Lovely

y'all concerned with the love triangle and I'm wondering what's with this love hexagon???

i dunno, you can clearly see a lot of romantic scenes of JJ and LX in the intro and outro but not really any with ZQ. they're going to take the next 20 eps to develop the romance of JJ and LX and the viewers won't even question if ZQ could be the right one for her instead. also, even if something was to happen to LX, I really doubt that JJ could move on with her other "brother" in that case.
in reply88 she had crushes on the boys, but she never was with any of them, never kissed any of them. also the romantic rivalry was revealed pretty much from the beginning, whereas here you're rooting for LX from the start.
if they were to suddenly try to sell JJ and ZQ to us,I'm pretty sure it won't be successful and the majority of the viewership will dislike it, especially since I think more people ship ZQ with MY.

they didn't show him but they also didn't show anybody else besides the her and taek. there were no indications for his death

Sifeng's yearning for Xuanji is so strong, so dominant in his eyes, so unbelievably beautiful when she's right next to him, right by his side, that is makes me dizzy.

he's not the heavenly emperor
productive procrastination explained it:
"Dijun Bailing: Although he is one of the Emperors of Heaven, (I believe he is the white/Bai Emperor) however I am worried people are going to mix him up with the actual Heavenly Emperor who should appear later in the drama so I’ve just called him by his title “Dijun”."

well Lu xing chen did nothing but live free in her home and eat her food, but then he finally decided to try to be a designer again

nooooo～

I hope Liu Te does better here than in My Dear Lady.

she tries to get a job to get custody of her son just to never really mention him again because she now has a man-child in her life.

this is less problematic until you realize that he initially had the same damn idea. sigh.

I admit to my hypocrisy and confess that if any other actor besides Xu Kai Cheng had played the main male lead, I would've dropped it immediately. good for him that he is hot enough to make me wonder how they were going to resolve this huge problematic mess.

I just find Xu Kai Cheng too hot. I could just look at him all day.

Most interesting character: Mu Xiao Man
Most interesting storyline: Yu Le Xuan
Best (tho sudden) character development: Han Zhi Sheng
Most repetitive storyline: Lei Ao
Most unnecessary character (and annoying): Han Shu Min
Deserved better: Mu Xiao Man, Lei Ao and Xu Wen Xi
Best side character: Principle Feng and Master Wang

the first half was pretty unexciting. I kept waiting for something to happen but it felt like a lot of filler. the second half however was much better.
the first half basically is just the development of bromance and friendship and while I normally love that, the stakes were always the same and it became really repetitive very quickly. it was important for the second half because it relies completely on the bond the scholars developed throughout the first half.
the villain story was very anti-climatic and the ending was really rushed with actually a lot of open endings left. they made so sure that everyone had their own personality and story but at the end failed to give them justice.
the main couple did get married, but we never even see them kiss :(, but what is she doing now? she got a whole degree for her brother and now he is suddenly completely healthy and works as an officer or something like that. ... and she just gets married? disappointing. she's not even working for the girls' school they built.
What is Lei Ao doing now that he proved his brother's innocence?
What is Yu Le Xan doing? Are they both just traveling? To where?
What happened to Han Zhi Sheng and Mu Xiao Man, now that she suddenly loves him again?
I also don't like how Wen Xi just has to live lowkey for the rest of her life in fear that people would recognize her as Wen Bin.
since the story is unrealistic anyway, the could've given us a cookie-cutter ending and make her the first female governor.

I really hope the poster is a prediction of the ending. I haven't started this yet but I'm just simply against almost all student x teacher relationship there is.
Also, I love Ha Seok Jin

my favourite trope is when the ML is absolutely gone for the FL. so much that he really can't help himself all while still really respecting her feelings, not pushing her and not knowing that in reality she likes him too, starts to like him or is not aware of it yet. I live for the yearning.

happy ending

just when I started thinking that I wished he would start to something, he starts doing something.

you really gotta be cautious with the spoilers here, because most of them are for unsubbed eng eps

THANK GOD someone finally shares the same opinion as me.
the hazing was ridiculous and the romance nowhere to be seen. this boy fell for him because he gave him oranges.