Zia

This is in no way ageing well. I am a pessimist but I still have some faith left in humanity. I get you. This is one of the reasons I don't want it to get overhyped. Once they know that this kind of BS sells, they will mass produce it and the entire genre will drop in quality. Thai BLs has just recently started getting better...now, they see this getting more attention than their better written scripts. How do you think that affects the producers? I am hoping that this bad apple doesnt become the reason for the entire bunch to rot.

This drama is quite different from love game in eastern Fantasy.
1) NH is the male lead in the script. Ding Yuxi's character was not the main lead.
2) The FL in that was funny but she easily believed the ML and wasn't wary of him...in fact, she was one of the first ones to side with him despite knowing his identity. Here, the FL is a total cynic, pessimist and quite practical. She is more realistically written and have believable flaws.
3) the plot is quite different. The game wanted FL to pursue the ML in LGIEF. Here, the FL continuously plans to kill him.
4) there was no alter ego in LGIEF and no palace politics

I agree...YI Meng is ready to give up her property for him now...That means something

He did brilliantly for a man who got instantly traumatised after hearing the plot.

Something weirdly heals in me when people praise NH. We have really been overcompensating for the torture and accusations he gets in the drama 🤣

I like this theory. It plays with the title

I loove that rivalry..I live for it.

I have to agree with you. Jixiang deserves better. Have you watched Guardians of Dafeng? I feel like you will enjoy it!

I think the female lead represents pessimists. That has its own advantages. Pessimists are very practical people too and they do well in life but they want to protect their own in a rotten system...they don't really believe that the rotten system will change. Its symbolism. NH represents optimists. Optimists believe that they can change the system but ...they suffer a lot while doing that which is happening with NH and his peers like nightwalkers who get tortured too

This is why I think its gonna be a good ending. You can't make him go through hell and say...okay, he is gone in the end. I am hopeful that the ending will be healing for us NH lovers

Fugui is such a cutie ....He loves the ML soo much. He is more a brother to the ML than the prince

He had too many questions...but I could see one on his face "Who wrote this BS?"

I actually Love shangguan with the second FL because she is an actually a flirtatious FL while Shangguan pretends to be a "playboy". He was soo shocked by her direct flirting and courting techniques that he didn't even know what to do with himself. Nan Heng really considers all of th as his brothers ...probably because his real brother never really gave him the affection and brotherly love he wanted. 😭 To save Shangguan, he cut ties with nightwalkers and when the 2nd ML tortured them, he said "I will never let go off people who torture my brothers". I don't ship the nightwalkers at all actually...because I enjoy the friendship more just like you but I do ship just one BL coded couple and that's the prince and his bodyguard. Lol!
My top ship remains the main couple...many People hate the FL but I guess she is representing all of us. Sometimes, we believe in fate too much and forget that it can be changed. She is representing that dilemma. Meanwhile, NH is just the opposite of her. He is an optimist who remained good despite being surrounded by negativity and pain. Them coming together is special to me

Bwahahaha!! He looked both disguised and baffled

Edit : apparently, my review also got attacked. All negative reviews of this drama have been getting attacked. They say that a drama cannot affect you. But, you can see how romanticising rapists can affect younger audience. Any difference of opinion or NO is not tolerated.
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There is a coordinated campaign in certain websites...how do I say this here....its the Karens! The karens have started to attack rational and reasonable criticism of this drama and in that bubble, they are pretty much asking people to attack anyone that recognises the abuse in this by calling them homophobic or ironically saying that they have internalised mysogyny if they say anything bad about this drama.

One comment on a certain negative review here on MDL also says "This drama is above your stupid consent" and that tells you all about how hostile the campaigning for this drama is.

I have a gut feeling that this will be different because our ML has already seen hell. There's a silver lining to tortured Males in cdramas

I see that you have some trauma for POB 🤣

Ikr...the payoff is worth it

Lol! How do I explain this to you
There's ML's alter ego and FL
ML and FL
Yi ting and Shanggun
Ummm....the prince and his bodygyard 🤣🤣
But personally, I watch it for the armies of ML
NH's army General
His alter ego's army called nightwalkers ...and both these armies have a bickering chemistry together. So, they are my favs.

Why do you think we are still here?? She's one complicated FL. We love her, she has iconic dialogues, she's relatable...we understand her...we hate her stubbornness and guts but we can still sympathize with her because she wins us over again!! Especially in 30th episode. She's funny, stubborn...wayy too prideful for her own good but this drama wouldn't have any spice if she wasn't like that. Its difficult to hold audience with 40 ep pacing. 40 ep have very slow pacing so...the character is worth it!!