Nepeta 22

No they don't, and you are right...Hence Qing Yu's soft dismissal 😉

Ha ha. I avoid teasers, I find it spoils it for me sometimes. I guess, we just ride with this wild drama and park our heads at the door! I don't hope to be asking similar questions tomorrow!

No worries. He probably did. It's probably one of his party tricks! Anyway, onwards and upwards. Let's hope it's less dramatic tomorrow. I've got this far, I feel I must press on...

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out later. I think it may be wise to skip this based on what you prefer to see of the ML's character.

Yes, the promotions are hugely fake and they must say the right things. It's their job. And they all say similar things about being their best role etc 😉. He is probably hiding behind the sofa when he's watching back right now!

I think these authors were writing out their fantasies for a niche audience, and when it gets adapted for a wider audience, it exposes their flaws. I agree it's really unrealistic and tiring to watch because quite clearly only 1 out 2000 men would be quite like this ML. But hey, don't let these odds get in a way of a good escapism for some viewers. Let them dream....

How unlucky, since that shooter is that inexperienced Huo Min Xian 😅

Yes, I suppose. Or as someone else told me earlier. It's probably a bit of plot armour 😉

That's the word. It must be plot armour. His brother popped with one shot. The FL seemed to bounce back from some similar shot wound. But I'm hanging in there hoping they will go back to that huge storyline of rising from the dead!😉

OK, I get you and I definitely thought of that. But don't you think it strange his brother dies just from that one bullet and FL seems to come back from the dead literally, and ML later stabs himself 3 times and gets beaten to a pulp on the same day and he's still alive. This feels hugely inconsistent and unfair.

More bizarrely after that, he stabbed himself 3 times in front of his mother in an act of (I would say a really desperate attempt to be gallant and torn) anger but most probably severing ties with the Murongs. That scene was supposed to be dramatic but it felt really forced and unnecessary. Worse still it did not showcase ML's acting ability. In fact it was very flat and weird.

Then he's bolt upright next to FL with no hint of wincing or limping next. Then he's beaten with huge rods by family gang, and at this point, I am thinking about the 3 stab wounds previously. ..I'm to believe he is alive and not even disabled?😛

The drama is getting more and more messy. Soapier than a soap opera now. I genuinely want to know. Was all this in the novel or was this added in the drama? It just feels like a group of people thinking about all the different ways to make the leads torture each other. But none of it seems coherent and when it's all put together, it feels very laboured and forced.

In the scene where Qing Yu got shot and Qing Yi is cradling him, why was he shouting to get a doctor? Such a bizarre scene. He's the man to do some work, surely considering his skill as a doctor, or is that a surgeon and of course gun toting hero. He just stared down at him doing nothing.

I just want to know if the drama is following the novel. Because right now, it feels like a completely shameless fantasy dreamt up by the author to max out all the possibilities of torturing the leads. After a while you need to give it the side eye because it's so ridiculous.

I know, I really don't like those storylines either. I don't know whether the novel was like this, or it's how this production chose to re-write it. If the latter, it would explain my comments about how female characters are written. Poorly.

This then make ML character seem blind and obsessed with just the FL. He's made to look derange. Maybe the creators think female audiences love this sort of twisted fantasy? This imbalance is strangely what is causing drama fatigue for a lot of Chinese romance dramas. If this is how this drama is heading, then it will bring a lot hate to the FL character.

When I first saw him as the kitchen god in FOF, he immediately stood out. I hated that drama but stayed for him. But here, he's really looking more mature and ready for main lead stuff. Hope to see more of his future works.

Put it this way ( I was bought up on a diet of soap operas), the drama makers whether intentionally or unintentionally have created a strange horror story and we sort of know it's not quite right here and there, and even pick at flaws here and there, but ultimately we do love seeing it happening 😅

You look at the social constraints at the time. Your parents no matter blood or not are your ruler. You wouldn't act the way he did at that wedding banquet. He was a brat that lost control and that meant (for someone who was trained up to doctor level) he was acting very out of character no matter how he felt.

The mother's character was also badly written because there seemed to be so less time invested in her character for us to know why she is so embarrassed of her son. More time was given to her sons instead and that's not fair or right since she spends so much of the screen time slapping or berating him. The daughter as well.

I feel the people behind this are stuck in another era where women other than FL are just there as stock characters and it drags the whole drama down.

One of her earliest roles was ML's university sweetheart. She really was a natural already and very obvious she would have been a future star. If you can stomach the drama because it is a very sad story and not for the faint hearted.

The Last Goodbye to Mama.

That's how soap operas are formed to keep bread crumbing you along. After a while you feel a bit guilty for hanging around when the full loop goes back to the beginning. You soon realise it's not about the story but someone just making up the most dramatic scenario to keep you hooked, at the expense of the characters. This is what's happening. You either end up hating the FL or the ML because the drama makers here are doing a very good job of that due to the messy unnatural convoluted stories.

That's interesting. In those scenes he seemed like a little brat trying to embarrass everyone. I didn't like it one bit. So consumed with juvenile hate. The scenes with Li Boze afterwards showed his other brother was far more mature than he was.

XZX has been very good in this drama and definitely expect to see him in lead roles of bigger productions next year. He is already looking main lead material now.

Lease put these types of comments in a spoiler box.

The real scandal is oldest son Fu Xin Bo plays her son. Very insulting.