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What were the other dramas that got bombed?
And, yes, some people have too much time on their hands for sure. That’s why ratings on MDL are only slightly more reliable than ratings on Viki, lol 😆

What aspects are confusing to you? There are still some mysteries left to uncover but general plot details seem clear.

Events of ep. 6-8 are proof of how incompetent the good guys have become *sigh* 😳😥

Have you watched Love Scout (early 2025)? It gets excellent after 1-2 episodes and has the greenest flag ML. Even The Big Problem gets resolved almost immediately.

My Unicorn Girl (it’s surprisingly nice and mostly free of annoying tropes; has good message about being part of a team, etc.).

Hockey 🏒
My Unicorn Girl (it’s surprisingly nice and mostly free of annoying tropes; has good message about being part of a team, etc.).

Did you like the Genie? I’ve only made it through about 1.5 episodes so far and put it aside for a bit.

Yes, we all know FL isn’t going to come clean herself until episode 25, so our best hope is ML finding out first and then pretending not to know. There’s a C-drama that pulled that trick nicely (but it was about FL pretending to be a guy… while sharing a dorm room with ML, lol).

I really hope 2FL is going to be a key to solve this for everyone’s sake. 2ML’s kid already told her he doesn’t have a mom 😳

FYI, synopsis on MDL is not fully accurate. But everything is more or less explained in the first episode. It starts off with a bang :)

This drama isn’t inventing anything new but we are all enjoying it because it’s a very solid old-school romcom and the leads have great chemistry ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

I think it was even 8.2 at one point before antis brought it down to 7.7. Sigh, some people have way too much free time. It’s not like MDL ratings matter in China — companies have their own tracking measurements for success/failure 🙄

Last arc was indeed pointless but if I had to stop visiting the comments page on MDL during the last 2(?) episodes because of all the hate & vitriol. It was even worse than what recently happened with the new Genie drama with Suzy 😳😥🫣

Yeah, I thought initially it was going to be more serious (like, say, Queen of Tears), but it was more trope-y and pulp-y. But I still love the couple and their interactions are ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥. Unfortunately, last or next to last episode had a brief mention (1-2 seconds) of a fake country which people mis-interpreted as being Palestine (and mis-interpreted the message of what was going on). That ended up in an avalanche of hate and massive, massive downvoting, so MDL ratings took a huge nosedive from 8.5+ down to 8.0 (now; I think it dropped below 8 for a bit).

FL & her husband loved each other and had a very happy although very short marriage. The husband had weak health since childhood and passed away on his own 6 months into their marriage. There was no foul play involved in his death. FL remained dedicated to his memory and stayed with the husband’s family.

Early episodes were great. It only got a little ridiculous at the very end when they added one more twist/obstacle that wasn’t necessary (made me roll my eyes 🙄). But a good approach to watching When the Phone Rings is to think about as a pulpy summer beach reading book and not as a serious novel.

When the Phone Rings had insane chemistry ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Yes, I hope it doesn’t last too long. Comments section seems to think (hope!) that ML figures it out first but won’t let FL know he knows.

It’s not the first one but this was a good fakeout 😁

The best recent kissing/intimate scene are actually in a xianxia (fantasy) drama When Destiny Brings the Demon. We are still not sure how censors allowed so many kissing/bedroom scenes 🫣❤️‍🔥😳

You are welcome! Other than the FL (who inherited something special from her mother), everyone so far is a normal person. Even FL’s childhood friend got his super smell ability through a pill not because he’s special.