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I read that they lengthened episode duration to meet the episode count limit for one season rather than splitting it up and having to wait to release the second season

I would suggest another trait for xianxia dramas with the most explosive popularity would be chemistry between the leads. That we would have here too

How did you read the screenplay? Do you happen to have a link to the screenplay?

DYX telling the truth 🤣

There's a very good translation here in case you are interested in reading (btw it's almost nothing like the drama)
https://www.fuyuneko.org/dsb

I don't blame her either, I blame the script and the director

too true and frustrating

I'm struggling with this one too. I like the cast but the way the FL character is written in the drama is too abrasive and stupid with only random moments of cleverness. Her behavior doesn't make much sense to me.

The novel and the drama are almost completely different
Novel explanations are kind of irrelevant to the drama because the drama characters don't have the same personalities or actions

Ahh I loved that moment too. One interpretation I heard that I like is that, before that moment, nobody ever protected her aside from her sister 😭

I tried a few dramas, even finished one short one that was very good but now nothing's holding my attention and I'm back to reading comments about TSL 😅 and hoping for more goodies from this production

PXR and CXX have amazing chemistry, it's worth watching for them. Like 13Fireflies mentioned, there are extra eps that are happy. You can think of the sad parts like a tragic xianxia arc and then they're reincarnated as a happy modern couple.

Since you'll be checking out their old dramas, I really recommend the Director's Cut of Goodbye My Princess (for CXX) and My Huckleberry Friends (for LLD)

they're both drama original characters (i don't remember them) so no idea but seems like it to me too

in the novel, ML did not like FL for a much longer time. After he developed some feelings, he was nervous about taking her on a trip to the temple because he suspected that she was possessed and something might happen to her at the temple. It was a rare sweet moment of concern from him

I liked the context for this in the novel, happened a bit later

there was no twin sister situation in the novel (it was transmigration) so nobody knows yet

If it follows the novel, she DOES leave him!!! It was my favorite part...she showed him she was independent, didn't need him, and could escape his control. He was desperate to find her.

book spoiler

yes the voices are dubbed. I think the maid servant was pretty whiny in the novel so that was an appropriate choice actually

The original story is that a modern woman transmigrated into that body but because of worries about censorship, the screenwriter did not explain it outright. I like that they seem to have kept the concept. Not sure where the twin sister comes in, not sure if that description was wrong or if that will come in later.
Also, ML is more unlikable in the novel to start. The faults that you complained about are things that FL didn't like too. One thing I did like in the novel is that FL did not like this man right away. There was a slow development for them. Childhood trauma is a drama invention, cliche.