Winny Aye:
I am on jing's ship..?? but i am also a fan of this story.
I didn't mean to imply that that fans of one character or another are not also fans of the story, only that I don't consider myself a fan of a particular character and I think most fans (especially fans who are invested in the romance) do.
If some people are "Team Jing" or "Team Xiang Liu" I'm off to the side on team "Drama writers, please make as few changes as possible when you adapt the novel for the drama." ^^
Winny Aye:
I think the problem is that it has three leading male characters instead of only one complete ml. ..therefore, we might sometimes feel incomplete by one ml character even if you are cheering him . Because all three are vital. They are all flaws yet has merits. ..that's what make this story awesome/unique. ..some people get turn off by having several mls...lol if so they will miss unique story.
Yes, I agree: the roles, virtues, and flaws of the male leads in this story are part of what makes it so awesome and unique.
Winny Aye:
Although, I was afraid to read novel because I don't want to ruin my YaoJing feel by reading XY feelings for XL in the novel. It's not obvious in drama for me. But I read it. And I am happy I do enjoy it and not even minding YaoLiu romance as presented in story.
In different ways, and to different degrees, I enjoyed pretty much all of the scenes that portrayed the love between XY and TSJ, XL and ZX. I never felt like her feelings for one character ruined my enjoyment of her feelings for another character. I'm glad you ended up also enjoying it ^^
Winny Aye:
I guess Tong Hua likes giving her fl options and can fall in love more than one time. I have only watched scarlet heart Kdrama which is adapted from her novel...fl there fall in love more than once too.
Sound of the Desert (which is also adapted from a Tong Hua novel) also has the FL fall in love with two different men, and she still has strong feelings for the first one after she falls in love with the second one. I'm okay with that type of story as long as the female lead doesn't have an affair or betray the person she chooses to be with.
Winny Aye:
What I like about YaoLiu is that their maturity in rejecting this romance.
I also appreciated this, especially given the relationship between the story in Once Promised and Lost You Forever. XY recognizing and avoiding a tragic ending meant that she was able to get the happy ending that her parents hoped for her. The type of ending they couldn't have.
Winny Aye:
My only wish is that, by chances, more people get to enjoy YaoJing romance arc as the whole development is there. It definitly isn't the type where FL just lost the love of her life then she found comfort in another man and decide to stay with him. It isn't. She loved him since early on and their romance do have this "meet, love, separate, united in the end" theory yet their bonding is simple and strong.
I felt like it was easier to understand XY's feelings early on (when she was WXL) when I read the novel, because Tong Hua gives us a lot of insight into her thoughts and feelings (all those references to threads of longing in her heart!) in a way that is difficult to show on screen, especially when she kept trying to protect her heart by distancing herself from YSQ / TSJ.