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Finally it’s going to air! I’m curious about Cheng Lei’s character here because it seems like he has superpowers and his styling is kind of werewolf-like 😅
And wow, Cheng Lei is really productive 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 right after LOTFG finished airing, this drama is coming out 😃

I haven’t finished reading the novel yet, but i read spoilers from some fans on X who have already read it, saying that XJ honestly explained the issue about HY and HRF, and then admitted that HY is his fiancée.
XJ informed the emperor about this so that from then on, neither HY nor XJ would face any trouble regarding HY hiding her identity in order to join the military

Actually, there are some examples of drama adaptations from novels about "transmigrate" where the scene editing is neat and well done, with clear character introductions in the early episodes so we can really feel the characters’ backstories—like the drama Blossom.

Yeah, basically it all comes down to the poor scene editing 🥲
Like in the scene where HY becomes blind—it’s only explained by a glass falling to the floor, and we have no idea why that glass scene suddenly happened, because there was nothing before it showing she was poisoned (as far as i remember, they only mentioned it through narration).
If i hadn’t read the novel’s synopsis, i probably wouldn’t have known she went blind because she was poisoned.😆

I was watched AvenueX’s review of this drama, and i mostly agree with her—especially about the earlier episodes where there were so many plot holes and the character introductions felt way too rushed. It was like they cut a lot of scenes just to fit everything into a 30-ish minute episode.
But! Since i’m watching purely for ZY & CL chemistry and their fight scenes, so i decided to just let it go and turn a blind eye to the illogical parts of the story 😃

Honestly, this is just my personal opinion, after that episode with the scene “我喜歡月亮，月亮不知道” (I really like that scene, hehe), I slowly started to get bored—up until episode 21 yesterday. There’s a lot i could rant about regarding the scenes.

For example, when HY cried over her “Shi Fu” who died—it’s clear that she was very sad, but as a viewer, i couldn’t feel any sympathy for her tears. Why? Because we never really got to understand what kind of close relationship they had.
From what we saw in the early episodes, the only scene where they met was when HY woke up from her “coma” and Shi Fu was by her side. And… that’s it. There was no detailed explanation of how big of an influence Shi Fu had on her. So, i just couldn’t feel the sympathy for Shi Fu’s death or HY’s grief over it.

Another example, the scene where HY and Huyate fight on horseback.
You can clearly see the water is shallow and full of rocks—they weren’t even submerged. When HY stabs the guy with her spear all the way through until it hits the rocky riverbed, you can see that the water is shallow. But then, when HY gets thrown off and falls into the water, suddenly it’s deep—like she fell into a lake 😒
Did she get thrown that far ?? But logically, no, the throw shouldn’t have been that far because from the camera shots of the soldiers fighting, that water was clearly not deep-lake water.
And of course, our hero XJ swoops in at the perfect moment to save HY , like XJ is a psychic who just knows HY is drowning. (yeah plot armour😅)

Those are just a few of the scenes i wanted to rant about. But still, i keep watching for ZY and CL’s chemistry. As for the rest… i just turn a blind eye 😆✌🏻❤️

Same here, i even fast-forwarded some scenes 😃
Hopefully the next episode will be exciting

ikr ! I feel the same way as you lol
So i just fast-forwarded their scenes because i think it’s kinda random and i don’t really need to know their story 😀
Maybe they do have a story in the novel (?) I’ve only read chapter 1 so far

The actor who originally played Cheng Lisu was Li Ming De,
but due to a scandal involving him, his face was replaced with that of actor Li Qing using AI face swap

I'm watching it on wetv. You have to pay extra to unlock early access episode

I think the first 5 episodes were overall quite good. I didn’t feel bored while watching and was always excited for the next scenes.
Although i feel like the plot and editing in introducing the FL and ML in these first episodes were a bit rushed 😅 but i could still enjoy it.
What made me happy was that Xiao Jue realized so quickly that Hee Yan is a woman. I thought that plot point would be dragged out until around episode 20, but it wasn’t—so i’m glad 😆
Did he realize it that quickly in the novel too ?

From my experience watching on iQIYI, i think the resolution is truly 4K, with clear details that aren’t upscaled.
I once watched Si Jin’s drama on iQIYI as well, which happened to be originally produced by Tencent, and i could tell the resolution was genuinely 4K.
But for me, the issue is the express package — iQIYI doesn’t offer that. Because i’m the type who will buy the package if the drama has a good plot ✌🏻😆

The difference is that on iQIYI, the resolution goes up to 4K, but since this drama is mainly produced by Tencent, based on my experience, iQIYI probably doesn’t have an express package, so it should only be available on WeTV.
But i’m not sure yet, so let’s wait and see :)

After a long wait, it's finally airing on August 6. I finally have something to watch again after the drama ADWAD. So excited!! Hope it won’t be disappointing 😍

I’m so happy this variety show is on WeTV—I get to see LYN again, and thank goodness the subtitles aren’t AI-translated!
and i really didn’t expect episode 1 to be this hilarious. I laughed so hard my stomach hurt 🤣🤣

As far as i know, it was in 2023

Alright, here’s my understanding that i’ve shared here before 😆
So all this time, what we’ve been watching is actually the real script of the drama A Dream Within A Dream.
The female writer who appears in the final scene of episode 40 is in fact the actual writer of A Dream Within A Dream, Ren Zhuang Liu (I saw her in one of the BTS videos, and yes, she’s really the writer), and the director, Guo Hu, who calls her in that scene, is the real director of this drama.

Then there’s SYM’s line to NH in the final scene where she says,
"What if the fictional character's awakening and us successfully changing our fate are also part of the script? For example, what if the script is not Dream of Qingning, but A Dream Within A Dream?"
So from that, it’s already clear that both the modern-day setting in episode one and the added modern-day epilogue are part of the script written by the female writer 😆

As for the interpretation of the epilogue ending, many people have their own theories and debates—whether it’s NH, or NF, or if from the very beginning in episode one, the person in the modern world was NH all along LOL

I agree. i also think LYN is better in this drama compared to his previous ones — AJTL, TSOPG, and TPOB.
In terms of makeup, style, costume, and especially his acting, he's improved a lot. In this drama, i like his acting even more — like wow, i was truly amazed by all his micro-expressions. And he really has improved his acting. I mean, the proof is that so many of us here feel sorry for and sympathize with Nan Heng, right? 😃

Yeah, I was worried about that too — afraid that the last 6 episodes would be rushed just to wrap things up quickly and end up ruining the storyline. But it turns out they weren’t, and I really enjoyed them and was happy with the ending.
Even though it turns out we were fooled all along by “the real screenwriter” 😅

well just like what i’ve tride to share about my understanding of the ending in my previous comment.

basically all this time what we’ve been watching is the storyline of the drama A Dream Within A Dream. NH, SYM, NF, SXY — all of them were just characters in the script of A Dream Within A Dream

That after-credit scene is actually an extra fictional scene from the script written by the real writer — which is that female writer.And the one who called her was Director Guo Hu, who is the real director of A Dream Within A Dream.

well that’s what i understood 🙂

Yeah, we all got so into it as viewers that we even analyzed the plot and tried to guess the ending — like whether NH = NF and came up with all sorts of theories. LOL 😆
But aside from all that, i’m really happy with these last 6 episodes

Yeah, we all got so into it as viewers that we even analyzed the plot and tried to guess the ending — like whether NH = NF and came up with all sorts of theories. LOL 😆
But aside from all that, I’m really happy with these last 6 episodes 😊