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is it useful to watch this with (after) Blood Of Youth, like do the actors have similar roles or are there little references to the other?

They're never enemies, he "just pretends to be"

For me the idiotic way the writing goes about doing this cost the show at least two points, so you're definitely not alone.
(There were parts of the later plot years that I also found quite weak and unconvincing, but that wasn't as disruptive.)

And yes, for the overall plot trajectory and some of the motifs used it's definitely *necessary* to have that element in the plot, but as you said, the "how" of it is totally unconvincing.

Well, the angsty part one could argue is required to get the point across.
You can try https://kisskh.at/50395-forever-love , it cuts out and tones down most of the angsty stuff. But from production, cast, chemistry, to OST, it's of course notably weaker.

With that said, depending on your personality, either watch L&P first and use the other as a post-angst recovery pill, or start with the easier watch (dip in toes first) and only fully submerge later.

In the scene at 11 minutes in EP 14, did they forget Bu Xiu's blue-silverish eyes (actor Lu Qi)?
They're just brown :c

Is there a particular most action-packed & exciting episode of this?
I want to try watching a drama episode in 60 fps, never done that before.

There's a (leather?) glove-stretching sound every time too.

Worse image quality, but intact songs and intact intros/outros. This is what I would recommend watching:
https://kisskh.club/sinful-marriage/sinful-marriage-2025/


Download instead of streaming, notably worse and uglier version of the kisskh stream, with very small file size and two watermarks:
https://9jarocks.net/videodownload/sinful-marriage-season-1-chinese-drama-id351400.html

🦜 in spoiler tag 🏴‍☠️

YouTube with mostly muted music, but good image quality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9TPg297zrY&list=PLBEgzjAsIRLQnGu0V4uvvvrOM91C8cHVU&index=1

YouTube with differently cut episodes (8 instead of 24), no intros, no outros, and I guess muted music and also bad audio quality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR7Xq0QjMpM&list=PLV7fI9wy8e1TH4WoekJWmM6qqhmfrifVL&index=1


All seem to have the same OK-ish (but not always clear or understandable) Mango-quality English subtitles.

Compared to other similar mini dramas, production and script are (even) weaker.
Nothing about the overall (political) plot convinced me in any way.
However (as I think other users have pointed out below), things like a sequence of small kisses were executed much better than in the vast majority of other dramas.

ML's guard is in https://kisskh.at/771433-bu-fu-jiang-jun-bu-fu-qing playing the exact same role of ... (that) ML's guard [same director]
He has very little screentime here.

ML's guard is in https://kisskh.at/780358-zui-jia playing the exact same role of ... (that) ML's guard [same director]
He has very little screentime in the other show. He's much more present here.

It's entertaining, but not sure I would call it objectively good.
The villain wrap-up is not the best either.
The OST starts out strong at the very start and later, like Shadow Love, just has one nice song that's re-used whenever possible.
The chemistry is fine and the leads don't do anything that makes the viewer suffer. Didn't watch their other 2/3 dramas yet.

Thanks, I guess I'm not used to it from the usual Tang(?) dramas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVlywEZ3rHQ

Villain(s) died.
"Second couple" girl died, earlier.
Everyone's parents died, I guess.

Watch it :3

It's not a sadpanda tragedy, no.

How *beneficial* is to watch DY and perhaps TBOY first? (I know it's not *necessary* to follow the plot.)
I'm more asking how many references there are that a viewer would enjoy/notice.

Would TBOY spoil much of the plot or just the ending between ML1/ML2?

In the novel, how does Dou Shi Ying (FL's father) relate to the treason plot?

In the show, he is listed in the uncle's list of evildoers that he sends to his sister (letter from Jiang Mei Sun to Jiang Hui Sun).
Then the leads talk to Dou Shi Ying and it turns out that he is on the jewelry shop investor list. However, the jewelry shop scheme is a new thing, as it's ran by Wei Ting Zhen and relates to the money from the horse market. When Jiang Mei Sun is still alive, there is no horse market, and Wei Ting Zhen lives in a state approaching poverty without access to this much money.
The show explains that the villain Dou Shi Shu tricked Dou Shi Ying into the jewelry shop scheme, but this does not at all explain his presence on Jiang Mei Sun's list of traitors.