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Are you aware that the ML and FL are ADULTS STUCK in their past bodies? Just saying. The drama starts when the FL is 28 and the ML 34 or 36 I think. And those two are sent to their past bodies where she is 18 and he is 24 or 26, nobody knows.

Mentally, they are not 18 and 24. They have knowlege of life, job, love stories, heartbreak and those feelings travel with them to the past. They don't have amnesia.

Don't watch then instead of going all soviet on us. South Korea is a free country, the entertainment industry can do whatever it wants.

So fed up with the perpetual victims complaining about whatever they want and trying to impose their views on the society.

I'm not South Korean, I don't have to impose MY VIEWS on THEIR SOCIETY, period.

Difficult to say. There are different opinions. The FL in the first episode is 28. The ML could be 2, 6 or 8 years older, so he could be 30, 34 or 36 years old.

Then their adults selves time travel to their past selves, when the FL is 18 and the ML... either 20, 24 or 26 years old.

Since they have their memories, experiences, knowledge of their real them (aka the old ones) as well as knowledge of that time period (which the FL uses to save her parents from poverty) they are a 28 years old and a 34 years old trapped in their past selves bodies.

I love this drama so much! Fun, chemistry between the characters, the romance, the fantaisy twist... I wish there were more rom-coms like Summit of our Youth.

To make things more complicated, they time-traveled as adults into their past selves. So for example, the FL is 18 but in her mind, she is 28. Same for the ML, he is... let's say 25, but in his mind, he is 35.

He is the main lead in "Dear Mr Hermitage" and I love that drama! Honestly, I had started watching it but I when I saw the ratings slowly declining, it was the first time that I questioned the MDL ratings.

I mean, if I see a 7.5 rating, I think "that drama sucks, it's not worth wasting my time". But "Dear Mr Hermitage" got that ratings and I loved it. So I thought : "Oh, my god, how many good dramas I missed because I trusted the MDL ratings???"

In the end, I decided to write a review to explain why I loved that drama. First time I did that, I think.

Hmmm, Bei Hei had roamed the kingdom solving crimes. So he was a poison masters who loved to solve crimes. And we have in the new team a crime solver and a poison master, both from Hayia. Could they be Bei Hei's children?

What if his son was the one to find an antidote?

I'm torn between Yesha being XBM's brother/twin brother or Tong Shuan's brother who is supposedly dead in an accident.

Yesha being young, it means that he was raised by someone who taught him about Hayia. I wonder who.

Not sure. Maybe because the main characters died for good in Blossom and we saw them dying and then they were reborn? So maybe it's not considered technically as time travel but soul travel?

Here, they are not dead. They are in the hospital after the lift accident.

Same for me. Which makes me wonder why "Love in time" (a 2021 drama) kept the time travel storyline. Maybe because it was a remake of a... taiwanese drama, I think? So the producers had in their contracts that it had to be TT and even censorship in China couldn't go against this contract?

Possible. But it reminds me a little of "Parallel world" (a fantastic drama, both in genre and in quality). It felt so very real but there a few scenes here and there that made no sense: a grandfather telling the story of the characters of Parallel world to his granddaughter while she was painting.

Everybody was wondering who the well what the old guy and the young lady: maybe the old grandfather was one of the characters surviving and telling the story? Maybe the granddaughter was the descendant of one of the characters?

Nope. PW was just a story.

I want it so much to be a TT story where the heroes reinvent their lives. But I can't escape the scenes where we can see her in a hospital bed, same with the ML. So I'm wondering if they will wake up but keep their memories of the lives they have lived together in their shared coma.

It probably will because of censorship in China where TT is concerned.

My advice: it was real time travel, this was the story the writers wanted to tell. The ending (come/novel) is the one imposed on them by censorship, but not the one they wanted to write.

It makes it easier, for me, to accept the censorship ending: it was not the one intended by the writers. And I generally sweep it under the rug as the "not real ending".

"the issue is with Gao's timeline mainly. Since he's dead, how would they fix it? It kind of looks like they are going to partner Gao with Lin's cousin/ sister too after all 🫠"

Yeah, it would suck if it was coma because it would mean that Gao is dead in real life and his love story with the ML's sister is imaginary. Unless they were partners in the past before he died.

"Love in time (2021)", and "First love again (2021)".

Yeah, I have never seen this Dallas scenario in a chinese TT drama.

I see a few possibilities:

- 5% chances that this is really a TT drama. After all, it's a modern drama and the heroes don't want to change History with a big H but more they want to change their personal lives (saving his friend's life for the ML and remaining an engeneer, and being more study/career focused for the FL) so that could appease the censors in China,

- it's a coma dream life after the lift accident,

If it's a coma dream life:

- they could both realize that they both remember their real lives while in their coma and trying to find a way to go back to reality,

- they don't realize they are in a coma and wake up, but remember this strange dream life, find each other again and go on living their love story they had started during their coma-dream life,

- they don't realize they are in a coma and wake up, but they don't remember this coma dream life. They meet again and either they suddenly remember, or they still don't remember but they fall in love with each other again, like in their dream life.

I post this because I know that many international viewers (I'm one) have no idea about the banning of TT dramas in China and that writers have to find a way to bypass censorship by the "it was a novel/dream/coma" scenerio.

And then they get mad and kill the drama in the MDL rating/note.

The way I accept that: there's censorship. So the writers find a way. The drama that you see is the real story the writers want to tell but the dream/coma/novel ending is the one imposed on them by censorship.

I dissociate the two, what the writers wanted to do, and what they were forced to write because of censorship. For me, the real ending is that it was real TT but they couldn't write it.

- they don't

There are two scenes where we see the FL, in the first episode I think, in a hospital bed, and same with the ML, in episode 5 or 6, I don't remember.

Time travel is banned in China so writers have to come up with ways to bypass censorship to tell a time-travel story. Like "The heart of genius", which was a time-travel and a parallel universe drama, only for a 3 minutes scene at the end where it was in fact a novel the ML was writing.

If it ends up being a novel/coma, I wouldn't be surprised.

I'm watching it right now and I bet it's not TT either or even TT communication but rather a novel the ML is writing or a problem of mental illness.

For real TT, there's "Love in time", the 2021 drama. It's a modern drama and a remake. But I really loved it.

"And why in today's episode FL was ignoring ML?"

Have you forgotten what her goal was, after realizing that she had a second chance at life (or so she believes, I still think that she is in a coma, so is the ML and they have this coma like connection)?

It was to succeed professionally and not be distracted by love during her studies.

Now she has realizes that she has feelings for the ML and is afraid of her new life going downhill, just like during her "first life", where her love life almost destroyed her professional life.

He went after her because he is a nice guy who is responsible of the group during this trip. And the girl left at night, alone, when it's raining, on foot. Anything could have happened to her.

It's quite the habit for dramas to start high and then to have declining ratings. Especially if there aren't famous idol dramas playing in them.

But I think the same, it's quite a shame, it's a fun drama, the two main leads are cute and have chemistry, there's a nice family dynamic (at least for the FL's family)... yes, the brother having feelings for the ex-best friend is not the best but I have seen much worse in dramas, honestly.

And I still think that it will end badly for them, in the dream/coma life/new timeline, whatever the producers and writers will come up with because of censorship where time travel is involved in dramas.

I'm starting to believe there won't be a relationship between our main leads while they are in college. The FL's goal, after all, was to focus on her studies and not be distracted by love.

I just hope that their adult selves will wake up and have a REAL relationship in the real world. But I fear they will start dating in their coma state, wake up, remember (or not) and then meet again and start again.