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There is also a 7min special episode to watch after you finish 🥰

Makes sense. Yeah I encourage you to give it a try. I loved the FL and she does get good development as the show goes on.

His braided hair 👌🏻 I loved it. I echo that kiss being fiiiiiiirrrreeeee 🔥 🌶️

I came to really appreciate the FL in WDBtD. Everyone - and I mean everyone - else on the show want to either kill the ML or use him / his blood for their own power. As someone else said, she’s the only person who didn’t want anything from him. I loved her, she really grew on me 🥰 Both shows have some steamy kisses, WDBtD has more of them (and some in hot springs 🌶️). I would also say that I think WDBtD has more just… intimacy as well. Lots of skinship, face holding, being in each other’s space, open and vulnerable communication ❤️ And there is much more screen time dedicated to the couple on WDBtD.

Okay, still don’t get it but whateves 🤷🏼‍♀️

Wow that’s crazy. I watched it before I joined MDL, so I wasn’t around for the internet drama, which worked out well for me because I probably would have spent too much time arguing with the anti-fans 😂 I can’t grasp how people hated Manman (Or Wei Shao, at least after like episode 13 or so, whatever episode had the birthday celebration and he supported her when she was framed for the seeds). Like were we all watching the same show? 😂I literally don’t understand. She used softness and her intelligence in the beginning to protect her people and do this dance of protecting her people without overly offending WS AAAND winning him over. I mean, she was brilliant in the way she did that dance. And WS in turn growing to respect her because of her cunning, seeing that she truly does care for the people, and learning to soften towards her and trust her… gosh it’s making me want to rewatch it now. I truly do not understand how anyone can watch that relationship and villainize either party or the other. 🤯

I guess I don’t get why you’re dropping it if you love it?? But hey, you do you 🤷🏼‍♀️

Ahhh I see what you’re saying. Makes sense. I never looked at it this way until you mentioned it. I never blamed her for keeping the passageway a secret. I will have to go back and watch it again with these thoughts in mind. I don’t remember the relationship being as one-sided though. I remember a lot of scenarios when he had her back, defended her and worked with her to outsmart the schemers. Hmm. Interesting. And he was petty with the scholar 😂 And he was pretty stellar when her extended family turned on him as well.

Oh yeah absolutely 😂 I was looking through my list of completed shows and yeah. It’s definitely the norm 🤦🏼‍♀️

So is this story based on a novel? Does anyone know much about the romance in this one? The synopsis on this page doesn’t share a whole lot about the plot. Like do we know if there is gonna be a love triangle, or lots of deception / secret-keeping? Any intel on the ending?

Interesting, as in never saw the FL as the one who carried the relationship. Of course she did in the beginning because she was trying to win him over and keep her people safe, but I never perceived their relationship later on as unbalanced.

👀 I dunno why people always say this to me 😂 Legend of Shen Li, When Destiny Brings the Demon and Moonlight Mystique are a few xianxias off the top of my head that don’t follow these tropes. The blood spitting, however, is a thing 😂

Edit: I mean there’s minor secret keeping in LoSL as we talked about, but not a whole lot :)

Still with the secret-keeping and misunderstandings. Fun. The good times just keep coming 🤦🏼‍♀️

At least with Fated Hearts the SML was only in a few episodes with the FL in the beginning of the show and never again until… like the last episode lol. I wouldn’t compare the delusional SML in LITC to the one in Fated Hearts. There was never this much back and forth in FH, and I wouldn’t even classify FH as a love triangle for how little they interacted. Just my two cents 🤷🏼‍♀️

She is honest with Feng Suige and tells him :) They’re truly a wonderful couple.

I do find myself a lot less invested in the second couple and much more interested in the main couple.

Yeah, that’s sometimes the issue I have with some historical Chinese shows. I think that was some of my issue with LotFG being ‘preachy’ at times. Having the FL tell a group of women that “they can do anything a man can do” probably wouldn’t fly in that day and age.

I am curious as to what you mean? It’s a love story, so naturally they will develop feelings for each other.

I dunno. the only thing I can think of is poor internet connection / cell coverage that doesn’t have the bandwidth for 4k graphics? 🤷🏼‍♀️

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