In the beginning credits, there’s a line from Xie Wei that breaks my heart, which I finally understood. My Eureka moment.
‘ You’ve taken your revenge and paid your debts. At the end of the day, who are you?’ Then the camera pans to Ning’Er. I always thought he made that comment to Ning’Er. But I finally realized that XW made that comment to himself.
In the past life, he killed himself after he had taken revenge, and after the Empress suicide because he had nothing to live for. In this life, his salvation and hope is based on Ning’Er. SHE more than anyone else can give him a reason to continue his life after all his machinations are concluded and his revenge is complete. Maybe that is why the camera pans to her face, after his question. And maybe that was why she was sent back - to not only make amends for her past life, but to give a deeply wronged and troubled young man some closure, consolation in life, and a future. My two cents.
they were not married, it s not a big deal, it s 21 st century
Dude, I don't give a shit, I want to watch this drama. Other people cheating is none of my business, nor should it be a reason to lose your job. Your private life is called private for a reason.
I like this drama, it's too funny and crazy! The first episode absolutely does not reflect the remaining episodes. The actors did a great job, and it's finally one of the few dramas that isn't focused on nobles or cultivators in flowing robes. I love that the costumes reflect the way of life of normal people!
Replying toemeraldarrows•Nov 11, 2023•Liked Nov 11, 2023
I swear. If I read one more comment of people saying it’s “unrealistic” or “without plot” without actually understanding the type of series this is I’ll go crazy. I get it, you are not used to varying genres and just expect every bl to be the exact same format and everything to be simply a drama and this was clearly not it. But just because you don’t get it, doesn’t mean you’re allowed to judge it without actually paying attention. Anyone who didn’t get into this with the expectation of having a typical drama really enjoyed it and I’ll explain why: This is not the format of a typical “drama”, this is clearly filmed in the format of a sitcom. From the first season to the second we can find all the qualities of a very typical sitcom. - The characters are actually caricatures of specific behaviors, such as Minato being overly shy and exaggerated, Shin being very fierce, honest and direct, Asuka being super friendly and direct but acting like a puppy when he’s with Shu and lastly Shu being obsessed with architecture and incapable of showing or believing in love. - The settings are typically constantly the same, rarely changing for the few “special” episodes. This was mostly seen in the first season, probably thanks to the budget, while in the second season the settings happen to be more, but the purpose is usually the same. In the first season they’re always at the laundromat, the beach or the school and rarely at Minato’s apartment. In the second season they have more settings but the three main ones remain unchanged and serve the exact same purpose. The laundromat for scenes where Minato is most comfortable in his space, Shin’s school (now university) where Minato is completely out of place, the beach where they’re on the same level and, now, their home where they are both more cautious around each other. Even the name of the series yells “sitcom”. Calling it the name of the main setting is what sitcoms have done since the beginning of time. - Lastly, but perhaps more importantly, almost every episode is what we would call “one shots”, which is the most typical sitcom format. Almost every episode starts with a prompt, wether it’s a new problem, a surprise, a secret or whatever and each episode ends solving or completing the prompt. For example, Shin telling Minato to not show up at his school, making Minato feel like he’s not good enough, trying to dress and act “younger” only for Shin to explain that he actually thinks of Minato as too cute and is actually jealous. Or Shin asking what Minato would want, then disappearing for weeks making Minato worry a lot and coming back for hiss birthday with the special gift. Most episodes hold this sitcom format where anything that gets concluded at the end of the episode is actually hardly changing the dynamics of the characters and the story, so that they can keep having this cute little one-shot stories. Some stories are actually divided between two episodes if they’re important enough but most start and end in the span of one episode. This is, up until the typical “finale” which is divided in 3 episodes, resorting into the memory loss as prompt and has the actual character and plot development everyone talks about. Which is also very typical of sitcoms.
I cannot stand people saying it has “no development” when the whole point is to keep the characters as static as possible up until the seasons finales. And I can stand even less the ones claiming that they did everything too fast in the last episodes… because THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT!
If it’s not your kind of format, it’s fine, nobody is forcing you to watch it. But if you simply don’t get it, don’t come commenting on it or whining about it. It was a really great season, simple and true to its format and content, following the steps of the first. If you actually want to understand the type of format, you can go watch Three’s Company, Friends, Big Bang Theory, Scrubs and many more. I do get that you all came here for a drama and you weren’t expecting a sitcom at all, but it’s incredibly irritating how the bl genre is secluded in this typical drama format and the second someone does something classic that simply isn’t what bl typically is, everyone gets so mad. Bl can have sitcoms, dramas, comedies, tragedies and many more genres. It’s allowed to not only be the typical romantic drama.
It is also the reason why we had a second series so fast, because typically, thanks to the few settings, the filming and editing doesn’t take very long, so we get to have more seasons and more little stories between them. Except now, with all the hate this is receiving, they might decide to never continue with a third season and just let it end here and it’s not fair to those who actually enjoyed it.
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‘ You’ve taken your revenge and paid your debts. At the end of the day, who are you?’ Then the camera pans to Ning’Er. I always thought he made that comment to Ning’Er. But I finally realized that XW made that comment to himself.
In the past life, he killed himself after he had taken revenge, and after the Empress suicide because he had nothing to live for. In this life, his salvation and hope is based on Ning’Er. SHE more than anyone else can give him a reason to continue his life after all his machinations are concluded and his revenge is complete. Maybe that is why the camera pans to her face, after his question. And maybe that was why she was sent back - to not only make amends for her past life, but to give a deeply wronged and troubled young man some closure, consolation in life, and a future. My two cents.
The first episode absolutely does not reflect the remaining episodes.
The actors did a great job, and it's finally one of the few dramas that isn't focused on nobles or cultivators in flowing robes. I love that the costumes reflect the way of life of normal people!
I get it, you are not used to varying genres and just expect every bl to be the exact same format and everything to be simply a drama and this was clearly not it. But just because you don’t get it, doesn’t mean you’re allowed to judge it without actually paying attention.
Anyone who didn’t get into this with the expectation of having a typical drama really enjoyed it and I’ll explain why:
This is not the format of a typical “drama”, this is clearly filmed in the format of a sitcom. From the first season to the second we can find all the qualities of a very typical sitcom.
- The characters are actually caricatures of specific behaviors, such as Minato being overly shy and exaggerated, Shin being very fierce, honest and direct, Asuka being super friendly and direct but acting like a puppy when he’s with Shu and lastly Shu being obsessed with architecture and incapable of showing or believing in love.
- The settings are typically constantly the same, rarely changing for the few “special” episodes. This was mostly seen in the first season, probably thanks to the budget, while in the second season the settings happen to be more, but the purpose is usually the same. In the first season they’re always at the laundromat, the beach or the school and rarely at Minato’s apartment. In the second season they have more settings but the three main ones remain unchanged and serve the exact same purpose. The laundromat for scenes where Minato is most comfortable in his space, Shin’s school (now university) where Minato is completely out of place, the beach where they’re on the same level and, now, their home where they are both more cautious around each other.
Even the name of the series yells “sitcom”. Calling it the name of the main setting is what sitcoms have done since the beginning of time.
- Lastly, but perhaps more importantly, almost every episode is what we would call “one shots”, which is the most typical sitcom format.
Almost every episode starts with a prompt, wether it’s a new problem, a surprise, a secret or whatever and each episode ends solving or completing the prompt. For example, Shin telling Minato to not show up at his school, making Minato feel like he’s not good enough, trying to dress and act “younger” only for Shin to explain that he actually thinks of Minato as too cute and is actually jealous. Or Shin asking what Minato would want, then disappearing for weeks making Minato worry a lot and coming back for hiss birthday with the special gift.
Most episodes hold this sitcom format where anything that gets concluded at the end of the episode is actually hardly changing the dynamics of the characters and the story, so that they can keep having this cute little one-shot stories. Some stories are actually divided between two episodes if they’re important enough but most start and end in the span of one episode.
This is, up until the typical “finale” which is divided in 3 episodes, resorting into the memory loss as prompt and has the actual character and plot development everyone talks about. Which is also very typical of sitcoms.
I cannot stand people saying it has “no development” when the whole point is to keep the characters as static as possible up until the seasons finales. And I can stand even less the ones claiming that they did everything too fast in the last episodes… because THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT!
If it’s not your kind of format, it’s fine, nobody is forcing you to watch it. But if you simply don’t get it, don’t come commenting on it or whining about it. It was a really great season, simple and true to its format and content, following the steps of the first.
If you actually want to understand the type of format, you can go watch Three’s Company, Friends, Big Bang Theory, Scrubs and many more.
I do get that you all came here for a drama and you weren’t expecting a sitcom at all, but it’s incredibly irritating how the bl genre is secluded in this typical drama format and the second someone does something classic that simply isn’t what bl typically is, everyone gets so mad.
Bl can have sitcoms, dramas, comedies, tragedies and many more genres. It’s allowed to not only be the typical romantic drama.
It is also the reason why we had a second series so fast, because typically, thanks to the few settings, the filming and editing doesn’t take very long, so we get to have more seasons and more little stories between them. Except now, with all the hate this is receiving, they might decide to never continue with a third season and just let it end here and it’s not fair to those who actually enjoyed it.