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Started to watch this, thinking that it was a new drama, but it looks very old fashioned (at least 15 years old). Also, the first five minutes are exactly the same as another old drama which I watched years ago.

Edit. No, I found the right one but with very bad subs. God knows what I was watching before under the same title on Youku.

Try Daily Motion - but hurry, because the Korean drama episodes are often taken down within days of being posted. Also, there may be more than one subtitled version of each episode available.
Edit: I have just tried to watch 4 different versions of Episode 1. None are subtitled well throughout; They all have a mix of good, bad, and missed subs.

I refer to your comment "Rot in Hell.", amongst others.

I don't like the 'noble idiocy ' trope either. I was just just trying to point out that she is not the villain that you paint her to be. She is flawed, yes, and some might not like her behaviour or her character - but you would happily have her suffer in Hell. You strongly 'hate' her (too much so) and I do not think it deserved. Also, you have not yet shown how she was responsible for the SML turning 'evil'.

Ha Ha. So did I.

He doesn't 'try' to rape her. This suggests that you think she was capable of fighting him off and that she actually did so. He is threatening to rape her, to mark his territory, as it were, but with no intention of carrying it through because he knows when to stop and doesn't touch her intimate parts - and we, the viewers, know this. (Of course, even if he did, they would not show it.) When they have the ML behave this way we understand this otherwise we would not accept him. Compare it to how they film a scene where they want us to hate the villain for attempted rape even when it is off-screen. But call it what it was - sexual assault. Personally, if a man did that to me, I'd kick him in the nuts in either situation.

In a historical context, she does have a right to separate them. Also, she is not trampling the male lead. By the law of the time, she is no longer married to him. Just like concubines in many Chinese Dynasties had no rights to their own children - they belonged to the official wife. She is not cruel at all and, although she seems cold hearted, inside she is not. You are applying modern day social mores and standards to the distant past as well as failing to understand that what she is doing is for the ML - how ever misguided her actions. The second male lead turned evil because of his own inate character. Have you not watched enough of these yet to be familiar with the 'noble idiocy' trope?

This is not the right platform for this kind of post- and you know it.

Thankyou for replying. (I did actually see a comment saying as such after I posted the question.) Let's hope that you are right. I hate waiting for follow up seasons. Look at Joy of Life, for example!

Hi, iconmb
Someone else here says that part two will air in Mar / April, but gave no source, and you say six months. Did the Chinese government, when they limited the number of episodes to forty, not stipulate that a second season cannot be aired until a year later? Or have these rules been relaxed?

Good subs are only done up to ep 27.

Okay, Thank you. if I get time, I might read it - as long as it is not as long as Joy of Life!

Thankyou for your reply. As you say, let's wait to see.

Can anyone tell me how it was that FL did not inherit 'Fragrant Garden' if her mother left it to her - or intended to, anyway ? Also, when she was turned away after announcing herself as the owner, did she try to do anything about it - then or later? Thanks.

I have a question for novel readers re Fragrant Garden which I have marked as a spoiler below.

Watch on Daily Motion and maybe Billibilli.

On DM, f you are lucky, you'll find the whole series of many different dramas but they are not necessarily posted in order - unlike BB. On DM Several people might post one episode but then you might find some episodes for private viewing and some are deleted immediately after posting. I have only watched to ep 12, so far. It might be on Billibilli, too. (I haven't looked. (Note also that some people post better translated copies than other people on both sites.)

Thank you very much for replying. I shall have to find that part to read.

OK. Sorry. I don't know how many episodes you have seen, (I know that there are only 2 eps on Viki to non members) Ep 3 is here, on Daily Motion, but it might not be there for long: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9bjqra

Here is ep. 4: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9blbds

Sometimes people upload episodes from different dramas here (usually Chinese) and then delete them immediately. Others stay for some time. Sometimes you can find many copies of the same episode (again, usually Chinese) uploaded by different people so some are manually subbed and some are not.

If you scroll to the top to 'where to watch' it says ' Netflix'.

You did not read what I wrote. I said that I like Dylan. Am I wrong in saying that the drama was written for younger viewers? I have copy-edited many childrens / teenagers novels in my lifetime and I know that this was not made for mature viewers. I never said that mature viewers cannot enjoy it.