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Upcoming days: The Legend of Heroes (17/06 confirmed), Follow Your Heart (15/06 rumored)
Rumored in June/July: The Rise of Ning
Rumored in July: Reborn for Love, Fangs of Fortune, Dashing Youth (Blood of Youth spin-off).
Probably in July/August, maybe September: Lost You Forever S2
Rumored in August: Liu Zhou Story
Rumored in Q3: The Princess Royal, Go East, Snowy Night: Timeless Love, Guardians of the Dafeng, Moonlight Mystique,

Just do it! At least try with the first episode, it made me hooked from the very first scenes. If you like the darker type of dramas then it's definitely worth a try.

It's really good, for me even better than Blossoms in Adversity. It's a matter of preference, I love this type of dramas.

The most important difference between those two is the vibe of the drama itself. BiA was more on typical "Life" drama side, romance was cute, based on healthy communication. It had some darker moments but overall I would call it wholesome.

On the other side we have The Double which from the very first scenes shows you what you will be getting - much darker and "dirtier" vibe, characters (both good and bad) can balance on grayish side with their actions. Villains are much worse and cruel, there is more of them (stopped counting how many people drive me mad because of their evilness). Some episodes could've some trigger warnings to be displayed at the beginning as there were quite disturbing scenes or topics.

More blood, more action scenes, more cruelty in general. I strongly recommend to at least try with first few episodes. If you gonna like it - then drama gets even better how the story progresses. If you don't like those - I don't think it's for you.

Oh, that's such a nice detail and metaphor of the progressing relationship between those two. She's been also repeatedly offering her life to him, with each episode it's getting more serious and intense when she says those words.

+ I may not like Li Jin, but let's be honest, he didn't have to be that fine for this one scene, but it was a nice surprise

He's her cousin after all (in theory, he doesn't know that her identity is fake).

I don't either feel any romance potential between Shijie and A'Li, maybe he has or will have a secret crush on her but that's all. But I don't know the original story so I may be wrong.

That would be sooo nice, there is also a melon saying that Fangs of Fortune will air in July. Let’s add Lost You Forever 2 airing at the same time and I will not leave my house for the whole month 😂

https://www.comingsoon.net/chinese-drama/news/1754552-upcoming-c-drama-the-tale-of-rose-poster-teases-liu-yifei-lin-gengxins-chemistry

I've seen an information that the premiere is planned on 8th of June.

If they just dropped this info casually and it will has no influence on her character it's gonna be such a wasted potential.

I've finished Ashes of Love recently, say no more

It looks like she's obsessed with him and additionally has some power issues. Let's see what happened to her in the past when she was a hostage.

For me the best so far were: JoL2, Legend of ShenLi, Blossoms in Adversity. This one has a potential to be the 4th good one this year. 2 dramas from Tencent, 2 from Youku. IQIYI is not doing well, especially after big disappointment on FSMM but they have a lot to come in the next months, so fingers crossed.

It would be nice to see more complex villain. Can't wait to find out about her past as hostage.
She could go through a lot of horrible stuff but if she's doing bad things herself it's not gonna make her a good person anyway, possibly more dimensional villain character. I don't see her redemption/being a good person at all, she literally made the FL's ex husband to set up and kill his innocent wife.

I would call it a face swap done right and logically, it's not some magical stuff going one but part of the bigger FL's revenge scheme. Topic itself is also used well to add more suspense and gives actors some place to show off with their acting abilities.
It makes me happy and excited to see more dramas done on "darker side", it feels refreshing (I liked My Journey to You, too, can't wait for Fangs of Fortune to air).

I think it was to stir up even more on the connections and exclusivity among people who are already in power. It brings more imbalance.
If the exams would not base on the teamwork, that could be considered an equal treatment. Otherwise, it just makes powerful people more powerful and takes away the possibilities from less lucky ones.

Looks like Youku is doing quite well in the first half of this year when it comes to costume dramas. I picked up randomly Blossoms in Adversity first to be positively surprised and looks like it's the same case with The Double. I'm after ep 9 and enjoying it so far. Can't wait for the story to unfold, I feel that we are just at the very beginning.

Hah, same, dropped FSMM and started watching this one to be absolutely positively surprised. It's on a darker side, ML's and FL's acting is spot on, no filler scenes. So far, so good, worth to try for sure!

For me this is a black horse among this year’s kdramas, right next to Lovely Runner. It deserves to reach 9.0 rating, no doubts. Fingers crossed for it to happen and for more people to have a chance to watch this hidden gem.

PS First time in my life I just fell in love with the voice. I was suprised (in the best way possible) that he’s been dubbing himself.