Sooyi

He looks so dapper in his armor!

Lol I give a thumbs up to the person/people who did the English subtitles for this movie because it has so much business jargon that I didn't understand the movie word by word.

Esom, Go Ah-sung and Park Hye-soo are not playing students. Their characters are nearing their thirties. In the movie, Park Hye-soo's character said that she hates being called "gal" when she is going to be thirty soon, and they're all the same age from the way they speak to each other and call each other by their names. By "high school graduates", it means that they did their education until high school.

This web drama isn't adapted from a manhwa.

A lot of people have realized that "Handmade Love" has a stunning wardrobe. In fact, it's co-produced by the fashion label The Handsome (the Youtube channel Put Your Handsome which is streaming the drama is the company's official channel). Usually when fashion labels produce dramas, you could see their logos and tags, but The Handsome decided not to show them because they "wanted to approach their consumers through highlighting the theme of fashion and to expand ways of communication". (Source: https://www.mk.co.kr/news/business/view/2020/11/1228933/)

After reading the manhwa "The Antique Gift Shop", I have always thought that one of the characters, the mysterious store clerk Mr Yang, reminded me of Lee Soohyuk. So I think it's a coincidence that he got to portray a character with a similar set-up.

From the information I have it will be available on this channel, Put Your HANDSOME, from December 11th 6pm KST, every Tuesday and Friday: https://www.youtube.com/c/%ED%91%B8%EC%B3%90%ED%95%B8%EC%8D%B8PutYourHANDSOME/featured?view_as=subscriber
Not sure if it will be region blocked.

I didn't finish the novel but I read that Fiction Guo's character isn't the male lead and doesn't end up with the female lead in the book.
However, Fiction Guo seems to be the leading actor in the photos of the drama's booting ceremony, so I guess the screenwriters changed the story.

-Translation of the source novel, 'The Crazy Adventures of Wu Gate':
(chapter 1): https://kawaiidaikon.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/crazy-adventures-of-the-wu-gate-chapter-1/
(book 1 of 3): https://www.fuyuneko.org/work/#/wu-gate/

-Spoilers about 'The Crazy Adventures of Wu Gate':
http://onesecondspring.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-crazy-adventures-of-wu-gate-by-ying.html

This drama, “You’re My Peach Blossom Debt”, is actually adapted from the novel with the same title by Bu Shi Fei: https://www.shushengbar.net/?p=16470&=1

It is NOT the adaptation of the BL novel “Peach Blossom Debt” by Da Feng Gua Guo. I think there was confusion surrounding the source novels since both have very similar titles.

Dylan Kuo is not the male lead. He plays another role in the drama, Ba Qing's husband. The role of the male lead, Ying Zheng/Qin Shi Huang, was given to Fan Bingbing's then-fiancé Jerry Li after Gao Yunxiang's scandal, and the former did reshoots of the latter's scenes.

Honestly I hate it when food or drinks are used in romantic scenes. It makes me grossed out on the contrary, rather than swoon. Yet I gotta admit that Han Shuo taking a bite out of the cake inside Qianqian's mouth, causing their lips to brush against each other's, did make my heart flutter a bit *^^*
I think it beats the "toast kiss" scene between Inha and Dalpo in "Pinocchio" (even though the latter wasn't real) ;)

While the argument between Qianqian's mother and Han Shuo regarding his divorce from Qianqian in episode 15 was tense, I can't help thinking that that scene is reminiscent of the epic battle of wits and sharp tongues between mothers-in-law and their daughters-in-law in makjang dramas XDD

Episode 15 was much better and it made most of the characters acknowledge their insecurities and wants.

I was relieved to know that Qianqian has finally realized her characters are no longer passive figurines who will do as she intends them to. Zhao Lusi perfectly conveyed the feeling Qianqian had when she saw the monster she has created of Chuchu. Speaking of character deviations, I liked how the Eldest Princess decided to throw the embroidered ball on her own accord rather than because it was written for her. Her words that she wanted to choose her own husband and not let others make decisions for her for once in her life really moved me because it showed she is more than a sideline character forced to stay still.

Colors played a subtle but still significant role in demonstrating the change to the characters' inner thoughts. On one hand, Han Shuo sporting black at the Royal Hunt was showing that he will be acting more assertive in fulfilling his goals. On the other hand, as black is his favorite color, I was thinking that it was a clear indication that he is abiding to his own interests, instead of what the plot dictated for him. It's the same with Qianqian wearing red just like the original Qianqian who was always vocal about her wants and took action to get them, highlighting that the former was willing to become her own protagonist and not a doormat wingman to Chuchu.

Finally, I think that Su Mu forgoing to chase Yuanyuan (for now) was understandable. As potential love interests, Yuanyuan and Su Mu have neither discussed nor solved their respective insecurities in their core together in order to fully commit to each other. It shows that while fluttering feelings lead to a connection, they're not enough to turn it into a long-lasting relationship.

I feel like I'm going to have a constipation from episode 10 (until I get to the episode in which Qianqian is honest about her feelings toward Han Shuo and confesses to him). I understand that Qianqian is not very observant but if she is a writer, she should realize the story is NOT going as she planned it to be, so she should just let it be. There are times when your characters deviate from how they're written or from what's in store for them so you need to adapt the plot to them. And she should see that her arrival caused a Butterfly Effect in the plot, changing a lot of major events, and that she has become the HEROINE and she needs to follow Chuchu's calling if she ever wants to return to reality. And I really wanted to face-palm myself when Qianqian let go of Su Ziying framing her of rebellion just because he would cause her to lose her Crown Princess position and thus getting it bestowed to the supposed beholder, Chuchu. I mean she could get executed for the charge because in theory rebellion is a capital offense, therefore she could even die before the story will come to its fruition, and she could get stuck in a limbo ?

I found him annoying too. He was similar to your usual devious second female lead in dramas who felt as if she "deserved" the male lead because of the so-called "we were each other's childhood friend" or "I knew him for a long time" pretext, and the type who is too obtuse to know that it's inappropriate to interfere with the life of a married couple, even though the latter are not in love with each other. I wander if the screenwriter was trying to feature a more selfish second male lead for a change as the latter are always portrayed as kind, benevolent and understanding.

The drama is about a playboy from modern day South Korea whose soul time-travels to the body of Queen Cheorin from late 19th-century Korea. Queen Cheorin was the main wife of King Cheoljong who is infamously known in history as a puppet king. When I first read the synopsis, it seemed very similar to the setting of the Chinese web drama, "Go Princess Go". So I'm thinking the drama is about the main character trying to adapt to the body of a woman, failing to go back to his original timeline through death, conspiring with others to kill the King and gain power for himself but then he ends up falling in love with the King.

Some historical context of the drama: while Cheoljong was a distant relative of the Royal Family, his own family was very poor. He was simply made king because the Royal Family by then had no suitable candidates (they all mysteriously died) and his family was not influential in Court and he had no knowledge of politics and country affairs, so he was easy to control by the courtiers who governed the country themselves. That's why King Cheoljong is called "Cinderalla Man of Joseon" because he was basically a commoner who became King overnight.

I didn't read the novel from which the drama is adapted (https://www.shushengbar.net/?p=3036), but I get the gist that it depicts the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the rise of the Republic, like in the movie "The Last Emperor". So I'm guessing that Chen Xingxu will only have a tonsured head and a queue in the beginning of the drama, then he will adopt the standard short "western" hairstyle.

According to the novel information on Shushengbar (Internet directory for Chinese novels), the male protagonist is described as an anti-hero. However, I do not know if the screenwriters will keep his characterization for the drama.

Shawn Dou as an antagonistic male lead?! He has played nice guys gone bad before but an anti-hero from the beginning... kind of a surprise. Not a fan of forceful male leads who'd do anything to get female leads but I am curious about his portrayal ?