Okay, I'm in! I can't wait to see who she ends up with. Her cousin is cute but the boy needs to get more serious and less arrogant. Hopefully he steps it up when he sees the competition.
I really enjoyed this! A refreshing story with no silly misunderstandings and all lovable characters. But my goodness, I never thought when I started this drama that my favourite character would end up as Rei. He’s amazing and I love him.
I am actually so shook that the actor playing Mo Ruofei is female. That was the first impression I got but then she's just so handsome, I got confused. Now I don't even know what pronoun to say. But dang, is Xing En gorgeous!
I'm only an episode in but I like it! Much more than I can say for Ming Lan which I really wanted to like but couldn't get into. This reminds me a lot of Lan Ling Wang but I'm hoping this doesn't give me as severe a case of second male lead syndrome as that drama did. Loving Ariel too, she is timeless!
When I started watching Asian dramas, I couldn't stop myself from devouring each new Korean drama. This year was drastically different. I tried a few dramas like Why Secretary Kim but couldn't get into any of them apart from one short web drama. The only kdrama to have peaked and kept my interest is The Last Empress which, for all the makjang, is a rather compelling storyline. My favourites for this year are Ashes of Love and Bhuppae Sunniwat.
The ending had me literally chanting to pick one guy over the next. I was so scared she was going to pick that idiot again. I see Netflix has the sequel as well but I’m so afraid she’s going to choose the other guy!
Take out all the flashbacks and useless plot points and this drama could have been much better. Also, the ending for Liangsheng - not sure how I felt about it. I wasn’t his greatest fan but is he implying suicide? Or was that cough meant to signal that he was going to die? Thinking along the lines of his former health issue with blood clots, am I meant to guess that he likely has a pulmonary embolism and will die soon? I guess so. All his unhappiness just because he couldn’t love Jiang Sheng just as a sister. That’s kinda sad.
I can hardly believe how much I already hate the Emperor, his mother and his secretary in just two episodes. Can I guess that the dead body they dug up in the first episode is Min Yu Ra and it's either or both the emperor and/or his mother who done it? Or is that just wishful thinking?
Funny how I just decided on the weekend to rewatch this drama but just with all the good parts AKA any part with Touba Yu in it. I was obsessed with his character back when this was airing. He's so obviously Slytherin that I was entranced by the character. Next to him, Touba Jun was a yawn for me. This article sums up my feelings really well about this drama. A very well written piece!
Listen, I love this drama. Sure it has its boring/draggy moments but overall, it has so much to love - the last 6 episodes had me RIVETED, I couldn't stop watching. And what's I really like it that I can revert between love and hate for our main trio as many times as I like but still come out feeling like I truly empathize with them. My heart ached so many times during this drama but it never failed to make me smile too. 10/10 if only for the fact that's this drama had me obsessed with a drama again after a long slum. I'll miss this so much but that's why the replay button is there ;)
I am shaken to my very core by the ending of episode 7. I suspected that the breakup had something to do with Ryo but I hadn’t expected him to have done this. Could he not have manned up sooner and admit that he had feelings for her? Or at least tell her when she lost her memories? He kissed her (maybe slept with her?) and she broke off her relationship with Machida because of him. But then she lost her memories and instead of telling her what had happened, he pretended he knew nothing and let her go on without a clue. Not that that isn’t bad enough but he even went back to his ex and restarted his relationship with her. And now that Sayaka has finally decided that she wants to be with Machida, Ryo can’t take it anymore and suddenly wants to come back to her??? I’m pissed at Machida too for being silent all this time about why they broke up. So much could have been resolved sooner if the man would SPEAK. Honestly at this rate, I’m hoping for all 3 ladies to be happy and single or find someone more worthy of their attention. Both male leads are idiots.
I love reading Chinese novel translations. They're so intriguing and so much hard work goes into translating them, I'm so grateful. These are the ones I've read before, the number of chapters completed are in brackets but may be slightly off because I haven't updated my list in a while:
1. Bu Bu Jing Xin (8 chapters) 2. Da Mo Yao/Sound of the Desert (completed) 3. Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Thousand Miles of Peach Blossoms (completed) 4. The Princess Weiyoung (29 chapters) 5. Mei Gongqing (142 chapters) 6. General and I/ A Lonesome Fragrance Waiting to Be Appreciated (completed) 7. Sansheng, Wangchuan Wu Shang - Sansheng, Death Exists Not At the River of Oblivion (completed) 8. Faithful to Buddha, Faithful to you (29 chapters)
Finished 10 episodes so far and the only reason I'm not pulling an all nighter to finish is because I have other…
I especially like how it's gone from Muen being all "I despise her to the core and will never ever in a million years get myself married to her" to "I really want to marry her but I don't want to force her". I'm really wondering how this is going to end.
My favourites for this year are Ashes of Love and Bhuppae Sunniwat.
Also, the ending for Liangsheng - not sure how I felt about it. I wasn’t his greatest fan but is he implying suicide? Or was that cough meant to signal that he was going to die? Thinking along the lines of his former health issue with blood clots, am I meant to guess that he likely has a pulmonary embolism and will die soon? I guess so.
All his unhappiness just because he couldn’t love Jiang Sheng just as a sister. That’s kinda sad.
This article sums up my feelings really well about this drama. A very well written piece!
10/10 if only for the fact that's this drama had me obsessed with a drama again after a long slum. I'll miss this so much but that's why the replay button is there ;)
I’m pissed at Machida too for being silent all this time about why they broke up. So much could have been resolved sooner if the man would SPEAK.
Honestly at this rate, I’m hoping for all 3 ladies to be happy and single or find someone more worthy of their attention. Both male leads are idiots.
1. Bu Bu Jing Xin (8 chapters)
2. Da Mo Yao/Sound of the Desert (completed)
3. Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Thousand Miles of Peach Blossoms (completed)
4. The Princess Weiyoung (29 chapters)
5. Mei Gongqing (142 chapters)
6. General and I/ A Lonesome Fragrance Waiting to Be Appreciated (completed)
7. Sansheng, Wangchuan Wu Shang - Sansheng, Death Exists Not At the River of Oblivion (completed)
8. Faithful to Buddha, Faithful to you (29 chapters)
The link above has all the episodes for both seasons.
Season 2 is from episode 13-24.
If I'm wrong, I apologize for the interruption!