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Except for secret childhood connections, older woman/younger man is my least favorite trope. Can't lie, feels like something made for desperate older ladies. I'm not about it at all. I'm fine with a noona romance but this is mother/son territory. Yikes. It's so gross. And I would say the same if the guy was 20 years older.

Just look at the screenwriter and director and you'll know that this drama is going to be extremely high quality.

Li Yitong is one of the best actors of the 90s gen so you're seriously missing out if you cut off all of her dramas. Seriously watch Royal Nirvana (this is her best work imo), The Knockout, Dear Missy, etc. and you'll see she's actually great.

oh nooo what happened to the rating I wanted to start this one

Please, even Princess Pearl in the 90s had kiss scenes, let's be real. This is not highbrow art. This is an idol romance. It's ridiculous to not kiss. If he wants to get away without doing a kiss scene, then do a different genre. The actors who say they won't do useless kissing are doing better quality dramas because they're better actors. Ren Jialun needs to get over himself and his mediocrity

Not going to happen. There's too much money in this genre for him to stop. Even though it's incredibly unprofessional to accept such roles and then not do the job as well as others who don't have such a ridiculously immature clause in their contracts.

Misogyny is so rampant in this space. FLs picked apart for every little thing but the men always get a pass and are praised

The 40 episode cap and everyone's tiktok fried brains are the reason for it, unfortunately. I yearn for the past when 50-60 ep dramas were the norm.

unhinged

Lmao are you 12? "If you don't like him you're just jealous." Only children use that logic

Ren Jialun is mediocre at best but Peng Xiaoran is fabulous so I will be watching for her.

You're either delusional or know that you're lying. He does avoid kiss scenes. There was proof of him having a stunt double in one to do the kiss scene. In almost all of his dramas they use an angle to hide that they're not actually kissing. The very few scenes where you actually do see them kiss it's straight up dead fish Park Shinhye 2010 style. You're spending all of this time bullshitting everyone to try to make RJL seem like he doesn't avoid love scenes when there's proof that he literally does.

Don't let the others bully you lmao you're so right. I'll still watch this drama because I LOVE Peng Xiaoran and she rarely gets the lead in big dramas but Ren Jialun annoys me so bad. Like grow up dude if youre going to repeatedly be the ML in romance dramas and make millions of dollars off of the genre, you should be a professional and not get stunt doubles or fakeout angles for kiss scenes. It's not like RJL is a Chen Kun or Chang Chen level actor and crazy demands would be justifiable because of skill level. Ren Jialun is literally just another shitty idol actor, there is no reason for him to be the lead in these dramas when he refuses to do the job properly.

bro wtf are you on about, what does that have to do with this drama

Absolutely. The main couple were adorable and of course I rooted for them. But Miles Wei and Zhang Yaqin played these complicated, difficult characters and were definitely the most memorable for me.

You Zhen was horrible and vile but Zhang Yaqin played her with such sincerity that you couldn't help but understand her as a woman of her time. She grew up with such privilege but with a power hungry father and her fate entirely out of her control. All of her actions were so incredibly understandable, even if I hated her for them. Zhang Yaqin is one of the most underrated actresses of her gen for real. She does not overact at all, it's all so subtle and human. I really loved her portrayal of this haughty, insecure, but ultimately powerless princess.

This hairpin misunderstanding is going to be the death of me!! Their relationship has been going so well and their communication is so good, whyyy add this I hate it

No one's sabotaging her. She's from a rich family and is doing just fine. You can like A Girl Like Me and Sweet Combat, but they are objectively bad dramas. AGLM has a 5.5 on douban and SC has a 2.8. There's no way any other actress who did such bad dramas would be put on the same level as Yang Zi, Zhou Dongyu, and Zheng Shuang. I'm not saying they're all good actresses, but they had insane commercial success and popularity that GXT didn't earn.

She was named one of the four dan actresses despite her bad roles and bad acting. She was nowhere near the level of success that the other three had at the time. Nepotism played a part in that.

Saving this drama for the most perfect rainy day. I know I'm going to love it.