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thanks. I also added that removed ost info to my review so viewers know it originally had music.

i see. so it had music. that's sad. now i'd like to know the music. is it on Spotify or so? with a certain title to find it?

thank you. so it's more that physical body of humans die, not because of playing that game but e.g. technical issues with their VR mask. then i can understand it (similar to other scifi stories then).

can someone explain if that virtual world is meant to be like a game with ai npc or ai that has own conciousness or what exactly they are? and how could humans die in a game then? i Somehow have the feeling that details are skipped in the storyline that are necessary to understand the story.

waiting is hard. i watched all episodes for now but probably wait until all are released bc it's getting more intense and then just one episode per week over 3 months until it's finished is annoying (i usually watch series i like in a row and 16 episodes is something for a long weekend 🤣)

I wonder how they managed to go through censorship - or is the series version different than the novel?

I dont watch romance focused dramas. I could say almost all dramas I like within the Chinese fantasy setting have complex spiritual aspects and storylines, including difficult personalities and relationships, including past lives and tribulations in different realms and have an interesting character development and also dilemma between characters and within character's.
Feud - whenever it gets dynamic and thrilling - cuts that down by e.g. flashback to boring daily mortal life etc

The way the story is told seems to artificially extend its length without true progress.

It would be fine as a parody or comedy genre like "what could go wrong goes wrong" but Feud tries to be one of the serious dramas in the fantasy genre.

It also has a lack of logic in some scenes/storyline strings.

That's a real interesting aspect! Maybe that's the reason and also a thing that should be considered during casting the actors for any drama.

When I read your comment another show's couple came into my thoughts (not Chinese show) and in this show the couple had so much charisma and chemistry together that many viewers thought they're a real life couple as well (later it was announced by the actors that they aren't and that the actress is in a longterm relationship with another woman and not interested in men in general...what no viewer who watched them in tjat show thought).

So maybe there are just a few actors who are able to play a character in a story together with another actress in a way that it appears real - and those are extraordinary and stay in mind.

I only watch it because of Bai Lu. Compared to her other fantasy dramas, Feud is very weak and boring because of flashbacks of the past and only showing boring daily life. Plus the male lead has no charisma (compared to her other male leads in previous fantasy dramas).
So if you don't have anything else to watch and (skip eventually boring episodes) it's okay to watch but without that addictive binge watch aspect other dramas have.

Do you know Till the End of the Moon?

That's how great chemistry and charismatic main leads look like even when it's not about romance (TTEOTM was mostly about her mission instead of romance and still had amazing acting).

I wish there was another male lead actor. No chemistry at all with Bai Lu. Her other fantasy story partners were so good but in this drama the male lead's performance is so bad 🤨

I somehow got the feeling they skipped the last episodes...

What's gonna happening with Yun Weishan and Shangguan Qian in the end?

Does anybody know the novel, is it clearer there?

Will the repeated scenes pattern continue to more than 1-2 episodes at the beginning?

I tried watching it but it was too annoying although otherwise I'd watched it because I like the actors.

Is the storyline and characters (ending) of the novel different to the TV version?

You don't know what he'd done if he wasn't interrupted every time plus, your pov suggests rape is actually ONLY rape when a woman is capable to fight back - which is VERY often not the case in REALITY and often used by rapists as excuse and at court the reason why rapists don't get any penalty at all.

#metoo didn't occur for nothing and that's something of the 2000"s+ era.

Do you really think a woman placed in a era with even more patriarchy than today was able to "simply" fight a man back?

PS:

Recent surveys say that every 3th-4th woman who is in a relationship today has sex with her male partner even when she doesn't want to have sex at that time because she is too frightened to set clear lines (what is also a product of our society and how girls grew up vs how boys grew up).

Another study says that although sexual violence is mostly committed by males, women are those that should "learn" how to avoid this violence.

And such stories like "Stolen Love" transport a very unhealthy picture of relationship (including the ending). Although some plot twists are interesting it's something that should be watched with caution.

So was Jun Qi Lou adopted by the Juns or not? I somehow didnt understand why she is the Bai Sheng heir and why only she as a girl at age 13 could already design weapons. Who was her teacher?

it's the most weirdest Chinese series I've watched so far. The beginning is very odd, the ML tries to rape his ex wife multiple times. later the story gets its own dynamics with many hidden motives of each character. in a way it's a mix of dark romance, thriller and revence story. very often the truth lies beyond the surface.

so i'd say if someone is used to certain kind of manga stories (like mafia boss e.g.) Stolen Love might be interesting for giving it a try (compared to some stereotypical mafia manga stories Stolen Love is less abusive on the physical part but more manipulative on the emotional part).

the music is great and the actors play well too (very suitable for their given characters).

it's Not "her" revenge but his. everything she does is for her first ex husband. the second husband is also very deceiving. the whole drama is full of lies, tricks and hidden motives.

Thanks. In that case it seems the characters of the TV story are more various with inner struggles than the novel versions (with some other fantasy characters it was similar, the novel versions were much simpler than the TV versions).

Although that often meant that the novels had happy (or happier) endings and the TV characters ended quite sad in several cases).

So in the novel he really stays in heaven all alone for eternity although he hated being alone most? or is he happy with being alone in the novel?