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I do remember K-dramas where half the dating scenes happen at subway or there's a supermarket chain shown in every episode or characters suck all kinds of things from little plastic tubes and satchels, sure.

But I figured they'd do them less in the streaming age.

I only watched Fangs in autumn and eventually came back here today to see what I said about the chemistry between the leads... to reply to a comment on a new drama where people are referencing leads' chemistry in Esther's dramas 🤗
(IMO in that regard LBFAD was solid, Speed and Love strong, this here weak; just finished watching Love Between Lines which I'd say is on par with Speed and Love in that regard)

Would have liked that a lot more than the final scene (and post epilogue scene) we got.
Btw, maybe better to spoiler tag your post.

You only really get "actual" red flag MLs in short dramas. In long ones they're always censored to be cute endearing puppies.

Her chemistry in LBFAD is decent, in Journey it's murky, and in SAL it's really good. Like The First Frost, Speed and Love is already worth watching for the leads' chemistry.

It's the same thing (lots of slow motion and very pretty water), with even less story substance, but Fangs is much more BL. Here it's just 1x from what I recall (Xue+Xue).
Fangs has an excellent OST though.

Are those in C-dramas though? Never heard of them.

I forgot how it is to watch shows with stupid product placement.

this product is so bad, nobody wants it even if it's the only thing in the fridge: https://i.imgur.com/Ose3Brb.png

obligatory 666 satanic medicine here and there (allergies? 666! stomach issues? 666! didn't eat for days? 666!)

some silly SOUL app

that clip of an ugly express delivery vehicle that plays ~50 times

those two alcohol bottles

(& everybody has the same phone design or brand)

I've seen ML's car in another show before, but at least you don't really have scenes highlighting its features.

In one episode FL snatches a device from ML that really doesn't seem appropriate/useful for her demography.


I mean, it's not oppressive the way Rio was in O2O. Or bubble tea in LMLMV.

Nope, she always sounds like that in her shows.

I edited that one to add Romance to the genres (as I don't think it's valid to claim it has none).
However, one could also find its ending a bit iffy.

I'm not sure if she is https://kisskh.at/people/159402-zhang-yue or yet another one.
I feel I've seen the Tan'er actress in some other show, but...

it's not https://kisskh.at/people/23265-zhang-yue

To compare the final scene, watch EP02 from 38:40 (dark, outside the building).
For one opinion (very spoilery), see the second and third paragraph of what Rosabella25 wrote here https://kisskh.at/761021-xiao-yao#comment-24910220

It does the basic xanxia "three lifetimes" thing, with the FL going to previous lives and meeting ML there. Those parts at least have some sweet/cute scenes, even if the FL actress still does not have notable romantic chemistry with him.

- time travel / chicken-egg: total nonsense (more here: https://kisskh.at/761021-xiao-yao#comment-24818686 )

- grass bracelet: 100% forgotten
- blind girl with cat in demon valley: 100% forgotten
- temporarily villainous plant Da Li: 95% forgotten

- how did ML turn from full human into full(?) demon? (& not die when killed by FL but sleep thousands of years): does the human goddess essentially already turn ML into a demon, or does drinking from the Yuli spring make him a demon instead of a human immortal, and what if anything does the FL do in this context?
- how is the most recent FL incarnation born to be half demon, how can FL's blood revive ML, why does FL blood attract demons, why do the writers forget all this after a few episodes..?

- ...how do you place a human being's soul into a human body that has no functional heart, and the result is a living breathing "normal" human?

- the power levels of characters in fights change to suit the current plot arc's needs

As a quite haphazardly structured show, it goes so deep into side quests they might as well be full story expansions with their own side quests, only to then have to wrap up the comparatively paper-thin main story in 5% of the runtime.
Makes you wonder how much was filmed and ultimately cut.
There's so much unexplained or actually pretty much random stuff too.

And the ending... I don't need flame that on its own, https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTYPc6mjCqu/ does a pretty solid job of it already.

Happy if you tell yourself she then changes the timeline (once more) to fix everything.

Open if you aren't that opinionated.

Bad if you consider it as her not traveling back in time but just being stuck inside her happier memories for the rest of her life, to escape the grisly reality. Someone else called that a "cosmic depression prison".

These three also happen all together...

I think they were on budget cuts and lack of sleep.
This isn't a drugs problem but a putting 30% of the story into 5% of the space problem.

Not really.
I mean, all interpretations exist in the comments.