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Lu Songli is not heartless, though, at least not in her new life...unless somebody crosses her.
But in general, she doesn't have a bitchy exterior that the female lead in "BoP" had.
She is also smarter, more ambitious and more successful :).

There is also a vertical drama about her, where I really like the actress portraying her - https://mydramalist.com/797412-huan-qin-hou-wo-shun-bian-huan-le-jiang-shan-hen-he-li-ba

However, I don't think it will ever be made into a Big-production drama, as the novel is too atypical (no misunderstanding between leads or their families, no 2nd and 3rd couples, the female lead is by far the most capable person in the novel, no other love interest for the leads, etc...)

Whoa, a rare Drama with a higher Douban score vs MDL; will definitely have to check it out.

Synopsis sounds great, but Weibo's trailer looks mostly nonsensical.
Hopefully the drama will somehow make it work.

I recommend you read Lu Songli's adventures in "I became the cannon fodder who died early, and I angrily married the villain" - the title is horrible, but the novel itself is great.

" In real life, if someone persisted like that, I'd try to get a restraining order, regardless of whether they were handsome or not. "

Someone with common sense on MDL? What? Are you lost?

Thanks. Since I'm a sucker for intelligent female leads (before I get terribly disappointed), I will add it to my list.

ML in the Pursuit of Jade was a much better person towards the female lead there (and overall as well) than the ML in Blossoms of Power.

I was curious about it, so I just checked one version, and it actually has the "Ling Long's scene with the kid" you mentioned.

Btw, she looks quite cool in it; it made me hope for a decent female-centric Wuxia drama (where the female lead wouldn't have to be saved every 5 minutes, lol).

I wasn't here at that time, but when I took a serious look going back a few months in the comments section, it was barely visible.
Like, 10 "passionate lover" against 1 "trash ML" comment kind of ratio.

" that one also has a for real intelligent fl who's absolutely dominating the story."

Could you clarify which one has this kind of the fl ? Thnx,

As good as it is (and it has been excellent so far), the clearly visible wires during the ML and 2ML fight in Episode 10 are hugely disappointing.

I read in the comments section below that they were edited out in some versions, but they were clearly there when I watched it now.

Thanks, although I totally forgot about this one and was wondering "what the hell is this weird title" when opening the notification :).

13, I think. Maybe the latter in 14?

Thanks for your recommendations. Some are really good (Story of Minglan and Flourished Peony), some are not (The Double, where I wanted to strangle the ML and the director every 5 minutes), and I will consider the ones I didn't watch yet.

And "Journey of Love" is a typical example of supposedly equal leads, where I don't think they were equals - the supposedly elusive and mysterious female assassin got injured in the 1st episode by some soldier schmucks, losing half of her power for half of the drama, so the ML could keep helping and saving her.
She had some great kills and moments, but in my book, the writers screwed it up by presenting ML as stronger, when she was the one the story was supposed to be built around.

In general, watching dramas, it's very difficult to run away from thoughts like "how did this FL survive and even thrive in her field before meeting ML, since he is helping her every step of the way".

Last year, I dropped "Shadow Love" after 2 episodes and watching how the supposedly highly-ranked female general had to be saved by the ML in both of them after storming the opposite camp alone using the front entrance.

Well, the FL told the ML to stay away from her after she learnt about his manipulations and lying, but when she was saved from the fire by the other prince, he was sitting next to her bed when she woke up; officially to give her medicine, unofficially to threaten her that he could get to her whenever he wanted in the name of (his) love.

Please, call the trash equally.
Thank you.

Well, I hoped this drama would be like that; just too bad that the ML (and army of other Princes) ruined the vibe.

It's very difficult to find a drama where the ML and FL shine equally. "Are you the One?" is a good example; also "Who Rules the World" somehow fits, even if the Marty Sue ML was clearly stronger/smarter between the leads.

It's even more difficult to find a female-centric drama where the romance isn't the focus, so the FLs can do their thing without some terrible ML pestering her.
I pretty much only know "Kill my sins" in this group, which I'm really enjoying at the moment. Maybe there are more?

Well, it's not a surprise - female leads thrive the most when the ML isn't around.
That's why I hope that one day non-ML dramas will get popular...

Now, it sounds even worse, at least from my perspective, lol :).
Thanks for the info, though.
I will be checking on the drama's progress from time to time.

Ugh, not good, as typically it means that in drama the ML will bully the female lead much more than vice versa.
Thnx.

Thanks for your detailed opinion.
I was on the fence regarding this drama, but this really sounds like something I would dislike big time.

Btw, the older I am, the more difficult it is for me to watch Wuxia, even if I love watching Martial Arts. The heroes either constantly fighting against each other and allowing villains to run circles around them or allowing villains to survive time after time, is getting really tiring...