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Just started watching this and after 10 episodes binged, I am all in. This series is well written and acted. I was really needing this after so many fluffy and insipid dramas flooding the Asian streaming networks. Why can’t productions be more like this one? I feel like I’m wading in a pool of muck just to find a handful of really great dramas worthy of my time.

Yes, I wish they could have thought up of a different way to go about this. JCY basically telling her to bugger off simply because the culprit is his friend is BS. I mean, he is all about making Mu Dan happy and making anyone who hurts her pay, and he does this? The man still committed a crime. And he is NOT atoning when he is justifying his atrocious actions! I call bull on this one.

You're not wrong. I love them too, but the repetitive nature and very slow burn of this relationship is making me want to stab my eyes out with a fork. I wish they would throw me a bone here. There isn't a whole lot happening right now. How many times is Liu Chang going to throw himself at Mu Dan until he finally gets fed up? Can our leads even get 5 minutes of bliss before something else comes along to make them cold towards each other again? I losing steam.

What is Orchid's Chinese name in the series?

I just finished watching Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo today and was very impressed by IU's performance. I am now a fan. I am looking forward to When Life Gives you Tangerines.

These are 20 one hour episodes. The show is dated 2017, I believe. I have been wanting to see this show for years.

Agree. He was too much of a wuss and did not deserve FL.

Oof! This mangled my heart. I am little disappointed in the ending, but I like that it doesn't give you everything you want. I am just happy to live in modern times and not be at the whim of tyrant kings.

I agree. There were some eyebrow raising lines coming from him that made me wonder whether JingJing had made up this fantasy of Yu Tu, but never really knew him well enough in school. He was extremely arrogant and I also blanched at the "It didn't occur to me to return your love" line. WTF? Part of me hoped the writing would have her take the rose colored glasses off and see him for who he really was--arrogant and self-absorbed, but they chose to make everyone and everything as conflict free as possible. Even JingJing could have been written as a self-absorbed and spoiled actress who is changed by love, but I guess this show's star is really Yang Yang.

Yes. There is a scene where she basically cuts off all ties and even breaks the family photo. It was epic. But then the writers gave the mom a redemption arc and that lasted all of 5n minutes.

Even worse, the blind date set ups. I would have been so humiliated to go on dates set up by my parents. Thank God that wasn´t their style.

Slow burn, spinelessness in the FL and game playing. But they do have nice chemistry once they get together.

I gave it at 7.5. I rarely give dramas a 10. A drama really has to be outstanding in every aspect for me to give a review like that. I almost dropped it after 10 episodes because it was incredibly slow and I didn´t see how our leads would get together when they barely saw each other. They seemed to dislike each other and I was losing hope. I am happy I stuck with it, but there were plenty a implausibilities that kept me from rating it any higher.

Agreed. I felt it during the scene where they're driving away after Xu Qin had just broken it off with Song Yan. She was inconsolable and her mother´s face registered no empathy whatsover. I knew right then that the woman was evil beyond redemption, so seeing her get a second chance really set me off.

It's my favorite anime of all time. I have every volume and I wish they had filmed more seasons.

Well, I am on episode 8 and I am enjoying the story so far. At first I was disappointed that the FL was switched, far-fetched as it was, but it seems to be working.

Which episodes are they in? I don't think I'm going to watch the whole show.

So, it sounds like a lot of key characters were recast. Should I bother with this? I liked Go, Go Squid but didn't love it. I liked the original actors who played Grunt and Appledog, so I am not sure I am going to enjoy them being recast with different characters. The main vibe I am getting is that the chemistry was different. Maybe just watch the episodes Yang Zi is in?

Yes, at first I didn’t find him likable but as episodes progressed and we got to know him better, I understood why. Hang in there. It gets better!

I’m only in the second episode, but yes! I’m liking it.