BimiluiSoop

It's not just you. The original novel is 900 pages long. The drama was filmed to be 32 episodes. During editing, 8 episodes worth of scenes were cut out to make the story fast-paced and to make the drama acceptable for Chinese state censorship. The end result is this rushed experience. It is such a shame because they literally shot 32 episodes. I'm NEVER getting over the 8 episodes we lost.

Exactly this. Script writers should have adjusted Flora's reactions based on the changes they made in Luke's character (which frankly I'm quite glad they did). But its like drama-Flora is reacting to book-Luke. It makes the story lose coherence. No wonder poor Flora has been receiving a hate train in the comments section. I wouldn't get it either, if I wasn't in the process of reading the novel. This one is on the script writers.

I have read 500 out of the 900 pages. I will definitely finish the novel. I'm dying to know all the material that was cut out from the drama.

What! There's a standalone story of Will & Lumi? We need a drama adaptation stat. And yes, I need to read this once I'm done reading the main novel.

Samesies. I will never get over the fact that they cut full 8 episodes out!

Naurrrrr.... Novel writer, why you gotta be like that. I'm glad the script writers had a lot more sense T_T

The novel is 900 pages long. So much context and material was cut out and Luke's personality was made softer for the drama adaptation that Flora's reactions don't even make full sense. On top of that, shooting a 32 episode drama and only airing 24 episodes. It is the ultimate travesty. I'm so sad we didn't get to have the full 32 episodes T_T

I think people have seen multiple trailers of the next episode and are talking about the scenes shown in the trailers.

Don't worry. Spamming comments makes the comment board busier which by MDL definition of user engagement makes the drama more "successful". So this troll is not doing the damage they think they are. I can't even be bothered to read the essay they have copy pasted dozens of times

Yeah. I'm being taken out by how they shot 32 episodes and we will only get 24. This is on a different scale of outrageous than the minor censorship we see in other C-dramas, only a few scenes cut, not the equivalent of 8 episodes cut. It is such a shame.

The main problem with the drama adaptation is that the script writers have significantly changed Luke's character from the novel and turned him a lot softer and nicer. In the novel, Luke is standoffish, hasn't defined their relationship in 500 out of the 900 pages of the novel. Novel-Luke definitely doesn't call Flora his GF to her face let alone to his friends and he hasn't apologized to her for his harsh words even once. The dynamic of their relationship is very different in the novel. Now the problem with the drama adaptation is that Luke's character has been softened but Flora's reactions and behavior has been kept exactly the same. This has created a rift in the story. The way Flora behaves in the drama makes perfect sense in terms of how Luke treats her in the novel, but not the drama-Luke. The script writers should have re-written Flora's character too, when they changed Luke's character so much. The script writer's decision has made the adaptation nonsensical in terms of how both parties behave and react to each other.

The OP is talking about how the drama was shot to be 32 episodes and then cut down to 24 episodes. I suspect that is the doing of the Chinese Censor Board (I don't know the exact details). It is damn shame. Cutting that many episodes is going to make the story so rushed. The people who have read the 900 page novel are rightfully worried that the remaining 4 episodes can't do justice to the story which is still left.

I read a comment explaining that Youku China might be 2 episodes ahead. The subtitled episodes are 2 behind. But I don't know. I'm incredibly confused too.

Same. I keep seeing such comments and keep losing my mind thinking that I slept through critical scenes. I haven't been sleeping enough and I usually end-up watching the episodes at odd hours. To make matters worse, I got so sick of 1 episode per day this week that I started reading the novel. Luke in the novel is very different from the drama adaptation. He is much, much, much more cold and frigid. Their relationship is way more effed up in the novel. Reading the book and watching the drama side by side has me so confused. Now I even worry if the breakup will make as much sense in the drama, because of the differences from the book. The drama writers have made Luke so much softer in the drama. He actually calls her his GF, which he hasn't said once or even acknowledged in 400 out of 900 pages of the novel... So I already have 2 versions of the story to keep up with, and seeing comments like this is making me go mad. I don't remember Luke calling her easy in either the novel or the drama. WHELPPPP!

Wait till Luke finds out that the dog is named Luke.. kekekeke

Ah, I'm watching it on Youku too! I don't understand Mandarin well enough yet to pick up on these nuances. I can totally tell what you mean though. My Korean is much better and I'm always frustrated with the mistranslations and all the epic jokes getting missed out in the translation.

Are you watching on Netflix? Netflix subtitles are notorious for being incorrect and inconsistent. They tend to oversimplify and American-ize the translations for the global audience.

Same here. It is the rare drama where I have watched the opening and closing credits, but for this one, I watch the closing credits every single time. Though I do always laugh at what sort of Mercedes Benz ad is happening in the closing credits T_T

We are getting one episode this whole week until Sunday T_T ... This week's schedule has been posted in the photos section: https://kisskh.at/photos/b3o7nL_3

No, I think what the OP meant was a "meet-ugly": an ugly first meeting between the FL & ML (at her previous workplace where she left an imprint of her face on his white shirt. "A second meet ugly has hit the tower", is referring to the bar scene where FL accidentally gave ML a nose bleed.