Michelle Topham

Hahahaha, I realized just HOW well-written the plot and the characters were when I started to read the novel, which is decent in its own way.

I can only imagine how long it took the screenwriter to create something that works for a drama from that novel, as they've basically stripped it to its bare bones and then rebuilt a story that's "kind of connected" to the novel, but not really.

An incredible feat, IMO, that must have required an enormous amount of work to get it to where it is now.

But there's literally ZERO heat between the FL and YX. She's not interested in him at all in that way :)

Hahahahaha. I just don't get the fascination with YX at all. Well, I do if you're a teenager or in your 20s, I'm not :)

The character is fabulous and Winwin is doing an incredible job portraying him, and I CAN objectively see he's handsome, but no.

Then again, I've never been into pretty boys so there's that. :) Give me a Ci Sha or a Xiao Shun Yao any day of the week :)

What? Their sexual chemistry is literally goosebumps chemistry it's so good. It's always funny to me how people see things from completely different angles, isn't it :)

BTW, Huang Yi is also doing a phenomenal job in this as Jinzhao's sister Gu Lan. She played one of my favorite characters in Fate Chooses You, and it's fascinating to watch her now as Gu Lan as those two roles could not be more different, but she has killed it in both of them. Such a talented actress.

No, it's voice actress Liu Rui who provides Jinzhao's voice. She was also the voice actress for A Sheng in Fate Chooses You, and Feng Xi Yang in Fated Hearts. She's very talented, had a huge number of roles.

Yep, I understand you completely :)

Plus, the FL was given a title by the Emperor. 😀

🤣🤣🤣 Yep. That too!

Hahaha, yep, sign me up. 🤣

It's a completely different plot. I'm only 15 chapters in, but it can get a bit confusing because I have a tendency to compare events and people to the drama. And the drama wins every time. 😀 Why not try the first chapters and see what you think?

Yep. I work from home too. Or I'd be in real trouble. And now I'm really going!!!🤣

Bland. Yep that's the correct word. How I see him too. Not bad, just not memorable.

I have GOT to get to work, and I'm supposed to be What's Apping my parents in an hour and haven't even had a shower yet. But... I've already watched some scenes in Eps 29 and 30 THREE times. Send help :)

And now I really AM going or my dad will kill me if I'm late -- hahahahaha.

You're absolutely spot on. Couldn't have said it better myself :)

Yep. Very likely.

She was also brilliant in The Longest Promise, but got SOOOOOO much abuse from Chinese viewers for her performance for a long time, a performance I thought was superb. I'm happy to see she's been in so many successful dramas since as she is incredibly talented, and obviously didn't let those as*holes tear her down -- just like her character in this, if the truth be known :)

Edit - ooh sorry, I went off talking about the FL instead of the sister. My mistake. 😀

Ci Sha is so good with his expressions. Right from the first time he met her properly as she was dragged away from him and then looked back, and the look in his eyes was full of curiosity and affection at just how cute but also how bold she was :)

That whole first scene between the two of them, plus the lantern scene, sets up the drama so perfectly. A brilliant job by the main actors and the director, IMO.

Thank you but, oh I can be a real bitch - hahahaha - as my mother would tell you :), but honestly, I was always brought up with the morals that people treat you how you treat them, and it's worked out pretty well for me.

My almost-mother-in-law was a Southern belle from an incredibly wealthy family, one of the first families of Dallas, and my family is British from working class stock but now upper middle-class due to my parents' incredible hard work.

My mother-in-law never expected her son to find another rich girl, just someone he loved and who was good to him (as he was to me), and she was happy when he did :) I wish more parents were like her (and mine!)

Thank you and, well, horrible things happen to almost everyone. I have the world's best parents, amazing friends, and have been able to travel and live all over the world. I've always had good health and been pretty lucky in my career. So, if that's the bad thing that happened to me, a lot of people have lives that are much much worse :)

There are certain account I immediately block for one specific reason. Don't care what they say. I have no interest in having these brain-washed people in my life for any reason.

The rest are just people who, rather than having a debate, call you/me/other people names. Nah. Not in my timeline :)