The whole drama is so MISUNDERSTOOD .The end and story was totally right , hong ye is the one unclouded soul ,…
I thought Xiao Yao 逍遥 is the one who has the unclouded soul. Hong Ye's soul is "clouded" by centuries of sufferings. Xiao Yao has suffering too but not consumed by it. She brings healing and hopes to break him free.
Who is this?I know ‘Li MouMou’ is an alias to protect the defendant’s image/privacy but XK has been defamed…
If it’s related to Feb 2024, then it’s the slander he spread online claiming Xu Kai contracted an STD. The timing was suspicious — right after WOL’s success. I remember first seeing a YouTube video about it during SAF6’s airing in Jan 2024, and it kept showing up for months. By March 2024, I even asked on the ABAY MDL page why this awful rumor wasn’t going away, because I’d already seen at least two videos pushing it. It stayed online for a long time, and I worried people would believe it. Honestly, I think WOL’s success triggered the attack and was meant to hurt upcoming dramas SAF6, BCE, and ABAY. They were afraid he might carry his success into 2024 and he did. Xu Kai had an amazing 2024 #1 post 90 actor with the most views. That nasty video was clearly meant to damage him, but it didn’t work. So, they try again in 2025.
I think around 2022, they actually believed that he was on a decline and didn't attack him (or maybe they did), but WOL late 2023 people were writing that Xu Kai was reviving his career, so they decided to spread rumors of STD. But after months of it trending on China's social media, he finally got fed up and reported it to the police for the first time (is that right Xu Kai never went to police before this?). It was during filming of MR he went to the police. 2024 brought even greater success primarily due to BCE and ABAY. 13 months after ABAY, they attacked him again just as Moonlit Reunion aired and it was a coordinated attack feels like well-planned out. Yu Zheng seems to have taken advantage of the attacks. But attacks failed again because MR was still successful.
Now we are in 2026 and soon Xu Kai's 800 Meters in Radius will be airing. I hope they don't attack again.
I hope this story also captures the atmosphere of the era as described in the Douban synopsis, and I think it will. The director is very good at balancing romance with other themes.
"It shows the spirit of the Chinese people in the seventies who are "practical but kind, romantic but hardworking."
There are no romance tags or romance genre on MDL nor Douban unlike The Princess Agent (prequel) so why do people assume its romantic relationship. They "formed a deep friendship" (not they fell in love), since the prince played by a younger actor, rescued her but doesn't say she ever fell in love with him. But the prince also used her and she almost died, so she must have hated him and set out to avenge the male lead's death. The prince did fall in love with her, but it doesn't' say she fell in love with him, so he probably secretly loved her and there is no real romance shown other than he might have looked for opportunities. There is no mention of romance in the synopsis with the older male lead. It sounds like a respectable story to me. It does not sound like a true sequel, but a remake of story or a remake of a time in that story.
"After the slave girl Chu Qiao was rescued by Yan Xun, the prince of Yanbei, the two formed a deep friendship, and Chu Qiao helped Yan Xun, but Yan Xun used Chu Qiao as bait to set an ambush and kill Zhuge Yue, the son of the Daxia family, and Zhuge Yue and Chu Qiao fell into the ice lake together. After Chu Qiao was rescued, he found an opportunity to assassinate Yan Xun and avenge Zhuge Yue. After Yan Xun fled back to northern Yan, he insisted on attacking Daxia, and the original dragon slaying boy eventually became an evil dragon, and he also hated Chu Qiao out of love, and wanted her to surrender to him by any means. While fighting against Yan Xun, Chu Qiao suspected that Zhuge Yue, who fell into the ice lake with him, was actually alive, so he tried to find his whereabouts. When she helped Bian Tang quell the civil strife, she was rescued by a mysterious man several times, and Chu Qiao had a sense of déjà vu for him, and it turned out that he was Zhuge Yue. In the end, Chu Qiao pacified the four directions and worked side by side with officers, soldiers and the people to protect the beautiful homeland."
What I'm still a bit confused is whether the Dragon, Princess NA, and current XY are reincarnation??? Like why…
It initially comes across like reincarnation — the same soul returning in a new body under different circumstances — but the drama flips that expectation by introducing time travel instead.
I could be wrong, but I think there's such an ancient kingdom in China all run by women
I got the idea from watching a Chinese drama, the intro I thought was based on ancient history that during the kingdoms, there was no emperor ruling, in this remote land, the women ruled it. The sister married someone from another kingdom as a peace treaty. She got mad at him, returned to her homeland, and he chased after her, but was terribly treated by the women. Later, she decided to give him another chance, but she rules him.
he started off as a screen writer, well known for plagiarizing, later set up his own production company. I've read so many awful things about him that I don't want to give him credit for directing too.
What do you mean by "The Double became far more successful than Moonlit Reunion"? What data did you use…
Maoyan 2024 year-end effective playback volumes in billions (cumulative figures as of late December 2024,
The Legend of Shen Li — 3.358 Major star power Joy of Life Season 2 — 2.942 Huge returning fan base Blossoms in Adversity — 2.749 Mid budget overperformer War of Faith — 2.371 Mid budget overperformer The Tale of Rose — 2.254 High profile cast Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty 2 — 2.275 Successful franchise The Double — 2.245 Dark horse — addictive momentum boosted its rise As Beautiful As You — 2.121 Genuine dark horse — top‑tier daily pace despite competition
ABAY did surpass 2.2B views in 2025 (per Maoyan X post) and may reach 2.4B in 2026 (unconfirmed). ABAY came out of the gate strong, soon hitting 100M a day consecutively, and reached 1.9B before the finale, just three days before the Olympics ended — a pace only top‑tier dramas can achieve, despite airing same time as LYFS2, soon follow by STOTD. I consider ABAY a genuine dark horse that rose organically.
Xu Kai, 2018–2026 (incl projects up to Tian Du Yi Wen Lu) 24 distinct characters, incl Zhaoge, which never aired but completed but would it have been 2017 airing? SOYP (not ML but an important char to the FL), Untouchable Lover (supporting char), and Autumn Fairy Tale movie (2nd ML) 20 male‑lead roles - this is really more meaningful 17 distinct female leads as the male lead (excl FI and Tian Du Yi Wen Lu, but incl. 800 Meters in Radius since it has romantic relationship)
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I think around 2022, they actually believed that he was on a decline and didn't attack him (or maybe they did), but WOL late 2023 people were writing that Xu Kai was reviving his career, so they decided to spread rumors of STD. But after months of it trending on China's social media, he finally got fed up and reported it to the police for the first time (is that right Xu Kai never went to police before this?). It was during filming of MR he went to the police. 2024 brought even greater success primarily due to BCE and ABAY. 13 months after ABAY, they attacked him again just as Moonlit Reunion aired and it was a coordinated attack feels like well-planned out. Yu Zheng seems to have taken advantage of the attacks. But attacks failed again because MR was still successful.
Now we are in 2026 and soon Xu Kai's 800 Meters in Radius will be airing. I hope they don't attack again.
"It shows the spirit of the Chinese people in the seventies who are "practical but kind, romantic but hardworking."
"After the slave girl Chu Qiao was rescued by Yan Xun, the prince of Yanbei, the two formed a deep friendship, and Chu Qiao helped Yan Xun, but Yan Xun used Chu Qiao as bait to set an ambush and kill Zhuge Yue, the son of the Daxia family, and Zhuge Yue and Chu Qiao fell into the ice lake together. After Chu Qiao was rescued, he found an opportunity to assassinate Yan Xun and avenge Zhuge Yue. After Yan Xun fled back to northern Yan, he insisted on attacking Daxia, and the original dragon slaying boy eventually became an evil dragon, and he also hated Chu Qiao out of love, and wanted her to surrender to him by any means. While fighting against Yan Xun, Chu Qiao suspected that Zhuge Yue, who fell into the ice lake with him, was actually alive, so he tried to find his whereabouts. When she helped Bian Tang quell the civil strife, she was rescued by a mysterious man several times, and Chu Qiao had a sense of déjà vu for him, and it turned out that he was Zhuge Yue. In the end, Chu Qiao pacified the four directions and worked side by side with officers, soldiers and the people to protect the beautiful homeland."
The Legend of Shen Li — 3.358 Major star power
Joy of Life Season 2 — 2.942 Huge returning fan base
Blossoms in Adversity — 2.749 Mid budget overperformer
War of Faith — 2.371 Mid budget overperformer
The Tale of Rose — 2.254 High profile cast
Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty 2 — 2.275 Successful franchise
The Double — 2.245 Dark horse — addictive momentum boosted its rise
As Beautiful As You — 2.121 Genuine dark horse — top‑tier daily pace despite competition
ABAY did surpass 2.2B views in 2025 (per Maoyan X post) and may reach 2.4B in 2026 (unconfirmed). ABAY came out of the gate strong, soon hitting 100M a day consecutively, and reached 1.9B before the finale, just three days before the Olympics ended — a pace only top‑tier dramas can achieve, despite airing same time as LYFS2, soon follow by STOTD. I consider ABAY a genuine dark horse that rose organically.
24 distinct characters, incl Zhaoge, which never aired but completed but would it have been 2017 airing? SOYP (not ML but an important char to the FL), Untouchable Lover (supporting char), and Autumn Fairy Tale movie (2nd ML)
20 male‑lead roles - this is really more meaningful
17 distinct female leads as the male lead (excl FI and Tian Du Yi Wen Lu, but incl. 800 Meters in Radius since it has romantic relationship)
One of the hardest‑working actors in C‑drama.