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Thank you for uploading this. I have watched all the 9 episodes you have uploaded so far and I really like this drama. It gives you a closer look to how slavery was, which is something I cant believe was ever normal (and still is in some countries), and I also like the "impossible" love between the main leads.
I will be waiting for you to upload the rest of the episodes so I can binge-watch it. ^ ^

Yeah, but still. We wont even see a glimpse of her for 31 eps and then we will see her only on 13, and that is if she appears in every of them, so she should not be considered a main character even if she ends up with one of the male leads. What a shame tho, I really like the actress, I am sure the drama would be a lot more interesting with her there from the beginning. Oh well, I will still watch it anyway once it finishes airing.

Thanks for replying.

This is a chinese drama, not sure if you thought it was korean or if you wrote korean by mistake. I watch mostly korean dramas, but I also watch chinese and some thai dramas too. I would not recommend you to watch thai dramas tho, at least the ones tagged as slap and kiss. Very often the male lead gets violent with the female lead, and in some there is even rape. So I think you would definitely be triggered by watching those.

Not resisting does not mean it is not rape. A drugged victim will also not resist and yet it is considered rape. What makes it rape is if one of the 2 parts is not willing to do it. She was not willing, so it was considered rape. It might have not been as bad as other dramas but that was because we were not even shown scenes of it. We see him kiss her, she seeing glimpses of their past and then its morning. We do not know if he restrained her or if she cried and begged him to stop. The only thing we know is that after it happened she showed signs of someone who was raped. Also, angry as he was thinking she was fooling around with many men, calling her slut and everything, I doubt he was gentle with her. My experience in drama watching and the hints that we were given after it happened makes me be certain that it was in fact rape.
"do you really Think it was rape" was him taunting her. Just like when he said he would marry her sister and she would only be the mistress. He knew what he did was rape but since at the time he thought she was an easy woman, he saw nothing wrong in what he had done.

If you’re really into palace dramas, then watch this. If you really care about the romance part, then RUN. Trust me, you will be extremely disappointed. I do not want to spoil it too much, but by the end of the drama NO ONE is happy. This drama is the definition of chinese historical dramas - tragic. You know what else is tragic....me deciding to watch it. I read spoilers and knew how it ended but I still felt so frustrated not only after watching the ending, but throughout the drama.

This is the kind of drama that will make your blood boil. And if you do end up watching it, then I advise you to watch a light fluffy romance after to make you feel better. Or you can also watch videos of babies, kittens or puppies. Either should work. Therapy is too expensive.

WHAT? Ep 32 out of 44 is when she appears? Why is she even listed as a main character then?

Yeah. But coming from the writers that gave us such a plot twist in the first season, I am not surprised. Lol

On YT there are 40 eps, but here it shows that the first season has 22 eps and this one has 28, which makes a total of 50 eps. What happened to the other 10 eps? Something is not matching up. I don’t want to start watching without making sure every episode is available, or it would be a huge waste of time.

EDIT: Ok, so there is this other playlist that actually has 50 eps. The other seems to be a version that was cut shorter.

You have to remember these 2 are almost 10 years apart. This one just finished airing so of course less people have watched it. Scarlet Heart is like the original so it is expected a lot of people saw it and a lot of people liked it. So much so that a korean version was made (which I loved, just didnt like the ending) and this one, although not being exactly a remake, was heavily inspired by it. Maybe in a few years this one will also have thousand of viewers and an average rating that is higher than the current one.

If you liked Scarlet Heart, then I think you will like this one too. There are a lot of similarities. But remember, this is not a remake, so dont expect the story to be the same. Give it a try. I just finished watching it. It is fully subbed on YouTube.

Although this story was nothing new to me and the start felt a little slow, especially with the memory loss after she traveled to the past, I still enjoyed it. I like how this was not completely a remake of Scarlet Heart but loosely based on it. (I have watched both the chinese and the korean versions and would be bored to watch the exact same plot again)
They were inspired by it but changed a lot of things in the plot.

The ending was nice, although it could have been better. But overall I was satisfied with this drama.

If you dont mind spoilers, there is no physical abuse.

Basically the male lead wants to get the girl and instead of pursuing her like a normal person, he manipulates things behind the scenes so she ends up in a contract marriage with him. He stalks her for 2 years and never has the courage to just go to her and say what he feels. Then has the dumbass idea of creating a whole situation where she believes she has cancer and that the only donor available is him and when she goes talk to him, he basically tells her he would donate his bone marrow if she marries him. Yeah, pretty messed up. He definitely has issues. But he never gets violent with her as far as I remember. He never physically or verbally abuses her.

But in real life it would definitely be considered a toxic relationship. He pretty much made the woman he loves believe she is sick and might die soon and fooled her into marrying him.
I was definitely taken back by that plot twist but by the time it was revealed, I was already too deep into the story and their chemistry. Since this is a drama and I am already used to seeing some disturbing actions, I was able to keep watching. But for you it might be upsetting to watch since you have been in a toxic relationship before. So its your call, do what is best for you. And good thing you got out of that relationship and found someone better. I am glad for you.

It is not. The synopsis is wrong. It was written last year by someone like us who assumed that it would be a continuation of the previous story. But if you watch the trailer and read news about it, you will find out that it is a new plot, one where the main leads don’t even know each other at first.

It will be like watching the first season but the story is a little different. The characters and their lives seem to be the same tho. Not sure about that.

They made it unnecessarily long. I was able to watch about half of it without loving it but at least being able to watch it. But the second half I had to skip a lot or I would not be able to finish. I have watched so many dramas that happen during this period of history, but this one was just boring most of the time, which was a shame considering the cast.

I am kind of disappointed that this is not a sequel but a different story with the same characters....but I will still watch it. Maybe if it was a sequel it would be boring. (Tho I really wanted to see them with their kid, it would be so cute)
From what I have read the plot is cliché but if they maintain the same chemistry and the writing and directing are done properly, then I think I will like it just as much as I liked the first season.

After reading so many of your comments throughout the comment section of this drama, I had to go back and re-watch it because it had been a few years since I watched it but I was pretty sure things were not as simple as you were making them.

I do get why you are defending the male lead, and honestly he is nowhere near the worst I have seen in thai dramas. His main problem would be he his hot headed. Even when they were in the island he would easily lose his patience with her when she made a mistake or was annoying. He knew she had suffered a head injury, had no memories and was pretty much a child but he would let out his anger on her several times. So when he thought she fooled him the entire time, did not want to accept their past and was possibly involved with several other men...he lost it.
Never did he think to investigate things on his own or talk to her. Someone who had previously even shot him, someone who was not trustworthy at all came with evidence and he just bought it.

And YES, he RAPED her. What we are shown is that as he is kissing her she has some glimpses of their past so she stops struggling but that does not mean she was willing to have sex at that moment. The next day she showed all the signs rape victims usually do. She got out of bed (probably did not even sleep) and was looking outside and when the male lead wakes up and comes near her she lashes out on him. When she goes to the hospital that same day she is crying and does not let the doctor touch her. Some episodes later when the doctor gets to know what the male lead did to her and asks her about it she bursts out crying. How is that the behavior of a woman that was willing to do it?
Even the male lead later on admits he raped her during a conversation they are having, so he knows it was not consensual. Also, in the episode he finds out that she had never regained her memory, the first thing he says is that he "hurt her physically and mentally".

I am not saying the male lead should not be forgiven or that he is a piece of trash. Like I said, I have seen worse. But the fact that he did mess up and hurt the female lead cannot be defended or taken lightly just because he was misunderstanding her.

I have no idea how this has such a high rating...this is SO bad. It could have been good, but it wasnt.

The drama was basically a superstition fest taking over a bunch of brainless villagers that decided that the female lead had to go...for good. Even the romance was nowhere near what it could have been. Their scenes together were cliché and mainly just the male lead trying to be romantic by saying some sweet things that came out as cringy and did not feel genuine. The male lead was clueless and seemed more like he was being stubborn rather than wanting to be with her because he loved her.

The only good thing about this drama is the cast. The writing was terrible.

If you’re looking for a more down to Earth drama - this is it. It’s only 12 episodes long so it does not become draggy. It is realistic and I could really relate to Eun Joo. The romance is not super fast since they have been just friends for a long time but there is plenty of scenes of them spending time together.

Yeah, sorry, I watched this a year ago so Idk when the romance starts but I remember it took some time. I watched it while fast-forwarding a lot. This one is hard to watch without skipping any scenes. I am sure you will find something better to watch.

It was not completely bad, but just like the title says - it had flaws. The poop humor was not funny for me but how his problem was not triggered in several stressful occasions was never explained. The story itself was very average, nothing special and near the end became dramatic and predictable in a way that did not fit this drama. There were also several characters that were just there. They were very one-dimensional. The Mini sponsorship was also too much. It was not enough to have one of the main characters work at one of their stands, they also had to make almost every character that owned a car have one. It was so obvious they were advertising the cars that it became annoying.

So overall this is not a bad drama nor a good one. 6/10

Maybe watch for the romance. But the characters make some really dumb decisions. And the female lead is beyond naive. Standing up for someone who did wrong knowing it will hurt someone you love and that is innocent is just dumb. It cant even be classified as being kind.