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it's like a key point that the game was sent overseas and became corrupted by the american companies. because it became so violent, it was banned in china, which is why the ML could only find beta versions of it

the pastel pinks and blues suit zhao jin mai so well! i adore her outfit color palette in this show

this show keeps dunking on the US and i have to respect the hustle. like yes america is a capitalistic and violent place in fact

zhuang xu is so bone headed! he's creating problems for himself and making it everyone else's issue :|. can't believe the way he spoke to nxg in ep12. she didn't deserve that. i can understand why he didn't reciprocate her feelings at first, but there's no excuse for why he later never told her he liked her too?? he could've saved himself a world of hurt if he'd just taken a chance on himself

zhao jin mai is such an amazing actress omg, she is always my favorite person to watch in any show that she's in

is there yuri in this?

guys im not gonna lie i would watch an entire show just about nxg and zx. the amount of tension between them at all times, im eating this up actually

of course but he was there before she was even born. she grew up thinking that was her real brother and he literally helped raise her since she was a newborn. it's weird no matter what.

started this for esther bc shes's one of my all time favs, but i just couldn't get past all the sibling references. i really tried to pretend like they were childhood friends or something but the writers wouldn't let me forget they used to be brother and sister!! unfortunately have to drop at ep14 :(. he yu is a looker though, i'll be keeping an eye out for his future projects.

came back for a haoyan rewatch, they are so special to me

this was gas omg. i was not expecting all that to go down in the second half. genuinely good actors and a decent script. given like 4-8 more episodes, they could have fleshed out the palace politics a little more but the romance was done quite well in the time they had. some of the dialogue had me genuinely gagged, like ep8 bridge scene i will never forget you. such an easy binge and the ending moved me for sure. might be back for a rewatch!

i feel like you could say this is objectively bad, esp the second half. in classic c-historical fashion, it dragged for ages and was incredibly rushed at the end. it's getting hard to expect anything else out of dramas these days. nevertheless, the characters in this show are so dear to me and im genuinely going to miss them for ever and ever. will definitely have to rewatch this someday.

i totally see where you're coming from. this is def a very common trope, but despite that, i actually felt that his character felt the most real out of everyone in the show because the writers definitely took the most time exploring his backstory. i didn't like him either, i was just making a comment about the writing. and yes kangle is so pretty!

so funny to me that people kind of unanimously agree that chu zhao was the best written character and that kangle was one of the best actors out of this whole thing. kangle i will be watching out for your new projects

yes HE but things are kind of all over the place!

so disappointed with the ending! it had so much potential to be better than this

thanks so much for this!!

omg haha!! hello twin

this is a case solving drama, but the driving force of shen wan's character was her wanting to get justice for her parent's deaths. that doesn't really happen imo. also yes im looking forward to lotfg!

totally agree with you! it was hard to form an emotional connection to the characters for the reasons you listed. i also wished they had focused more on the FL's revenge and had her show more raw emotions.