I know LR has trust issues and she shows her love enough for us to love the couple, but she took so long to admit…
True, they really dragged that plot device too much. It was a combination of problems among both and the politics.
First the ML took so long to tell her that he has nothing to do with Zhen Zhen, so much so that he was unwilling and only when misunderstandings became a mountain that did he explode out of frustration.
Only after this outburst I think in E12 that FL went on the journey towards accepting and resuming her love with him. She did admit that she had loved him before. Only that misunderstanding made her feel betrayal and cultivate her trust issues.
The outburst in I think E21 again by the ML got her to realize the difference of reality both were interpreting. And she gradually became more welcoming.
I think the fact that it took over 60 years for her to realize the importance of love and feelings shows that she was never meant to be this person at all. Because even at 40 its extremely hard to change your established mindset.
Man the FL is a complete blockhead, a stubborn fool, who seriously needs some adult advice from some sane adults, that are not her family.
All that "I love him, but can't accept it", is annoying, but somehow the show always keeps it toned so low that I won't say its frustrating. Rather something part of character development.
She is improving in a tangibly visible way so I can't complain. All the outbursts by the ML and his dedicated love and care, simply erases everything. Also her character slips frequently even though she still is inept at relating it to love but its supremely satisfying.
Naah, if it had more seasons definitely but with such short content, I can't in sound mind give that rating. You literally has 4/5 seasons of awesome psychotic content.
Though yes, both of them are really not masterpiece level series. I mean there is no rewatch value.
She did a really good job on the latest drama called “The Double”. I guess it is all about the make up
No, I was not talking about this drama but The Double. I have only seen her there.
Yanxi Palace is on my blacklist for some reason. Maybe I have watched it in the past and didn't like it or the ending is either rushed or open ended. I don't remember.
And here I will tell you that the special episode did not satisfy me, I think, just like you, that it was shallow,…
There was essentially no need to show the battle, they could have just ended it after the wedding, perhaps attach the special content with more exposition afterwards. It would have been an all rounded complete experience.
The beauty of the this romance is in the dialogue. This couple was making love with every word pun/subtext in…
Well he did include it in the last episode, perhaps that was a consolation prize to stem public outrage about the rushed ending. Which obviously spectacularly failed that they had to shoot the 5 minute special.
ugh i wish it had more romantic scenes. the drama seems to be really good
Well apparently it was the director who repeatedly refused to include kiss scenes even after the actors' insistence.
So I guess, this tension was intentionally introduced to keep the audiences glued in.
The director is also very notoriously infamous in China for plagiarism and being disrespectful of actors as well as shaming them. So I guess he applied this sadistic approach so satisfy his power vanity.
The beauty of the this romance is in the dialogue. This couple was making love with every word pun/subtext in…
Yeah, it always felt especially when they had affirmed their feelings through expression, that the time was right for a kiss, and it not happening really felt like getting played.
That's actually just kept bubbling in my mind and exploded when the actual kiss scene was skipped.
Aside from that the numerous tid bits of romance and jealousy was both cute and heart-warming at the same time. I keep getting reminded of when the ML removed Shuren's cape off her, hahahaha...
The FL's loving smile was all it really took to make me smile. If it kept with that I would have at least given 8.5.
If it had some good kisses, I would have cut the whole romance plot out of the drama and made myself a short movie to rewatch easily (I do this occasionally).
9 is simply not possible for me for a drama without a strong romance. I just draw the line there. As I tend to keep such drama in my archives.
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Aside from that, the director is one notorious individual, lol, no wonder, hahaha.
ugh i wish it had more romantic scenes. the drama seems to be really good
It is very good, and when the leads are together, its a treat to watch. Unfortunately it doesn't sizzle as much to satisfy me as the implied kiss declares there isn't going to be anything serious going on.
Especially when there is no peace period or where they get to enjoy the courtship. There whole marriage was like a commercial, it came and went like wind.
She did a really good job on the latest drama called “The Double”. I guess it is all about the make up
She only looked good in the second half. In the first, I was baffled at how old she looked and why even cast her opposed to such a young smooth skin ML, lol.
Actually I came here to find more great dramas featuring her, unfortunately could not find any that would satisfy all that I want from them.
Its a good political drama with intricate schemes and strong characters.
Unfortunately for me it was a consecutive mistake, to watch a drama where romance takes a backseat. It is really hard to judge a highly rated drama to have what you want and I just took it in stride.
Romance wise it is a tease fest that they keep on to hook people like me. I figured it out very late, around the time the first kiss was implied, and my expectations just hit rock bottom, then and there. I simply didn't care about the plot line afterwards at all. Such high tension and you choose to omit it, only to have it in the infamously rushed, last episode, why?
When it happened, my reaction was simply, oh, they did it, ok...
Similarly, the special would surely appeal to die hard fans but frankly it was too low quality and shallow, it was after all just 5 minutes long containing multiple scenarios. Like a consolation prize.
The shift of perspective from FL to ML's father plot line came too late for me to care.
So I just gave it a safe rating of 8/10. I want to remember it as a good drama but not worthy of being in my list.
She masturbated, lol.A totally nonsense plot line.
She died for a difference reason. It was just like ML's situation but worse.
She vied for approval from her parents but they shut her down because they could not bear to accept someone who was so different from them.
Her medical situation further aggravated their excessively overprotective and isolationist tendencies. In the hopes, she could be shaped in their image, some day. This is the reason she felt increasingly ashamed of her existence.
As one of the saying goes in the show: Mistrust of your children is a curse on their lives.
The masturbation was a kind of a release for her. Any human can understand this. Though the extension of once in a blue moon masturbation, to a sex addict, by the ML and affirmed by the FL was too much nonsense.
By their standards, any healthy teenagers' puberty situation would have been akin to a sex monster then, lol.
Similarly her interaction with the predator was predicated on this desire to be accepted. Further trying to appease him was again trying to retain someone who legitimatizes her continued existence. A really low point.
This also shown that the leads intervention was essentially inconsequential and their sacrifice as well as effort for naught. Only if the ML had gotten romantically involved with her would she have chance at life.
Even though romance seems to be the main focus as it is mentioned in the genres, its actually just a side plot so don't be deceived.
The ML is a Buddha and there is simply no movement till E27, yep over half way across. There is not even a single kiss scene, an implied one, yes. The leads romance content won't even make a single episode when combined.
The secondary couples have a really long courtship that culminates in the last episode. So you have couples with all courtship and the lead couple with none.
Rest is a slice of life and an informational video about Traditional Chinese Medicine. Which is intriguing at first, then a chore later.
The plots go downhill in the second half, in the last ~15 episodes. There is a certain level of nonsense that just follows from there onward.
There is a plot line which supposedly serves to develop the ML but its dragged too much and really doesn't culminate into anything more than sadness. It also gets the nonsense treatment from the plot and then justice warrior treatment from the FL.
The FL to the end remains a reckless individual and there is no evidence shown that affirms her maturity, instead, the characters around her always accommodate her and she never experiences lasting consequences.
There is another blunder in the last half, a misunderstanding is caused by one of the mains, which gets forcefully extended to many episodes. Seemingly for no reason at all this is continued to make the lead couple not get together, and torture them, while the pandemic rages.
Though I really liked the Master and his cute wife dynamic. Even their grandparents were awesome characters.
I think this drama without the intricacies of TCM, would have been a great show. For now its an 8/10, not something I would like to rewatch.
Me too, I am finding this TCM thing, completely boring. Is there any romance at all? I am E27 and it has not even…
I too like slice of life but there has to be a strong romance at some point to keep me interested. Very odd choice to not do a kiss scene when ZLS has done so before with other actors. Oh well, that just means that romance is only slight.
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First the ML took so long to tell her that he has nothing to do with Zhen Zhen, so much so that he was unwilling and only when misunderstandings became a mountain that did he explode out of frustration.
Only after this outburst I think in E12 that FL went on the journey towards accepting and resuming her love with him. She did admit that she had loved him before. Only that misunderstanding made her feel betrayal and cultivate her trust issues.
The outburst in I think E21 again by the ML got her to realize the difference of reality both were interpreting. And she gradually became more welcoming.
I think the fact that it took over 60 years for her to realize the importance of love and feelings shows that she was never meant to be this person at all. Because even at 40 its extremely hard to change your established mindset.
If you don't like their opinions just learn to ignore them, that's like comments 101. I accept that sometimes even I cannot, but I try.
Man the FL is a complete blockhead, a stubborn fool, who seriously needs some adult advice from some sane adults, that are not her family.
All that "I love him, but can't accept it", is annoying, but somehow the show always keeps it toned so low that I won't say its frustrating. Rather something part of character development.
She is improving in a tangibly visible way so I can't complain. All the outbursts by the ML and his dedicated love and care, simply erases everything. Also her character slips frequently even though she still is inept at relating it to love but its supremely satisfying.
Frankly if they hadn't included them, it would have a rating in the 8s.
Though yes, both of them are really not masterpiece level series. I mean there is no rewatch value.
Yanxi Palace is on my blacklist for some reason. Maybe I have watched it in the past and didn't like it or the ending is either rushed or open ended. I don't remember.
So I guess, this tension was intentionally introduced to keep the audiences glued in.
The director is also very notoriously infamous in China for plagiarism and being disrespectful of actors as well as shaming them. So I guess he applied this sadistic approach so satisfy his power vanity.
That's actually just kept bubbling in my mind and exploded when the actual kiss scene was skipped.
Aside from that the numerous tid bits of romance and jealousy was both cute and heart-warming at the same time. I keep getting reminded of when the ML removed Shuren's cape off her, hahahaha...
The FL's loving smile was all it really took to make me smile. If it kept with that I would have at least given 8.5.
If it had some good kisses, I would have cut the whole romance plot out of the drama and made myself a short movie to rewatch easily (I do this occasionally).
9 is simply not possible for me for a drama without a strong romance. I just draw the line there. As I tend to keep such drama in my archives.
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Aside from that, the director is one notorious individual, lol, no wonder, hahaha.
Especially when there is no peace period or where they get to enjoy the courtship. There whole marriage was like a commercial, it came and went like wind.
I was just not looking for another subtle romance spanning 40 episodes.
In the first, I was baffled at how old she looked and why even cast her opposed to such a young smooth skin ML, lol.
Actually I came here to find more great dramas featuring her, unfortunately could not find any that would satisfy all that I want from them.
Unfortunately for me it was a consecutive mistake, to watch a drama where romance takes a backseat. It is really hard to judge a highly rated drama to have what you want and I just took it in stride.
Romance wise it is a tease fest that they keep on to hook people like me. I figured it out very late, around the time the first kiss was implied, and my expectations just hit rock bottom, then and there. I simply didn't care about the plot line afterwards at all. Such high tension and you choose to omit it, only to have it in the infamously rushed, last episode, why?
When it happened, my reaction was simply, oh, they did it, ok...
Similarly, the special would surely appeal to die hard fans but frankly it was too low quality and shallow, it was after all just 5 minutes long containing multiple scenarios. Like a consolation prize.
The shift of perspective from FL to ML's father plot line came too late for me to care.
So I just gave it a safe rating of 8/10. I want to remember it as a good drama but not worthy of being in my list.
She vied for approval from her parents but they shut her down because they could not bear to accept someone who was so different from them.
Her medical situation further aggravated their excessively overprotective and isolationist tendencies. In the hopes, she could be shaped in their image, some day. This is the reason she felt increasingly ashamed of her existence.
As one of the saying goes in the show: Mistrust of your children is a curse on their lives.
The masturbation was a kind of a release for her. Any human can understand this. Though the extension of once in a blue moon masturbation, to a sex addict, by the ML and affirmed by the FL was too much nonsense.
By their standards, any healthy teenagers' puberty situation would have been akin to a sex monster then, lol.
Similarly her interaction with the predator was predicated on this desire to be accepted. Further trying to appease him was again trying to retain someone who legitimatizes her continued existence. A really low point.
This also shown that the leads intervention was essentially inconsequential and their sacrifice as well as effort for naught. Only if the ML had gotten romantically involved with her would she have chance at life.
The ML is a Buddha and there is simply no movement till E27, yep over half way across. There is not even a single kiss scene, an implied one, yes. The leads romance content won't even make a single episode when combined.
The secondary couples have a really long courtship that culminates in the last episode. So you have couples with all courtship and the lead couple with none.
Rest is a slice of life and an informational video about Traditional Chinese Medicine. Which is intriguing at first, then a chore later.
The plots go downhill in the second half, in the last ~15 episodes. There is a certain level of nonsense that just follows from there onward.
There is a plot line which supposedly serves to develop the ML but its dragged too much and really doesn't culminate into anything more than sadness. It also gets the nonsense treatment from the plot and then justice warrior treatment from the FL.
The FL to the end remains a reckless individual and there is no evidence shown that affirms her maturity, instead, the characters around her always accommodate her and she never experiences lasting consequences.
There is another blunder in the last half, a misunderstanding is caused by one of the mains, which gets forcefully extended to many episodes. Seemingly for no reason at all this is continued to make the lead couple not get together, and torture them, while the pandemic rages.
Though I really liked the Master and his cute wife dynamic. Even their grandparents were awesome characters.
I think this drama without the intricacies of TCM, would have been a great show. For now its an 8/10, not something I would like to rewatch.
Very odd choice to not do a kiss scene when ZLS has done so before with other actors.
Oh well, that just means that romance is only slight.
Is there any romance at all? I am E27 and it has not even started!
Is there courtship and perhaps some sweet moments that if taken separately can be a good amount? If not I sure don't want to waste more time.
I came for ZLS romance but its a slice of life. The plots are interesting though. Just the theory exposition is too much.