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Yeah, I saw some differences when it comes to the female lead but the male lead and his life is very similar.

The plot is too bland to stretch the drama for 4 months, 1 episode a week was an awful idea.

I waited until all the episodes were out to watch and felt like I would not have missed anything by skipping on this one. If I had tried to watch it while it was airing, I know for sure I would have dropped it.

If you want me to keep coming back every week for 1 single episode, you better make it end with a bang so I feel like I HAVE to watch the next one, like I cannot wait for next week’s episode.

This drama was below average when it comes to kdrama standards and stretching the airing duration from 2 to 4 months only made it worse. Not something I would recommend. I skipped a lot and did not drop it just because there were not many episodes and I hate leaving things unfinished. If you have not started watching, you can safely skip this one. It is not worth your time.

I just rewatched Boku no Ita Jikan like a week ago and just from watching the first episode of this one I am finding a lot of similarities.

He plays soccer, the phone ringing scene during the job interview, he has a younger brother that is going to medical school, the whole family dynamics, etc. If this is a remake or at least heavily inspired on Boku no Ita Jikan, why is there no mention of it in the drama details?

P.S. - I am not hating on the drama or anything, just wondering how it is related to Boku no Ita Jikan since there are so many similarities that so far it almost feels like watching a remake of it.

Hum, I can go through my list later and see if I can find something that you might like.

I am going to rewatch Royal Rumours with my mother since she has been addicted to Chinese historical dramas, so if you have not watched it yet, maybe give it a try and see if you like it.

Still calling him brother up until the last episode. ^^'

Have you already watched Love Like The Galaxy? Or are you looking specifically for fantasy but ones that are not too over the top?

Same here. I have watched some high rated dramas that bored me to death and some lower rated dramas that I found to be pretty entertaining. I think it comes down to personal preference, previous experience and even your mood.

I liked Princess Agents, tho I did skip some scenes, but the way it ended made me feel very angry because I thought "now that it was getting interesting they just end it like that?" and like you said, no second season. Wasted potential.

I do not remember how I felt about song of glory but I gave it a rating of 6.5, which in my book means I would not rewatch it. ^^'

Sim, os coitados fizeram o melhor que podiam.

I agree in part with that you said. Definitely do not trust comments that just say a drama is good or bad or that clearly show bias towards some actors.

But detailed comments can sometimes give you enough info to decide if a drama is worth watching. I have found that reviews are a lot less reliable than comments. If a huge amount of comments are negative, and there is no mention of the actors, usually that means there is a problem with the writing, editing, dubbing, subs or other things that most people will be able to compare to other dramas they have watched and tell are not up to standard.

This was one of the few dramas I felt was worth watching for the past month. I like crime investigation, be it in modern or historical dramas. But I felt this one focused too much on the investigation part and I did not care much for the FL’s sister storyline which got A LOT of screen time.

I figured out who the mastermind was pretty early on, found it to be too predictable, so the last few episodes were quite boring for me. Wish they had focused more on the main lead’s relationship and whole dream thing instead of pushing everything into the last episode. Overall it was good drama, but the first half of the drama was a lot more interesting than the second half. Had they changed a few things and this might have been a drama I would consider rewatching.

They have been available for hours on kisskh. The last 2 should be available with subs tomorrow but I watched raw to get it over with since I lost interest in the last few episodes.

This drama aired in January 2014, probably filmed in 2013 if not earlier. You cannot expect it to have the same quality as a drama from 2024. The quality is pretty decent. When I started watching dramas back in 2010 I came across alot of them with much lower quality.

I have watched quite a few of her dramas and I really like her. I personally related to her character in The Starry Love, probably because I do not have a great relationship with my father.

She made me feel all kinds of things while watching that drama, I got frustrated, cried and smiled with her, which is why I know this one will make me cry, not only because of the plot but because I know the actors will do a great job at portraying all kinds of emotions.

Same. I am waiting a little longer. Maybe will watch it on a rainy day so I can just cry myself to sleep after. ^^'

I have not started it yet, but I feel like crying just from reading the synopsis. And judging from Landy Li‘s performance on The Starry Love, I know I will cry with her like my boyfriend is the one with ALS, and I don’t even have a boyfriend. ^^'

I think the first 2 guys die around episode 32 or 33 so you are close. I am not sure if they die on the same episode or one dies in one episode and the other dies in the next episode. They do not die at the same time but their deaths were pretty much one after the other, they even get buried in the same spot. And then another one dies in episode 35, another in episode 39 and the main leads in the last episode.

She falls in love with Yuan Lu later but he ends up dying so she does not really care who she marries.

I think this drama was really good for the first half or so, maybe up until episode 30 but then it started going downhill. They just started killing off all of the main characters and leaving alive characters that were less important. Probably because there was more than one writer involved. Even the FL’s personality changes a lot. Some of her words and actions near the end are kind of out of character. I wish they had done the last 10 episodes differently and given us a different ending.

I know its normal for people to die during war, but they literally killed ALL of the main characters, all the characters we liked during the drama. That is why I replied to someone else saying that a more fitting name for this drama would be A Journey to Death, since all the characters we follow on that journey, aside from the Princess and one or 2 other people that had little importance, died on that journey.

He is a grey one. He is not evil but he does some questionable things at times. But at the end of the day he also wants peace, because he knows war only brings devastation. He does try to kill the ML a few times out of jealousy since he is obssessed with his "shifu", the FL, but the deaths have nothing to do with him.

2 of them die while fighting invaders, 1 dies because he has health issues but runs miles day and night without food, rest or his medication to reach the An state to warn people about the invaders, and the other 3, including main leads, die in the last 2 episodes fighting against the invaders from North Pan.

In the end, there are hints that they might end up loving each other but their marriage was out of an agreement to benefit both the An and Wu states and there is no love between them. He has always been in love with the FL and the Princess loves one of the guys that ends up dying.

Because they did not die during the journey. The Princess stayed in the An state for one of those marriages between states to keep peace and most of them died on their way back to the Wu state while others died during war.

The Princess marries Li Tong Guang who ends up running the An state near the end. The Wu state is run by her other older brother since the original emperor gets killed before making it back to the Wu state.

I actually did watch it too. LOL
Even in this one, the FL is "dead" and comes back alive. The problem in the end is that we never see the main leads after their supposed death. And when we do see them they are together with the guys we know were dead and buried, which makes it seem like they joined them in death. The ending is open to interpretation but as much as I usually like to see things in a positive light, aka be delusional, I was unable to do that with the ending of this drama.