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If the insane amount of romantic scenes and kisses cut from this drama is a sign of what's to come in terms of censorship then it's gonna be so bad for us lmao. Can you imagine every single romance drama (which makes up more than 80% of chinese shows) butchered like this? We won't be able to enjoy anything in peace.

Whoever started this trend of murder subplots in korean romcoms should go to jail for crimes against humanity.

Losing only one episode is a great thing, the majority of dramas lose a lot more. Just recently shining just for you had 11 eps out of 36 cut and the entire thing became an intelligible mess, unchained love had so many crucial romantic scenes removed. Now all we can do is hope the writing is good.

Just a heads up to anyone looking forward to this drama, its initial episode count was 60 so I would brace myself for half a story. https://twitter.com/ManoodTingJeen/status/1449412707929636866

Oh that sucks, these constant crazy bans are ruining so many good shows, like holy sh*t soon there won't be anything they haven't banned and cdramas will just be static on a screen and from what I've heard the chinese industry gives almost no importance to the writers instead it's a constant weird battle of actor popularity when writing is the biggest reason a drama is good or bad, maybe that's the reason most cdramas are frankly hot garbage, the best thing to do is have zero expectations for anything. Because the hoops a cdrama has to jump through from storylines they can't touch, to things that get cut, to people adding and cutting screentime based on popularity and a 100 other things it's a miracle there are a few decent dramas every year, and the bans seem to be getting more severe, hopefully there will come a time when they will stop this mess and let them reach their full potential.

lmao I mean yanxi palace and ming lan had most of those I think ( right down to the infanticide) so hopefully they'll still be able to tell a good story. We know from experience that trailers can be very deceiving and cdramas usually start very light and then turn into heartbreak. I just miss very smart female leads that are actually shown to be smart ( and not them telling us she's smart 50 times but then she acts stupid), ming lan and ying luo kind of set my standards way too high because they were insanely clever and leagues above almost anyone and it showed in the schemes they came up with and the way they got out of difficult situations. There are so many dramas that are like smart female lead and i'm like where?

Oh that's interesting to know. Why wouldn't they make it into the show, do they concern something that might get censored?

Great writer, great director and great cast. There is zero reason for this to be less than stellar. Also a romance with a woman who's almost 50? I love that for us.

This is very concerning and I don't understand why? What do they think this is accomplishing exactly? They usually don't do much to modern dramas. Romance makes up more than 80% of their shows, if they plan on removing it from the final product they should just stop making things altogether.

Gotta love chinese censorship, not only do they butcher entire storylines and shows but they also cut multiple important romantic scenes that establish the main relationship in a drama whose entire point is to tell a love story...

Any news about this? The novel writer is insanely talented and her portrayal of smart women practically unparalleled.

I would love it if that were the case, that drama had a lot of focus on the male lead's job (ie propaganda for the chinese space program) but it also gave a lot of importance to the love story and the female lead.

There's something to be said about the way people are reacting to the FL's arrogance, whether it's the characters in the drama or the fandom. How many arrogant male leads have we had in chinese and korean dramas, how many "geniuses" have we watched who were very talented exactly like she is but so much more full of themselves. She doesn't even register at 30% on the scale of your average typical conceited male lead, except she seems much more hardworking, likely faced discrimination every step of the way and isn't working as the ceo in daddy's company like most of them. And yet the reaction to her is so overblown when we don't even bat an eye at much worse behavior displayed by many many male leads.

Oooh, there's the legend of shen li, the longest promise,lost you forever, love never fails, the emperor's love, chong zi, demon hunter's romance, Till the end of the moon to name a few.

The male lead is the one who needs a reality check, of course she still has a lot to learn but the way he's treating her is completely affected by what happened to his girlfriend and he's being unfair and biased and he doesn't even realize it. Also unfortunately the sh*t she goes through is very much the reality, sometimes it's even worse for women, not only in China but also the supposedly "forward" ones like the US where misogyny, harrassement, the wage gap and discrimination of all kinds are still very much rampant.

Genius female lead? I did a double take when I read that, usually the word genius is followed by man 99.99% of the time in drama synopses. Fingers crossed she's another Ming lan orYing luo .

I hope the rumours aren't true and they're not changing the focus from the female lead/male lead together to mostly the male lead and his team. I want equal focus on the female lead her career as well as the romance, it's 40 episodes, there's more than enough time for everything but from the trailer I'm not very optimistic.

There are SO many upcoming historical/Wuxia/Xianxia dramas that look amazing, this one included, I honestly don't mind waiting as long as they actually come out and they're well written as well as not hindered by the episode cuts and censoring that ruin a lot of dramas and turn them into nonsense devoid of any sense of coherent storytelling.

I was really excited for this but after seeing that they cut a 3rd of the episodes from the second half, I'd love to be wrong but the story is probably going to be butchered beyond recognition. I'm so tired of what are most likely great shows getting destroyed by massive cuts. Some shows can tell a story with less than 40 episodes, many can't and shouldn't, especially these epic fantasy shows with a plethora of characters and long spanning storylines . Without the high episode counts we would've never gotten Story of Ming Lan or Story of Yanxi Palace or Nirvana in Fire or most of the great historical and wuxia/xianxia dramas we love, most of which span 50-70 episodes ( and you can still feel they were rushed and cut in some places).

I loved this but the ending felt a little abrupt. We've been following his athletic journey and dreams from the start we should've gotten a look at some of his achievements in the future. Maybe some of it was cut ? Especially since the drama was set in 2015, I thought they did that to give us his growth and then him participating in the olympics of 2020. It feels like no matter how much I enjoy a chinese drama the ending is almost always like this and it's getting to be very annoying.