littleberry09

Oh okay, I feel 24 episodes will be really easy to binge when there's just the last 4 episodes left then. Very convenient :)

Does this mean it will drop all at once bc Netflix og dramas tend to do this. Or it can be released 1 Ep per day (in this case I will wait until it nearly finishes airing to binge)

Oh I just realised as a Netflix original it would do this! Yes how fortunate it's on a Friday, so there is all weekend to binge 😄.

For the cast alone I'll be watching this whilst it's airing. Adding this to my September schedule asap ✅

I'm just a bit ahead of you by a few episodes, I think it seems to be a pyshcological thriller so far mixed in with drama and romance. The theories of what happened on the mountain are all going to be bad, but I like the FL being an unreliable narrator in this regard. It feels unique to me so far

This is because she is currently busy filming another drama and will be for the next few months. It just depends when she is finished with that to move onto this drama. Could be early next year. They won't rush to announce the full confirned cast until likely a few weeks before they start filming. So I wouldn't eagerly wait for any new news for this one for a while yet.

He didn't die. This is effectively an open but happy ending. When it shows him returning to her on the horse it has the pendent clipped onto him, which shows some sense of realism even if the scene is portrayed as quite dreamy.

Besides that there is an epilogue that they filmed which didn't make it into the drama for whatever weird reason. It's on YouTube though. He lives and they go on to have a daughter together. I wish they had another episode and just included this in the drama.

I don't think this happens to the extent where it underplayed her agency and role though. Getting bailed out by the ML doesn't mean she's still not strong and independent. She plots and strategically wins her own revenge.

Actually she didn't know that at all. I think you're overestimating her knowledge of everything. On her side, all she thought was that DFQC was hugely in love with her and stole her away from her home because he must have wanted her. She was ignorant of the heart curse.

She also believed that Cheng Heng was the man she loved, being this hugely attractive and powerful man who she had a nice encounter with some years ago. She isn't aware of everything with his brother. That's why when Dongfang Qingcang shows her how her crush cancelled her exam results from the board, she was shocked and hurt because she **didn't know** it was only Cheng Heng's attempt to protect her.

The irony is she would have stayed in love with Cheng Heng if she didn't get the heart binding curse with DFQC which meant he intervened in her life. So eventually Cheng Heng starts to become less and less of a crush in her eyes in the mortal realm, when she begins to realise her feelings for DFQC.

In my opinion - not really. Yes mai lead chemistry is off, but it's still a fluffy drama, Yang Yang does his best and the side supporting characters and their couples are also great.

No it's not going to come out before September because they still have more promotion or something going on. Another modern drama, The Early Spring, is releasing 26th August so you might have got it mixed up with that one.

It also feels like there's been so many of these type dramas this year. They are really leaning into this one trope all of a sudden

I think you took it the wrong way and can't see the nuance in what I said. Just because someone criticises an actor, doesn't mean they have a bias against them. And just because I pointed something out doesn't mean it's negativity! There was nothing so negative about what I said. Besides there can be many people who make up a drama that we watch for, this is not just solely his drama that you need to tell people off or as his fan dictate that they stay away 😒

I finished it. He did improve as it goes along, but I still never felt any chemistry between the leads. Infact they were quite boring in the adult arc, especially compared to her brother and her friend.

And just because someone might object or criticise against an actor, it doesn't necessarily mean bias. For one I did not care about Hu Yi Tian given I had never watched him before. I was just saying what I was seeing and the impression I had.

Sadly not uncommon for costume dramas. The First Jasmine - 8.2. A Splendid Match - 8.3.

I think Pursuit of Jade has been the only costume drama so far to get into the 9's this year 😭

She was in The First Jasmine this year and she has grown up a lot! So cute 😍

There 2 significant things you can tell from this -

1) that less people are reviewing and rating this drama. It's only been reviewed by 5k or so users.

2) that those who are rating tend to give it a mid rating.

Very few historical dramas get higher than 8.5 initially because MDL has a higher modern drama viewing audience. Unless a costume drama is highly popular (which has gone to Pursuit of Jade this year) a lot of them seems to stay in the low 8's. Compared to most modern dramas. Never-Ending Summer already has a LOT of reviews and is rated as high as 8.6 eventhough it's a very mid drama, and came out a few months after this drama.

Very good historicals like The First Jasmine or A Splendid Match rated lower 8.2 and 8.3 doesn't mean they aren't actually better.

I love Male Chases Female First drama, especially when it's XU KAI 😭😍😭😍

Till Ep 16, but that year still carries on till Ep 17. Present time arc starts in Ep 18.

I haven't watched Dazzling, it might be one of the next dramas I watch. But I did like this more than Never-Ending Summer even if the leads in that one did better than the leads here. Genius Girlfriend just felt like the better drama in terms of vibes