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That’s a very wise move considering how dramas often find ways to drop the ball at the end and give us an unsatisfying ending.

Yes, let’s be real, if she weren’t his wife, there’s no way a regular person could take a prisoner (lets alone a VIP hostage) and taunt opposing forces.

Yes, it’s one thing if a scene wasn’t filmed because actor/actress wasn’t comfortable with it, but cutting already filmed scenes is silly. Especially since marriage and birth rates are very low in China currently, so you’d think the government would be encouraging people to get, ahem, proactive 😉❤️‍🔥

Can’t wait for the IU drama! 🥰

But there are dramas that are slightly more explicit (both modern and historical/fantasy), so that’s what makes it even more confusing. For instance, When Destiny Brings the Demon had a lot of kissing and, ahem, “dual cultivation”, but then Love in the Clouds had some scene(s) cut in the final edit.

In one of interviews, leads mentioned 108 lashes so that’s still happening for sure.

Only Twinkling Watermelon 🍉 (9.2) and When Live Gives You Tangerines 🍊 (9.3; was 9.4 for the longest time) are higher rated dramas. Even if this settles at 9.1 eventually, it will be an amazing rating. Not that MDL ratings matter, of course. But even back in China it’s doing very well — became the first ever C-drama to surpass 10,000 Heat Index on iQIYI and 30,000 Heat Index on Tencent/WeTV.

Ugh… what the heck — why would they get divorced 😳. I’m sure it made sense in the novel but at the current pacing there’s probably just enough time for the (second) grand wedding.

We will find out in ep. 26, but I think they have to hit him for real. She’d notice if they were faking it.

Yeah, I can understand why they took that out.
But I do have to roll my eyes at how many intimate scenes gets removed even from modern dramas. There was one modern drama that had a pregnancy scare even though they never hinted/showed bedroom activities (only kissing) 🤣🙄

I have a little over an episode to watch, but it’s better than average I’d say (8.1 MDL seems fair). Lots of eye candy for female audience but main theme is dealing with aftermath of longterm relationship that ended (basically, finding courage to put yourself out there and try again).

“Can This Love Be Translated” was definitely better though (in my opinion). Go Youn Jung deserves an award for all the roles she played in the drama 🥰

Ohhh… that’s logical. Thanks for the info.

Fun aside: apparently in AYtO novel the couple had a child while they were fake-married and before FL regained her memories! I guess novel ML wasn’t as skilled at coming up with excuses for not sleeping with his “wife” 😁

TXW is great in this drama for sure. And the novel is named after FL (“Jade” = FL), so it’s a bit more FL-centric probably.

Thanks! I figured out they will remarry after she gets a higher status, but was genuinely wondering how that worked back in those days. The only similar plot in a drama I’ve watched was in “Are You the One”, but that couple wasn’t really married (ML just lied to FL who was gravely injured & lost some memories).

Only Jisoo harem drama 🤣 beat PoJ!
(It’s really crazy how many popular actors are in the Jisoo drama; kudos to casting director.)

Most other countries: how do we get more than 1 episode per WEEK?

(Japan, Philippines, and Thailand… and U.S./Canada too)

Our poor FL is so innocent and completely oblivious to all the shenanigans going on 🤣

Swrious question: are they even really married if he used a fake name? I’m sure an official wedding will happen eventually, but validity of current marriage is questionable 🤨

We demand a spinoff focused on Ning Ning and The Falcon 🥰

Yes, a legitimate love triangle that goes on for too long.