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Did you see the clip of him "singing" to BlackPink? That was hilarious.

HY suggested a past and present lives drama if they were to collab again which I would guess would be a historical and modern drama which I would be really intrigued by.

So this is what I pulled from people on HY's MDL page and you can check it out if you want (this is me quoting the comments where it was discussed 11 days ago):

Rumors first appeared in 2023 [HY and Liu Xie Ning were dating], but neither side confirmed. In 2024, they were spotted together at a restaurant.
Paparazzi caught him kissing her. After getting exposed lxn defended their relationship among her fans while hy was silent. But few days later their were rumors that his side asked him to break up with her otherwise he wouldn't get new roles. Her fans asked her to drop a specific emoji if he breaks up with her and she heard that offline. Later lxn posted that specific emoji on weibo after they broke up.
lxn's fans were upset as she got all the blame alone and only she tried to protect their relationship.
In weibo of course everyone sided with hy and scolded lxn after they were exposed.

People who are more connected to Chinese SM can fill in any details/gaps from this, but it does sound like they did break up about a year ago for all the public knows.

That's where the editing got really messy. They showed their intial break up first and he did seem ok which was confusing. They later showed another flashback just before they met where San Lai had to wheel chair him in and he had collapsed from the pain. So I guess the assumption is he powered through and didn't let JM to see him in pain to give her the clean break. I was so confused about the timeline too. That scene of him collapsing helped somewhat, but yeah, the editing didn't do a great job at conveying intent/how he was in pain.

I was just thinking that when I first saw your first comment haha.

If they do release 30 episodes for SK, there needs to be a way to watch 😭😭😭

Not sure but someone below mentioned it was going to be.

I joined right after the finale aired and I think it was around 13,000 comment then 🤣

Does anyone know what Hua Luo Liu Nian (under "Movies") is? I also saw it under YSX's Wikipedia page as TBD but I haven't heard anything about it before.

If they re-air SAL in South Korea, would MDL change the poster for the show on here?

I'm pretty sure they met on that terrace if that's what you're referring to and that was the official "break up", but they made it confusing having it split between multiple flashbacks.

Same. It’s so nice to me to see male/female friendships in the entertainment industry in general. SAL even showed she has remained friends with Mike from working together back in 2019 and it really did seem like the SaL cast got along well.

Him proceeding to sing Happy Birthday while finding all sorts of angles to cover his mouth and laughing 🤣

I noticed they seemed to share a similar sense of humor pretty early on in the promos and it was adorable. Yet another reason I’m annoyed they didn’t do HI6-I think Esther does a pretty good job making her costars comfortable on variety shows so that should have been a fun show.

There's a lot of us in the same boat here so I don't know if we will be very helpful for that 🤣

Is it normal for most CDramas to have some form of merch? It seems weird if merch is normal, why would IQIYI just say nah, we're good on missing out on potential profit from merch? Keychain replicas in particular seem like they would be an easy thing to make and sell.

Can you imagine if they didn't do Thai Sweet? I think that filmed in November, so that was a last minute thing too and it did give the actors played a big role in planning a lot of that.

I will be curious for sure.

I agree that I was also a bit disappointed that they didn't seem to utilize JM's character as well as they could have, and I especially agree about the friends/family part since Nana sort of disappeared soon after they got together and the family was portrayed as lying to her on behalf of JZ. She sort of just had Pan Kai after the accident who didn't lie to her. I think they could have done a bit more with her relationship with her father or even her fighting or driving/navigator skills potentially to give her more depth/character outside of JZ, but my understanding is that the novel itself is more male centered. They did cram a lot into 29 episodes, so maybe if they did have a couple more episodes, they could have done some more character development in the beginning.

I think potentially delving more into her relationship with her father could have helped and then they could have also shown the part in the novel where the father also told JZ to stay away during the six years, but I don't know if they thought that could get weird with the whole adopted siblings aspect. Either way, I would have preferred if they had also included the father also telling JZ to stay away instead of having it be JZ's decision for the friends and family to lie to her.

When I put the show in the perspective that it is more male centered (as in the male is more the focus of the show), I can appreciate JM's character arc they portrayed more, especially when I contrast it with JZ's personality. She is the light to JZ's darkness and her love which is also her strength is more gentle yet steadfast compared to JZ's fierce yet hesitant love. He is more action oriented support while she is more the emotional support that is shown via more subtle actions like the drifting heart and finding a way for him to fix his car. I also think showing how she pursued a career in academia also showed her development and why I don't mind the separation as much because they were both able to grow away from one another - the separation reaffirmed they were each other's end game while allowing them to sort of set up their own lives.

If it does help though, I've read comments by a couple novel readers that the JM in the show is a lot less annoying and more capable than in the novel, so there was some attempt to make her more independent.

Does anyone know if perhaps the plotline of adopted siblings would have made it where they wouldn't promote the drama heavily in China even if YSX didn't have all the issues she had last year?