ShortCircuit

What's Taem's problem, though?! She VERY MUCH gave the guy the wrong signals, if she's not interested in him at all. I mean, as a watcher, and a woman too, she DID look like she liked him. Obviously, for drama purposes, he turned out to be scum... but I feel like the writer changed the dynamics for the past few eps just to add more story to them (because other than Taem being Yak's tutor and initial love interest, the role didn't have anything more in it.)

Also, WTF, does Taem now chase Yak instead? When before, when he was mooning over her, she couldn't give him the time in the day if he asked?!

Which reminds me - LOL that wall clock in the ballroom STOPPED FOREVER AGO, it's been 22.15 for the whole ball hahaha~

At least Yak did get there in time to fend off scum Dr. Ter and bring Cinderella to his ball :D

And now he's declared his love, they're officially lovers, not fake BFs, yay!

I love how they chose Cher and Oye to bring in some real-world important issues - namely the passing of the same-sex marriage law in Thailand - I'm happy for all people who get their rights, and I hope we'll be seeing at least a wedding by the end of the series :D

Dr. Ter is such an a**hole. If I were her, I'd slap him too. I guess she's more of a lady, LOL.

I almost thought they'd make this ep a mirrored situation of last ep (though at least Taem had a valid reason) but we're safe, LOL.

And oh, Wandee might've said it's not ironical but it TOTALLY felt sarcastic when he called Ter vanilla, LOL.

(ep3) The general is a hydro homie, LOL. And Jiang XinBai is a cute drunk, taking inventory of her face, hahaha~.

LYX has the best expressions, LOL.

(First ep so far) Okay I did NOT expect that twist, LOL. And chased by everybody AND the dog too, hahaha~

This looks like it will be a lot of fun :D

TBH I am fuzy about the details of the ending part of the novel and I don't want to re-read it right now in order to enjoy the drama fully. But I think they've started changing some major threads in order to give Ming his redemption arc.

Which - did I mention this before, Ming, please f*ck off and die (novel Ming anyway).

Up was AMAZING this ep - I could feel his pain even when I don't like Ming. Poom, as always, sparked off him too and they made it great between the two of them!

Nice touch there at the end, what with the two of them caught in the crossroads... Umm, interesting.

I need to find that BGM...

ETA My favourite parts this ep - first, Joe taking Ming to task for crying like a little b*tch, too little, too late. And second... Ming coming up to them pretending he'd get rid of all Joe's stuff, then walking away with that desperate hope in his eyes. I LOVE eye-acting!!! He did BEAUTIFULLY in that scene!

Okay, that first half of the episode was the best part of the series so far.

First though - that's right, Ming, why the hell are you crying NOW? F*ck off and die.

Also, P'Wut, LOL - "no one should attend their own funeral" - err... isn't that the exact idea behind a funeral?! Everybody can skip it but the person being buried, LOL. P'Wut with the casual black humour drops hahaha~

Shoutout to the composer!!! The BGM in this ep ROCKED!! Particularly the theme in front of the morgue, when Secretary Jim confronts Joe. I loved that theme.

So how does the novel end? Please spoil me on this, thank you! :D

SYH's mom isn't married to his dad, and the father hasn't even registered SYH as his son, so she has no divorcing to do, LOL.

JaeMin-released-from-juvie-and-going-to-college Party has my vote!

TBH I kind of wanted all (young) YiHeon to stay. I liked DeukPal's personality, but the kid should've had a chance to grow up and become an adult too.

I also wanted SYH to somehow finagle JaeMin out of juvie. He's the one who actually showed a lot of character growth and he deserved to be rescued. Did the novel address that?

Also... Bong JaeHyun really does have beautiful eyes, LOL.

I guess I'll have to see if there's any kind of TL of the novel - even MTL, if readable - and see what the BL side of it was like.

Is this how the novel ends, too?

I meant, he couldn't have gone to them asking for money before they realised he's actually their old friend Joe. Wut wouldn't have had it anyway (he has some money problems and he also has a family), and maybe Sol wasn't the kind of close friend you can go ask for so much money that you probably won't ever manage to pay back.

But more than that, I think it's reason 2.

I'm getting whiplash from all the sudden happenings.

How come this pair and that pair fell in love?! They didn't even get to see each other all that much. Now there's talk of marriage and we're in episode 5. What the...

The old Yang master and his wife took two eps to die, LOL (I'm not laughing because they died, but it took two eps!!) and then Guo Jing found himself a soulmate in about 5 minutes flat. And THEN Yang Kang found himself a soulmate in about one minute, flat. What is this, an arms race?!

Is Yang Kang getting redeemed? Because Padme, errr, I mean Guo Jing said - ~There is still good in him, I can see it!~ LOL, I thought the main ship was changing or something out of the blue. But wait, GJ was also already engaged? WHEN?!

I've decided to just go with the flow, even if they're skipping rocks over the surface of the actual story, LOL. And I want Yang Kang redeemed, because he's cute. What, why can't I be superficial like that? THEY are too.

So there are two arguments to be made here.

1. He was desperate and made a decision out of freaking out in the shock of the moment, and also he is NOT the same Joe so he is NOT Sol's or Wut's friend, close enough to ask such a big lump of money out of them.

2. Ming freaking OWES him. He owes him his life, his actual money that are now out of reach, his home that he can't return to, his old profession back. Ming owes him everything. So Ming is the one who has to pay for it all (even if it means Joe has to be in the bargain to get it).

It's fiction. People can be as delusional or accepting as we want them to be, in fiction.

In real life, LOL, they'd probably pack Joe AND Ming to a psychiatrist to treat their schyzophrenia or something.

Sol's reaction is actually making me think really highly of Porsche. HE doesn't look so well during that scene, like he's ready to run away at the drop of a hat, LOL. He looks actually, real-life shocked, and I loved that. The fact that Wut is in the front acting up like he's mad at Joe for not telling them (I mean... what the heck could he tell them anyway and not be considered a madman?!) is covering up Sol's reaction a bit, but if you look at him, he's PERFECT in that scene.

Also, hehehe, this is based on a danmei Chinese novel. They like rebirth in those novels (trust me, I love them too, they're my favourites). Nobody bats an eye for being transmigrated into a novel, or reborn, or even just paired with a System and sent to right the universe up, LOL. And nobody in-world is ever shocked to find out that, hahaha~

But why condors? Is there a big eagle in the steppes that gives the impression of being a condor? I thought condors only exist in the Andes. (I get the wrong TL/adaptation, LOL, but I seriously cannot link Mongolia with condors. Condors belong with Aztecs and Toltecs and Olmecs and blood-soaked Sun Temples in my mind. I might be biased.)

Is it meant to be a Kun Peng?!

It depends on what you're recognising as chemistry. I think the main characters of this drama are on fire together and they don't even need to smooch to show you that.

If you're used to the in-your-face Thai BL dramas, for example, anything more subtle will pass right by you, IMHO. Myself, I prefer the subtle approach. When I need p0rn, I know where I can watch it. That being said, there are plenty Thai dramas that are not really explicit and still get the message through, so this is not pitting one type of doing dramas against the other.

Cdramas just do it a different way and there's no need to compare the two (or three, or more, if we throw in j-doramas or Western m/m stories and whatnot). I mean, what's the point? They're just different and that's that. And chemistry really does come through even if they're not on a bed doing heavier stuff than just looking at each other, LOL.

Okay so where does the Condor part come from?! Did they have anything like Condors in Ancient China?

Coming over from the other (longer ep count) page, this seems to be cut up in smaller releases to pass the censorship rules, so the one actually airing is this shorter length one and who knows when the rest will come, too.

So copy-pasted from the other thread, first impressions:

Errr, Guo Jing... are you a bit soft in the head?! Who the heck does what this guy does on his first day in civilisation, LOL? And he's not even among the first in the main cast?! What the heck is going on? (But I still like him, hahaha~, and I love his struggle with the white-haired guy who's heartbroken over his snake, that was hilarious.)

So many threads linked in the first three eps and we're not even a whole day's adventure in - will the DaoZhang survive? (Because it looks like Guo Jing forgot about getting his medicine FAST).

I also like Ouyang Feng, is he going to be a bad guy? And he kind of seems to be a bit slower than Rong anyway, LOL, will there be a twisted romance there?

Meng ZiYi as the evil demoness!!! YES please!! I've missed Zoey Meng :D I hope they don't kill her off too fast.

Is it just me or does Wang HongYi look a bit like Chen ZheYuan when he smiles? :D

I already got a bit lost among all the missing kids, sword brothers or sisters or marriage partners, and it looks like each and every one of them isn't their actual parents' kid but someone else's and hidden to be kept safe.

This is not half-bad, I'll be sticking with it for a while.

So the one being released right now is https://kisskh.at/742625-jin-yong-wuxia-universe-tie-xie-dan-xin, Hot-Blooded?! But it's still the same drama, just the first part of it?

Which damned page am I supposed to keep count of, then? This one or the other one, LOL? *confused*

I saw him in The Blue Whisper, he was the cat-like demon tribe/soul with the amazing braids, LOL. He's cute.