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i was amused and entertained by your first comment. i respect your opinion. i too can't stand certain things in dramas, while I see other people love those things. there really is something for everybody.

I haven't started that yet. Slim pickings at the moment. I'll definitely check out Love Beyond the Grave though!

haha that's what I call a proper revenge story! <3

haha i appreciate you! obviously I was just filling the time with this series anyway - wasn't really keeping me entertained so I'm glad you said what you did :)

🤢 oh no.. ok will drop now at ep 15 as that's not my cup of tea! thanks for the heads up!

it was the ultimate betrayal of trust and working together. I'm pretty sure there is no coming back from that. Around ep 12 when he was drunk in the garden she said he won't have another chance with her. I hope that rings true, but if they do get back together it might be about revenge that she ends up ascending to the throne and then takes him out haha

I am not so savvy to the rules but from what I'm aware, any mainstream series have to adhere to the country's policies and social views on the matter, while vertical dramas don't have those limitations, They can be saucier, more violent and involve taboo topics that would not be allowed in mainstream series.

Yeah i think it totally is and has been for a few years now. It's so easy to write a story without it but certain short dramas (with not as many censorship rules) tend to be like vertical dramas (even less censorship rules) in pushing people's boundaries to what is acceptable. Dancing on the verge of risqué topics to illicit peoples' quirky fetishes is unfortunately the norm rather than the exception these days.

so many dramas do this these days. i recently watched a drama where everyone in the comments thought it was fine because they weren't blood-related but I had the same perspective as you. The drama Gemini is another example of this.

oh thank you so much for explaining! that's very interesting to know there is a term for that kind of thing :)

Have submitted the details for the admins to approve of Night's Wild Pull. As it's a vertical drama I don't know if they will publish it but I've submitted what I can and the information I could find.

i don't know what boxed series means but i doubt it was filmed a long time ago.

as all series and actors added are done by volunteers, I submitted some info yesterday about the series and the user/admin xxmai added it several hours later.

my mum and I recently watched this drama together and she complimented Lu Jin on managing things very maturely at the end. i think that's accurate. Lu Jin, while it took him a while to sort out his feelings, afterwards he was loyal and what I would consider the definition of a man. probably my favourite ML in a modern drama.

so so so accurate feeling

HEAVY SPOILER BELOW:

if Jinman didn't come back in the end none of the series would have made sense. He was super smart and no way he had survived all those years to die like that. Nor would he have given up to protect his niece by committing suicide when all her family was killed because of him. He would always fight to protect her rather than giving up in the "hope" someone would be merciful. That part was consistent with the story, otherwise the whole story would have been nonsensical.

Overall gripping moments throughout the series but a lot of Jian surviving came down to luck of the moment. I couldn't suspend my disbelief to fully immerse myself in the story. Heavy "super hero plot armour". Overall 7/10.

yeah i saw your comment and was like i will be able to answer that for them, but then was like rather than just answering it i may as well see if the series is any good, so yeah thats how it went! 🙂 i really liked it! great, light-hearted and well put together and the actors were good looking and acted well!

yeah FL actor is 5 years older than ML

i unironically watched the entire series to answer your question. do you mean Matt Sky - I Forget We Die? If that's not it, just mention the time in the episode.

Dropped at episode 21. ML wasn't a great actor in Love and Redemption (which I just watched) so I wasn't able to appreciate him as an actor in this. FL was good at being a competent vengeful badass. Romance for me was meh. Didn't love it, didn't feel any sort of emotion.

glad to have provided some insight! :) in the same scene there is an idiomatic expression about killing but not burying (Guǎn shā bùguǎn mái (管杀不管埋) ) which means not taking responsibility for your actions. PeiLin previously had said TYY needs to take responsibility to finish what she started, but TYY says I don't kill and i don't bury! In comparison in this scene, she said to KJ "i'll kill when I want to kill and bury when I want to bury" (while in English it translated to she will start a relationship when she wants to, and end it when she wants to.) I think the English translation was spot on, but it lost the heart of using the same words from the convo with PeiLin.

P.S: I wish you an enriched and enjoyable time learning Mandarin! :)