Big_Red_1011

The hero here starts off by wanting to provide for his family by joining a sect and kind of accidentally stumbles onto a path of cultivation through a series of events. The novel is called “A Record of Mortal's Journey to Immortality”, so that’s his end goal I suppose. But mostly he’s just trying to improve himself so that he can continue to be a cultivator. Think of it this way: you lucked into joining a good company at a position for which you are not qualified; and everyone KNOWS you are not qualified for the position. So now you are motivated to do well and to earn respect. Sure, eventually you want to become a top-level manager but for now you are trying to not get fired.

She realized what was going to happen 😁

For YY 7 kg is okay. But I found it unusual when ELLE claimed a female actress (who played MO’s daughter) lost 7 kg. That’s a lot for a petite person. Maybe Google mistranslated something.

Thanks for the article! On cost-per-episode basis, this would rank #3 (US$1.4m per episode). The Longest Say in Chang’an is $1.83m/ep and Rebel Princess is $1.47m/ep. P.S. I wonder how much Love Game in Eastern Fantasy spent on VFX — they were very impressive.

ELLE article claimed Zhao Qing also lost 7 kg (if Google Translate is accurate) and that seems hard to imagine 😳

I was talking about all genres, not just here. Many modern or historical/costume dramas are like that.

There are definitely some impressive battles coming up for you in 10-13 (and previews & teasers also look promising). If you read recent comments, there articles that say a lot of this was shot on location with huge crews and gives budget numbers overall and for VFX.

That’s about $41.6 million USD. How does that rank budget wise in C-drama land?

Is this one of those articles which states some fact (people criticize, public dislikes, etc.) but then points to only a few random posts on social media? Let’s be honest, anything can be made into a story — even if the leads were on promotional tour together and doing live stream 32 hours a day, the news could claim “JC gives YY cold stare” or some other nonsense like that. 🙄

Your idea is actually better. Because then the characters can drop some lines like “the rest of our story will be covered in the following book(s) / chapter(s) / etc.” So a flash-forward while still staying in the same universe 😎

Maybe they will just have ML & FL wake up next to each other in a modern world with donghua playing on a TV 📺 and a baby crib next to their bed. Bam — happy ending! (Okay, okay, I know the creators won’t do it 😁)

But don’t you find it super strange how in so many dramas all it takes is one, ahem, “attempt” and boom 💥— there’s a baby on a way. They are really not doing much to help improve birth rates in Asian countries 😒

Even funnier, in the novel he’s described as “plain looking” but that doesn’t stop everyone from pining for him (except for FL who is already making plans for his tombstone 🪦, lol)

Apparently they actually changed some things from Wattpad to make it more appropriate to the modern audience. For example, his relationship with Katrina was real as I understand. Also, to be fair to the creators, we don’t know what ending they are going to do. Tripp seems like a nice guy and he’s now in the same college as Alys :)

You meant the LONG Distance Era, right? 🤣🤣🤣

Will he grow up? 🧐 So far he hasn’t had to suffer any consequences of his actions. He was “kicked out of the house” to live in a nice upscale condo, received a car as gift, and has an extremely patient & forgiving girlfriend who loves him to death.

Thank you for the link! FYI, if anyone else is going to read the article using auto-translate, please use Google Translate. Apple’s auto-translation of this article in Safari turned out to be very poor (at least on mobile Safari). I had to manually copy & paste each of the 10 points to understand it well :)

She would be in for a surprise in a few months when she felt a baby in her womb 😳 (okay, I know they won’t have a kid now, just speculating).

He starts showing it in Ep. 13. He’s kind of scheming and keeping things on the down low — like a bad version of the ML who is also trying to fly under the radar.

Sect covers a huge area. Maybe that guy went into a cave to meditate and work on his cultivation. No one liked him, so they didn’t ask any questions — ignorance is bliss! 🤣😉