This is what you look for in an epic love story, an unwavering love between the leads, angst, sacrifice and a happy ending.
The story of the leads is breath-taking. What they go through, their longing for each other and the lengths they would go to protect each other. The two actors did a phenomenal job in carrying the multiple roles they portrayed.
This is by far the best Xianxia drama ever, followed closely by Love and Redemption and Ashes of Love. This is an example for future Cdrama writers and directors how to make an epic love story. You need both the leads to be invested in love for it to be epic.
Fl not dating both brothers, stop spamming, its not first time i saw same messege from you
I think the writer & director are aiming for cool girl & pure guy thing but in most dramas the FL come across as undeserving the ML.
Have seen couple of dramas (unfortunately) this year 'Dr Cutie' & 'A love so romantic' where at the end of the drama, I wished the ML would end up being alone than be with the horrible FL. In both these dramas, the FL runs away with the brother of ML.
I doubt there would be many people in reality who would run away with sibling of their lover and even consider dating them but Cdramas portray these angles so regularly. This is just disgusting and makes the FL look absolutely horrible, creepy and pathetic.
I think the Cdrama writers and directors need some therapy where they are made to write 1000 times 'sibling of your lover is not your backup lover or future lover'..
Fl not dating both brothers, stop spamming, its not first time i saw same messege from you
I love all kinds of tropes, even brothers falling with a girl/ sisters falling in love with a guy. BUT these complicated stories have to be done very carefully.
'falling into your smile' is one of my fav dramas this year. It had typical ML who is your typical Cdrama ML and FL was typical Cdrama FL. It was so much fun and was directed so well. The ML has a brother and that brothers interactions with the FL were a hoot and one of the best ones in the drama. Similarly 'Ancient love poetry', which probably will be one of my fav all time, has standard tropes but the whole thing was done masterfully.
The first love/pure love/older woman-younger man tropes work for me... What don't work though is siblings falling in love with same person and crossing boundaries that should never be crossed.
Just to make the whole comparison lot more uncomfortable, how would it feel if the ML had feelings for the FL and the FL's mother? I know bringing the FL mother is crossing a different line but the comparison is very apt. the relationship feels disgusting when the mother is brought in. It should be disgusting when the sister is brought in as well. After all the blood relationship exists in both cases.
Sister and mother of the girl you love are your sister and mother as well & vice versa for a girl. These relationships are something you love and cherish for what they offer us in our life with the one we love.
I wish Cdramas would cut down on the trope or do it tastefully. In many dramas the brother of ML even thought the FL is dating the ML keeps going at it. It just left a terrible taste for me.
It's not like these creepy love triangle adds anything to the actual story, it does not.
Take this show for example - had it been a family friend of older friend of ML, it would have worked so well but it just had to be the brother. What exactly does this serve to the story line?
Fl not dating both brothers, stop spamming, its not first time i saw same messege from you
Watch Episode 7, The flash back says it all.
It moot to argue something when the FL herself is seen as pining for the ML's brother. She wanted commitment, which the brother never did.
Don't mind triangles, in fact my fav show this year is 'Siege in Fog', an absolutely fantastic love triangle which was well done.
Just for comparison, let's do a gender reversal. How many Cdramas in last decade has FL and her sister having a love triangle with ML? How many Cdramas have ML loving FL sister first and then moving on to FL? How many Cdramas have ML having sweet romantic moments with FL and her sister?
How many times in a drama did you have 2FL syndrome where the 2FL is the FL sister?
Have not watched any...did you?
in fact in most of these dramas, ML is only and only committed to FL and does not even as much as glance at other women - which in turn makes the ML poorly written or FL not as much invested in love as ML. If this was one off drama, it can be understood but this year many dramas followed the same script.
It just points to poorly written dramas, probably written teenage girl who has little understanding of love and ZERO understanding of men. These dramas look like fantasies of girls who are Mary Sue and want to end up with a "pure" guy who has never looked an inch away from FL in his whole life.
All I want is variety in dramas & not the same crap of a story line with different actors, ML and his brothers falling in love with the FL just adds to the misery of watching same crap. For me that angle all but kills a drama.
IRL would you ever date a person who dated your sibling?!! Or even ever consider romancing that person. There are FULL STOPS in life, no matter how difficult the situation is. Siblings lover is a FULL STOP, it's not a comma or a condition. It's a hard FULL STOP.
There are some really wonderful Cdramas this year but many of them are pathetic with same kind of ML and same kind of FL.
Fl not dating both brothers, stop spamming, its not first time i saw same messege from you
You need to watch episode 7 then. I am calling out this stupid trope in Cdramas that happens in every other drama. This is not the first time you saw this message from me because this is not the first time this troubling trope has played out in Cdramas.
Then the ML should back off from the FL.She clearly is in love with the ML brother and has multiple times rejected…
Compared to ML, the 2FL comes across much better.
FL openly rejected ML, she pines and cries for other guys in front of him and yet he continues to hit on her. For good measure add in creep factor where he forced himself into her house when she did not want it. Even now FL likes his cousin and he simply just keeps forcing himself on FL.
Yeah, compared to ML, 2FL self esteem is much better and comes across less creepier.
Another crappy drama where the FL will end up dating both brothers.
The ML has classic Cdrama Eunuch syndrome. Have no idea why this year there are so many crappy Cdramas with FL's dating brothers and ML's who behave as if they have not hit puberty yet.
wait so like the ml is a playboy and the fl is a slut????
ML is good, he only ever loved the FL.
Brother of the ML though, yikes. What a scum. Thinking of bonking your brother's girl, even if she is his ex. What kind of scum would be hitting on his brother's girl/ex.
And the FL, ouch, why would you ever consider dating brother of your BF/ex?
The story was absolutely fantastic for majority of the show. Somehow the writers introduced this bizarre angle.
It was disgusting & in the end ML did not deserve such a scum of a brother and such filthy GF. Should have ended up with some another girl.
She has no problem going out & having sweet moments with her senior but the ML has a sweet moment with another girl (in reality he is comforting her), the FL throws a massive tantrum.
Ni xiao wan is a naive girl who thinks helping someone of the opposite sex is something that caused due to attraction.…
Why does Lin Nan Yi's soul and body belong to Tong Xi? It's not like the she is pining for the ML. She likes other guys than the ML....not sure why other girls can't go after ML? Why should the ML's body and soul belong to FL when her body and soul are with other guys?
Nothing to do with the actor really, Cdrama ML's have very little scope, since the whole ML character lives and dies for the FL and has very little life outside of FL.
It was good until the FL dates ML's younger brother,
It just boggles my mind. A guy dating his older brothers GF, absolute scum. A girl dating her Boy Friend's younger brother, absolute filth.
It did not matter how good the drama was before, once this crap happened, it just went south.
Why would Cdramas have this trope in so many dramas? Is Sly incest a thing in China?
Have seen so many Cdramas with brothers falling in love FL & in some they even date. Have never seen reverse though, FL and her sister falling for the ML and him dating both of them and I think this pattern is very intentional by the people behind these crappy drams.
:( I'm so broken about Yuemi and Tianqi. I'm finding it hard to continue watching. What should I look forward…
Heartbroken for Yuemi She died without TQ reciprocating her feelings. In a way she sacrificed herself for the guy. The guy did not deserve her one bit.
This is what you look for in an epic love story, an unwavering love between the leads, angst, sacrifice and a happy ending.
The story of the leads is breath-taking. What they go through, their longing for each other and the lengths they would go to protect each other.
The two actors did a phenomenal job in carrying the multiple roles they portrayed.
This is by far the best Xianxia drama ever, followed closely by Love and Redemption and Ashes of Love.
This is an example for future Cdrama writers and directors how to make an epic love story. You need both the leads to be invested in love for it to be epic.
Have seen couple of dramas (unfortunately) this year 'Dr Cutie' & 'A love so romantic' where at the end of the drama, I wished the ML would end up being alone than be with the horrible FL.
In both these dramas, the FL runs away with the brother of ML.
I doubt there would be many people in reality who would run away with sibling of their lover and even consider dating them but Cdramas portray these angles so regularly.
This is just disgusting and makes the FL look absolutely horrible, creepy and pathetic.
I think the Cdrama writers and directors need some therapy where they are made to write 1000 times 'sibling of your lover is not your backup lover or future lover'..
BUT
these complicated stories have to be done very carefully.
'falling into your smile' is one of my fav dramas this year. It had typical ML who is your typical Cdrama ML and FL was typical Cdrama FL.
It was so much fun and was directed so well. The ML has a brother and that brothers interactions with the FL were a hoot and one of the best ones in the drama.
Similarly 'Ancient love poetry', which probably will be one of my fav all time, has standard tropes but the whole thing was done masterfully.
The first love/pure love/older woman-younger man tropes work for me...
What don't work though is siblings falling in love with same person and crossing boundaries that should never be crossed.
Just to make the whole comparison lot more uncomfortable, how would it feel if the ML had feelings for the FL and the FL's mother? I know bringing the FL mother is crossing a different line but the comparison is very apt. the relationship feels disgusting when the mother is brought in. It should be disgusting when the sister is brought in as well. After all the blood relationship exists in both cases.
Sister and mother of the girl you love are your sister and mother as well & vice versa for a girl. These relationships are something you love and cherish for what they offer us in our life with the one we love.
I wish Cdramas would cut down on the trope or do it tastefully. In many dramas the brother of ML even thought the FL is dating the ML keeps going at it. It just left a terrible taste for me.
It's not like these creepy love triangle adds anything to the actual story, it does not.
Take this show for example - had it been a family friend of older friend of ML, it would have worked so well but it just had to be the brother. What exactly does this serve to the story line?
The flash back says it all.
It moot to argue something when the FL herself is seen as pining for the ML's brother. She wanted commitment, which the brother never did.
Don't mind triangles, in fact my fav show this year is 'Siege in Fog', an absolutely fantastic love triangle which was well done.
Just for comparison, let's do a gender reversal.
How many Cdramas in last decade has FL and her sister having a love triangle with ML?
How many Cdramas have ML loving FL sister first and then moving on to FL?
How many Cdramas have ML having sweet romantic moments with FL and her sister?
How many times in a drama did you have 2FL syndrome where the 2FL is the FL sister?
Have not watched any...did you?
in fact in most of these dramas, ML is only and only committed to FL and does not even as much as glance at other women - which in turn makes the ML poorly written or FL not as much invested in love as ML. If this was one off drama, it can be understood but this year many dramas followed the same script.
It just points to poorly written dramas, probably written teenage girl who has little understanding of love and ZERO understanding of men.
These dramas look like fantasies of girls who are Mary Sue and want to end up with a "pure" guy who has never looked an inch away from FL in his whole life.
All I want is variety in dramas & not the same crap of a story line with different actors, ML and his brothers falling in love with the FL just adds to the misery of watching same crap. For me that angle all but kills a drama.
IRL would you ever date a person who dated your sibling?!! Or even ever consider romancing that person. There are FULL STOPS in life, no matter how difficult the situation is. Siblings lover is a FULL STOP, it's not a comma or a condition. It's a hard FULL STOP.
There are some really wonderful Cdramas this year but many of them are pathetic with same kind of ML and same kind of FL.
This is not the first time you saw this message from me because this is not the first time this troubling trope has played out in Cdramas.
FL openly rejected ML, she pines and cries for other guys in front of him and yet he continues to hit on her.
For good measure add in creep factor where he forced himself into her house when she did not want it.
Even now FL likes his cousin and he simply just keeps forcing himself on FL.
Yeah, compared to ML, 2FL self esteem is much better and comes across less creepier.
She clearly is in love with the ML brother and has multiple times rejected his advances.
If SML should back off from the ML,
then the ML should back off from the FL as well.
The ML has classic Cdrama Eunuch syndrome.
Have no idea why this year there are so many crappy Cdramas with FL's dating brothers and ML's who behave as if they have not hit puberty yet.
Brother of the ML though, yikes. What a scum. Thinking of bonking your brother's girl, even if she is his ex. What kind of scum would be hitting on his brother's girl/ex.
And the FL, ouch, why would you ever consider dating brother of your BF/ex?
The story was absolutely fantastic for majority of the show.
Somehow the writers introduced this bizarre angle.
It was disgusting & in the end ML did not deserve such a scum of a brother and such filthy GF. Should have ended up with some another girl.
She has no problem going out & having sweet moments with her senior
but
the ML has a sweet moment with another girl (in reality he is comforting her), the FL throws a massive tantrum.
Her double standards are out of the world.
It's not like the she is pining for the ML. She likes other guys than the ML....not sure why other girls can't go after ML?
Why should the ML's body and soul belong to FL when her body and soul are with other guys?
Nothing to do with the actor really, Cdrama ML's have very little scope, since the whole ML character lives and dies for the FL and has very little life outside of FL.
Half the Cdramas I have watched this year has brothers romancing the FL.
Bloody creepy writing
Not going to start this crap.
It just boggles my mind.
A guy dating his older brothers GF, absolute scum.
A girl dating her Boy Friend's younger brother, absolute filth.
It did not matter how good the drama was before, once this crap happened, it just went south.
Why would Cdramas have this trope in so many dramas? Is Sly incest a thing in China?
Have seen so many Cdramas with brothers falling in love FL & in some they even date.
Have never seen reverse though, FL and her sister falling for the ML and him dating both of them and I think this pattern is very intentional by the people behind these crappy drams.
She died without TQ reciprocating her feelings. In a way she sacrificed herself for the guy. The guy did not deserve her one bit.
ML called her fat few times, must be bloody blind.
FL is stunning.