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I've gathered as much after looking up Di Renjie character. There are a shit ton of movies and dramas about him. Maybe I'll watch this one, the trailer looked interesting.
If anyone interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLWqGlv1828

Is this related in any way to Judge Dee's Mystery cdrama? Or it's just another take on the webtoon series?

Nor apron over fancy clothes to not get dirty at the very least. Letting her hair down to swipe all that necro grime instead of wearing a cap is also wtf. There are lots of historical cdramas where coroners are properly dressed, this here is dumb af and FL is written as such a pro Mary Sue out of nowhere considering her background, it's annoying. Everybody's basically gawking at her in awe, like they see a professional in this field for the first time in their lives, in a bustling city no less.
All that nonwithstanding, props to you if can manage to finish this boring slog without skipping.

Consort Shu is the Emperor's favorite concubine backed by a powerful clan, and is closely tied to the main plot. So of course she is featured more prominently, even more so in the last case.

But not all cases had something to do with his concubines. Only the ones about a ghost baby and false deity featured them prominently. Though they did show some of the others in minor roles. I'd say it's the emperor who was related to all of the cases more, since his often questionable behavior sent big ripples of consequences through all of his court, influencing everything and everyone.

Irl that emperor had like 40 something children, so of course there were lots of ladies at his harem. No wonder that poor 15th princess in the first case was lamenting he saw her like 3 time total in her life. The guy probably didn't even remember he had some of the children, let alone their names. He only remembered he had her when it was time for politics.

Another sad thing is that if a woman was chosen as a Chinese emperor's concubine, she couldn't ever leave the palace, even if the emperor forgot all about her already. She'd live there for the rest of her days in one of the palace's pavillions. Which required servants of course. So there were lots of people working at the palace just to serve in the harem. Also, all women working at the palace were emperor's women - servants, musicians, etc. He could choose any one of them at any moment. That's the premise of the third case.

The screenwriter has three webtoon works in the same "Kang Full Universe", two of which were adapted into kdramas already. One is Moving, the other is Light Shop and there's a third one about time travellers called Timing, which is yet to be adapted, but there was a teaser of it in Light Shop kdrama at the end. They also teased Go Youn Jung character there at the end, so all these dramas are interconnected and are happening in the same kdrama world.

Go watch 2022 Crazy Love, he was great there. He was a villain boss, lol.

Yea, the guy has nothing to do here with this lamass role.

If you watch it a second time, you'll notice there are meaningful scenes here and there rather early on that pave way throughout the episodes, but yea, it gets a big focus in later episodes, you're close.
At least it's not out of nowhere here, they made their relationship quite believable based on gradual trust and respect, rather than simple physical attraction.

FL also has a very difficult character to deal with, her coming to terms with accepting ML was a long road here. She's not only hell bent on her life's goal of revenge, but is also very jaded, suspicious and pushes people away because of survivor's guilt.
Having such patient, understanding ML here complemented her character greatly, though not all viewers liked that he was that way, I guess. Some I've read wanted him to hack and slash along side her and indulge her self-destructive behavior, instead of actually trying to help her.

Some emperors in ancient China had them by thousands. This guy's seems more moderate compared, but still, lol.
There was a legend about one emperor who had 10k concubines and was so fat, he rode to their palaces on a chariot ridden by goats. To gain his attention, concubines started growing grass and bamboo to attract goats, so that he'd visit them, lol.

Overrated drama with too many episodes. Light Shop in the same universe was way more interesting.

I was talking about ML, not SML. SML can take a hike, I don't care.

His main good quality is he talks straight and honest, and doesn't like to dance around the issue. Most people in this drama lie themselves into knots to appear what they're actually not in front of the others.

It's all rather messy and comedy is a hit and miss now. When will FL actually start working for ML and climb the social ladder again? It's all been back and forth banter so far.
Sure, it's rather funny at times, but I'm kinda put off by their kindergarden level romantic behavior, especially ML constantly being flustered. They both look like they're well in their 30s. I can understand FL perhaps being younger in her previous life, but a good looking rich guy in his 30s never having a girlfriend or a romantic relationship is only something you can encounter in kdramas, I guess.

Kim Jae Uck looks bored in this drama. I was hoping he'd have a more interesting role to play here. He was really fun to watch in Crazy Love.

I'm starting to lose interest because of this dumb love square (or is it a pentagon with SML's wife included?). Comedy flew out the window in the first few episodes, now it's a typical soap about self-destructive FL, using typical female logic where she says one thing to her men, but wants them to do the opposite.
And those men, being simple creatures, taking it at face value and doing what she says, making their own life shit. SML's also a coward who can't escape his ambition to prove himself before his shitty family. ML seems to be getting it more correct, but he needed FL to basically explain her logic to him before hand to understand what the ef she's been wanting him to do.

With 4 episodes left, I guess there's gonna be a typical romantic dating phase and then the worst point where they get exposed, and then after some struggles HE. I just hope nobody actually goes to the US, because of some noble idiocy, to force cliche LDR on the audience.

Similar in what way? Coroner's Diary was difficult for me to finish since it was a boring, slow af slog. Though I recall ML got into FL almost from the get go out of nowhere and that drama was more romance focused.

Here's it's a tight, fast paced detective plot about cases for the most part. If you're looking mainly for romance here, it's not the drama for you. Though I gotta say what they've done here in the end was way more believable and sweet than in Coroner's Diary, or, say, Wanted Detective. Well thought out, interconnected with the main plot and had nice, meaningful dialogues with none of that time wasting soap.

Mr. Queen ending was such a downer. I hope they won't end this drama like that.

I also like that FL knows he's a villain to be avoided. I fkn hate love triangles.

MDL scores are biased af.

I couldn't even get into those first two. Filing for Love is ok, but they misled people so bad with comedy trailers, it's actually just another tropey romance drama. And what they make audit do there is just ridiculous bs.