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Thank you. When are you going to upload the rest of the episodes? I can see so far you uploaded eps 11 to 15.

It either was not fully subbed or the subs were bad. Not sure what the problem was at the time.

It is bad enough that she sleeps with her ex-boyfriend and meets with her boyfriend the next morning like it’s nothing but instead of coming clean she keeps lying to his face.

I will keep watching because this is only 8 episodes long and I hate dropping dramas but the writers pretty much destroyed any chance of me liking the female lead.

P.S. - This all happens in the first 20 minutes of the first episode so I don’t think my comment is really a spoiler and might help some people decide if they are ok with this behaviour and still want to watch it.

EDIT: Yeah, this is not a 9, much less a 10 and definitey does not deserve the title The Fabulous. Not my cup of tea.

Season 1 is not subbed but season 2 is getting subs? That makes no sense.

Seems like Fer already told you where you can find it. ^^

I have not read the novel so I will just comment on the drama.

The first few episodes were interesting but slowly I started losing interest. The main leads did not even feel like the main leads as there was so much going on and so many "supporting characters" stealing screen time. From like episode 3 to episode 20 the story felt like there was still a long way to the end of the drama. The pacing, the supporting characters with all the secondary plot lines, everything gave that vibe. But then this ended up being only 25 episodes long so the ending was rushed and it did not even feel like an ending at all. This was probably due to all the scenes that were cut, which has been happening a lot lately with Chinese dramas, yet with this drama it messed it up so much that I could not even tell the last episode was the last episode.

Also, there weren’t many romantic scenes between the main leads and I barely felt their chemistry, again, probably because of all the editing going on.

At the end of the day, I cannot recommend this drama.

What could have easily been an 8 or even 8.5 rating became a 6.5 mainly because of the last 4 or 5 episodes.

It is not the first time a writer ruins a perfectly good drama, but what I find hard to understand is how the whole thing was written by one person and not 2 completely different people.

How can the person who wrote characters like the main leads and Li Dai and that made the first half of the drama mostly enjoyable (with a few boring moments here and there) be the same person that made Fei Fei unbearable, that made the brother and the best friend stay together in such a toxic relationship and that completely trashed the entire drama in the last few episodes giving us an ending that was anything but satisfying?

I have so much I want to complain about but not only I would be spoiling a lot but would also feel tempted to lower the rating even more.

I want to remember this drama for the good things it offered so I will stop this comment here.

Yikes, MGTV. I guess I will wait until Viki or some fansub picks it up.

I enjoyed some parts of it, including the embroidery, but at some point the flaws became so many that the good things started to become less and less noticeable. Although I agree with you on the lack of importance that was given to human life at the time, I still think Zhuo Jin Niang was given more power than it made sense for someone with her status to have. Exactly because life was so fragile and it was so easy to get yourself killed, it did not make sense how so many people blindly followed her orders when they knew one bad move could get them killed.

I watched this 2 years ago but I still remember the feeling of frustration because of the flaws I pointed out in my first comment.

Ikr? Like, he had texted her saying he was coming, he knew she would be waiting for him, even if he did not want to talk about the death of his father at that moment, he could have just said something like "change of plans, something urgent happened over here and I cannot return today anymore".
I would expect him to text a complete stranger, imagine the woman he loved. It does not make any sense that he just ghosted her like that.

It was painfully obvious that they did that just for the sake of dragging the plot and to me that is something that just made an average drama into a below average drama. Realistically speaking no one would have acted the way the male lead did. It is not like he was too overwhelmed and forgot to text her that day. He did not even text her explaining what was going on and why he said he was returning and then just didn’t.

Mostly her brother, he is kind of useless. The father has other reasons for being like that but yeah, at first he sounded like a male chauvinist that did not give a damn about his daughter. So no wonder you found him annoying.

It will get better. The tables will turn soon after that and it becomes light hearted again with some serious moments here and there but mostly light hearted. I just finished watching the last episode.

Slow at times and with more characters taking screen time than I would have liked BUT it was a very nice drama.

Many characters were unique and not cliché at all like Hao Jia and Yuan Ying. The sisterhood was great. The relationship between the main leads took its’ time to develop but the amount of love, respect, trust and cooperation between them was amazing. The character development is great here too. And I could say a lot more but I want to keep it short.

I would say it is not really the type of drama you should binge-watch. I watched it as it was airing and it took a while for me to really start to enjoy it. There are many characters so the first 15 episodes or so can feel a bit slow with all the introductions and backstory. But if you watch it slowly, you will probably start to enjoy it like I did.

Well, it has been 4 years, I give up. I will just remove it from my on-hold list. It has been there for way too long.

Let me know if this ever gets fully subbed.

I would not mind if it was a little bit longer. I have found that for most kdramas that become draggy when they are 16 episodes long, 12 is usually the right amount of episodes. Not too short but not long enough for the writers to mess up.

With 12 episodes we could have a little more background story and some more romantic moments between the main leads. We knew very little about some of the supporting characters and even less about Yu Na’s mother. Maybe 12 is asking for too much, but at least 8? 4 episodes was really short.

I don’t even know what to say about this one. As someone who has been watching dramas for over a decade, I might have been more forgiving if I had watched it 10 years ago. But since I am watching it now, after I have watched literally thousands of dramas, I cannot think of one reason as to why I watched this other than just for the sake of finishing it.

The acting is ok but nothing remarkable, the romance is bland and full of misunderstandings and illogical decisions. I mean, you have a phone, just text the person explaining what is going on. One text message would have been enough. The working part was also boring. I did not really care for the supporting characters. The ending was bland like the rest of the drama.

P.S. - What are the chances of hearing someone is drowning, running there, even the rescue people are already there by that time so it must have been at least 10 minutes since the person started drowning and somehow not only is the person alive but still conscious and struggling in the water? That is scientifically impossible. And the editing of that scene with the fake water and bad cgi, ugh, I have watched dramas from over 10 years ago that had more believable drowning scenes.

Sorry, just had to get this one out of my chest. The whole drowning thing was just ridiculous both logically and visually speaking.

Anyway, I am sure there are people out there who think this is a great drama, but to me it was a complete waste of time. The only drama with Victoria Song that I liked was Find Yourself. All the other dramas she played the female lead were pretty bad. I don’t think she is an awful actress like some people (she is not a great one either) but she definitely isn’t very good at choosing scripts.

I was wondering how the writers would be able to keep my interest on the main couple when the drama is about a show the FL is producing where the ML "dates" someone else. It went as I thought, it did not work.

The first few episodes were ok but once they started focusing more on the show, I slowly forgot about the main leads. In fact, I started to be more interested in the chef and the webtoon artist and their interactions, which is very rare for me, to care more about the supporting characters than the main leads. Sadly, they were just a small part of the drama.

I have watched slow burns before that I really liked and I thought the main characters had chemistry, but they just did not focus enough on the romance part, it felt like their chemistry was kind of wasted.

The thing with slow burns is that there must be something to keep me watching like subplots that are interesting enough, characters I like, ... but that was not the case here. I felt no connection to the characters and the things happening on the side were not able to grab my attention.

The drama just did not live up to the expectations it made me build when I first started watching.

I liked the first 10 or 15 episodes but then started to slowly lose interest. The pace was slow, too many characters that seemed completely unnecesary, the romance development was not satisfying and the male lead’s secret identity was not interesting enough.

Slowly it became kind of boring and I just wanted to get to the last episode to know who was who and what was what. But guess what they did...they left a lot of lose ends and the last episode managed to be one of the worst of the entire drama.

Was disappointed because this had everything to be a super interesting mistery/romance drama but it was not great in either of the genres.

Yup, I know. That is why I said it was a red flag. Once I see MGTV, I run. They don’t bother properly translating the dramas they air.