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You are very close to the point where romance will be turned up to 11 (by C-drama standards) and then some things will happen to make the plot more interesting/change it up. But, at its core, this drama is about our heroes’ fight against the bad sects and the eternal love between the leads.

The chemistry between the leads is sizzling ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

I’m thinking of watching it too 😁

Yes, continue :)

The ending was about as good as they could make it without running afoul of the censors. For the censors they had to make it seem like a dream, but — for the fans — they threw a lot of hints this is going to be their 4th lifetime together.

Yes, in a perfect world we would have a few episodes in the modern day.

People think the fact that ML didn’t leave to take his flight (at 6:30 pm) and waited for FL to show up means he has memories from their past lifetimes and now FL obtained those memories too after the incident. Not to mention Chinese-language references (like his company being called Three Mountains) and this project being for a vacation resort and FL loving vacations & relaxing.

The Makeout Central picks up around mid-10s (sorry, don’t remember exactly). They have a lot… someone said 20+, but I think we stopped keeping count eventually 😁

For great modern romance I’d highly recommend: “The First Frost” (so, so good 😊) and “Fake It Till You Make It” (only 14 episodes + special; probably most realistic look at adult romance in a C-drama; amazing soundtrack). If you want a lot of laughs, “The Day of Becoming You” is hilarious (it’s about body swapping, but carries a good message). “You Are My Lover Friend” is also mostly funny (although there’s a business conspiracy as a secondary storyline) and sets standard for friends-to-lovers dramas. On K-drama side, I’d recommend “Love Scout” from earlier this year (great romance of people in mid-30s with ML who is the greenest of green flags). I’m actually more of a modern dramas specialist, so feel free to ask me anything :)

L&P is very good but not great (about 8.5 on MDL scale). leads have great chemistry that people like but you have to watch it expecting the circumstances surrounding ML going to prison to be kind of dumb (cliched). Will give some other recommendations in a second comment.

One time where we all want drama to be different from source material. Not everything needs to have a sad ending 😳🥺

Still waiting… Any moment now… 🥺😳

2FL wasn’t in the original novel (or maybe she died with the rest of 99 disciples). But they redeemed her by making her a trusted advisor to FL and having her and Mr. Snake help the leads.

It gives off very similar vibes. You are just getting to the good parts 😉

They can just pick up the story and make it a workplace romance. There must be a million scripts for that floating around 😁

What was the scandal? And, anyhow, LGIEF was a very nice drama and gave us a reunion of “Moonlight” case (3 out of 4 leads were in LGIEF). So it all worked out for the best ☺️

Yes, not sure what they could have done to make it more happy. Maybe a second season set in the modern world 😁

Someone seriously complained about too many kisses here? 🤣🤣🤣

I sure hope you don’t have allergy to onscreen kisses 😘🫣😉

We all want more of them together in the modern world, but it may have been difficult for screenwriters to add more dialog while adhering to censorship rules. Most of us take the ending as their 4th lifetime together but — for censorship reasons — the creators can’t say that out loud and have to make it appear like a dream for regulators (while heavily hinting to viewers it’s a 4th lifetime together).