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Not to mention signing contracts without reading them.

The food looks particularly mouth-watering in this show. Its hilarious how so many of the protagonists are gluttons in the 2020 drama vintage. And such a bad influenced when we are all locked down at home during corvid!

I didn’t expect to like this show so much. It’s like the Downtown Abbey of Beijing opera.

When it first aired, it got stopped halfway due to censorship crackdown. It took more than 6 months for the rest to be released. Most people watched 50+ episodes with no ending. It is all out now.

Oh good, am relieved to hear that. Tyvm for clarifying - too many bickering women was one of the reasons I decided not to watch Minglan.

Oh I almost died laughing when they braided her hair into two devlish like horns when she was disguised as Lu Yi's maid on the boat. That was her best, most hilarious hairstyle on the whole show!!!

Oh no! I paused this to clear up my watchlist a bit first... is this one of those one dude with many women stories??? Oh I don’t think I want to watch that. I thought the daughter and eunuch story sounded interesting but I am not interested in palace harem or bitchy backstabbing women...

Ancient Detective is very good. I just started it.

Love it - Tang Fan doesn't get mad, he gets even!

This is good, I consider it much more along the lines of a real mystery/detective that allows audience involvement.

I have to say the other Chen drama queen looked absolutely stunning in the white costume and the way he looked into the camera... WOW! Of course I was rooting for Shang Xirui but that was just a fantastic moment.

Yes, of course. I pretty much live in China.

You should just get someone to send you a LongTV. It literally has everything in high definition and for the shows I am watching it is as fast as the VIP for both iqiyi and Youku. Its a tiny box, smaller than Apple TV. I brought it back from KL to HK and it works fine, just plug into TV and logon to wifi. Its a one off purchase, no need to pay recurring fees. Chinese subs only.
https://my.long.tv

I did start it some time back - it is highly acclaimed for good reason and. the kind of show I normally like a lot. But I never managed to progress far because I find watching anything with subtitles very difficult after reading off a computer screen at work for 12 hours each day. I do mean to complete it some day.

Enjoy! The drama has it flaws but it’s still in my top 3 and I went into a bad slump after so be warned. And wow - it was so hard to stop cyberstalking Chen. Kun and Ni Ni.

Ah... tyvm for your kind words, this one was so much fun it wrote itself. :)

This year has been much better (other than this one) for unconventional FL and/or ML roles. Both Under the Power and Miss Truth are notable in that sense although the secondary characters still are same old same old.

Guo Jia is actually my favorite character so far.

Indeed - Chinese women really have to start raising their expectations!!!

This show is so well written it has so much more than just the relationship between the two leads. I absolutely loved the gun shooting competiton - I laughed my head off while appreciating the symbolism and message behind what CFT did at the same time.