so ready too! Not even going to pack! Just grabbing my passport and credit cards. Planning to do a little tripping myself right into Cheng Lei's arms and he can take me shopping for clothes or we can just skip the clothes for a few days. Then we'll go with the group to the filming locations for the Lamenters' private tour with Cheng Lei. 🤩🤩🤩🤣🤣🤣🤣

@MiMo
That's the team spirit!! I knew you would take on the challenge w/out hesitation on behalf of your fellow Lamenters! 🤣🤣 We've got your back! 💪💪💪💪

@Tricimc
I like to cook food. I just can't bake desserts and pastries. I just don't have the knack for them. I also do not eat much when I cook. Just from tasting and cooking I am full. I do love to watch others enjoy what I cooked.

@Tricimc
I know. It's bewildering and unfair 🤬

@ Tricimc
I can't wait for last weekend in November when the last 6 eps of 100 DOD will have dropped and I can binge! SPOILER: You know it's not going to be a HE, or at least not a complete one, as far as I read. Again, like with TLOA, keeping 🤞that what I read was wrong.
I'm with you as for WTME and TSTR. Shame. I had been looking forward to those 2 series and I like the actors, but.......
Yes, it would be interesting to taste the castella cake mentioned in 100 DOD. It has sentimental connotations. I wish I were a good baker. I would try out the recipe for the castella cake. I have tried baking pastries and desserts and it is absolutely not my forte! 🤣Please post pics and deliver slices to all the Lamenters to taste 🤩

I have a long list of drama watchlist:
The Love in Red Dust
Sea of No Return
Reborn of the Rightful
Empress Reborn
The Guardian of Fate
Live long & Prosper
Dancing with the Tide
A Journey to Glow
Tian Du Yi
The Palace Stewardess
The Noble
The Great Tang Pearl
Northern Wei Dynasty
The Road to Glory
Chasing Dreams
Sweetest Rebellion
In the Moonlight
The Days of Seclusion and Love
Yunchu's Vengeance
River of No Return
Fated Master & Disciple

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@Moonstruck
🤣🤣 I'd love to visit China and So Korea! I totaly understand you! My friends and family can't relate to my CDrama and KDrama addictions! 🤣🤣

@LFox
I have not watched When I Meet the Moon since I get a feeling it's not going to be to my liking. I do like Lu Yu Xiao lots since I saw her first in My Journey to You. I will never understand why TLOA didn't rate at the very least an 8.5 if not a 9. The highest it got like for a minute was 8.3 and I thought as each episode aired that it would keep rising. Then it started slipping and ended at an unfair 7.9. Yet, Where the Mask Ends rated 8.6 and Tigers Sniff the Rose has an 8.1. I thought maybe TLOA's ratings dropped because of all the moral police and haters' comments because of the ML's harassment of the FL, but Tigers Sniff the Rose has actual rape (although not shown, but very much implied), forced marriage to the rapist and forcing the victim to have the child conceived from the rape. In addition, it has castration as a form of bullying. I haven't seen that MDL page full of moral police and haters' comments like I did with TLOA. IMO, where the Mask Ends only has the amazing acting of Tian Xi Wei, a pretty ML and pretty looking support cast. Good thing we all know how good TLOA was and what a huge success it has been where it counts and MDL rating can't touch it! 🤩🤩💃💃

@Tricimc
Sounds delish!!! Thanks for the heads up and thanks to Madyush for sharing! 🤩

Hello, Fellow Lamenters! Great to be here! Glad we have a place to discuss lots of series together. I too have not recovered fully from the loss of our dear Commander Yu Cheng Xuan 😔, but have moved on to watching other series and I do revisit my favorite parts of each TLOA episodes. Have any of the Lamenters been watching 100 Days of Deception? I'm enjoying it lots. Has anyone watched Make Me Tingle? I thought it was really cute. Story line was good if you don't mind biting into the 29 year old virgin and the usual father/son bad relationship tropes. The pace was good and a satisfying ending. How about Scandal? I know Scandal got a horrible rating, but I gave it a try and enjoyed it. It's different. I know it's slow. The story is dark in the sense that the 2 leads make a wager using another person's feelings and virtues. All-in-All, I liked it. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea or slice of Tiramisu 🤣Share your opinons if you've watched any of these 3 and/or have recommendations. I'm also watching Tigers Smell the Rose and Where the Mask Ends. Must say, not impressed with either except for Tian Xi Wei's acting whichis superb.

@MiMo
WOW! That would be amazing visiting the filming locations as the Lamenters! I think you or Tricimc, as the moderators of this group, should contact Cheng Lei and ask that he be our personal tour guide. Try bribing him with some Tiramisu!🤣🤩

@Moonsoon
Yes, Yes, Yes!!!! More male centric action drama for Cheng Lei. No Xuxia. I'm not a Xuxia fan. Although, if CL is in it, I will try it out. He does have Leading Stars coming out 2027. That should be good action and different from TLOA. 🤞🤞🤞

@MiMo
🤣🤣🤣🤣 That's a great idea to push yourself! I know I would! 🤣🤣🤣

@Tricimc
@MiMo
But, if you should trip on the carpet, Cheng Lei/Deputy Commander Yu Cheng Xuan will be there to catch you and carry you into the hot spring and give you a private ceremony! 🤣🤣🤩🤩

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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this♥️ Thank you for inviting me to join 🤩🤩🤩🤩

My #1 are Against the Current and The Lament of Autumn tied at #1 for me 😍 I know they are not on that list, but had to say which are MY faves for the year.
As far as the list, 2. Pursuit of Jade, 3. Blossoms of Power, #4 Love Between Line, #5 The Early Spring, #6 How Dare You, # The First Jasmine. I haven't seen the others. 😁

@Moonstruck
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@wednesday75
I totally understand you not being ready to grieve for YCX! 😭🤣 I felt I just needed to face it head-on and move on with the scar in my heart. I saw that they could have gone with an alternative ending they shot in which YCX did live and they find each other, but drama production team chose to torture us 😩I'm in that same boat with you: hate so many dramas with sad endings, but can't resist watching them 🤣 I immediately moved on to The Early Spring on Sunday and finished it yesterday. That was soothing to the heartache of TLOA. Looking to start something new today. I have watched 25 eps of Where the Mask Ends and I'll finish it next week when all episodes are out and eventually finish Tigers Sniff the Rose. It's just that WTME and TSTR are just fill-ins for me because I really don't find them that great. WTME is good eye candy and the FL's performance is amazing. TSTR I've watched 10 eps and I've read it gets better. We'll see.
As for my opinion on Xu Ruo Han's performance, I think her character was meant to be acted out the way that XRH did it. These actors have lots of coaches and directors on them all the time telling them how to deliver the scene. That she might have been able to bring a little more to it, very possible, but all-in-all, I think she did a good job. On the other hand, I have never watched her perform in any other series so I can't really compare. On the other, the third, hand (🤣) I'm not usually impressed by any of these actresses. The only one that has impressed me so far is Tian Xi Wei. I've only seen her performances in POJ and now in WTME. IMO, she is very talented with a far range. She has played 3 different characters between both of these dramas and she has managed to make me believe she IS the character she is playing, if you know what I mean. It's not like I have felt I'm watching TXW pretend to be someone else. Maybe TXW would have brought more to YPJ's character, or not. I'm just not a big critic and always see the silver lining to things and people. 😁 There are only 2 actors I refuse to watch perform anymore: Chen Du Ling and Ren Jia Lun. I don't know why, I just can't stand them! 🤣 I don't know them personally and I shouldn't dislike them, but I DO! 🤣🤣 I tried to finish The Glory and Crown to Ashes and just couldn't stomach CDL and dropped them! I put up with RJL in Love and Crown because of the FL, Peng Xiao Ran ( I like her and have seen her performance in other dramas) and I put up with him in Love of Nirvana because of Jeremy Xu (I LOVE Jeremy Xu!). I don't even badger these 2 actors, that I dislike, so I wouldn't really, really criticize other actors (too much 🤣).
Enjoy your TFJ rewatch! I will probably rewatch my fave eps of Legend of Female General, My Journey to Love, A Familiar Stranger, Melody of Golden Era, Love Between Fairy and Devil, Everlasting Longing (THESE ARE ALL MY GO TOs when there are no new dramas 😁) until new dramas start airing. Recommendations are always welcome. 🤩🤩

@wednesday75
I did finish it yesterday. Purchased the whatever pkg it was for $4.00 and binged from eps 35 thru 40. I was satisfied with all that happened. The ending didn't surprise me, as it was more/less what we knew would happen. Did hate that everyone I wished wouldn't die did die. Not sure if I want to think the ending is open ending and imagine YCX is miraculously alive, as very often happens in CDramas, or if I just want to say "RIP, YCX. You live on in my heart!" 🤣
I hate that the haters managed to get the rating for this drama down to 7.9 on MDL. I saw two review titles saying something along the lines that you shouldn't watch this drama if you don't agree with misogyny. My reply to that is if you're going to think of this story that way, you may as well never watch another costume/dynasty era or republican era drama CDrama or period KDrama again! Maybe only watch the modern day dramas! As a matter of fact, history should be erased completely then or never used as a theme in any future novels, books, movies, etc. Unfortunately, from the beginning of time, women were considered inferior to men in every possible way and had little to no rights to say or do anything as an individual with a brain and emotions. Not saying at all that I, as a woman, or as a human being, agree with that. Just saying this is the way it was and if a drama is going to be based on that era, that's what you're gonna get.

Did you finish it? What are your thoughts?

@Antzela
I truly hope none of it is true as well 🤞🤞🤞