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Coroner's Diary is far better than this one. ML and FL also worked together in CD.

This is Manchurian dynasty. That's why the hairstyle is like that.

If you want LONG HAIR for men, then you should watch Han Chinese-led dynasties costume dramas. Many costume dramas were set in Han Chinese-led dynasties such as Qin, Han, Song, Tang, Sui, Ming, Three Kingdoms era, Northern-Southern Dynasties, etc. They all have long hair for men.

Then, you should watch "Hard to Find". It was written with the same screenwriter (Zhao Lin) of A Familiar Stranger and Butterflied Lover.

The ML is Zhao Yi Qin from Butterflied Lover!

I highly recommended Hard to Find. It's so tragic, beautiful and intense.

She looks like Wan Peng

No problem. I love to give more recommendations to many people.

Hard to Find and Love & Bid Farewell have sad ending. But if you watch both of them (especially Hard to Find), you will understand why the writer decided to give tragic ending. There is no other choice in their situations.

Open ending = Dawn is Breaking, Butterflied Lover.

But many people translated Dawn is Breaking ending as happy ending. The ML was cured from poison and FL lived happily with ML until the end. It's like The Glory type of ending. We need to interpret them as happy ending but there is hidden clue about sad ending as well. If you want happy ending, then just ignore it. Basically, the production team wanna please both sides.

Butterflied Lover is more complex. The ending is more about TWIST. It's mind blowing and I can't spoil it for you. Hehe.

The rest of the dramas that I mentioned have happy ending.

They have two kisses. One accidental kiss in ep 15, and one ending kiss in ep 30.

Some of them, yes.

You can try to search the titles in your WeTV region.

Love & Bid Farewell, To Love or To Defy, Love in a Dream, Fortune Writer, Provoke, Love Behind The Mask, etc. They can be watched in WeTV.

There are many more great short dramas. Let me know if you need more recommendations from WeTV.

Do you know the news about The Golden Hairpin and Love's Ambition? Why Tencent still delay those dramas release? Especially when Zhao Lusi is in the peak of her popularity now with live streaming. Tencent should release Love's Ambition soon.

English is not my first language. So I misunderstood your sentence. But some other ppl maybe think the same like me because your statement is too complex.

Oh i am so surprised that Youku bring this one for summer slot. It will face Moonlit Reunion head to head.

Chinese dramas have a lot of kisses. And The Double also have some kisses in the drama. Yes other costume dramas have more passionate kissing scenes like Story of Kunning Palace kisses, The Prisoner of Beauty kisses, and etc. But The Double still have some soft kisses indeed. Duke Su and XFF also have wedding kiss in ep 40.

I don't understand why you said something like there is no kiss in The Double. It could be misleading to new audiences especially your review is the upper one.

There is romance and kisses between ML and FL. They even get married in ep 20.

I am sorry but your words are a bit too much/trigerring for some people. I am a Christian. Protestant to be exact. Don't say something like that too lightly. Please respect the Christianity.

I noticed that since 2023/2024, many short dramas put higher budget to create decent costume dramas. Their cinematography is very close or even in the same level with full length dramas. Usually, the duration is around 15-20 mins.

Yes, written conversations don't have tone so I misunderstand your tone of words because there is (!) in some of your statements.

Why you suddenly become so mad? I just pointed out that there are indeed full length dramas with obvious Rebirth elements and the censorship still allowed it. Maybe they already changed the rules since around 2021/2022. Because 2023 - 2025 there are so many Rebirth dramas from both full length dramas and short dramas.

I didn't talk about Lost in Time. It's a different drama. I talked about "Lost Track of Time". It's Xing Fei drama with Zhai Zi Lu.

LOTFG removed Rebirth elements because they want to create different stories. Just like The Double and The Glory.

There are many full length chinese dramas with Rebirth elements in the stories . For example Story of Kunning Palace, Blossom, The Princess Royal, Si Jin, Lost Track of Time, and etc. And they indeed use Rebirth elements to going back to the past. The censorship still allow them to be aired without problem.

How about Si Jin and Lost Track of Time?

Scent of Time was also Rebirth drama. But the ending is like a dream in FL comma. And it pissed off so many people. After SOKP, the Rebirth dramas didn't use those ending tropes again to avoid censorship. Not a novel/book/fictional world. Not a dream.

The Princess Royal only let ML and FL said/questioned the situations to themselves like "Is this a dream? Why i am going back to my youth?". But the statement is only for ep 1. And the ending, they said, "if this is a dream, i wanna live in this dream forever." Something like that. It's a soft move and unnoticeable. Because many real ppl in this world also talked to themselves like that if something good is happening unexpectedly.

For Si Jin and Lost Track of Time, there is no opening or ending that indicate this is just a dream or story in fictional world. It just ended the story like other costume dramas.

For Blossom, also, there is no opening and ending about "dream or book story" as well. They wrapped the story with complete happy ending like other costume dramas.

There are so many great short dramas with decent budget nowadays.

This is some examples of great short costume dramas with good production designs and stories =
- A Familar Stranger
- Butterflied Lover
- Hard to Find
- Provoke
- Love in A Dream
- Love & Bid Farewell
- Always My General
- To Love or To Defy
- Dawn is Breaking
- Fortune Writer
- Love Behind The Mask
- and etc many more

Actually there are still many more but it will be a super long list if I write them all.