Ray

I’m sure Uncle Che liked her.
(too soon? 😭)

I’m afraid I haven’t watched too many j-dramas. But I can recommend you books by Keigo Higashino. I’ve found a similar wholesome murder mystery dynamic in his his stories. You can perhaps check out Galileo (the japanese drama). It is loosely based on one of his characters. I personally didn’t believe they did it justice though so I couldn’t finish it. I definitely recommend the Detective Galileo books though. The Devotion of Suspect X, for example,
is a masterpiece.

I second this opinion and I don’t even have ovaries.

Why does this sound like Cinderella Chef?

I absolutely love the fact that most Japanese murder mysteries I've read/watched so far have somehow had a wholesome with a side of therapy following the regular content. I've never experienced this in murder mysteries from other parts of the world.

Given how they've already started dropping another Angelababy drama, I really hope we see this soon as well.

The comedy is terrible. Makes everyone look stupid and incompetent. I love the book series but this show is just not for me.

I hope they do that correctly as well. Also, given how two sets of actors are cast as the leads, they’re likely to run two parallel stories between them (past and future). So there will most certainly be a time jump involved and something related to the historical influence keeping them apart perhaps? The “forbidden love” angle seems quite possible, unfortunately.

I think they definitely intend to tackle those issues and that is why they decided to set the show in this time period. Curious why they didn’t mention anything about it in the synopsis though.

Tag says 1950s so this is post-independence, post-partition Korea possibly set during the Korean war.

That makes a lot of sense actually. And the writers think hey, let’s use that for character development of the leads.

I’ll watch it with one eye closed if it gets too hard. Nothing can keep me from Lusi dramas. Besides I’m a sucker for sad endings. That’s hardly the issue. Thank you for your concern. I just like my female leads to stab first and suffer later.

Also, I'm so nervous about Little Shrimp. Lusi has such a poor track record of child companions in her shows. They always die. I hope he is an exception.

Agree.
Also, very intrigued by the proverb you used about wearing a watermelon around one’s neck. What does that mean?

Roughly around which episode does it start to get lighter?

I’m 4 episodes in and this show is sooo depressing. I feel so bad for Duanwu. I’m still gonna stick by it because I love Lusi and had been looking forward to this show forever. But I’m wondering when does it get slightly less depressing.

Damn. I thought that third time's the charm and WXY would finally get Bai Lu.

About 2 months.

It's co-produced by WeTV? Because that's the first thing that has made sense since they changed the name, announced twelve 35 minute episodes and dropped that weird trailer.

https://www.viki.com/videos/1250330v-highlight