TianQi

I liked it, but maybe the acting skills weren't quite as up to the standard that would have REALLY let me enjoy it. However, it was only 10 short episodes, so I could forgive that. It was a pleasant watch.

Which one's are sons of Taiwanese celebrities?

The reason for them to possibly be able to speak Korean is because they have an immediate relative who is Korean and a father who has business investments there. They also speak Korean to him too...Maybe that's not a big enough reason for you, but it's enough of an indicator to smooth that part of the story out well enough. Super rich people the world over are pretty big on their children being multilingual anyway.

When does the youngest brother's boyfriend understand him speaking Korean? I seemed to have missed that one. For the other people, yeah, it's quite awkward, which is why I said, they should have just let him speak his "choppy Chinese".

I'm not sure how familiar you guys are with Chinese or Korean, but at the beginning, the when he says "I can speak a little Chinese", he says it in Chinese. He also responds to his brothers at several points throughout the drama in Chinese. Likewise, his younger brothers (particularly youngest one) do say a few lines in Korean to him. So, I guess it's supposed to be understood that the all the brothers/father are more or less bilingual, but they understand the second language better than they speak it, so they just speak their first language. This isn't a totally inconceivable concept. In the US, where I'm from, children of people from like Mexico or China who immigrate to the states, will speak only Spanish/Chinese to their kids at home and as the kids grow up in America, they only speak English everywhere else, so the ability to speak Spanish/Chinese well will fade, but the ability to understand it doesn't because that's all their parents speak to them and of course the parents understand English too, but it's not their first language. So, it's not an uncommon thing to communicate like this.

All that said, it is still VERY awkward at the beginning when he's just talking to the guys who are mugging him in pure Korean. He could've at least let out some of that choppy Chinese. LOL

I was thinking he did something to his chin. lol

I watched this mainly for Luo Yun Xi and I loved his character the most.

Like others mention, this one does drag, but I don't think it drags in the middle, I think it drags during the final eight episodes. That said, Zhen Bei and Ya Li's parts really distracted from the main storyline. There's lots of mysteries and twists, but they're all pretty much easy to figure out by about episode 45 with only very few minor details remaining. Then for the last eight episodes they seem to want to answer one question per episode.

I really liked the storyline and the acting, but this series really didn't need to be 58 episodes long.

I feel like he has really beautiful hands. I know, I know, weird thing to notice, but it really wasn't intentional. In Ashes of Love, there are so many close-ups of *his* hands in particular and with 50+ episodes, it was hard for me not to notice. Now, as I watch Princess Silver, I'm eight episodes in and TA-DA! Close-ups of his hands in EVERY episode. It seems like a conspiracy. I'm gonna watch more of his series to find out. lol Anyway, I love him as an actor.

Saw 2, dropped 3, heard about 4, but didn't catch my interest, saw 6. I just looked at the page for 5...I'm worried it's gonna be a bit too unnecessarily sad. Is it? I'm for Korean dramas too.

I really agree with your second and third points. That's why I think XF is one of my least favorite leads of any C-drama. I haven't seen Legend of Fuyao, but I'll add it to my list. Thanks for the recommendation!

Zhang Vin Vin in King's Woman was a bit different. He was the protagonist and antagonist at the same time. I, in no way, felt any attachment toward his character aside from the fact that his acting is good and he's attractive. I'm also very familiar with the historical Qin Shi Huang, so I've always held a sort of negative opinion about him.

As for Ashes of Love, I totally see what you mean, but like I said in my last sentence, when looking at the characters outside of the context of the romances they're involved in, it's most easy to empathize with Runyu. His story line, as an individual was just overall more interesting to me. So, whether or not Runyu got Jinmi was kind of irrelevant to me. I just wanted him to be happy and get some justice...and he never really got that, in my opinion.

For me, any of these three plot edits would have made this show better than it was.
1) If the story centered on Runyu as the main character.
2) If XF actually DID kill the Water Immortal. It would have made an excellent dark twist to the story and it'd be somewhat believable because XF does have a temper, he is competitive, and both of his parents are wicked/cruel too.
3) If the Demon Princess and Muci had a more prominent role. Their relationship was the only pure one (like 100% real from beginning to end) in the whole show, so it would have been nice just to get more development with them.

This is one of my favorite C-Dramas, so that's why my views of it are so defined. haha

I randomly caught a clip of this drama on YouTube and saw Leo Luo as a main role, so that was enough to make me start it, Aarif Rahman is also in it *heavy breathing*, not to mention the beautiful Lu Zhuo.

From the comments, it seems like this drama gets very droppable somewhere between episodes 15 and 35. I probably won't drop it because I'm such a fan of Leo Luo. HOWEVER, I'm also seeing that the ending may not be the happiest one...which means it's for sure Leo Luo's character who's going to be the one hurt (I guess). His style just goes with male characters very sensitive, intimate, and subtle. I feel like directors and viewers alike like to see him endure tragedy. It almost suits him, which kinda stinks, but I love watching him, so I guess I'm part of the cause. haha

Only four episodes in. Let's see where this goes!

Another commenter wrote, "All in all, Runyu wasn't actually that bad of a person, compared to the emperor and the queen. If he were the ML and this was a revenge story revolving his character, his actions could have been portrayed as right through a simple change in the editing."

For me, the simple change in editing was done in my head. LOL For me, this entire series was about Run Yu and the tragedy of his life. No matter how justified Xu Feng and Jin Mi were in their love, Run Yu was ROBBED of every happiness he could have ever hoped of having. When looking at the characters individually instead of within the context of a 'romance', it's very very easy to empathize completely with Run Yu.

This isn't as good as the first season, but I still liked it. Weird ending though.

Netflix now has it with English subs.

My and OP's whole point was that XuFeng's gullibility was insufferable. lol We've gone down a bit of a rabbit hole at this point.

I'm sorry, I don't buy that. They're separate issues, but he's one person. XuFeng in addition to being the God of War was also the Crown Prince. It's really difficult to believe that he was the supreme entity of strategy as god of war, but basically a child as a Prince of Heaven (which also involves power struggle and a lot o strategy).

Yeah, I know. I'm just saying. lol

The fact that Tharn didn't try harder to actually kill Lhong, that Tar's brother (Tum, I think his name is) didn't ACTUALLY kill him and the fact that nobody NOBODY thought it appropriate to call the police on Lhong really bothered me. Drugged, gang-raped by three guys, and filmed? Scarred for life? Lost the love of his life?

I absolutely loved this series, but the writers totally screwed over Tar. He didn't deserve any of that. Nobody deserves that.

This was the perfect ending to a basically perfect series. The only way it could have possibly been better is if we got more scenes with Techno and if he and Champ possibly hit it off, but I that’s asking too much. haha Very grateful for this ending.

YES TO ALL OF THIS!