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I love it! I've laughed out loud at so many scenes, and slow shots of the FL with her hair flowing in the wind or exchanging meaningful "looks" with the ML have all been beautiful.

Since I'm pretty sure the novel bears almost no resemblance to the show, I'm not sure anyone can. At least in my short perusal the only thing similar is the family is a tea family.

What a great way to start 2026! I am loving the drama so far. The leads are both incredibly smart and cunning people (I love how she always calls him scheming. Miss Rong, SO ARE YOU.)

One of my favorite tropes is when two incredibly smart characters slowly fall for each other. I am thoroughly enjoying his amnesia arc. Even without his memories, not for a MOMENT was he going to settle for being a mere stable boy. Watching him out maneuver all of the husband candidates like child's play has been vastly entertaining. No wonder the FL is falling for him. Also, props to the HILARIOUS moments provided by some of those other candidates. I've laughed out loud a few times.

Also, side note, but that steward?! That man is BUILT under those clothes. I about choked on my coffee when he was getting flogged for messing up.

SPOILERS from here through ep 10.

Anyway, like everyone else I detest He and especially Yang now, but I also kind of love how Yang messing up our leads engagement made LJL's true personality come even more to the forefront. He was NOT taking that BS lying down. Try to steal his woman? No, sir, not happening. I can't wait until he gets his memories back and someone tries to mess with him then.

I also really, really loved the scene where she tries to buy his continuing loyalty with all of the gold and land and shops and he's all "nope, not good enough" and she asks "well then what do you want?" and he just stares at her meaningfully and she immediately understands, gets totally flustered and kicks him out. 😂 She could not handle him looking at her like that. And then she IMMEDIATELY does a 180 once he's safely on the other side of the door and tells him yes, basically.

It doesn't work out thanks to that jerk Yang, but it was a great proposal scene and SO in character for them, ha ha.

There are trailers on Mango, but none of them have Eng subs.

By the end of the novel he would have been Emperor, so during his years of "death" she rules as regent while their son, the Emperor, is growing up. When his son is six, I think? He reappears at the palace as a "stranger", but because the Empress Regent had violently rejected every possible suitor or young nobleman sent to her by those trying to curry political favor, and she instantly accepted this stranger the moment he appeared, everyone around them knew immediately who he was. but they all pretend not to know that he's alive and who he is, and publicly he becomes the Empress Regent's...consort, I guess? But privately she and the son and those closest to them treat him as who he is.

There really have been some good ones lately. This is disappointing to hear but I’ll check it out with this in mind.

After Speed and Love, I was REALLY hoping we could leave the haters behind and stop having the comments section filled with unnecessary negativity about the FL, but here we are again. Advice to everyone as over it as I am: if you see a hate comment, there is no point in engaging. This community allows you to block users. Just do that and you'll never see another one of that person's comments. I had to apply that liberally on the Speed and Love page, and I guess I will here, too. FUN FACT: chemistry is between two people, not all manufactured by only one. He Yu didn't make that chemistry in Speed and Love all on his own. It's crazy how actors playing the ML get all of the credit and their costars, the actresses playing the FL get all of the hate.

I was unaware that apparently so many people think Meng Ziyi is a "terrible actress". I don't even understand what people are complaining about. Blossom was great. The Princess's Gambit had bad writing and not great directing, either, that just sort of meandered through the plot after a fairly strong start. The actors did their best but they didn't have good material to work with. It's crazy to me that somehow people are making that all MZ's fault.

I saw that in the trailer and thought "oh, at least the director knew how to make use of what he had" ha ha ha.

Totally relevant question. I am going to miss all of those sleeveless shirts in Speed and Love.

IKR?? I couldn't believe some of the Meng Ziyi hate I've been seeing. I adore her and have since Blossom. I also really enjoy Esther Yu. Like...why do fans seem to accept MLs just fine, but when it comes to the actresses there is so much hate? Speed and Love comments were SO full of haters who could not stop picking Esther Yu apart for everything from her voice (which was NORMAL in that drama, not overly cutesy) to her clothes. I'm SO over it. HALF of the chemistry in any drama is the FL. The ML doesn't do it all himself.

Yes, it is a happy ending, although it APPEARS like a noble sacrifice at first, but BIG SPOILER, his death is fake and after a several year time jump he comes back and they do have their HEA.

Who knows? Speed and Love is being called his breakthrough role. They may push up its release to try and capitalize on his current rise in popularity.

Thank you!

Well, this isn't really a rom com, it's an action romance. But yeah, the third act "break up" is pretty much all romance genre 101 for writing, so....very rarely does it not happen in some capacity, and since our ML is an underground fighter/street racer also doing UC work for the police, the type of trauma was always going to be something like this.

I can't go into these episodes without knowing, someone please spoil me, RE: do they do the same thing in the novel and amputate his leg, or does he just get severely injured?

Oh, that is very possible! Good to know. I haven't read the novel and was only going by spoilers I know from other people.

The clips we've seen from later episodes (him in a long tan coat, or a tan sweater) look like he has both legs. They look like clips from after the time jump, so....I'm guessing no amputation. Maybe just an injury?

Oh, I see! Yeah, it gets A LOT better. In the beginning there's a lot of long silences used to communicate how awkward they are with each other. It gets a lot better I think not too far from where you're at. Keep going, I don't think you'll regret it! LOTS of great dynamic between them later. Like, almost an insane amount.

Wow, really! I loved LGIEF, but found her acting in it a little over the top at times. (No hate; I like Esther fine, it's just that when she leans TOO far into her "cutesy" brand, it can be too much. I DNF'd Ski Into Love because of that). I've actually found her to be perfectly cast for the role of Jiang Mu, and don't find her over the top here at all. And I think both leads are doing a great job with the acting. Just interesting how people experience the same dramas differently. What about her acting do you find really bad here? I do think you might get used to her portrayal of the character ad the show continues. IDK, those early eps feel so far away now after everything that's happened in the show!

You should see the BTS footage! In the scene where he carries her up the stairs and then she stands on his feet, he is sweating SO badly! In between takes they put cooling patches on his neck and wiped sweat from his face, and he was clearly suffering. The moment he could, he took of the jean jacket he was wearing.