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Love the leads so don’t know if my heart would be able to handle this without a happy ending or, at least, a possibly-happy open ending 🙏

The screenshots are from Dilraba’s upcoming “Love on the Turquoise Land”, correct?

FYI, screenshot has plot overview (which we already know) and “highlights of the series”. These are the highlights: 【Highlights of the series】

Adapted from a popular novel: The series is adapted from the novel "We Live Together" by Hong Jiu, a writer from Jinjiang Literature City. The original novel has a certain fan base, which provides rich material and a solid story framework for the adaptation of the series.

Rich comedy elements: The series is full of humorous plots and dialogues. The various frictions and conflicts between the two in their shared life often lead to some hilarious jokes, allowing the audience to feel relaxed and happy while watching.

Yes! Just have them release a drama every year 😁

The Best Thing is very, very good. It’s not THE best thing (misleading name, lol) but it’s very nice, mostly stress-free (except some things in the beginning & the end), and is definitely recommended, especially if you like one of the leads. It was being released about the same time as The First Frost and many TFF watchers (myself included) calmed ourselves by watching TBT after TFF :)

To be fair, in TFF we see a LOT more of things from FL’s side that explain what happened and why she is the way she is. That’s even setting aside differences in causes of separations.

I enjoy slow-burn dramas (not everything needs to be very exciting/dramatic) but found this show to be more on the boring side. The two couples are good together though.

It’s on Tencent/WeTV (at least, in the U.S.). The leads are good and two couples look good together. But there’s too much filler material, especially with military side. It’s almost always just training/exercises and it’s shot quite boringly.

In the drama version the Drake/Katrina thing appears to be just Drake’s plot to prevent his dad from re-marrying. Not very smart but definitely more appropriate than the book version.

Maybe they should just skip all of that and go straight to Book 3 (fanfic published in 2020, lol 😆 It covers their relationship after marriage apparently.

In the show so far Tripp is okay — he hasn’t said or done anything bad, just trying (and failing) to talk to Alys. Honestly, Drake needs a good therapist. And — based on a summary of Book 2 — so will Alys and the other girl 🤰

Thank you! WOW, I suppose trying to break up the marriage for mom’s sake is better than the book version 😳 I’m aware of main story beats for Book 1 & 2 and very curious how they are going to set up Season 2. Or maybe they will skip it altogether — have DNA test for the baby show Drake is the father, have Katrina marry Drake and have Alys be happy with the other guy 😁

What happened in the book that they needed to change? I saw them mention (in the making-of documentary) making the show more acceptable to modern audiences but they didn’t go into details.

Drake definitely needs a good therapist to work through his issues 😳

My money is just on him being overly protective of his mom and not wanting dad to marry anyone. Katrina seems super nice and she was his teacher.

all aboard Alys and Tripp ship 🚢, lol

It’s clearly a misdirection and part of his futile attempts to ruin dad & Katrina’s relationship. Why is be being so loyal to mom is really the question. Mom passed away in 2015 based on the tombstone 🪦

He’s obviously not the father. But his loyalty to mom is way, way overboard and kind of dumb.

I really, REALLY hope they soon give a great explanation about Drake’s desire to prevent the happy marriage between his dad and Katrina. Doing all of this just to be loyal to mom is way, way too much. His mother passes away in 2015 — let dad be happy.

Thank you for the information! Maybe will check out the anime version too.