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Episode 7: yep, as predicted, the ML is also from the future. Both were in the crashing elevator so it makes sense.

God I hope this is a time travel drama and not a coma dream life drama. Because if it's a coma dream life, then it means that the future can't be changed since the coma life isn't real. And it means that Gao Rui will still be dead when they will wake up. And it would be heartbreaking if in the drama, we see him having a love story with the ML's sister, only for it to not be real.

The reason why I lean more towards the coma dream life scenario is because of China banning or heavily restricting time travel dramas. Unless there's been a change of policy?

She has a mother who is a piece of garbage, who doesn't hesitate to manipulate and verbally abuse her own daughter. The father seems to be working and absent in his daughter's life. She is an only child, so the mother is pining all her hopes on her, which is a terrible burden.

I don't like her. But she has a s**** family and backstory. Add to that that she is under her mother's control...

Maybe she will open her eyes and turn her back on her mother, thanks to her relationship with the FL's brother?

I really don't know how this will go with those two.

I think this story we are following is the FL in a coma, where she is living a "what if I had taken a different path when I was a teen" life, and not a real time travel story since they are banned in China. So whatever changes there are, they won't stick once she wakes up from her coma.

So whatever happens with the friend who is not a real friend is only, IMO, what the FL will make out of it in her coma dream life. In real life, she seems to be in cahoots with the guy who sabotaged her code essay. But maybe the FL's accident will trigger redemption?

As I said, with her, it's 50/50, IMO. She could have a redemption arc, or she could remain a villain. After all, every drama needs one. Although here, it could be her mother or the other mean girl who bullies other students.

I think there will be something between them. There are way too many scenes with those two, in the first episodes. Also, in the ending song, they are featured and it looks like in sad moments. It could go 50/50, maybe she will have a redemption arc?

So far, I'm more invested in the main couple. And I wonder if the ML's sister will have a love story, with Gao, the ML's best friend, the one in the hospital?

That's probably the case. Also, I have this feeling that this kind of reborn drama gets the same kind of treatments in China as time travel dramas.

So best case scenario, she is in a coma, so is the ML. So far, he doesn't seem to remember his real life but that's not to say that he won't in future episodes. After all, there has to be a reason why they were both in that elevator.

And in the end, they will wake up remembering their coma love story and will pick up their love story from that point and be a real couple post-coma. And will right the wrongs the other guy did (by sabotaging her code).

It's just my theory.

Anyway, so far it's a fun modern fantaisy rom-com and I like it very much.

Between characters? I don't know.

Between actors? The actress is 25 and the actor 28.

Exactly. And I loved The Coroner' s diary. But CD was a romance/crime solving drama, while TWD is a detective story with a bit of romance, but not much. Also, the main leads are more flawed here, plus the ML, while very clever, is weak physically.

On MDL, it feels like the dramas with the best ratings are the idols dramas ones, or the girl power ones/strong-clever (at least, cleverer than everyone else) FLs. I bet that the large majority on MDL are women (I'm one) and that could explain those ratings for those kinds of dramas.

I still think that it's a twin story. One raised in the Qi kingdom, the other raised by a Haiya massacre survivor, learning all the skills to scheme and become Yesha.

I mean, the Tailor (Hibiscus's husband) did say that he had heard Yesha's voice on the boat. Either it was the FL's father (but he is dead while the Yesha leader is still alive and kicking, plus from his hands, he looks like a young man and Old Bug did say he was a young man), or it was :

- the ML. He was Yesha from the start and is manipulating everyone,

- the ML has a personality disorder: he is Yesha but doesn't remember when Yesha takes over,

- the ML has a twin. That would explain the same voices, why Yesha let him live 3 years ago. In fact, a twin could even cure him, like... I don't know, some kind of blood transfusion could get rid of the poison ?

I think it's a case of corrupted high ranking ministers. They might have stolen from the Emperor for years, getting money to make weapons when in fact, they were stealing it, then accusing the Haiya people of either rebelling or stealing from the Emperor.

They then pushed the Emperor to punish them.

Or... the Emperor has no idea that it happened and it was in fact the ministers who wanted to cover their tracks by eliminating the Haiya people and that's why there's a cover story.

I don't know. If the Emperor wanted to make an example out of the poor Haiay, then everybody would know about them. But in fact, it's been covered up so much that nobody knows that this massacre happened, except for the survivors.

I think Yesha wants the massacre to be known to the Emperor or to the Qi people, so he kills the ones responsible, knowing that there would be an investigation, leading to the truth about the massacre.

Maybe people expected a romance drama a la "Coroner's diary"? Here, it's more a detective drama with a bit of romance, while Coroner's diary was 50% romance.

Yeah, we could see Yesha's hand when he touche the maid's hair and it looked like a young man's hand.

Yeah, I thought the same. Yesha is obviously someone we know because otherwise, he wouldn't be masked.

Also, if the scenes take place in real time (aka when we see Yesha, at that moment, the other characters are also shown in the drama) then we can rule out the ML, Tong Shuang and LIttle Dragon.

So that leaves the SML, the clever one, but I doubt it. Also the reason why he is so sure that the ML is Yesha might be because he investigated enough to meet witnesses or have enough elements pointing towards the ML.

Except if... the ML has a twin. Basically, one twin is raised by maybe his real family or other survivors of the massacre, knowing from the start who ordered the massacre and who were the military men who led the charge, and the other was raised by the enemy of the Huaya people, aka our ML, representing the society and government of the Emperor, the same one who might have ordered the massacre.

What would be ironic: if the Emperor gave that order because of a prophecy about someone from that town bringing down his reign... only for the massacre to lead exactly to what he wanted to prevent. Thanks to twins, ones committing the crimes getting rid of the bad guys, leading to the other twin to investigate and bringing to light this horrible massacre and who ordered it: the Emperor. Leading to the Emperor's downfall.

Just a theory.

What is strange: why massacre 10 000 people? Why??? If this Emperor or the one before that ordered that massacre, were they trying to eradicate an entire place because of some prophecy?

Like, maybe there was a prophecy about one person from the Haya town who would bring down the Emperor so this emperor or the previous one gave the order to massacre everyone so that no one could destroy the Emperor's power and lineage.

Just a theory.

Didn't the guy (Hibiscus's husband) say that as long as there would be survivors of the massacre, there would be Yeshas? Maybe there's a Yesha leader and plenty of other non leaders Yeshas around.

I would like, for once, for the Emperor to be innocent. I mean, it's almost always the Emperor the villain in dramas.

The massacre took place during the last year of the previous emperor/first year of this present emperor.

Is there a reason for that? Why that year precisely?

Est-ce que le français est ta langue maternelle? Parce que: "j'essaie de m'attacher à elle", non, désolée, ce n'est pas comme ça que s'exprime une personne sincèrement intéressée par une actrice. "J'essaie de..." révèle juste que tu te forces à aimer cette actrice. Pour une raison que j'ignore, c'est vraiment une tournure de phrase très bizarre. Tout comme un comportement très bizarre si cela reflète rééllement ta pensée.

Aussi, pas de fausse naiveté. Tu vas sur n'importe quelle page d'acteurs et d'actrices chinois ou autre et tu verras des haters d'autres acteurs, qui n'hésitent pas à insulter et rabaisser des acteurs/actrices qu'ils percoivent comme des rivaux/rivales.

Tu as lu un commentaire par un troll, et alors? Les trolls pullulent sur MDL. Quelle que soit la page de l'acteur ou de l'actrice.

Tu fais croire que cela n'arrive que sur cette page alors que c'est rampant sur MDL.

Don't you find strange that the last two murders, Shen Bi and General Hu, were killed just when the FL and ML were about to investigate them?

Who knew, apart from them? Little white dragon and the other guy, Tong Shong I think his name is? Could one of them be a spy or a Yesha? I would vote for Little White Dragon. He was raised in that mysterious poison valley, maybe he was a survivor of the massacre, too. Also, he was the one who supposedly "mixed" the poison. Maybe it wasn't an accident? And there is an antidote, only he keeps it secret for later on, if he needs blackmail ? Maybe him being a nice guy is an act?

Yeah, same. Honestly, I wasn't feeling the first episodes but I decided to stick with it because there are no dramas capturing my attention after Coroner's diary. But I'm glad I decided to watch the new episodes because the mystery is fascinating. I have no idea how many survivors there are, how many Yeshas there are, why the villagers were murdered, who gave the order, who was the leader of the troups during that night...

Good point, it could be both. Either he is a survivor, or he is a perpetrator who feels remorse, adopted a baby who was a survivor of that massacre and that would explain why he chose to be murdered with the others on that boat: he was eaten alive by what he had done and once his daughter was safely married, he could finally die.

The mystery is great! I have a few theories. So Yesha is not one single person but a name used by the survivors of a massacre: the Hayia massacre.

The FL's father was a survivor of that massacre, right? So he was A Yesha. I wonder if he asked Zhu Yi Tie to spare the ML not just because he was his daughter's husband, but because he was ALSO a survivor of that massacre, only he was too young to remember?

Wouldn't it be incredible if he was investigating to arrest all the Yeshas, only to discover that he was a survivor who was trying to jail the victims who wanted to kill the ones who ordered the Hayia massacre?

Was Shen Bi and the 4 officials killed in the first episodes either the ones who had given the order to massacre the villagers of Hayia, or who covered who was responsible for the order?