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Both of you can watch it on unofficial sites like kissh.me; dramacool and so on. They should have all the episodes with good English sub. If you watch on official sites like Tencentvideo or other apps, I think you have pay. Even then, I am not sure they are available in your country.

Why did they take it off from YT? Really strange

If you wish to watch it free, you can try this: https://kisskh.me/Drama/The-Long-Ballad/Episode-1?id=776&ep=42346&page=0&pageSize=100

Viu covers the following countries: Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and South Africa

You are from none of the above countries?

Wow! Another honour for this amazing drama!!

Do you have VIU? It is a streaming platform, with good English sub for TLB

Sure. If you want a different point of view from the recaps, you can also come here.

Computer Generated Imagery. We usually see lots of it in Xianxia type of historical dramas

When you start watching, if there is any at all that you do not fully understand or seem puzzling to you, please do not hesitate to drop by this section to ask. Someone will surely help you.

Wow! Another promo for TLB. This is not an easy song to sing, but Zhang Bichen did such a great job. Thanks for the tweet!!

We will need to stay cool. We do not know for sure it will air in December. Even if the rumour turns out to be true, it is still a good two months away. In any case, getting all worked up will not do us any good.

In a classic stockholm syndrome, the captor would abuse the captive. One classic real life case ocurred to Patty Hearst. But, not in this drama. The FL was indeed made the slave of the ML. But never once did he abuse her. Watch the drama and you will know what I mean.

Haha. Don't be mislead by the synopsis. In a classic Stockholm Syndrome, the captive fell in love with captor. When you watch the drama, you will know that it is far from it. I will not reveal too much, or it will spoil your fun of watching it

ML was always protective of the FL. He was toxic toward anyone who would harm the FL. The rating of this drama in China is very high. So far, it has garnered over 3.34 billion views, meaning, each episode has been watched by roughly 68 million people in China. It is one of the top ten dramas in China, across all genres (modern and historical). Top 5, in Tencent's streaming platform. Well received internationally as well, as the drama and Dilraba (who played the FL) have been nominated for the Seoul International Drama Awards 2021.

Those were extraordinary days. We were not really chasing the number of comments for the sake of numbers. Through our intense enthusiasm, we just continually found new things to talk about this drama. When one or two left us, there will be chatty newcomers who joined us. We just moved from 10k, to 15K, 20k, and then we hit 30K.

People who left us in early May, when the drama finished its run, were totally shocked at the number of comments when they came back for a visit some time later.

If you are able to understand everything in a single viewing, you have very high EQ and IQ. Most of us need multiple viewings, just to catch all the fine details that we missed during the first viewing.

Yes, compared to view counts, TLB is no match for Kdramas. But even the best Kdramas are no match for the comments section in TLB.

Round about beginning of May to end June, something strange happened here. By the freak of nature, during that spell, this section attracted a whole bunch of likeminded individuals who were all crazy about this drama. We became such a family, and, at one stage, this section went totally crazy. If you were to step away for an hour, and you come back to this page, you cannot even find your own comment anymore, because it is pushed down by a mountain lot of new comments.

We were analysing just about everything one could imagine. At one stage, it became so 'hot', this page choked. So much so that people could hardly type anymore comment. The MDL admin became so concerned, they had to delete one whole week of our comments, just to make this page smooth again.

Yes, Cherry on top already explained to you. It was such a pity, because of his promise to make his first on screen kiss in that movie of his (and hence he could not do any kisses in TLB). Still all of us cherished his amazing on screen chemistry with Dilraba.

There seems to be greater acceptance of older woman dating younger guy (in dramas). Maybe one day, Leo and Reba can do a modern romance drama while acting their actual age. If you watch 'You are my glory', you will know that Reba has no problem doing fully embrace and kisses. Once Leo can do that, I think they can put on a good show for us. As good as Reba and Yang Yang did in You are my Glory.

The plot is so complex, many of us learned new things during our multiple rewatch.

Enjoy!!

If this is how you feel, and you have watched it only once, you should definitely watch it again. Some of us have watched it 4-5 times, and still did not get tired of it