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You can't convince me that there wasn't an entire episode taking place where they are both in the present, remembering the shared coma and picking up in real life where they had left it in their coma.

This drama has 23 episodes. Usually, 99% of modern dramas have 24 episodes.

So I would bet my bank account that the 24th episode didn't pass the censorship and it ended abruptly with episode 23.

Are they dating in episode 9?

Also, at 18, in western countries, a woman can drive, get married, have children, go to college, buy a car, an appartment, travel the world on her own, vote, have a job, go into the army and so on.

It's better for the FL to date when it's legal, an older man who will treat her right, than to date her dumbass same age ex-boyfriend who treated her like s****.

Those kinds of dramas get 24 episodes, this one has 23. I can't help thinking that there's an entire episode which has been scrapped and the ending is a rush one.

I mean, there could have been an entire episode of them waking up, remembering their shared coma, finding each other again and just going on loving each other since they remembered their coma. And showing that.

Maybe that last episode didn't pass the censorshipo and it was entirely removed. That would explain the abrupt ending and this strange number of episodes of 23 instead of 24.

It's a censorship ending. Remove the last 15 minutes and you have the ending the writers intended.

It's because of censorship in China. Time travel dramas are banned so the writers always have to find a loophole to get their dramas to air. It was coma/a dream/leads traveling into a novel or movie, stuff like that.

Never start watching a time travel Cdrama expecting it to be real time travel.

I'm used to it so I watch them and know that there will be an "official censorship ending" which is NOT the real ending, at least not the one the writers wanted but were forced to write.

Knowing that, think that this ending is the censorship ending and therefore not the real one. Remove the last scenes and you'll get the real ending the writers intended.

Usually, those kinds of dramas have 24 episodes. This one has 23. I wonder if the ending was rewritten to be a short one?

I think I read that for time travel, it's because it disrespects history for historical drama. And for modern drama, it's because there's fear that people will try to commit s**** in hope of time traveling to change their past. Or something like that.

I read that there are even movies like "Back to the future" which are banned in China. "Doctor Who", too, from what I read.

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)".