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....Heh...Not that young, only in comparison to a teenager maybe? He's still pretty young, but I think his acting was damn good in this drama. He's certainly punching at the level of some of the bigger named actors his age and older.

If you need closure...JoL is safe to put on your list again, as the second season is now official...However unless you *really* hate cliff hangers, I would still recommend it as a great watch.

Around ep 17 I think

This actually hooked my in pretty deep. Just as I was getting a little tired of the back and forth flashback style, they changed it all up again.
The story is well written, if a little slow paced at times as can be in a C-Drama. I also think there's some quite clever use of framing and story telling to fuck with the audiences expectations a little bit.
The truth gets revealed bit, by bit, and each character is honest and fully realised. There are no shallow, only existing to serve the plot type characters here. Here all the characters have their own story, their own goals, dreams and desires, and most of all, their own flaws, and make their own mistakes.
If you want a mystery you can sink your teeth into , and characters you can feel invested in, then this is worth a try.

Easy, Yan Jinwas in the perfect position, with the perfect background! Ex SWAT, ex Drug squad. More importantly he had been approached by the bad guys in the first place. They were actively courting him in order to gain access to his family's logistics company. A normal person who was willing to help the police would certainly have been considered under those conditions, let alone someone with Yan Jin's qualifications. As for sacrifice?His friend Cheng didn't let him sacrifice anything. Yan Shen made her own mistake long before, and Xiao'ou ... well she should have called the cops as backup the moment she was told by Niya about the stash of money. Hell, she should have told Cheng or Zhao the moment she started to suspect Feng.

Not a bad watch. Feels like a small indie flick a bit. Low budget, with only a handful of actors, but a easy to watch, slightly bittersweet movie. The acting/directing is a little bit, ...not subtle, but nothing too egrarious.

I need the side story for XiuYan and MingQi...Cause there's definitely a pairing there. Guess they didn't spend those 70K years locked together for nothing. Enemies to lovers indeed. They were even wearing matching outfits at the end!

I turned my brain off after the end of the first ep, FF'd through some of the evil dude/ess monologuing and actually enjoyed this for the most part.
Don't understand why we lost the better 2nd ML for the 3rdML...I couldn've sworn they were ramping up 2ML for the long lost brother trope in S1, until they suddenly introduce 3ML outta nowwhere.
The editing is terrible, the music, inconsistent, plot goes up and down and the ending could've used another 2 mins at least of smooching. But I still enjoyed the kids all working together, and the 4 guys when they put their differences aside all got on reasonably well with each other.
If you go into this with *very* low expectations and you like the actors, you might enjoy this.

lol, yep! 🤣🤣🤣

The OC can say all they want, but my headcannon is totally putting that "/" between Wang Ye & Zhu GuQing!
Cause just friends don't give 2nd and even 3rd looks over their besties the way ZGQ was to the shirtless WY....Tho to be fair, I recon even the straightest of straight men would give a shirtless HMH a 2nd look. 🤣😈🤣

I'm admitedly mostly watching for the Righteous Luo and Unscrupulous Chen banter/flirting, but whyyy does Wang Yang play sleazy bastard with a heart of gold so damn well?!?

Look, I love watching some serious man pain with the best of them, and Cheng Yi can really bring the feels, but I have to admit, I like him better as a smart arse, confident knowit all even better. This really deserves the melodrama tag, also I think CY was trying to beat Mark Chao's record for time spent onscreen unconcious from Eternal Love. I think the only way I survived this was all the snark in between the angst, and all the boys being *very* easy on the eyes...that and the FF button got hammered continually.

This is one of my favourite wuxia stories for this year. The friendships and character interactions are amazing. Each character has a indepth history and the world in general is more fully realised that most. The reason the story feels complex is because we're essentially being dropped into an ongoing story that already spans a couple of generations. It's worth hanging in there if you enjoy friendships, great fight scenes, shenanigans, more shenanigans and politics, not to mention hilarious banter and snark.
This series did well enough there's apparently another season, a prequel, and a spinoff all in the works.

It gets better around ep 7, but the FL's general childishness, and selfishness really made it a struggle. Hence I FF'd through vast parts of the first few eps. I just watched for Yuan Hao and his pirates. It picks up after that and the FL stops being all talk and actually acts semi competently. It's otherwise a fairly predictable, light and fluffy drama, and Yuan Hao is damnable dashing as a Pirate Captain.

I enjoyed this. I went in with low expectations and I was pleasantly suprised. I like how the body swap scenes dealt with YT learning to live in a woman's body and all the resulting complications it comes with, in a sublte and surprisingly mature way. I would honestly liked to have seen more scenes with YT learning how to deal with the realities of existing as a woman, when he's so used to *his* very priviledged male life. But I still enjoyed the implied understanding he had. Making sure BW had all the things on hand to ease her period when she woke up, cooking for her, cleaning. Making her a replacement trophy.
I would also liked to have them dig more into the repercussions of the sparks netween LF & YT in BW's body, but I know that's not something ever likely to happen in the current climate.
I felt a bit let down with the ending. It felt like they added needless complications, when there were already several ways they could have wrapped it up in a more satisfying way implied in the pre-existing plot.
However it was still a good watch. I think my biggest regret was LeLe and Hunting Dog not getting their HE as well.
Also Forgiveness is over-rated. Some people just need to burn in hell, and Hao Cheng was a prime example.

Yeah... Tianyao did not deserve a happy ending. Not to mention yet another ambiguous ending, and far too many people suddenly ended up dead in the last few eps. It wasn't made clear if any of the Shenmu clan survived, or if Xingchen was the only one after Kongchan's little homocidal attack.
Nothing about that ending was a clear win, happy, or even a smidgeon satisfying. I liked LHY and ZLS in their roles to a degree, but I still think they both deserve better.

I was amused at the fact I think I could actually hear Leader Ma's californian? accent coming out in his Korean...but I think he was there to have an unabashed champion on YeChan's side. As an american expat he's not expected to adhere to Korean cultural norms when it comes to love.

No, your english is fine. Its the OP who failed at reading comprehension...
I might have included Train to Busan on it, but I don't know how purist the author was in sticking to 'action' only titles.

I think this was the show that taught me to fully love my fast forward button!!!

I still think Pei Yin is Zhou Yuan's father. PY left before the massacre. He's also much older than he looks. Cui Ying also mentions at one point, when he's moping, that he's not the only old person around. So I suspect that for some of the powered folks, slow aging is also a factor. If their powers/backlash doesn't kill them, they might not age much.
He was coming back from the village to break up with Pei Ying's sister, but the massacre happened. We know sometime after that, that Zhou Yuan was found by her father floating in the river.