ShadowBloom

Oh I dropped sokp too but after 1st episode only becos I wasn't feeling invested n though I love bailu, ML is someone who hasn't yet impressed me with his acting, so I wasn't even willing to continue it. I m able to continue this drama becos if not anything else frm the clips I have seen I loved the fl n ml n their chemistry n have seen both of them in other dramas as support roles n liked them.

I m not enjoying guardians of the dafeng, i m watching it as I m in good drama slump rn n not finding any which I can really enjoy in all aspects. I rated it 8 becos I was able to atleast watch it till now n didn't drop it. Becos I have expectations that it may get better, if not i will drop that too.
Rest of the things I agree with u.

Thanks for these recommendations. I will try them as I m currently in good drama slump. Except tale of the nine tailed I haven't heard of these dramas, n TONT i didn't like n dropped after few epis😅

Also
See these two statements
"Plus I liked that the FL in blossom is actually clever and does something with her brains and life which is not the same for the FL in LLTG"
Also
"It's not
a competition of who is more intelligent of the FL as you trying to make it ."
Now say who was trying to compete intelligence of the fl here. I jst mentioned no similar vibe n u wrote whole essay downgrading one to uplift other jst becos I said liked that show from 1st episode itself bt not this.

OMG 😳 jst chill dude, it wasn't me who brought LLTG here, it were the earlier comments i read here which said so n made me give this drama a try becos that's my fav historical drama jst like maybe this one is urs! So tell those people who compared it here earlier with other dramas n misled people like me into thinking like that n getting disappointed. SMH, speaking one's mind here is considered drama bashing now! 😒

U mean to say the rest of the episodes r downgrade compared to ep1? Becos jst now I watched episode 3 and 4 n felt they were better than ep 1. So I will continue it for now bt I still won't say its the best drama this year becos so far i would say I have yet to see best drama in all terms this year, the most I liked was blossom in adversity bt won't call it best too becos i was disappointed with ML in that. Legend of shenli was also good but not best for me.

Maybe people felt something similar or had nostalgia of those dramas while watching few similar scenarios in this one. Anyway dramas do have same vibes sometimes becos even so many stories have same themes like rebirth revenge, business minded fl, politics etc. only way they r presented n few other changes r done to make every drama different.
Anyway I watched episode 3 and 4 jst now becos of encouragement from one user above, I would say its not bad, but not the best too like the hype claims. So I will continue it till I really get bored. I also don't force myself to like a drama jst becos of hype, u can see all the big names in my dropped list in my profile, becos they jst didn't click with me wen people were raving high abt them.

I wasn't even comparing it with LLTG, u did. I saw some comments saying it had LLTG plus story of minglan plus sokp vibes, I haven't watched the later 2 bt only LLTG, so I took only lltg name. Also I disagree with ur comment abt shaoshang not being clever, lol. She was more clever than dao zhao, it took dou zhao 2nd lifetime to become that clever wen shaoshang was clever since she was 15yrs old in 1st lifetime itself. She never let people bullying her get away n took revenge immediately. So pls do not say things to jst uplift this drama.

Sure will try to watch more episodes to see if it hooks me to it bt by my own I wasn't getting much encouragement to continue so I thought to get it from here.

Idk I saw people say it has LLTG vibes, but LLTG hooked me from 1st episode itself n i didn't see any LLTG vibes in this, also the editing was weird, there is one scene going on then suddenly another scene jumps up, so i felt weird why this drama is getting so much hype wen it's not that good, maybe if I would have watched it wen it didn't have hype I wouldn't have felt like this, becos wen i watch a drama with big ratings n hype I would go into it with certain expectations, like wen I watched the untamed or reset or LLTG after I saw big ratings for them here I wasn't disappointed with the expectations n the ratings. But can't say same abt this.
And no I wasn't skipping scenes, why would I when I jst started this drama, skipping scenes happens wen u r familiar with drama n it's ckts n u want to avoid some ckts scenes wen u don't like them. Only a fool would skip scenes in starting episodes 🙄

2 episodes in, but I m not getting all the hype for this drama! Looked pretty average in these 2 episodes so far. Should I continue, does it get better?

Watch at Kisskh

I don't mind waiting, i won't mind even if there is no s3 as I m not attached to anyone else except JCT here n I want him to see in different roles n different cp rather than this similar average drama, it's not even grand like STOTD to not mind more successful seasons. It's reception this season was quite average n it didn't help JCT much anyway like it did in s1. So no s3 will also do for me. I would rather see him in different ckts specially costume dramas than in average dramas like this.

If there is a s3 I hope they change scriptwriter n gives more realistic and chilling cases with emotional touch. As I said earlier Some cases this season felt like it's psychologist dealing with criminal mentality patients rather than crime bureau cases. Though they wanted to be different than cliche route for this type of genre but sometimes trying to be too different doesn't guarantee good results.

I hate iqiyi😤 i decided to watch all episodes from 21 to 28 in one go but didn't knw will have to wait for 84 yrs for doing so. Why did they do this with only this drama!!?? Why didn't they release all episodes for international fans as well?

Honestly tried reading the novel few days back and I read it till the part shown in today's episode where he is rescued from the jail by evryone, but felt bored so I gave up n so I wasnt excited to watch this drama but still gave a try for WHD,so far it's good, following the novel very closely, not very serious tone bt light hearted but I won't say its the best but better presented than the novel, first 2 episodes I didn't get the hang of it but after half of 3rd episode I was hooked. Hope it gets better.

I m so sure this drama will be coming before the long lost drama LHF 😭🤣

I f*cking hate the novel fans of that novel which isn't even that good or unique, there's nothing novel in that novel even n specially now wen many rebirth n revenge dramas r already there n even going to be more in coming days, it's going to be another cliche drama n if not good direction n acting then it would be a dud only. So y the hell those rebirth of malicious novel fans bashing JCT for jst a melon while wishing wooden actors for their fav XJX ckt, lol. It seems they jst want visuals to be good, acting can go to hell! Well I also wish the same now for them to get some wooden actor as their beloved xjx. 😤

Thanks for this.

Sorry the reply wasnt to you, I replied to the one who deleted her comment. I don't object to ur wish at all. Everyone can wish their biases to be casted but shouldn't ridicule someone else's biases jst for a melon/rumour.